Ok Lex, yeah I’ll just do what I’m told. Seeing him today but I’ll be on my on own on Thurs I think, might just be a little rebellious then. I need to get the rebel out once and awhile, its not like I’m off taking heroin or anything.
hi hallowed 
i’ll try and do some vids soon. my log gets pretty wordy. i keep saying i’ll try and not talk so much but that doesn’t seem to work out so well for me…
minimal - yep. i’ve been missing my training as my ‘me’ time. i am enjoying training with the guys, but i’m used to it mostly being ‘me’ time. think i found a flat today. probably 10 minutes walk to the gym WOO HOO!!!
TRAINING
Clean and Power jerk
15kg 1x2
20kg 1x2
30kg 1x2
35kg 1x3 (a little soft to lockout)
40kg 3x2. all of these were soft except the first rep of the last set. didn’t drive it any higher but shoved my head through harder. seems there is a bit of a knack to these.
Clean pull to shrug
50kg 1x3
65kg 3x3. feeling pretty easy. something magical seems to happen once the weight gets over 60kg (the bar gets heavier than me). it seems to move back towards me properly off the ground.
Back squats.
coach said we were all going on an adventure and he prescribed a weight and told us we would do a triple. so we didn’t know how many sets he would have us do and how much weight he would get us doing.
20kg 1x5 (warm up)
25kg 1x4 (he said i triple but i forgot)
30kg 1x3
35kg 1x3
40kg 1x3
45kg 1x3
50kg 1x3
55kg 1x3
60kg 1x3.
yes thats right I FUCKING SQUATTED 60KG FOR A TRIPLE!!!
and i didn’t even stall. easy.
planks
30sec
10kg 30sec
20kg 60sec x3
Ah too many bunnies! I blame Patches.
But a flat right near the gym deserves one and the triple squat.
First off, just gotta say, thanks to everyone on the push press info. I’m going to take everything into consideration. Thanks all!
Lex, nice training all around! Strong push press, snatch AND squat! Good work, girlie.
And I think your plan sounds solid, Lex! So those 1 or 2 exercises you’re picking, those are the accessory lifts? I like it! And don’t worry, you can get the rows and the strict pressing in the next cycle. I think less is definitely more when you’re looking to improve your main lifts, so your plan sounds good to me! And don’t underestimate 3x a week of full body lifting…that DOMs producing for sure!
I actually remember trying the frogged legs stance because I was constantly hitting my knees with the bar. But that was so long ago, I can’t remember what worked and what didn’t…I vaguely remember it working, that and getting over the bar…I’m a bit nervous to get back into Oly, really. I tried envisioning how to snatch last night when I was drifting off to sleep…I can’t remember how to do it! HAHA!
And EFF yeah on the 60k squat!! Awesome work!! Looks like you’re much stronger than you think!
I also really like your coach and his style! Seems to be working for you. I especially like how he just wants to pile the weight on the bar. HAH! I think that was the one element you were missing. Someone to tell you to just move the fucking weight. HAHAH!
Keep up the great work, Lexy!
nice work on the squats!
is that a PR?
nice pp’s indeed! and the SQAUUUTTTZZZ!!! you are the philosopher for sure!! Don’t change your log and hamper your thoughts and words, …but do add some vids if you can!!
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Yeah THAT!
Keep em words keep em coming.
Add the vids for oooooooglers like me
Lexi weight is flying up now, your patience is paying off.60KG wow!
Nooooooooo dont stop the wordy posts, I always get a “take away”, but definitely YES post more vids.
EE!!! I spotted your question to Harry!! I’m so excited we are doing this together ( in my mind we are at least!)
Total James Bond style…awaiting out next assignment:)!!
minimal - damn those bunnies are sooooo cuuuuute! fingers crossed about the flat… been agonising a bit today but think i’ll ring him tonight and say i’m keen if he’ll still have me. realized i’m most scared of someone else getting in there first!
there is a heat pump!!! people who haven’t been to nz will have no idea of the significance of that… and my room gets the afternoon sun!! people who haven’t been to wellington will have no idea of the signifiance of that… but anyhoo… it comes up really well with respect to things that are important to me.
masch - yes indeed to my needing someone to tell me to stop fussing and just move some bloody weight already. he also seems really good about pushing me sometimes but making me back off at other times. the recent article on t nation got me thinking on that… when i miss a PR or don’t match what i think i should be able to do then i typically thrash myself. never really thought that sometimes the body is trying to tell me it needs to recover…
the other exercises were my planned assistance, yes.
only thing is… i decided to make 3x5 with 20kg chin-ups / pull-ups an official goal. so now i’ll get assignments from harry… and he wants me to do rows. i need to ask him whether i’m allowed to do push-ups / bench sometimes or whether i should simply replace them with rows.
nimain - it is a rep PR. i’ve only ever moved 60kg once before for squat (for a single) and last time it was low bar and i only just broke parallel whereas this time it was high bar and ATG. i also failed it first try last time and screamed like a motherfucker in order to stand it up with quite a bit of a goodmorning. this time it felt so much smoother!
i think the oly guys respect me now
thanks brute! so happy that you are going to be getting assignments, too! we will have to hold each other accountable for doing exactly as he says!
hallowed - i’ll try and get vids not least because i really like being able to see myself progressing! will try and get them when i’m training by myself, though.
upscale - thanks! i’ll try and get vids next week!
TRAINING
active recovery kind of day at the place i got a free trial for…
will take tomorrow properly off because Saturday morning training sessions are pretty full on at the Oly gym.
rolling…
facepulls 1x15, 1x10
rows. part of my pull-up assignment… 3-4 sets of 12-15 reps at a weight that is challenging but not destroying.
sucked it up and pulled out the 7 or 8kg dumbbell (it wasn’t labelled so hard to be sure). i’ve never done 12 reps before… and i figured the idea was time under tension and controlled lat contraction rather than exploding it up and dropping it. made it into work for myself, basically. 4 sets.
bench (i do need to check i’m still allowed to do these)
20kg 1x5
30kg 1x5
35kg 1x5
37.5kg 1x3
40kg 3x3
overhead squat (just the bar for mobility) 2x5.
drop snatch 1x3
2x (hang pull x2, hang snatch 1)
hang snatch 1x3
front squat 1x3
hang clean 1x3
powerjerk 1x3
hang clean and power jerk 1x3
done.
Sounds as though you are making some incredible progress here! Nice work, Lexy.
Oh yeah, I remember I found this place (a good few years ago), anyway I bugged the landlord until he got so tired of me bugging him (in a nice way of course), persistance can pay off.
Yeah, Lex! Training looks great!! I really dig that active recovery day. You got in some great work!
I checked out the pullup guy - I saw Brute on there. Now I’m gonna go find you! hee hee hee I really like the way this guy trains people. Whoda thought to do rows? Seems so logical now…
Interesting convo on the push presses, it was on my list to eventually figure out, and that was pretty informative.
I’m glad you’ve found someone to help get you out of your head (I’m taking the leap and assuming that’s where the fussing comes from). It’s going to make a world of difference.
I don’t know why, but this just tickled me.
i hurt my lumbar back 
spent a long time with my foam roller / ball today and turns out it is my pesky hip flexors. once i released them a little i could feel the tension / pressure / achy pain dissolve out of my back.
so i guess that means i need to really be very religious about my hip flexor rolling and my glute activation stuffs - otherwise i’ll injure my back. i think it will come right in a couple days… but it really is giving me the message that if i keep doing what i’m doing it will get properly injured. can’t hit depth on squats without lower back rounding at the moment. pesky hip flexors
did 3x2 chin-ups last time and 7x1 after that. didn’t know i had that many doubles in me!
did some fat man pull-ups today (more like obese man pull-ups with a very high bar in order for me to get 4x12)
they have bouncy medicine balls! i wanted to slam it at the wall with one hand - but not really a suitable wall space (just about smashed a door open lolz). they have a mini-tramp in the cardio area set up on an angle, though. turns out it is perfect for hurling 4kg at with one arm (but you need to throw a bit gently or it is likely to flatten you on the rebound).
i’ll try and get vid on Friday since that seems to be Oly Lifting day off…
No Oly Lifting for me till Saturday
Here are bunnies & a puppy to cheer you up.
Aw sorry about your hip flexors. I’m wondering if my flexors are messing with my knees too. I remember some yoga teacher long ago saying that if the hips are tight are knees are not ready to do something or another???
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Well I kinda did again yesterday with jerking, blah!
Hey lexy,
How do you roll your flexors? With a softball? Do you have many tender points. Ive recently been playing around with my softball and have found heaps of tender points in my groin and hip flexors.
Ive included a picture to make you feel better.
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aw, lots of cute!
i use the EVA roller bird. softball, too. i think the key might be to not get stuck into it every day. give them some time to recover. had a good roll yesterday that felt productive - but i hadn’t done it seriously in a while. think if i do it too often they get inflamed and pissed off.
i was going to take vids of a whole heap of stuff… but my battery died. only got most of the chins (first double didn’t record) and the first set of barbell waiters walks:
chins
4x2, 1x6 (doing what Harry says)
barbell waiters walks
15kg (should do left arm first!), 20kg. noticing on the vid my posture is crappy when my left arm is raised. hrm.
hindu jumping squats. i’ll get a vid next time. messing around with sandbags since there is some. 3x10 16kg kettlebell swings since there are a selection of kettlebells. quite different from the dumbbell. i’m not so good at decelerating.
should be alright for training tomorrow… will go easy with the back squats, though. maybe do overhead instead.