food – not having the world’s best day, no appetite.
1292 kcal, p/f/c 206.1/37.6/26.3
30 m stationary bike.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Go up, bench! Up, bench, up! The bench will not go up. Bad, bad bench!
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This reads like a Dr. Seuss book. If you could bring everything else down to my reading level that would be stellar.
All right – I HAVE to stop using off days as an excuse not to do anything. Running on off days. Yeah.
The day before was a weird just-chest workout with the weightlifters: bench, incline dumbbell bench, and chest press machine.
“I knew this guy who wanted to be a bodybuilder,” says one of them.
“He went on this ULTRA HARD CORE cutting diet. And then he called me in the middle of the night and said ‘I have a VEIN!!’
Beat.
‘In my QUAD!!’”
Apparently people like quad veins.
We spent the rest of the workout randomly shouting “I have a VEIN!!”
Anyhow, bench is stuck (Up, bench, up!) at 2 reps at 105; on the third rep I inevitably arch my butt off the bench.
DB bench has been 35’s all week; 10@35 is easy, but I can’t get one measly rep at 40.
Possibly I’m a coward; possibly I need to go back to doing pushups.
Today will be squats & deadlifts.
Oh, and for MominMD: yesterday weight was 134, up 4 pounds since the Month of Food, but essentially rounding error.
Bench can be problematic for many but you’ll get it going soon enough.
hey alisa-sorry if i’ve missed it, but did you decide to compete? as for the bench- tonight will be my first attempt at ‘real’ benching so i have only a vague idea of what weight to use since i’ve only been doing DBs and i just recently hit 8@40. you’ll get there easy if 10 @35 is easy for you!
Yeah, I do want to compete, barring practical impediments.
Food: kinda piggy.
2148 kcal, p/f/c 143.3/123.2/105.2
I gained 4 pounds in 2 weeks, and lost it in 2 days…it’s just water…KEEP EATING!!
I’ve been stuck with the 45/50s with the db bench…tried the 55s at one point, but not go…I was peeved…
Ask for a spot to just get em up there!
Nice… you’re good.
squats: 5@45, 5@85, 5@95, 5@115, 5@125, 5@135 (rep pr)
seated db overhead press: 5@25, 5@30, 3x5@35
cleans: 5@65, 5@85, 5@90, 5@95, 3@100 (PR)
5x20 pushups
hypers: 5x10@25
weighted situps: 3x10@20
face pulls: 3x10@50
Thanks…your good too…How YOU doin? 
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Nice… you’re good.
squats: 5@45, 5@85, 5@95, 5@115, 5@125, 5@135 (rep pr)
seated db overhead press: 5@25, 5@30, 3x5@35
cleans: 5@65, 5@85, 5@90, 5@95, 3@100 (PR)
5x20 pushups
hypers: 5x10@25
weighted situps: 3x10@20
face pulls: 3x10@50[/quote]
What a solid training day. Great job!
Timed runs.
1/2 mile: 3:20
1/2 mile: 3:40
1 mile: 6:35
This is a MASSIVE PR, if my watch isn’t wrong. My best ever was 7:07, in high school, when I was going to track practice five days a week. I hadn’t done much timed running or short distance since then.
So either:
- My watch is wrong,
- I just didn’t understand the concept of effort in high school,
or - there’s some carry-over from weights and sprints that helps my mile time.
Anyhow, I’m going to take my victories where I can get them, and assume this is actually 6:35, and see if I can replicate it.
Damn good mile time.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Timed runs.
1/2 mile: 3:20
1/2 mile: 3:40
1 mile: 6:35
This is a MASSIVE PR, if my watch isn’t wrong. My best ever was 7:07, in high school, when I was going to track practice five days a week. I hadn’t done much timed running or short distance since then.
So either:
- My watch is wrong,
- I just didn’t understand the concept of effort in high school,
or - there’s some carry-over from weights and sprints that helps my mile time.
Anyhow, I’m going to take my victories where I can get them, and assume this is actually 6:35, and see if I can replicate it.[/quote]
That seriously rocks. 
Im gonna go ahead and venture that there’s some carryover!
congrats!
daaaaaang! I can walk a 1/2 mile in 8 min, lol…
Aw. thanks.
Today – let’s call it a learning day, no big numbers, just form.
squat: 5@45, 5@85, 5@95, 5@115, 3x5@95, 3x5@85
My problem here is rounding my back at the bottom. I need to do this more with my butt. Totally different, and scarier, and more hamstring ow, and less weight, when I do it properly.
bench: 10@45, 5@65, 5@85, 5@95, 5@100 (PR) 3@105
deadlift: 5@155 (ack, so bad) 5@65, 5@85, 5@95, 2x5@105 (all of this with perfect, pretty form.)
40 hanging leg raises.
hypers: 5x10@35
pushups: 4x25
Truth be told, I’m going to have to give up on the meet if I can’t deadlift something more respectable. Like, 100 pounds more respectable. It’s not just “learning” form, it’s actually being weak, because I can do it if the weight is really light. Probably my hamstrings.
How do you make it an “honest day’s work” when you’re lifting at your good-form max but not at your bad-form max? I just feel lazy after a day like this.
moment of introspection I think people come in two types when it comes to learning a skill. A lot of people – and the majority of women, imo, though my male training partner is also like this – tend to be overly conservative with their goals but make extra sure to get it right. I rush in, expect too much too soon, don’t ever read the instruction manual, take classes too advanced for me, lift weights too heavy for me, and curse myself at every turn. Sanity is so not my strong point. Gotta work on that.
At least I’m no longer one of the silly boys doing half squats.
squating and deadlifting and bench…oh my!
was that a planned workout?
Anyway, when squatting I really stick my butt out, and on the way up I lead with the chest…also think of pushing your elbows forward…
What has your PL’ing group said…maybe they can offer advice, after all thats what they are there for!
Don’t be too hard on yerself…it wasn’t that long ago that you started, but look how far you’ve come!
Oh, yeah, in principle I should be doing all of that every time – that’s how 5x5 works.
This actually was with a guy from the PL’ing group. He knows this stuff pretty well so I’m trying to take his advice. Mainly “More Butt!” “More Arch!” and “More Rest!” (since I used to take rest periods only about as long as it takes to change the plates.)
Ah well. It’s gotta move forward somehow.
How can you squat, bench and dl in the same sesh and feel lazy?lol