So, looking back on the month of food –
+50 on squats
+60 on deadlift
+15 on bench
still not a fatty (evidence in my profile.)
I think I’ll do this again!
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
So, looking back on the month of food –
+50 on squats
+60 on deadlift
+15 on bench
still not a fatty (evidence in my profile.)
I think I’ll do this again![/quote]
wowzers…that’s some serious progress. bravo!
(although i think ur idea of a “month of food” is totally weaksauce)
and where the hell are those cookies??
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
So, looking back on the month of food –
+50 on squats
+60 on deadlift
+15 on bench
still not a fatty (evidence in my profile.)
I think I’ll do this again![/quote]
Groovy! So, how about hitting 2200 cal per day and see what happens?
Hmm… it will be tempting to not do it “clean” (already a trap I fall into.)
But another month or more of food should probably help. And I’ll put it to good use in the gym. What I’d like is to be DL’ing over 200 and squatting 170-180 by January or so; I would like this meet to actually happen and I’ll be tempted to bow out if my numbers suck. (Bench? Que sera sera. My progress has always been slow & erratic on that. Do I dare to dream of 115 or 120?)
Occasionally I see a picture and I think I want to be lean enough for muscles to show (I’m looking at you, Kimba) but the fact is that undereating didn’t actually get me there, so there’s no point doing it just out of superstition. I don’t know what would work, in fact. But I’m trusting that focusing on getting stronger/more muscle will be better in the long run.
(Yeah, I can hear Rippetoe’s voice telling me not to give a damn about hawt abs. A useful voice. Not the whole story, in my view, but useful. Squats and milk, here I come.)
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
I would like this meet to actually happen and I’ll be tempted to bow out if my numbers suck. [/quote]
If you even CONSIDER doing this, I will personally come to your ivy-league-school-that-can-kick-my-ivy-league-school’s-ass-in-football and beat you senseless. (I may be small, but I’m feisty and wily, and I’ll bring CBear if I have to). There is simply no such thing as giving up, missy.
Fact of the matter is, is that I won the genetic lottery for lean muscle. Although I work hard in the gym and eat clean, that is probably only 50% of my results. It would be hard for me to gain the body mass to be a good powerlifter (like you are gonna be).
However, focusing on lots of healthy whole foods and heavy weights is no question the only way to get the aesthetic results you want as well as the strength results you want.
you gotta eat and train for the goals you want!
I wanna be lean/muscley, so I’ll have to eat lean and do muscley things, LOL!
And the fact of the matter FOR ME is that I WASN’t dealt good genetic cards…at least on my dad’s side…all overweight(obese) Italians…I look at a bowl of pasta and gain 5 lbs.
Well, I’ll have to be strong enough to fight you two ninjas off, then!
I have medium genes, I guess. Not a lot of overweight folks in my family; but also nobody muscular, as far as I know, ever. I am a younger clone of my mom, physically.
We did win the genetic lottery in one way, though: all the women in my family have painless periods, pregnancies, and childbirths. It’s awesome.
squat: 5@45, 5@65, 5@85, 5@95, 5@115, 5@135, 5@145 (rep PR).
Not elegant, but as Boltzmann said, elegance is for tailors.
bench: 5@45, 5@65, 5@85, 5@95, 5@105, 1@110, 1@110
At least this time I got a spotter so it didn’t land on my face.
deadlift: 5@65, 5@85, 5@115, 5@135, 5@155, 5@165
(by this time they were getting ugly. Achy hamstrings.)
one-armed DB rows:
10 @45 (each arm), 3x10@50 (each arm)
learned from a gym dude to keep my back fixed and only move my arm.
weighted situps:
10@20, 3x10@30
hypers: 5x10@35
face pulls: 10@20, 10@30, 3x10@40
solid workout!
painless childbirth? maybe with drugs! 
unfortunately parenting is not painless…
Well, not painless, of course, but easy. My mom had her kids with minimal anaesthetic; she just learned yoga breathing.
Question for Deja or someone who knows anything about football.
I do sprints out by the football field, and sometimes they leave a strange piece of equipment out. It’s a foam column attached to a base; if you hit it, it goes back and springs back up. It has two handles. There’s also a foam brick that’s sort of person-shaped, like a rectangle with arms.
What are they? What do you do with them?
ya hit em!
tackling/blocking dummy.
Not that I plan to play football but that sounds like a fun variation from running.
weebles wobble
Yesterday I was limpy sore and didn’t run.
Today I’ll be out of town; will get to the gym if I’m not back too late.
Wondering – maybe I should be going 4 days a week instead of 3? Might make things happen faster. But I don’t think I could squat four days a week. Would have to be a non-squat day.
two upper days
two lower(squat one day, and dl the next?)
Have you looked into any of the WS4SB programs? Just a thought! 
Yeah, I thought about that. PL guy told me to do 5x5, which is a three-day-a-week program, but the thing is I’m a lot more motivated to lift than to do cardio so I might consider WS4SB or some other four-day plan.
Got back too late to go to the gym; in fact, got back too late to eat dinner.
1358 kcal, p/f/c 148.8/56.5/61.2
too much of a wuss to do much lower body lifting… so today was one of those upper body workouts. I think I’ll have an upper body day on Sundays. They’re fun.
squats: 10@45, 5@65, 5@85, 5@95, 5@115, 3@135, wimped.
overhead press: 5@45, 5@55, 5@60, 5@65
30 hanging leg raises
chest press: 5@97, 5@117, 5@127, 5@137
bb curls: 5@35, 5x5@40
one-armed db rows: 10 (each) @45, 3x10 (each) @50
lat raises: 3x10@15
skull crushers: 10@25, 3x10@30
10 stationary bike sprints, 30 seconds all out 30 seconds slow ride
Good job on the upper body work!
Its funny…I’ve been wussing on the upper body stuff lately.
It’s a good day.
squat:
5@45, 5@65, 5@85, 5@95, 5@115, 3@135, 5@135, 5@145, 1@155 (PR! more reps next time) 8@115
somebody said I should squat low bar; I’ll have to try that, but at the moment it feels weird. T-Nation says that in principle you can handle more weight with a lower bar position. Fact? Fiction?
bench: 5@45, 5@65, 5@85, 5@95, 4@100, 3@105
not my best day but it’ll come back.
cleans: 5@65, 5@75, 5@85, 5@95, fail at 105.
weighted situps: 3x10@30
hypers: 5x10@35
Saw someone doing a cool thing with a dumbbell: he squats down, grabs it, and hoists it over his head while standing up. I’ll have to try that sometime.