Texas pushup challenge, eh? I’m gonna try that next week when I’m (hopefully) fully recovered from the current virus situation.
Yeah, it almost made me puke. 
Of course that might have been the two week old Thai food leftovers I ate. 
Looking good, Spider lady!! Love the new avatar…your tricep is poppin’!
Hey thanks skye! I was pleasantly surprised by that pic. Wait til I get one with me pulling 230.
i ALMOST missed spider ass! good thing i went back a page. :drool:
lookin super fly in ur avatar too missy. =+)
Jeez you leave forever then come back and the log flies!
Happy Birthday
nice ass x 2
hell yeah for your deadlift!!
Punch the helper spotter in the throat.
Nice arms!!
I’m guessing spider ass is the reason this log shows up on the “most popular pages”.
Nice new avatar! Looking fine, my dear.
Hello Arachne:
It’s Karen. Thanks for letting me know about this forum. I enjoy reading everyone’s training logs and have even posted my own (Snapper’s Strength Sojourn). Let me know how your training is coming along!
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[quote]soldog wrote:
Hey spiderlady - here’s the entry form for the March meet:
http://www.rmlccolorado.com/entrys/MTN%20states%20peak%20performance%20entry.pdf
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Hi George,
Thanks! It’s at the RMLC again? Karen told me the spring event was at a much bigger venue and was held in conjunction with a bodybuilding show. I am totally fine with this, because I already know what it’s like since I watched you. I’m just surprised.
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It’s historically been a part of the Mountain States bodybuilding/figure competition, but it looks like it is separate this year. I will probably be reffing but not competing.
Great work on the deadlift! Glad to see your making gains. I’m sure the bench will follow suit.
I’m going to have to log out just to have a look at those gorgeous triceps
niiiice bum and great new avi spider! did you really eat 2 week left-over Thai? even i wouldn’t venture that far into questionable food longevity!
congrats on those dead PR Arachne! I will be atacking them after my bench cycle.
Hi everyone! I just wanted to say I’ve been crazy busy… not too busy to lift, just post. I miss all y’all and I will post my last two weeks soon. I’m in week one of wave 2, and the deadlift continues to improve while the squat continues to sit around on its ass.
More later!
[quote]arachne12 wrote:
Hi everyone! I just wanted to say I’ve been crazy busy… not too busy to lift, just post. I miss all y’all and I will post my last two weeks soon. I’m in week one of wave 2, and the deadlift continues to improve while the squat continues to sit around on its ass.
More later!
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Hey there. First of all, great ass. Now that that is out of the way, you might consider a couple of tweaks to your squat.
From the video it looks like (bit hard to tell) that you have a quite narrow stance. This is good for quad development but not for engaging the glutes and hams and moving bigger weight. If you want to try a wider stance, point your toes out and push your knees out so they don’t cave inward. it is also easier to hit depth with a wider, powerlifting style squat.
Hey everyone, and thanks for the DL congrats and compliments. You all are awesome!
giterdone: I appreciate the advice. I’ll give it a try tomorrow, squat day and report back. Another thing to consider is I am considerably weaker in full squat depth on the left side. I can see this on my stepups and pistols. I was in a really bad car accident when I was two and had a bunch of pelvic bone breaks. I have a re-routed or missing tendons up where my leg attaches.
I do not mention this as an excuse, but as a point to focus some strengthening work.
Because of this, I started doing a lot of step up work on the left side. I’m did several sets of stepping up onto five books on physical chemistry and statistics in my office today. 
workout log to follow!
I’ll skip the deload week and begin with week 1, wave 2 bench.
week 1 2/8/2010
warmup
5 40 < 2 20lb dumbbells.
5 45
3 55
working
5 60
5 70
6 80
assistance
dips 2x7
hanging leg raises 1x8
rows 3x10 35s
I forgot to mention training max 100 lb for the bench. Side note: can everyone understand my terminology? I see a few different styles out there. Can you tell the first warmup is 5 reps with 70 lbs bar?
Deadlift Day training max 185
week 1 3/9/10
warmup
5 70 < on this light weight I got complacent and pitched to the side, felt a pull in my left hamstring, etc. Note to self, take deadlifts seriously at ALL times!
5 85
3 100
working
5 110
5 125
7 145 <these felt absolutely great! I’m a wreck from my hamstrings up today… in a good way. God I love deadlifts.
assistance
stepups 1x10 12s < unbelievable how much harder the left is than the right.
walking lunges 2x10 15s
good mornings 2x10 55 < these still make me pant.
Press 3/10/10 training max 55 lb
warmup
5 20 < 10s
5 24 < 12s
3 30 < 15s
working
5 30 < 15s
5 40 < 20s
11 45 <bar
Then I had to go to a meeting. I’m due for chinups and pullups for assistance work, and maybe a texas pushup set. I can do those at home.
[quote]arachne12 wrote:
Hey everyone, and thanks for the DL congrats and compliments. You all are awesome!
giterdone: I appreciate the advice. I’ll give it a try tomorrow, squat day and report back. Another thing to consider is I am considerably weaker in full squat depth on the left side. I can see this on my stepups and pistols. I was in a really bad car accident when I was two and had a bunch of pelvic bone breaks. I have a re-routed or missing tendons up where my leg attaches.
I do not mention this as an excuse, but as a point to focus some strengthening work.
Because of this, I started doing a lot of step up work on the left side. I’m did several sets of stepping up onto five books on physical chemistry and statistics in my office today.
workout log to follow!
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Dang…I didn’t realize the extent of the injuries.
Since you love deadlifts, have you tried pulling sumo? I didn’t notice, perhaps you are already. As you probably know, the initial setup for sumo puts you in more of a squat position, since you have a higher back angle, so there is often more carryover to the squat and can be a good quad developer along with hitting the posterior hard.
Nice training effort.