[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Court wrote:
Me: “I didn’t realize you were coming tonight and I had to take care of your ego or I would have just done some cardio instead” insert earphone
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I missed you …
and… You got some 'splainin to dooooooo[/quote]
I wouldn’t have even been that nice to you if you said stupid shit like that, despite how darn cute you are 
And check your PMs re my 'splainin. I will take my lashings however and whenever you feel I should receive them 
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
I am totally stealing your remarks.
I am still working on a remark for my most hated question…“uh, do you need some help with that?”
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That’s in line with another question I’ve gotten before “Are you actually going to lift that?” - no, I just decided to load the bar, look at it for a bit, then walk away so everyone thinks I did.
i’ll give you your lashing … preferably in a tub of strawberry jell-o sans clothes … i give thy permission to fight back
Good to see you’re back on the horse. I find motivation comes in fits and starts - best of luck getting back into the groove again.
ah, dear dear dear. i have 2 favorite remarks for your convo.
what are you training for? – I’m a contract assassin, and it helps when i can carry what i kill, so that i dont have to subcontract for cleanup and removal.
you’re making us guys look bad! – if you’d work harder, it wouldn’t be so easy.
and some others:
do you need help with that? --no, do you?
how much do you bench? – close grip? medium grip? wide grip? incline, decline, flat? dumbell, barbell?
hey you know you’ll hurt your ____ if you keep doing ____ that way. – I’ll hurt your ego more.
do you take steroids? – no, but my self esteem does.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
ah, dear dear dear. i have 2 favorite remarks for your convo.
what are you training for? – I’m a contract assassin, and it helps when i can carry what i kill, so that i dont have to subcontract for cleanup and removal.
you’re making us guys look bad! – if you’d work harder, it wouldn’t be so easy.
and some others:
do you need help with that? --no, do you?
how much do you bench? – close grip? medium grip? wide grip? incline, decline, flat? dumbell, barbell?
hey you know you’ll hurt your ____ if you keep doing ____ that way. – I’ll hurt your ego more.
do you take steroids? – no, but my self esteem does. [/quote]
Yup, girl crush is still there
I had a super busy, stressful day that ended (at least the “day” part of my day) in the most hilarious way.
I was talking with our Asst. Dean of Academics just outside her office about this event I’m organizing at the end of the month. As we’re standing outside talking, who do I see but “you’ll make us look bad” guy. I thought it was weird because my building is only for the business school and we don’t have an undergrad program in it. He walked/paused/looked really awkward as if waiting for me to acknowledge his existence or see if I was almost done my conversation. I was engaged, so did neither. I walked back into the office after ending the conversation and our administrator who sits at the front says “Did you even notice the looks that blonde guy was giving you? Awkward much?”. I briefly explained last night to her and we had a good laugh. She then proceeds to tell me he’s the “PhD student that will never graduate”. Sooooo now the chances of me running into this guy in the future are very high. CBear, what should I response be when he says hi/asks if I remember him/starts small talk?
Oh and I also managed to attend 4.5hrs of class, do 6 hours of work and make it into the gym for 20 minutes of HIIT (elliptical, 1m on, 30s off) and some foam rolling already today. I’m hoping to rest for a bit before packing for tomorrow (YAY!) and logging into this virtual MBA fair thing I have to help out with at 9pm. Long day!
[quote]Court wrote:
he’s the “PhD student that will never graduate”. Sooooo now the chances of me running into this guy in the future are very high. CBear, what should I response be when he says hi/asks if I remember him/starts small talk?
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you have two options, one is more nutcrushing than the other.
oh hi, yeah, i remember you. slow, evaluating look up and down when is that ‘lifting to look good’ thing sposed to start happening? maybe you should put that on hold and try to graduate, since you obvi have so much on your plate. i mean that metaphorically, you look like you could use some meat on your bones.
oh im sorry i didnt recognize you the other day. i keep track of so many 250lb+ powerlifters my brain gets a little fried. esp with all the __________ that i’m doing for school. so, how ARE you? sweet smile
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
and some others:
do you need help with that? --no, do you?
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Awesome. That will totally do it.
Court, just hearing about your day makes me tired.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
and some others:
do you need help with that? --no, do you?
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Awesome. That will totally do it.
Court, just hearing about your day makes me tired.[/quote]
x2
Also, I am waiting for part 3 of your perpetual-PhD-guy story. Hilarious!
[quote]Court wrote:
Btw, I’ve convinced Chimera to do a meet September 4th and have committed to helping her there (and prior as much as our schedules allow). I’ll already be there helping someone else out unless he becomes a pansy and decides not to do it. Either way I will go for her.
PS. Now that it’s in my log you have to do it. Muahahaha. Here’s the first step: Submit your entry form so you can’t make excuses later. So much easier to train for it when you’ve already spent the $$ to register.[/quote]
Damn. I’ve been called out! But, your wish is my command… I’m filling out the entry form and sending it off tomorrow. At least now I have lots of snappy-comeback-options for all the stupid questions I’m going to be asked by friends/family haha
welcome back,
I was almost afraid.
had to scroll to page two before a twat or a fuck was present.
very relieved.
Nice work back in the gym, Glad your enjoying the left coast.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
welcome back,
I was almost afraid.
had to scroll to page two before a twat or a fuck was present.
very relieved.
Nice work back in the gym, Glad your enjoying the left coast.[/quote]
I told everyone I was on good behavior now and was all sweet and shit It was CBear’s presence on my log that reminded me I was in PW and not in the business setting.
Btw, I just finished 3 of the most painful hours of my life. Live instant messaging giving prospective applicants information about the program. Here was my top exchange:
Me: Welcome Abe
Abe: I work in IT industry, does that make my profile more common and likely to be rejected
Me: Some bullshit about holistic view, aspects of application, blah blah blah
Abe: I do not have a positive point on those leaves room
The admissions officer called me laughing her ass off after that exchange. What an experience this is. At least I am getting paid.
Anyways, it’s after midnight, I’m only half packed. I realized I had to take out my “California winter” clothes that haven’t been worn in weeks because my skirts, tanks and flip flops aren’t going to cut it in Quebec. I need to get off TN and finish organizing my life. I’m leaving here at 645am. Bai Guys!
PS. Chimera, Glad to hear it
Have a safe and fun trip!!
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
[quote]Court wrote:
he’s the “PhD student that will never graduate”. Sooooo now the chances of me running into this guy in the future are very high. CBear, what should I response be when he says hi/asks if I remember him/starts small talk?
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you have two options, one is more nutcrushing than the other.
oh hi, yeah, i remember you. slow, evaluating look up and down when is that ‘lifting to look good’ thing sposed to start happening? maybe you should put that on hold and try to graduate, since you obvi have so much on your plate. i mean that metaphorically, you look like you could use some meat on your bones.
oh im sorry i didnt recognize you the other day. i keep track of so many 250lb+ powerlifters my brain gets a little fried. esp with all the __________ that i’m doing for school. so, how ARE you? sweet smile[/quote]
Maybe I’m just getting soft in my old age, but I prefer the smile, nod, look confused approach. Most people give up after you ask what? More than twice. Senility the ultimate brush off.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
Senility the ultimate brush off. [/quote]
LMAO
Hey Court.
Just curious what kind of gain (percent wise) you get from going raw to geared in your lifts.
kpsnap - I will answer this once I get home and get a few hours (days) of sleep.
Okay, so I’m sitting in the airport about to start my long long journey back to Cali. I had such a blast at Nationals and am soooooooooooooooooo glad I went! Quick recap of how wicked my club is:
60kg M2 Female - Gold
75kg M1 Female - Gold
75kg M2 Male - Gold
82.5kg JR Male - Bronze
82.5kg JR Male - 4th
90kg JR Male - Bronze (missed his last pull for 2nd place, pulled a PMPM/Court - fell backwards)
90kg M1 Male - Gold
100kg M3 Male - Gold (only lifter, but PB total too)
125kg Open Male - Bronze
125+kg Open Male - Bronze
3 of them went 8 for 9 and another 3 went 7 for 9.
Not bad I would have to say…
Other people I coached, not part of my club but I’ve trained with:
60kg JR Female - 1st place
67.5kg Open Female - 2nd place
75kg Open Female (1st nationals, 4th meet) - 3 PBs, PB total
125kg JR Male - 1st place, PB total - met this SK lifter there, asked for some help, I provided
In the end, I wrapped/shirted 6 people and helped out with a ton more. I’ll upload a picture of my hand… swollen, cracked, red, sore. Just about to board. Later 
Hands
Slept on my first quick flight from literally the second I put my seatbelt on until the plane touched down. Friday night I “napped” on a couch outside the lifting area for an hour. We had gone out after all the girls were done, drank and then met up with some of the 82.5 and below guys back at the hotel for more drinks. When 5am came around and we all had lifters in the 9am flight we decided to just stay up instead of going to bed. Yesterday lifting started at 9am and the last deadlift (world record btw) went up at 1145pm. I stayed up the whole time and finally went to sleep from 5am-830am. Needless to say I need a bit of sleep.
Nationals was a great experience. It was super hard not being there to lift, but it was really nice to meet everyone and help out everywhere I could. I learned a lot about coaching in big meets (timing, running numbers, playing the 3rd deadlift change game, etc) and got a bunch of the new CPU powerlifting gear to bring back and wear in California I really need to try to get my act in gear over the next year so I can lift next year in PEI.
Last night I thought it would be a good idea to deadlift. I was drunk. It was 2am. I had been up for 43 of the previous 44 hours. A set of brothers did a tandem deadlift of 455kg (1003lbs) after lifting the day before and partaking in some beverages. Afterwards, I was helping the SK Jr I coached see what he was doing on deads since he has had hitching issues with heavy weights in the past. I also showed him how to set up for sumo which he had never tried before. I started pulling and the 7 guys in the room had bets going on what I could pull in my jeans and conventional (since I exclusively pull heavy sumo). The game became add 10kg and pull every 30 seconds until I couldn’t pull anymore. We started at 65kg (143lbs) and the last successful attempt came 3minutes later with 125kg (275lbs). Not too shabby considering I was literally in jeans, a cute tank top and had been awake forever.
Anyways, I’m now lounging out across 3 comfy chairs waiting for my connection. Contemplating falling asleep. It’ll be good I won’t be back in the gym until at least Tuesday because frankly I’m completely tuckered. The guys were fun to coach, but holy crap are the women I coached mentally draining! haha. I think I got a few of them to realize that at meets you don’t have to worry about anything but lifting the same way you always do. You have a coach to worry about your numbers, your placing, lifting order, timing of wraps and telling you what you need to hear before you go out on the platform (from wait for commands to which of the many rings on the bar are the “right” ones, to telling you a story about a lifter who shit themselves during a deadlift attempt to make you laugh because you’re wound so tight and need to not be nervous). I’m a bossy coach, but very calming for my lifters so I’m quite alright with that.
PS. Someone puked during a deadlift this week too. He got the lift and as the head judge was giving him the down command he projectile vomited. Hilarious but so gross.
^I’ll wait for the cliff notes.