aw. i wish i could train with both of you.
philosophy.
:-/
thats what happens when you ask ‘why’ a few too many times.
:-/
i’m having trouble with the terminology, too, because different coaches / methods use different terms / have different conceptions of what one is doing / what one should aim to be doing.
garbled. sorry.
[quote]brute_fury wrote:
hey alexus! man…i just got this text book “Olympic weightlifing” from the library–yeah i’m that nerd who visits the library at least 3 times a week…
anyways, geez. :{ again i say how hard this is! it have to re-read all the text and the comments on the oly forums out load and at least 2 times to get the idea of what they are saying–and even then i’m confused! i wish i had an Alexus to train with and freakin help me! :{ boo!! i do really appreciate all the help you offer…and please forgive me for it maybe taking five times hearing it to actually understand :{[/quote]
This made me smile. My husband tells people that I’m a cheap date. Give me a library card and a gym membership and all is good in the world.
Your lifts look really strong Brute. Your log is making me wish I could get back down there and practice getting the bar above my head. Ahh… maybe tomorrow.
yay!!! you’re deadlifting again!! I want to too!!! but alas…not QUITE ready…
BRE!! :D! yep…next week sometime is deadlifitng again. it’ll have been a month off of it …i’m frightened.:{
hey Debra! word! :{ you’re at it alone too!:{ bahh!
Alexus! Ah! philosophy! You are a thinking man’s lifter then! but i still don’t think you garble 
thanks puff! haha 
yeah! the library is the best i have a few really good ones here…mad book requests delivered! my weekend has been wonderful since i’ve been able to read nearly 2 books!..nothing informative…just adding 2 more zombie/sci fi/wierdo war books onto the list of useless crap in my head. the wt lifitn gbook is cool though.
last night and this morning was just cardio. i just am wakin up trying to decied what to do tonight. i need to do upper stuff.
i’m not sure if this is possible for you… but maybe try and ease into deadlifting since you haven’t done them for a while. better to have a good experience and be left wanting more than overdoing it and developing an aversion.
looking forward to hearing what you decided to do. i love upper body. since it is stronger than my legs :-/
oh I am all about it alexus!! i am going to go baby yellow-creamy-whipped- butter soft on the deads–definitely. i am very very fearfull! and respectful for the boo-boo back :{ i shiver in anticipation and fright even now…
what?!! man–now, you upper body chicks astound me! you deserve my respect, and i completely give it to you!
i’m total opposite, quite disproportionate in leg strength compared to crap upper body-chest, arms, back,the whole northern hemisphere…i’m awful and the training that area gets is pretty much the complimentary stuff that goes along with my real loves–ass, lower back, hamstrings,and core–quads come after all those. squats, deads, more squats.
i’m not exaggerating when i say doing upper body really does take away bits of my life force–hand over heart.
i probably should have just not done anything today. nothing exciting but i did get some benching in. for fucks sakes. i slept gloriously for 9 hours, so my back was a bit tight. stretching was done in ample amounts before and after mini workout.
benching 115x6x5 sets, 125x2 , 130 i managed to unrack, then i hated life and stopped.
db rows 45#'s x15, 55x10, 65x5
chest supported rows a few sets of 5 with a 45 plate on the thing.
stretching
Brute: You’re making me laugh. Upper body takes away your life force. You must change your thinking. The bench is your new lover. GOod luck with the deads. Glad you’re finally able to get after them even if it is just in a creamy yellow butter soft kind of way.
thanks Nadia…but…BLLLAHHH!! :{ i’ve tried that angle and it just doesn’t fly for very long. I’ve lived through my experimental 20’s for the most part—tried many things. I don’t bend that way–the bench way that is.
got some sad news today about a friend this morning. led me to talk deeply with someone I have to prevent myself from talking to…pricked open up swollen oozey heartaches. SIGH. Feels like my lungs have been ripped out of my chest from behind, honestly. Brute Cry Day. Brute can’t change things no matter how much she wants them day.
and that’s not touched with drama and flare like the benching comments…that’s real.
I need more mtn dew!!! good thing oranges are 19 cents a pound at Sprouts…gotta get Dew and oranges…then distract myself at barnes and noble reading celebrity gossip magazines.
First: 115x6x5, 125x2 ain’t bad benching at all. Maybe you’re not ready to jump into being lovers with benching and rowing, but you should at least give it an honest shot at forming a deeper relationship. Your lower body will understand, and might even reward you with stronger deadlifts down the road.
Second: Sorry to hear about your bad news, subsequent conversations and pain. :\ Life’s pretty stupid like that sometimes. Hope you find some good gossip and stop oozing from the heart sooner rather than later.
Brutie, I agree with Zac Brown. Are you going on Saturday? I am not reffing, not sure if I’m going to go, but I would bring you oatmeal.
Ooops, I am reffing. I’ll still bring you oatmeal.
((huggles))
nothing harder than feeling beat over something you can’t change.
hope things go for the better soon.
hey Kristof thanks, i appreciate that :}
PMPM- I’ve got to work friday night until 10 am–however i wanna stop by! if i do go it’ll be a quickie visit to wish everyone luck
thanks n and mim–bleh! onto the next page–i have so much to be thankful for the sad stuff is part of it
I offer this story from my o-lift practice tonight. Why? You led me to start them, you’ve been generous with blooper videos in the past, and you could use a laugh (I laughed, anyway :D).
So I’m working on my C&J. I shouldn’t be, because I have a squirrely ankle, but there I am anyway. Only other person lifting weights is skinny awkward kid, who I have much empathy for. I’ve worked my way up to 79.5kgs and am planning to single this several times.
I step up to the bar, grab it in the middle, slide my hands out to the rings and back to the middle. Back once more to just before the rings (where I like to grip it), roll the bar out and back. Take my breath of air, visualize, and sit down with my butt way down and chest up (this ‘always’ feels wrong, p.s.).
Smooth off the floor, deliberate even. As the bar crosses my knees I push into the floor hard and hip bump it, shrugging and coming up on the balls of my feet. Everything going according to plan, feels like a good clean so far. The bar is almost at the apex of its ascent (can it be that? Right before it starts to fall anyway) and I drop down under and flip elbows around. Time seems to slow down…
…because my right foot feels this is the time to dance. Toes off the ground and turning to the inside, heel sliding over to line up straight again. Toes off and back to the outside, heel follows again. Then some sort of random hop/slide move forward and left at the same time. I’m thinking ‘holy shit, I’m about to eat this bar’. In what has to be the proudest moment of my day I manage to adjust the rest of my body and sit back enough to catch it. I’m now at the bottom position and facing about ten o’ clock.
I stand up with it and look over at skinny awkward kid. His eyes are pretty wide, his mouth is open. I say to him, with a laugh, “I have no idea how that didn’t end in utter disaster.” Jerk that sucker up, lock it, and set it down. He says, very slowly: “Dude. Are you okay?” I grin and tell him I’m fine.
I only wish I had a video, so I could see if it looks as crazy as it felt when it was happening.
Anywho, peace.
WORD!!! haha! victory! :D! i love stories of triumph!!
i like this dude’s style. besides the fact he’s doing 201 KILOS–i think my c & j would be more conformable for me if i didn’t try the split stance. i thought you had to do it1–but evidentially not?
check out his leap! wow!!! that in itself is amazing!
today’s stuff . at home snatches-- first snatched it up then did oh sq after each success
65# plus 5oh sq, plus 6,plus 8, plus 9, plus 10
75# plus 8, then just snatch only w 75# 2 singles
85# snatch only x fail, x2 singles.
tight back. doing bird dogs seem to help. i fell like my left side of my lower vertebrae feel more stiff. freaking cat streches kinda hurt too ;/ tight tight tight
today’s stuff . at home snatches-- first snatched it up then did oh sq after each success
65# plus 5oh sq, plus 6,plus 8, plus 9, plus 10
75# plus 8, then just snatch only w 75# 2 singles
85# snatch only x fail, x2 singles.
tight back. doing bird dogs seem to help. i fell like my left side of my lower vertebrae feel more stiff. freaking cat streches kinda hurt too ;/ tight tight tight
Brute, you gotta start doing the janda situps. Bet they would really help your back if you started doing them religiously. I’m thinking that your job is a lot like mine in the sense that you probably use your body: bending, twisting, lifting, getting into awkward positions. If you beat your body up a little on the job and then go kill it in the gym, sometimes it catches up.
I feel the same way when it comes to benching. My bench sucks, but I try to be realistic and remember that some lift has to be my worst lift. Doesn’t mean that I don’t do it. And I like the challenge of pushing myself to do things that I don’t love. Interesting to see how one reacts to repeat exposure to something that isn’t “fun”. On the other hand, I love to row. After post chain work, back work is definitely 2nd.
Hope your back is alright. Have you been icing? Wish I could just run right over and help fix you up!