another quickie session today
front squats 150x7,x7, 165x4,180, 185, fail at 190. then some gm’s with 95 for ten.
nimain wasn’t kidding when she said you had an awesome deadlift! If you don’t mind me asking, how much do you weigh? I want to shame myself for how little I can deadlift compared to you. You look tiny yet 225 seemed like baby weight for you!
told ya 
Brute is 5’9 and around 170lbs. 225 IS a warm up.
Hope the flooding situ cleared up Brutiful…
WORD! Hey Dani!! Well thanks! HEE HEE!!! I don’t think anyone 's ever called me tiny in my entire life! I fancy myself as a bumbling Goliath of a chick. And I’m not so strong on my max for dl’s…I just like to rep out for glory :)!!!
MY FRENCHIE FANTASTICO! …oh man. it was a nightmare yesterday!
I was awakened to what I though was the shower running in my bathroom yesterday before work…i wondered how the hell did Nigel figure out how to turn the shower on?
But alas it was the ceiling caving in my shower and water gushing out all over. within 3o minutes of scrambling panic leaks started in every light fixture on my ceilings–living room, closet, hallway, smoke detectors…soon it was a total raging flood from the ceiling down!
Luckily I have nothing of value except Nigel who i dropped off at my work, and my precious bed which was thankfully not dripped down upon. The water was all gross and brown , but thankfully it wasn’t anyone upstairs dead in the bathtub–which i always think first :{–but a busted toilet water line in the floor above me. I can only imagine how their place looks…
I am way lucky too,! if it had happened an hour later i would have been at work…only to come home to EVERYTHING being ruined. the apartment upstairs people were on vacation so who knows how long that water could have been running and ruining everything! my bed! as it was there was a good couple inches of pooling water on the carpets and the floors…my fireplace.
so me and Nigel are refugees hangin at my parents house for the next day or so while they dry it out and plaster the ceilings and stuff… went to a gym i haven’t been to in forever did some stuff. I am outta shape and I tried a few bench sets but i won’t even record them because that’s how far its dropped! oh god. well, there you go.
overheads 95x22, 115x15,125x10,135x8 outta balance outta shape!
then the bad benching
clean to push press 95x9,x7,x5x 5 sets
stretching etc.
I have to share this as well. Before I grabbed my camera this dude was doing this with one leg back and to the side like a diagonal bazaar shrugged 1/10th lunge…not sure what this is all about. and yep that’s my crotch in the beginning i was trying to hide the fact the camera.
What is your deadlift max?? And you don’t look 170! But you are very tall.
lol @ that video…that dude looks pretttty lost.
why thank you!! 
I’ll take the compliment!
my last max was 336.2 or something strange at a meet i did in December. i can’t seem to budge it this year! i messed up my back in January then again in march or sometime and have had a kinda half ass training year. I get a bit of a mind fuck with maxing out on deads, and I also just plain out prefer reps to big single lifts. former cardio crack attack in me!
I’ll be happy when 135x8 pressing is a bad day for me 
idiot looks like an idiot. sheesh. someone give him a clue.
oh boy well today was a nothign day really workout wise.
The Come Back Tour continues ever so slightly
dl’s 265x7
gm’s 115x10
loads of stretching.
I am most pissed off. My place is sorta barwely ok to live in. they aren’t replacing my carpet --which sucks–just the pad underneath. and they haven’t done it yet! i spent 2 hours cleaning up the misc dirt water stains and bullshit. i spend the last two nights and days hanging around my parents place.
I have to make arrangements with dry wall people to come and then the painters…basically a pain in my ass for another week. stupid flood! IIRRR!
I can’t take another day at my parents hosue…i’d rather have a headache from the stink. love them to death, but cant take that much of them!
sorry to hear about the flood. Love the “repping out for glory” going on in this log. I can relate to that sentiment. I love it!
Gosh, the flooding sounds pretty bad.
I must admit that I covertly video people doing bizarre things in my gym all the time. I get a big kick outta it. Those little curtsies he was doing with the pussy pad. Priceless.
^^ Almost as priceless as you calling it a pussy pad (which ‘is’ the correct name for it, but still).
I can sympathize with the staying with the parents if not with the flooding. That does sound bloody awful. :\
I was highly amused by your covert video operation, thanks for that. 
I particularly like the way he looked at the plates on one side when he finished, as though confirming that yes, he ‘is’ that strong.
Glad the Come Back Tour is still ongoing. Don’t get too down on your numbers. For one they’re still freaking awesome, for another thing you ‘are’ more in balance what with the Nigel time and work. You’re a gem and just taking the time to polish a different facet of yourself for now. Before long you’ll be shining brighter than ever in both areas.
I did have an image of the whole place being flooded and Shark Face dog paddling around until you got home, and sort of pouring into your arms when you opened the door coming home (I know it didn’t go down like that, I can’t help my 'magination sometimes) and I confess I laughed. I’m happy too that it wasn’t a dead body, and that your bed wasn’t harmed. Hooray for happy bits of an otherwise awful situation.
Brutus, it’s an apartment, it isn’t livable, you need to tell them to put you up in a hotel (with doggy) or you’ll do it yourself and deduct it from your rent. And wtf you have to make the arrangements for repairs?
Let me know if you need something with these bastards.
HURRAY!! Finally back in my place! and it doesn’t stink! carpets aren’t new but they shampooed them, so I’m happy. I’ll be happier when i see what they discount my next months rent for. and if its not enough I’m taking you up on it PMPM. For sure!
it was such a pain in the ass. and now all that’s left is the painter to patch the ceilings up. but my god how lame.
Nadia! My elegant swan!!! we are sisters in our rep love affair!
hey Snap! ha! I didn’t even notice the maxi pad he had going there!! :D!
thanks Kristof! poor nigel was very confused…the ceilings were falling in on us! it was intense! and I feel quite happier then I was this time 5 months ago, hell, this time 2 weeks ago! Things are going good and i’m grateful!
I can’t tell you how happy I am to have a normal daydweler life again! I just feel more exuberant, healthier, and my mind is clearing up! its wonderful! I can plan things!! the pay cut is worth it.
except for a gnarly tattoo ink reaction I got going :{ god it hurts still. right in the spot that is impossible not to move or touch doing anything at all really… squats hurt, deads hurt, bench set ups hurt, putting on pants hurt! walking hurts!! going to end up loosing that ink too. so i’ll have to go over it AGAIN in another shade…drat! double the pain, plus almost 2 weeks worth of sore :{ screw you black cherry red ink!
today was another mini day
deads 225x16, 245x7 or 8, 265x3, 285
rusty squats up 135,185,225,255 , 275 just at parallel
overheads 95x20, 115x8
oh and I got a new keyboard…hense the return of the !!!
thanks MiM for all your help–I stole your !!! on a regular basis
Glad you didn’t have to spend too long at the folks. I can sympathise. I live in a one room studio. It’s mine, but after 16 years the decor has deteriorated to the point that it resembles a Fallout shack. Problem is, I would have to move out and put my furniture in storage to decorate because one wall needs replastering and the entire carpet needs replacing. And I can’t be arsed, so it just looks worse and worse.
Anyway, sounds like great progress on the lifts - you might think you’re rusty but you put many of us to shame.
boo on the red cherry ink getting the rejection. The color I had most issues was a purple/pink. I also heard of someone losing all the pink.
shades of red seems to have a rougher time. The hubby says he bled like a stuck pig getting his maple leaf (red) done.
remind me again which piece you had work on?
Hey Cal! oh my do i relate to that…moving is …awful. even if its not a move but a take all your shit out and wait a day to get stuff done. Exhausting. My family was all up in arms about the whole thing for me teling me that i should demand a new apartment…but MY GOD. I can’t be bothered with it either! Just happy to have my cave back.
Also why I hesitate to buy house stuff…more crap to pack should i have to leave!
Hey N! I’m working on a lil creature under my fish. A Kraken. :)!
oh my and i forgot that i benched slightly yesterday
115 x3 x3 sets, 120x2 x3sets,125x 2 singles. LOW and behold my present bench bleeehh.
db rows 50’s x12,x 10
db bench 40’s x 10 x 2 sets
^^ Somehow this seems perfect for you. If I lived around you I’d be obligated to say “Release, the Kraken!” at least once a day though.
Probably for the best; you’d get tired of it and sic Nigel on me eventually. grin
Edit: !! I meant purely for the fun of quoting the classic movie, not in the sense of ‘take your clothes off’. blush (the location of your ink just occurred to me)
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How cool is that!!! can’t wait to see it