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Thank you Hallowed!! sigh you’ve made my hallowed-ween most blushing! and needless to say right back at you :)!
bench blandorama
115x6, 120x5, 125 95x10x 5 sets, x8,x8,x7
db rows 50’s x8
2 15rep sets of lat pull down, misc tricep stuff
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
Oh mah gawd.
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Truth!
And your not so exciting day looked pretty freaking awesome to me! Nice work on, like, EVERYTHING!
Ahh…cleaning out stuff is such a wonderful thing. Good for you! Feng shui like a champ, bro!
thanks maschy!! i gotta get a fountain or something for the moving water feng shui! i got 2 leaky faucets whcih might count :}
i’m doing pull ups. i hesitate to type it out as it might curse myself–> i’ve done a few 1/4 quartered hearted attempts at getting pullups in my training history all led to stagnant results unsurprisingly. my best for chins are 4, best for pullups ever are 1.75 reps per set.
they exhaust me! not in a racing heart way but a sheer lack of muscular strength in my upper back or chest–> there’s just nothing there to do the job! i got a heavy lower half compared to my top.
so i’m trying them instead of chins because i want to to them more. moved my hand placement in a bit and it seems to help! i don’t wanna do bands or the asst machine, i just wanna do em. i got a pull up bar at home. ***I summon the Goddess of Pull ups Nadia to assist me!!
also why i kinda went rep attack on benching today. I’m trying to squeeze oranges with my upper back and i like reps so why the hell not. making it more about that then the wt that is never really going to go far for a bench max.
my main hatred for benching is the fact that i can’t get much wt on it!! if i look at it differently and not even try to max out then i can’t loose. change the game in my favor!
yeah i know its kinda childish to expect to be good at stuff without trying and blah blah, but i feel like i have! i have tried !
when i was 24 i could barely–and i mean dangerously, BARELY-- bench a bar! and i was about 170# then. not the same distribution wise but still! I feel like I’ve put my licks in. so fuck off max bench, we’re not doing that anymore!
Sometimes you have to walk away from something until the time is right to return. Your max bench may be this way. Building your lats via pullups (go get 'em, RAAWWWRRR!!) and focusing on your form can only help your bench in the long run.
You’re pretty great, by the way. 
why thank you kristof!!!
next I meet captain Max Bench its a whole new battle!
[quote]Kristoph wrote:
You’re pretty great, by the way. :)[/quote]
I’ve met the real Brute. And she really is pretty great.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]Kristoph wrote:
You’re pretty great, by the way. :)[/quote]
I’ve met the real Brute. And she really is pretty great.[/quote]
For the official record the day my legs look like hers I will either be already dead and in heaven OR finally satisfied.
oh my!! thank you Snap! i just love your compliments! I truly wear them with a smile and burst of pride!! :)!
Hallowed! thank you! My legs are very utilitarian-- usually covered in bruises, scars, veins, and lumps of adipose tissue – but they serve me well. I bet yours are already more then awesome!
today i did my faves overhead squats! it was a fantastic super snowy day to wake up to. Me and Nigel plowed around outside and it was great! I weighed him down in his backpack and made him work for it too.
overhead sq
89#x5, 111x5, 121x5, 133x14, fail to get 138 up, fail at 138 again, 111x12, 121x10, 126x10,131x10, 131x10, 131x8
clean up then overhead lunges #89x10/leg,99x10/leg, 105x5 i think.
these are getting better but its all a balancing act. Not very hard muscle wise but a concentration challenge i like em!
then hlrx10
oh! and guess who’s chest is sore?? that’d be mine! a new experience for me!! sore pecks!
[quote]brute_fury wrote:
oh! and guess who’s chest is sore?? that’d be mine! a new experience for me!! sore pecks! :D[/quote]
Meee too! I finally got them last week after Beans told me to add incline BP and oh man whats the name of them… overhead cable press? The two cables from high position in and down to chest height… I’ll remember the right name shortly LOL. He thinks my tieins might bebe lagging… I kindahave think theyre… maybe nothe but takingI the advicehorrible anwway. Its coolthe to beme sore new places.
wow, loads to catch up on! sorry to hear about your apartment flooding and your landlords not being the bestest about your inconvenience. i hate dealing with crap like that. awesome pic of you and nigel. enjoying the vids…
though… the first guy might possibly be doing walkouts?? that is kinda what i do with a heavier weight when i’m building up to a (lighter) PR. but still, if he were doing that he would have done a proper squat after i guess. the second guy… um… i can’t do that on a bosu ball. trying, though, my balance sucks.
yeah for painful chesticles!
Awesome. You’re going to do pullups. You want my secret. I wrote to Harry Selkow at elitefts from April of 2008 until October of 2010. He gave me a pullup assignment nearly every week–deload every 4th week. I trusted him. I believed I could do them. I trained consistently. I trained hard.
Very generally, his program requires you to do pullups 1x a week and some rowing 1x a week. If you can do 1 pullup. Work up to 10x1. Rest as much as you need between sets. Get the reps. Then work up to 10x2.
My first assignment with him was 5 sets of 2. Hardly impressive. But,that’s where I started.
In October of 2010 I did a single set of 23. I also had worked up to weighted pullups w/ 35lbs–3 sets of 3.
If you’re serious about the pullups, I highly recommend you write to harry. He’ll help you. Just do what he says. Tell him you’re a friend of mine. But he knows me as Laura, not Nadia.
Hallowed–>YES! it is very exciting…and kinda unnerving at the same time…i’ve been letting those lil guys ( my ecs) sleep for a long time I give you props for doing cable stuff. I HATE CABLES. anything on the pulley system thing instantly looses my attention. I look at it and it makes me pissed off! I hate them ! …probably why my chesties are so lil and now STILL sore
ALEXUS!! hey! I have no clue about those people in the background…but i’m no expert in anything! sometimes i make fun of them in my head but for all i know they are doing important things…involving various props!
N!–its strange…and weird! and like i told Hallowed, still a bit sore!
OH! Nadia! thank you! I will write him today! I also didn’t realize you started form scratch on those! wow! that makes your pull ups even more impressive! my god! I also was curious about the training frequency for those. In past when I’ve tried I was under the impression the more you do them them more you’ll end up being able to do, however I find I can’t do them for every day at all. they exhaust me that much!
but i’m on it! yesterday i only did 2 sets of 1.7ish. I’m going to write him and wait for a response. and in the mean time try once a week the 10 sets of 1.
today
front squats 135x20,x10, 145x8,155x3
back squats 225,255,270,280, 290 fail! ha!
fronties are coming back a lil . it wasn’t as hard for me for the first set but i still have to add 20 pounds to the bar to get my sugar wt/rep pr back… onward and upward!!
that’s it!
[quote]brute_fury wrote:
Hallowed–>YES! it is very exciting…and kinda unnerving at the same time…i’ve been letting those lil guys ( my ecs) sleep for a long time I give you props for doing cable stuff. I HATE CABLES. anything on the pulley system thing instantly looses my attention. I look at it and it makes me pissed off! I hate them ! …probably why my chesties are so lil and now STILL sore
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I only use the cable that are right in front of the mirror. Never bored! buahahahaaha
Sav Front Squats!
Ah!! well, if i had you there My Hallowed I’d probably stick around the cable thing too:)!!
yesterday I wrote to the dude at eltfts–Nadia’s pullup pro. I haven’t figured a good day to do them-- the 10 sets of one since they really do whipe me out! But yesterday after work in a strange fit of gusto I did 2 sets of 2! actually to make myself feel better it was 2.5 reps since i don’t really count the first one:)
I do however use a pretty narrow grip and I’m fine with that. I’ll get macho when I’m bettter and have more confidence and drive. for now my grip is the pull up way, palms facing forward and my hands a bit less then shoulder with. might be whimpy but i don’t give a shit! its a colossal feat for me!!
today was deads.
245x15,225x15, 225x9
sumos 185x 20-- but I had to stop for grip issues and crab crawling forward with em! then 185x5
over head sq to defragment 111x10
might have a big life change–job change??? we shall see. my weekend is coming up with a few pivotal steps and things to do. I’m also hoping nerves will give me some good workouts…we’ll see!
here’s set number two of pullup madness. its form a few minutes ago…3 more sets ?? i dunno if i can do it! i have until work in 2hours. or is that not allowed? sets over multiple hours?? …cuz that’s all i got so far! !!
UPDATE: did em!!! last set was one and then one because Nigel went after my legs …but i’m counting it.
You have some SERIOUS hamstring development!
Nice pullups. I can only do one and I kinda cheat at the bottom. You definitely start from a dead hang position. Awesome stuff!