Sorry to hear about your feelings of shitty-ness.
You rest up nice N’ good, ya hear!
hi! i’m still alive! thanks for missing me 
i do a kinda corkscrew thing like that on my squats, too. except i do it worse, i think. trying to do unilateral work to stop it… and also staying with the sticking point and not letting myself twist on the way up. tis hard, though. my left leg likes to do most of the work.
i just started with single leg glute bridges (cause i wanna kick back to headstand) and was freaked out to discover that one of my glutes is much much lazier than the other. didn’t pick up the a-symmetry from two legged hip thrusts at all 
pull-ups get hard sometimes, hey. i went through a period where i just knew there was no way before i even started… i’ve been a wuss will get back to it monday…
Hey kid! Feel better!! I need some BRUTE inspiration!
Awww, get some rest…
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Arachne–One thing I did notice today I tired a real wide stance with a bar only looked in the mirror on the side and realized the difference in depth. DAMM. Wider seems easier to hit depth, more efficient i guess. It made me excited
NADIA:D I dunno where Alexus is I hope she’s ok… I’ll tell you though since I switched to wider grip pull ups, my lats are STILL sore today. But they were flaring out last night…Baby’s getting lats
Hallowed–oh yeah, I barfed last night :{ Something I ate was bad and I got sick , I felt better afterwards and ate loaves of bread in a starving hunger later . now I feel like a walking bruise. I’ve been neglecting my protein intake so that’s part of it–> Need to get my albumin up.
o That means a lot to me:) the fs love Well, that vid is of me trying to do things right. Its my attempt and being better in sq so the problems before I’m still working on–gm’ing, corkscrewing.
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Yay for depth! Yay for lats! Feel more awesome soon, cutie.
alexus 
hurray!! I’m glad to see you :)kickback handstands…I saw that in your log!!! whoa!
Thanks everyone for the well wishes. I will try and get back to working out tomorrow but depending on how my kraken feels it might be a bad idea :{ Its sore on the crease of my legs and belly on the right side.
I really timed getting that worked on wrong. I just was desperate to get it done. Tattoo wise its not perfect at all yet but its enough to tide me over for a year or so.
Yesterday I stayed home from work, ate a lot of protein and too many carbs but fuck it-- and chilled. Slept probably too much --about twelvish hours last night. Now I have a stiff back but it was one of those sleeps…well, Nigel didn’t even mind so i will take that as a sign it was needed.
SO! Now I have nothing but time to devote to getting things squared away and on track! Starting with squats…and pull ups…and good meaty things
I will end up finishing this week’s sheiko way late. But I will
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That brings to mind a few things that sprung up today in my life. Man have I retreated for a LONG time…but yeah. Makes me feel unseasoned as a human. And rather pink and raw. SENSITIVE BRUTE. SEEPY GOOEY HEARTED BRUTE.
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hmm, now this. THIS has me intrigued.
Sounds like your body really needed the break. Hope you get back to feeling yourself soon. xo
Brutiful!! Coming in to say hiya, girl! MUAH!!
Lifts are looking strong! You’ll get them ironed out, no doubt.
And yeah, sometimes you just need to take some time off from the training. No biggie! I had to scrap all my accessories just last night and then was all tore up about it “but, but, I have so much to dooooo! And I need to get strong!” But you have to remember that the strength comes from recovery too. So let the body rest if it needs it, you’ll pick it back up when you’re feeling up to it! Don’t sweat it.
Love you my, proud warrior! Keep killin’ it, mama!
This isn’t a race. My Sheiko isn’t mon wed fri as he sets it up. It fits my schedual and time and energy.
Glad your feeling better
Lula–>> If there’s such a thing as multiple lives, I for sure am on my first. I have so much to learn! And what I’ve already experienced makes me hide and cover my fucking tracks.
MASCHY!!! EEEEE!! It so nice to see you …always. Bring that booty in here. MORE
N!! I am so happy I started this program, because now I know what to do when I get back instead of a mad rush to make up things! I think I’ll go sunday or monday. Body feels good I’m starting to get that build up of excitement to train!! However lady octopus doesn’t like squats just yet. Or bending over.
Also I’ve began to drink my proton electron shakes. Clotted heart Brutie went straight for the bread this time and the lack of protein wasn’t helpin.
+/- shakes??
lol
Today
front squats 115x5, 135x4, 155x3 x 2sets, 185x3 x 5 sets, 190x3 --ugly but up
benching 75x6,85x5,100x4, 115x3x2sets, 120x2 x3 sets, 115x2, 100x4, 85x10 i was over benching
gms 135x15 x 2 sets
i’m horrible and hate doing flies. and dips. so i reworked my squat a bit
135x5, 165x4, 185x3, 205x2, 210 all new wider stance. this will be a lonnnnng haul.
My squat rehab lasted a year Brute - patience
So I am confused about your squat? Did your numbers just start going down, or what??
Glad you’re back working out though! NOW NEVER GET SICK EVER AGAIN!
OH N…make it go faster for me!!! Actually, I’m kinda ok with this. It IS an entirely new movement to master.
Spock-- Sorry!!! I have been confusing about my back squat. I can still back squat with decent numbers, but my form is fucked. Some how I have a stupid skill of doing basically High Voltage Gm’s…that scrunch like squats.
So I am starting from scratch–this is the third time in my life doing this–and doing everything new. Wider stance and toes out compared to narrow dance toes in. So I am retraining my hammies and ass to do work as apposed to lower back and abs and quads which seem to dominate before. I will try and find an example of me squatting each style so you can see.
So for years I was doing squats heavy but not to depth, then it was deeper but more gm’im. Three times a charm I hope.
Hiiya! I missed you. I’m excited to see your SIP (squat in progress). Post videos so we can critique your form and praise breakthroughs!!
OWLIE!!! !!!
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SO GOOD TO SEE YOU!!!
TODAY
ohs 135x10, 140x10, fail 145, 135x8,x10
I need to up my push press so:
pp 80x5, 95x4,110x3x 2sets, 125x3 x4sets,120x3x 4sets,105x3, 90x3, 85x5
stepmill death for 17 minutes of hell. mp3 died 10 minutes in. AWFUL.
here’s a vid of one of my re vamped sq attempts yesterday.
I apologize for being a bit of a lazy reader, but have you ever done box squatting? That was the single most effective thing that ever happened to my squat.
I had the uguliest, good morning esq. squats ever, and I box squatted for like a year straight and now squatting seems to be the only thing I am doing right, Lol>!
Spock!!! I have NOT box squatted more then once, and I have heard its excellent for repairing bad gm sq. I tried last week for the first time but my boxes were the wrong height. I will most defintatly try again now that you say it helped!!