This dog totally seems super sweet and mellow. It’s great that you’ve found a stress relieving pet as opposed to a stress inducing one. And you’re very good with the training, nicely done.
I do the trap bar carries/rep about once a month. Nowhere near the weight you can move…lol My bar has some savage knurling on it and it will rip the calluses right off your hands. My hands give out way before my strength does. I plan on doing them tomorrow but this time I am using my straps!
When I do them after deads it wears me out. I won’t be worth a shit Sunday…lol
The last couple of weeks have been hectic with my peeps. Looking foward to burning off the crazy tomorrow.
Malibu is beautiful! Look at her! All smiles and happy! Good job on the cheese sits!
Do you read out loud to her? Jed will show Hudley pictures on the phone and tell him stories 
Ans he won’t let him watch Pokemon because he doesn’t want him to have nightmares. Who knows what that’s about 
AWWW!!! HA HA!!! I do not read aloud to her !! HA! YET 
I do tell her the plans for the day everyday and night though so she is up to speed :)!
For your painful trap bar have you though of taping it over the knurling?? I had to do the same on my own because it was incredibly knurled!
Also I had not ever tried chalking up my hands before using the trap bar until a year ago and it makes a world of difference! Here’s mine which is in my closet but you can see the tape. The gym’s trap bar is bareable with the knurling but my personal was an attack tbar!
This stuff works great and will get your epidermis a break but your grip a workout still!
I do not consider this cheating at all. Some bars a insanely limiting for the use by humans because of the cheese grater knurling.
And here’s my girl peepin in on me taking that picture for you ;)!!!Sorry but I LOVE HER!!
If you ever want to take off the tape this works wonders too. We use it at my job for when tape gets super stuck on cats and dogs. Some of them smell quite good too!
Thanks punnnyguy! She is! So far so good!!!
Today
sand bag carries 150# x 400 feet, 200# x 100 feet x 3 trips, 150# x 200 feet
keg carries 100# x 100 feet, 150# x 50 feet x 2 trips, lifted 200# and got lost on how I was going to hold it so zero feet!
That’s it!
I’m not sure my feelings on keg carries. I haven’t watched enough videos to figure out how to hold them ok and my monkey arms end up wanting to have the keg hanging at knee height which is not the way to go if I plan on walking forward!
My biceps were lit up too which always scares me. My biceps are kinda short for my humerus -I think at least and I am terrified of tearing them though I am unsure if that has anything to do with anything.
I do know I prefer madam sandabg still ! :)!!!
My girl continues to be wonderful! My buddy suggested a eazy walk harness that so far is incredible! She walks right by my side with it on! No pulling! Holy cow it works!
I keep holding back on loosing it with relief and happiness over this dog. I haven’t cried yet but its sure coming! Big soppy ugly face cry happy tears if she keeps going how she is adjusting beautifully and fitting into my life 
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My mom suggested taping them up. I have tried chaulk! It helps. But we must have sister bars, because cheese grater is it! I am thinking about taking some emory cloth to it to dull it down. I will check at the drug store to see if they have cloth tape.
I probably need some of that easy off for one of peeps! He keeps falling and tearing his skin. It is very painful to remove the bandages. Last time I was the only one he would let change it.
She is so cute! Looks like she’s saying, “mama, whatcha doing? Is time for cheese sits yet?”
I am so happy for you!
Thanks Chicken :)!!!
Today after work 3.6 mile Malibu walk
Coyotes are OUT and cackling at 3:00 in the afternoon
Today
dead lifts 45x8, 135x2, 205, 245, 290, 320x5
252.5# (misloaded one side) x 10 x 2 sets, noticed the miss load did 255x10
fs emom 3 reps x 10 minutes with 170#
sand bag carries 150# x 300 feet, x 200 feet, x 100 feet
superman back extensions ss with claw grip cable rows 3 x 15
I can’t remember the last time I was able to do 320 x 5 on dead lifts–its been a LONG WHILE! :)!!! I’ll take whatever progress on getting that normal dl up happily
I’m going to lift 2 days a week before work like before as long as I feel up for it. It means getting up at 1:45a instead of 2:30a that I’d do before having her, so I can get her out a bit before I go. Moss liked to sleep in and didn’t mind me going while he stayed in his bedtime crate in my room. He preferred to sleep and we’d walk at 5am when I get back.
Malibu is doing her job very well of guarding my house while quiet and calm in her crate when I am at gone! I sure hope it continues. She did just barf a bit as I’m typing, she noses around a LOT in the morning smell walks. Hopefully its just a bit of misc whatever dog turf tasting stuff.
Today will probably be another ball busting day at work with tons of patients. Summer is time for terrible sad summer mishaps. Heat stroke- which is REALLY horrible since its so often a accident and often they die terrible deaths, rattlesnake bites which are dramatic but can do ok as long as they are not bitten by baby snakes who inject all the vemon they got. Parvo and adult dog bloody vomiting and diarrhea are somewhat seasonal too.
I am going to be tired! New dog mom tired and summer veterinary madness!
Congrats on the DLs! Hopefully work won’t be to awful.
Thanks Chicken!!!
Today
Pull ups x9
Log clean once strict press reps 67#x3, 77x3, 87x3, leg drive 97x3, 107x3, 112x3
Clean once strict press reps 72# x12, 72x8 x2 sets
T bar do 3 reps then carry 100 feet with 275# x total of 10 goes, first 4 we’re place the bar down then re-grab it , last 6 trips had a rest of 30 seconds or between goes
That’s it! I am exhausted!!! Too hot to go out much with my girl so I have been staying up past my bedtime to play with her! TIRED. I am one of those that requires more daily sleep- at least 8 hours it my brain misfires… …not getting that lately! Wonderful Dog Tiredness is A-ok by me still!!
Today
stone loads 107 x 5, 140x3, 167, 205* see notes below
fs 45x5, 135, 180, 200x5
160x10 x 3 sets
dead lifts 3 reps emom x 10 rounds with 240
claw grip cable rows x 10 x 4 or 5 sets ss with putting away all the mats and unloading my bars etc. I got up to 130# for the claw row which felt great on my middline middle back muscles.
Rushed home to get a Malibu short 1 mile or so wak on the trail in before it turns 103 degrees.
stepmill x 20 mins
rope climber machine x 6 mins
I am very happy and I have that grateful spring in my step! THIS DOG!!! I’ll tell you what, my Mama was right. All I needed was a DOG!!! I scored a GREAT ONE TOO!!! :D!!!FLIPMODE IS THE GREATEST!!!
Last night we did an impromptu walk on the trail in the summer evening- I stayed up until 7:30 just being content and chilling with her. Its been in the high 90’s the last two days so I wasn’t able to walk her much after work. I don’t mess with a dog getting heat stroke. My apartment complex is on fire too since they are re-black topping the parking lot and it makes the place a good 10 degrees hotter just from that.
That feeling though! My weekend starting ( Wednesday night is my Friday night) after a hard work week, the lighting outside, walking with her by my side. Its euphoric! I really do love walking MY dogs!!! She is a true gift from heaven for a Brute who really needed a Malibu! My Mom was spot on.
NOTE FROM ABOVE TRAINING: *40 minutes of no go but I kept at it and I got the 220 stone up to as high as I’d ever had it before. I was going to stop since this took a lot out of me. I took about 5 minutes of failing to get this in vid below.
!!!WHAT??? AHHHHHH HAAAAHAAAAA!!! 220 LOADED!!!
After I got so close I added some more pads to shorten the height of the podium but WHO CARES??? NOT ME!!! WAHHHHHHAHHHAAAHAAA!!!:D!!!
My heart is SO not broken. Dog heart, human heart- both work just fine.
WHOOP! WHOOP! You did it! It was because if of all that Malibu happiness in your heart!
Big CONGRATULATIONS!
She even looks happy for you! I don’t see anything broken here. I am very happy for you!
That last picture of your dog is awesome -look at the doggie luv in those eyes!
Thanks Chicken!! I think she deserves the credit too!!! :)!!! I am an emotional lifter for sure:)!!!
Thanks punyguy!!! :D!!! I think she likes it here! She just for the first time did zoomies in my apartment. The crazy butt down on the floor run in circles dog wild hair stuff they doe when they get super excited–a tummy rub/back rub was what brought that on :D!!!
Today- 3.6 mile Malibu walk :D!!! She’s a superstar:)
I might do some other gym stuff today. I should do some more ohp things /pull ups so maybe I will at 24 hour later today.
Saturday is not an option for turbo gym going since they are hosting a big drug tested power lifting meet that I am not interested in being around AT ALL. There is also a chalk thief who shows up there every sunday it seems and steals all the chalk from the chalk things. Some times the visiting lifters are chumps like that.
OR I’ll just chill with my girl ALLLLLLL day while its super hot outside! :)!!!
Yesterday I did the rowing machine x 25 mins- a bit too tired to lift
Today
3 mile Malibu walk
t bar presses from the rack bar only x 10, bar plus 10 x 10 x 2 sets, x5 x 2 sets
tbar rows 115x3 x 10 sets
back extensions, glute stuff
I realized on my walk with my GIRL - a super cool 20 degree temperature drop compared to the last five days!- that I’ve accomplished 2 things I had set out to do when I did the writing assignment this year. The Jordan Peterson Self Authoring- Future Authoring part. Zman gets credit for introducing me to Jordan Peterson and for that I am forever grateful.
The Future Authoring is where you set out goals for what you’d like to have in your IDEAL life in 3-5 years. No limits. I don’t have big goals, this was however the hardest part for me to do- consider what I want for my future. Its hard for me to dream that far ahead let alone having no limits on what I want. I am goofy and silly, but I am also grounded in reality and don’t have that ability in my imagination to go crazy with pie in the sky personal goals. I do know what I want to avoid so that helps quite a lot.
The first goal was a big one that dealt with stopping some behaviors I’ve had for decades. THAT was massive! I didn’t think I’d be able to do!! I kinda didn’t want to stop! Because I still was getting something out of it in a disordered way but it benefited me non the less otherwise it wouldn’t have been a decade long thinsg. It is related to my eating disorder behavior- not purging, I was never a purger- but it was food intake behavior thought process thing.
But! I did it! Its a bit too hard to explain but you’ll have to believe me that I made a big change that’s sticking! I’d been hung up on it since I was at least 13.
The second is I got a dog. Success! :D!!! I’m sticking with it being a success even if Malibu shows some problems later I am ready and able to face them. cracking my kncuckles I will work it out.
The other 3 goals are additions to those goals. The third is adding to my lil Brute family by having a partner. That will take time- maybe it will never happen.
I have been blown out on that and it will be a while. I am at the stage now where my pilot light is not even ON to start any kind of flames going to cook up ANYTHING for me. No lil blue flame, the gas is totally off. This is a new feeling. Even after my bad marriage experience I had the pilot light going but not now! I’m also older…whatever the true cause is I know I feel 0/10 interest in romance in ALL forms. HA HA!!
I did however realize I this was something I want. I know part of the reason it was such a surprise to know this about myself was because I didn’t think it was possible for me to be capable of trusting someone. Or that I was worthy of a badass solid partner who wants me around to build us both as a team. That I could be a badass partner. I know how much I wanted this by how gut retching it was when it didn’t happen- no matter the reason. This was a revelation too. Now I know.
Number 4, 5, 6, are more general. I can say I feel like there was a before Brute and after Brute. Before having the revelations I figured out doing the Self Authoring and After. It really was a break through for me.
I have also had a few mental break downs in the last 12 months or so! HAAA!!!
Related to different things!!! This has been one of the harder years in my life for multiple reasons. I’m ready to put the surprise sucker punch parts behind me and continue to work on the productive ones.
I have seen much worse years but at the time was running on on pure adrenaline and just getting through it, just rebuilding my life desperately. The getting through it no matter HOW I did is a big deal. I have a lot of personal pride that I did, for a while it was the only pride I had at all. Then I used that accomplishment to build up my spine and rebuild my life. That accomplishment meaning a lot to me- it always will. I am incredibly proud of that.
I am not cured by any means and the shadow parts in my self are still there but I KNOW what they are now. The monsters are still under my bed and they still creep out and jump on my shoulders for a day or a month and whisper into my ears their thoughts about me but I know them now.
WORD. I think I can teach Malibu to play with toys. This is her picking up a stuffie I got for her today. She’s tentative but she has definite interest …
I believe working on yourself is one the most challenging things a person can do.
Knowing yourself is huge.
It is good to see you happy!
And that pterodactyl is awesome!
Thanks Chicken!! OH! She now knows. “sit”, “down”, “come” and “bang! bang!” — roll over. This girl is clever!!! :)!!!
Today
Dead lifts 45x10, 135, 205, 245, 295, 335, fail at 355 fail at 350! Oh well. MAYBE if I fought it for 60 seconds I could have performed it but I’m not that hungry for that.
275x4 x2 sets, 275x3
FS 45x3, 135x3, 180x3 x10 sets
some cable rows 3 x8
That is all. I am tired! I gotta figure out my lifting schedule some more but it’ll take time with my new girl. Sleep I think was the missing link today for lifts. This time next week I can go to bed early enough and have Malibu tolerate it. We’ll see!