Those are both great ideas thanks
[quote]Free2Be wrote:
mmgalb727 wrote:
You are right Free2be -
But it was the Hammer Strength Iso Low Row and when she says terrible form she just means not strict… as in, she was using a bit more of her body to pull the weight… instead of a strict, super controlled pull
Don’t worry… our Nazi Coach was supervising ;D
Cool.
Looks to me like you need some ankle mobility. Could that be the problem? I can see your left foot and the heal looks to be raising a bit.
Good job Nazi coach, you have some strong girls![/quote]
They are doing very well especally considering they have little to no lifting experience
[quote]Free2Be wrote:
mmgalb727 wrote:
You are right Free2be -
But it was the Hammer Strength Iso Low Row and when she says terrible form she just means not strict… as in, she was using a bit more of her body to pull the weight… instead of a strict, super controlled pull
Don’t worry… our Nazi Coach was supervising ;D
Cool.
Looks to me like you need some ankle mobility. Could that be the problem? I can see your left foot and the heal looks to be raising a bit.
Good job Nazi coach, you have some strong girls![/quote]
Ankle mobility is definitely a good thought. As for the feet being raised, what you see is correct, but it was on purpose. I’m actually standing on little black matts to create a lift (like olympic shoes)!
[quote]dianab wrote:
Working hard over there! Regarding squat depth, in addition to all the advice you have received, have you tried some overhead squats with just a broomstick? When I started Oly lifting, I could not squat to parallel. My coach made me do drills with a stick, overhead squats and drop squats. I remember doing these for 2 full one hour sessions and I never had a problem getting deep again! Also works wonders for loosening up the hips.[/quote]
Diana,
It’s so nice to be surrounded by people who know what the heck they are talking about and work hard on top of it. IT definitely adds an extra motivation to work harder. And just for the record, Big Jim the Nazi coach is VERY SCARY when lifting but he is very nice and instructive after his head goes back to a normal color!
Thanks for telling me about the overhead broomstick squats. Hip mobility would definitely be an added benefit for me. I think I will try to fit in a few sets on my off days!
Hey missy, did you just let everything go over the easter weekend?
No benchtastic hooker face for you 
[quote]dianab wrote:
Working hard over there! Regarding squat depth, in addition to all the advice you have received, have you tried some overhead squats with just a broomstick? When I started Oly lifting, I could not squat to parallel. My coach made me do drills with a stick, overhead squats and drop squats. I remember doing these for 2 full one hour sessions and I never had a problem getting deep again! Also works wonders for loosening up the hips.[/quote]
This is very good advice. I had to do this with the bar to train muscle memory to go deep. Repetion helps to take the brain outa the situation. Until then pain and my brain said stop at parallel. Sometimes we are our main roadblock.
[quote]dianab wrote:
Working hard over there! Regarding squat depth, in addition to all the advice you have received, have you tried some overhead squats with just a broomstick? When I started Oly lifting, I could not squat to parallel. My coach made me do drills with a stick, overhead squats and drop squats. I remember doing these for 2 full one hour sessions and I never had a problem getting deep again! Also works wonders for loosening up the hips.[/quote]
This is very good advice. I had to do this with the bar to train muscle memory to go deep. Repetion helps to take the brain outa the situation. Until then pain and my brain said stop at parallel. Sometimes we are our main roadblock.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Hey missy, did you just let everything go over the easter weekend?
No benchtastic hooker face for you :([/quote]
Yah, over the weekend I decided that lifting isn’t for me. I had a shitty deadlifting day on friday and decided to call it quits. I went and joined a runners club and will be doing a marathon this summer!
Just joking (About the Marathon not the shitty deadlifting day). My time on the internet is being drastically reduced because I have to have a draft of my dissertation into my adviser in appx 1 month. So it’s freak out time. No worries, I’m still doing the PL meet in May. Not even a damn dissertation can stand in my way for that.
I did have to skip Monday’s session because I was out of town for an Easter thing, but I’m going in to do it tonight.
[quote]Beerguy wrote:
dianab wrote:
Working hard over there! Regarding squat depth, in addition to all the advice you have received, have you tried some overhead squats with just a broomstick? When I started Oly lifting, I could not squat to parallel. My coach made me do drills with a stick, overhead squats and drop squats. I remember doing these for 2 full one hour sessions and I never had a problem getting deep again! Also works wonders for loosening up the hips.
This is very good advice. I had to do this with the bar to train muscle memory to go deep. Repetion helps to take the brain outa the situation. Until then pain and my brain said stop at parallel. Sometimes we are our main roadblock.
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Thanks for you thoughts beerguy. Hopefully I can work this depth issue out soon!
[quote]sbmart2 wrote:
Beerguy wrote:
dianab wrote:
Working hard over there! Regarding squat depth, in addition to all the advice you have received, have you tried some overhead squats with just a broomstick? When I started Oly lifting, I could not squat to parallel. My coach made me do drills with a stick, overhead squats and drop squats. I remember doing these for 2 full one hour sessions and I never had a problem getting deep again! Also works wonders for loosening up the hips.
This is very good advice. I had to do this with the bar to train muscle memory to go deep. Repetion helps to take the brain outa the situation. Until then pain and my brain said stop at parallel. Sometimes we are our main roadblock.
Thanks for you thoughts beerguy. Hopefully I can work this depth issue out soon!
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No problem. Just use hardly any weight (if any at all) to retrain yourself. Repetition is the key as it is in any muscle memory excercise. Before you know it you will go deep without a thought.
Last Friday: Deadlift
225x3
240x3
255x0
245x0
225x2
Holy hell. I came to the gym completely mentally spent from 10 hours of work craziness. I also am quite sure I hadn’t eaten enough. Luckily I took a HOT-ROX, which I believe got me through the first 2 sets with ease. In fact they both felt quite easy. Then I went to lift 255 and I couldn’t even get it off the floor AND my form was crazy awful. SO we went down to 245. I couldn’t move that either. Then I went all the way down to 225 and barely got 2 UGLY reps. Ugh. Very demoralizing.
Back extensions with Cambered bar:
3x12x73lbs
Roll outs off 2 inch step:
2x12
I coudn’t finish a third because Molly kept making me laugh causing me to smack my face on the floor so I just called it quits.
Tuesday: Bench Press
3x135
3x145
3x155 w/belt
These felt awesome and easy. I feel myself finally putting all the pieces together (Driving legs, arms tight, pulling the bar apart, stomach full of air)
block pushups 4x14, 11, 9, 10
I think I blew my load on the first one
Pull ups w/ big blue band around knee
12,8, 8, 10
The deadlifts suck eh?
I had days like that when I couldn’t get 215 off the floor. It was very demoralising. I bet you were tired and your form was crap.
I had videoed my shitty one and the bar swung out on me. You learn more from taping your fails. Also we get to laugh at you.
I’m not sure how much HOT-ROX helps either. It always made me feel weird in training. Maybe someone else can give a more informed answer than ‘weird’.
What’s your dissertation on?
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
The deadlifts suck eh?
I had days like that when I couldn’t get 215 off the floor. It was very demoralising. I bet you were tired and your form was crap.
I had videoed my shitty one and the bar swung out on me. You learn more from taping your fails. Also we get to laugh at you.
I’m not sure how much HOT-ROX helps either. It always made me feel weird in training. Maybe someone else can give a more informed answer than ‘weird’.
What’s your dissertation on?[/quote]
The fails are definitely more fun to watch.
I like the HOT-ROX while lifting, especially on days where I feel totally run down after work. They only make me feel funny if I take them and then have to sit in a chair. I think it’s a preference thing.
The title of my dissertation is
Size Matters: Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Variables and MRI-based Hippocampus Volume
So pretty much I traced the Hippocampus (the part of your brain that is responsible for event related memory and novelty detection) to see if it correlated with different cognitive tests. In the first study I looked at young adults who were rated on a Novelty seeking scale. We found that people who seek out new experiences tend to have a larger hippocampus on the right side of their brain. In the second study we looked at images of older people who were destined to developed mild cognitive impairment(a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease). We found that before there are ANY signs of cognitive impairment the hippocampus is significantly smaller than the control group.
[quote]sbmart2 wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
The deadlifts suck eh?
I had days like that when I couldn’t get 215 off the floor. It was very demoralising. I bet you were tired and your form was crap.
I had videoed my shitty one and the bar swung out on me. You learn more from taping your fails. Also we get to laugh at you.
I’m not sure how much HOT-ROX helps either. It always made me feel weird in training. Maybe someone else can give a more informed answer than ‘weird’.
What’s your dissertation on?
The fails are definitely more fun to watch.
I like the HOT-ROX while lifting, especially on days where I feel totally run down after work. They only make me feel funny if I take them and then have to sit in a chair. I think it’s a preference thing.
The title of my dissertation is
Size Matters: Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Variables and MRI-based Hippocampus Volume
So pretty much I traced the Hippocampus (the part of your brain that is responsible for event related memory and novelty detection) to see if it correlated with different cognitive tests. In the first study I looked at young adults who were rated on a Novelty seeking scale. We found that people who seek out new experiences tend to have a larger hippocampus on the right side of their brain. In the second study we looked at images of older people who were destined to developed mild cognitive impairment(a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease). We found that before there are ANY signs of cognitive impairment the hippocampus is significantly smaller than the control group.
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I got so excited when I read the first two words of the title but then you started talking about stuff I don’t understand.
I thought you were doing something fun - like a penis study or something…
[quote]Court wrote:
I got so excited when I read the first two words of the title but then you started talking about stuff I don’t understand.
I thought you were doing something fun - like a penis study or something…[/quote]
I was pretty proud of the catchiness of the title! Sorry the follow up was a let down. Penis size research is a little hard to fund these days. Plus, I’ll be honest, it really isn’t my area of expertise.
[quote]Court wrote:
I got so excited when I read the first two words of the title but then you started talking about stuff I don’t understand.
I thought you were doing something fun - like a penis study or something…[/quote]
I know right? I thought, “I don’t need a dissertation to know big is really good”
Totally unrelated to your lifting–I am quite fascinated by your dissertation topic.
My mother, who has always been pretty healthy, is only 68 but showing signs of cognitive impairment. In the past she was very sharp, but now gets befuddled easily.
Anyway, based on your findings, would a less than normal sized hippocampus be a good diagnostic indicator of impairment/Alzheimer’s? Mom, of course, refuses to accept anything is going on at all with her, and insists we kids are just crazy…
I am enjoying reading your log and the logs of some of the other women here. I love the sense of camraderie I get when reading the digs and humor.
Squats from today - depth check!
Awesome!
Sarah, how tall are you? your lucky, in that you don’t have very far to get to to depth! 
Good work!
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
Awesome!
Sarah, how tall are you? your lucky, in that you don’t have very far to get to to depth!
Good work! [/quote]
I’m 5’3" Yes I’m short! I don’t buy the thought of this being a huge advantage though. MMGALB is 5’10 or 5’11 and can run circles around my squat and has an easier time hitting depth. I think we all have things working for us and against us.