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[quote]Chrysalis wrote:
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.[/quote]

I’m glad that you are enjoying the site. It is always nice to have new motivated lifters join.

As for your mom, the process that I use to measure brain structures is very tedious (about 10 hours a person) so it isn’t really intended to be used on patients. Also, I must precede my following comment by saying that I’m not a physician so just take the following as no more than educated information. There are some very simple tests that neurologists can give patients to measure cognitive impairment. It can be apparent on MRI scans if there is a lot of brain atrophy, but MRIs aren’t necessary for a solid diagnosis.

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thanks…I was not thinking your technique could diagnose my mom, but I was interested in its future as a diagnostic tool, and musing about your findings in general. I am pretty fascinated by brain research–I work with teenagers and there has been a TON of work lately on teen brain development that is incredible to me.

My mom, when stimulated, does very well on the cognitive tests, but in day to day living tends to have problems. Being around her a short time, it is not apparent, but seeing her day to day, it is. I hate to “tattle” on her to the dr, but if it IS Alzheimers or something else that has some treatments available to delay, I would like to get her started!

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[quote]sbmart2 wrote:
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! :stuck_out_tongue:
Good work!

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.
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As you all probably know, I know next to nothing about lifting in general, but just from the standpoint of mechanics, I would think that while being short helps with getting to depth easier, the actually PULLING part might be harder, due to shorter arms, ie, shorter lever? Longer the lever, the more lift…but of course I could be way off base, not understanding all the ways that the various muscles work together…I am learning so much from reading all these logs!

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I am super short on time today but writing about viewing my first powerlifting meet was too hard to pass up. Below are the highlights of the day.

  1. Got up at 5:30AM to drive to Columbus OH with MMGALB and Katy. Katy slept while MMGALB kept me up with crazy conversations of embarrassing childhood stories.

  2. Arrive in Columbus to meet up with Susie. She has our Hookerface barbell tanktops waiting for us!

  3. Watch Chuck Vogelpohl hit a world record in squat 1110 lbs

  4. Meet Louie Simmons who can’t resist hanging out with 5 women with Hookerface on their shirt.

  5. During the break Louie offers to show us a cool new bench press bar he has back at Westside.

  6. Drive To Westside in Louie Simmons’ SUV. He is a very scary driver I might add.

  7. Play with the amazing equipment (We took lots of pics and video. I will add it sometime this week)

  8. Came back to the meet to watch bench and deadlifts.

  9. While the guys were benching on stage, there was a curious man in the front of the room to the left of the stage (right in front of where we are sitting) Dancing and singing to the rap music. At one point he even did the finger gun cap in the ass move. MMGALB and I decided it really needed to be videoed. She was slick and filmed him without him even knowing. It will definitely be posted for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

  10. Went to Outback and ate lots and lots of food and drank 3 or 4 cups of coffee. I was so tired by this point, I looked high.

  11. Drove the three hours home. MMGALB slept (Got a picture. MWAHAHA) while Katy and I talked about reality TV shows!

  12. Got home and SLEPT!

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[quote]sbmart2 wrote:
I am super short on time today but writing about viewing my first powerlifting meet was too hard to pass up. Below are the highlights of the day.

  1. Got up at 5:30AM to drive to Columbus OH with MMGALB and Katy. Katy slept while MMGALB kept me up with crazy conversations of embarrassing childhood stories.

  2. Arrive in Columbus to meet up with Susie. She has our Hookerface barbell tanktops waiting for us!

  3. Watch Chuck Vogelpohl hit a world record in squat 1110 lbs

  4. Meet Louie Simmons who can’t resist hanging out with 5 women with Hookerface on their shirt.

  5. During the break Louie offers to show us a cool new bench press bar he has back at Westside.

  6. Drive To Westside in Louie Simmons’ SUV. He is a very scary driver I might add.

  7. Play with the amazing equipment (We took lots of pics and video. I will add it sometime this week)

  8. Came back to the meet to watch bench and deadlifts.

  9. While the guys were benching on stage, there was a curious man in the front of the room to the left of the stage (right in front of where we are sitting) Dancing and singing to the rap music. At one point he even did the finger gun cap in the ass move. MMGALB and I decided it really needed to be videoed. She was slick and filmed him without him even knowing. It will definitely be posted for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

  10. Went to Outback and ate lots and lots of food and drank 3 or 4 cups of coffee. I was so tired by this point, I looked high.

  11. Drove the three hours home. MMGALB slept (Got a picture. MWAHAHA) while Katy and I talked about reality TV shows!

  12. Got home and SLEPT![/quote]

That sounds like you guys had so much fun. I can’t wait to see all the videos and pictures.

Do you guys think you’d sell the hookerface t-shirts? They sound like they’d be fun to wear.

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[quote]sbmart2 wrote:
I am super short on time today but writing about viewing my first powerlifting meet was too hard to pass up. Below are the highlights of the day.

  1. Got up at 5:30AM to drive to Columbus OH with MMGALB and Katy. Katy slept while MMGALB kept me up with crazy conversations of embarrassing childhood stories.

  2. Arrive in Columbus to meet up with Susie. She has our Hookerface barbell tanktops waiting for us!

  3. Watch Chuck Vogelpohl hit a world record in squat 1110 lbs

  4. Meet Louie Simmons who can’t resist hanging out with 5 women with Hookerface on their shirt.

  5. During the break Louie offers to show us a cool new bench press bar he has back at Westside.

  6. Drive To Westside in Louie Simmons’ SUV. He is a very scary driver I might add.

  7. Play with the amazing equipment (We took lots of pics and video. I will add it sometime this week)

  8. Came back to the meet to watch bench and deadlifts.

  9. While the guys were benching on stage, there was a curious man in the front of the room to the left of the stage (right in front of where we are sitting) Dancing and singing to the rap music. At one point he even did the finger gun cap in the ass move. MMGALB and I decided it really needed to be videoed. She was slick and filmed him without him even knowing. It will definitely be posted for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

  10. Went to Outback and ate lots and lots of food and drank 3 or 4 cups of coffee. I was so tired by this point, I looked high.

  11. Drove the three hours home. MMGALB slept (Got a picture. MWAHAHA) while Katy and I talked about reality TV shows!

  12. Got home and SLEPT![/quote]

WOW!! I bet your head is still spinning from all you just experienced and witnessed!! What an awesome experience to have before your first meet!!

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Sounds like an awesome time…I am looking forward to the videos!

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It beat all of my expectations for the day!

Ouroboro- I will ask Susie about selling shirts. Maybe if enough people want t-shirts we can get a little Hookerface business started

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yes she is planning on starting a line… they will prob be a little on the pricey side in the beginning… but she has several super cool phrases to put on the front too… I wish I could share them… but I think they are original to her and I don’t want anyone else to use them.

So yes I have no doubt that she would be happy to make you guys some shirts! She is super talented!

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here ya go!!!

ps… dont forget, u need to spread your legs to get into the hyperextension contraption… lmfao.

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[quote]CBear84 wrote:
here ya go!!!

ps… dont forget, u need to spread your legs to get into the hyperextension contraption… lmfao. [/quote]

I only spread legs when Jim says so!!! I hope you don’t have any problems with that CBear.

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of course i dont have any problems with that!

it was PRICELESS!

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Okay so dish…how’s meet prep?

2.5 weeks out aren’t you? How’s the squat depth coming along? Nothing else matters if you can’t get at least one clean squat!!

Are you using knee wraps or just a belt? Or just a super sexy singlet?

Tell me all! I’m excited since I’m going to watch another meet this weekend. It’s a high and I’m not even competing. RuggerLife will be going for a 500kg squat (raw) if he’s not nice to me. Shhhh…

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[quote]Court wrote:
Okay so dish…how’s meet prep?

2.5 weeks out aren’t you? How’s the squat depth coming along? Nothing else matters if you can’t get at least one clean squat!!

Are you using knee wraps or just a belt? Or just a super sexy singlet?

Tell me all! I’m excited since I’m going to watch another meet this weekend. It’s a high and I’m not even competing. RuggerLife will be going for a 500kg squat (raw) if he’s not nice to me. Shhhh…[/quote]

So here goes…Although my posting of training info sucks, I have been training regularly.

Squat depth is definitely getting WAY better. I figured out that I need to do extra stretching on squat days. I’m borrowing a pair of olympic shoes which seems to help me quite a bit too.

My deadlift completely improved a couple nights ago as well. I was setting the bar up on my shins instead of in the middle of my shoe laces. So my shoulders were way infront of the bar and my legs were in the way when I pulled. When I moved the bar out to the middle of my laces the weight felt easier and my form improved!

I’ll be using just a belt and a HOT singlet. I haven’t used knee wraps before. Maybe I’ll try them for the next meet.

I’m getting super excited for the whole thing, especially after watching the meet this weekend.

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[quote]sbmart2 wrote:
Court wrote:
Okay so dish…how’s meet prep?

2.5 weeks out aren’t you? How’s the squat depth coming along? Nothing else matters if you can’t get at least one clean squat!!

Are you using knee wraps or just a belt? Or just a super sexy singlet?

Tell me all! I’m excited since I’m going to watch another meet this weekend. It’s a high and I’m not even competing. RuggerLife will be going for a 500kg squat (raw) if he’s not nice to me. Shhhh…

So here goes…Although my posting of training info sucks, I have been training regularly.

Squat depth is definitely getting WAY better. I figured out that I need to do extra stretching on squat days. I’m borrowing a pair of olympic shoes which seems to help me quite a bit too.

My deadlift completely improved a couple nights ago as well. I was setting the bar up on my shins instead of in the middle of my shoe laces. So my shoulders were way infront of the bar and my legs were in the way when I pulled. When I moved the bar out to the middle of my laces the weight felt easier and my form improved!

I’ll be using just a belt and a HOT singlet. I haven’t used knee wraps before. Maybe I’ll try them for the next meet.

I’m getting super excited for the whole thing, especially after watching the meet this weekend.

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Sounds like things are going well. I’m always so amazed that most “trainers” tell folks to start so close to the shins, it also makes it harder to keep a flat back. Remember pull back.

Glad to hear your depth is coming along. Eric Cressy wrote an article a long time ago about uses for a smith machine and he had some nice mobility moves for the hips in there, you might find it and try it before squats, I find it helps well. I also do a calf mobility stretch between sets of squats which helps me too. Just something to think about.

I look forward to hearing about your meet.

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[quote]sbmart2 wrote:
Court wrote:
Okay so dish…how’s meet prep?

2.5 weeks out aren’t you? How’s the squat depth coming along? Nothing else matters if you can’t get at least one clean squat!!

Are you using knee wraps or just a belt? Or just a super sexy singlet?

Tell me all! I’m excited since I’m going to watch another meet this weekend. It’s a high and I’m not even competing. RuggerLife will be going for a 500kg squat (raw) if he’s not nice to me. Shhhh…

So here goes…Although my posting of training info sucks, I have been training regularly.

Squat depth is definitely getting WAY better. I figured out that I need to do extra stretching on squat days. I’m borrowing a pair of olympic shoes which seems to help me quite a bit too.

My deadlift completely improved a couple nights ago as well. I was setting the bar up on my shins instead of in the middle of my shoe laces. So my shoulders were way infront of the bar and my legs were in the way when I pulled. When I moved the bar out to the middle of my laces the weight felt easier and my form improved!

I’ll be using just a belt and a HOT singlet. I haven’t used knee wraps before. Maybe I’ll try them for the next meet.

I’m getting super excited for the whole thing, especially after watching the meet this weekend.

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Glad to hear about the squats, cuz your video from the other week was pretty high. Are you still doing the Max Strength rolling and mobility before you training? If I don’t do that and in particular the squat-stands and some of the walking lunges/spidermans/etc before I start warming up, my depth is shite.

Knee wraps are fun when you wrap yourself. They lick monster balls when someone wraps them tightly for you (ie they hurt). It’s probably a good thing you’re not using them now though because I know it brought my squat a bit higher when I first started using them because of the rebound/tension I got when I neared depth.

I’m looking forward to my next meet and my attire. I’m a loser like that. I’ll be so coordinated it won’t even be funny. Pink powerlifting ftw!

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[quote]Court wrote:
RuggerLife will be going for a 500kg squat (raw) if he’s not nice to me. Shhhh…[/quote]

I saw that!

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[quote]Ruggerlife wrote:
Court wrote:
RuggerLife will be going for a 500kg squat (raw) if he’s not nice to me. Shhhh…

I saw that!

[/quote]

Shit Rugger…quit stalking me on here. It’s starting to creep me out :stuck_out_tongue:

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[quote]Court wrote:
Ruggerlife wrote:
Court wrote:
RuggerLife will be going for a 500kg squat (raw) if he’s not nice to me. Shhhh…

I saw that!

Shit Rugger…quit stalking me on here. It’s starting to creep me out :P[/quote]

Aren’t we conceited! I’m capable of stalking more than one person, thank you very much.

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[quote]Court wrote:
sbmart2 wrote:
Court wrote:
Okay so dish…how’s meet prep?

2.5 weeks out aren’t you? How’s the squat depth coming along? Nothing else matters if you can’t get at least one clean squat!!

Are you using knee wraps or just a belt? Or just a super sexy singlet?

Tell me all! I’m excited since I’m going to watch another meet this weekend. It’s a high and I’m not even competing. RuggerLife will be going for a 500kg squat (raw) if he’s not nice to me. Shhhh…

So here goes…Although my posting of training info sucks, I have been training regularly.

Squat depth is definitely getting WAY better. I figured out that I need to do extra stretching on squat days. I’m borrowing a pair of olympic shoes which seems to help me quite a bit too.

My deadlift completely improved a couple nights ago as well. I was setting the bar up on my shins instead of in the middle of my shoe laces. So my shoulders were way infront of the bar and my legs were in the way when I pulled. When I moved the bar out to the middle of my laces the weight felt easier and my form improved!

I’ll be using just a belt and a HOT singlet. I haven’t used knee wraps before. Maybe I’ll try them for the next meet.

I’m getting super excited for the whole thing, especially after watching the meet this weekend.

Glad to hear about the squats, cuz your video from the other week was pretty high. Are you still doing the Max Strength rolling and mobility before you training? If I don’t do that and in particular the squat-stands and some of the walking lunges/spidermans/etc before I start warming up, my depth is shite.

Knee wraps are fun when you wrap yourself. They lick monster balls when someone wraps them tightly for you (ie they hurt). It’s probably a good thing you’re not using them now though because I know it brought my squat a bit higher when I first started using them because of the rebound/tension I got when I neared depth.

I’m looking forward to my next meet and my attire. I’m a loser like that. I’ll be so coordinated it won’t even be funny. Pink powerlifting ftw![/quote]

After Max Strength I started only doing half the warm-ups. That was a stupid idea. I am going back to doing the whole list of them plus a couple new ones from magnificent mobility. I think you are right, it will help a lot with depth.

Are you getting a pink suit too? That would be so awesome. I asked Susie (the designer of our shirts/figure competitor outfit designer) to sequenze (sp?) my singlet. I thought it might throw off the judges so they wouldn’t look so closely at my depth!