I am going shopping for a workout bathrobe tomorrow. Do you recommend a robe with pockets?
Wonderful family, Corrmhona. Coming from a family where sports simply didn’t exist at all, I’m fascinated by people who find physical activity normal. Well, we had activity, but it was all chores based - clean the house, mow the lawn, etc. No fun.
My wife’s family was the same way. Her dad is a university professor, and her mother was a librarian (masters of library science, did the big provincial archives here, and ran an even larger library back in NZ), so not exactly jocks. My wife and her brother hated NZ growing up as there was a lot of pressure to be involved in sport, and they just wanted to read.
In my family we were expected to be athletic growing up. My three older brother’s were all in track, volleyball, baseball and basketball, but I hated all the running and team dynamics. I was considered non-athletic and weird because I didn’t care for team sports, but I got away with wrestling and throwing without too much hassling as I was doing something.
We try and keep the kids active, as I said they get no phys. ed., but unless they want to do something we just try and keep them active. We do have a small farm, so there are lots of chores as well.
[quote]corrmhona wrote:
Squat: 2x5x117.5, 5x145, 3x175, 3x232.5, 3x245, 6x260, 5x10x145
-Squats are high the first rep of each set, I seem to need one to warm up no matter which set I’m on. I assume it is psychological…
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Sometimes I have a hard time hitting depth until it gets heavy. Lately I’ve been pausing my early sets at rock bottom and getting a bit of a stretch and this has helped with depth in general.
Keep up the good work!
Happy belated birthday!
Oh, and how do you get the protein in? Shakes? Lot’s of meat?
I actually didn’t care very much for team sports. Neither gymnastics at school.
Later in life I discovered, that I was pretty decent in cycling. And I always used to walk a lot.
Ah the old nature vs nurture, I’m sure it is usually, sometimes, often, now&then, a little bit of both.
Yep team sports involve other people and I don’t like people. Ok I like some people but don’t tell them.
jjack: I’ve been doing the pause at depth things with the warmups for the oly’s (front squats and overhead squats) and it is working wonders. Maybe I should do it for the light sets at least on the morning workout. It wouldn’t hurt on the bench and ohp either…
Avacado: Good to see you. I “eat” a secret mixture of fruit and vegetable juice, flax seed and protein powder for most of my calories on work days. I either don’t eat or get into the various junk food traps that are laid around the office for me if I don’t just premix and stick to it. We either juice the juice, or I buy a premix of fruit and vegetable juice with no sugar added.
minimal: I always thought I’d like people more if I was raised traditional Maori. People have to grow on you, like meatloaf. Oh, wait, that isn’t what you meant by liking people…
Saturday workout: Frantically nailing roofing panels before the get too cool from being away from the heater and crack.
Sunday workout: Moving my mother out of her house and into a seniours apartment. And moving her furniture out of her house so she can sell it. Round 2. Not done yet. I have decided I have too much stuff and do not wish to inflict it on my kids.
Monday back in Houston, will hit the gym at the hotel…stay tuned…
Looks like life is keeping you very busy!
I have the same issue with squats as you do. I’m almost never able to sink the first rep to competition depth no matter how light it is but the rest of the reps I can. I’ve never been able to figure out the reason.
[quote]OldOgre wrote:
I am going shopping for a workout bathrobe tomorrow. Do you recommend a robe with pockets?[/quote]
Yes. You keep the pesky 1.25 and 2.5 pound weights in them so you don’t lose them. Remember to get a nice thick terrycloth, it is like heaven on the shoulders when you do heavy squats.
DB: The universe hates us…OR… we need to find that 2RM powerlifting federation. The trouble is it is like fight club so no one ever talks about it. But I think if we talk about it here they will either bring us on …or… well…that elastic band and razor thing… 
So the hotel gym had a variety treadmill, bike and such things. Not sure what to do with them, so I decided to enjoy the fruits of Katrina once more and go for jumbalaya. I swear Houston has the best cajun food now. I have been to NO in a while but I don’t remember if being like this. Maybe it is just the Texas sized portions…
Home school 4 kids. You and your wife are saints. And your food bill must be astronomical. I only have two boys and that’s expensive.
I keep hearing everything is bigger in Texas and now you’re telling me they’ve overtaken jambalaya too. Is everything in Texas going to be better as well?
I like our beef better…but I can’t think of any place that goes over 24 oz back home.
Canadian Brewhouse does a 40 oz Rib eye. I think it’s only on certain nights. I’ll check with the step-son as he goes there every few months with his dad.
[quote]Crushed_Idiot wrote:
Canadian Brewhouse does a 40 oz Rib eye. I think it’s only on certain nights. I’ll check with the step-son as he goes there every few months with his dad.[/quote]
Ok, I’m in for that!
Corrmhona, check around, you should be able to find a gym near your hotel where you cna get a week pass.
[quote]corrmhona wrote:
jjack: I’ve been doing the pause at depth things with the warmups for the oly’s (front squats and overhead squats) and it is working wonders. Maybe I should do it for the light sets at least on the morning workout. It wouldn’t hurt on the bench and ohp either…
Avacado: Good to see you. I “eat” a secret mixture of fruit and vegetable juice, flax seed and protein powder for most of my calories on work days. I either don’t eat or get into the various junk food traps that are laid around the office for me if I don’t just premix and stick to it. We either juice the juice, or I buy a premix of fruit and vegetable juice with no sugar added.
minimal: I always thought I’d like people more if I was raised traditional Maori. People have to grow on you, like meatloaf. Oh, wait, that isn’t what you meant by liking people…
Saturday workout: Frantically nailing roofing panels before the get too cool from being away from the heater and crack.
Sunday workout: Moving my mother out of her house and into a seniours apartment. And moving her furniture out of her house so she can sell it. Round 2. Not done yet. I have decided I have too much stuff and do not wish to inflict it on my kids.
Monday back in Houston, will hit the gym at the hotel…stay tuned…
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I,m getting visuals of gilligans island and the cannibals and their stew pot. lol
NHLFTR: I was raising sheep, but we are just getting rid of the last of them. It helped pay to feed them having our own meat.
Crushed: There is one in Sherwood Park, and I’ve only seen up to 8 oz. Let me know what night I should have been going!
2busy: Definitely next trip. I’m just down yesterday and today, I’ll see how ambitious I am at 10:30 when I get home, I’m going to try and catch up a bit…there needs to be something nearby. The vendor site is off on the fringes of Houston though.
confusion: 
A Kiwi Story: A friend of my wife’s was up in Canada visiting and her husband was telling me about a hangi course he went on. Hangi is the traditional Maori BBQ where they dig a pit, heat up a bunch of rocks in it and then cook pig, or back in the old days “long pig”. Anyway, the instructor was Maori, but almost all of the guys in the class where white.
The instructor looks at his audience and says “I see some of you are a little unsure of what we are doing here today. But you will understand soon. Remember, many white men make good hangi.” My wife’s friend’s husband looked at they guy beside him nervously and said “Which way did he mean that?” Do you see many Kiwi’s in Perth? I know a lot of them end up there looking for work, or fleeing Maori that they are afraid may be cannibals.
I could go for a 40oz steak right about now.
It looks like you need to get a group of 30-or-so people together and reserve ahead of time to do a 40oz. steak night.
there are a lot of maori,s here. a friend of mine said that a full blood maori is very rare,even in new zealand. a lot of them work in mining operating equipment or like me,driving trucks. talk about some big people,wow! some of those guys are massive. must be the diet,hehehe