I wonder if shooting class might be a good fit for me. It seems like something I could MAYBE find here in Nowheresville. I’m going to look!
Edit: Hmm, no. Nothing specific to women.
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Oh no! Well you might want to poke around a bit because there could be a club of some sort that’s not well advertised.
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I agree. I took welding certification classes in conjunction with some related stuff, and I’d get a big jolt every time I picked up a new or different skill. Even a new twist on a process I was already adept with would get me buzzing.
Part of my Theory Of Man ™ is that we love hitting stuff with other stuff. Its like we’re hard wired to do it. This interesting anthropological quirk has resulted in scientific developments up to and including the Mars lander and the Moon shots.
Even in the great institutions like MIT and CMU, NASA, and others all over the world a bunch of scientists and engineers are operating way back in their lizard brain going “I’m going to hit that planet way over there with this here rocket, and its gonna be awesome!
”.
Sophisticated Primates!
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Heck yeah! There’s gotta be some type of neurotransmitter or hormonal magic going on, like a huge release of dopamine or something.
Men are so cute in some ways.
Your Theory of Man™ makes a ton of sense. I’d buy it.
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It’s a work in progress. 
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Back + Shoulders
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Pronated Lat Pulldown
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Supinated Lat Pulldown
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Seated Row
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Lateral Raise
And then my training bud hit some overhead presses which I skipped to protect my shoulder… which seems to be doing well this week.
This workout looks super simple, but it was incredibly productive despite the fact that I didn’t stop chatting. I need to work on my listening and shutting up skills.
Other Stuff
I don’t hate celery but that’s kinda true.
Pretty much.
Relatable.
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Reminds me of a Jerry Seinfeld stand-up quote, talking about driving on the moon. “There’s never been a more male idea than flying to the moon, then driving around on it in a little buggy looking for chicks”.
Which reminds me of the Seinfeld quote about how dogs don’t have pockets, so must go crazy whenever they see loose change. “Look, it’s a quarter. It’s right there.”
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I love Seinfeld.
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Solo workout today. Does anyone here look forward to leg days? Do you have any strategies to get yourself excited for them? Once I got a couple sets into it everything was good, but that getting started part was tough!
Lower Body
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Machine Hip Thrust
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Front Squat
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Modified Sumo Deadlift
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Ham Curl on Stability Ball
Other Stuff
I have officially been married to this stunner for 15 years. So here is a photo dump showing off my husband.
This was last fall when we were walking the dogs and he was explaining something to me… a thing which apparently happened in 1903 because I just played the “live” picture. I find it pretty darn hot when he teaches me stuff I didn’t know.
Last night while watching TV in the basement, I mentioned wanting to find the shirt this lady was wearing on Food Network, so he made it a mission.
He waited for the right moment to take a picture, took it, and using ChatGPT, he figured out where the shirt was from. Fun fact: Men love missions. Other fun fact: This shirt is sold out on the Free People website but Amazon appears to have a knock off version.
This is the love of my life…
who snuggles dogs…
and apparently throws them off of his lap.
He takes me on weekend adventures.
Here’s one back when iPhone pictures were terrible quality and sepia-toned filters were trendy.
Trying a new pub.
Walking across the Royal Gorge bridge.
Making up a faux fact about that tall rock over there.
Supporting me at that last competition.
And just being hot, smart, hilarious, and perfect. Happy anniversary, Husband!
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Aw, shucks…
Thanks for putting up with me during my beardless years, and for being cool about me being shorter than you when you wear heels… or shoes in general.
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Congratulations, you two! That’s awesome.
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Congratulations! That’s amazing, looks like you two are still having an absolute blast together. Keep it up.
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Thanks for letting me wear heels and being cool about it when I’m gigantic.
Beardless husband was great too. 
Thank you!! 
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Heck yeah!! Thank you!! 
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About the most adorable post I’ve seen on T-nation. Congratulations on 15 years of wedded bliss, you two are blessed:
“A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown”
And:
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Marriage is a sacred and blessed thing!
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Thank you so much for the kind words and the scriptures. Those are perfect!
We do feel really blessed/grateful, though I got the better end of the deal. (Nobody tell Chris!) 
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I love leg day, even though I hate it, I love it. I remember seeing a training video of Berry de Mey back on the early 90’s when he went to WBF. In the video he says something like = “when I woke up this morning I was feeling excited, and I knew it was leg day”.
20 years later and I still think of Berry every leg day.
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That is true, whether we are hunting down a shirt, or taking out Ernst Blofeld, guys love a mission.
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It’s what men do. We intuitively know all kinds of stuff. Rocks, spaceships, cowboy stuff.
It is clearly observable that the rocks are applauding his knowledge.
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