It looks like one of those macaroni projects kids make in 3rd grade.
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Hahahaha it does!!
I’d remove it if it was causing lots of pain. But I like to have an impact.
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Haha you’re the king of dental puns! Someone needs to give you a crown. 
I don’t know about dentists. They always tell you the cleaning polish will taste like bubble gum or wild cherry, and it always tastes more like shampoo.
(Your temperamenr’s wrong for the priesthood, and teaching would suit you still less! Son, be a dentist…)
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Monday’s Lower Body Sesh
Abs
Sumo Deadlift
Leg Press
Leg Extension
Ham Curl
I’m kind of pleased with my abs right now. It’s not that they’re growing or anything, but they are harder and more defined than usual. And this is shark week so I’m holding about 5 extra pounds of water. And that means, in a few days when I’m ovulating and less water retentive my abs are going to be… moderately good looking for my particular genetics.
Weekend Stuff
I had two goals in mind when competing over the weekend:
- Learn stuff.
- Have fun.
Done and done. I knew going into it that my score would be extremely low, so it didn’t come as a shock when it was extremely low. I did happen to beat a few guys. But I’m not sure they even count when a couple got DQ’d right off the bat.
My philosophy: it’s healthy to publicly suck at stuff. According to Chase Hughes, confidence is feeling comfortable with the risk of social injury. And I’m basically a pro at it these days. Plus it’s super easy to be bad at something in a community full of supportive people.
My main problem with shooting is, when I take time off, it’s like 6 months at a stretch. I don’t even dry fire during those off-seasons. But I think my friend Jim is trying to help me commit in a way that makes it easier to stick with it.
Boob Tube
Kipper got a huge tube removed from his chest yesterday. The tumors they took out last week were so large that they had to make sure that there was no fluid build-up in the gaping hole left in his tissues.
That white thing sticking out was the tip of the tube. The rest was inside his body. So when they pulled it out, Chris and I were shocked at how long it was.
He has to wear T-shirts to catch the excess fluid that’s still draining out.
But is anyone cuter in a T-shirt? I think not.
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Upper Body Minus Shoulders and Triceps
Every lifter I talk to has shoulder drama, so I’m backing off them for a few weeks because me too. Also, sometimes hitting my triceps will accidentally fire up my rear delts so I skipped them today. Might hit them later this week.
Abs
DB Chest Press
Lat Pulldown
Curls
Pretty simple workout but it got every muscle I wanted to hit fired up. Went with ascending load + descending reps. And I used rest-pauses with the curls.
Also had a quick outdoor shooting session to work on transitions between targets at 15, 7, and 5 feet away. Learned a new strategy for hitting more alphas.
Other Stuff
“What is life?” - Kipper
This guy is not thrilled with how things are going. He figured out how to lick his chest. So we had to slice up a buff and put it on him in a way that covers his wound. And yes, his shirt has to be tied in a girlie knot in the back because otherwise he’ll trip on it or pee on it.
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He does look very cool in a t-shirt. A friend of mine had a lumpy dog that had a lot of similar treatments. She got doggy body suits that looked like something out of Running Man. Pretty funky design. I think dogs self esteem is very much affected by their appearance though, and t-shirts are way better. Like regular people. We wear t-shirts, not some crazy post apocalyptic athletic jive.
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That sounds really cool and high tech.
Haha I like the way you think.
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Fullish Body Friday
Machine Hip Thrust
Front Squats
Machine Chest Press
Lat Pulldown
Tricep Pushdown
Lateral Raise (super light)
After saying I’d be skipping shoulder work, I added some light stuff at the end. And so far so good. That delt burn was really satisfying. This morning my shoulder is feeling great. So maybe I just need to stay light (and infrequent) when it comes to delts.
Conundrum
Apparently my HK VP9L is not really a competition gun. And that’s why it’s been challenging to find a competition holster/belt set up thing. I love the ergonomics of this gun and how it feels in my hand. I finally learned how to get my thumb around to the mag release button quickly during mag changes. So I kinda don’t want to switch to something new.
But there are major drawbacks with it. Like the freaking O-ring in the barrel, which only HK uses. Well, when that thing isn’t greased up enough, it causes a delay in the slide going back into register, and if you don’t realize it, you’ll have a terrible day of shooting with a ton of malfunctions.
So I need a drop holster and a better belt. But I don’t want to get one for a gun I probably won’t continue using. But on top of that, I’m also thinking, am I even good enough to “deserve” an upgraded gun?
Oh and a problem with getting a new gun is that the magazines are going to be super small (low capacity) because of Colorado’s newest laws. So I would have to travel and buy larger capacity magazines, plus add new baseplates onto them so that I could avoid having to do a million mag changes.
Random
We got to see these while walking the dogs this morning. The dogs are unamused by hot air balloons. I think Chris and I are pretty much at that point too.
I’m actually impressed by anyone who can dig deep holes. Because at my house at least, the soil is rock hard, so whenever I want to plant a shrub I have to ask Chris to dig up the few inches needed for it. And people are out there digging several feet into the ground to bury bodies? Like seriously, kudos if you can do that.
Murderers deserve more credit for their physical fitness.
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@Dani_Shugart **I’m actually impressed by anyone who can dig deep holes. **
You know in the movies they make it look so easy. Out in the middle of the Nevada desert, two mobsters are having some card cheat digging his own grave. Suddenly it is finished. No…
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They do!
Haha great visual! Maybe movie directors should actually show the passage of time that it’d take to dig a body-sized hole at the depth required to hide one.
Nobody just willy-nilly digs a grave, drops a body into it, covers it back up, and then walks around the next day like they didn’t just have a 7 hour workout. Even if you’re working with soil that’s moist and diggable, you’d still probably pull an oblique or tweak the heck out of a spinal erector simply because it’s a novel movement for most people.
And that brings up another thought: you could be in insanely great shape but digging a huge hole would still kick your butt if you were’t used to that form of repeated movement.
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Sunday Workout
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Trap Bar Deadlift + Dip (Superset)
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Back Extension
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DB Bench
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Seated Cable Row
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Super Light Lateral Raise
Good Stuff
The fur faces needed a dose of nature.
She’s obsessed with him.
So am I.
Booty check.
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Crazy Morning Workout
Today’s full-ish body session was a little rushed because I had an appointment across town afterward. No arm work. No biggie. Also I’m adding one or two explosive moves to every workout. Need more of that.
Superset
Machine Hip Thrust: 4 x 8
Plyo Push-Up: 4 x 5, then 5 mechanical drop set to standard push-up
Box Jump: 3 x 5 with a step down focusing on explosiveness (not cardio)
Leg Press: 4 x 12, 10, 8, 5
Back Extension: 3 x failure
Superset
Seated Cable Row: 3 x 12
Light Lateral Raise: 3 x 12
Stuff
I was scrolling back in old photos and found this from when Chris and I went to watch the CrossFit games. This was August 5, 2017. I was blonde.
Plus this fun fact:
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No shame in being blonde. I have been a blonde for 61 years. With very little gray.
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Wow! Lucky guy!
My fine/thin hair wasn’t naturally blonde and couldn’t sustain the process of getting it there. I’ve had the same hair dresser since 2012 and we’ve done some crazy things with my head… including platinum.
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isn’t that a bit heavy 
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So heavy that it lead to massive neck gainz. 
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That must be why all the gyms got rid of those neck machines. Too superfluous.
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Did another thing. And of course you can’t not learn every time, so that’s a positive. But that was not my best. The social aspect was cool though. I made some new friends and reconnected with old ones.
I hit mostly alphas. (Yay.) But I also had two no-shoots and two Mikes – one on the perforation of an alpha so it counted for and against me, which means I got negative 10 points and positive 5 for that. Scroll down to see how that works. Riveting stuff.
On top of that, I wasn’t fast. And that’s a big deal because it determines your hit factor. As a non-mathy person, I had trouble wrapping my head around it, but your hit factor is determined by your points divided by your time.
Hit factor = points/time
So you obviously want your points to be a high number and your time to be a low number. A high number divided by a low number will give you a higher score. Put another way, if you have 100 dollars (points), would you rather share it with 100 friends or 1 friend?
Yes, I actually have to explain it to myself that way. If it’s such a low number on top and such a high number on the bottom, they just give you a zero for that stage.
So here’s how scoring works in case you ever want to get into it:
Alphas: Innermost rectangle and headshot is worth 5 points.
Charlies: Middle ring around the torso and outer ring around the head is 3 points.
Deltas: The outermost area of the target, 1 point.
Mikes: When you miss the target completely, it’s a Mike and it’s negative 10 points. But if the stage doesn’t have a predetermined number of rounds you may shoot, then you can keep shooting at a target to make up the points… it’ll just cost you time. And you may not even notice that you missed, which is common if the target is further away and you’re rushing to get to the next thing.
No-Shoots: Hitting white targets (representing hostages) will subtract 10 points from your score.
Procedurals: You get punished if you don’t follow the directions or you step outside a shooting zone. And sometimes the directions are more complicated than you think. Last night there was a mandatory mag change and a mandatory one-handed-switcheroo. We shot with a dominant hand, moved to the next box on the floor while doing a mag change and then had to shoot with the non-dominant hand. Well, if you don’t follow the directions, every oopsie-daisy will count against you with another -10 points.
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