what the hell, do all of you live in Colorado or something? This is cheating 
…j/k logs are nice but sometimes I feel like if t-vixens could just unite and open a gym it would be much more efficient than posting here. Congrats on competing and WINNING! Hey the fact that no one else competed in your division says a lot about your abilities compared to the average person…in your division! So way to go!
Bre, sometimes I’m embarassed that I’m the only one in my division. Sometimes I say:
“You know what? Any other 47 year old 114 lb female powerlifter was welcome to show up and compete with me but THEY DIDN’T!”
(The lovely, talented, and much younger snapper excepted).
Damn I’m sore today. In a good way.
[quote]arachne12 wrote:
“You know what? Any other 47 year old 114 lb female powerlifter was welcome to show up and compete with me but THEY DIDN’T!”
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Yep. Anyone else is welcome to get off the couch and show up.
[quote]arachne12 wrote:
(The lovely, talented, and much younger snapper excepted).
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Much younger? Well, I suppose “much” is a relative term.
Welcome back to 5/3/1! My selfish reason for this is that you push me to do better on my lifts when we’re both on the same program.
Some good training in here, my friend.
hiya…
looking forward to following your progress(again)
hmm. here i was congratulating myself on doing a few sets of 10 swings. for conditioning, i thought. i do need to remember that sets of 1-5 aren’t ‘normal sized’ - they are small. similarly 10 is ‘normal sized’ not ‘wow look at the volume’. 50. holy crap.
Thanks Kimba, let’s try to get synchronized. I’ll post my training maxes and targets Monday for week 2.
Hi Mim!
Alexus, you’ll be happy to know I wimped out at 25 kettleball swings with a 30 lb dumbbell on Friday. Those things get my heart pounding.
3/18/11
daily 200 speedbag punches
25 kettlebell swings with a 30.
Gym
5/3/1 squat day
Warmup 2x5 45, 1x3 65
Working 1x5 75 1x5 85, 1x10 95 < this is a new 10 rep max, and I am pleased to report it was easy and I should have done more. Yay!
Accessory work
Good mornings 4x10 45
Lunges 2x10 45
I had to get to a dinner reservation so I cut it short. Good news, the facilities manager proposed lowering the pins for my bench so I can go wider on my grip.
Still sore as hell today. Yay again.
3/19/11 Daily
140 punches on the bag
4 chinups
10 pushups
Monday is military press day. Later y’all.
I know how much you all like video. Courtesy of soldog, my first competition lift:
Argh! I can’t see it!
Next week is my (delayed) 5/3/1 week. Perhaps we can’t synch up exactly, but close enough!
you look so tiny Arachne,
but you hit depth with the ease of a pro 
[quote]nlmain wrote:
you look so tiny Arachne,
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She is so tiny. Weighed in at only 112 lb.
Funny thing about this squat. I submitted her numbers and she tried to talk me down with the squat opener. Said several times, “I think maybe I should lower my squat.” I told her “no way I’m lowering your squat.”
Look how easy that was for her!
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]nlmain wrote:
you look so tiny Arachne,
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She is so tiny. Weighed in at only 112 lb.
Funny thing about this squat. I submitted her numbers and she tried to talk me down with the squat opener. Said several times, “I think maybe I should lower my squat.” I told her “no way I’m lowering your squat.”
Look how easy that was for her![/quote]
it was - you made the right call Snap.
Yeah video! Wow, you’re a cutie and that looked too easy for you. And my you squat with a narrow stance! I’m excited to watch your next training cycle.
Snap, you were totally right, but I was so nervous I would miss the command! I’ll upload the third squat asap.
Main, I am huge! (in my mind).
Nadia, you are not the first to notice in this vid I have a very narrow stance. I didn’t know that before. I’m working on moving my bench grip waaaay out right now, and I might play around with squat width soon.
Third squat:
3/20/11
daily stuff
160 punches on bag
4 chinups
10 pushups
20 crunches
3/21/11
daily stuff
180 punches on bag
200 speedbag punches
Gym stuff
5/3/1 Military Press day, week 2 Training 1RM 62.5 (1 RM 72.5)
Warmup 1x5 13, 1x5 23, 1x3 33
Working 1x3 45, 1x3 52.5, 1x5 60 < equal to previous 5 RM. I would’ve liked another one but couldn’t quite come up with it. I haven’t trained shoulders lately but no way was I going to push up fewer reps than before.
Accessory work
DB rows 5x10 20s < still way light weights.
DB mpress 5x10 12s < ditto
Triceps pushdown 5x10 50 lb
I’m feeling very very very all right this week and looking forward to deadlifts tomorrow. I need to get some sleep rather than staying up all night playing Minecraft. I bet Cal knows what I’m talking about.
you look great on the platform!
WORD!!! You have such a great lively energy coming from you when you post your log stuff–way cool! happy deadlift Tuesday to you
Thanks Brute, you are such a doll. :*
Additional daily 3/21/11
4 chinups
10 pushups
I’ve been musing for quite some time that the reason I was so lean when training for bb is because I was doing sets of bodyweight exercise all day long, and not because of the total number of hours working out. Then I found as similar concept in “the four-hour body”, but he was specifically recommending timed exercise around food intake. Since I ate and did pushups, crunches, and lunges all day long, it’s hard to know if the timing was right or not.
Yesterday I saw this article:
PLP: The 60-Day Challenge.
I know that I feel better and my body looks better when I do a lot of random sets throughout the day, but I can’t say I have gotten significantly leaner in the last few weeks of stepping up the daily activity. Just some thoughts.
Nice vids! You did excellent!! Were you nervous?
I cant open the link you just posted 
CG, thanks! Yes, I was nervous before the first squat and the first deadlift. In between it was all fine.
The article is “PLP, the 60 day challenge” on the main page of T NATION. I’m not sure why the link isn’t working…