[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
Hey Harry, I know it’s a long shot, but do you happen to know an Allen Newton? He’s an American, a baptist pastor from Alabama who was stationed in the Azores for twenty years working with the Armed Forces. He’s my Portuguese language teacher here. I know it’s a bit like “you’re from London? Do you know John?” LOL, but you never know.[/quote]
Don’t think I know him but I’ve got a load of Baptist jokes if you need some. [/quote]
To be honest I don’t really know what a Baptist is. We are a lot of Godless Neanderthals in the UK. I think the only religious people here now are Christians over 70 and Muslims under 20.
Corrmhona - The tongue and groove deads are slightly better, but not worth the splinters.
Friday 2nd August…yikes August already.
Cleans
5 x 2 x 165 lbs
Deadlifts
5 x 5 x 319 lbs
Natural GHRs
2 x 9 x bw
1 x 8 x bw…I did a 9th but can’t honestly count it. It was a hell of a ballistic push up though!
Pulldowns
4 x 10 x 132 lbs
Weighted push ups
2 x 15 x bw +44 lbs
1 x 10 x bw +44 lbs
Ez curls
2 x 10 x 81.4 lbs
1 x 6 x 81.4 lbs
Band pullaparts
4 x 20
I feel a bit better now I’ve realised I still have a load of heavy dumbbells at home that I couldn’t fit in the lorry, so at least I’ll be able to do something, maybe some one arm snatches and presses or some complexes. I’ll have to go from only using a barbell to only using db’s, but it beats taking time off.
My wife remarked to me today how much happier a person I am when I’m lifting and especially when it’s going well, “thanks” I replied, not used to getting training related compliments, “yeah…you’re much less snappy” she said.
Women, don’t you just love 'em? How a compliment ends up feeling like a bloody insult!
My wife remarked to me today how much happier a person I am when I’m lifting and especially when it’s going well, “thanks” I replied, not used to getting training related compliments, “yeah…you’re much less snappy” she said.
Women, don’t you just love 'em? How a compliment ends up feeling like a bloody insult![/quote]
Oh ffs me, how long have you been married. That WAS a compliment, you actually could’ve asked for some extra snookie there and then.
Bulldog - A lorry is bigger than a van and smaller than an articulated lorry, which i think you call a semi. I won’t tell you what a semi refers to here I take it then you haven’t heard of the hardest tongue twister ever, “red lorry, yellow lorry” repeated quickly. Try it.
Corrmhona - A man familiar with UK vernacular, I’m impressed. Your username, I have to scroll up to see how to spell it and by the time I scroll down I’ve forgotten it again! What’s the story behind it?
Minimal - FFS? steady on, I’m a delicate flower you know. We’ve been together 24 years and I think I’m just about learning what she means. I think.
Monday 5th August
Hang snatch
5 x 2 x 137.5 lbs
Front squats
5 x 5 x 198 lbs
Military press
3 x 2 x 165 lbs
RDLs
3 x 6 x 225.5 lbs
Pendlay rows
3 x 8 x 176 lbs
Face pulls
3 x 10 x 66 lbs
I’m going to blow my own trumpet here (ooh 'er missus) and say well done me for persevering with learning the clean grip for front squats. To start with I couldn’t even physically get into position to do it, then it became possible but painful, then just uncomfortable and finally I’ve gotten to the stage where I can front squat with it comfortably, hooray! I never thought I’d get there. Now to get back to front squatting as much with a clean grip as I could cross-armed.
Maybe there’s still hope for me to learn the splits.
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
I think I’m just about learning what she means. I think.
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Unlikely.
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
I’m going to blow my own trumpet here (ooh 'er missus) and say well done me for persevering with learning the clean grip for front squats. To start with I couldn’t even physically get into position to do it, then it became possible but painful, then just uncomfortable and finally I’ve gotten to the stage where I can front squat with it comfortably, hooray! I never thought I’d get there. Now to get back to front squatting as much with a clean grip as I could cross-armed.
Corrmhona - A man familiar with UK vernacular, I’m impressed. Your username, I have to scroll up to see how to spell it and by the time I scroll down I’ve forgotten it again! What’s the story behind it?
Minimal - FFS? steady on, I’m a delicate flower you know. We’ve been together 24 years and I think I’m just about learning what she means. I think.
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I’m going to blow my own trumpet here (ooh 'er missus) and say well done me for persevering with learning the clean grip for front squats. To start with I couldn’t even physically get into position to do it, then it became possible but painful, then just uncomfortable and finally I’ve gotten to the stage where I can front squat with it comfortably, hooray! I never thought I’d get there. Now to get back to front squatting as much with a clean grip as I could cross-armed.
Maybe there’s still hope for me to learn the splits.
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The name is Irish. Figuratively it means crane, but more importantly it literally means “bent swamp creature”, which accurately describes me and the area I live on. I’m ethnically Irish, English by birth and lived most of my life in Canada. In fact I’ve been here so long my red passport is expired and I have a blue one.
Don’t start thinking you know what your wife means. It only leads to trouble.
I was working on my clean grip for front squats today. Mine is not so much a shelf as a ramp… 8|
I’m going to blow my own trumpet here (ooh 'er missus) and say well done me for persevering with learning the clean grip for front squats. To start with I couldn’t even physically get into position to do it, then it became possible but painful, then just uncomfortable and finally I’ve gotten to the stage where I can front squat with it comfortably, hooray! I never thought I’d get there. Now to get back to front squatting as much with a clean grip as I could cross-armed.
Maybe there’s still hope for me to learn the splits.
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Was it a matter of flexibility or just learning how to do it. Everytime I’ve tried clean grip front squats I can’t get my elbows up high enough.
Congrats on understanding your wife, that sounds awesome, I’ve been married 18 years and just recently come to believe she is not actively trying to kill me (which come to think of it may be all part of her plan). Also congrats (on a lesser level) for mastering the clean grip front squat, I still look like Abu from “I dream of Jeannie” granting a wish when I attempt them, I blame injuries and poor flexibility, but much more likely I am just a bit of a whiner. Well done. I tried to make my kids do the Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry tongue twister (I am too lazy to attempt it) they kept asking who “Laurie” was until I told them never mind, they then asked my wife who Daddy’s friend Laurie is, altogether awesome end to the day.
