Really fabulous bulgarians. I fall over doing them on the floor with my back foot up on a bench, so I have great respect for the balance and strength involved in your effort. Also, some heavy RDLs! I should add these back into my training after deadlifts tomorrow…
My chiro k-taped the underside of my foot, and although I can’t attribute to immediately feeling better simply to the tape (as opposed to the excruciating soft tissue work that went on before) I am a fan of the tape!
Hmm vegetable rolls from the Chinese take-out… yum.
I’m glad the back issue wasn’t serious, can’t have my Pastry Puff injured.
Nice news with the K-taping, and if I can muster the coolness, I’ll try to do those bulg split squats.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Hmm vegetable rolls from the Chinese take-out… yum.
I’m glad the back issue wasn’t serious, can’t have my Pastry Puff injured.
Nice news with the K-taping, and if I can muster the coolness, I’ll try to do those bulg split squats.[/quote]
Baby, you’re so cool. You don’t need to do bulgarians to prove it!
glad to hear that you had a good training session and that your body is feeling better. i’m going to put reverse hypers down on my exercise list… know i’m a little crazy but i’d be up for trying the ball variant. yes nice bulgarians. they are on my one day list.
Kinesio tape is cool stuff. I’m currently using it to keep things from falling off of my body while training. Deload is not in my vocabulary. I like the Kinesio brand that I got off of Amazon a lot better than the pre-cut KT strips. Seems like it’s heavier tape and the glue adheres better. Plus it’s about half the cost.
I’ve been experimenting with kinesio tape too. Tried some stuff for low back pain. It seems stupid, but I swear it didn’t hurt driving my car the two days I had it on and then the first time I drove after taking it off, it hurt again.
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
I’ve been experimenting with kinesio tape too. Tried some stuff for low back pain. It seems stupid, but I swear it didn’t hurt driving my car the two days I had it on and then the first time I drove after taking it off, it hurt again.[/quote]
BG- It friggin’ works if you ask me. Many different types of applications. I don’t just use it personally, I tape people at work. Seen patients with chronic problems for years get a positive result on the first application. Honestly, there are few other techniques that I have used which offer such instant gratification. The possibilities are endless with this stuff. It isn’t a magic bullet, but there are so many ways/situations to use it and it’s cheap, quick, and easy to do. Love it!
I do the Bulgarian splits with DBs and try to be explosive with them. Never tried the EZ BB. I’m visualizing myself falling down and breaking my front teeth. Glad your back is good.
I’ll make a confession - 41-years-old and never been to a chiropractor or PT.
Except for the occasional back rub from my DH, only one official massage when on vacation at a fancy resort. Hope I’m not jinxing myself saying it. I have done a bit or rolling my back around on the wall with a tennis ball since lifting. Feels really, really good.
Yesterday (Friday) was my rest day. Thursday night was restless, I woke up hungry 3 times. Pretty sure that I’ve mentioned that sometimes I wake up and have to eat in the middle of the night. Sucks. So disruptive to my sleep when it happens. Anyhow, my training on Thursday was awesome but I guess I just didn’t put enough back in the tank. I ate, but I wasn’t that hungry during the evening and I hate to force food down. Oh well. But I woke up with a wrapper from a cheese stick next to my head. Fucking weird. This whole eating thing is complicated by the hours that I keep- beyond bizarre. Functionally a “day” for me is more like 32 hours, not the 24 that the world operates on. So after work last night I picked up some take-out from one of the many uuber-excellent Italian restaurants between the office and home: eggplant florentino, carrots and broccoli w/garlic, a dozen garlic knots (only ate a handful of those.) I had loaded up on some protein earlier in the day. And I figured all of the carbs were warranted do to a heavy dog walking schedule over the next week or so… I have a little side business doing dog sitting/walking. Honestly it is the closest thing to “cardio” that I do. But I do it because I love canines and the $ is good for what I consider minimal effort. You’d be surprised how much demand there is for these services.
Headed to the gym in a hour or so for back/arms.
That must be an odd thing to deal with. My appetite shuts down once I get tired and doesn’t turn on again for some time after I’ve woken up again.
Interesting…Sometimes I go through these 32 hour day things… but then I will sleep for 14 hours if allowed. I’ve woken up next to a lot of things, but never a cheese stick…Oh, a hot pocket once on my chest. My friend put it there. In case you forgot what THOSE are:
Cal- Yeah, it’s an annoyance. I should go back to drinking a protein drink right before I go to bed, that usually keeps me from waking up to eat.
Bre- PMSL. I have never eaten a hot pocket, but I used to have a landlord who was a sales rep for the company who made them. Classy, huh?
Training tonight: back/arms
BB bent over row: 1x7x110, 3x6x110
DB bench row: 1x10x65, 2x6x65, 1x8x65, 1x3x75 each side (grip fucking failed on the 75’s)
CG pullup: 6, 4, 5, 7 (not sure how I pulled 7 on the last set?!)
HS high row: 1x6x180, 2x4x200
SS-skullcrusher/CGBP: 6/6x63, 6/8x63, 8/7x63
BB standing OH tri ext: 3x10x53
HS wide iso pulldown: 2x6x160, 1x8x160
BW dips: 10*PR (pretty sure, at least at this BW), 7, 9
Farmers walks: 3x~50 ft x 70’s
Alternating hammer curls: 3x8x30’s (gotta stay true to my vanity!)
Done
Everything felt good tonight and miraculously I was basically uninterrupted during the entire session. I was rolling the 70 lb DB’s to the aisle for the farmers walks and some guy stopped to ask me if I was gonna press them. Haha! I’m diesel, but jesus, that is fucking insane to even ask that. I got a good laugh over that, actually lol while I’m typing this.
Cheesesticks are delicious, I should be so lucky to sleepwalk and eat one during the night.
Carbs are always warranted, especially carbs of the garlic knots variety.
Congrats on those pull-ups SweetCheeks, they’re getting stronger everyday.
Fack I’m losing my creativity, I just read my journal and saw you called me SweetCheeks.
Scratch ‘SweetCheeks’ in my post, replace with Buttercup. Moving on ;D
congrats on your dip PR! lol about waking up to food wrapper. i often wake up to eat but i don’t think i’ve woken up to the evidence quite like that.
lol, hey sugar lips…thats awesome about the guy asking if you were bout to press that…After a while, they start looking out for you. 
I punked a guy for the first time at my gym when I was benching last night. He closed the windows by me. I got up of the bench and said in german, what’s wrong you cold? He said oh, no…sorry and started to go back and open the windows… and I then I smiled and said ha, just playin. He didnt get it of course. I have yet to dry dips guess I should get to it (once my thumb heals)… Congrts on the PR.
[quote]I was rolling the 70 lb DB’s to the aisle for the farmers walks and some guy stopped to ask me if I was gonna press them.
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Obviously your reputation precedes you!
Nice job on the dip PR! Congrats! And those 70 lb farmers walks are awesome. Jealous!
As a reward for being a relative angel this weekend and doing some good deeds in the family realm I went shopping today. New chucks, charcoal grey. Also, did some kettlebell pricing. Of course they weren’t marked, so I had to carry one up from the back of the store to the front counter for a price-check. When I was walking up an aisle, this outrageously obese sales guy actually asked me if I needed help carrying it! WTF! Why would I be buying it if I couldn’t carry it?! I didn’t think of the possibility that maybe he thought I was buying it for someone else, so of course I quipped back in my best tough bitch voice “Does it look like I need YOUR help?!!!” Whatever, I have issues.
Training tonight: chest/shoulders
Warmup: some bradfords w/bar, some shoulder dislocates w/resistance tubing
BP: 1x5xbar, 1x5x85, 1x5x90, 1x5x95, 1x5x100, 3x2x105
DB 1-arm BP: 1x10x35, 2x8x40, each arm
DB decline press: 2x10x35’s, 1x8x40’s
Standing 1-arm MP: 3x8x30, each arm
Upright row (ez bar): 1x10x63, 2x10x68
Carries: Waiters’ walk 40x~250 feet each arm, Cross-carry 35’s x ~250 feet each side (I refrained from doing a bunch after last week’s MB/LB issues; I want to be able to kill my squat/DL session tomorrow night.)
Mixed delt raise, standing: 3x10x20’s
CG pullups, bw: 6, 4, 4
Super wide pushups: 2x15
Stretching, bridges, etc.
Now for the best part! Drumroll… It was about 20 mins until the gym closed and I found myself alone on the mats! Did some cartwheels, singles, doubles- a bunch. Feeling good, limber and brave. So I gave the front walkovers a go. First 4- miss, fell on my ass. NAILED the last 2! Hell yeah. Given my occupation, I am in awe of the human body and in particular, the nervous system. Everyday I see and do things that remind me of how awesome we are. But, the experience of doing those walkovers really hammered it home tonight. As soon as I started to focus on doing them and initiated the motion there was a flood of thoughts and cues and stuff running through my head. It was like being transported back to when I was 5 years old. No lie. It blows me away! I was super happy to have pulled them off, but then I got to thinking about the stuff that I could do as a kid… way back when I used to do those babies on a balance beam!
Really great session, very happy with myself. Now I need to go eat some more so that I’m not up hunting around my fridge at 3 am
eating my hazelnut butter before bed usually keeps the hunger away - although crazy good legs days are when I usually wake up.
cool on the new chucks and damn on the walkovers!!