[quote]CBear84 wrote:
yep. whitman is the shit.
(had to bring a bit of hillbilly in here to break up the awesome. its my M.O.)
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I think you mean thrill-billy 
Just catching up on things in here. Glad you finished GVT on such a high note! I’m sure you’ll be seeing more awesome strength gains soon. Your back looks great! And summer is a fabulous time to be single.
P.S. Hall & Oates FTW. 
Alright, so I don’t think that I know how to ‘deload’ so I’m bagging that idea and just doing my thing.
Went to the gym with all of my accoutrements. Set up in the vacant group fitness room and got to it.
Training: conditioning, lifting, etc. ??? (this was a very ill-defined session)
Warmup: spiderman crawl 20 (length of room), high kicks (coming back), wall squats 10; did 3 circuits
Conditioning circuit x 4, as little rest as possible without vomiting:
KB swing (35 lb) x 10, sprint ~150 ft, KB high pull x 10, waiters’ walk w/40 lb DB ~150 ft* (alternate each circuit so 2 each side total)
*It is really hard to catch your breath while you are carrying a 40 lb DB over your head!
I really thought I was going to throw up by the end.
Then I set up for some FS because my quads didn’t get enough love yesterday. Changed shoes.
FS: bar x 5, 95 x 5, 105 x 5, 115 x 5 x 2; Realized my quads were more fried then I thought. Oh well.
Pendlay rows: 138 x 3 x 4, 118 x 6 x 2 Those felt pretty fucking good. I’ll definitely hit them with more intensity next week.
Giant set x 5: 5 pullups**, 5 dips, 10 hershey kiss pushups
** Last set I only got 2 pullups and then my left arm was not interested in doing any more. I need a 1st rib adjustment, will get it tomorrow.
Getan-- I was spent.
I was planning to do more sprints in the basketball court at the end of my session but I was starting to feel kinda depleted so I decided to just call it a day and go hit the grocery store. I have been doing a very poor job of eating lately. By that I mean that I’ve had to force myself to eat over the last week. I am the exact opposite of an ‘emotional eater.’ Hoping to get my food intake back up to some reasonable level in the coming days.
if ever you want to loan me your deload so i could hit some PR’s i’d be grateful
hope you are feeling more like your usual self soon. hopefully your appetite will come back soon.
That doesn’t sound like a deload to me. Damn.
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
That doesn’t sound like a deload to me. Damn. [/quote]
I was thinking the same thing 
No pics on this page so I fixed that.
Powerpuff- Sorry to hear that you had a crummy day recently too. What gets me through are my family, my training, my work, and the knowledge that I am very blessed. As far as the “deload” is concerned: I’ve never really done it before (not consciously at least) and I feel great so I guess I don’t need it now anyway. Just gonna keep truckin’.
Kalle- Yeah, you’re right. I was thinking that when I was trying like hell for that 205. I kept thinking, “Geez, I thought that I pulled 225 fairly easily no more than 6 or 8 weeks ago.” But I haven’t done any real DLing during the GVT cycle. Only RDLs, which were pulled from the floor, and the weights progressed from 145 to 160. Guess it’ll take a while to get back into the groove.
Frenchie- Thanks for the poem. It is beautiful.
CBear- Who is the hillbilly? You or me? Or someone else…? I am proudly half-hillbilly-- my mama is a Kentucky girl. And yes, Whitman is the shit.
Max- Thanks for stopping in. Hillbilly, thrillbilly, whatever!
Lanels- Yes, I was very happy to end the GVT with that bench session. It really was all mental toughness. I knew that I was physically capable, just had to get past the “OMG 100 reps!” in my head. As far as being single, not sure how I feel about it yet. Doesn’t feel that different than before actually.
alexus- Just holler when you want my deload. You can borrow it whenever you like! i did eat better last night, but then my stomach was icky this morning. Probably just not used to food I guess.
Cal, N8tive- As stated, I guess I don’t know how to deload. I’m just letting my body be my guide. It hasn’t steered me wrong in the past. Just having a good time in the gym doing all the stuff that the GVT required me to exclude over the last 6ish weeks. I missed a lot of things. Especially the leg accessories like walking lunges and bulgarian split squats. Yay, back to my favorites (in addition to my big favorites like squats and RDLs.)
Oh, and I just weighed myself. 136. The not eating hit me hard. I feel leaner than I did a week ago. But the GVT has kinda “raised my setpoint” in the past. I’ll be happy to float around the mid 130’s for now. Summer is coming.
Not sure what happened to my pic… here it is again.
EDIT: Why the fuck does that always happen?
Awesome conditioning day. I’m interested to see more of those fun days as you lean down for summer. It’s already summer in FL, so I’m a day late and a dollar short haha
Sorry about the lack of appetite, sometimes I emotionally not-eat too. Unless it’s particular family issues, then I eat and eat. Apparently I’m picky about how I emotionally eat.
[quote]alexus wrote:
if ever you want to loan me your deload so i could hit some PR’s i’d be grateful
hope you are feeling more like your usual self soon. hopefully your appetite will come back soon. [/quote]
i just realized that idea makes no sense at all.
i meant to say that your deload lifting would be a whole bunch of PR’s for me.
not quite sure what happened there :-/
yei Veggie!! I hope the “deload” serves you well you’ll no doubt come back with some impressive new PR’s !
I think I was very depressed when my hubby left for deployment last year. I was very pissed off and didn’t feel like being around people much. Nor did I feel like eating.
Good for you for showing up and getting shit done. That’s what helped me to feel better. And each day you get a bit ‘stronger’.
Nice leg and booty shot up there!
And now those are some HEELS!
I’ve been wearing heels a lot since high school (Compensating!) so I can usually run in them, but those platforms might kick my ass!
Nice conditioning workout too! Weights while burnin’ some butter. All good stuff.
I hear ya on not knowing how to deload. My deload was last week and I spent most of my time in the gym trying to convince Stronghold to let me do “just one more exercise” or “a couple more sets”. And then complained about how I hadn’t accomplished anything.
I know the plan is to move on to lower rep/higher weight. Any specific program? Not sure if you already mentioned that and I just missed it.
Veggie you have pretty intense training sessions and seem to really know your shit. From what i can see you def get after it in the weight room it is always good to see a lady that works out with a purpose then some dumb bimbo.
I currently started working out with a female as a lifting partner and she has been the best partner i have had. Although she can not lift nearly s much as me she def forces me to keep the pace up which was always a concern of mine. Keep up the good work.
Booty shot from after my run. Just for grins
nikki- You look smokin’. No worries for summer mama!
alexus- I knew what you meant.
brute- Yeah, I’m bagging the deload and just working my way back up to the big weights. Letting my body be my guide. Can’t wait to hit some new PRs!
MiM- Killing it in the gym is my way of dealing with my personal life drama… already got somebody else close to me that’s dealing with a crisis. Just glad that I can stay strong and be there for people that I love.
Puff- Thanks. Bought those heels for a pole dancing class that I took at the gym a couple of years ago… they never see the outside of my bedroom but they’re fun!
BG- Yeah, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing with the deload and I don’t think I really need one right now. My training is usually pretty intuitive. I use percentages and rep schemes but I’m not starting a new “program” for the moment. My life has been too hectic lately to do a lot of planning for my training. Hopefully this weekend will prove to be quiet and I can figure out what I’m doing next.
irishmuscle- Thanks for the kind words and for stopping in. Having a training partner of either gender can be great. I usually fly solo, but doing heavy BPs without a spotter can be tough. Luckily i don’t have much trouble recruiting some dude to help me out when I need it.
My life has been a little nuts over the past month or so and I’ve been having trouble figuring which end is up. In an effort to try to get my head straight I went over and ran my favorite trail this morning. It has been a while and it was awesome.
The trail is in a historic state park and it is the actual road/trail over which, under brutal conditions, General George Washington led the Continental Army up from the river valley into a key battle of the Revolutionary War. I have an ancestor-- 7th great-grandfather-- who marched (or maybe rode due to rank) over that same trail into that battle. The connection that I feel with that place is hard to describe. Guess the best way to put it is that it makes me feel very authentic.
Not sure how long the trail is, but I always park near the middle and run it as 2 out-and-back loops. It is fairly technical, lots of rocky parts, tree roots, twists and turns. It also has a lot of hills since it is so close to the river. The way I run it, I go uphill and then turn back, run past my starting point toward the river and then finish by running back uphill to the middle of the trail. Luckily it wasn’t muddy because I didn’t have my trail shoes.
Ran for about 40 minutes and I felt very re-centered. And I was also happy that my hip did not protest one bit. I think that if I had never started road running I never would have had the hip problem. Trail running is so different and today reminded me how much I love it. I’ll probably go over and run that trail once a week for a while, if only for therapeutic purposes. I don’t feel like I’m doing “cardio” when I’m out in the woods.
Incredible start to my day. Planning to lift this afternoon after some obligatory office BS/meeting/paperwork. I can only hope that it ends as well. My not-ex bf has made a concerted effort to win me back and has offered, amongst other things, hotel sex for tonight. Not sure if I’m making a mistake and maybe I’m being a little selfish?!? But at least I’ll get laid. And I’ll get stretched out after all of the running and training today. Not a bad deal… for now.
Might be MIA for the rest of today and Wednesdays are a long day for office hours at work, but I’m really looking forward to catching up with all of you and your logs on Thursday when I have the day off.
I am GRINNING.
Awesomeness…
Matty- Glad to put a grin on your face!
MiM- Thanks!
Made it to the gym yesterday just in time for the after work freak show. Saw a dude benching in jeans and a polo shirt, just the bar, feet on bench? Not sure what was going on there. All of the FAs were around. LOL! The one thing that they have in common is that none of them has an ass. I was wearing sweatpants, so at least I wasn’t flaunting my non-FA booty. Well, not really…
Tuesday training: Chest/shoulders
Warmup- Pullups: 5, 4, 3 ss with shoulder disclocates with tubing 3 x 10ish; bradford presses with bar, pushups off bench
BP: 5 x 75, 85, 95; 3 x 105 x 2, 2 x 115 x 2, 120 FAIL
Got kinda psyched out by the 120. Also no spotter. There were people everywhere but nobody that I’d trust to spot me.
Decline DB press: 8, 8, 6 x 40’s
MP: 5 x 63, 68, 73, 78 No rack, non-standard bar, had to clean the bar from the floor. I’m lazy but it wasn’t that bad.
Upright row: 6 x 73, 78, 83
SS- Standing arnold press/lateral raise: 4 x 6/6 x 15’s
Decline pushups feet on bosu ball (there was a Zumba class going on so I couldn’t get a step and all benches were in use): 5 x 10
Done
Veggie: congrats on those 100 reps on the bench! On running again without pain. And on weathering the storm that is your life. These kinds of periods of disequilibrium are often hard to get through, but they tend to bend the shape of your life in a more a beautiful way.