Is there a technique to dropping? I always felt the lowering past the knees part to be awkward when doing it controlled.
Nice job Kimba. I’d read somewhere that there are more injuries deadlifting when lowering it than when pulling it up. I don’t know. I’ve never injured myself doing it. Nice PR.
Soldog, definately put down plywood. I have a platform 3 sheets thick screwed together.
damn your looking hot!and yeah for noise and PR’s!
and you’re catching up to me on those snatches 
Snap, I have a vague memory of you telling me to drop the weight awhile back but obviously I wasn’t ready to hear it.
Joe, my prediction is that you will be deadlifting again very soon.
giterdone, my power outage was a squirrel having an unfortunate run-in with a transformer. I hope your power is back on soon.
Betty, I didn’t think that hard about dropping the weight, I just let it go at the top and used my hands to guide it down. I will say that on a rep or two I forgot to drop it until it was further down already and the weight made substantially less noise that way.
O, it was really shocking to me how much energy I was wasting putting the weight down. I felt so much fresher after every one of those dropping sets than before.
N is back! I have a ways to go to catch your snatch. ah…poetry.
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Saturday’s training was 3 hours of urban assault bicycle riding interspersed with visits to a bike shop and two beer gardens. On a brand new seat and I was wearing normal clothes so no padding.
Today’s training started out with a bicycle ride to the gym during which I noted the soreness of my ass.
5/3/1 - Wave 9, Week 2 - Squat and Bench Day
Squat (to 3 risers/step)
Bar 1 x 5
84# 1 x 3 <–knees good
96# 1 x 3 <–knees OK
108# 1 x 1 failed on 2 <–hugely weak money set
Boy, was I surprised when I got stuck on the step on the second rep! I felt a twinge in my right knee as my knees caved on my way up and I think I just abandoned right there. It really felt like all of a sudden I was just done. My take on this is that I didn’t recover from Friday’s deadlift PRs by busting ass on the bicycle all the next day. Next time will be better.
Bench Press
Bar 1 x 5
59.5# 1 x 3 <–working
68# 1 x 3 <–working
76.5# 1 x 8 <–money set, rep PR +2
My dismal squat day was redeemed.
Neutral Grip Chinups
3/4/3/3/3/3/3
I was gonna get 20 of these suckers if it killed me. Supersetted with:
Bulgarian Split Squats
15s 1 x 8 <–right knee twingey so I stopped.
Rehab front squats with offset feet
25# DB, 4 x 10
Pistols to bench
4 x 10 each leg
Face Pulls
22.5# 1 x 15
27.5# 1 x 15
32.5# 1 x 10
Rehab abductor exercise on stability ball
Then rode home, uphill with the aforementioned sore ass. No more riding today.
I don’t care how good the seat is I always wear my padded biker shorts. Hell for the price I paid that’s the only time I get to wear them without looking like a total idiot. and my ass has more padding naturally than yours.
nice bench PR
Awesome bench PR.
And great workout all around, as usual.
N., I was stupid for taking out a new seat with no shorts padding. I learned my lesson.
Thanks Nikki!
One way of dealing with the food at a Labor Day family BBQ (grilled chicken, steak tips, broccoli cole slaw with crunchy ramen noodles, french onion dip and Doritos, yellow cake filled with marzipan and whipped cream) is to ride 1 hr. 20 min. there, and then ride 1 hr. 20 min. to get home. This time I took a bicycle sporting my favorite well-worn Terry seat and I wore a skort with lovely butt pads.
I am, however, still hungry.
Fucking plagiarists. See top of page for proof:
Heh I can understand the butt pads. I did a spin class as part of my course and well, it was not comfortable.
Hell yeah! That Dl looked beautiful and congrats on the PR. Your arms never cease to impress me btw - so gorgeous and strong!
Great work on the bench and the chin ups! You’re killing the upper body w/o. Awesome!
Yummy family BBQs and bike rides. Sounds like a wonderful weekend.
Congrats on the bench PR, that had to feel good.
Jack, that made me laugh out loud. With citation too. Apparently it takes a village to get me to drop the weights.
Cal, actually butt pads can only get you so far. At the beginning of every riding season, my ass needs to “harden up” a bit to make rides comfortable it usually takes about a week.
Thanks Maschy! Log more!
Joe, the bench PR saved the training for me after miserable failure in the squat rack. It doesn’t take much to make me happy, but it does take something.
Today was a quick MP day in the bedroom gym.
5/3/1 - Wave 9, Week 2 - Military Press Day
49# 1 x 3
56# 1 x 3
63# 1 x 4 <–money set, failed on 5
Based upon previous efforts, I was happy with the 4 reps on the money set. Thank goodness for my set of fractional plates, or I’d be nowhere on this lift.
Okay. So Jumpin’ Jack beat me to it on suggesting the controlled drop with your DL since I wasn’t even on T-Nation then. But I did recommend it. I’m just too lazy to find the reference.
I don’t wear padded bike shorts. Makes me feel like I’m wearing a diaper. But I do pay for it.
Seeing your questions about knee caving issues, my advice is to take a mini band (either like, a real Woody/Jumpstretch, if you have it, or one of those band curl lifty things like they have at the gym for the old folks 
) and double it around your knees/bottom of your quads in a figure 8 (or tie the curl lifty one in a knot) so everything is reasonably tight. Squat down, concentrating on pushing out against the band with your knees. This shouldn’t be super hard to push against, and don’t worry about weighting it down, but it will probably wake up parts of your glutes that have been sleeping, and help train you to push your knees out.
Awesome vid, Kimba! Do we have vids of your snatches?
I’m always so quiet when using the weights, even putting away the little 5 pounders. I don’t like loud noises and it’s just…impolite to me. I was taught to be seen and not heard and I guess I’ve taken that to heart in the gym.
Kimbakimba,Wow you are stunning;and a very powerful woman,gotta like that.Funny that you talk about dropping the wieghts.I used to go to this gym were they had a huge sigh saying(dumbell-than it went on to say how dumbells were people thaty made noises when they lifted,people that droped wieghts,and so on and so on;they were trying to make it a family gym.One friend of mine grunted benching 405 for the very first time a worker came over to give him sh t,his friend the spoter said what the heck he just did 405 for the first time;he the spotter got kick out of the gym for ever.PS thanks for the pic,I just love small woman(not the word I wanted to use but im a bad speller.ronbowe63
Snap, there are cute options for padded shorts. I own these and like them:
http://www.terrybicycles.com/product/detail/1839/on-sale/pro-racer-skort-3
PMPM, for some reason I have been really reluctant to try this. I have visions of getting tripped up in the band because of my clutzy nature. However, if I used light weights (well, all my weights are relatively light) I should just get over myself and try it. Said publicly: I doing this next squat day.
Greeney, I’ve never videoed snatches. I think I’m waiting for a dumbbell weight that is nearer N’s fine attempts. And, I really do empathize with your issue on dropping weights. I got over the whole “impolite” thing and when I did, I had so much fun that I won’t be going back to “nice”.
Ron, thanks for the kind words.
Today’s training:
5/3/1 “Off the Reservation” Day
Squats (3 risers/step)
75# 1 x 10
85# 1 x 10
90# 1 x 10
85# 1 x 10
75# 1 x 10
All good on knee cave. Strength seems to be the issue more than endurance.
Bench Press
Bar 1 x 5
65# 1 x 5
85# 1 x 4 <–failed on 5, two more reps than last week so I was happy
65# 1 x 20 <–rep PR +2
Then various lat pull downs, cable bent-over triceps extensions, leg extensions, sit ups with a med ball overhead, russian twists…etc.
I also decided to start doing my old PT exercise for my weak adductors and abductors involving a cable machine and an ankle strap. I’d stopped doing them in the spring, but with my continuing knee cave battles it made sense to add them back in:
7.5# 3 x 12 each leg x 2 exercises.
I’m still seeing my ART girl every two weeks. No ITB knee pain, and I want to keep it that way.
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PMPM, for some reason I have been really reluctant to try this. I have visions of getting tripped up in the band because of my clutzy nature. However, if I used light weights (well, all my weights are relatively light) I should just get over myself and try it. Said publicly: I doing this next squat day.
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Yeah, it’s mainly for feeling and waking up those quiet muscles…however, you should video tape it just in case you fall over. Kthxbai.
Nice benching kimba.
good things happening in here.
carry on.