Bitches being bitches…
Styrofoam plates!!!
=D jk
Pull-ups looked good to me. Deadlift, not so good by your own admission but form isn’t always great on a maximal lift. You deadlift a lot like me - high arse, stiff legs and round back, so I’m in no position to criticise. However, I would encourage you to work on your hip mobility. Mine is lacking, thanks to 20+ years of sitting on my arse, and it’s not an easy thing to fix once it gets ingrained. But since you’re half my age, you’ve got a chance to fix that before it becomes a problem. I’d recommend checking out Mobility WOD (Google it - it’s a great site), do the hip mobs, get a foam roller and a hard ball (lacrosse, hockey, pool) and roll your trouble spots. Work your t-spine and shoulders while you’re at it. I know from bitter experience that once you get injured, those injuries will keep coming back to haunt you like a Jehovah’s Witness. Fix your shit now, or end up a banged up old donkey like me. That’s friendly advice, btw.
305 DL- Even if you think you’re about to miss a lift on squat or dl do not ever fucking look to the side or down at the floor. That’s only going to make it harder for you to get it. You’re still stiff-legging the shit out of your pulls. Your hips are down where they need to be at the start, but as soon as you start pulling they shoot up, and again, you’re only making the lift harder for yourself. You also lost your arch. You also hitched. When you get to the top you really need to be trying to push thru (like you’re fucking with Count Rock’s strap-on) not up.
Pullups- Looked good. But why are you still wearing that belt?
And about being immature- Sweetie, you have NO IDEA what its like when I’m being immature. This right here being honest and direct. If I was feeling immature and dramatic I’d have
- called you out a long long time ago.
Posting fail…?
Anyway…If I was into causing drama I would have said something long ago. And my posts would have involved way more name calling, personal insults, and profanity. But you can call me whatever you like 
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
I know from bitter experience that once you get injured, those injuries will keep coming back to haunt you like a Jehovah’s Witness. Fix your shit now, or end up a banged up old donkey like me. That’s friendly advice, btw.[/quote]
QFMFT
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
I cant speak for Bear, but with all the bullshit numbers and videos you’ve posted in the past I don’t blame her for giving you a hard time. And don’t flatter yourself. It isn’t jealousy. You’re not that special. [/quote]
Ahem…
Nice constructive criticism…but not causing any drama at all
You should really just stay out of this log, you’re not welcome here.
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here’s just the harness, there are a few choices of dongs so I’m sure however you prefer, its here.
Have at it.
This is more of the T-Nation I remember…
wow what a bummer this is to read. I am sorry your getting flamed like this Nikki. You shouldnt have to explain anything to anyone.
Also I wouldnt waste my time trying to post vids to show people what you can do…fuck em, they will only be the first to pick it apart or finds things to say to get you going.
as far as I’m concerned if you get the weight up in deadlifts and lock it, its good. Yes not learning proper technic will fuck you up but shit I’m the first who looks bad near my max.
My first bench vids show me NOT touching chest and def quarter squating so I put that in my pipe and smoked it.
As for pics, I post my naked ass all over TN. I’m def deserving of the same flamming.
What I’m trying to say, in true canadian color, this is a public forum. Not someone’s private creation. You have as much “right” as any to communicate to others your passion for lifting.
Those who disagree should simply not stop by. Although as someone who has competed and plans to compete in the future I do find your total irksome. But that’s my personal problem. I do swear however that if you can pull all your maxes in one day in true meet style, I will give you full props and rejoice in your title 
(I’m adding a smiley here to see I’m being slightly sarcastic and pulling your tail).
What makes PW fun is it’s diversity.
And I like your zebra shorts.
What a shit storm in here. Joke how the naysayers come out now. Do your thing Nik. 3/4’s of the info being bestowed on you in here is regurgitated retread anyhow.
alexus wonders quietly to herself over in the corner…
whether at least part of this might be about bodybuilding vs powerlifting differences in training. CT posted an article fairly recently about how he used to train with someone… and he would pull him up about his form and his training… but when the dude quit training with CT and started training with like minded individuals he grew.
i wasn’t so sure about the ‘cheating’ aspect of the article. i mean… if what a person is doing is getting them closer to their goals then clearly it isn’t cheating. it is doing it properly. my understanding was that nikki was primarily focused on bodybuilding. her pics speak to her progress.
one of the things i find really helpful about this log is how she tears it up in training. intensity of effort. sure, sometimes i think that her form is cheating… but it got me thinking about what cheating is… and i started thinking that sometimes i am surely cheating myself in worrying so much about my form that i’m scared to lift much more than the bar… and that that is undermining my progress towards my goals. one of the things i’ve learned from here is that sometimes it is best to not focus on form so much and just move some weight around! i agonized for a long time about my chin-ups. how my lats weren’t activating properly. about how i was cheating myself up by leaning forwards and swinging myself up with my biceps. but know what? thanks largely to this log i decided to just keep on doing them. after a while… i could do one properly.
and then i didn’t for a few months and now i need to relearn how to do them… but, yeah. that is what i need to do. suck it the fuck up and do them. worry about the form later.
i do understand something of the frustration from the powerlifting side, i think. i feel pretty freaking frustrated when i see guys muscling around more than my max snatch when they are just trying to show off or whatever. their form (from an olympic lifting point of view) is atrocious. i feel a bit like it undermines all the work i’ve put into learning the technique. but of course it doesn’t undermine it at all. one needs to have a little faith in that. try not to lash out along the way.
what happened in here… is pretty much why for the most part i think guys make better friends. if you have trouble with someone then just put them on ignore. stay the hell out of their log.
Way to get that shit up nikki, Im impressed with the progress you have made in so little time, I have said it before I think its great that you found something that IMO you have a real propensity for so young in life. Its unfortunate that the past couple of pages have been arguing and what not, hopefully you guys can come to some sort of amicable way to leave it on a positive note, I have been a follower of both logs (nikki and cbears) and find them both impressive and entertaining.
If you guys want to see real shit form, come to my log lol!
Nikki, I say you should do a meet, that may satisfy both you and your retractors.
Nikki: I was suprised when I read that you don’t get any benefit from posting here. If that’s the case, I agree it’s not worth the effort. But, there is much to learn. I read your log, but I don’t do anything for you but cheerlead, and you don’t need that. You’re very motivated. But, you are still learning the lifts and there are people who can help you with that–if you really are interested in powerlifting. Go back and reread your log, don’t respond emotionally, and you’ll see you actually got some real and some good advice this weekend. YOu may not like how it was packaged. But as I was told once by my buddy H when our e-relationship got a little shitty: “So its up to you. You can put your chin strap on and mouth piece in, or you can quietly walk off the field.”
I hope you stay.
Because my post from last night took ~16 hours to show up, and because the videos didnt load-
Wow…I find it sad that this is what Nikkis log is reduced to. I havent been able to completely catch up on everything and I am by no means taking sides but I know what an attack looks like and unfortunately even if it did or did not start that way it has certainly turned into it. On both sides. We are all on the same team going for the same goal…be hot badasses and have a ton of sex. I am not about judging people for any decision that they make but I hope this gets resolved. Unfortunately because there is no voice inflection and we are all badass bitches we tend to clash. We are all strong chicks and of course we are going to bump heads. We are just like dudes. We want respect, attention and admiration from the same and opposite sex and whenever any of that is threatened in one way or another we react defensively. So what if some random chick doesnt like you? You ladies are both beautiful, both strong and both run shit. You guys both have your fan clubs backing you up so that just proves that people care enough to pay attention to someone they have never met. AND stand up for them online! Negativity will deplete precious energy that could be spent kicking ass, taking names and still have the energy to say, “Who’s next?”
I am going to send this to both girls in their PMs.
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HOWEVER. I’d like to see you stick around, grow a set of balls, and learn to lift/take criticism properly. [/quote]
No. This has nothing to do with balls either. Everytime someone opens the floodgates or I do something that’s so unbelievable for a recently-fat weightlifting newb, people come out like roaches and insult me. Not ask to help with form or technique, but call me a liar.
However, if I was the bitch that couldn’t take criticism like everyone says I am, then I wouldn’t have appreciated your post so much. But I did. And I’m sorry that I added my MP to my total. I don’t know why it will bother people so much, I explained that MP is a serious lift for me and I’m proud of how far I came with my MP. It’s not a PL total. I never said that it was. I always say that it’s squat/bench/DL and MP added together. It’s amazing that what I choose to name my log “annoys the fuck out of you” though. But whatever.
Deadstop rows is a new exercise for me. I saw them floating around TN for a while and a short while ago I decided to try them. I didn’t look at a bunch of vids on Youtube to see how to execute them correctly. I thought that literally resetting each rep was cheating. I apologize. As people have said though, they saw my form on them and decided to just leave my log until it was time to come to your rescue. If someone would have said “Hey, do the deadstop rows yadda yadda yadda” then I would have absorbed that. I didn’t get that though.
And people can’t say that I don’t take the advice that I get because I have NEVER argued with Power or Mainie or whoever, yet they gave me a lot of advice.
My 9.5 pull-ups were not to say “Look at me and how many pull-ups I can do”. When I posted that video, I acknowledged that they sucked. I also didn’t know that every video I posted on Youtube was supposed to be perfect. I would have no videos if that was the case. But to be honest, on a weekly basis, I look at my old videos and compare. It feels good looking at my pull-ups from November and what I can do now. It feels good to look at me pulling 225 for a few reps and remembering the pride that I felt, then recall how much better that 295 felt.
Once again, basically I appreciate your posts. I’m not arguing anything about the 165 because I will not be logging any workouts on TN anymore. And I know how you are about your proof. So no log, no videos, no stress.
Thanks Cal, I’ll look into it. I do things for my hip flexors and spine and ankle mobility. I would love to do some hip mobility stuff. My past few DL sessions is when I tried to think of driving with my hips more. Guess it didn’t work.
Buckeye, I’ll try not to look at the side next time. I thought it helped me because when maxing like that, I want the reassurance that the bar is moving. Once again, I like the reassurance, just like my other lifts. I even look to the side when MPing. I’ll try to get out of that habit.
I’m still wearing the belt because I wore that belt all the way to Popeye’s. The belt wasn’t to help me, I was just running late to work. I didn’t get to take it off until I was at the drive-thru waiting for my food.
Lol Debra @ the styrofoam plates.
LMAO @ the constructive criticism.
Please don’t take that the wrong way. You have to understand though, I only got advice after being called a liar and told good riddance when I contemplated leaving after haters came out of the bushes. If I have to go through that everytime just to be told “Drive your hips more”, it’s not fucking worth it.
It’s not because I don’t care about learning and feel that I know it all. I sure as hell don’t. But I’ll need to find other ways of learning besides the name-calling. With this drama and my hormones from PMS, my heartrate and stress levels have been through the roof.
Thanks for chiming in everyone. And thank you for following me for the past year.
I’ll say it more differently-
keep logging your workouts. you like doing it, or you wouldnt have kept doing it. at least one person has already said that they help. theres probably more that have never posted in your log that feel the same way. outside of your workouts, your positive attitude is a good thing. annoying to me at times, but thats because im fairly consistently annoyed, even when im in a good mood. its a personality defect, and part of my charm. most of the awful shit that comes out of my mouth is said with a smile and a giggle, and it takes a bit of reading online or knowing me IRL to pick up on that. i should, but do not, come with a disclaimer.
Adding MP to a total is annoying, at least for me (not gonna claim to speak for anyone else) because having a “total” is a powerlifting term, and MP is not in a PL competition. Even with your disclaimers, it grates a little… sometimes more than others. It comes off as an ego boost (sounds like what youve admitted. no prob with that ego thing. we know i like mine) and would be akin to a PLer using a 3board bench, a reverse band squat, and a rack pull in their total. its not real. it doesnt count. except for where you’ve made it up. and yes, your log is your world, but its annoying to me bc its not my world.
check out kimbas log for the kind of advice i give. i know she can take it, so i do it in public and she knows how i feel about her. some of the others, i send PM’s to. what you got is the nicest version possible, bc you and i did not have that kind of relationship, and i was interested to see your lift. in competition, you’d have been redlighted for the hitch. we can talk another time about your other form issues, but in my world, its not a lift you can claim. if you want to, your log is your world and thats fine. i wont let you be misled.
not every video you post on youtube has to be perfect. before ^^^ that one, there were some godawful things of mine on there too. its good that you go back and look to compare- just learn to laugh, too. i’d shake the shit out of the Bear doing that bench and those pullups, then i’d giggle with her like a pedophile in the ballpit at chuck-e-cheese.
it has EVERYTHING to do with balls. that why i posted the link to FA that i did. sometimes, you have to take a step back and evaluate the situation for a bit before you react. you also have to realize that you opened the floodgates. a very simple, “what the fuck is wrong with you, bitch?” or something along those lines would have made things go very differently. yes, i asked for video bc i wanted to see it, based on the other videos ive seen. i was not attacking your integrity or your worth as a human being.
because you HAVE been attacked by other people for different things before this fuckwadery of the past day or two, you flew off the handle like any other vagina would have. THATS why i want you to grow a set of balls. so that you can be man enough to consider the situation and circumstances independently of AND in light of past events. its a valuable skill, its not easy, but its worth it. my nature dictates that i react very similarly, and its come back to bite me in ways that i dont need to dicuss… so i’ve had to learn the hard way (surprise) to find out more information first. even a situation in which i DID get bowed up on by a crazy bitch, staying calm was the best thing i couldve done, and did do, because it made her look worse.
you have genetics on your side. you’re passionate, positive, and a determined cunt. even if you had half the iq of a grapefruit those qualities would take you places. grow some balls, you’ll go farther. (know im gonna keep breaking em, but that none of it really matters.) youre the one that has to live in your body every day. you get to choose what and who matters, and who/what doesnt.
Take Evening Primrose Oil for the PMS. 3 caps a day regularly, couple extra per day, week of wouldnt hurt. Vitamin B(complex, in this case) is also a good idea if you have lethargy issues.
Cbear- I completely resent your assertion that any vagina would fly off the handle to a comment such as your’s. I like vaginas and preferr to give them more credit than that Feel free to critic the shit out of my log and call me out if I flip.
Nikki- I do really appreciate your log and think you should take the suggestion of trying a meet to heart. I saw a while back that you were interested in doing some sort of figure competition and wondered why you didn’t go for powerlifting instead, given your natural aptitude and love of carbs.