It's a Snap

Training Over 35 Lifter
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I’m waaayyy too busy these days.

Met our friend Arachne from the PW compound today for a quickie training session (for her, not I).

Did flat bench: worked up to work sets of 3 x 8.

Then wide-grip seated row, bentover rear delt machine, overhead DB tricep extension, DB row, incline DB press, standing cuff rolls, and face pulls.

Blah, blah.

Must get to the health food store. I’m now out of multis, vitamin D, and something else that I’ve already forgotten. Also, must look into primrose. I take fish oil already.

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I’m staying the course with the higher rep training. Got tempted to try out some singles with my new DL stance after I finished my work sets. But it was a good thing I didn’t pack my belt. I must steer away from constantly maxing.

RDLs
8/45
5/45

Modified Sumo DL a la Coan
5/115
5/140
3/8/160

These were so, so easy. Just fly up in this stance…

Wide-Stance Box Squat (full pause in the hole)
5/5/95

Seated GMs
3/8/60

A) Lat Pulldown
3/9/90

B) Weighted Hypers
3/8/45

C) HLRs
3/7

Yep. Finally am up to 7 straight leg, full ROM HLRs.

Think I’m starting to like DLing again.

Birthday this weekend. 46! Then heading to Canada next week for IPF Masters Worlds. While I won’t get to see Ms. O and Big Bencher compete, I’m very much looking forward to meeting them.

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Birthday this weekend. .
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Happy 21 st

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Happy birthday. Glad your new DL form is feeling good and that you are feeling good about Dls. It’s a good lift for you.

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Happy Birthday lets make 46 a great year!

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Happy birthday snaps…

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Happy 46th, Snapper!

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Happy birthday!

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Happy birthday, I hope you get everything you wanted.

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Happy BDAY!

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happy bday

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:

My parents used to tell him that he was like Aquaman. Remember him from the Saturday morning Superfriends?

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He talked to the fishes. What a crappy superpower!!!

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Happy Birthday!

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Happy Birthday Snap!!!

big muscles are where it’s at baby - eat and rest.

still don’t know if I’m making it to the meet. it’s 7 Hour drive… perhaps.

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[quote]ruglayer09052000 wrote:

[quote]kpsnap wrote:

My parents used to tell him that he was like Aquaman. Remember him from the Saturday morning Superfriends?

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He talked to the fishes. What a crappy superpower!!!
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Hey, I’ll have you know fishes are very stimulating conversationlists!

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Happy birthday Snapper! We can be the same age for a few short months.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a great 46th year.

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Happy 30th birthday!

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happy birthday! what date are you? 24th or 25th??

hope you have a great time at worlds.

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46 feels great. Love getting older and stronger and hotter all at the same time.

[That may be a bit of wishful thinking.]

Squat today. Still doing 8s with uninspiring weights. And it kills me. I am absolutely sucking wind by the sixth rep and making deals with the devil by the seventh.

As a result of this little high-rep experiment, I’ve decided that 1 RM calculators are complete and utter hogwash.

In addition to squatting, I did smith leg press (yep, videod it), standing GMs, DB step-ups, single leg hammie machine, reverse hypers, situps on decline bench, and good girl/bad girl. Seems like I’m training for a figure show or something with all the higher reps and accessory work!

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I read somewhere (sorry I can’t remember references for shit) that women are capable of doing more reps with whatever percentage of their 1RM than guys are. Their analysis was that women’s 1RM wasn’t really an accurate reflection… Because of the relative lack of type-1 muscle fibers (compared to guys)… So… In calculating how many reps women should do at whatever percentage of their 1RM for training effect… Either the percentage was higher or the number of reps was.

Does that make some kinda sorta sense?

My birthday was the 25th. I wondered whether we might be the same day… Though we are one day ahead over in this part of the world :-p