Are you doing any activation stuff before you squat? That might make a difference. I know Frenchie has a bunch in her log, and good old air humps are always a nice one to use.
Pixie - nope, I don’t compete in anything. Any weight/fat loss is for my own satisfaction. And often the short term satisfaction of eating something yummy wins out over the long term goal which I’m not entirely sure is possible to achieve (ie abs, because I’ve never in my 44 and a half years seen them).
Patch: Yeah, I do glute bridges and bird dogs as part of my warmups.
Cal: Yummy food is awesome 
Seeing abs is overrated!
It’s hard to stay focused on the weight goals.
I eat a lot of boring meals.
Is the knee still bothering you?
2busy: Depending on what I do, yes, my knee acts up. I’m still learning how far I can push it before it gets tired or aggravated and what sets it off. I can squat now but I have to build up the endurance again. Doing 95x5x2 tired it out. I went to a class yesterday that I absolutely enjoyed before I started working on rehabbing my knee. My knee didn’t enjoy the class even though I modified a lot of movements to try and keep them in my comfort zone. So, no class for me. Too much jumping and side-to-side movement, I think. It feels a lot better today which makes me happy. My recovery time is a lot faster.
I eat a lot of boring meals, too Doesn’t help that I have a grocery store less than a 5 minute walk from where I live when I start getting cravings. Very hard not to get up and walk over to buy whatever I’m craving some days.
12/02/06 Workout:
Warmups:
5 minutes on the elliptical
Agile 8
lots of foam rolling
Rack pulls: 45x10, 95x5, 115x5, 135x5, 165x3, 185x0
Power shrugs: 135x5x3
Steam room and done.
I wasn’t feeling the workout today. Headache and stress from work were not helping out. When the 185 didn’t go up I was truly done with the workout. Accessory work wasn’t worth the effort today. Just bleah.
So I went like, 5 hours without food today and just about lost my shit. I thought of you and your eating plan and give you tons of credit. Keep at it, lady.
I was feeling blah today. Let’s go ahead and blame some star alignment or something, mkay? Til then we’ll just wait til things roll back our direction.
ACTUALLY LADIES, THERE IS A STAR ALIGNMENT? Its no one’s fault!
Saturn is turning retrograde which tends to slow us down.
[quote]cholulalula wrote:
So I went like, 5 hours without food today and just about lost my shit. I thought of you and your eating plan and give you tons of credit. Keep at it, lady.
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YEP, i am the same way! If it’s eatin’ time and I have to wait my brain goes nutso.
Pixie I think it’s super cool you do power shrugs. I have never in my life tried such a thing, but now I feel like I really should.
Hope your next workout goes better than the last
lula: I totally agree with you. Something in the stars is messing with me and I don’t like it!
Hal: That slows ALL women down or just some? And thanks for the justification for a bad workout day!
Spock: Power shrugs keep me happy for the explosive movement. It’s just shy of doing a clean/snatch pull so I can get in that last second push through with the hips and pop with the traps.
Gonna go see my massage therapist today as it feels like I have golfballs stored under my scaps. Absolutely killing me and giving me a huge headache. I feel like I have talons digging into my skull. Sooo, probably just going to do sprints and some light kb swings when I get home. It’s supposed to be bench day but I know he’s going to roll through my traps and neck, essentially frying my CNS. Hard to get tight and do bench properly like that. I’ll push my workouts back to Friday and Saturday.
Oh my! I hope things went well and the animals are no longer attacking you.
[quote]Patch2 wrote:
Oh my! I hope things went well and the animals are no longer attacking you.
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Yup yup! Feel a hell of a lot better right now. Man, my back was all kinds of crunchy. Little cardio and epsom salt bath tonight and same thing is on the menu tomorrow. Stretching my quads too as my knee is a little achy. I’ve been ignoring it 
Crunchy back, yes I know that feeling well. LOVE epsom salt. Don’t ignore your knee missy , just like any brat it’ll start screaming for attention.
I have decided my life is useless and unfulfilled until you post a video of you doing power shrugs.
You no be argue! THIS IS NECESSARY FOR MY CONTINUED EXISTENCE.
kthanxbai.
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
I have decided my life is useless and unfulfilled until you post a video of you doing power shrugs.
You no be argue! THIS IS NECESSARY FOR MY CONTINUED EXISTENCE.
kthanxbai.[/quote]
Yes mistress! Your wish is my command! 
^^ totally agree with hallowed there!! Looking forward to this vid.
12/02/10 Workout:
Warmups:
5 minutes on the elliptical
knee rehab
Agile 8
Bench squats: 45x10, 65x10
Squats: 65x5, 75x5, 85x5, 95x5x3
After each set of squats I stretched my quads. I’ve found this helps keep my knees happy.
OHP: 45x5, 55x5, 60x5, 65x3, 70x2 (PR), 55x6, 45x8
Was supposed to do hamstring curls with the OHP but the machine was being used. Oh well.
DB Bench: 30x12x3
Single arm DB OHP: 20x6x3
BSS: BWx8x3
Stretching and steam room.
Hal, you’ll get the power shrug video tomorrow I’ll do them after my 2 board bench.
Very nice OHP!
How has diet been going?
[quote]PixieThrower wrote:
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
I have decided my life is useless and unfulfilled until you post a video of you doing power shrugs.
You no be argue! THIS IS NECESSARY FOR MY CONTINUED EXISTENCE.
kthanxbai.[/quote]
Yes mistress! Your wish is my command! ;)[/quote]
awwwww! I love when you are so comply! You makeeee me happpeeeeee
Nice OHP PR gorl!
and I’m with Dash I’ll take a diet update! My eating has been nice and tight… feels aiiight.
times whatever for the power shrug!
and diet update!
How do you OHP and hamstring curl simultaneously?