[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Aww rough workout? Sucky hockey game probably didn’t help.
Tomorrow’s another day.[/quote]
no, lol. damn Canucks! shakes fist 
It wasn’t that bad though. Just troubleshooting my cleans.
I’ve been having an irritation in my thigh/hip but I was just rolling and when I rolled onto my hip, the very same spot I banged the bar quite hard snatching a week or so ago (which produced some excruciating shooting pain down my leg, but I walked it off and was fine to continue) OW! Felt it again. SO I think I injured myself a wee bit there.
It’s okay though at least I know what it is and it’ll probably just heal up. I was getting worried I was doing something poorly with my squats or something.
My massage therapist seems to not be around due to holidays.
Also, on stupid injuries: Last night I was broiling steak in the oven and it smoked up the house and set off my smoke alarm. So I go to reset it with my handy broomstick but it doesn’t seem to work and I have 9 foot ceilings I had to climb onto a desk to take it down and pull the battery and WHAM that’s my knee hitting the desk and making me cry like a baby. doh!
ouch! i hope your ouches feel better soon. hmm… taking a look at what you are doing (which looks great!) i think i might need to shorten my warm-ups. take bigger jumps to get to my work weights. i know what you mean about feeling like you didn’t put everything into the lift. i feel like that a lot. think it will take too much out of me if i do that. but then when i do it it is like ‘that wasn’t so bad - what was the problem???’ but yeah, after most lifts i feel annoyed at myself that i didn’t put more into whatever part of it.
[quote]alexus wrote:
ouch! i hope your ouches feel better soon. hmm… taking a look at what you are doing (which looks great!) i think i might need to shorten my warm-ups. take bigger jumps to get to my work weights. i know what you mean about feeling like you didn’t put everything into the lift. i feel like that a lot. think it will take too much out of me if i do that. but then when i do it it is like ‘that wasn’t so bad - what was the problem???’ but yeah, after most lifts i feel annoyed at myself that i didn’t put more into whatever part of it.[/quote]
The knee seems to be fine The hip/thigh is irritated but it’s fine doing squats, surprisingly, so I did a bunch of squats and other stuff that didn’t bother it.
I had that annoyance again tonight doing front squats grrrr. It’s totally “gah, that wasn’t bad you fool!” lol
I took a vid, I’ll post it if it demonstrates what I mean.
Friday April 22
I took some video of the RDL and p rows because I never do them and I’m not sure if Idid them right, I might post later but I’m off to Wendy’s!
front squats
135x5
145x3
155x3
160x2
165x1 (failed on 2nd rep)
170x1
175x0 
- bummer
p rows
95x5
100x5
110x5
115x5
120x5
rdl
120x5
150x5
185x5
205x5
bs
135x5
165x5x5 (whoa they were easy)
5 pullups x3
you’ve never done RDLs before?? OR Pendlays?
fml
I’ve been meaning to ask, with all the heavy lifting you do, do you still go running and do other cardio? How do you schedule it, or does it just happen?
Thanks…
Sounds like some kind of pulled muscle…I guess don’t do the things that make it hurt, until it gets better??
Hi MIM 
I’ve never done Pendlay’s before so I’m not entirely sure if I was doing them right. I think my rows I used to do we closer to PR than anything but I never took any video back then. I’ve done RDL before but only once or twice.
I’ve cut way back on running in the past month. I was doing 5 miles every morning, now I’m doing 5k 2-3 times a week at most with a 5 mile run occasionally. I don’t schedule it, I just go in the morning here and there before work. I’m still getting up as early and sometimes doing some complexes in the morning, I just run instead some mornings.
I am going for a run this morning, I was thinking of some sprints for time.
Sorry about your injuries =(
Awesome pendlays, I’m sure you did them right.
That’s shocking that you never do RDLs, you have the posterior chain of someone who does them frequently ;D
Nikki ;D
I love when you post in my log. <3 I think my injuries are minor. I ran a bunch of sprints super fast and no troubles at all. It doesn’t seem to matter what the injury is, but if I have one I feel it sprinting.
It’s spring outside! Yay!
Eh did some thinking about things this morning and over the last couple of years I’ve spent a lot of time and energy battling myself with weights and running and more running but never any goals just had to keep putting in the time to get things done (not sure what the things ever really were…)
I kind of lost sight of what really felt good when I started to go towards BBing and away from strength and power. But I also didn’t realize I was actually getting stronger without knowing it. I did those rows and RDLs yesterday and they were pretty easy but it wasn’t that long ago they would have been a struggle, thinking about the rows I used to do and the rack pulls.
I fought so hard at one point to get that 200lb deadlift and I just picked it up at 205lbs like it was a lil heavy but not really yesterday for the RDL, with clean grip and stance (I haven’t done deadlifts in soooo long and mixed grip and much wider stance)
And then doing some sprints earlier I was faster than I’d ever been running 35-40 miles a week and felt like I was explosive and saw my garmin watch showing 12mph at one point. I think I’m kinda high off that. I had some flashbacks from when I started and I was embarrassed to run in the daytime because I didn’t want to be seen flopping and wheezing along the path at 5 miles per hour with a single goal of fitting into some size 8 pants.
I’m going to do some cleans and jerks and maybe some push presses later but maybe I’ll pass on squats today.
olympic lifting just makes people better in every aspect. no joke.
people who quit quit because it’s hard, not because they don’t like it.
that is cool that you got stronger. and faster. shows that there can indeed be some carry-over with respect to focusing on one thing and making progress on another.
you have come a long way. inspiring, girl. well done.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
olympic lifting just makes people better in every aspect. no joke.
people who quit quit because it’s hard, not because they don’t like it.[/quote]
Can’t argue with this!!
In terms of athletics, Oly has done wonders for my strength and flexibility (esp flexibility!). And since weight training seriously, my speed has gone full throttle and my explosive speed is out of control - even mid sprint, I have these insane bouts of explosive speed, like mach 5! Its really incredible. If only I had taken the weight training seriously in college instead of just dicking around when my coach turned his back. Oh well!
Deb! Your training is looking awesome! Great work. You’re so strong! And I agree, your progress is AMAZING!
I <3 P rows and RDLs!
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
olympic lifting just makes people better in every aspect. no joke.
people who quit quit because it’s hard, not because they don’t like it.[/quote]
I totally believe you! I honestly do regret not doing it sooner. If I only knew! I’ve never stood so tall
Strength and Power!!
Good way to put it all is perspective…you GO GIRL!!
Thanks Alexus and Masch!
After doing those lifts and sprints I’m now having to fight the urge to do some deadlifts to a max and sprint more because it felt really good to be getting better at those things, unexpectedly, while snatching weights I can row with one arm lol.
I don’t know how draining sprinting is on the Olympic training but I’m sure the other stuff is. I’ll have to limit it for sure. I feel like I’m not challenging my strength much with just the Oly stuff though but I can now I am getting stronger even if my lifts are progressing so slowly.
The flexibility is awesome! I love that. I can totally imagine how the explosiveness must feel great playing soccer Masch.
I’ve put on some mass too. Last night I weighed in at 142lbs. Before I weighed myself I did some pullups and was thinking about strapping some weight on but I couldn’t find my belt but it ends up I was pulling a bunch of extra weight already My boyfriend says my delts and traps have definitely grown.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
Strength and Power!!
Good way to put it all is perspective…you GO GIRL!![/quote]
YEAH!
:)))
Being in the “no longer 21” bracket, how do you manage to stay injury free? With me it seems that whenever I try something new or try to ramp up the training a bit, part of me breaks and I’m back to square one. It’s pretty frustrating. Going by your vids you have outstanding mobility - this something you work on a lot?
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
Being in the “no longer 21” bracket, how do you manage to stay injury free? With me it seems that whenever I try something new or try to ramp up the training a bit, part of me breaks and I’m back to square one. It’s pretty frustrating. Going by your vids you have outstanding mobility - this something you work on a lot?[/quote]
I’m always injuring myself!
But actually rarely from lifting, always doing stupid stuff. All I can think of training wise is I try really hard to have good strict form as much as possible and only deviate a bit when trying to PR. Tribunal Dude posted something waaaay back ( I think about presses) that working with really good form is the best way to hit the intended muscle and I’ve always worked like that since it made a lot of sense. I stopped worrying about numbers as much and aimed for numbers with good form, because from a BBing perspective, a heavy ass press is worthless if it doesn’t hit your intended muscle groups. It just so ends up IMO you get stronger that way too and less prone to injury. So unless it’s a movement that calls for it or I’m fighting for a PR, if I’m using too much BE I lower the weight and get stronger first. I’m training by myself too so I can’t really afford to be stupid for the sake of numbers.
Now that I’m training for different goals, I have to adjust my thinking a tad and while not let form fly out the window, learn how to grunt through to get some PRs
I think just doing ATG squats and snatches the mobility is a natural progression. I don’t actually do anything for it, except having always been active outdoors (kayaking, backpacking and climbing etc plus a lot of wilderness camping) means a lot for crawling on the ground scrambling around stuff limboing under logs, or over them with a boat…maybe that helped? Just living out of a tent in a total wilderness campsite means you’re cooking your dinner in an ATG squat position. Now that I think of it, camping and stuff, there is a whole lot of ATG going on because there are no tables! Need to check the map? ATG, need to eat? ATG, go to the bathroom? Set up a tent? Find socks? Need to sit? ATG…etc
AM workout: Coffee and squats yay! =D
These were awesome! They felt really good, killed my soleus but still felt good.
135x5
155x3
170x3x10 - missed one on my 3rd last set but I made up for it by taking 15lbs off and crawling under it and squatting in it up from the bottom and felt like a bad ass
Push Presses -I wanted to try some from the rack and see how heavy I could go without haven’t to clean them first. I’ll post video because I’m a little unsure when a push press becomes a push jerk? I don’t have a platform in front of my rack so I was a bit worried about dropping the weights so I think I was a bit underconfident. I was a little wobbly from the squats too I think. I’m going to see about getting some mats for in front of my rack so I can drop the weights. I did drop them on my 130lb attempt and that’s just not good for my floor. I screwed up and didn’t get my 130 miss on camera so just as well I missed!
push press (or push jerk?)
95x3
110x3
115x1
120x1
125x1
130x0