Nice squatting…I can’t imagine what it’s like to squat 2.5X from where I’m at.
MIM- just one more reason i shouldn’t have kids. they’d get locked in weekly. (i hear mommytired is a special brand of awful, and we know how i like my sleep) glad you had to deal with it only once.
i’ve been absolutely AWFUL about it in the past. literally shamefully (for most people) often.
city police here will come open if for you for free, and once… 10 min after i’d gotten my car unlocked at work by an off duty policefriend of mine (also a locksmith. convenient?) i was driving and saw a buddy walkin, so i picked him up. he’d left his car at the bar the night before, and i took him back. we decided to have ONE drink and say hi inside, and i got excited, locked the door… with the fucking keys still in it. now in city limits, i made the call and sat down with a drink. tried to laugh it off with the guy who came to help, ended up telling him how dumb i felt bc policefriend had just unlocked it.
left the bar, went to walmart, and got a call from policefriend, asking if it was ok to give the second guy my number.
guy turned out to be nothin special but the story is lulz.
bre- i WISH it was 2x from where i am now… unless you were just referring to yourself. and i’ve thought about the magnetic key holder… i’m thinking harder about it now…
feeling better. gonna try to get my mind right for some schoolwork. fucking exams next week and papers due. FAHK.
Nice training. Squatting w/bands sounds like fun.
I’ve also been known for locking the keys in the car on numerous occasions. For a while I had this old VW Fox wagon, loved that car, especially because it didn’t have power locks (or power ANYTHING) and you could only lock it w/the key, you know, from the outside! Perfect car for me until the shifting linkage got fucked up and I couldn’t use 5th gear OR reverse. I drove it like that for about 6 mos. Parking was a bitch because I had to either find a place to pull thru or get out and push it. Too bad I wasn’t single at the time because I met tons of men who would stop to help me push the car. Could have gotten some serious action.
[quote]BreStruction wrote:
Nice squatting…I can’t imagine what it’s like to squat 2.5X from where I’m at. [/quote]
If you’d like to, you’ll be there one day.
Bear-awesome work in here. Looking forward to the benching adventure.
[quote]BreStruction wrote:
Nice squatting…I can’t imagine what it’s like to squat 2.5X from where I’m at. [/quote]
I think squatting is going to be my nemesis in this thing. I’d just be happy to know that I’m doing my body weight with excellent form right now. You know somethings very wrong when your bench press and squat are going neck and neck.
Bear, you are seriously a training inspiration. I need to get back on track with my rack pulls because Mainy said she’d cook me a meal if/when I catch up to her weight of 315.
veg- i love your resolve, driving a car beyond perfect function. and, innuendo or not, i’m glad that lots of people were willing to help you push!
beast- allow me to rephrase that… if she works for it, she’ll get there and more.
puff- don’t let your mind fuck with you that much. I spent a lot of time at light weight learning how to squat properly (still gets tweaked, but i got beaten and dragged onto the right path), and there were times my ego tried to pout at the teeny lbs on my back. I’m making so much progress now it was all worth it… because i STILL hafta restrain myself from “one more set… a few more lbs…” and I like that.
greenie- I’m glad i’m an inspiration, i just hope its for good things 
and that you learn as much from my mistakes as you do from my glory moments. thats ONE of the reasons i know i’m lucky to train at EFS… so many years of experience, i get to skip lots of the places others went wrong.
SUNDAY BENCH AT EFS
fuck yeah! I made it there!
an hour late, but fuckit, better than not at all.
reverse band bench- again, no real way to tell EXACTLY how much weight the bands took, the word is about 135. i’ll ignore that and let the ego swell.
worked up to 275x1, because my form got ripped apart today. good news is, as fubar as it felt at the time, it really wasn’t THAT bad… (part of me wants to think i got up to 315[180], because the single i did was so tough… i’ll ask and edit if necessary. i dont wanna be an inflator of lbs.)
much of my work was for 2-5 reps in the 225-265 range. driving my heels, brought my grip in by a finger (middle now on the rings), bring bar lower on my chest, use my lats to “pull” it to my chest.
i am humble (seriously) enough to admit my ego is MAJOR sore. Todd tryin to teach me to pull the bar to my chest, grabbed my lat while i was standing in front of him and “Flex your lat. No really, flex your lat. Oh my god you’re flexing? You have no lat.”
FUCKING OUCH.
so either form or mind/muscle has been off for awhile, bc i’ve been using my UPPER lat more than (only?) my whole lat, which is shortchanging my bench MUCHO.
what followed was a metric fuckton (for me) of volume, dedicated to those bitch ass lats of mine.
wide grip pullups (Ted fixed form on these, too. elbows tucked, try to touch elbows to sides)
sposed to be sets of 8
x7 on my own
x4ish on my own, help on the rest
x3 ish on my own, help on the rest
i’ll tell ya, that first set REALLY surprised me. i did pullups yesterday, and traditionally suck at wg… wasnt expecting more than 2, if that much.
lat pulldowns with independent handles- similar form rules as the pullups
2 plates x 11 or 12<-- sposed to be 20 reps.
1 plate x 20
1 plate x 20<-- here’s where my lats pretty much went numb.
front raises with 15lb db- both arms, same time, 3x15
superset with
rear delt raises, 5lbs each hand 3x15
then (im not fucking kidding)
lean away lat raises with 15lb db, 3x10 each side
then (why the fuck not. i’m already anticipating not being able to brush my teeth tomorrow)
1 set battle ropes, 25 swing/loop things each arm
So, I haven’t done that much volume in one trip to the gym in a long time. I’m beat to fuck. I know it’ll pay off.
Fuck yeah mutha fucka! Way to keep it together. I like this energy.
And nice work on the WG pullups! bitch
I fucking love lean away lat raises. Your arms are gonna be killing tomorrow! Sweet!
I need to do all that shit too. I never do pulldowns or wide grip pull ups and I’ve already had to donate half my wardrobe due to ‘shoulder development’. Fuck. Maybe .jpeg can help you brush tomorrow.
WOW bear! WOW You effing killed it today. I bet you could get plenty of volunteers to brush things for ya 
they worked ya over pretty good today!
Wow. That was a shit ton of work. I have to comment on weighted GHRs. I remember when the regular ghr was a huge fail for you. You’ve come along way!
Killer training today. But I expect nothing less from you.
You are sooooo lucky to have such great coaching, even if there is some ego bruising involved. One of these days I’ll get brave and go work with the coach again. He helped my squat, so why not work on my sucky bench now?
maschy- i like your greetings. please show up everywhere i’m going so that i can hear that multiple times a day!
bre- i thought i had a big back until i found out i don’t have lats. most of my clothes are funny fitting or stretchy. i prefer stretchy. or downright baggy. shirts, baggy shirts. i prefer form fitting pants. i’d rather look good naked than keep spending money to fit my changing body in clothes that look good.
veg- im sure anyone who’s met me wouldn’t be surprised by the request, or deny me the help. I’m friends with that many philanthropic weirdos.
MIM- YES THEY DID! and i’m pretty sure they like me, too. can’t imagine what they’d do iffn it was otherwise… ew.
kimba- you would. but for cereal i was thinking about that too, after the first set. when i said i wanted to try weighted ghr’s someone thought i meant a whole real 45lb plate. i took that as a challenge and will be working my way there, bc i remember mollys video in which she did 10 reps hugging a plate.
anyone wanna write a paper about brian friel and his play “making history” as it relates to the role of art in finding solutions to what seems a totally irreconcilable conflict? i have the 3 secondary sources on PDF. willing to bribe, provide outline and full prompt.
your curriculum sounds so familiar. I haven’t written a paper since 2004 so I don’t know how good the grades would get. If it’s any help I remember my undergrad being about rehashing the teachers opinions and then my masters was all about forming my own angles.
my master’s thesis consisted of 3 novels:
Leonard Cohen’s “Beautiful Losers” - a perverse novel/poem of a sadistic love triangle
Marian Engel “Bear” - a woman falling in love and trying to fuck a bear
Margaret Atwood’s “Surfacing” - woman going nutters in the wilderness.
Basically I argued that the wild/unchainable nature of canadian landscape brought out/reflected a raw uncontrolled sexuality, one free of social norms and constraints.
good times I got to read and discuss the diviant sex lives and desires of canadians.
This doesn’t help you one fuck but what I’m trying to say is that your going to miss some of this in the futur.
Stretchy shirts ftmfw.
I lost count of the number of wovens/jackets I’ve grown out of. Really pisses me off too cause its never the cheap stuff that I outgrow. Its always the expensive stuff that I only wear one season out of the year, or for special events. I guess it makes me happy cause that means I’m making progress, but I don’t want to have to constantly replace stuff.
Also. Fuck battling ropes.
Yea I here ya on the shirt thing - I am opting to just stop buying clothes & run around nekkid, but it is not that contusive to cooler weather. Dang civilized cold weather!
veg- get the trainer!!
n- i really, really like that you wrote a paper about sex.
bg- thats what you get for buying nice things. and im pretty sure the battle ropes fucked me.
n8- yes. fuck cold weather. my dream house will have a heat lamp, a rock, and a small pool of water for me to rinse off in.
haven’t “slept” by the standard definition… and nothing hurts more than my forearms. both sides, both arms. oh trust me, lots of other things hurt (in the good way), but the forearms are the owiest.
well, i’ve been sayin i needed to do grip work for awhile. didn’t figure it’d be all in one day… ha!
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
haven’t “slept” by the standard definition… and nothing hurts more than my forearms. both sides, both arms. oh trust me, lots of other things hurt (in the good way), but the forearms are the owiest.
well, i’ve been sayin i needed to do grip work for awhile. didn’t figure it’d be all in one day… ha! [/quote]
We can just increase the frequency of the In public “old fashioneds” to a ludicrous level to start on the grip work. Also, wrapping those lazy fuckers knee wraps for them 2500 times put in some work too. You go tin some good work Saturday woman. Dunno about Sunday, but from talking to you was a good one. As for sleep, Im 99% sure I would impale a manlet such as Beast with a pitchfork if I could FUCKING FALL ASLEEP. I took my goddamned adderall at 8am and NOTHING IS HELPING. Im afraid if I fap any more the burns will irreversibly scar. sadface.jpg