Bench: 8 x bar, 3 x 65, 2 x 75, 2 x 70, 3 x 65, 3 x 65, 7 x 55, 5 x 55
Incline DB Press: 3 sets of 10 x 12.5
Flys: 8 x 40, 6 x 55, 6 x 55.
Did not get to the curls since we started late. The Beans-type guy was there again. It was all I could do to not laugh. He and his “bros” were doing DB incline presses two benches away from me and he would do a little dance before picking up the DBs and then while sitting down right before doing the presses.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
That was an amazingly quick progression to the big plates! Good for you.[/quote]
Well, the last time we did them, Greens grip was giving out before her back was and I wanted to make sure her execution was good before we moved up. She did a few reps with 135 before she had to set the bar down and adjust her grip, then do another rep until she got to 9.
Up until then, her workouts were mainly about getting a feel for the exercise.
You should’ve seen the look on her face when I told her to take off the little plates and put on a 45:)
CDQAR: What’s going on, bud?
Freaking awesome! You really are moving along fast. And you lucky little grumble you get a trainer on the spot. You’re gonna totally kill it.
75 on the bench is fantastic!
The curls on day 1 are bicep curls? I never do these. Should I?
Masch: since your not happy with your bench working the biceps and triceps directly could be a helping factor.
IH-Not too much bro, just hittin’ it AMAP, new job and all. How about yourself? Grippin’ and rippin’ it up again, yet?
Nice, simple, quality program you’ve got there Greenie. I know you already know this (I mean c’mon, you’ve got an Ace in your pocket Masch, no dirty puns here!) but you absolutely cannot go wrong by keeping your training simple: Pick a few good movements, get good at them, make progress with them, eat, sleep, repeat. That’s pretty much it, in a nut-shell. I’d bet it won’t be six weeks and you’ll be benching 95-100 for 6-8!
Rack Pulls: 5 x bar, 10 x 95, 6 x 115, 5 x 135, 3 x 155.
Widegrip Lat Pulldowns: 6 x 70, 6 x 80, 6 x 80.
Seated OHP: 3 sets of 6 x bar. Can’t wait for these to start feeling easy.
DB Triceps: 10 x 5. Right arm: 4 x 10. Left arm: 2 x 10. The left arm I really had to fight to get even 1 rep with the 10lb DB. Didn’t realize how super weak my left arm is!
Now is food, shower, interview.
OHP are hard, hard, hard. It took me a long time to get to 3 x 10 with just the bar. You are already doing great!
I hope the interview went well for you.
Thanks for the input guys, I think I will add bicep curls on my accessory work next cycle 
OHP is HARD! and those Lat pulldowns are great. Good job Greenie!
ok so did i miss the interview update somewhere?
Nope, Claire, you didn’t!
So the interview was Wednesday. The hotel needs a serious reno. It still looks like a 1970s Holiday Inn: all pastel colors and prints that don’t match or even go with. Luckily, they are getting a reno starting in November for their rooms and meeting space.
Met with a lady named Wendy and talked to her for about 30-45 minutes. She asked questions, I answered. Found out they have 1408 rooms and only two rooms controllers, while we had 5 with only 1198 rooms. I don’t know how they cope. Thinking about asking if I don’t get this position to offer to be a third rooms controller, if they could find the budget for one. Then met with her boss, Max, who seems like a good guy.
My job would basically be reviewing groups’ bills before we send them out to the client for them to pay. There seems to be lots of errors so they get lots of negative feedback on their group event satisfaction surveys about bill accuracy. To combat this, they created this position. I would be a department of one, working M-F, flexible hours.
They had 5 other candidates so I will probably hear something today or early next week. I know that my experience with Marriott systems is a HUGE plus, also the fact that I can work by myself and don’t need supervision. I love all of that detail, OCD stuff, so this position takes everything I know and like and puts it in one job. Now I just have to wait and see.
This is off topic, but my mom had a masectomy and her body reacted very violently to the surgery. Needless to say she is not having any more and is going to have a bra with a prosthetic boob instead of reconstructive surgery. Before this, she had throat cancer and had radiation/chemotherapy last summer and still cannot eat solid foods.
She has been drinking protein shakes and eating Malt-O-Meal and soup ever since. She has lost 80 pounds and now weighs what I do: 180. She is very excited that she went from a 3X to a 1X. I’m a size 14/16 and for some shirts I wear an XL because for some reason they have longer arms. What is the difference between a 1X and an XL? When does being an XL go to being a 1X? I remember when I was little her saying that she shops in the “fat lady” section and that was when she was a 1X. I know that our bodies are totally different, fat is distributed differently and all that, but this just brought home that if my body was built differently, I would be a 1X instead of a size 14/16.
Shit, sorry to hear about your Mom greenie, she’s had more than her share of crap. Hope it swings for the better. Glad to know she can see a silver lining.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
Shit, sorry to hear about your Mom greenie, she’s had more than her share of crap. Hope it swings for the better. Glad to know she can see a silver lining. [/quote]
Yeah, 2009 was NOT a good year for her! It seemed like she experienced every post-surgery complication possible. She is a classic overachiever so I was like “Mom! You need to be a slacker when you get sick! Stop being an overachiever! This is not an area you need to be good at!”
Your mom is looking on the bright side of a bad situation. Good for her! I hope her recovery only gets better from here.
So I had to take a few days off as I had the longest allergy attack of my life. I think it lasted 3 days. I was miserable, my eyes were all runny and puffy and I couldn’t breathe. It was horrible. Today was the first day back in the gym and it was leg day, a very abbreviated leg day as we got there 45 minutes before they closed.
Squats: 10 x bar, 10 x bar, 5 x 65. The last rep of the 65 felt a little wobbly. Since it was a last minute decision to add weight, doing two sets of just the bar was probably too much. Next time will only do one warm up set.
DB Lunges: 2 sets of 16 x 10. I got to actually do walking lunges, I was very excited. These kill me however. These are what make walking the next day difficult. I can’t go all the way to the floor and I think my depth/stride length is not equal on both legs. Next time I will have IH watch.
Calf Raises: 2 sets of 8 x 20. On an actual machine! I was excited.
Leg Curls: 5 x 50, 5 x 65.
A little bit of foam rolling after.
Glad you got back into the gym. Don’t worry about the depth/stride on your walking lunges. This works itself out as you do them more and more. There’s a lot of balance going on in there too. Glad you got over the allergy attack!
Sorry to hear about your mom Greenie! But glad to hear that she’s better.
Not being able to breathe sucks! Also glad you’re feeling better.
An abbreviated workout is better than no workout - and that workout looked great! Balance will come. Mine still sucks, which is worse since I play soccer and I’m a shorty, so you’d think my center of balance would be great. Ah well…
walking lunges are a killer! yet one of my favorite moves…
hope the allergies have subsided!
Thank you, ladies, for the well wishes for both me and my mom. I just needed to vent.
I learned something new today. I learned not to go down in weight to go up in weight. Today was bench day and after IH spotted me on 75lbs I went down to 65, did 4 reps, then went back up to 80. He said the bar would not go up and I said maybe it would, can I just try? He said sure and that he wanted me to prove him wrong. Well, I proved him right. Total fail at 80.
Bench: 5 x bar, 4 x 65, 2 x 75, 4 x 65, fail x 80.
DB Incline Press: 10 x 12.5 x 3.
Flys: 6 x 40, 8 x 55 x 2.
DB Curls: 10 x 12.5 x 3.
I was excited that I got 1 more rep at 65 and IH said that’s a good thing, depending on my goals. Since my goal is to lose fat and gain strengh, he said that determines the number of reps I want to go for. And that losing fat is more a diet issue and I might want to add some cardio and the reps don’t matter.
I think IH is very wise. Cardio will help you lose fat, and intensity in the weight room matters more than reps.