Well, that weight came right up for Ms. S! I cannot believe how far she has come so fast. A lot of people stall out at lower weights (as a % of BW). Absolutely on the belt. It will help cue her to keep a flat back on the heavier pulls.
If I might say, there are some beautiful belts out there.
http://www.inzernet.com/detail_belt.asp?PRODUCT_ID=FOREVER_BB_LEVER_TAPER
Don’t know if she’d want a tapered one, but it’s great for my build. I have purple.
Thanks, snap. That belt looks great. I will float it past her. She seems belt averse. So, I might have to surprise her with it.
Funny thing was, the 1st attempt at 250# might have come 1" off the floor. I knew it was in her head and that she just needed to get a bit of grrrr going. I know there are folks who can lift in a completely clinical manner, nearly devoid of any emotion. But you have to have, at least, an “atack the weight/bar” attitude, even if not externally expressed.
That mentality was the difference between attempt 1 and lift 2.
Wow. She’s really moving up REALLY fast.
Good stuff.
x2 what snap said about the belt helping her “understand” her back position.
NIce training both,
Mrs.S has mad some amazing progress.
I like seeing you both in the video
gives you some scale
Good luck on that whole surprising me thing there Love. 
Watching the video that went up faster than it felt like, but whoa was my back rounded. Maybe I will have to give in on the belt. And those are much cuter than Skip’s belt, KP. Cute is very important in power lifting right?
That is one strong household you got there Strick.
That is one strong household you got there Strick.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
NIce training both,
Mrs.S has mad some amazing progress.
I like seeing you both in the video
gives you some scale [/quote]
Yeah…there is a slight size disparity. That is good for me, though, as she is getting strong enough to try to take me down.
ddot/snap, I think we will plan on getting her a belt this Summer. I think she will be glad we got it, once she is used to it and sees the benefits.
Joe, at least part of it is strong. Both the womenfolk seem unusually strong. I’ll get there. Not sure what will happen with the boys.The oldest may never develop an interest. No telling where his beautiful little autistic brain will settle. The youngest…well, he likes doing things with dad and likes praise. He already wants to play football. So I think he will have, at least, a passing interest.
Tell the wife great job on the deads!!!
Your kids are sure going to have great genes for strength.
One of our lecturers at Loughborough used to say, “If you want to be a geat athlete, choose your parents carefully!”
Bulldog, I definitely will. Thanks.
Brett, I am not much of an athlete. Whatever I achieved was simply because I am hardheaded as hell.
BUT, that being said, if they can get her natural strength (okay, and maybe my shoulders) and my hardheadedness, they will be okay.
250# on deadlifts after only 4 months??? Holy cow!! Mrs S really is (oops, mustn’t use the M and F words in public) gifted and exceptional!
Your kids really must have some fantastic genes. If your youngest wants to play football, he might have some real talent for it. Do you play with him a lot?
Had no idea one child was autistic. Does he do anything physical?
[quote]cavalier wrote:
250# on deadlifts after only 4 months??? Holy cow!! Mrs S really is (oops, mustn’t use the M and F words in public) gifted and exceptional!
Your kids really must have some fantastic genes. If your youngest wants to play football, he might have some real talent for it. Do you play with him a lot?
Had no idea one child was autistic. Does he do anything physical?[/quote]
Cav, I wrestle with him some. But he wrestles a lot with his brother and sister. Last football season, while watching the little kids play ball (his sister was cheerleading), he and I would go over fundamentals and I would let him tackle me. Most physical interaction, though, is cuddling and him being pinned down and tickled.
Yep, my middle child (oldest boy) is autistic. It is mild, but evident. He got it from his daddy. The psych who diagnosed him said he was 99% sure that I am an undiagnosed aspie (Aspergers). They didn’t diagnose such back in the day. But, in my case, I was mild as well.
He much prefers the computer and television to anything else. Which is why he is forced to have hours of non-screen time each day.
When not glued to a screen, he loves jumping on the trampoline (great sensory input), will occasionally ride his bike and is obsessed with swimming pools. During the summer, with the heat, the bike riding and trampoline jumping diminish. He will swim for hours, everyday, though. That is why we are getting a pool this weekend, like we do every summer.
He seems to want to play soccer and football. My concern is his ability to grasp the concepts of the games and be able to play on a team. He is still not great at interaction and understanding that people are more than just obstacles, like trees. (a pretty accurate view, in my opinion). He is in no way “slow”, as his school work shows. But structured play, where you have to understand interaction, might be a challenge.
They wanted to keep him in Special Ed, but we were insistent that he be mainstreamed. He is going to have to function in the real world, eventually. The 1st couple of months were a very rough adjustment for him…transitioning from a 6-7 person Special Ed class the a 20+ person, “typical” class. That was last year. He is now going into 2nd grade and, a couple of months before 1st grade ended, tested at 2nd grade level in all of his subjects. He was one of only a couple of kids in his class to take actual reading comprehension tests and scored 100% on every one of them. Math is his best subject, though. Give him grade appropriate work and he will blast through it.
He has come lengths and miles and I can’t imagine him being any other way. He is a great kid…and my mini-me. My youngest is my “cuddlebug”, though. I still lay down with him every night, when he goes to bed. And he says that he will still cuddle with me when he is 14. Not sure why he picked that age, but it works.
Never be afraid to show affection to those you love! Hell, when I see my dad, I still hug him and give him a kiss on the cheek…just like I did my granddad, Big Strick, before he passed.
As for my daughter, she is a princess. Although, she will be fishing with her brothers and I this weekend. So…a redneck princess? I love her to death, but she is going to be trouble. lol She is strong as heck too. Just need to figure out why she can’t squat down and keep her heels on the ground. It is very strange, and not a flexibility issue.
Maybe she’s just weird, like her mom
Your love for your kids is evident from your writing. What a tight family unit you have. With a loving background like that your kids can not fail to prosper.
And so refreshing to see a big, strong man like yourself not afraid to talk about his love for his family and his emotions. I am so bored with all this Dave Tate “we were squatting 900 lbs and the guy’s knee blew out so we just dragged him out the rack, ignored him and carried on” cliched, macho BS. A real man doesn’t feel the need to keep telling everyone how hard he is all the time IMO.
Strick, that made my day. I’m fighting back the tears.
I didn’t grow up in an affectionate family, to put it mildly, so I can really, really appreciate a family where things click.
Strick,
You’re a great man!
He is an amazing father. Although I am not the weird one around here, thank you. I’m one of the few neurotypical members of this family. So there.
Thanks everyone for the compliments on the deads. Hopefully taking this week off will make the 5x5 next time go easier. Today is MP. I think Skip wants me to go up to 80 for the 5x5, but since that was my 1 rep max 2 weeks ago, I’m not so sure that’s gonna happen.
Oh, and Cavalier - I take the ‘m and f’ words as a compliment too.
Thanks gents. And, yes, I love my kids (and wife) very much. I can’t imagine not having them…and don’t want to.
I just hope that, when/as they grow up, they are willing to show what they feel, towards their mom and me, like I do towards mine.
I have known people whose families were not that way. I had a friend who said that he was only allowed to show respect or anger, when growing up. As far back as he could remember, the only affection that he was allowed to show his dad was a handshake.
And, of course, I had a couple of friends who came from abusive families. I was/am very blessed.
The turning point for me was when I was 8. I was playing B-ball in the rec league and my dad was dropping me off with the team. He went to give me a kiss and I drew back, very mindful that “the guys” were watching. He stopped, paused for a second, then took me out of earshot of the group. He said, “If you don’t want to give your dad a kiss, you don’t have to. But don’t ever be afraid to show your love for someone. I still kiss my dad. And I don’t care what anyone thinks about it.”
Well, he got his kiss and I got mine. I saw him and my grandad as supermen. Tough as they come. Still do. If they showed affection to each other, it must be the thing to do.
Hell, I still wouldn’t tangle with my dad, but you better believe that he still gets a hug and one planted on his cheek, when I get to see him.
That has, of course, gotten us a few strange looks, in the airport, when picking him up or being picked up. I always find it amusing. Of course, they don’t know we are father and son.
Null, I am in no way a great man. I suck in many aspects of life. BUT, I have an abundance of love for my family and hardheadedness, almost to fault.
Cav, I am sorry for that. I always took my families closeness and affection as the norm, despite knowing better. MrsS’ youth was nothing like mine. She had little to no sense of family. So I have come to truly appreciate what I had and have. And, yes, when we got married, my family took her in with open arms. She was one of us.
The only time in my life that I have sworn at my dad was because of her. I was defending her when I thought he wasn’t being fair. But I can assure you, if I drop dead today, even if we didn’t have kids, they would take her in and make sure that she was taken care of.
At my grandmother’s funeral, poor MrsS had people she had never seen or heard of (that I hadn’t seen in over a decade) coming up to her saying, “You must be Skip’s wife”, handing her babies and telling her that we need to come visit.
Brett - I agree. I respect strength, be it physical, emotional or mental. I respect the hardcore attitude that you pointed out. Unfortunately, it is perceived as weakness to show softer emotion. I’ll stick with my dad’s and grandad’s views on the matter.
Strength and “hardcoreness” are needed in life. But they are needed AT TIMES. Love has to be the universal…everpresent. And I am not talking about sloppy, warm-fuzzy, walk all over me love. But what you “see”/feel when you read Pete talking about his son, or Meat talking about his daughter, Bulldog working with and talking about his son, Steve and his kids and there are more.
Without that, we may as well just mass exterminate ourselves, because there really isn’t any point to living.
Damn…how did I get on this. Sorry so long.