Heh, you don’t sound like a bitch, just frustrated. I swear a lot when I’m annoyed too. It’s understandable, especially if you are running your guts out.
Probably best to get your own stopwatch.
Regarding your, uh, injury, were you drinking? I’ve woken up with all sorts after being a bit drunk - you just don’t notice at the time. I’d be careful in case it’s a tear of some sort - ice and ibuprofen! Heh. Hope it’s nothing serious though.
Well, I finally discovered the perfect pre-workout in the morning food- jasmine rice with a little butter and salt. No coffee. It felt like I hadn’t eatten at all except I was rewarded with no hunger pains.
Todays lifts weren’t amazing, but they were progress
Front squat- 45x5 for form practice 65x10, 85x5,95x5(felt so much liter than it did last week!), 105x5 (2 more reps than last week), 110x4 (new weight!)
Speed skater squats- these felt so much harder than last week! I did one more rep per leg per set, and was falling over at the end.
3setsx15rep per leg
Cable pullthroughs
100x12(felt lighter so I bumped it up even though I wasn’t planning to), 110x12, 110x12, 110x12
Farmer walk
I made it all the way around the 1/8th mile track with 25lb dbs all three times! Progress!
So, I tried to figure out how long it took me to run the mile yesterday by looking at the soundtrack length of the songs I was listening to. The first song was 4:24 and when I looked at the soundtrack when i finished the mile it was 1:26 into the second song. Add a max of ten seconds for the player to switch songs and my mile was right around 6 minutes! No wonder it felt so damn hard! I thought I was just having a bad day.
Cal- You can pretty much assume that if I was out dancing until three in the morning that I was drinking 
I don’t think it was a serious injury. I felt it a little bit when I was warming up and then it just stopped bothering me. I feel great right now. And yes, I probably should get my own stop watch.
little shit like that pisses me off too.
RAAAWR!!
Damn your front squats and super speedy mile.
So it turns out the thing I sustained while dancing was just a regular bruise. It decided to turn a pretty black around 1 today and is massive. I’ll heal.
Mom in md- It’s always bad to combine pissed over little shit with adrenaline and cardio pain.
congrats on the rice discovery. i wonder if that might work for me… i think it would…
i forgot to say already that I LOVE those disease soft toys. they are so cute and disgusting all at the same time 
i remembered about gym ball roll-outs, too. i did them at some point, but called it quits when i managed to pull an ab… my fault for being a bit too vigerous / violent with the movement rather than controlling it more.
sounds like the wheel roll-outs are working for you, so you have no reason to stop doing them. will be interested to hear what happens with M2 (or whatever she is called these days) since i’m looking to vary my ab work a little from weighted planks and i don’t think i’m quite ready for ab wheel roll-outs just yet :-/
That’s great you have someone to do Judo AND weights with. I’m sorry you may have mentioned this already but when do you start back on Judo?
As for those skater squats, I usually fall over after the 2nd rep.
And I’m paranoid a bit myself about revealing things online, I wouldn’t mind if someone PM’ed me, but not for the whole internet to see, not to mention Google caches stuff.
was ass to grass cute?
followers want to know these kinds of things
Hope your butt is feelin’ better! Laughing at that.
And I’ve been following your responses in the rate physique girl thread. This is why I came over here to PW. There’s a focus on strength and gaining muscle. I just don’t get the women who say, “I just started lifting this year, and I’ve lost 15 or 20 pounds dieting, and now I’m going to the Arnold to compete.” The men would never say this, right? with women, I’d think the only way it might work is if you are already very muscled from gymnastics or sports and have some excellent mind-muscle connection then MAYBE a year. I’d think that would be a rare person. I hope she does keep doing what she’s doing and start trying to gain this year cause she’s a beautiful girl and only 20 so she could go far with it. You are right, though. Maybe I’m going to have to go back over there. I don’t think it’s wrong to start out trying to cut, but then you need to build, right? Seriously, there are lots of pretty women here in SoCal who have a similar very thin build. They look pretty at the pool, but I wouldn’t think they are going to the Arnold to compete. OK, how’s that for venting on your log? LOL! Stay on task PUFF!
For ab straps on the Horizontal Cable row. This is good if you are using your biceps a lot and not hitting your back. Take the handle off the cable row machine. Hook the ab straps to it instead. Put your arms in the slings so they rest on your Tris. Bend your arm at the elbow, kind of like you are hugging a tree. Shoulders down and back. Now contract your scaps and pull back more from the elbow. You HAVE to use your back. You can’t muscle the thing with your biceps at all. I hope this helps if you are way bicep dominant like me.
Thanks for the explanation Powerpuff. That makes way ore sense. I might try that when I eventually get ab straps. As for the girl in rate my physique, I somewhat wonder if her twiner has been feeding her garbage in terms of telling her what she needs/is capable of muscle-wise. Some of her responses were nieve. Who knows, maybe she’s a troll? I don’t know; I hope she takes the critique to heart, and starts building. She looks like she could be quite a competitor if she had the right guidance.
Today I didn’t work out because I feel like shit. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I haven’t drank anything in five days, so it’s not a hangover (I normally only drink once or twice a week if that), It might be me getting my time of the month, it might be me getting sick (my roommate has a sinus infection and two ear aches!), it might be lack of sleep because my body keeps waking up at three in the morning telling me I’ll die if I don’t eat and this morning I then got up at 5am and went fishing. Basically, my head hurts, my joints really ache, especially my back and hips, and even walking up stairs feels like it’s going to kill me.
Yesterday I biked with a lighter effort for 35 minutes and foam rolled everything for half an hour. Wasn’t feeling perfect then, but much better than today.
Nlmain- he was pretty tough-looking in the face, not handsome or cute. I more felt like knucksing him than anything else
i could be off… i don’t think she is a troll. think it is more that her trainer / boyfriend persuaded her to do some decent training by way of ‘we will help tone you into a bikini babe - don’t worry, it won’t turn you into a muscly man’. some women pointed out that bikini and figure competitors had much much much much much more muscle than she seemed to appreciate. i think she might still be getting her head around that. and maybe about whether she really wants to be a bikini / figure competitor or whether she wants to be thought ‘hot’ by all the twiggy legged dudes out there…
maybe it is alcohol withdrawal??
(lmfao just kidding!!!)
hopefully it is that time of the month and things feel better soon.
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i could be off… i don’t think she is a troll. think it is more that her trainer / boyfriend persuaded her to do some decent training by way of ‘we will help tone you into a bikini babe - don’t worry, it won’t turn you into a muscly man’. some women pointed out that bikini and figure competitors had much much much much much more muscle than she seemed to appreciate. i think she might still be getting her head around that. and maybe about whether she really wants to be a bikini / figure competitor or whether she wants to be thought ‘hot’ by all the twiggy legged dudes out there…
maybe it is alcohol withdrawal??
(lmfao just kidding!!!)
hopefully it is that time of the month and things feel better soon.
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Well I’m feeling much betteer today. I think it was the start of a little cold because now my throat is a teensy bit sore, I’m talking weird, and my nose tickles. But my body feels great so I’m going to hit the upper body again today.
You’re probably right about that girl and I lolled at your comment about the twiggy legged dudes. I don’t know about anyone else, but my dude standards have definitely changed since I started lifting. What’s especially funny to me about that comment is that I’ve developed a bit of a leg fetish since I started trying to grow myself. There’s now nothing hotter than a guy with massive, ripped legs! Also, I secretly giggle at the stick-legged girls at the club. Ew.
I feel like a bad person for thinking like that, but you can’t help what your brain likes.
Pushups- max reps with one minute between
30 (new high!), 11, 5
Db skull crusher on decline
15lbsxx10x4 sets. More reps per set than ever before for me. New weight next week.
Chinups with assistance
60lbs assistancex12reps, 9reps, 4reps, 5 reps
Standing db shoulder press
17.5 lbsx15 rep, 12 rep, 9 rep with little pause then a tenth rep, 8 reps with a little pause then nine and ten rep
Preacherr db curl
15lbsx12, 12, 12, then massive fail at 7 reps. Felt like it was moree my left hand grip than anything else that made my whole arm give up.
Ab circuit w/ 3 knotch decline situps with arms held out like a cross, hanging leg raise with 25 lbs (both exercises 15 reps), then 30 sec plank
Whole thing without rest between exercises and then a minute rest and repeatx3
Still making progress! I’m planning on repeating this program at least four to six more weeks or until I stop making progress, whichever comes first, and then switching to WS4SB2.
On another note, today has been massively depressing. One of my favorite coworkers is down in the dumps because two of his favorite people left the city (so he was in a very odd mood and I tend to feed off of other people), my paycheck was 1/3rd the amount it was supposed to be because my boss fucked up and right now he’s in another country, and my coy committed suicide by jumping out of his tank. I found him dried up on the floor when I finally arrived home after struggling through the rain walking to my house in a tshirt. Now I’m going to take a shower, throw on sweats, and go eat frozen yogurt with my coworker.
I have a leg fetish myself. Sorry to hear about all those woes, the money thing sucks. I had to look up WS4SB2, but now I see the light.
Are you trying to challenge me in push ups too?
Hope today is a better day
glad to hear you are feeling a bit better. hope you manage to throw off getting sick. that is a lot of push-ups! frozen yoghurt - yum!
the more i struggle with squats the more respect i have for legs.
Your fish committed suicide? I didn’t know fish could just jump out like that.
That sucks did you have other fish in the tank?
Minimal- thanks. I really am beginning to think that WS4SB programs are perfect for those who want to irove sport performance as opposed to just raw strength. They leave a lot of recovery room for conditioning. Now that I’ve been doing it for about a month, I hardly ever get sore even though I’m running and doing conditioning workouts on a regular basis as well.
Mom in md- I really should video tape my pushups like you did. I should also add that sometimes I pause at the top (like around 23-25). It’ll be fun to see who’s doing more in another month I’m coming for yah.
Alexus- the frozen yogur was great. I had just finished working out so I put it in a shake with whey protein and it was yummy.
Charlie- yes. There’s even more to the story than my fish just committing suicide. The reason I got the fish in the first place was because AIDS dared me that I couldn’t keep one alive for two weeks while she was in Alaska (I am really bad with fish and plants). Tis dare was made during a card game I created called “options” where you play some version of poker, throw out a truth and a dare before you start playing your hand. If you lose, you have to pick either the truth or the dare to do. I lost, so I took the dare of buying a coY and keeping it alive while she was gone. We decided to name it “Loser” for this reason, so in hindsight, the poor little guy was probably screwed to begin with. Yes, he jumped out of his bowl.
Today I did my 30 min incline torture session even though I have a slight head cold and made it through the same intensity that I did last time. It still felt terrible. Incline of 14 makes 4.5 mph feel like 10.
4.5mph at 14 incline? Damn girl, you’re awesome!
I love SS cardio when I have a cold. Not a head cold (don’t think I get them though). Just the normal colds that go around.
Nikki- I feel the need to be completely honest and point out that it wasn’t steady state. I was doing 3.5mph for two minutes and 4.5 for one min for ten rounds.