Thought you would like this vid.
We need more Maschy!
Ronaldo! Hola! And I love the Chem Bros! Gracias hermoso!
Brute - thanks mama, you rock! I’m totally replacing bench with push presses. Yeah buddy!
Tech, haha! Sorry to make you dizzy. My log makes me dizzy sometimes too…next time I write my programming I’ll keep tight. But you guys know, I’m a little wordy at times. (btw, I miss Lexi! Without her this log wouldn’t exist. Sigh…love you Lex!)
Frenchie and Git - you dirty little birds…I like it! Thing about the chains is that I have no where to store them at the gym! And walking around with chains in NYC is a bit suspicious. Also walking around with chains in general is a bit onerous (fuck yeah, big word! btw, how uncouth to praise one’s one vocab - triple word score again! cocaine is a helluva drug). Anyways I am most definitely keeping in the pushups! Member when I was obsessed with pushups? Yeah. I can’t wait to try those atlas pushups again. Chest pump!
Kev, you totally read that right! I started running, but can only do it under PT supervision. The O-lifting happened, but it wasn’t pretty. So that’s on the back burner. And yes, you are totally trippin’. My birthday is in August, I’m a Leo, can’t you tell? flips hair
Matty! Thanks, bro. I will def give the inclines a try! And I thought of you with the shoulder discomfort. Benching gives me shoulder/pec discomfort too. Something just ain’t right.
Greg!! YAY!!! I love it! Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my faves, and that light show is ridic! Perfect timing, can’t wait for Halloween!! I’m panicking though because I havent put a single piece of my costume together…eek! I think you guys are going to really like it, though. Its going to be SUPER SEXY. LOL!
And I’m glad you asked, Greg…
Big things are happening people! I’m at the end of my first cycle, and I’m going to get some numbers and vids up by the end of the month. Also I’m currently writing the programming for my next cycle. I LOVE WRITING PROGRAMS!! (nerd alert!)
Stay tuned! And stay smooth…
It can’t be as sexy as my halloween costume. Well okay it totally can.
I’m in a pirate wedding this weekend.
A pirate wedding…
Happy Maschy is back!!!
It’s contagious. Keep rockin it!!!
[quote]2busy wrote:
[quote]minimaltechno wrote:
I got a little dizzy looking at your training schedule, or maybe it was your pic, not sure, but I’m definitely dizzy now. You might need a personal assistant, I’m sure you could easily find some volunteers.[/quote]
Masch just has that effect on people overall![/quote]
Ok good its just not me then 
It’s ok Maschy, you keep things interesting, that’s for sure.
Yeah I miss Lexy too, can’t wait till she gets her shit together and gets her ass back on here.
Do you wear bike shorts or tri shorts for spinning? I finally got a pair (bike).
That was the hardest part about spin class. Had a girl tell me you toughen up down there, ummm yea little miss 20 something yr old, let yours get all tuff, Ill keep my delicate flower thanks! ha
LOVE the push press too!! and LOVE your excitement !!!
[quote]UpScale wrote:
Do you wear bike shorts or tri shorts for spinning? I finally got a pair (bike).
That was the hardest part about spin class. Had a girl tell me you toughen up down there, ummm yea little miss 20 something yr old, let yours get all tuff, Ill keep my delicate flower thanks! ha
LOVE the push press too!! and LOVE your excitement !!!
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So like…cooch calluses??
I’m with you. No thanks
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Also walking around with chains in general is a bit onerous (fuck yeah, big word! btw, how uncouth to praise one’s one vocab - triple word score again! cocaine is a helluva drug).
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This gave me the lulz, I love how geeky everyone here is.
Do you have shoes that clip in to spin with?
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]UpScale wrote:
Do you wear bike shorts or tri shorts for spinning? I finally got a pair (bike).
That was the hardest part about spin class. Had a girl tell me you toughen up down there, ummm yea little miss 20 something yr old, let yours get all tuff, Ill keep my delicate flower thanks! ha
LOVE the push press too!! and LOVE your excitement !!!
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So like…cooch calluses??
I’m with you. No thanks :)[/quote]
HAHA! Coochie calluses?! Oh dear…sounds like something from the Medieval era!
As for the spinning, Up and Patch, I don’t use any bike gear. I personally don’t feel the need for any specific paraphernalia. I just go au natural. I mean, I got plenty meat in the seat, if you know what I mean…HEYO!! Now who wants a piece?! crickets
And with that, may thoughts of my vagina dance through your head…Enjoy!
Ps. I shit you not this is a direct quote from an email I just got from a friend “And there you go again. Taking an innocent subject like your presumably nice, smooth vagina and making it inappropriate.” HAHA! I must talk about my vagina a lot!
Oh yes, this is a training log -
Joe!! OMG! You will make the absolute sexiest pirate ever!! Btw, I keep meaning to hit up your log…I suck as an e-friend.
Tech, lol. I try?
MiMsy, I love you. That is all
Ok, seriously I am ovaries deep in data analysis!! I will be back soon to play in all your logs and update with things not related to nether-regions.
LWI snap
FWIW, I find the Pearl Izumi bike shorts to be good…
Masch, they just had an article about pressing exercises without shoulder pain here.
Ha, Upscale, you are not wrong about bicycle seats. It’s the thing I like least about spin class. Can’t they just make them softer or something?
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
LWI snap
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What? Hmm? Thought I heard something…
Hi Maschy, continuing to be awesome I see.
Carry on. 
why are there no pictures in here?
Pretty sure this is the first log with a dancing vagina.
You are a trend setter.
Now go lift.
LOL im the same way Masch, when its slow at work I can spend HOURS deciding on assistance work rep schemes and then putting it on a excel spreadsheet color coded and formulas…its a blast…I know Im a wild man!
Looking forward to the vids.
Stay classy
Hey you, yeah you glutes! What’s your fucking problem? Get it together!
You know I don’t ask much of you, so all I ask is that you do your fucking job!
Shame on you! Shame, shame, shame! Especially you left glute. You have no excuses. Both of you! I might as well stuff a sandbags down my pants. You let me down today, and I’m fucking mad. Go to your room!
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Hey you, yeah you glutes! What’s your fucking problem? Get it together!
You know I don’t ask much of you, so all I ask is that you do your fucking job!
Shame on you! Shame, shame, shame! Especially you left glute. You have no excuses. Both of you! I might as well stuff a sandbags down my pants. You let me down today, and I’m fucking mad. Go to your room!
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I agree. Those glutes are fucking ridiculous. I’m going to my room…knock first before you come in.
Is this some sort of rehab inspired rant?
UGH! Fucking disappointing day at the gym. I am the end of my first cycle and my lifts are supposed to be beautiful and tight, and strong. But no. They sucked donkey balls. I’m so pissed.
My stupid glutes, they’re not firing and I’m super mad about this! Everything else is taking over. Quads on the box squats, back on my pulls. WTF?!
When I did my single leg hip thrusts I realized that the left glute is particularly lazy. I just don’t understand it! Especially since my right glute seems to be working pretty well. I wonder if the single leg work in rehab has produced an imbalance since we work my right leg much more than my left…I don’t know, but I need to get down to the bottom of this (no pun intended). It just boggles my mind that my ass can be so huge and yet so useless. Damn you glutes!
Sigh…
Here are the maxes on my main lifts this cycle:
Overhead squat - 8x75
- I’m not as shaky as I used to be, so that’s good. Also I’m hitting parallel and keeping arms locked and behind me, so I’m happy about that. I’m going to drop these in the next cycle since I really don’t think I can go much higher in weight without being able to drop the bar should I need to. I’ll get back into OH work when I get back into Oly.
Box Squats - 5x170
But I honestly don’t even want to count these as a win in anyway. First of all they were ugly and completely out of form and I was supposed to do 8 reps of these. Second, I did 8x165 of these the other day and they felt great! So I’m not sure what the problem is here. Anyways, next cycle I’m doing two days of box squats, one where I lower weight and lower box height and stick with 8 reps, and another day where I keep the bench, keep loading weight and drop reps to 5. I’m going to stick with 170 until they actually resemble box squats.
Trap Dl - 5x185
Thinking about standing on a riser for more ROM.
Rack Pulls - 5x155
These are just horrible - all back and so demoralizing. The bar hits about an inch or two below knee. I wanted to keep loading AND add an extra platform so I can start getting more ROM (so I could, you know, start looking like someone who might deadlift one day), but now I’m not sure what to do. I was supposed to be pulling 8s, but I could only get 5 without breaking my back. Grr…
Bench - meh. Not even worth mentiong I hit 3x100.
Do not care and I am replacing with Push Press
Pullups - still going strong. Didn’t test maxes but they’re doing great, so that’s fine.
Here’s a little video blast - more for my own edification, but feel free to peruse at your leisure.
I’m still writing up my program for Cycle 2. Going to keep it as a 10 day cycle as that’s been good for my knee.
I’m almost 4 months post op, so I should be ready to start hitting below parallel which is one of my goals in this cycle.
Diet’s been pretty good. When I kvetched in here about being a fatty the last time I logged I was weighing in at 135. Weighed in today at 131, so something’s working. I don’t look much different, but whatevs.
I’ll be back when I finish writing my program. I have one more upper day that I want to hit in this cycle, and then its full throttle on Cycle 2. I hope things start improving! I’m feeling a bit demoralized because I honestly can’t figure out how I can clock in at 130 and be such a fucking weakling?! What’s going on?
Meh!
Anyways, tonight’s a big Halloween party at the masonic temple. YAY! I’m sure a few drinks will have me in better spirits
Happy Halloween my little ghouls and goblins! Until the next time!!
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
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I agree. Those glutes are fucking ridiculous. I’m going to my room…knock first before you come in.
Is this some sort of rehab inspired rant?[/quote]
whines but you just don’t understand!!
HAHAHA! You’re funny, Git. I needed that.
Yes, its a rant. I’m chastising my glutes for being lazy fuckers. Below is a wall of text, which I know you love, that better explains everything.