[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
And for kimba - as something funny(sure, she said it was the jokes, but I know what she really means).[/quote]
Your job wouldn’t be difficult, and dare I say it – edible.
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Yes, that’s easier to swallow. I like pie very much, just so’s yawl know.
flexible wrists are flexible! I can hear my wrists and forearms ripping now…
Nice lifts!
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
flexible wrists are flexible! I can hear my wrists and forearms ripping now…
Nice lifts![/quote]
Save your jealousy - you mass monsters don’t know the angst of us svelte and limber boys…
Perhaps I too will one day know the joy of front squatting 365 for 3. I have yet to back squat it, though, so there may be a bit of a wait.
Virtual Bench meet tomorrow.
I’m sooooooooo not ready.
Oh well, I’ll just have to gird my loin (being old, I have only one) and do what I can.
A virtual bench meet for me would be watching other people bench.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Virtual Bench meet tomorrow.
I’m sooooooooo not ready.
Oh well, I’ll just have to gird my loin (being old, I have only one) and do what I can.[/quote]
GOOD LUCK!!!
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
And for kimba - as something funny(sure, she said it was the jokes, but I know what she really means).[/quote]
Your job wouldn’t be difficult, and dare I say it – edible.
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Fixed[/quote]
Yes, that’s easier to swallow. I like pie very much, just so’s yawl know.[/quote]
Joe is a rascal.
And I prefer cake, but could be persuaded to defect to the side of pie.
Good luck on the meet today, keep us updated.
Well, in one respect doing this meet was a mistake
I’ve had 6 hours sleep and 2 meals in the last 72 hours while studying technical docs in preparation for a meeting I had this morning, I have economic pressures and my wife is mad at me (because I’m blond, I figure).
All my lifts felt far too heavy today. I only took two attempts in the meet because the second was such a grinder that I knew a third was going to be an assured failure.
On the other hand - I put up an appreciable percentage of my estimated max under really crappy conditions AND successfully completed my 5/3/1 training for the day.
Plus, I’m locked in for the contract next week, so there’ll be some non-gummint income and that contract could possibly lead to full time work.
Plus I can now proudly wear the appellation “Bench-Only Fag.”
On balance, a good day.
2010-12-10
Cycle 4 Week 2 Day - BP, 3’s
135x8,8
165x5
173x3
198x3
223x3
Meet lifts
235x1
250x1
And that’s friggin’ it.
I liked how you took a balanced view of the virtual meet. The pros and cons.
Truly, you have so much win going on with your training.
Sorry your wife is mad at you. It’s tough being blond.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Well, in one respect doing this meet was a mistake
I’ve had 6 hours sleep and 2 meals in the last 72 hours while studying technical docs in preparation for a meeting I had this morning, I have economic pressures and my wife is mad at me (because I’m blond, I figure).
All my lifts felt far too heavy today. I only took two attempts in the meet because the second was such a grinder that I knew a third was going to be an assured failure.
On the other hand - I put up an appreciable percentage of my estimated max under really crappy conditions AND successfully completed my 5/3/1 training for the day.
Plus, I’m locked in for the contract next week, so there’ll be some non-gummint income and that contract could possibly lead to full time work.
Plus I can now proudly wear the appellation “Bench-Only Fag.”
On balance, a good day.[/quote]
well done! and great news on the contract work. is 250 your PR?
can’t help out on the wife issue and you wouldn’t want to follow any suggestion I’d give anyway with my track record.
I’m not much help with wives either…
good lifts on a crappy day, I’d take that.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Plus I can now proudly wear the appellation “Bench-Only Fag.”
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Wear it proud, BOF!!
Hey, congrats on the contract!! What kind of work? Good luck with that, too!
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Plus I can now proudly wear the appellation “Bench-Only Fag.”
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Wear it proud, BOF!!
Hey, congrats on the contract!! What kind of work? Good luck with that, too!
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This ^^^
On balance, a good day indeed.
You could dye your hair, but that probably wouldn’t solve the wife problem and you are cute as a blond.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Plus I can now proudly wear the appellation “Bench-Only Fag.”
[/quote]
Wear it proud, BOF!!
Hey, congrats on the contract!! What kind of work? Good luck with that, too!
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Thanks SteelyD.
It’s an Oracle Real Application Clusters under virtualization consulting gig. Looks liek it’ll be interesting.
[quote]soldog wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Well, in one respect doing this meet was a mistake
I’ve had 6 hours sleep and 2 meals in the last 72 hours while studying technical docs in preparation for a meeting I had this morning, I have economic pressures and my wife is mad at me (because I’m blond, I figure).
All my lifts felt far too heavy today. I only took two attempts in the meet because the second was such a grinder that I knew a third was going to be an assured failure.
On the other hand - I put up an appreciable percentage of my estimated max under really crappy conditions AND successfully completed my 5/3/1 training for the day.
Plus, I’m locked in for the contract next week, so there’ll be some non-gummint income and that contract could possibly lead to full time work.
Plus I can now proudly wear the appellation “Bench-Only Fag.”
On balance, a good day.[/quote]
well done! and great news on the contract work. is 250 your PR?
can’t help out on the wife issue and you wouldn’t want to follow any suggestion I’d give anyway with my track record.[/quote]
Best meet bench to date is 260, best gym bench from a paused start is 275.
I’ll bet wives wished husbands came with operating and maintenance manuals as well. Maybe an “off” switch, too.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
It’s an Oracle Real Application Clusters under virtualization consulting gig. Looks liek it’ll be interesting.[/quote]
I got,
“It’s an **************insert white noise here****************consulting gig”
Good luck with that anyway, whatever it is.
I notice you seem to do a lot of meets, virtual and otherwise, do they help you or are they more of a hindrance, making you max out at the wrong time etc?
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
It’s an Oracle Real Application Clusters under virtualization consulting gig. Looks liek it’ll be interesting.[/quote]
I got,
“It’s an **************insert white noise here****************consulting gig”
Good luck with that anyway, whatever it is.
I notice you seem to do a lot of meets, virtual and otherwise, do they help you or are they more of a hindrance, making you max out at the wrong time etc?[/quote]
I seem mostly to claim I’m going to do a meet and then not do it. So I’m not as busy on the meet front as I may seem.
edit:
Annnnnnddd I didn’t answer the question, now, did I?
I think meets help ya get motivated, give you a reason to train for other than lookin’ good nekkid. Not a real good idea to do a bunch close together though I think, because they actually interrupt your training in a way. best way is may be 3 or 4 times a year max so you can get strong, prove it and then go about getting stronger. if you’re always proving it, you actually get weaker. I mean, look at elk during mating season…