I agree on the 225 deadlift. DO IT!!
Jeffrey-hi again! You’re right about the slow deadlift, I’ve been working on that! And Snaps right on the money about the gym not allowing for dropping the bar—a friend of mine is actually banned because he did just that. I like my free membership enough to control it down 
And your running comment makes me chuckle because a marathoning friend told me to “never, ever dead lift” because it’s bad for my back. Can’t we all just get along?
Snap-thanks for your help!!
MIM-I’m a’trying, I’m just…out of practice, ya know!? 
Yonkey-Well hello there, and thank you-I will be riding high on that comment all week long. I want abs like yours, trade?
Hallowed-Such a good idea, thank you!! All my lifts ended up within +/- 5#. Sweet program, bookmarked! Thank you queen of the world!
Brute-gymnastics is an old love I’m rediscovering. So far it’s been fun. And squats are the one thing that I’m not really afraid of maxing out on, bench is the main culprit. But input is never moot! Thank you!!
Koubs-Ha! Now that Im’ hunting down hairy, bearded men in their garages, my mom can have an actual reason to worry about me up here Thanks for the maxing advice!
Frenchy-Good to see you 'round again…I think you look gooder, meeeeow.
Dani-My arm? It’s easily twisted. Next week it is!
Today-
20 minutes 20% incline, 2.5 speed
20 minutes bike
*VH1 had all the right videos for me today, I love when time goes by and I don’t even realize it
*Feeling super sore today, but the good kind. The past two weeks have been the bad kind of sore where I think, this can’t possibly be good for me?
*Started a stretching routine before I even get up in the morning and it’s (KNOCK ON WOOD x 2) helped my back feel 100% better. Reminder to self. Must.Keep.Mobile.
To me? Florence can do no wrong
the masquarade scene reminded me of david bowie in the labyrinth.
ooh, one of my favoritest movies, still is! 
I think I’ll hit the gym for some cardio…I never do that.
THanks Cho!!
Dang! You are so strong!! Great work on the Dls.
I’m so glad that you’re interested in doing a meet! You.will.kill it!
And I hear ya on not being able to find a niche of lifters - I live in NYC and finding a gym with platforms and/or anyone who knows how to properly lift is a challenge! I mean, you can find monkey parts to eat but no big, hairy bearded men that lift heavy objects! Maybe its because we don’t have garages out here…Hopefully you’ll find someone. Fingers crossed!
Mainy-That’s the third time someone’s brought up Bowie to me this week, there must be some bowie resurgence
mim-go get 'em lady!
masch-thanks for the kind words, and thank you more for putting that smokin avi in here. (…monkey parts, tastes like chicken?)
Training:
Squats:
Barx10
95x10
20 long jumps
140x3
160x3
180x6
10x5
Full stop front squats 85#
Pistols
KB swings
Spin tabata
10 min biking
*Everything just felt hard today. Keeping in mind the 80/20 rule. I think my body just needs a decent night’s sleep
*Squats felt crooked today (?) so I didn’t push the reps on my last round. Hoping to save something for next week
*It’s pretty clear I did some damage to my right lat–probably from the gymnastics. I’ve had far too many reminders that I’m not 18 anymore. Boo.
*Hockey game this weekend (spectating, not participating)-this will be the true no booze test. summons will power
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
- John McCrae
Lovely Flanders Fields Post… just lovely.
And re-winding up thread… Did you say stretching BEFORE YOU EVEN GET UP IN THE MORNING?
As in… Bed Stretching? The Lazy Queen of the World is soooooooo intriuged if true! TELL.
oh! i totally read it wrong then!
On THAT i wholeheartedly agree. its hard to max out alone on bench. i have the same issue!
sore about the lat too :{ blah!
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
And re-winding up thread… Did you say stretching BEFORE YOU EVEN GET UP IN THE MORNING?
As in… Bed Stretching? The Lazy Queen of the World is soooooooo intriuged if true! TELL.[/quote]
NEVER stretch cold muscles! It can cause injury; and the worst part is you won’t notice until you lift, thereby mis-ascribing the cause to the lift, but that’s just when you felt it.
- warm up
- lift
- stretch
“A lot of people confuse warming up with stretching,” he said. “You need to warm-up to stretch, not stretch to warm-up.”
Gymnastics eh? I still amuse people at my gym by hurling myself at the wall in an attempt to do handstands. I never could do gymnastics as a kid - it’s something I’ve come to recently (in my 40s, no less) to help me teach my pupils. I’m a bit crap but I have made progress. Forget bars and beams, though!
Hope the lat calms down for you. Most likely it’s from the kipping.
You are one strong motherfucker. Those squat were a thing of envy and beauty.
[quote]Patch2 wrote:
You are one strong motherfucker. Those squat were a thing of envy and beauty.[/quote]
Yeah, I’m still amazed at how tiny you look and yet how freaking strong you are! (no offense) Its pretty awesome.
I’m the opposite, I look like I should be stronger than I am. Meh!
What are full stop front squats?! Sounds fun.
Hallowed-The in bed stretching-it’s nothing super crazy, i just have a habit of waking up absurdly early. Doing these helps me to stay in bed a little bit longer, plus i tend not to have the patience for stretching any other time of the day—I just do like, single knee to chest, double knee to chest, this twisty move with a leg kick that’s supposed to keep the sciatica at bay, and a move where you do like, the butterfly lying down. Then i’ll flip and do child’s pose and pigeon’s pose. You can try to tell me imagining me doing these in my skivvies doesn’t get you all sorts of turned on, BUT I WON"T BELIEVE YOU!!
Brute: Lat is feeling better, I’m just a big whiner. Thanks for the concern
Jeffrey: I said I was in bed, I never said anything about not warming up/training properly beforehand (giggity)
Cal: Yes! Gymnastics is so much fun–I think it’s great that you’re working on learning gymnastics for your students, true dedication! I’d totally want you teaching my imaginary kids.
Patch: I LOVE your way with words. And thank you lady
Mashy: You have no idea how much that “how tiny you look” comment made my night. I love you for that. I had a somewhat traumatic experience in the Target dressing room yesterday, and was in the middle of furiously planning operation “SHRINK THE WIDTH OF MY ASS” when I saw that. Plan is still in effect but I appreciate it, as well as the freaking strong comment. I am such a little whore for the compliments. And missy, you do look strong, and you ARE strong. You have the type of body that women (and not just the ones in here who value muscle) strive for, in my opinion.
Full stop front squats are the Anderson squats you demonstrated in your log. I’ve heard them called both so I use the two interchangeably?!
Well, I sure would like to hear about your running in this log.
Sorry to hear about the traumatic dressing room experience. If you really feel that way about your body, then change it through diet, or accept that your body is perfect and strong just as it is and move on. You are young and beautiful. Please enjoy it NOW. You’ll be kicking yourself in 10 or 20 years if you don’t, trust me on this one.
Kimba-I will keep updated with the running, lately I’ve been sticking to the incline walking to take it easy on my joints but I think that will be changing soon.
Regarding body issues-I’ve been struggling with the body issues for…forever. I think being a 5’5 gymnast gave me the complex that I am in fact huge, because in that world I was always one of the biggest girls. I can’t seem to let that go. I’ve also had a couple episodes in my life where I just couldn’t eat and lost a ton of weight (and admittedly, looked and was sick). It’s hard to feel that kind of thin and then weigh a normal amount. The normal amount starts to feel too plump, it’s just a big mindfuck.
And while I decided last night that if there is something controllable in my life (i.e. my weight) that isn’t making me happy, then I need to do what i can to change it. In the meantime, I’m trying to do just what you said and enjoy my body/myself and focusing on the things it can do for me.
Training:
Early: 35 minutes incline walk 20%, 2.2 mph
Later:
Cleans:
Barx10
65x5
85x3
115x3
Deads:
115x8
140x5
160x3
175x1
190x1
205x1
225x1
225x1 FAIL
10x5
Trap bar deads 95#
HLR
Hill Sprints x 10
Cleans:
-My numbers for these are all sorts of messed up, I really needed to set my max higher so I kind of added weight nilly willy. I need to get my act together.
Deads:
-Ugh, DL day never fails to piss me off. And I pulled 225, so I rightfully should be happy, but it wasn’t pretty.
*rounded back-check
*slow off the ground-check
*barely kept it off the ground because I lost my grip-check
-Stupidly, I tried pulling 225 twice
-Other life happenings that aren’t excuses, but: my back/leg pain came back with a vengeance after squats Friday and kept me up all night last night until I gave in, took excedrin and plopped myself on a heating pad; also-felt my lat twinge in my second set of DLs.
Here they are:
Random training musings:
-I seem to keep irritating various body parts, I think it’s clear that I’m doing something wrong. I don’t know if I’m adding weight/reps too fast and my body isn’t ready to handle the load. Like the old lady on the beach in the bikini, just because I can doesn’t mean I should.
-Underthinking is key for me. I built up the 225 in my head and as soon as I start thinking too much everything falls apart. This is true of most things in my life.
-I’m having a really hard time knowing when to push through injury and when to hold back. I have a long history of pushing through injury, resulting in a multitude of stress fractures, torn up shoulder, so on and so forth. And yet, I don’t want to train afraid of hurting myself either. I think I need to let my back thing heal. I refuse (REFUSE) to let that be something I am constantly dealing with.
I’m no expert, but, that looked pretty damn good to me. Some, lower back rounding is expected when you are reaching max effort? No?
Regarding the abs, I would trade in a second. Abs come and go, but your squat form is golden forever.
[quote]yonkey wrote:
I’m no expert, but, that looked pretty damn good to me. Some, lower back rounding is expected when you are reaching max effort? No?
Regarding the abs, I would trade in a second. Abs come and go, but your squat form is golden forever.
[/quote]
Squat form is forever.
Nice.
Mine needs work :-/
well, I’ll be happy for YOU since you are being really hard on yourself…
YAYYYY!!! YOU GOT 225!!!
happy dance WHOOHOOO!!!