My Left Shoe

MIM- they make it out to be that competitive, but the rest of my stats are excellent, and im sure i could conjure up some recommendation letters, i just know that im not in yet. reality checking myself in case of the worst.

BG- you sick fuck. you would hide a magnet in there so i couldnt get up. thats something between “SAW” and “a christmas story” right there.

cal- ouchie! mom so courteously informed me a few months ago that my legs touch at the top. her was of saying, “honey your legs are too big.” I thanked her and told her that I’d worked hard for that. yet another reason i dont wear shorts… i hate my legs rubbing half skin half fabric. it just feels weird.

masch- a friend of mine has a motorcycle with a vibrator in the passenger seat. how much longer till spring?

training

5/3/1 deload ohp

x5- bar, 55, 65, 75
x amrap- bar x 25 ← again, quit when i got bored.

1arm lat pulldown x15- 30, 40, 30

standing lat raises 3x10, 20lb dbs

rear delt stuff

30 back extensions

russian twists with 12lb medicine ball, 3x40

while i still dont know the exact cause, ive pinpointed the source of those explosion headaches. my SCM’s!! neck was a lil touch and go during the ohp and the lat pulldowns, so i did some more aggressive poking and rubbing and stretching (like the other gym goers dont think im weird enough already), and they are incredibly sore to the touch, but i dont notice it that much unless im straining.

skye or anyone else, feel welcome to tell me to get my head outta my ass and just go get a massage already.

story:
last time i went in for OHP, a guy was doing his own OHP/push presses using the back of the power rack. by the time i had finished warming up, i asked, and he had only one set left. tonight, i see him doing OHP and powercleaning the weight from the floor, with another bar on the pins on the back of the rack. i announced that he had to stop OHPing on the same day, because my tiny weights (compared to his 185) were about to make me feel inadequate. (he doesnt know me so he doesnt get the joke.) he asked if i needed the rack, and when i said i didnt have to use it, or that i could use the front, he promptly stripped the weights off of one bar and carried the bar loaded with 185 over to a diff area with the quickness of someone who was running away from a burning building.

pleasant banter ensued for the rest of the time he was there, and i assured him that next time i’ll just do something else, so that other people dont think i have the plague.

for those of you who ask, hes not bangable.


im now planning on having at least 1000kcal before bed. not that i count, but i looked at the packages of what im eating. cheezy spinach pastry bites (pillsburys version of spanikopita. not the same, bc my sister in law is greek, and i know the diff. but its still good), wine, and digornio chicken tuscan pizza.

and yes, this IS the start of the cleaned up version of my diet.

My thighs touch at the top too - but I can’t blame the muscle. Had the dreaded inner thigh fat since puberty, but it’s not just that. I have a high Q-angle - basically I have wide hips and my femurs hang inwards at a steep angle. Hence I have knock-knees (yay, attractive). I have numerous teenage photos of myself where I look as though I need to pee. I later learned to pose for photos with one leg in front of the other or my feet turned out.

Claire, time to go get a massage.
But seriously, I’d cautiously tell you to go find a chiropractor/ ART person. The massage is a band-aid. If your SCM is that painful and giving you headaches, you probably have something going on in your cervicals. T. A good adjustment will free up that impingement and if you get someone who does ART…WIN, WIN.

Check your insurance, some cover chiro care so you’d pay roughly 15 bucks per visit. If not, it will probably run you $35+ per visit. Ask around, find someone who’s reputable…there are alot of bad chiros out there as well.

ok, i’m done.

[quote]CBear84 wrote:

for those of you who ask, hes not bangable. [/quote]

I would’ve asked, and too bad.

[quote]
im now planning on having at least 1000kcal before bed. not that i count, but i looked at the packages of what im eating. cheezy spinach pastry bites (pillsburys version of spanikopita. not the same, bc my sister in law is greek, and i know the diff. but its still good), wine, and digornio chicken tuscan pizza.

and yes, this IS the start of the cleaned up version of my diet. [/quote]

Cleaned up? Really? What were you eating before? Wait…perhaps I don’t want to know.

Just the sodium in all of that would have puffed me up with bloat for quite awhile. Delicate flower that I am.

cal- awkward photos… yeah, i have those. but mine was learning to smile like a normal human being instead of mr ed. its completely unnecessary to show every single one of my teeth for a photograph.

kimba- i was thinking of u when i added the unbangable part. :slight_smile: I think you want me to get laid almost as much as i do. im seriously considering some type of anti-psychotic prenup… dunno what it’d be called, but it’d go something like this; “so, you dont know just how awesome i am yet, and if/when this ends, i’d like to make sure that you know im serious when i say i dont want to talk to you anymore, and that it’s over. if you could just sign here, here, here, and initial here, it’ll give me the option of immediately nailing your nuts to the floor in the event of you losing your fucking mind. ya im completely serious. alright! a copy will be sent to you by certified mail, i’ll keep a copy, and my lawyer will keep one. now that we understand each other, lets get to bumping uglies!”

skye- noted. or, u could just work on me when u come for the arnold. :slight_smile: fwiw, i called my reg massage woman and shes booked till at least the 22nd. she’ll call me back later to see if we can squeeze me in somewheres. and yes, yes, i’ll be looking for chiros. a friend of mine has a chiro father… known the fam since i was teeny tiny widdle cbear. never investigated the professional aspect, but his son (my friend) is an awesome bartender!

ooo, jealous of the Arnold!

Thanks for the giggle Claire :slight_smile:

Yeah, if you’re going down the chiro route, make sure you get a good one - preferably one who is all about sports. I had some pain last year and there was one down my road. Appointments were never on time - he was always running late which pissed me off - and then he’d just kick me in the arse, wring my neck and take my money. It was like being mugged. I went three times and then found a good physio instead.

CAL! :stuck_out_tongue: That didn’t sound like fun, lol…

that late-night snack kills me!!!
thats right…found your journal…

most of what i do kills you. thats why you cant NOT be my friend!

can I ask how you sleep on your face,head tilted…?

its about your neck not some stalker thing- ok maybe a little stalker

My neck is very delicate- its like a bucket of rusted hardware
and makes many of my favorite things in the gym not so nice.
particularly OHP and pullups

8 years wrestling + more in judo can do that.
that and I look up all day at work- I make television its hard to explain

turns out when I changed up how I sleep , where my face is etc
some of it cleared up.

If you are doing a chiro ask when they last went to school it should be recent.
see if they do SOT or Craniopathy, some do ART as well
but will bill you as a chiro.

hey puppetman!!

I sleep on my side… either one… I start on my right, flip to my left, and go back to my right to sleep… i usually wake up on my left, tho… anyway.

I sleep with 3 pillows- one under my head, and one on each side, so im cocooned, and so that i always have a pillow between my knees/to hug. i’ve not been able to fall asleep on my back or on my face for years.

as far as tilted, i think i may tilt my head anteriorly, but its still on a pillow. i’ve kinda wondered if i should get a new pillow or a second one to stack on top of the first, bc i dunno if my neck is tilted laterally at all when im sleeping.

I look down whenever im at work, its bc of the way the monitors are set up at work… and everyone else is shorter than i am. so they look straight ahead. yeah. im standing and looking down for almost 8 hours at a time. theyve gotten used to me doing leg swings and piriformis stretches while im there. anyway.

im not yet DOING a chiro, the one who’s my friend’s father is skinnyfat and bald, so he’s not physically appealing, but if it would get me free treatment and he was a great chiro i could try to justify it…
^^^^
kimba, that was for you.

this kinda leads into the next part of my post…

training***

531 deload deadlift

rack pulls-> bc i didnt feel rested or well fed enough to actually deadlift. mostly bc they sounded like fun.

x10- bar, bar, 95

x15x4-135

good mornings x 15

bar, bar, 65, 65, 65, 85
^^
felt nice and deep, completely paying attention to the stretch and contraction in everything i could.

supersetted with db holds–> 20lbs each hand, with neck rotations while i was holding them… really felt good, leaning my neck to the sides at diff angles, feeling more of a stretch each time, etc…

i didnt really feel the ache coming on when i did the rack pulls or the gm’s, but the stretching had that “hurt so good” feel to it that im thinking im on the right track. not neglecting seeing someone about it, but im not gonna sit around and wonder, or let it get worse.

hypers- bwx15, 5lb plate behind head x15 → before i started the bw, i let myself hang upside down and the traction felt AWESOME. yay.

then i went home.


chuck had the sunglasses on again today. im hoping this is a regular thing. im so entertained by this class. both the material and the instructor.

Anti-psychotic prenup - brilliant!

Nice, your giving me good stretching ideas. The db holds, are these to pull your arms down while you stretch out your neck?

I wonder about people who wear sunglasses indoors - there’s a guy at my gym that wears shades while he workouts. Sketchy I tell you.

Yeah the sunglasses thing is always puzzling. Its like the guys who lift in a hoodie with the hood up in a sweltering gym, yeah I get its that they are all hardcore but shouldn’t you know they are hardore by the weight on the bar.

That’s the way to deload! Leading the way on paying attention to stretch, ROM and working on weak points…

kmc makes some good points. I’ve hurt my neck just sleeping on it wrongly many times, but never hurt it in a sports activity. However, it sounds like your pillow fort has got that one covered.

If you want, I’d be happy to come over for a sleep over. To help diagnose that neck pain, of course.

[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
If you want, I’d be happy to come over for a sleep over. To help diagnose that neck pain, of course.[/quote]

I’ll be finished with work at 9. drive safe.

so, no training today, instead, a question for group discussion.

bur first, two real-life scenarios:

**I’m in the bathroom at my bf’s house, brushing my teeth, with the door shut. Door was always shut in that house, standard protocol. Bf opens door, comes in, unzips his pants, and goes #1 in the toilet.

**I’m at a guy’s house for a date, he’s made me dinner, and I go to use the bathroom off of his living room. We’re talking through the door, when all of a sudden, the door flies open, with guy standing there, continuing the conversation, oblivious to the “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING” look on my face. He eventually closed the door and left me to my tp.

ftr, I really don’t care if someone sees me do ANYTHING… I just know that other people don’t have the same sense of apathy toward bodily fluids and functions that I do.

So, this is the question; At what point is it ok to pee/poop/etc in front of your significant(or insignificant) other? Is it a milestone that needs to be passed, or a certain amount of time?

Where are you in Ohio?

what does that have to do with the question, Bobbi? lol

To answer the question, it just sorta happens…

Pooping is still private…I can pop babies out in front of him, but still won’t poo…I still have modesty, damnit! :slight_smile:
And I certainly don’t care to brush my teeth while he’s pooping, EW!

ETA- Bobbi’s in Ohio?! rut-roh!!