Since I broke the 'ole seal over on miss kimba’s log, figure I’ll keep the ball(s) rolling over here! I wanted to let you know I tried the evil pyramid scheme today…If I had the mental fortitude-or the motivation to Shift F7 that shite, I’d give you 17 synonyms for the word brutal. So bad, so good!
mmmkay, best of luck with the home-husbandry!
Thanks for the well wishes on the new job! I’m thinking the transition will come in about 2 months, so fingers crossed! [b] Let’s Do it! [/b]
Thanks Puff! I used to drink Malibu Bay Breezes for years. lol!
2busy - Thanks! Frankly I don’t mind treadmills. I fucking hate running in the cold, and I like running - so in the winter you have to learn to like them. I used to run 6 miles on a hills setting AND do hill sprints throughout. It would take about 50 mins. Fun! But its not good on my knees 
Thanks Matty! 
Lol! Joe, I haven’t gotten a single application. What gives?
Kalle, you’re too perfect! And your dogs are hilarious. Too cute! I LOVE big dogs. I always wanted a Great Dane. I would name him Barabas.
Greg! blush… Anyways, about the running - I think conditioning is important. So if the urge wills you, you should definitely do it. Especially if you play sports like football. swoon! seriously?
Chicha! T’extranyo. Voy ir a tu log para ver qu’ongi.
That’s awesome, Nadia! You’re right, it’s gonna be tough! And I know that you’ll beat that time as well. I’ll follow suite
Lol! Mainy. I’d love to have you as my “partner”! I’d eat so well!
Ponce! I had to look that one up. Perhaps you’re right - thank god i wear underwear. yowsa!
Cholulula - love the name! Thanks and welcome! That’s awesome that you tried the evil PDP! I know, right?
Okey dokes. Yesterday’s Oly was good. Nothing spectacular but keeping in mind I took a week off and my energy is wonky, it wasn’t too bad.
I realize that I really need to stretch my back out. Andy was right. My whole back is mad tight! I need to work on that consistently. Thing is, that gym is like stepping back in time, they don’t have foam rollers or even space to do any sort of proper warm-up. Kinda sucks.
Anyways, my training has been lacking gusto, but like I said, I just feel a mess. I’m anxious and excited and being really productive. The diet has been good (until now, i’m snacking on PB and other stuff…), and that’s been helpful too.
Training went like this:
Basically I ramp all the way through and once i start missing i call it quits. lol! such an underachiever. So the sets reps are written exactly as i did them. I know my weights are kinda lame, but as I see it, it takes me 10 snatches to start missing. So that’s good, right? Once i get the first pull down I’ll start pulling more weight.
I did just realize what they mean by “push the bar up” in the snatch - that’ll be useful once i try throwing some serious weight. Similarly my first pull IS getting better. Thinking about contracting the lats is super helpful for keeping the chest up, and I just found its ok to straighten your legs and be essentially over the bar. Why didn’t anyone tell me this?
Hang snatch - 2x20, 3x25, 1x30
Snatch - 3x25, 3x1x30, 2x1x32.5, 4x1x35 (2M) <last two of the 35s were misses.
The second 35 snatch surprised me with how fluid it felt and my coach appluaded me - but i know i can do better. I need to really get my hips through and vertical - i want that bar to fly up my body damnit! Also need to remember to jump baaaaaack. Lol! Keep arms loose. All of that. Oy.
Was supposed to train tonight with my buddy, but she bailed, so I bailed. I don’t care quite frankly. I feel I need a light week. But tomorrow I do want to get in to train, might even double dip if I feel good. Gonna get in my calories and get some sleep
I really wanted to get to the logs! I suck. I’ll hit y’alls tomorrow! Have a good night people!
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
i’m snacking on PB and other stuff[/quote]
Masch, you are fucking awesome. Congrats on the new position. You are absolutely killing it in the gym. Looking hot. AND searching for a stay-at-home husband. I love it!
But, you damn well better stretch out your back. If you don’t I’ll have to come up there and discipline you for it and do it for you. Not kidding!
Whether you’re training is lacking gusto or not, no worries. You’re in there getting it done.
Nice work mama!
Congrats on the new job, and good luck!
Sounds like the training is going well too. Keep it up.
you have like the craziest social agenda
new J.O.B
school
soccer,
strutting in pumpum shorts
training
nice work
doing great!
I just found its ok to straighten your legs and be essentially over the bar. Why didn’t anyone tell me this?
i think that is what Kono thinks (there are youtube clips where he explains what he thinks about technique).
i think that is what Everett is arguing against (in his online article on first pull position).
different coaches have different ideas on it, i think. all that matters is what seems to work for you, though
^definitely!
lol@ pum pum shorts
Hey the new job prospects sounds great, congrats, via your logs you been working real hard at it so congrats. My back locks up all the time if I donâ??t warm it up enough. Have you tried fire hydrants? Joe Defranco has a series on different type of active stretches fire hydrants which maybe are not a specific back stretching activity but doing those combined with glute bridges and some static stretching helped my back immeasurably. I think its called Defranco’s agile 8.
Annnnd your awesome
Looks like thigns are going really well for you and the lifts seem to be coming together.
I think the boys are too intimidated to send in their applications. Probably afraid they can’t keep up.
Double dip?.. oh, you mean as in training. Hm.
Congrats on the job Maschy, you rock. I think you send so much positive energy out in the world that it just likes to go back to you.
Fack, I’m so sentimental today.
Glad you’re incorporating helpful techniques to help with your lifts. The numbers look good to me, Oly isn’t exactly an easy thing. You’re doing great =D
Maschy, this is SUCH A GREAT LOG! Poom-poom shorts, pullup/dip/pushup pyramids. Videos of you in cute and tight crops.
Damn.
Good luck with the new job thing! I hear you on big work stuff right now – we’ll both get through it!
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
jesus Brah.^
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
jesus Brah.[1]
I was high this morning.
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Aww! Here I thought you were sincerely praising me with this beautiful poem! 
And I WAS going to give you my soul and middle eastern poon and everything!
Well whatever, Rock, I greatly appreciate this wonderful gift of words! You’re the sweetest of hell’s angels. I M M O R T A L 4Eva 
/quote ↩︎
Andy, and it was deeeelicious
Lol! Veg, don’t threaten me with a good time But yes, you’re right. And looking at my vids, I all but have a hump on my back! That’s how nasty and tight I am. And thanks, mama! Coming from you, your kind words mean a lot.
Thanks Cal!
And thanks as well KMC! Nothing really social about my agenda though…mostly work and training. lol! Altho tomorrow we have a game and the 3rd half (at the bar!) is something I’ve been looking forward to all week.
Lex, you mean to tell me that my boyfriend, Greg Everett, doesn’t agree with this? harumph Hmm…Well, I still suck at the first pull, so I can’t really say that I have found my technique yet, so who knows! But I will say that the combination of knowing that I can straighten my legs, as well as having just learned that combining straightening your legs with keeping your chest up, will produce favorable results (i.e not smashing the bar into my knees) has improved my first pull…we’ll see what happens, you know how it goes.
Deb and MiM! Lol! You guys are silly. Meh. I’m not so super after all. Despite the fact that I’m training and stuff, I feel kind of shitty. Yesterday I was nauseous from the moment I woke up until the moment I went to bed!! Got in my training, but felt like shit all day! Can’t tell if I’m getting sick, getting over a sickness, or just insanely anxious and spazzed out. Keep truckin’ i guess. (and sleeping, slept until 9am today!)
Thanks Matty! Fire hydrants, eh? I can def try them if it helps out the back. And I’m a big fan of DeFranco, so I’ll look up his mobility stuff. My problem is that I suck at being consistent with it. Sometimes I get into the gym with a “Let’s do this bitch!” mentality and don’t really do much warm-up. Bad Maschy, I know.
LOL! Yes, that’s it, they’re intimidated Thanks Joe!
Hi Cupcake! lol, yeah, we (the royal we) call the am/pm gym sesh’s “double dipping” - not a euphamism for dirty things…currently. And thanks girlie, imma trying!
Kimba! Yes we will!! High functioning women are a turn-on. That’s for sure
Thanks all for stopping in! I feel the love!!
Next up, training…
Friday’s training! Double dip accomplished. It was ambitious to do an am and pm sesh, but I wanted to, even despite the fact that i was nauseous all day. I really do believe my body is fighting off some sort of bug…I slept a good 8 hours last night though, and I think that helped.
AM - concurrent training Added in some extras where I felt I could.
KB Swings - 2x15x35, 2x15x40
Jump rope - 6 mins alternating every 2 mins with plate pushes 4 times up and down the studio (1x45 plate, then 2x90, 2 plates)
WG lat pulls - 15x80, 75, 75, 70
1 mile - 8:13 < i could make excuses for this, like the fact that I had to stop midway to remove the stuff that I put on the treadmill next to me because a fellow gym goer wanted to use that treadmill - or i could just be honest with myself and say that my performance is suffering and I KNOW i can do tons better if I wasn’t training moronically. I still need to run this mile outside anyways. So whatever.
Cable row, V handle - 15x70, 80, 70
Quad matrix (squat, alt lunges, jump squats, jump lunges) 1x12xBW, 3x12x20
Atlas pushups ladder from 1 to 10
PM - Oly
Hang snatch - 2x20, 3x25
Snatch - 30, 2x30, 2x35 (1M), 35, 37, 37 (M) < 37 is a PR, it was an ugly PR, but I’ll take it. When I missed the next 37 my coach made me start all over again. First pull problems as per usual. He said the only way I’ll get this is with repetition. So continuing…
Snatch - 25, 30, 35, 35, 35 (M), 35(M) < dunzo! misses = moving on.
Clean and jerks - 25, 30, 35, 35, 40 (hang clean), 40 (M) < I don’t spend enough time on these and it shows. My cleans are terrible! These need definite practice. UGH!
Narrow grip power snatch from mid-shin - 3x5x25 < killer on my tris. These are meant to teach me how to curl the bar towards my body, i think.
Anyways, the good news is that I’m improving, the bad news is I still kinda suck. lol! What else is new? First pull is messy, but getting there. I also can’t get myself to land on my heels!! I think the problem isn’t so much that I don’t land on my heels, but that I don’t ever get off my toes! I need to freaking jump!! And I’m still so slow. So annoying. Like my coach always says, “you’re a soccer player, JUMP!”
Here’s a vid of some of my pulls for those interested. They’re in order of how they were pulled. You can hear my coach in some of them - he’s too funny!
Let’s not even talk about my chubbiness! Argh! I keep saying I need to lean out, but I keep eating like shit. Over eating some days, under eating others…its no bueno. And I really don’t like the extra weight - I feel cognizant of my size, if that makes sense. Last week I said 3 weeks to look like my normal self again. I’m holding myself to that.
Today no training. I have DOMs and want a day where I do nothing, and I mean NOTHING. Tomorrow footie! YAY! I’m in need of a day with the girls. Should be fun!!
Alright y’alls. Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend eating, relaxing and enjoying friends and family. Much love to all!
First of all, please do not lean out, you look incredible (itll take about 1000 more trips for you to defontes before you should be “cognizant” of your size) and damn your guhns are looking great. I know nothing about Oly Lifting, but its a lot of fun watching you
Dont get discouraged, keep at it, Im giving you an e-hug right now, I would say I think you woulda went postal if one of those ping pong balls came flying your way.
