Thank you, thank you 
Ha, I love the countdown from last leg session. Awesome.
20kg front squat PB. rest is worth it.
keep your chin up, we all have shite days. those are the days when you should reduce your weights by about 10% and just get through it… or hit the compounds and forget the assistance - eat sleep repeat.
[quote]thosebananas wrote:
20kg front squat PB. rest is worth it.
keep your chin up, we all have shite days. those are the days when you should reduce your weights by about 10% and just get through it… or hit the compounds and forget the assistance - eat sleep repeat. [
Eat Lift Rest and Repeat! !!!
Nikki, you’re a woman after my own heart. Hooray for legs. Btw, your crappy fucking workouts would flatten most broads I know. Good luck with the procedure. Odd coincidence: I just did another day in the oncology clinic today. Let us know how it went.
[quote]bABoon wrote:
Nikki, you’re a woman after my own heart. Hooray for legs. Btw, your crappy fucking workouts would flatten most broads I know. Good luck with the procedure. Odd coincidence: I just did another day in the oncology clinic today. Let us know how it went.[/quote]
Thanks Darling. Getting this squat PR is proving more mental than anything.
I’ll post how it goes Wednesday after I get it removed. Finding out how I’ll be limited in the gym scares me more than anything. Argh…
Don’t really know what to say about the health issue except that you’ll be on my mind. Take care of yourself woman! and rest. or I will tie you down.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
Don’t really know what to say about the health issue except that you’ll be on my mind. Take care of yourself woman! and rest. or I will tie you down. [/quote]
Rest or get tied down by you… I choose the latter.
I appreciate the love Doll.
Sigh. Your crappy workouts are better than my good workouts…and I don’t have a tumor either.
Also its true, you’re progress is ridic! Keep killing it mama.
And don’t worry about the gym girl, just worry about recouping after your procedure. The iron will still be there…don’t make me bitch slap you ok? sending you good vibes for a speedy recovery.
Damn girl awesome workout…I wouldn’t be able to keep up that’s for sure lol.
Good numbers all around and good luck on the procedure this Wednesday, I know you’ll be fine and lifting heavy again in no time, you’ve got a great attitude!
I keep getting threatened to rest; first N, now Maschy. I’m strangely turned on by this 
Austin, you of all people can keep up with me <3
My bad workout yesterday has really been bothering me so I decided to add some leg work on to my back day.
I was tempted to go up to 180 to try again but thought better of it for my back’s sake.
Also, because of the back, the hamstring work is barely visible. sigh
LEGS
The goal was to do front squats to make it easier on the back; I did 2 sets of 5 with the bar and hated them. I don’t know how people can get used to the weight on their arms like that. I did feel it in the quads nicely but can’t get past that fact. I was thinking that it’d be easier to do on the Smith machine but TBH, I don’t even touch that thing.
So I decided to try my luck with back squats.
Bar x 8
65 x 8
95 x 8
95 x 10
115 x 8 x 5
135 x 5 x 5
Hack Squat Machine (Narrow stance)
90 x 10 x 3
GMs (Fail… moving on)
Lying Leg Curls
40 x 5
50 x 5
50 x 8
60 x 6
70 x 5 x 2 (Yeah, I’m a weaklink with this exercise. I’m a DL kinda girl)
FST-7
Seated Leg Press
So my quads are pumped and my hamstrings are sad 
FML
BACK
Assisted Chin-ups
3 x 5
Assisted Pull-ups
1 x 8(Resistance was way too high, in the 60s I believe)
Lowered the resistance to get a hard 4 sets of 5.
Lat PDs
35 x 8
50 x 6 x 3
60 x 2
Triangle Bar PD
40 x 10
60 x 8
85 x 8
115 x 1 (I’m not counting the .5 of the second rep haha)
Facepulls
30 x 15
42.5 x 10 x 2
50 x 8
57.5 x 3
BB Row with UH grip
50 x 15
70 x 15
90 x 10 x 2
100 x 8 x 2 **PR
DB Row
35 x 10
45 x 10
55 x 8 **PR (Finally got the 55 lb DB…thankfully it wasn’t across the gym like it usually is)
FST-7
Straight Arm Pulldowns
Bicep Curls
17.5 x 10
20 x 6 x 2
Crossover Curls
15 x 10
17.5 x 8
Two PR’s in one workout. Way to kick some ass.
nice BB rows
You heard what N & Masch said: REST!! You’re a trooper to do so much work despite what sounds like some major back pain, and a major procedure coming up, but sometimes it pays off more in the end to take a breather and give your body a chance to recover.
I think this forced deload will be good for you. Besides, you really need to focus on your health now. The gym’s not going anywhere.
Nikki best of luck today. Hope everything goes well.
Thanks ladies and gents.
At the moment, my tumor is still in my body. I went to the surgeon, and apparently he just wanted to show off my tumor to some med students. Not even going to go there. All I know is that I’ll be operated on soon and I can’t work out for 2 weeks after that. pout
One of the med students said that I can still go on the treadmill (because I’m a girl so when I say work out, I can’t possibly mean weights) and I just gave him a blank stare and my mom filled him in on my quest for muscle.
Anyway, it’s kind of a good thing because I need to get some videos up of my main lifts, so I’ll be getting my PRs on vid probably from tomorrow, if I feel like going to the gym. Not sure yet.
Today was chest/shoulders day, but my quads were feeling a bit sore and my hamstrings weren’t so I decided to show them love before my planned workout.
Snatch DLs
95 x 8 x 2
115 x 8
135 x 5 x 2
155 x 4 x 5
155 x 3
165 x 2 x 3
185 x 1 x 2 PR **
200 x FAIL (The BB didn’t even acknowledge that I was trying to lift it)
195 x FAIL (This went up a couple inches, but dropped it and went lower)
190 x 1 PR **(I was going to get a second PR dammit, even if it was just 186)
Vids of this later.
Lying Leg Curls
70 x 6 x 2
80 x 3 x 8
Bench Press
Bar x 10
65 x 10
95 x 3
And here is when I called my spotter.
105 x 8
115 x 5
125 x 3
135 x 1 PR **
145 x 1 x 3 PR **
Not really counting 115 and 125 as PRs since I did the first (or couple) reps by myself, but because my spotter pushed me to do a certain number, he ended up helping just so I can get to the reps.
My spotter said that 135 and 145 was me, he helped me rack it and other than that he acted as a ‘guide’…like a Smith Machine he said. I’m still proud since I felt like most of it was me when it took about 15 seconds to raise the bar back up. Vid of this coming as well.
HS Iso-Lat Bench Press
50 x 10 x 3
DB Incline Press
20 x 10
35 x 2 (Not good so I switched to BB incline)
Incline Bench
Bar x 10
65 x 4
75 x 2 (got pinned on 3rd but luckily I just tipped one side of the bar and had the plates fall off then got off like that)
Cable Upright Rows
15 x 12
25 x 10
35 x 6
45 x 4
Military Press
Bar x 12
55 x 7, 6, 5
65 x 3
Kai BB Raises
30 x 10 x 3
FST-7
Cable Crossover
FST-7
Lateral Raises
the bench pr…I will take credit for it.
3 FST-7
I’ll properly thank you later tonight
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
I’ll properly thank you later tonight ;)[/quote]
You mean you’re going to retwist my hair finally? This Lenny Kravitz thing is getting old.
More PRs: strong work. Sorry to hear about the medical situation. As a medical student, sometimes I am appalled at the lack of social etiquette on the part of the medical community. Some of the people I go to school with have absolutely no clue how to talk to a live human. And the doctors are not normally any better. I would have thought one of the requirements to get accepted into medical school was the ability to have a normal conversation. Crazy. They do kind of parade odd/interesting cases around like a circus act, usually to make a teaching point. But I know some male docs who will bring students in just to check out a hot patient. May be your case.
Not what I had in mind Count but… okay?
Well, my surgeon is a complete moron. I paid $25 copay for him to say “Yep, we’ll take it out. We’ll give you something to make you sleepy then you’ll have a small scar.”
Really? I basically paid the copay to have a class touch my tumor since I already knew that. And you’d think that I would have got paid for being a phenomenon to them.
You’re right about that, one med student was flirting with me… but in his defense I was in a bra and papertowel vest. I was like “Dude I have a mass that’s going to resemble a 3rd tit in a few days growing on the side of my ribs, leave me alone.”