[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Hey there, Steely… Just ~3 or so more years and I’m gonna join the ranks of the ancients as well… God I feel old now… The mead in Valhalla as good as they say?
Keep butchering the weights, brother.
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C_C!
Well, I’m freakin’ honored!
Oh, no worries about gettin’ older. The creaks, pops, squeaks, cracks and constant pain just become background noise. Adds character 
Sat: Back
All ramped sets
T-Bar:
4 sets (15-10), top 4 plates x 8
HS Low Row:
4 sets (15-10), top 4pps x 8
HS Iso Row:
3 sets (10 reps), top = 4pps x 6
HS pulldown:
3 sets (12-10), top = 3pps x 6
Smith Mach. 1 Arm Shrug:
2p x 12
3p x 12
4p x 8
5p x 3
Back Extension mach
160x20
210x15
250x16
300x13
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I get calls on my work phone so rarely that I’m always unsure what it is when it rings. I like it that way. Sometimes it’s been dead for days and I never noticed. I love being unimportant. It gives a lot of freedom.
I thought everyone started school the Tuesday after labour day. [/quote]
The Blackberry is a blessing and a curse. It’s gotten me out of sticky situations when i was lost or stuck in airports, but the curse part is obvious. There’s no escaping it as the company knows it’s always on us. Plus I work across 3 time zones and 1 Europe time zone…
re: School - yeah, we start early here.
This year will be interesting for the kiddos. They have been going to a private school the past 4 years (oldest = 4th grade). She did fine there and was the youngest in her class. This year they raised the tuition and we just couldn’t swing it, so off to public school (until they hit middle school).
The publik skoolz are teaching math that she did two years ago. She was all proud that the assignment in class was to complete some multiplication sheet in 10 minutes or something. She did it in two and on the second day of classes she’s already bored.
Ditto the younger kid (similar reading story). NOT good for motivation, so we’re going to look into bumping them a grade or finding ancillary tutoring.
My wife is an elementary ed teacher (former public teacher) and expected this. It was her that said “Our kids won’t set foot in a public school!”… DOH! (never say never, especially in a bad economy).[/quote]
I wish I had that problem. My older daughter does well in school. My younger struggles. I spent time over the summer doing school work with her just to keep her brain in that mode. I got a book based on the Ontario curriculum and worked with that a bit. We even grew crystals. I have to admit, I have fun with stuff like that. Yesterday was wood shop and we made a bird house and painted it to match our house.
I end up meeting the teachers a lot and getting the most that we can out of the school by getting her involved in any extra programs they have going.
Nice lifting btw 
Mon: Chesticles/Triceptuals
BB Incline Bench (1st time at new place):
135x15
225x9
275x4
275x2 (wtf?)
245x5 ( " " )
HS Press:
1pps x 15
2pps x 12
3pps x 6
3pps x 8 (+ forced negs)
HS Incline:
2pps x 12
3pps x 10
4pps x 8
4pps x 8 (+forced negs)
Cable Chest Flies:
4 sets 20-10 reps
HS Triceps Machine
3p x 23
4p x 16
5p x 8
5p+25 x 6, x5
Weird stall on my Inc BB. I think I was down several pounds and reps since last week. This was the first time on a new incline bench with a slightly different leverage. Don’t know. We’ll see next week
Last week vs. (this week) vs
BB Inc. Bench:
135x12 (135x15) <135x15>
225x10 (225x9) <225x8>
245x3 (275x4) <245x8>
275x3 (275x2) <255x8>
285x1 (245x5) <275x6>
n/a (n/a) <295x3>
HS Incline:
1pps x 10 (2pps x 12)
2pps x 10 (3pps x 10)
3pps x 8 (4pps x 8)
3pps+25 x 6 (4pps x 6 (+forced negs))
HS Triceps:
2p x 12 (3p x 23)
3p x 12 (4p x 16)
4p x 10 (5p x 8)
6p x 5 (5p+25 x 6)
6p x 5 (5p+25 x 5)
I thought I had a shitty night last night, but turns out, it wasn’t too shabby compared to last weeks’ lifts. I think in my head I was comparing my incline BB to last weeks CGBP (which were significantly higher).
Is down from two weeks ago…
Nice work, Steely. You are really churning out the work. It seems that your forward momentum just keeps increasing.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Nice work, Steely. You are really churning out the work. It seems that your forward momentum just keeps increasing.[/quote]
Week to week seems a bit shaky, like daily stock numbers, but long term the trend is slightly upward-- THAT’S the one I’m worried about
Good to see you around LS! Hey, thought of you recently-- we’re looking at houses around Athens again. It happens every year. Things are just so cheap right now, we can get twice/3x the house we’re in now for the same money down there.
Athens is cheap? Wow! I can’t imagine what house prices are where you are. I always thought Athens was pricey.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Athens is cheap? Wow! I can’t imagine what house prices are where you are. I always thought Athens was pricey.[/quote]
“Athens proper” is a little more pricey, but all the surrounding towns are dirt-cheap compared to the northeast.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Athens is cheap? Wow! I can’t imagine what house prices are where you are. I always thought Athens was pricey.[/quote]
“Athens proper” is a little more pricey, but all the surrounding towns are dirt-cheap compared to the northeast.[/quote]
That is true. Watkinsville, depending on area, is pricer as well. Lotta new, BIG houses going in there. Winterville, Jefferson, Commerce and such are probably pretty reasonable, though. And there are even smaller “towns”.
When we built our house (my Dad’s), in Athens, in '84, the lot and house cost about $82k. Last year it appraised at nearly $250k. He has made some improvements, but it has, at least, doubled in value.
Tue-- Squat/Legs:
Squat:
135x10
225x5
315x5
365x5
405x5
LP:
4pps x 20
5pps x 15
7pps x 11
9pps x 8
4pps x 20
HS Leg Curl:
3 sets 15-9 reps
Leg Extension:
100x20
150x15
180x13
210x10
230x5 → 180x3 → 120x3 → 100x1
Thats good looking leg work SD.
Thanks JG.
I’m going to try cycling my squats again. I took a few weeks off from heavy, plus a little back spasm a few weeks back, so I’ll have to work back up to the 505 again. They felt heavy tonight!
405 x5 is nice work. Do you feel like you get much out of the leg curls and leg extensions? I dropped those some time ago and I’m wondering if that was a mistake.
jj-
Yeah, I think I do.
I found that I was not getting enough hammy work so I added those in. Hammies aren’t as tight anymore. I’ve been doing rack pulls, but since I don’t have rack access anymore, I’m going to add RDL’s back in (and SLDL) on a different day.
I never did leg extensions because they killed my knees, but added them back in with very high reps, like 20-30 and gradually moved down into 15-8 range and moving up there.
I think it was just ‘greasing the groove’. It also depends on the machine comfort wise. Ditto ham curls-- higher reps on quad day them hams get their own day.
I think my hammies are suffering as well, I don’t do enough GM work like I should. I may try and add these back in.
Retiring this thread.
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