HAHAH! “Sufficiently challenging”? I’ll say. 200x6x6?! You’re a rock star!
Damn Owlie, seriously? 30 hanging leg raises? I’m am so, so impressed by you. I can’t wait to rock your kind of numbers.
Good work woman!
Oh, and I just went back to the first few pages to check out your squat vids - I see what you mean about pushing the knees out! I can’t wait to try that.
Seriously, so impressed.
ok, i’m going to stop being creepy now.
Haha you are not creepy!! Thank you, it makes me feel great and motivated.
I have the dreaded severe DOMS right now. This is what I get for not squatting heavy regularly every week. I have to make sure to squat my brains out again next Friday.
I also woke up with a hangover, a food hangover. Ah well, my birthday only come once a years! We went out for Indian buffet for lunch and then met some other friends for Cheesecake Factory dinner. I feel better now that I’ve had some hair of the dog in the form of Ezekiel bread and egg white french toast.
I still have half a slice of red velvet cheesecake in the fridge. I have to decide if I want to eat it or give it to my boyfriend so I can get the sugar out of my system today.
Happy Birthday Owlie!!
Hope the DOMS gets better soon. Really awesome squat and press workouts, I second what Masch said, very impressive!
Happy Birthday!! Clearly you enjoyed it. 
I love dips, probably because I’m good at them. My bench still sucks though. Do you do hanging leg raises knees to chest?
I do them with my legs straight out but I try to bring them as high as I can each time aiming to touch my toes to my face. The first 25 usually break past parallel and then the last 5 are right at. Is knee to chest a better way? I am new to ab training, so I need all the advice I can get!! I think I am going to try Russian Twists tomorrow.
Tonight, was the night of cardio!! First of a summer of cardio
45 min on the incline treadmill. Yay fun!! I miss really pushing myself hard on the cardio end of things, I ended with one sprint, but I had to hold back a little because tomorrow is week 2 of magnusson/ortmayer.
Some random eats from back on track day
-1 slice Ezekiel bread french toast made with egg white, strawberries, cinnamon, and yummmm
+extra egg white
-Big protein shake with two scoops of vanilla icecream ON, 1/2 banana, strawberries, ice, glutamine, creatine, lecithin, and a dash of milk. This was kind of yucky. I need to get my magic protein shake touch back
-1/2cup of quaker cinnamon oatmeal squares (I am a sucker for 8 yr old comfort food)
-chicken and egg salad made with a dash of sour cream, dijon mustard, and pepper wrapped in raw cabbage leaves, like 1/2 a heads worth…delicious!!
Happy b-day Owlie!
week 2 of Magnusson/Ortmayer
Deadlifts:
135x5
185x4x4
210x2
235x2
185x14(5 reps better than last week)
strict pullups from dead hang
5/5/2
dumbbell rows
70x10/14/10
cable crunch
80x10x5
I have the chorus of Custard Pie by Led Zeppelin stuck in my head. On repeat.
Thanks for the Birthday wishes nlmain, kimba, and RBlue!!
This program looks crazy enough to work!!
Happy belated!
I didn’t realize you started a new program. That is a lot of deadlifting!
Great training all around Owlie.
Also, I love lifting to Zep - its on my playlist non-stop.
squated to Rage against the Machine today - music is an important piece of the puzzle. Nice pullups! (insert envy).
Egg salad wrapped in cabbage leaves, sounds like something I’ve gotta try. I’m going through an egg salad phase.
Just caught myself up on your log. Wow, you have incredible strength! Love the pics and vid. Quite inspiring.
ew, I hate eggsalad…blech!!! That vanilla ice cream protein shake caught my attention…I had been putting an actual scoop of ice cream in my shake, but gave it up, teehee…
Love it. Love it. Love it. Egg salad, that is.
I’m not familiar with your training program, Owlie, which makes it super exciting for me.
Snapper-
I’m excited too!! Next week’s workout is going to be hellavu lot harder. Its basically adding 10lbs to all the sets I did this week…yeah…we’ll see how I do! I’m hoping for at least 8 on the last set. No. I’m getting at least 8.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
Egg salad wrapped in cabbage leaves, sounds like something I’ve gotta try. I’m going through an egg salad phase. [/quote]
Ohh do try it! Adding some canned chicken to the mix really makes it more substantial. I was thinking something pickly would also be nice, but I didn’t have a pickle.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
squated to Rage against the Machine today - music is an important piece of the puzzle. Nice pullups! (insert envy).[/quote]
The pullups were stagnating, so I’m resetting them and making sure I dead hang between each rep and keep my should blades back so I’m not tempted to use too much arm. They feel like a completely different exercise now. Rage against the Machine always does the trick for me with overhead press!! Ok, new policy, I am going to post what I’m listening to when I hit weight PRs or major rep PRs.
(I hate egg salade with a vengeance)
I love egg salad with a vengeance.
As for hanging leg raises, I think the best way to do them is your way. I am TOO FUCKING WEAK to do them your way. Yet.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
(I hate egg salade with a vengeance)[/quote]
I read this like “egg sa-laad” HAHAH! Oh boy, I make myself laugh.
Yeah, I do mine the Owlie way but they look atrocious and for the most part my legs are not straight. In other words, an ego check is in order - bad Masch.