Wow. I’ll bet that condition does affect your lifting, Owlie. Still, you’re very strong.
Kimba . . . you are blind in your left eye?
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Wow. I’ll bet that condition does affect your lifting, Owlie. Still, you’re very strong.[/quote]
eh, its not THAT severe to where it really causes problems. Its definitely not a limiting factor. It was mostly just annoying when I was first learning how to perform the lifts with good form, but I’m fairly adaptive and have been dealing with it my whole life. Now that I know what good form feels like, its pretty ingrained, and I just make sure to be consistent.
I just have to work extra hard at getting my poses balanced, ahaha which is really more of a matter of vanity…
[quote]owlie wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Wow. I’ll bet that condition does affect your lifting, Owlie. Still, you’re very strong.
Kimba . . . you are blind in your left eye?[/quote]
eh, its not THAT severe to where it really causes problems. It doesn’t affect me much anymore, and its definitely not a limiting factor. It was mostly just annoying when I was first learning how to perform the lifts with good form, but I’m fairly adaptive and have been dealing with it my whole life. Now that I know what good form feels like, its pretty ingrained, and I just make sure to be consistent.[/quote]
Agreed on being adaptive – my vision has sucked exactly the same way my whole life. I don’t know different. Neither do you, so to us what we have is normal.
And yes, Snapper, I am legally blind in my left eye. Can see some light and dark, but not much more. Which means, my depth perception is shit and resultingly I suck at tennis/baseball/ball sports of any kind. Luckily the weights don’t move unless I’m moving them so its all good!
I’m not blind in either eye, but my mixture of nystagmus/astigmatism makes depth perception a challenge. Bad depth perception sisters right hurr. Let’s be extra careful not to bump into things kimba. Once we get big and strong enough though, things will just jump out of our way in fright.
[quote]owlie wrote:
I’m not blind in either eye, but my mixture of nystagmus/astigmatism makes depth perception a challenge. Bad depth perception sisters right hurr. Let’s be extra careful not to bump into things kimba. Once we get big and strong enough though, things will just jump out of our way in fright.[/quote]
Yeah! Things jumping out of our way in fright. I like that.
I do try to be careful, but I’ve certainly smacked into my share of things in the weight room. Edging around the ends of barbells in a bench or squat rack, for example.
Just catching up here! Amazing work all around…^5 
wow must be rough all you ladies with vision issues. seriously. i definitely don’t envy you.
hey owlie - i thought of you when i saw today’s woot shirt of the day…
I LOVE it. If I hadn’t just overextended my budget at the outlet mall, I would buy it. Speaking of that, I probably should never go shopping on my “deload”(period) week. I fear I bought some jeans that will fit me like a canoe when this bloating goes down.
Dead lift deload day
1x5 @125lbs
1x5 @135lbs
1x5 @145lbs
5x10 @135bs
dumbbell rows
1x15 @50lbs
was going for 25 reps, but my grip failed and I didn’t have my chalk with me, so I did more sets
1x12 “”
2x10 “”
1x10 @45lbs
Good mornings
5x8 @55lbs
Pull-ups
3x5
Don’t go too nuts in your workouts, deload remember?
Nice deloading numbers!
On a side note, I bet the men around PW have learned a lot about periods from reading all about our monthly bloating, weakness, and pain.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Don’t go too nuts in your workouts, deload remember? :)[/quote]
I’m not sure I really understand the concept of a deload yet. Is the amount of volume in that workout inappropriate for a deload day?
[quote]Oleena wrote:
Nice deloading numbers!
On a side note, I bet the men around PW have learned a lot about periods from reading all about our monthly bloating, weakness, and pain.[/quote]
evening primrose oil has worked wonders for many of the women I have worked with. It
is worth a try. Most will start about a week before “the big event”.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/evening-primrose-000242.htm
no offence ladies I am so glad I’m a man. Between the “red river” and child birth I don’t know how u do it
Jim
[quote]squat1000b700 wrote:
[quote]Oleena wrote:
Nice deloading numbers!
On a side note, I bet the men around PW have learned a lot about periods from reading all about our monthly bloating, weakness, and pain.[/quote]
evening primrose oil has worked wonders for many of the women I have worked with. It
is worth a try. Most will start about a week before “the big event”.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/evening-primrose-000242.htm
no offence ladies I am so glad I’m a man. Between the “red river” and child birth I don’t know how u do it
Jim
[/quote]
There is one major benefit to being a woman, and that is pain tolerance. The biggest thing I’ve learned from training is that if you put a 30 year old man who hasn’t worked out in 5 years through the same workout that you’d use for a 30 year old woman who hasn’t worked out in the same amount of time he will 1. Quit before the end of the session or 2. Come very close to crying. Men are basically babies when it comes to pain.
[quote]Oleena wrote:
[quote]squat1000b700 wrote:
[quote]Oleena wrote:
Nice deloading numbers!
On a side note, I bet the men around PW have learned a lot about periods from reading all about our monthly bloating, weakness, and pain.[/quote]
evening primrose oil has worked wonders for many of the women I have worked with. It
is worth a try. Most will start about a week before “the big event”.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/evening-primrose-000242.htm
no offence ladies I am so glad I’m a man. Between the “red river” and child birth I don’t know how u do it
Jim
[/quote]
There is one major benefit to being a woman, and that is pain tolerance. The biggest thing I’ve learned from training is that if you put a 30 year old man who hasn’t worked out in 5 years through the same workout that you’d use for a 30 year old woman who hasn’t worked out in the same amount of time he will 1. Quit before the end of the session or 2. Come very close to crying. Men are basically babies when it comes to pain.
[/quote]
Haha, that doesn’t describe me, but it does describe my dad perfectly. I have gone through 6 months of personal training courses and i was the only guy in the class, so yeah i am used to that. /hijack. Owlie keep up the great work lady.
Evening primrose oil? Will that keep me from scratching people?
What I’ve heard is that evening primrose is a mild sedative. I wouldn’t mess with it unless you’re okay with that. If it hurts, why not take an aspirin?
I mainly reccomend it for women that have really bad symptoms. All the women that have tryied it loved it, it helps take the Edge off the mood swings, it’s not for everyone but it is worth a try. You only take it during that time, the chinese and Russians have been giving it to there women for pms for a very very long time.
Some bodybuilders/powerlifters will also take it at the end of a cycle. In addtion other stuff lol
Jim
evening primrose contains huge amounts of essential fatty acids(GLA) Just another way to alleviate symptoms, while being more ‘natural.’
[quote]owlie wrote:
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Don’t go too nuts in your workouts, deload remember? :)[/quote]
I’m not sure I really understand the concept of a deload yet. Is the amount of volume in that workout inappropriate for a deload day?[/quote]
Basically you just do the same exercises that you normally do, but go pretty light, just to get some blood flow. You are aiming for recovery, not beating yourself in the ground. So like Wendler says in his book, for deload he likes, 1x5 @ 40%, 1x5 @ 50%, 1x5 @ 60%, and you are done for that lift (bench press, deadlift, whatever). As for the other lifts, it’s really up to you as to how you want to do it, just don’t let the workout be strenuous. You should feel like you haven’t done shit when you walk out of the gym. I would not go higher than 60-70%, and usually stay in the 10-20 rep range.
LOL! Jim just called a period “a big event” and a “red river” all in one post!
A mild sedative huh? I’ll have to look into this primrose oil.
Oh Owlie, my workouts don’t even touch your deloads - you’re hella stong woman.