Plucky Scares the Frat Boys

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Hi there Jason. You’ve got yourself a real smart lady :slight_smile: I’m lucky she occasionally blesses my log with her ass-kickery.

Dixie- he wouldn’t talk about it if he hadn’t read it. I’ve read a lot of those dead guys and some of the stuff they present is pretty mind boggling, but a lot of old timey lit is pretty dry and inaccessible from a modern perspective. Ever tried reading some old school political science guys? They’ll REALLY make you want to claw your eyes out…

I like a guy who can hold his own in an argument :wink: Thanks for the compliment!

Nikki- nice to know all this confusion is normal. SO what you’re saying is, I’m on the right track towards becoming as strong and hott as you? If so, I might have to do a spontaneous happy dance. Wait…I do those all the time…

OOokay just did vertical day.

warmed up with some 45 lb goblet squats x10

Db OHP, 5x5, 25s

assisted pullups, one set 78 x5, 4 sets 69.5 x5
^69.5 is a really random number

L lateral raises, 5x5, 20s
^I’m pretty sure I’m doing these wrong (I was never too good with the spatial/angles stuff, lol) but I like them anyway. They made me more delt-aware.

was going to do some close grip cable pulldowns, but a couple guys were hogging the machine for lats and switching out the grips would be a pain.

I wandered over to the racks instead…

Loaded up the bar on the bottom setting for some rack pulls, as I’m not sure I wanna try pulling from the floor til I’m confident in my mobility.
Cute guy comes over and says his friend wouldn’t stop bugging him to come talk to me. Greetings are exchanged. His name is Brandon.

Cool.

Rack pulls:
95 x3, 145 x5, 155 x5:
grip giving out cause it’s terrible. Run up to front desk and ask for straps. Get manager to explain how the lil buggers work.
175 x6, 195 x5, 215 x3
Hmm I liek deez “straps”

Minus the part about explaining to everyone why my wrists are bruised and burned.

I did get in that “reading at starbucks curled up in an armchair” experience I was hoping for yesterday :slight_smile:
Knocked out about a hundred pages of The Pillars of the Earth. I’m on p 192 and it’s finally starting to get exciting. It’s not rainy anymore, but it is considerably cooler–yes!!!

“Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get perfect” ~Ann McGee Cooper

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great quote. love it.

nice rack pulls. are you doing them from under, at, or above the knee cap?

and you definitely wanna be able to row more than you can press. =+)

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Thanks deja. The lowest setting I could get in the rack was slightly above my knees.

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You passed me on the strong and hot track, Darlin :wink:

Ooh, Plucky and Brandon sitting in a tree… heh, I’m so immature.
That’s so cute though!

Beastly rack pulls!
I’m sure you’re doing the L lateral raises right. Arms in right angles and raise arms, leading with elbow.
I definetely love them more for my delts.

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Hmm, that seems to be the way I was doing them. It just looked really odd, I guess.

You know, I’m glad B approached me before I got started on the pulls; I probably would have snarled and tried to bite him if it had been otherwise.

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[quote]MissPlucky wrote:
Thanks deja. The lowest setting I could get in the rack was slightly above my knees.[/quote]

Hey there. Just a rack pull tip if you don’t mind. Below the knee is a completely different beast from a muscular involvement standpoint.
If you can stand on a couple of 45s or maybe one of those aerobic steps you will get a lot more back development out of them.

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[quote]giterdone wrote:

[quote]MissPlucky wrote:
Thanks deja. The lowest setting I could get in the rack was slightly above my knees.[/quote]

Hey there. Just a rack pull tip if you don’t mind. Below the knee is a completely different beast from a muscular involvement standpoint.
If you can stand on a couple of 45s or maybe one of those aerobic steps you will get a lot more back development out of them.

[/quote]

x2 above the knee is a glute exercise

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Cool tip giterdone, I’ll keep that in mind for next time

nothin wrong with a good glute exercise :slight_smile:

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I just noticed I have these weird red freckles all over the backs of my hands. Medical explanation? I guess it’s some kind of bruising…

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Blood blisters from straps more than likely.

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[quote]MissPlucky wrote:
Hmm, that seems to be the way I was doing them. It just looked really odd, I guess.

You know, I’m glad B approached me before I got started on the pulls; I probably would have snarled and tried to bite him if it had been otherwise.[/quote]

LOL…That would have been the response I had in mind…I don’t like to hold conversations while I’m lifting…but I guess the outcome was a positive in this scenario. He could have waited until you were done working out.

v/r

Gremlin

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[quote]MissPlucky wrote:
I just noticed I have these weird red freckles all over the backs of my hands. Medical explanation? I guess it’s some kind of bruising…[/quote]

Some broken blood vessels from the straps constricting. No biggie.

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straps are amazing things. i feel a lil guilty using em, like my grip should be stronger, but goddamnit i wanted to rack pull 405 and i dont care if i had to use straps to do it!

i’ll keep workin on my grip if you do. :wink:

awww, i remember when boys needed an excuse to come talk to me. “my friend wont quit buggin me…” wait, i know 39 year olds who do that.

i guess it can be cute when theyre younger.

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ooo this is exciting, do you want genre/serial fiction, fiction “literature”, short stories, non-fiction social science, non-fiction “hard” science? I am extremely all over the place, so I would feel weird just suggesting what I happen to be reading atm, since it may not hold any interest for you. If you haven’t read the Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series yet though…it is like crack and you can use it to give your brain an escape if you are plowing through something really dense. There are like 13 books in it too, so you can keep it on call for awhile. I’m on 7 and they keep getting better without, which I really can’t say for many genre series that exceed 4 installments.

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[quote]CBear84 wrote:
straps are amazing things. i feel a lil guilty using em, like my grip should be stronger, but goddamnit i wanted to rack pull 405 and i dont care if i had to use straps to do it!
[/quote]

I had to strap 405 too. Your grip will always be chasing your back.

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Thanks for the quick responses on those blood vessel thingies-gotta make sure I haven’t contracted those protein aids
:wink:

CBear- deal! My grip is terrible, but I hate to let it hold back all those nice big muscles pulls hit so well. I’ll be throwing in some farmers walks so I don’t feel too guilty.

Owlie- anything and everything fiction. The more outlandish, the better. I prefer not to read about real life for leisure cause I’m stuck here all the time anyway!

It’s my off day. I’ve taken two naps =P

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Alrighty, Horizontal day:

Barbell bench: bar x5, 65 x5, 65 x5, 75 x3, 70 x4, 65 x5

Chest supported rows: empty x5, +10 x5, +20 x5, +20 x5, +10 x5
^lots of people giving me creeper stares when I hop on this one, hehe…

Barbell reverse lunges: 95 x5, 95 x5, 115 x5, 115 x5, 95 x5
^wobbled precariously on the second set with 115–my friendly neighborhood spotter guy came over and eyed me anxiously as I finished that one. What a cute old man :slight_smile:

seated calf raises: 70 x8, 90 x6, 90 x6, 90 x6, 70 x8
^didn’t get me as excited today. sad.

farmer’s walks: grabbed 50s and walked up and down the aisle with em, did it again, then grabbed 60s and did it again. My fingers made exciting little pops and cracks with those. Also I walked around picking up weights people had left laying around in a pinch grip and returned them to their proper places. Some guys’ mommies never taught them to clean up after themselves.

There was a ridiculous preponderance of hot guys at the gym today. Actually, I’m seeing them everywhere. I think my hormones are doing something funny =^o

There’s a monster eating my socks. Seriously, I have 5 mismatched. How does that happen?!? I’ve never had a sock problem before.
Maybe I should do laundry…

I was pondering people last night. I generally like and get along with people, and I try to understand and respect varying opinions. You know, live and let live. Then I realized that there are only three types of people I do not tolerate very well. Here they are in ascending order, for your socially scientific enjoyment:

  1. Defensive, closed-minded people. Bigots, the like. It’s a shamefully anti-progressive way to live.

  2. Those folks who are born to be insulted, and live to take umbrage at every imagined slight against them. Exceedingly tiresome.

And my number one teeth-grinder:
Those who get satisfaction out of harming the innocent. Be it terrorists, school yard bullies, those creeps who put kittens in the microwave, or catty bitches. I’ve encountered two of the four, and I felt no qualms about dealing out some vigilante justice.

Thoughts? Share your people ponderings!

Oh crap, I need to get to class!

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I can put up with a lot of people but I too get pissed when people like to harm the innocent.

Also: I don’t like rudeness. Don’t insult me to my face.

I started seeing hot guys everywhere after I started lifting. Better living through (healthy natural) chemistry.

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definitely #2!

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I think I agree with all three. Though, I have to deal with intolerant people the most and I just don’t get it… I don’t get the anger or fear or whatever it is.

To add to the list - competitors with too sensitive egos who can’t take the blame for their own losses/failures. I can’t stand it when these people always blame it on biased reffing or accuse the other team of cheating or whatever. Granted bad calls do happen, but every time?