[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Friday May 28
This is my last real training day before the meet. This morning I went to my ART guy and I’m not sure what he did by my left adductor is tight and painful. It feels like it’s pulled. I know it isn’t but it started to tighten up during the day and squats were really painful. It hurt to go below parallel and pushing out of the hole was ugly.
squat
45-10
115-5
155-3
195-1
Once I got the suit on things were less painful because I got support in the hurty area.
205-2x3 suit on straps down
225-2x3 same
235-3x2 same
260-1 straps up. This is my opener. It was picture perfect which is a nice way to head into a meet.
bench speed
75-8x3
MP
55-10,7,10
Tomorrow morning we are out at 6 to hit the Windsor area by 9 for the high school provincials. I’m going to be writing an article about the high school program for the OPA newsletter so I’m going to be disguised as Peter Parker. It should be a fun social kind of day.
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Windsor? Throw a wave across the river when you get there. I live in the Detroit area.[/quote]
Then your a stone’s throw away from the meet Bunny and Ouro are competing in next week. Well a stone throw if you have a really good arm and can skip it across the river, then get a nice roll down the highway.
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Where are you guys gonna be at? Date, time, and location. I just may be able to take a road trip.
Yesterday we drove three hours to Essex for the Ontario Provincial Championship high school meet. There were 32 kids competing including a couple of familiar faces from the sub-juniors in our regular meets. 7 of the lifters were from Westdale, the team I was helping with (and incidentally my daughters high school). They one best team.
They were a lot of fun to watch and made me feel really old. The warm-up room was under used. I would say that half of the kids never even warmed up. They just walked onto the platform and did their thing. Of note was one little girl (a 52kg lifter) who walked into the warmup room and tried to pull 185lbs cold and didn’t get it off the floor. I asked what she was opening with and she said 145. She then went out to get all her lifts and break a bunch of records. She’d had prom the night before and had 2 hours sleep. One of our girls got her third squat only to have her wrists roll back on lock out and have the bar roll off her back from a standing position. The spotters got it a few inches off the floor. I’d never seen that one before. She went on to finish and came close to locking out 308lbs beltless as a third on deadlift.
Next year I’ll get involved with their team and the program from the beginning of the season. Apparently, their coach told Frank that the girls really liked having me there and it was very helpful. It was good to hear because I had a blast doing it.
Where are you guys gonna be at? Date, time, and location. I just may be able to take a road trip.[/quote]
The meet is in Belle River
Power Pit Gym, 1530 County Rd. 22
The three lift part starts at 11:00. It should be a fun day. Hopefully we don’t get any rain.[/quote]
Would that be Ontarios King Hwy? And what’s the date?[/quote]
Yes, that is correct. Date is June 5th.
Shit I wish I was going this year.
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Whaddya mean Rugger, you’re not gonna be there this year?! What the hell, who am I gonna share my pizza buns with, and who is gonna rub baby powder all over my svelte sexy cougar like physique, huh?!
Where are you guys gonna be at? Date, time, and location. I just may be able to take a road trip.[/quote]
The meet is in Belle River
Power Pit Gym, 1530 County Rd. 22
The three lift part starts at 11:00. It should be a fun day. Hopefully we don’t get any rain.[/quote]
Would that be Ontarios King Hwy? And what’s the date?[/quote]
Yes, that is correct. Date is June 5th.
Shit I wish I was going this year.
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Whaddya mean Rugger, you’re not gonna be there this year?! What the hell, who am I gonna share my pizza buns with, and who is gonna rub baby powder all over my svelte sexy cougar like physique, huh?!
Damn. I’m not going now.[/quote]
You can always stop in at my place the night before on your way out and we can share pizza buns while applying the baby powder… no need to miss out on all the fun.
Where are you guys gonna be at? Date, time, and location. I just may be able to take a road trip.[/quote]
The meet is in Belle River
Power Pit Gym, 1530 County Rd. 22
The three lift part starts at 11:00. It should be a fun day. Hopefully we don’t get any rain.[/quote]
Would that be Ontarios King Hwy? And what’s the date?[/quote]
Yes, that is correct. Date is June 5th.
Shit I wish I was going this year.
[/quote]
Whaddya mean Rugger, you’re not gonna be there this year?! What the hell, who am I gonna share my pizza buns with, and who is gonna rub baby powder all over my svelte sexy cougar like physique, huh?!
Damn. I’m not going now.[/quote]
You can always stop in at my place the night before on your way out and we can share pizza buns while applying the baby powder… no need to miss out on all the fun.[/quote]
ummmmm… ahhh… ahem let me get back to you on that :0
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
So Ruggerlife, did it really take almost 2 hours to get your shirt off?[/quote]
haha, yeah it did and now almost 12 hours later parts of my arm are still a little numb! I think I need a smaller shirt…
Oh, and by the way only a sick bastard would start talking about the Saw movie series when someone is in that position. :)[/quote]
He didn’t mention that part. It must have been on his mind because I was telling him the other night that I can’t watch them.
He said it took 1/2 hour to get it on you. You couldn’t move 275 and inch. He loaded 365. You unracked and reracked. He said your forearms looked like blue smurfs. You both then spent almost 2 hours getting it off. Did he at least cuddle or make you a drink?
I reminded him about the time Stevie had to take his squat suit off in the bathroom at the Y after his repeated fails at removal.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
So Ruggerlife, did it really take almost 2 hours to get your shirt off?[/quote]
haha, yeah it did and now almost 12 hours later parts of my arm are still a little numb! I think I need a smaller shirt…
Oh, and by the way only a sick bastard would start talking about the Saw movie series when someone is in that position. :)[/quote]
He didn’t mention that part. It must have been on his mind because I was telling him the other night that I can’t watch them.
He said it took 1/2 hour to get it on you. You couldn’t move 275 and inch. He loaded 365. You unracked and reracked. He said your forearms looked like blue smurfs. You both then spent almost 2 hours getting it off. Did he at least cuddle or make you a drink?
I reminded him about the time Stevie had to take his squat suit off in the bathroom at the Y after his repeated fails at removal.
I love this sport :)[/quote]
Nah, no cuddling, but after we got the first sleeve off and took a short break while I regained some feeling in my arm, I went to the washroom and mentioned that it was a good thing that sleeve was off or he would have to hold it for me.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
When you don’t have any friends no one can help you with your gear. Guess I’ll have to stay raw.[/quote]
Ditto brother… or end up looking like Houdini trying to get out of a straight jacket while suspended over Niagara Falls
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
When you don’t have any friends no one can help you with your gear. Guess I’ll have to stay raw.[/quote]
Ditto brother… or end up looking like Houdini trying to get out of a straight jacket while suspended over Niagara Falls[/quote]
Although I’m interested in seeing your Houdini act, I train almost always alone including using gear. The issue becomes that you can’t always train with extremely tight gear.
Thanks for the good wishes. I just have to make it through work today. It’s been a week from hell of in early, stay late and my back is feeling like hell from being hunched over blue prints.
I’m hoping to get some videos. I’m taking my camera but it depends who’s there to ask.
