I spoke with Todd after I posted them and I expect his comments on here later (hint hint)… he said the same thing about my form and not exerting myself too much at this weight. It was after I donated blood, so I wasn’t lifting as “heavy”.
I haven’t tested my max, however Todd also said it would be interesting to see what part of the lift I fail on, so I might try that soon-ish. Right now my grip is my limiting factor. Working on it all.
As for my 225 goal, do you really want to know the answer? I’ll hint and say I haven’t squatted heavy in 6 weeks exactly today. [/quote]
I feel your pain, tomorrow I’m gonna do my first squat workout in 3 weeks and I have convinced myself I’ve lost half my strength. Its silly how mental heavy lifting can be.
No biggie on the squat goal, plans don’t always go as planned. You’re still making great gains! Progress is progress, and you’re kicking ass. lol my gains are so slow that I live vicariously through others now. My wife and I lift in our homegym (yay for barefeet lifting) and I get more excited about her PRs than mine. Have you set any interim goal in the meantime??
Totally go for it on the deadlift 1RM. My deadlift rule is that if you aren’t screaming, you aren’t lifting enough weight! Keep that in mind if you try for the 1RM, and I guarantee you’ll have all kinds of new fans in the gym.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Do you live in a gravityless area?[/quote]
Seriously! I’m jealous. I’m jealous of the squats, I’m jealous of the DL, I’m jealous that running boy has his act together. Come to cleveland, I want to kick your ass, it’ll make me feel better.
[quote]borrek wrote:
No biggie on the squat goal, plans don’t always go as planned. You’re still making great gains! Progress is progress, and you’re kicking ass. [/quote]
Okay my hint didn’t go as planned. I surpassed 225 much ahead of schedule and am going through a spine-deload phase and working on my deadlift. Sorry for ruining the surprise
I miss heavy squatting but my body has been loving me lately because of it. Plus I get to Deadlift which is always fun.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Do you live in a gravityless area?[/quote]
Actually our gym has these sweet invisible machines that lift the weight for you. That way you can look like you’re super strong even if you’re not.
Seriously tho, O keep in mind that I have a solid bit of weight on you. I can’t remember offhand what you competed at, but I’m currently sitting tight around 155 (though I haven’t been watching my diet as closely recently).
I will prove the lack of gravitylessness (haha oh wow) when I video my bench. Don’t worry, that won’t be for a while. It’s embarrassing.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Do you live in a gravityless area?
Seriously! I’m jealous. I’m jealous of the squats, I’m jealous of the DL, I’m jealous that running boy has his act together. Come to cleveland, I want to kick your ass, it’ll make me feel better.
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Sweetheart, I wouldn’t step foot near Cleveland because with all the bjj you’ve been doing, you’d kick my ass before I even knew what was happening.
But thanks for the compliments. I’ll read them to feel good about myself after my next bench session when I feel like a weak little girl.
I’d say something about how it has to do with Todd’s help, blah blah blah, but he’d say he just told me ‘what’ to do and it was me that pushed myself harder than anyone else, etc. However Todd, feel free to say that anyways
[quote]Court wrote:
borrek wrote:
No biggie on the squat goal, plans don’t always go as planned. You’re still making great gains! Progress is progress, and you’re kicking ass.
Okay my hint didn’t go as planned. I surpassed 225 much ahead of schedule and am going through a spine-deload phase and working on my deadlift. Sorry for ruining the surprise
I miss heavy squatting but my body has been loving me lately because of it. Plus I get to Deadlift which is always fun.[/quote]
Nice work! Now you just need to get your bench up and do some pullups before you’re able to throw together a sweet montage of lifts together on youtube with Disturbed playing in the background.
The reference to gravity was my way of excusing my own lack of lift weight. You know how some guys excuse their lack of size on genetics. They’ll never get big because they are genetically disadvantaged (hahaha). I live in an area with Jupiteresque levels of gravity. At least that’s my approximation.
btw, I competed at 121 (54.9kg). It’s all official because now it’s documented on the CPU website. There’s nothing like having your weight and age public It’s just good that they don’t put your real hair colour.
[quote]Court wrote:
I spoke with Todd after I posted them and I expect his comments on here later (hint hint)… he said the same thing about my form and not exerting myself too much at this weight. It was after I donated blood, so I wasn’t lifting as “heavy”.
I haven’t tested my max, however Todd also said it would be interesting to see what part of the lift I fail on, so I might try that soon-ish. Right now my grip is my limiting factor. Working on it all.[/quote]
Ok. You want my thoughts. Your form is much better in this video than it was when I “yelled” at you the other week. To give you an idea of what I mean. In your video you can see the direct response of the weight as you come out of your squat…it moves up with you.
Last week you would begin to lift and only when your arms and legs locked out did the weight start to come up. I imagine as you get more into PLing you’re going to want to work on your grip.
You can do lots of things to improve your grip. I’d even wager people reading this have some suggestions. If they don’t, there’s this new search feature on T-Nation… it’s great! And if you’re too lazy for that you can ask me and I’ll give you something torturous like towels hangs or something.
Like someone else said, you have 185lbs in you easily. I’ll lend you some chalk and you can give 'er. Remove the grip issue from your head and just ‘lift heavy things’.
I failed at 405lbs today. Damn dieting and low carbs!
[quote]Sayjin wrote:
Nice work! Now you just need to get your bench up and do some pullups before you’re able to throw together a sweet montage of lifts together on youtube with Disturbed playing in the background.[/quote]
So once I film all of my lifts, are you going to turn it into a montage and put Disturbed in the background for me? Is that what you just offered?
And yes, I need to work on bench. And pullups. I have all the leg strength in the world, but have no upper body strength. It too will come.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
The reference to gravity was my way of excusing my own lack of lift weight. You know how some guys excuse their lack of size on genetics. They’ll never get big because they are genetically disadvantaged (hahaha). I live in an area with Jupiteresque levels of gravity. At least that’s my approximation.
btw, I competed at 121 (54.9kg). It’s all official because now it’s documented on the CPU website. There’s nothing like having your weight and age public It’s just good that they don’t put your real hair colour.[/quote]
I know it was. I was just trying to say it’s all relative. I have 30lbs on you. I should be able to lift heavier.
Oh and by genetically disadvantaged did you mean to refer to them as women? I mean we’re certainly mentally challenged, are we also genetically disadvantaged since we can’t (or rather, shouldn’t) pee standing up?
[quote]ddot76 wrote:
Ok. You want my thoughts. Your form is much better in this video than it was when I “yelled” at you the other week. To give you an idea of what I mean. In your video you can see the direct response of the weight as you come out of your squat…it moves up with you.
Last week you would begin to lift and only when your arms and legs locked out did the weight start to come up. I imagine as you get more into PLing you’re going to want to work on your grip. [/quote]
I wonder what I was on last week? Cuz that just sounds painful!
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You can do lots of things to improve your grip. I’d even wager people reading this have some suggestions. If they don’t, there’s this new search feature on T-Nation… it’s great! And if you’re too lazy for that you can ask me and I’ll give you something torturous like towels hangs or something. [/quote]
That doesn’t sound like fun. What makes it sound like even less fun is I’m not sure I can hold my own body weight unless my arms are locked. Sad I know
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Like someone else said, you have 185lbs in you easily. I’ll lend you some chalk and you can give 'er. Remove the grip issue from your head and just ‘lift heavy things’. [/quote]
Fine. Next week. Me, chalk, heavier deadlifts. I’ll video if you’re not there so you can see where I stick.
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I failed at 405lbs today. Damn dieting and low carbs! [/quote]
It’s okay, you’re almost there. Less than 5 weeks to go. Then you can eat carbs again and stop being such a crank I can’t wait to make my sign for my comp. It will be better than the one for your hockey game, I promise!
So I’m starting to get a little self-conscious/paranoid about my legs.
First, a girl friend of mine refers to them as “big”.
Then, last week at the gym, some random guy approached another girl friend of mine (who she’s seen around the gym, but never spoken to or even given the nod to) and asked if she was friends with “The blonde with the really big legs. Like big muscular big but big.” She said yes and he then walked away. Nothing more to the conversation. Kind of weird.
But seriously, I was paranoid about getting tree trunk legs and I’m starting to feel like they might be there :S
Just my 2 cents worth and i am only going on your avatar pic and D/L vids (nice form BTW)
Anyway you do not have big legs. no need to get paranoid young lady.
[quote]Court wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
The reference to gravity was my way of excusing my own lack of lift weight. You know how some guys excuse their lack of size on genetics. They’ll never get big because they are genetically disadvantaged (hahaha). I live in an area with Jupiteresque levels of gravity. At least that’s my approximation.
btw, I competed at 121 (54.9kg). It’s all official because now it’s documented on the CPU website. There’s nothing like having your weight and age public It’s just good that they don’t put your real hair colour.
I know it was. I was just trying to say it’s all relative. I have 30lbs on you. I should be able to lift heavier.
Oh and by genetically disadvantaged did you mean to refer to them as women? I mean we’re certainly mentally challenged, are we also genetically disadvantaged since we can’t (or rather, shouldn’t) pee standing up?[/quote]
I know it’s all relative. If I took it too seriously I’d feel much worse comparing my self to all the guys I train with.
FWIW, when my WILKs score breaks 300, I think I will pee standing up. It was 269 from the meet. I like to set modest goals. I’m not sure what I’ll do if I ever hit 350.
I’m not seeing big tree trunk legs either. I find though, with myself all it takes is a comment from one person to make me paranoid.
I think your legs are big as in muscular and strong too. Your calves in your avatar pic are gorgeous. Firm and curvy. And you’ve got that great indent on the side of your thigh.
I get the same complex at times but then I look at an old picture with skinny legs and realize I prefer them bigger! Most days. Besides, it feels good to walk on strong legs, don’t you think?
[quote]debraD wrote:
I think your legs are big as in muscular and strong too. Your calves in your avatar pic are gorgeous. Firm and curvy. And you’ve got that great indent on the side of your thigh.
I get the same complex at times but then I look at an old picture with skinny legs and realize I prefer them bigger! Most days. Besides, it feels good to walk on strong legs, don’t you think?[/quote]
It definitely does! And I love being able to squat heavy. Even though some guys make comments about why would I want to lift that heavy, girls aren’t supposed to lift that heavy. Ha!
I guess I’m just a little paranoid because it was really only a year ago that I had fat thighs and not muscular ones (well they were muscular, but hiding under fat)… and seeing old pics make me cringe. I just don’t want to do that again.
Just so we’re clear, I didn’t post that to get all sorts of compliments. I was just venting.
Also, Todd was a dear again and put me in my place commenting on my cardio (or lack of) and diet. I said it was my log and I could whine, vent, bitch and complain if I wanted to!
