Revolution is My Name

Training
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Hahahahaha kidding! Good workout! I bet you are incredibly sore today!

And BTW, had to jump in when a guy at the gym was trying to get his girlfriend to squat on Saturday… I mean… he gets SLIGHT props for realizing that the squat is a good movement, and that it would benefit his girlfriend to do them… but you don’t start someone BRAND NEW to squats with 45 lbs on their back! He didn’t even ask her to try a body weight squat first… he just threw the weight on her back… WTF? Then in between sets of her freaking out while the bar was on her back (even though his hands were on it and he was partially lifting it) he would do his sets… worked up to 185 on close stance QUARTER SQUATS… NOT impressed!

I hopped in and asked her to do a BW Squat… it wasn’t pretty. Tried to get her to sit back on a box… much better… then he throws a 45 on her again and she falls to pieces. He didn’t seem too happy with my offering help… but I was afraid he would turn her off to squatting forever…

Stupid boys!

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[quote]mmgalb727 wrote:
Court wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
On another note, let me know how your traps feel after the cleans. It kills mine and I love it.

My traps are KILLING me! My glutes and hammies are sore, my quads are sore and my lower biceps are sore. I haven’t felt like this in a while! lol

Have you ever thought about not being a pussy?[/quote]

heeheehee

I’m in a fiesty mood tonight :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hahah that’s OK… I am used to it =D

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[quote]mmgalb727 wrote:
Hahah that’s OK… I am used to it =D[/quote]

It’s my new fave pic I have and had planned on using it on PMPM, but couldn’t think of a witty remark for your response. I’ll have to reuse it on her some other time.

But I only said I was sore cuz Ouro asked. You’re just a bully :smiley: I saved my real whining for Bartl lol.

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[quote]Court wrote:
mmgalb727 wrote:
Hahah that’s OK… I am used to it =D

It’s my new fave pic I have and had planned on using it on PMPM, but couldn’t think of a witty remark for your response. I’ll have to reuse it on her some other time.

But I only said I was sore cuz Ouro asked. You’re just a bully :smiley: I saved my real whining for Bartl lol.[/quote]

They are pretty good aren’t they. That’s why I’m doing them all the time. It kills my whole body.

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I’ve been having the weirdest on and off flu symptoms. Like Thursday night I was a complete write-off, as well as most of Friday… felt better yesterday and went and deadlifted heavy.

Warm Up
Foam Rolling
Mobility

Deadlift (Sumo)
135x5
185x3
205x3
225x1
265x1x2

My ART/Chiro guy gave me 2 exercises to do to help with my sucky bench. Here are my names for them:

Chest press scapula thingy (3 sets of 6)
Pronated bicep uppercut thingy (3 sets of 6)

I felt like a twat doing the uppercut thingy ones since everyone was doing curls (for the girls) and probably just thought I didn’t know how to do them right. Plus I just looked like a twat.

I was pretty tired after this and had a bachelorette party to attend last night so that was all she wrote. I’m happy with my 2 singles at 265. There was like 10 min between them, but considering my PB at the moment is 286, I’m pretty damn happy. I was really slow off the floor (as usual) but it went up quickly once it got moving.

Leading up to my next meet, I’m going to deadlift every other week (heavy-ish depending on how I feel) and the week in between will be some deficit deads to help with floor speed and maybe some rackpulls.

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When is your next meet, Court?

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[quote]skyel7 wrote:
When is your next meet, Court?[/quote]

Hey Stranger!

It’s gonna be June 6th. And I made the executive decision tonight that I’m not dieting down to make 67.5kg. I’m going to clean up my diet so I have more energy, but I’m likely going to lift as a lighter 75kg… much less stress and much more food that way :slight_smile:

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I generally don’t lift on Mondays because I have an hour of dodgeball and 1.5hours of volleyball, however I had one of the worst days I’ve had in a very long time and needed to lift heavy shit and blow off some steam.

I called one of the guys I have fun with when we train together this afternoon and I believe the exact words out of my mouth were “I’m going to the gym for 5. I’m in a fucking livid mood and need to lift heavy shit!” So he went for then too and we were bitchy together :smiley:

I deadlifted heavy on Saturday, but after warming up and starting with some squats, I decided I was too pissed to have to wrap and I couldn’t move enough weight raw to get over my horrendous mood, so I deadlifted again :slight_smile: I knew I wanted to pull a single at 275, so I basically just did a bunch of singles.

Sumo Deads
135x5x1
185x3x1
205x1x1
225x1x1
255x1x1
275x1x1
285x0

After I pulled the 275 (which was slow off the floor, but then flew up), I was debating between throwing on 2.5s or 5s. Scott made the executive decision of “go big or go home” so we went with the 5s. Apparently the entire weight floor stopped and watched me as I went to pull it. I pulled and pulled and pulled and pulled and it didn’t even break the floor. I fell back on my ass, leaving 2 nice hand chalkmarks behind and laughed (similar to after my 3rd bench attempt at Niagara for those that were there).

Then I moved on to bench because I still had 45min before I had to leave for dodgeball.

Bench:
45x10x1
65x5x1
80x1x1
95x1x1
105x1x1 (still flying up)
115x0x1 (I pretty much gave up as soon as I brought the weight down)
115x1x1

Scott wouldn’t let me off the bench after my pathetic attempt with the first 115. Actually, he called me a vagina and told me to man up. He said I gave up and if I gave up again, he was leaving me pinned under the bar and would fight anyone that came to help me (I may have given him a similar threat earlier)… It was an ugly as hell single, elbows flared…ugh. I need to learn how to bench again.

I’m heading to Niagara to play with those guys Friday morning and plan on squatting in my suit and remembering how to bench.

Oh and my dodgeball team lost in the semis (only the 2nd game we lost all year) and I saw my life flash before my eyes at volleyball when the guy I carpool with hit it down the line. Apparently without my catlike reflexes it would have hit me square in the face and he would have had to take me to the hospital to get my nose reset (say my team and his team)… that would have been the killer end to my day!

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Personal shitty news, non training related, feel free to skip:

Not much can usually render me speechless, but I found out some really horrible news today.

I was on a work project with this guy for about a year, we got to be pretty close (for professional service firm colleagues), went to our Holiday Party as “solos flying together”, etc. Anyways, I’ve been off that project for a while but just found out I have to go to the same client he’s been at forever for a few days next week, so I messaged him telling him I was heading out and wanted to catch up over coffee/lunch/whatever.

He called me back and said he was sorry he hadn’t told me but he’s been off since mid-Feb as he was diagnosed with cancer. It started as testicular and has spread to both his liver and his lungs. I didn’t know what to say. After we got off the phone, I literally started crying in my office. He’s in good spirits, but is run down and feeling shitty from all the chemo.

I don’t even know what to say, but this has totally put a dark cloud over my day.

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[quote]Court wrote:
Personal shitty news, non training related, feel free to skip:

Not much can usually render me speechless, but I found out some really horrible news today.

I was on a work project with this guy for about a year, we got to be pretty close (for professional service firm colleagues), went to our Holiday Party as “solos flying together”, etc. Anyways, I’ve been off that project for a while but just found out I have to go to the same client he’s been at forever for a few days next week, so I messaged him telling him I was heading out and wanted to catch up over coffee/lunch/whatever.

He called me back and said he was sorry he hadn’t told me but he’s been off since mid-Feb as he was diagnosed with cancer. It started as testicular and has spread to both his liver and his lungs. I didn’t know what to say. After we got off the phone, I literally started crying in my office. He’s in good spirits, but is run down and feeling shitty from all the chemo.

I don’t even know what to say, but this has totally put a dark cloud over my day.[/quote]

I’m sorry to hear that and will keep him in my thoughts. I think we don’t believe we are that impacted by the peripheral people in our lives until something like that happens and you realise they occupy more of your space than you thought.

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[quote]Court wrote:
Personal shitty news, non training related, feel free to skip:

Not much can usually render me speechless, but I found out some really horrible news today.

I was on a work project with this guy for about a year, we got to be pretty close (for professional service firm colleagues), went to our Holiday Party as “solos flying together”, etc. Anyways, I’ve been off that project for a while but just found out I have to go to the same client he’s been at forever for a few days next week, so I messaged him telling him I was heading out and wanted to catch up over coffee/lunch/whatever.

He called me back and said he was sorry he hadn’t told me but he’s been off since mid-Feb as he was diagnosed with cancer. It started as testicular and has spread to both his liver and his lungs. I didn’t know what to say. After we got off the phone, I literally started crying in my office. He’s in good spirits, but is run down and feeling shitty from all the chemo.

I don’t even know what to say, but this has totally put a dark cloud over my day.[/quote]

So sorry to hear this, Court. I hope he can keep fighting the good fight.

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Thanks everyone for the PM’s, messages here, facebook, etc. I just really didn’t realize how much I cared about him as a ‘work friend’ until I heard this. It just doesn’t seem fair - he’s a single 28 year old with Stage IV cancer. Anyways, enough about this, but please keep him in your thoughts.

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So I went and trained tonight. It was either going to be squats or back/shoulders depending on if I could pull my head out of my ass or not regarding my friend.

I succeeded in getting focused and wore my yellow livestrong shirt which let me get it out of my head.

Warm Up - Eliptical - During this time Ouro and I caught up and chatted about nationals and such
Foam Rolling
Mobility
Half of my pre-hab (I wanted to get the squat rack before someone else did).

Squats:
45x10x1
95x5x1
135x3x1
165x3x1
185x1x1
205x1x1
225x1x1 → belt
245x3x3 → belt, wraps

I felt much more comfortable under the rack tonight. Really focused on keeping my upper back tight and sitting back in the hole. I just need to work on doing those two things when I add the belt as I felt I was losing my tightness in the hole when I did. The weight all felt light and I think they were deep enough, though I will have people calling my depth on Friday. I used ddot and ouro as spotters who were more concerned with me not falling on my ass than checking for depth.

DB Neutral Grip Push Press
25sx8x3
Neutral CG Pulldowns (using the traingle thing)
60x10x3

My knees still felt on fire and my feet a little numb as I haven’t wrapped in AGES after I finished that. It was good though :slight_smile: My shoulders feel good right now - worked, tired, but not sore. Oh and my shoulder didn’t bug me at all getting under the squat bar. Woohoo!!

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Went and saw my ART’s ex-wife. She’s also a chiro/ART in the same practice. Anywho, my shoulder has still been bothering me so I went in today and she worked on me. Apparently my AC joint in my right shoulder pretty much doesn’t exist. There is no stability in it whatsoever. I have a bunch of exercises to do…

L2 was also being a biatch and so it had to be tractioned again. She thinks that’ll take care of my hips. She went to town on my rectus femoris as well as my rhomboids. They didn’t like her very much.

Off to Niagara in the morning to squat in my suit and see all the boys down there. Woohoo!!

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Great squat! Keep it up!

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Court!

Contrary to popular belief, I still read your log! However, I saw something the gym yesterday that I had to share.

A guy that is at least 200lbs and ripped to shreds walks up to the squat rack and puts 225 on the bar. I stand there between sets of pullups thinking he is about to crank out some high rep mass building sets. This guy 1/6 squats the weight for 5 reps, knees caving in and buckling like a seat belt. He then walks away never to be seen again.

I’m going to start carrying around little “my condolences” cards around with a picture of you squatting and just stand by the squat rack, handing them out to guys that embarass themselves.

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[quote]Sayjin wrote:
Court!

Contrary to popular belief, I still read your log! However, I saw something the gym yesterday that I had to share.

A guy that is at least 200lbs and ripped to shreds walks up to the squat rack and puts 225 on the bar. I stand there between sets of pullups thinking he is about to crank out some high rep mass building sets. This guy 1/6 squats the weight for 5 reps, knees caving in and buckling like a seat belt. He then walks away never to be seen again.

I’m going to start carrying around little “my condolences” cards around with a picture of you squatting and just stand by the squat rack, handing them out to guys that embarass themselves.[/quote]

Hahahaha thanks Sayj :slight_smile: Wait til after my next meet and I’ll give you an updated pic to use on them :wink:

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So I ventured down to the Niagara club this morning for some fun in my squat suit. I was the only chick out this morning which suited me just fine. Far far too many laughs.

Warm up & mobility

Squat
45x10x1
95x5x1
135x3x1
165x3x1
185x2x1
205x1x1
Into the suit. We went all out - suit, straps up, belt, knee wraps:
235x3x1
265x3x1
295x1x1
315x1x1

Technically my last two are monster PRs, however they’re also in a suit. Meh :smiley:

The weight wasn’t an issue, even with the 315. I was at or just slightly breaking parallel so I need to work on that. If I can keep my chest up when I unrack, I will be okay, so I need to really work on and exaggerate that when lifting raw and lighter. The guys were excited because I handled the weight well and let them experiment with a new wrapping technique on me lol.

I told them I forgot how to bench, so Hoi spent some time with me on that. It was all slow and paused.
Bench:
45x10x1
65x5x1
85x5x1
95x3x1
105x3x1
95+chains x1x2
45+chains x5x2

I basically had just gotten lazy with my technique since I haven’t had anyone watching me. I had Nello & Hoi helping me out so at least now I know.

PS. I got my first exertion rash on my cheeks. It was the first thing my mom pointed out to me when I got home. Hopefully it goes away before the wedding I have tomorrow…

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We went to Starbucks after training (myself and 4 of the guys) and they scoped out chicks. I haven’t laughed that hard in a very very long time.

Two of the guys thought this chick looked like Mischa Barton and I disagreed. Anyway, I was hassling one of them to go up to her and use that as a line “Are you Mischa Barton?”… we all promised to laugh and stare if he did so. He ended up leaving before the rest of us and before you know it, he’s waving, trying to get my attention and then says “I told you it wasn’t”. Damn guy must have pulled a “My friend thinks you’re Mischa…” He ended up chatting with her for a bit and we were all staring and laughing. Super hilarious.

I’m heading down next Saturday and will likely go every Saturday before my meet just to get some time in my suit. I like going there and not even having to think about what is going on the bar. They wrap me, strap me, belt me, chalk me and then I lift. :smiley: