Oh & for you Patches, my new sexy Do-Win shoes!
I’m a total TOM deloader, but I just do it by feel. I mean, if i feel ok getting into the gym and not too tired or achey I’ll get in and do my thing. And I’ll put as much energy into the workout as I feel, which sometimes makes for a pretty good workout! But then other times I’ll just scrap the whole thing and go curl up on the couch…it really depends for me.
But yeah, when I play soccer, there’s no, “sorry, can’t play today, i’m on the rag” lol! So we just have to suck it up! Which is particularly lame when we’re doing time trials and things like that.
UGH! I’m not a morning workout person either! I’m a morning person, just not a physical one. More like a cerebral morning person. lol! I like my mornings with coffee, and internet, and talk radio…and then later in the day, I can start moving 
Love the shoes!! Pink is a lovely color for the bad-assery of Oly shoes!
I’ll play around with it Maschy, see how I feel. The first day or two though I’m f-ing wiped, can barely make it to work. I mean this oly stuff was just supposed to be a supplementation. I don’t know just yet how serious I want to take it, if it is just exercise or something else. Not even sure I want to compete, but I’m slowly being talked into it. I’ll keep my mind open.
Yesterday had a good session. I borrowed one of nlmain’s saying, I asked the bar if it wanted to play today? It actually hasn’t spoken to me yet, well with words anyway, but I’m still waiting for the voice.
Coach let me do it off the floor, I nearly squeeled with delight. A couple of sessions sooner than he said he would. The weight feels so much lighter picking it from the floor, gonna add some more. But I can understand him wanting be to start from the beginning over again. These last 2 weeks have been very very consistent, its been easier with no diving.
Speaking of which, the diving test is scheduled again for this Sunday. Its gotten to the point where its dragged on & on on my nerves, I’m so wound up about it now.
congrats on your shoes! you do have some crazy wrist flexibility… are you able to wrap them almost immobile? i got scared about niggles in my wrists for a while so i started wrapping them pretty tightly. i couldn’t bend them back for the catch at all - but the weight would force them into the right position without any threat of over-extension (if that makes sense). but i surely don’t have your wrist flexibility.
hopefully the rapport with your current coach will come. cool that those people didn’t just take over that space once they arrived. sorry to hear your diving test is dragging out, rather. fingers crossed for you that it is all over and done with soon and that it goes well.
Lexi’s back! We missed you around these parts. Can’t wait to hear about your new place & coach. Yeah I try to wrap the wrists tight enough. In between sets I usually do some wrist strengthening, just lifting a weight to make it stronger when it bends back.
Ah stupid diving test, I feel like I’m being over dramatic. Oh woe is me & all the shit. Gotta snap the fuck out of it.
This whole consistent & frequent training is certainly paying off. Off de floor snatching was good, no coach or not even another oly lifter to offer some tips, but except for maybe 2 reps everything felt solid. I landed on my toes on those 2 reps, never done that before so I’m not sure what I did wrong. But I won’t dwell on it. Back up to 25kg (again, finally!). Also I noticed that one foot lands a split second before the other. I don’t here one solid stomp when I land, but ta boom, if that makes sense.
Not sure how soon the coach wants me to keep adding weights, he’s rather conservative, that 25 felt easy peasy enough. I have lots of little issues to correct anyway, like building my wrist up, making sure my hip flexors don’t act up with squatting, etc. And just consistently nailing the technique where I don’t have to think too much about it, when I get tired I really have to concentrate. I felt very very very good leaving the gym last night.
Did presses because I don’t know what I’m doing with the jerks, did front squats, intervals on treadmill, some rowing & some ab & knee-hab work.
Went home feeling mighty fine, certainly got that high. Looking forward to tonight’s workout.
Oh yeah and for those interested here are the numbers, I keep track on my other log. The weight is nothing to sneeze at though, since I kinda started over again.
5x3
Hang snatch 22kg
Full snathc 25kg
4x5
Presses 27kg
Front Squat 35kg
3x10
Abs
Frogot to log, the other day I did a short yoga sequence, hadn’t done yoga in yonks, but it felt goooood, got in the zone, although a bit out of practice & not so flowing. Might add another short one tomorrow. Have to do it in my bedroom though.
Not sure about my knee, its not getting worse, I have to wrap it most times, but its not up to its usual self. I’m taking it easy on the squats, just slowly building up.
yay for being consistent!!! lol
YAY officially CMAS 2** star diver. Leading the dive went better for me than I thought. Viz was the worst though, only managed to see one fish & two crabs, there were probably more but it felt like night once we got to 17 metros. Towing & my little rescue stuff went fine (its not a full rescue test though, just enough if something happens to your buddy). I rattled off all the 4 physic laws and how it affects divers smoothly. The only thing was I could only remember one type of burst lung & forgot to name the most basic of all treatments, calling the coast guard on the radio (duh!)
I’m glad to fuck its over though & I’m sure anyone who’s bothered to read my log is glad I’m not moaning about it anymore.
Hey, congrats and glad you passed. Must be a relief!
congrats dude!!!
Congrats on passing the diving test!
I find it amusing how often men just think women should ‘suck it up’ during the TOM. I think most of them would be curled up in a ball all week and not do anything if they had to go through some of the cramps, etc. I get taken out by headaches more than anything else.
Cal-big relief!
Lexi-Thanks Dudette
Pixie-Thanks again. Yeah, like I said my coach is 85, very old school. And my sometimes training partner says she just trains right through hers, although we all know not every female suffers the same. I have no problem doing some things but anything that gives me leg DOMS just makes the cramps 10 times worse. Feel like someone is twisting a knife in my spine. But its only for really 1-2 days. My previous coach was much more understanding, and was even going to write a program around it for me. Oh well next week its coming.
Have you ever looked into ways to alleviate some of that ‘female stuff?’ sounds brutal…
Congrats on passing!!!
Thanks MiMsy. Oh yeah I’ve had a few things, from yoga to major drugs (can’t function on the drugs really except I’ll take two when I’m trying to sleep). I actually found a great yoga move to do, it involves twisting the back, so while not ideal for us lifters, it does wonders.
Nothing really seems to help except major stress relief. Doesn’t help with the pain directly but I’m able to handle the pain better. I’ve done a few pain management classes, I have managed to really lessen the pain but I actually have to be in a quiet dark room with barely any noise, focus on my breath & relaxing each part of my body. Then for each breath in you really concentrate on feeling the pain, with each exhalation you let go of the pain. This way you are not running away from the pain but you are controlling it, the spasms don’t take you by surprise.
As for the yoga move, again not ideal for lifters since it twists the back and can put some twork on the knees, but if you keep the foot flexed and in line with the knee cap, it does lessen it. The big trick I found with this move is to squeeze the inner thighs towards each other and really really concentrate on spreading the back part of my pelvis apart, thus enhancing the “Apana Vayu” (yoga speak for downward flow). it seems a lot of the pain really stems from my spine through my pelvis and down into my thighs. sometimes getting my L3 loosened a couple of days before helps.
congratulations, Miss CMAS 2 diver! What a relief 
^^I always end up hurting my back trying that move, but I think I tend to get carried away with it. Your pain management classes sound interesting, I’m glad you’re finding something that works for you.
Ok well I’m going to have to rethink my goal of 40kg by Xmas time, not sure if it is a realistic goal, because…
I nearly got 40kg last night! I got it up but couldn’t get out of the hole. It didn’t feel heavy just couldn’t get up. We started with 25kg, my first 2 sets were er… but then the last 3 I nailed it, so my coach decided to do a test, we did 30 first (easy peasy), then 35kg (still easy), we then did 40kg, went up fine, didn’t even think about the weight just concentrated on techique & putting the aggression in the right place. It went up, but I couldn’t. So now I’m wondering what my goal for xmas should be now???
Worked on jerking, gotta a good tip about pushing out & locking my shoulders.
Went up to 40kg on the front squats too. 4 sets of 5 reps, coach wants to test my max next week, probably Sunday, before my TOM hits me.
Ah truth be told though, even though things are progressing for me, I had a major panic attack Sat night before my test. I have not had one of those since I was a teenager. I think its due to self doubt, I don’t have time at the moment to really think about it though. Its go go go this week. Wanted to take some time after work yesterday but I knew I’d better get my butt in the gym, and of course I’m glad I did. I just need some time all to myself. But still, fuck me, if this 2 weeks of solid training hasn’t paid off.
[quote]cholulalula wrote:
congratulations, Miss CMAS 2 diver! What a relief
^^I always end up hurting my back trying that move, but I think I tend to get carried away with it. Your pain management classes sound interesting, I’m glad you’re finding something that works for you. [/quote]
Thanks, I’m happy enough to put up my fins till Xmas though, concentrate on other things.
Yeah that move, my hips get real cranky, but it does help with my cramps that any other pain isn’t a big deal
Oof, well I guess my 40kg goal is still relevant by Xmas. Think the goal will be to get USED TO & finishing lifting 40kg, at least a few times. 25kg felt really heavy last night, everything was slow. But at least I know that I can handle a bigger weight. I wasn’t afraid of it.
Jerks are starting to feel better, maybe I’ll like them… eventually.
40kg front squat was a bit tougher yesterday. But good news is my coach didn’t notice any corkscrewing up.
Did some core work and a few bits of rowing.
congrats on catching the 40kg!!!
you probably were so surprised / happy you caught it that you sort of forgot about having to stand it up! at least that is what happened to me a fair few times on that weight.
oly lifting can be a strange beast…
i remember that getting 35kg was a major thing for me. most days 32.5kg was really unreliable… but then once i got 35kg once it just kept reliably going up for quite some time. and 36… 37… 37.5… 38… 39.5 seemed to go up fairly reliably too. but not 40kg!! then all of a sudden 35kg didn’t want to play anymore. ugh. really can be a one step forwards couple steps back kinda thing. but then sometimes you get periods where you just can’t seem to do wrong.
all i mean to say is that it might be the case that 40kg becomes reliable really soon. or… it might be the case that you don’t come close to it again for a while. oly lifting is a weird one. keep 40kg as a goal. then once you got it reliability is a worthwhile goal. and then of course 41kg (or whatever increase your coach lets ya do).
i’m coming to learn the value of doubles. guess the idea is to get a good volume of good reps to help build confidence and reinforce form. been doing doubles with 35kg and finding that in the later sets it feels much heavier than 35kg because i’m tired. i think that doing the doubles @35kg when i’m tired has been most helpful for me getting 40kg when i’m fresh. it doesn’t feel any heavier.
you are doing so well!!!
congrats on the dive cert.
as for my state of mind facing the bar I do not ask it anything. I tell it “today we play. today we dance” assertiveness is key.
panick attacks are a bitch. channel your inner warrior/lionness/image of strength. A lioness doesn’t panick. She breaths and plots the kill to feed and survive.