Yeah your hips came up a little fast but not that fast. Frankly thats better than most peoples form who aren’t recovering from injury. Its still damn fine work.
now go have a steak and a beer.
Yeah, yeah…nice chins, nice deadlift. Whatever.
I’m here to say niiiicce legs. kthx
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
175-lb. conventional DL. First time pulling singles since March. The weight was very manageable, but I’m not happy with my form. Hips rising first and hyperextension on the lockout. Don’t ask about the arm flapping. It’s just something I do.[/quote]
I think that looked nice. If it’s a heavy weight for you, your form won’t be spot on. It didn’t look bad to me. As for the flapping arms, I only recently discovered that I do finger twitches.
Nice DL. I could look back and find it I’m sure, but I’ll be lazy and just ask: what was your best pre-injury?
Chins looked good too. My wife can only do negatives at this point, but shes a reformed marathon runner.
nlmain: Thanks for all your kind comments. I think you’re pretty great yourself. Not everyone would have the fortitude to drop their squat poundage the way you did to fix the depth issue. You’ve come back so strong.
Thanks Git and Joe. You guys always boost my ego. Love that.
Carl: That deadlift wasn’t my max, but I’m not used to pulling heavy singles. I pulled 215 lb. raw at my second meet at 109 lb. bodyweight. In recent training, I’ve always thrown the gear on once I’m over 200 lb. So I’d guess my raw max was about 2x bodyweight before my injury. I pulled 242.5 (2.2x bodyweight) geared at my last meet. I’m one of those DLers who can lock it out if I can break the weight from the floor. So my speed is almost always decent, Scott.
Finger twitching, O? The arm flapping thing is weird and much more frantic on the platform. I really love watching the idiosyncracies of other lifters.
I won’t bore you with all the details of today’s training. But I did do:
Flat Bench
8/45
8/50
8/55
2/7/60
I am so weak. The bar is rising on a steep angle, with [obviously] my repaired shoulder side lagging. I must do DBs to even up the strength. 60 pounds and it was hard. Geez. I gotta admit that I’m really afraid to strain.
Then did CGB, bentover BB rows, bis, tris, cuff stuff, etc.
Oh come on, Git and I live for the details.
I am happy for you. That 175 went up easy, and there is obviously more there. Yep, hips and hyperextension but you will fix that quickly.
Pardon me whilst I go bash my head against the wall. Last month I couldn’t break 175 off the floor despite my max being 10 lbs. more. Jealous, much?
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
I am happy for you. That 175 went up easy, and there is obviously more there. Yep, hips and hyperextension but you will fix that quickly.
Pardon me whilst I go bash my head against the wall. Last month I couldn’t break 175 off the floor despite my max being 10 lbs. more. Jealous, much?[/quote]
You need to get yourself a set of thighs like mine and your squat and DL numbers will climb.
Seriously, you know how closely I follow your log and much admire your perseverance and mental outlook.
Is there anyone else at your gym that powerlifts?
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
Is there anyone else at your gym that powerlifts?[/quote]
Not that I’m aware of. Other than my coach. Why do you ask?
I was just wondering. Because im the only male at are local Y that powerlifts.Plus one of the few that uses the power rack other then for arm curls. Needless to say im a oddity here. I cant imagine what its like as a women doing it where your at.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
I was just wondering. Because im the only male at are local Y that powerlifts.Plus one of the few that uses the power rack other then for arm curls. Needless to say im a oddity here. I cant imagine what its like as a women doing it where your at.[/quote]
Interesting that you mention this given the conversation about “relative strength” in your log.
Have you looked at my numbers lately? I’m small. I don’t lift that much. So I don’t tend to draw attention. No one looks at the 110-lb. woman squatting 135 lb. and thinks, “Wow, she’s strong.” But if I were a 165-lb. woman squatting 200 lb., everyone would be watching even though the strength-to-weight ratio is the same.
I am one of the only women in my gym who squats in the cage (some women squat in the smith). And it’s really rare to see other woman doing DLs, oly lifts, and GMs, all of which I regularly do. But whether anyone notices or cares, I have no idea.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Flat Bench
8/45
8/50
8/55
2/7/60
I am so weak. The bar is rising on a steep angle, with [obviously] my repaired shoulder side lagging. I must do DBs to even up the strength. 60 pounds and it was hard. Geez. I gotta admit that I’m really afraid to strain.
Then did CGB, bentover BB rows, bis, tris, cuff stuff, etc.
[/quote]
Lady - “Get your mind right!” to be benching AT ALL after where you were 5 months ago is a tribute to no only your surgeon but also to your perseverance! Just last week you were nervous about benching the bar and now you are complaining about being weak doing 2 set sets of 7 at 60?
Spend some time (at least a month or two) rebuilding your base and getting that shoulder up to par…
and yes - git is right. Those are some nice legs…
Most of the women at our gym have learned that straight leg deads and GMs work pretty good at rounding the posterior. See women doing them all the time.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
I was just wondering. Because im the only male at are local Y that powerlifts.Plus one of the few that uses the power rack other then for arm curls. Needless to say im a oddity here. I cant imagine what its like as a women doing it where your at.[/quote]
Interesting that you mention this given the conversation about “relative strength” in your log.
Have you looked at my numbers lately? I’m small. I don’t lift that much. So I don’t tend to draw attention. No one looks at the 110-lb. woman squatting 135 lb. and thinks, “Wow, she’s strong.” But if I were a 165-lb. woman squatting 200 lb., everyone would be watching even though the strength-to-weight ratio is the same.
I am one of the only women in my gym who squats in the cage (some women squat in the smith). And it’s really rare to see other woman doing DLs, oly lifts, and GMs, all of which I regularly do. But whether anyone notices or cares, I have no idea.[/quote]
There’s a lot of different kind of strength. Your mental strength through your recovery is phenomenal. You have a will of iron.
I think anyone would notice a woman squatting 135 if just because she’s using the big wheels. That jump right there seems to separate a lot of people from the pack. I never thought anyone really noticed me either until I squatted at the gym last night facing out. Boy do people watch. You probably just never see it.
You probably compare yourself to other competitive lifters like I do and maybe aren’t all that impressed with yourself. I can pretty much guarantee you are noticed and people are impressed. Of course they’re also probably worried about how you’re wrecking your knees squatting past parallel too:)
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
I was just wondering. Because im the only male at are local Y that powerlifts.Plus one of the few that uses the power rack other then for arm curls. Needless to say im a oddity here. I cant imagine what its like as a women doing it where your at.[/quote]
Interesting that you mention this given the conversation about “relative strength” in your log.
Have you looked at my numbers lately? I’m small. I don’t lift that much. So I don’t tend to draw attention. No one looks at the 110-lb. woman squatting 135 lb. and thinks, “Wow, she’s strong.” But if I were a 165-lb. woman squatting 200 lb., everyone would be watching even though the strength-to-weight ratio is the same.
I am one of the only women in my gym who squats in the cage (some women squat in the smith). And it’s really rare to see other woman doing DLs, oly lifts, and GMs, all of which I regularly do. But whether anyone notices or cares, I have no idea.[/quote]
I think “Wow” everytime I see anybody squating even close to deep enough.
O, you are totally right. Snap is delusional if she thinks that she is going unnoticed in the gym. I’m betting she is just so focused on her work that she doesn’t see anyone else.
Snap, my husband watches me lift all the time and has a birds eye view of the attention it attracts from others. According to him, it is absolutely mesmerizing for men to see a women our size do anything with the bar and 45s. Its the relative bigness of the plates v. the smallness of the body that makes them unable to look away.
So, yeah. Its not that the watchers are marveling at your strength (although they do in a way), its more like they can’t believe this is happening.
^^ X2
I rarely lift at gyms with women lifters. In my gym at school, its usually just me, and sometimes one of the other male teachers. When we visit my wife’s family in Ohio, there’s a hardcore gym I lift at, no women allowed. There, squats and deadlifts are common, olympic lifts are not rare. One time two summers ago, I even got to coach a lifter on his snatches. On other vacations, I drop into random gyms. I’ve never seen women doing any serious lifting (and only rarely for men). If I did I would most certainly notice and watch. Ouroboro and kimba are right. Damn near every person in that gym notices and watches what you are doing. Half probably think you are crazy, but a good number of the rest are inspired. Some might even start doing some serious lifting just because of having seen you do it.
Funny these rushes to my defense. Although I appreciate it. Maybe people do notice. I was only responding to Bulldog’s question. Not lamenting that nobody notices my efforts. I don’t really care. Sometimes I actually wish I didn’t love this sport so much.
I did a spin class today (gasp). Truly, it kicked my ass. Those cardio intervals. Gotta commit to something like that once a week. Running sprints or spin. Or some other torture. I really hate fabricated cardio.