and no, the squats did not look high.
Squatting day. Not my best. Just not feeling it.
Squat
5/45 tried low bar
5/95
4/120 back to high bar + belt
3/135
3/140
2/145 balked on #2 and racked it. Unracked and did a second. Was supposed to do a triple. Just wasn’t feeling strong. This shouldn’t be that hard for me. But it was today.
Reverse Bands
3/175 wraps. So tight because of my lousy effort on the 145. Bruises.
3/185 easy
3/195 relatively easy
Ran outta time so will do accessory work (GMs, RDLs, reverse hypers, lying hammie, good girl/bad girl) in the early morning. I’m finding it hard to fit everything in now that my kids are home 24/7. Gotta figure out how to train and work while still caring for them.
jobs. they need jobs. or summer camp. or college/boarding school. or a nanny.
how old are they? can you tell them to go ‘play survivor’?
your gym doesn’t have a daycare I assume??
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
I think that women are so much better about training smart than men are. We really let ego get in the way of that.
That is such a great point. Less ego, smarter training, maybe more analytical. I’ve learned tons from watching/talking with women lifters.
[quote]Germanone wrote:
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
I think that women are so much better about training smart than men are. We really let ego get in the way of that.
That is such a great point. Less ego, smarter training, maybe more analytical. I’ve learned tons from watching/talking with women lifters.[/quote]
Concur.
I see beginning females using trainers (several trainers are really good) at Gold’s much more often. Almost never ladies doing whatever Muscular Fiction was pushing that month…
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
Great work. For a minute I thought you were going to go hit that front bar too! I’m a huge fan of HLRs after deadlifts as it seems almost theraputic. I also like planks between sets.
I think that women are so much better about training smart than men are. We really let ego get in the way of that.
james[/quote]
Yep, in my experience women learn teh movements and then get competitive as hell. Where men just get competitive.
I must say that my ego does get in the way sometimes. And I’m very competitive. But I’m very open to critique as well. I know that’s the only way I’ll get better.
My kids are at that gray age: 10 and 12. Too young for work, too old for gym daycare centers, too young to be left for long periods. Or at least my daughter is. My son is great with being left at home. Not so for my daughter. She just wants to go everywhere with me. That won’t last! Camps cost a lot of money. And we already pay a lot of money for their sports.
And I must admit. A gym experience for me is a long one. Three or four hours. I have a 30-minute commute each way. Gear takes a lot of time. And I help out my coach with his training as well.
Hmm I’m not liking that the kids are presenting a problem to your training.
You can send them to Auntie Nikki to watch them for the summer. Anything to get you back in your groove.
I also have smores. Don’t leave that part out, that should help make up their mind.
=D
[quote]Null wrote:
[quote]Germanone wrote:
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
I think that women are so much better about training smart than men are. We really let ego get in the way of that.
That is such a great point. Less ego, smarter training, maybe more analytical. I’ve learned tons from watching/talking with women lifters.[/quote]
Concur.
I see beginning females using trainers (several trainers are really good) at Gold’s much more often. Almost never ladies doing whatever Muscular Fiction was pushing that month…[/quote]
The few women that i see actually doing anything with weights at my gym seem to do it very well indeed–usually good balanced workouts rather than (yawn) endless bicep curls that the blokey blokes seem to do.
Last session i had a really nice chat with a woman (30 ish) about the gym, she was using the smith for her squats while i was doing deadlifts in the next station, only thing she lamented was trying to find a decent regular training partner so that she could get off things like the smith and onto free weights.
Interesting.
Benching day. I suck.
Rotator cuff stuff
Flat bench
8/45
7/55
5/60
4/70
3/75
1/85 commands
3/95 loose shirt no belt to two boards
3/100 " "
3/105 " " hard
1/110 belt and commands to one board . . . never would’ve passed on the platform
Because a guy had the cage tied up for 10 sets of 20 half-rep squats, I did accessory work: paused seated row, planks, pecs on pec deck, lying DB tricep extension.
Reverse Band Raw Bench
5/155
5/160
4/165 was supposed to be 5
I’m having some serious apprehension when straining in the bench. Not good.
STRONGLY Disagree.
YOU ROCK!
sometimes we have off lifts, days, weeks, months.
Personally, I would be really happy with the body weight ratio lifts, on a good day…
Ms. Snap, I’m going to cheer you up by PM’ing (not allowed here for whatever reason) you a link to a blog where a buff, young, badass (in a good way!) hottie has a plateau of 6 reps in chin ups, and has a long term goal of getting 8!
Nice squats-
and who cares about bench- unless your BOF.
bench is for sissies.
from the little judo coaching I did - the women certainly
work harder at directions
and stay smarter in the training process.
surprise.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Nice squats-
and who cares about bench- unless your BOF.
bench is for sissies.
from the little judo coaching I did - the women certainly
work harder at directions
and stay smarter in the training process.
surprise.[/quote]
Same with rugby - excellent ball movement, strategy and fundamentals, without the gratuitous head crushing that us boys got up to.
Hey Snap! Just checking in. Still killing it, I see 
And you know your bench doesn’t suck. You said it yourself, you just competitive.
Interesting discussion re: women in sports. I don’t know guys, I just got my knee blown out on the soccer pitch by a chick, also broke my nose and split my eyebrow on the field. lol! These women are maniacs!
When I read that bench workout, I thought “Snapper is doing great”. It wasn’t that long ago you were scared to even bench the oly bar. Where you see suckage, I see huge and rapid improvement.
Snap, I agree with Kimba, it wasn’t long ago you were benching only the bar. and Yes, you have my permission to smack me when I will undoubtly feel the same way in the near future !!
Stay positive and keep going! Is it feeling unstable or are you afraid of the weight? Feeling heavy at bottom or top?
[quote]lil power wrote:
Is it feeling unstable or are you afraid of the weight? Feeling heavy at bottom or top? [/quote]
Instability is my biggest concern. I have a hard time holding the bar steady after the liftoff. I am also slightly afraid to strain too much on the press for fear it will snap again.