Warm
Ankle
At this point I spilled my entire water bottle on the weight room floor, and had to do a circle of the whole gym looking for towels. Nice
KB Swings 30x4x25
I think of my arms as handles and my hips as the primary movers, right?
For some reason, I completely left out YTLW. I can’t keep doing that, I need shoulders that keep on working!
A1) DB BP 30x5 35x5x5
A2) DB Row 35x5 45x5 50x5x5
Then 10 min in the steam room. Win!
When I type it out it seems like so little, but with an actual warm up and the ankle stuff, it actually ends up taking forever. I was exhausted at the end, so I’m not going to over think it. I have no idea how you guys do your routines. Though reading them is great motivation. A 50 min walk to the gym? I can suck up the 5 min of cold to get into and out of the car.
No, really, I know what you mean. Sometimes, I’m like: I should add in some reverse step-ups and renegade rows just to have more to report. It’s all good.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
I was about to watch my Dexter last night but my stupid blue ray player wasn’t working…big crap.
Ended up renting Salt from the local PPV.[/quote]
This is one of the saddest stories I’ve ever heard. [/quote]
Here’s a sadder story for you. Who the hell is dexter?
Oh, and congrats on the DL progress. 185 is very nice!
[quote]nlmain wrote:
I was about to watch my Dexter last night but my stupid blue ray player wasn’t working…big crap.
Ended up renting Salt from the local PPV.[/quote]
This is one of the saddest stories I’ve ever heard. [/quote]
Here’s a sadder story for you. Who the hell is dexter?
Oh, and congrats on the DL progress. 185 is very nice![/quote]
Dexter is a cinematographic wonder on showtime. It’s a beautifully shot show about an empathetic psychopathic serial killer.
The final catch/be under part (need to learn oly nomenclature) scares me a bit so I end up doing weights that are way too light. I’ll work on it, but it’s something I can’t keep fooling myself about. I just like my teeth, you know?
Well… Not sure that I would have said it… But, yes. I get you. Even when I can do a weight 8/10 times fairly solidly (and the misses are safe) adding some scares the living crap out of me.
Maybe it gets easier as you get used to doing something that was scary… Or maybe the mental barrier is a self preservation instinct that should be respected. I’m not sure… But it is something I struggle with too.
[quote]alexus wrote:
Maybe it gets easier as you get used to doing something that was scary… Or maybe the mental barrier is a self preservation instinct that should be respected. I’m not sure… But it is something I struggle with too.[/quote]
This is interesting. I’m a big believer in going with your gut. I’ve actually been trying to finish reading “How We Decide” for ages, but it’s hard to want to read science after doing science all day. The basic premise of the book is that emotions are a fundamental aspect of the decision making process. Gut feeling are the integration of an overwhelming amount of data into something easily accessible to our consciousness. Going with our baser instincts (shockingly) isn’t always the best course of action though, I’d end up at home in bed almost all the time. My self preservation instinct is always on overdrive.
The key for me is to first realize what’s going on. Sometimes I go with my gut and have no idea I’m doing it. I had no idea why I was low balling the weight, until I actually thought about it I didn’t realize I was just being afraid. Then it’s on to figure out why the feeling exists and is it valid. This is also the point where I wish I was one of those “suck it the fuck up and just do it” people. Then deciding what to do.
In this case, it’s a valid fear. No one wants to be smashed, but I can control a lot of variables, and it’s at the now I have to just suck it up point. The whole reason I try new things is to be able to take risks in a controlled environment, and this is one of them. Now to actually get to the gym!
I’m sorry if that was too meta, I’m going through both a phase, and am just really odd.
I spent my weekend laying pipe. Literally! (well, and if you’ve been to SAMA you know figuratively too) My valentines day present was a bar of chocolate and new plumbing! I haven’t done anything outside of the realm of stretching for a week. Playing plumber’s gofer involved a lot of running up and down stairs, but also a lot of chocolate eating. I’ll venture over to the gym tomorrow night.
Spring Break is in 10 days. For it I’m going to venture back to Cleveland and spend the whole week on the mats, it’ll be fantastic. Until then I’m going to clean up my diet. The gyms been good lately, I should probably be good in the kitchen too.
I have the “fear” thing mostly to everything thats new. Too many uncontrollable variables when you haven’t done something before (driving, diving ect…) But since I KNOW where the fear stems from I try to do that thing until I really get it, and the fear usually dissipates after the first couple of tries.
I also get that gut thing around people. I tend to be wary and maybe a little paranoid. Not very trusting at all. smart or psycho? I’m not sure yet.
PCH2: I know what you mean about fear. I have a voice in my head that I have decided is determined to hold me back. When I’m running it tells me --“don’t go out too fast or you’ll hit the wall.” When I’m strength training it says "that weight is heavy, be careful you don’t want to hurt your back (when DLing), your knees (when squatting) blah blah blah. I’ve made a conscious decision to silence that voice. And with every rep pr I am. I’m 40. I’m not a risk taker. But, I have every intention of living the second half of my life boldly. And getting physically stronger is helping me to do that.
I have the “fear” thing mostly to everything thats new. Too many uncontrollable variables when you haven’t done something before (driving, diving ect…) But since I KNOW where the fear stems from I try to do that thing until I really get it, and the fear usually dissipates after the first couple of tries.
I also get that gut thing around people. I tend to be wary and maybe a little paranoid. Not very trusting at all. smart or psycho? I’m not sure yet.[/quote]
It sounds boring, but it was my first plumbing experience, so it was actually pretty interesting. Also, there’s something super hot about a man doing ‘manly’ activities. He has his very own acetylene torch. It makes a fun noise!
I could write a paragraph or just quote Twain: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” There is more than one kind of strength to be built in the weight room.
Well, we now know why you like Dexter. Kindred spirits eh?
[quote]Nadia Comeandeat wrote:
PCH2: I know what you mean about fear. I have a voice in my head that I have decided is determined to hold me back. When I’m running it tells me --“don’t go out too fast or you’ll hit the wall.” When I’m strength training it says "that weight is heavy, be careful you don’t want to hurt your back (when DLing), your knees (when squatting) blah blah blah. I’ve made a conscious decision to silence that voice. And with every rep pr I am. I’m 40. I’m not a risk taker. But, I have every intention of living the second half of my life boldly. And getting physically stronger is helping me to do that. [/quote]
This is exactly why I like posting here, you guys get it. I feel like most women don’t.
I just kinda went to the gym last night. I knew I had to go, but had no real plan or goals, pretty much just needed to get off my ass since it had been a week. I got there and realized my ipod was dead, fun fun. I didn’t really keep good track of my dicking around.
Ankle stuff
Waiters walks
I aimed for 40 steps each time, on one of the sets my left arm gave out. I need to remember to do it first.
Squat variations
I need to move back to normal squats, My ankle is there, now I just need to do. I just read all of Alex’s log. I’m going to stick OH squats into my bag, and just go light and form focused on back squats.
Single arm snatch
Fuck me. I have no idea what I’d been doing but, last night I realized that it was not a snatch. Once I tried to go heavier and sit under it, whatever I was doing no long worked. I’m going to have to actually look into snatch form. (See stolen from Alex links)
KB Swings
Ok, my go to “snatch” was gone so I try the KB swing after having just read The Metabolic Swing . Once again, what I was doing was not what he does in this article. What he does in this article is much much harder. I started with the wall drill and went through his progression. I was way more squat like then hinge like. Hinge like is way harder.
BB BP
At this point I was just feeling angry and weak and wanted to do something I actually knew how to do. I did manage to pyramid up to 95 x 3 which as one fellow lifter pointed out “that’s some heavy weight for a girl” but 100 would have been nice.
Then I steam roomed. The session in general just made me think that I need some goals.
i tried to one arm snatch a dumbbell once. i couldn’t do it. realized i had no earthly idea how one was supposed to do those one armed dumbell / kettlebell movements.
there is a name for people who feel no fear: psychopath.
without fear one doesn’t have the opportunity to display courage / bravery.
