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Monday

I don’t understand why Monday nights are so popular at the gym. I go pretty late, and it was still super crowded :frowning:

Workout 4

A1)Squat 65x2x12

The squats themselves went well, everything surrounding the squats was fail. Someone had moved the rack out of place and it didn’t line up with the lines in the room, and since it wasn’t easy to put the 45s away it was covered with them. The first part of my workout was farmers walks with 45s across the gym to put them away.

Then I got my sad little 10s and the clips ready to finally squat. While I was warming up with the bar, someone reached over me and took them! Why is that ok? I was actually focused and mid squat so yelling at him didn’t register. I realize it’s just the bar, but aaahhh!

After I was done, and turned around to find new clips, a guy walked over and gave me a set. Which I guess was nice, but at the time only confirmed that I am not actually invisible. Gruble grumble.

Like I said, the squats themselves went well. I’m really enjoying trying to get to the perfect cadence.

B1) Seated Row 5x2x12

B2) 45 Pushup BWx2x12
This makes me sad, oh well, the more I do push ups, the better they will get. Right?

C1) Stepups 15x2x12

I managed to hit a nice cadence here too. It’s been a while since I’ve done high rep, and while it does suck, I feel like I’m approaching it with a better outlook. High rep is really turning into an exercise of will for me. I know I can do it, it’s just a matter of sucking it up. I’m also trying to actually be there for it. I’m really good at disassociating and not actually being where I am. I’ve written a lot of good stuff at the gym, but I need to stop doing that. It makes me weird, and the whole point of the gym is supposed to be to get me out of my head. I thought I could only be forced out of my head (the immediate pain of BJJ, the crushing of heavy weight), but this is really helping with me being conscious and actively being present. God, this whole paragraph is a wonderful example of what I mean by being weird.

C2) Prone Jackknife BWx2x10

I was still irritated due to the squat rack debacle, so I did some waiter walks and OH squat with the body bar. I didn’t really count, just wanted to be exhausted.

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Does the book have a lot of pictures?

If not, I think I’ll bail.

Pictures make it easier for me to read.

AND - you aren’t any weirder than the rest of us…

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If the clips had been attached to my bar I would have said, “I AM USING THOSE!” can’t believe the bad manners. I’ve walked in a rack thinking someone was done only to realize they were only going for water between sets. I’ve graciously given the rack back at those times.

As for focusing, I may not be writing novels but I’ve zoned out many times and let the exercise be an automatic movement. That is kind of why I’m always pushing hard and heavy. It obliges my head to stay in the game.

weird is a subjective value placed apon those that would not follow the sheeply ways of society.

Long live weird.

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the blurb about the book reminded me of flowers in the attic. the first ‘grown up’ book i ever read. heh.

i hate it when gym equipment doesn’t match up with lines on the floor or whatever. makes the whole exercise feel wrong.

mondays are very busy in my gym, too. i think it is because people like to bench on monday. lots of them turn up to bench again on wednesday and friday but some just seem to turn up to bench on monday. have recently discovered that tuesday and thursday evenings are really enjoyable because that bunch of people seems to be trying purposely to avoid the M and / or M/W/F peoples.

i have the dissociating vs being in the moment thing going on, too. feeling the music on my i-pod sorta does it. i don’t know. sometimes i think there is something paradoxical about dissociating vs being in the moment when they are the same thing, really. everything and nothing. damn.

i don’t think you are particularly weird, either. i like the way you think.

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[quote]Edgy wrote:
Does the book have a lot of pictures?

If not, I think I’ll bail.

Pictures make it easier for me to read.

AND - you aren’t any weirder than the rest of us…[/quote]

I think the only picture may be the author on the back flap, sorry.

So, I’m not the weirdest weirdo? Uh, yipee?

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[quote]nlmain wrote:
If the clips had been attached to my bar I would have said, “I AM USING THOSE!” can’t believe the bad manners. I’ve walked in a rack thinking someone was done only to realize they were only going for water between sets. I’ve graciously given the rack back at those times.

As for focusing, I may not be writing novels but I’ve zoned out many times and let the exercise be an automatic movement. That is kind of why I’m always pushing hard and heavy. It obliges my head to stay in the game.

weird is a subjective value placed apon those that would not follow the sheeply ways of society.

Long live weird.[/quote]

I usually do my ankle stuff with a view of the weight room so I can see who’s where and what they are using. I think I may be the only one to use the squat rack for actually squatting, so I’ll feign obliviousness and take it from others on occasion. If you’re not using it properly, you don’t deserve to have it.

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[quote]alexus wrote:
the blurb about the book reminded me of flowers in the attic. the first ‘grown up’ book i ever read. heh.[/quote]

I read the wiki. Whoa! One of the first ‘grown up’ books I read was along those lines too. I don’t really remember anything about it, just the shock of incest and the strong BDSM theme of it. I was like in the 4th grade and when my mom realized what it was, it was taken away. I actually used to get in trouble for reading too much as a kid.

[quote] i have the dissociating vs being in the moment thing going on, too. feeling the music on my i-pod sorta does it. i don’t know. sometimes i think there is something paradoxical about dissociating vs being in the moment when they are the same thing, really. everything and nothing. damn.

i don’t think you are particularly weird, either. i like the way you think.[/quote]

I know what you mean. It’s one of those good/bad things. I can so completely focus on something that I have no idea what’s going on around me. It’s great because I can do work anywhere, but it’s a head space that can be hard to get out of. My brother gets really irritated that I just ‘space out’ and have no idea what’s going on because something has caught my attention. I don’t know, I can completely see myself becoming that space cadet science professor.

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Workout 5

Warm
Ankle

A1) Squat 70x3x10
Ah, flow (Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia)

B1) Seated Row 7x10 6x2x10
I tried the heavier setting but it was too heavy.

Between sets a scruffy hipster attempted a conversation. I really didn’t want to hear the words he was saying, but he had a beard I really just wanted to touch. I didn’t, and just kinda smiled and nodded, but I really just wanted to put my fingers in the fuzzyness. I think I may have ended up weirding him out, lol.

B2) 45 Push up BWx3x10

C1) Step Up 15x3x10
I should have upped the weights here, but I somehow managed to cut the inside of both of my thumbs, so grip was a bit of an issue. I went thumbless, but more than 15 was too much.

C2) Prone Jackknife BWx3x12

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I rolled today guys! Woo hoo!

I’ve really been missing mat based therapy! Nothing soothes the soul like a good ass kicking.

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ah, cool. glad you got to have some fun / get a good ass kicking. i feel like that about short beards / long stubble. try not to stare… not sure how successfully. yeah, you gonna have to work harder if you want to be weirdest.

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Another bookish chick! Cool!

I’ve been known to make prodigious use of a library card myself. Thanks for the book tip.

I noticed your step-up action.

I try to visualize a J. Lo booty when I do mine. :slight_smile:

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I’ve been out of town the past few days so no gym time. Fantastically, I did get to hit some BJJ! I hadn’t realized how much I missed it until I was back on the mats.

I hit a class on Wends, that was my first in a while. It took some time to get back in the grove, but I had a nice insight after rolling for a bit.

The guy I was rolling with was trying to open my guard through inflicting pain. Without technique lots of guys will just dig their elbows into your knees to open your guard. It leaves giant annoying bruises, so when the guy I was rolling with wouldn’t stop doing it I got really frustrated. It pissed me off and I actually told him there was no way I was going to open to pain. He just looked at me said ok and kept doing it! At that point it just became a battle of wills, and neither one of us was making any progress so I told him I had to pee and took a little break.

I felt like a bit of a pussy for taking a break, but I was getting really pissed off. During my little break I tried to remember what I was supposed to do to stop him, and remembered the oft given advice ‘why are you letting him do that to you?’ I realized it had turned into a battle of the wills because I let it. There was no reason for me to stay in that position and to keep my guard closed. So, when I went back to rolling and just opened my guard when he started inflicting pain. I just let him be stupidly aggressive and manged to take his back and choke him. That little epiphany, made the whole class worth it.

As a whole the class sucked. He taught one move and then we rolled for 45 min. The class a whole lasted an hour tops. I hit three other equally crappy classes later that week, but just being on the mats made them worth it.

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[quote]alexus wrote:
ah, cool. glad you got to have some fun / get a good ass kicking. i feel like that about short beards / long stubble. try not to stare… not sure how successfully. yeah, you gonna have to work harder if you want to be weirdest. [/quote]

I like to pretend guys don’t mind when women stare at them. :slight_smile:

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[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Another bookish chick! Cool!

I’ve been known to make prodigious use of a library card myself. Thanks for the book tip.

I noticed your step-up action.

I try to visualize a J. Lo booty when I do mine. :)[/quote]

I try to visualize finally being done when I do step ups.

Let me know what you think of it if you read it.

I read Portia De Rossi’s book “Unbearable Lightness” last week. It was ok, the first celebrity autobiography I’ve ever read. A few parts were good, a few clichéd. She had a pretty hardcore eating disorder, but it’s not the best I’ve read on the subject.

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Nice work in class-

its good to keep your head clear.
I get sucked into stuff all the time.

ps most libraries let you download e-books fo free

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[quote]kmcnyc wrote:

ps most libraries let you download e-books fo free[/quote]

Yeah, our does, but there’s something about books. Actually feeling the paper and the weight, I like the physical book itself. Also, to be honest I tend to choose my books based on the cover. I read a lot of books solely on the basis of an alluring cover. Portia de Rossi looks very ephemeral on the cover of her book. Room has the title written in crayon. It doesn’t really matter to me what I read so the criterion is shine factor.

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I think that we should stare at men if we want to… they stare at us and don’t think twice.

Saw some interviews of Portia de Rossi a while back regarding the book and subject matter. She is super hot now. She said that she first met Ellen when she was at her heaviest. Crazy story about the yo-yoing. I don’t identify with eating disorders, but they kinda intrigue me.

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hope you choked him good.

i dunno… i don’t much like being stared at. guess i feel a bit better if they try and be subtle at least, by using mirrors. so… i try not to stare at them, too. or at least try and be a bit subtle about it. but yeah, guess they don’t mind. and some of them ask for it - i swear!

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[quote]pch2 wrote:
I just let him be stupidly aggressive and manged to take his back and choke him. That little epiphany, made the whole class worth it.

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Like :slight_smile:

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Still Alive, barely. One more week until the end of the semester…