Nice! Thanks, Jim.
Those circuits are seriously awesome - I’m totally stealing some of them and using in my next workout.
Thanks for the info. Deane’s in NJ, huh? Another local I could hit up - hmmm.
Now, seriously, is that your dog? Looks like your avi - and you know Mascherano has a soft soft for canines…
I’d love to know my real BF% as well. It seems that its really hard to get a good answer to that question.
Masch, you look pretty similar to my size and I have all my fat in the buttal region. I measured 17-18% last Saturday on the electric bodyfat machine. I’ll try to post a pic for comparison.
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Nice! Thanks, Jim.
Those circuits are seriously awesome - I’m totally stealing some of them and using in my next workout.
Thanks for the info. Deane’s in NJ, huh? Another local I could hit up - hmmm.
Now, seriously, is that your dog? Looks like your avi - and you know Mascherano has a soft soft for canines…[/quote]
yes she would be an awesome person for you too see she is a great female coach. One of a very few i would rec.
No that is not my dog I live in Kentucky. I do have dogs
i bought my current house with dogs in mind, it is a fixer upper that way if they mess it up some it’s getting remolded anyways. i take in pit bulls that people don’t want. it has been interesting at times but i love the breed, it is sad what people do to these dogs.
I have a roomate he is large. I am 5 9 240-250 (depending on how many carbs LOL) He is 6 3 about 320 lean massive arms. He helps me with my dogs, two years ago he go married moved out, seperated, moved back in lol Then a couple months ago he and his wife decided to work things out so she moved it (you know how relationships can be I’m sure) so along with her came an english bulldog.
So currently I have:
A pug (I took in from an x 5 years ago because her apartment wouldn’t allow dogs was suppose to only be for a few months lol)
a big male pit named bugsy
a medium male pit named patton
a medium female named lexy
and a english bulldog named dozer
Lucky I have decent sized place lol
cousin the pug as a puppy
Who knew bears and dogs could play so well together
HAHAH! That is freaking awesome!!
Can I just say that you are a saint amongst men - thank you for saving the doggies! I love pitbulls, I had one growing up named Nino. We took him in from a bad home, wiley little sucker that one. Also had a German sheapard mix who was sweeter than pie.
The pics are sooo cute - especially the pup.
Big LOL at Cbear playing with bugs!! Too funny. And you say you don’t like cardio?
Thanks for sharing, Jim 
Thank you.
I hope in time I can do more with dogs. I am just so busy.
One day my goal is to be set up so I can take in pits and rehab them full
time.
Have a great day
Jim
Last nights workout was great! But talk about volume - yeesh.
In this stage I’m basically supposed to be doing 4 sets of 15-20 reps. I thought I would opt for the 20 reps, but once I got started I scratched that idea and went with 15.
Squat 15x95, 15x105, 12x115, 10x125 < 125 was stupidly difficult and frankly almost failed on the last 2 reps. I’ll have to check that ego (again).
These sets are alternated
Lunge w/ rear foot elevated - 4x15x50
Pushups - 4x15 feet elevated < my arms hate me
RDL - 20x50, 15x70, 2x15x60 < took me a few sets to figure out which weight to use, grip was failing on the last two sets
DB row - 4x15x30 < I liked this! I can’t wait to try 35s.
Random musings:
Doing my lunges and some guy came up to talk to me. I had headphones in and all, and all I see is this guy’s mouth moving. I mean, I have a 50lb bar on my back, foot elevated, mid lunge. I stopped to take out my headphone, and all I said was, “what?!” and then blew him off 
I felt a little bad and at the end of training went to apologize. Lol!
Anyways, this workout got me to thinking about why on earth I’m doing these higher volume workouts! I tried to research, but the articles didn’t give any info. Does anyone know what’s the logic behind putting higher volume workout in the last stage of a lifting program?
Also, I read the t-muscle article with Dr. Clay who basically scoffs at the bench press and calls it ineffective. Anybody have any thoughts on this?
Anyways, woke up hungry this AM, and that’s after having dinner at 10:30p last night. Thank god I didn’t do RFL, I would be jelly.
People are just plain stupid.
One time i was getting ready for a powerlifting meet and I was in my heaviest week of what is called a circa max phase (you accually go over your max). With band tention I had 1200 lbs on the bar. I had my squat suit
on I had just
got my need wraps and I had taken a Huge hit of amonia. I had my music jacked up so loud my ears were bleeding. This guy (who had talked to me a couple of times). Steps in front of the rack and starts talking to me. I was in shark mode and I yelled get out of my way lol. Threw him to the side. Needless to say he never bothered me while I was lifting again lol
Volume:
it has it’s place.
It would be on thing if all you were doing was lifting. With everything you have going one soccer, all the classes you do. It is overkill I think you would do much better it you focused on more of a strength based program. Something like a 5 3 1 or a 5x5 program.
Bench press:
I don’t bench any of my female clients unless they are going to a college that does the bench press or they are doing a powerlifting type program. Bench is very hard on the shoulders and most of the women I train only
train with me
twice a week so I am going
to choose things that use the most amount of muscle. For the vast majorty of females push ups and dumbell presses are more than enough to get the job done.
Everything has it’s place. Bench has become the standard of strength. I have never had anyone walk up to me and ask me
what I squat, sad but true.
Silly iPhone
I have found out of the women I have trained for a number of years and have built a
base of 10 weighted chins… Being able to do 30 pushs ups …
A bodyweight bench is very easy.
For women like that I will throw in bench every
so often as a change up.
Have a great day
Jim
What exeactly are your goals ?
Many of the answeres to your questions will depend on that
23% HAHAHAHAHA!!
saw the pics…lookin good! Whatever you are doing is WORKING!!
But I think my original guess is spot on 15-18%
Saw the pics, you look perfect; I wouldn’t want to cut if I were you, but to each her own, I guess.
I like benching and it’s great for making you better at benching, which is all I need to keep me happy.
Carryover to soccer? I have no idea.
I think the article you’re referring to was criticizing the bench as not being great for chest development, which is plausible but maybe not as relevant if you have boobs there.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Saw the pics, you look perfect; I wouldn’t want to cut if I were you, but to each her own, I guess.
I like benching and it’s great for making you better at benching, which is all I need to keep me happy.
Carryover to soccer? I have no idea.
I think the article you’re referring to was criticizing the bench as not being great for chest development, which is plausible but maybe not as relevant if you have boobs there.[/quote]
alisa you are right on the money about benching
And on the pics as well
M you would be crazy to cut down anymore you look great but that’s just me, in the end you have to do what makes you happy.
There are not too many ladies that have more ink on there back than I do lol
Nice tat
M, I saw the pictures and you look amazing! Like Arachne, I carry all my fat in my ass and we all have similar body types. A guess of 17-18% BF is probably a decent one for all of us.
I’d be interested in hearing about the goal you are trying to achieve by cutting.
where are the pics?
The dark side… 
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
The dark side… ;)[/quote]
HAHAHAHA! So true - PW is sanctuary.
First of all thanks everyone for the compliments on the pics! Believe it or not that took a lot of encouragement from the other ladies posting to get me to do it and then it took me a good 1hr to take the pics…vanity eye roll
So I see, benching is really just about benching. Its not meant for chest development, just for the sake of moving weight. Ok. Cool. I’ve never formally benched, so maybe I’d like that.
Goals, good question.
I’m still planning on playing soccer til I’m well into 40s, so one thing is to constantly improve my game and maintain health so that I can accomplish this.
As for the lifting, I definitely DO NOT want to loose any of the strength that I have thus acquired. I might even be inclined to say that I could use a little bit more muscle. I figure with 5x5 I can keep getting stronger, as well as have some achievable goals (i’m a goal oriented individual). These would be:
10 consecutive pullups
BW bench
1.5 BW squat
2 BW DL
So basically, my goals are to keep playing footie and keep getting stronger. Do you think this is a good plan of attack?
