Ronaldo - a quien nos les gustan las morochas con culo? somos divinas! YES! post away.[/quote]
Yo quiero un morocho con culo!!! Por favor? :)[/quote]
HAHAH! Just look in the mirror guapa!
kmc you freaking rock!! You’ve given me tons of info here - awesome. I heard of some of these, and yeah its Colliseum gym in Queens, but I was actually looking at 5th ave in bklyn - so I’m glad you mentioned them.
I’m PM’ing you the art info right now. Thanks again!!
As usual, lots of great training going on here, Masch!
I’m glad to hear you love the box jumps so much you wanna marry them! But as was stated, with a gorgeous ass like yours, I’m sure you have no shortage of real live human admirers.
Sorry to hear about your toilet troubles, sounds like hell.
So the food experiment of higher carbs has proven effective for my workouts - i had so much energy it was nuts! I even did some BB upper body work to burn energy. I won’t lie though, I am bloated as fuck, but I think for realz i’m going to up carbs regularly on DL and Squat day. So you have an idea, today’s numbers were as such - cals 1,873, F 74.9, C 214.5, P 96.3. usually I keep carbs around 60-120.
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Thanks Blue! And don’t bother T - you can start with today’s festivities - DL day!
I like DLs but I find them hard to figure out. I still don’t get what is meant by “driving the hips” and “spreading the floor”. I don’t know…[/quote]
Masch in a sumo stance, because your legs are wide you are pushing outward. Thus spreading the floor. Also has alot to do with keeping and pushing your knees out to avoid the knock knee thing.
By driving the hips, it means firing your glutes hard, kindof like the pull throughs, so you stay back better and the bar stays as close to the body as possible and you have more leverage getting the weight up. This also helps keep you from stifflegging the weight too much.
What I find helps with ‘driving the hips’ is to NOT think about the DL as if you’re pulling the bar up, off the floor. Instead, I try to think about driving my heels into the ground and pulling the bar back into my body while pushing my hips forward. Try to think of it more as a hip extension movement, rather than a back raise, if that makes sense.
Masch, when Dead-lifting I think the most important thing is to keep the bar very very close to your body. At times you will scrape your shins but that’s the price you have to pay to learn good form plus it looks bad ass :).
This video is of someone I know :P. Anyways look how “he” is keeping the bar close to his body, I know this is a clean pull and not a dead-lift but it’s almost the same when it comes to driving the hips forward towards the bar.
Hey Betty! Yup, I’ve been pulling sumo for a bit now. I find it more comfortable for me - but also, when I saw a trainer it was decided that Sumo was also all around better…Not sure if that’s a good enough reason btw.
HAH! humping the bar - now we’re talking a language I understand!
Re: the carbs - acutally no, its not an energy issue, but rather a monetary issue. Currently I need to stretch a dollar BIG TIME, and protein happens to be the one thing I can cut out while still maintaining a reasonably healthy diet. At this point I’m just trying to take in enough calories, so basically I’m eating fruits, veggies, beans (dried then cooked yields a lot of meals), nuts, some bread here and there, and eggs (also tuna cuz it was on sale) as my main protein. This is why my carbs are so high.
But frankly, I’m starting to wonder about this low carb/high protein diet. Essentially, I’m eating like one of those ovo-vegitarians and aside from bloat (which has reduced substantially actually), I’m feeling pretty good! I can’t afford my protein powder and yet I’m recovering quite well post w/o, plus I feel mentally more alert…so I’m not sure what to make of this right now.
Thing is I am through and through a meat eater, so I can’t see myself dropping the meat, I’m just surprised how well I feel without it.
Ahh, it’s the damn multi-sided plates. I drive across town to deadlift at a gym with round plates because it makes the setup so much easier. You do spend a lot of time between reps. And you could get your butt lower to start perhaps. But the weight doesn’t look that hard for you! When I was trying to learn sumo (never did very well, so that tells you how valuable my advice is here . . .), my coach told me to dip my butt and pull at the same time, almost like a tipping backwards motion. Frankly, conventional is just much easier and intuitive for me. But I sure admire a good sumo pull.
Honestly, I thought those sumo pulls were good. I’d be happy if those were mine.
If I think about ANYTHING other than sticking my butt way out, I round my back. Knees out by weighting the outer rims of my feet and pushing through the outside walls of my Chucks is also a good cue.
Yesterday did MiM’s BB complex 5x6-10x50-60 (varied it up a bit) MP, front squat, BO rows, RDLs - loved it! Also did HIIT on row machine at Skye’s rec. Also loved it. And now y’all realize how much I pilfer from you…hahah! Thanks guys!
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You’re welcome, Maschy.
I honestly don’t see anything wrong with your deadlift but then again, I have no leg to stand on…I’m self-taught
Damn Masch, you’re looking good, but I’ll save that for SAMA. You need some round plates, stat!! I wouldn’t worry about your butt being too low, right now it’s fine just keep hammering that hip mobility and it will come in time. As long as you are squeezing your ass throughout the lift you are good (so you don’t get a tweaked lower back).
I second PB Andy, you’re looking DAMN good, Masch!
Those deads didn’t look bad at all to me. I think if you focus a bit more on pulling back, so the bar stays right up against your legs, while you drive your hips forward, that should help. Although, I don’t pull sumo, so maybe that advice doesn’t apply?
