The Beautiful Gain

Training
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^ YAY!!! Thank you daddy!!

Kimba - haha! the looks alone are priceless, so yes, I highly recommend.

Greenie - Thanks!

nlmain - that sounds so delicious!! I won’t lie, i’ve been eating cake and other confections since Tuesday :slight_smile:

That’s right! Today is my birthday!! I took the day off and was going to hit the beach but its raining. I dont think I’ve ever had a b-day when it doesn’t rain, so that’s no surprise. But my plan for a mani/pedi is still on and I might even hit the gym :slight_smile:

So last night I went in for my DL singles. Hit a very exciting 225. 230 was soooo close!! And I want it so badly. Anyways, here’s 225. I’m going to try for more next week before I put this baby to bed. Any feedback for my next attempt highly appreciated!

Just a reminder - wt. 130, pulling Sumo

DL
Barx10
95x10
115x5
135x5
155
175
185
205
215
225
235 - no dice
230 - double no dice, but I did break the floor for like 3 inches…

Have a wonderful day y’alls!!

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Happy Birthday!!! 30 looks good on ya…and so did that DL!!!

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No no, it must by my bday for seeing you in those pants! :wink:

Happy birthday my Love. Sorry about the rain, but mani/pedi sounds awesome. My birthdays always seem to suck as well with weird shit happening, but I’m going to Miami for my bday weekend, nothing can screw up… right? :smiley:

Enjoy your day Gawgeous.

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love the hair-flip:) so girly and so strong roar!
happy b-day. and I’ll be getting my pedi tonight also. what’s you color choice?

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and that dude in the background was smiling at you when you were walking away! :slight_smile:

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MiM’s right, you can even see his head lower to Maschy’s ass.

Hey, your booty is the talk of everywhere you’re at :wink:

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happy birthday masch!!! hope it’s divine!!

nice dl and nicer bootay!

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Happy Birthday. May this year be your best yet.

Nice DL pull. Certainly doesn’t look like a max pull to me, though. You’ve got more in you. Plus, you’re still hovering FOREVER in the start position. Doesn’t that tire you out?

Yeah, you are sexy.

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Awesome pull!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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Happy, happy birthday gorgeous! Beautiful pull, and snapper is right you have much more in you for a max, I believe. next time. You are looking very sexy in body and mind on this 30th birthday of yours. I LOVE your hair so much like that.

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Happy Belated Birthday Masch!!!

Hope you had an amazing day, you deserve it!

Ok, time to check out that deadlift vid everyone’s talking about. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Happy birthday!

I’m sorry BUT you were lifting weights in that video?

Edit: okay now that I looked at the video 5 times I managed to notice plates and a bar.

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OMG you are so damn sexay! Love your fellow gym-goer staring at you as you walk away in the vid. :wink:

The lift looked nice and strong, too! I’m with Snapper, it looks like you have lots more in you. But deads can be funny like that, one weight will fly up, then an extra 5 or 10 lbs is just stuck to the floor. I think half of it is mental, tbh.

And yeah, you still spend lots of time hovering down in the start position. You might find you have more energy for the lift if you shorten that up.

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You pulled 4 plates!!! And looked damn hot doing it too. Congratulations all around, birthday girl. I hope you had a great day and will have a wonderful year.

What color did you go with for the mani/pedi. I’m hoping to have enough time to get one before hopping my plane later tonite…

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I went for conquistadorable!!! like a candy-raspberry. now I want to eat my toes. lol.

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[quote]RBlue wrote:

And yeah, you still spend lots of time hovering down in the start position. [/quote]

But there’s nothing wrong with that, I mean, look how much each and every one that watches that video appreciates her taking her time to set up… :wink:

Awesome pull Masch, keep it up!

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Because you never answer your emails anymore…

Happy (belated) Birthday! (I thought it was today)

Nice pull and nice to finally see your face. Dude behind was assessing the shelf booty’s capacity: “I wonder how many novels I can line up on it?”

Hope the birthday was a good one.

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Rain on your birthday is lame… That’s what you get for livin’ in NY! HAH!

Nice pull… but stop fuckin’ around so much in the bottom. Watch that video again and pay attention to how long you’re in each of your positions. The actual lift was the fastest thing about that video. haha…

When you set up, stay there for a second, get as much air as you can fit in your belly, teeter back on your heels (like you do at :29-30 seconds, then half a second later rip the bar off the floor as fast as you possibly can.

Also, concentrate on keeping your chest up (and thus, your upper back arched as hard as you can) and that’ll keep the bar as close to your body as possible. (Which is a good thing.)

Or, you could just take those pants off and you know, decrease the amount of friction on the bar… :stuck_out_tongue:

PS, you’ve got all the permission in the world to rub yourself all over me. Maybe some of your tan will rub off on my white ass! Hah!

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^^I’m not complaining on seeing Maschy on the bottom of the lift for a minute. It was like a squat paused in the right spot :wink:

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Thanks all for the Birthday wishes! I’m currently bloated as all hell thanks to the copious amounts of foodz and booze I’ve been consuming. Oh wells…

MiM - I’m a shawty, so that song is perfectly appropriate. Lol!

Nikki, main, deja - thanks for the booty props!! And I’ll be honest, I really wear my hair down b/c its curly and a bitch to manage. Putting it up wreaks havoc on it, as does washing it, which I only do about 2x a week. Gross? Possibly. And yeah, that guy watching was weird, to say the least…

kimba and main - I went with vodka and caviar on the toes :slight_smile: Red is my color. The nails are hot pink, a la Jersey Shore. Lol! A last vestige of my twenties perhaps?

Greenie, owlie and Ronaldo - thanks!! I was pretty excited about that pull myself. And I agree, I got some more juice in me. But now I’m a bit miffed b/c I should have checked my maxes earlier. Now so close to season I’m afraid to tax the system too much. My ass and hammies were sore for days…

Ink and Ponce - You’re both nuts! And thanks. And Ponce, I swear I’m slowly getting my head out of my ass.

That said…

Snap, Blue and Ryan - you’re all too right. I spend way too much time setting up prior to pulling. This is a problem I’ve had for a long time. Its all a mental thing for me, you know, dealing with the inner monologue. Same goes for the squat. I do a lot of “dancing around” (i think that’s how Snap once put it). I’m going to remember to move more decisively on my next lifts.

And Ryan, thank you so much for all the feedback!! I’ll have a look at the vid and go through it with your recs. I wish you were around to cue me when I lift, sigh, that would be perfect.

I have been training these last few days. Nothing super exciting to report. Tried those mixed grip chins that Owlie does. I’m just so water-logged tho…so I’m feeling a bit bleh.

Easing back into soccer too. Played a match last night. Scored a sweet goal but also got pwned on several ocaisions. Ha! I’m playing in a men’s league, so its a challenge…

I know i shouldn’t complain, but I came to the realization that I’m looking a wee bit on the “too muscular” side. We’ll see what happens while i’m in season.

Monday I’m going for my squat max so stay tuned :slight_smile: Until then, have a great weekend everyone!