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[quote]MrZsasz wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

[quote]MrZsasz wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:
In for Spock’s not so gradual descent into madness ;)[/quote]

Hah, it reminded me of this scene
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:O!!! CHRIS!!! You brought out a lurker !! <3 <3 <3![/quote]

Not so much a lurker as a cautious observer. Like coming across a skunk eating an old bag of chips. I mean, it’s funny and adorable and unexpected and you’d like to get a closer look but one wrong move and it’s tomato sauce baths for the next few days.
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Haaaaa!!

Love me some metaphors

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Hey
Hi
Hello
Howdy
Holla
Ahoyhoy

I have decided that lifting is a hobby, not a career, so I will do whatever the hell I want any day of the week because I enjoy it.
If I want to deadlift I will deadlift and if I want to front squat triples I will.
I WILL BECAUSE I CAN.

Worrying about some hypothetical meet that’s like 11 months in the future is STUPID, and will only make me weaker.

So today I did this:

Front squats
115 x 8
125 x 3
130 x 3
135 x2
140 x 2
115 x 2 sets of 5

deadlifts
185 x 5
205 x 3
215 x 1
belt
235 x 1

245 x 1
245 x 1
245 x 1
245 x 1
Shorthish rest in between. I guess like 25 seconds or something. However long it took me to chalk my hands and mourn the formation of my callus bloody callus.
belt off
205 x 3

I have no idea how I want to progress my deadlift
Probably work up to a few heavy singles once a week or something

plate side bends
45lbs
3 x 8/side

Done.
Semi-okay, maybe.

Life news:
ALMOST got stuck in paper mario the other day. We (my kid and I) took a boat out from sunshine harbour without any heal mushrooms and on our way back to town we got in a battle with Bowser JR. :O! Totally un prepared. Hardly any items and on 11HP (hit points for you NON-nerds). We kept dying and I honestly had no idea how we would ever pass him in order to get back to shore and go to the store to buy some items.
You should have seen the look on gabe’s face, totally broken-hearted.
“Mommy what is the point in playing this game anymore when we’re never gonna get anywhere ever again!!!”

Uhggggggg
I was thinking
“Oh fuck, we’re screwed”
I said
“Honey we’ll find an HP heart, don’t you worry!”
Then he runs off to play Kirby instead. He’s not very loyal apparently.
ANYWAY then I have a panic attack looking on the internet how to find a fucking heal heart or an easy way to beat bowser JR., basterd made my son cry!!!
WELLL Low and behold, I found a G. damn heal heart and whooped him good. He told me I was mean and he said he was going to tell his dad (king bowser). YA go do that, I’m ready nowww mutha fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuka.

N E WAY.
BYE

EDIT: Actually, no, it is bothering me too much not to have any workout structure, so this is what I came up with and I want you to tell me what you think:
Week one is like : Volume squats, light good mornings, abs for day 1
day 2: heavy bench, back work, biceps and/or triceps
day 3: heavy Deadlift, volume front squats abs
day 4: volume bench, back, biceps and/or triceps
day 5: heavy squat, back ext, abs
day 6: heavy front squat, volume deadlift
day 7: OFF
Next week (two days off optional if I feel like it, but we both know that will probably never happen HA)
Day 1: light squats, volume good mornings, abs
day 2: heavy bench, back, bis/tris
day 3: heavy deadlift, light front squats, abs
day 4: light bench, back, biceps and or triceps
day 5: heavy squat, back ext, abs
day 6: heavy front squat, light deadlift
OFF
Heavy= doubles and singles
Volume=6’s, 5’s, 4’s, 3’s for lots O sets
light= 12’s, 10’s 8’s for like 3-4 sets

UMM YA I think that’s all K BYE AGAIN

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hey homegirl

do 5/3/1 high frequency

also, congrats on the job! You should get a linkedin now for sure. HR is a good career option in that you can move on from Target eventually and it’s stable with hours.

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[quote]browndisaster wrote:

also, congrats on the job! You should get a linkedin now for sure. HR is a good career option in that you can move on from Target eventually and it’s stable with hours.[/quote]

THANKS!! I was thinking the same thing! Also, maybe I can move up the ladder at target and eventually be able to boss people around HAHA. I JUST WANT TO FEEL IMPORTANT :smiley:

665

HOLLA HOLLA HOY HOY!!

Volume squat day
JAN. 13 2013
01/13/13
011313

Squats
95 x 5
115 x 5
135 x 3
145 x 5
150 x 5

150 x 5 sets of 5
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE LAST SET WAS SLIGHTLY SLOPPY
REASONS:
One rep= slightly more hamstringgy than quaddy
another rep=Felt like my weaker leg was doing more than the other. WHich is sorta a good thing, I dunno.
155 x 3 sets of 3
155 x 4
150 x 4

K pretty good aside from that one set. :S

Good mornings
85 x 10
95 x 10
100 x 10
easy

Cable ropey abs
4 x 25 ramped
ALSO RHCP CAME ON RADIO so that set was super setted with dancing/singing

patrick bateman abs
1 x 35

yeahhhhhhhhh boi

K I know my program undecidedness is making me seem a little bit wonkier than usual. These things happen, and we must try to work through it together as best we can, as a family, as a strong family unit.

Let’s think of my brain as being somewhat like whoville… like from the grinch or horton hears a who.

It’s all happy and at peace, and a bunch of kind, yet quirky, individuals live there known as “whos”.

Everything seems fine, but then these evil soilder men come in (AKA my “crazy” hormones) and they kidnapp the whos, then everything goes to hell.

A few of the whos are still free and hiding, calling out to me like “Jennnn, everything is fineee!! You’re not thinking clearly, this is not yoouuuu!”
But they typically do get captured as well, these crazy hormone soliders are like the jew-hunter from inglorious bastereds.
NO ONE IS SAFE!!!

So they wreak havoc for a while, not like they have a mission or anything, just fucking partyin’ or somethin’.

Then once they’ve had their fun they free the whos and bugger off.

Left with a mess to clean up, the whos emerge from their dungen’s and pick up the pieces of their once bright and colorful world.

Slowly but surely things return to normal, but everyone knows that someday those soilders will return, and they really have no control over the situation.

K NOW EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS ME tear

K i forget my point really…

Some guy that I think tries to smile at my at the gym told me he liked my haircut today. I was all like “OOooOOOOHh THANSK EYOUE” HAHA

OMG BOY TALKED TO ME.

WHEeeeeeee

BEYBYE

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K here’s a picture from inside my brain so you can develop quality mental images when you’re reading my story

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I fully support the hobbyist lifting style!! WORD!!

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This log never ceases to make me smile.

Also, with lifting, do whatever you will enjoy doing. If you make you’r own program, and at some point miss a rep, or otherwise do the program ‘wrong’, it doesn’t really matter, cos it’s YOUR program and you can do whatever you want to do with it. It might not be best for gains, but in terms of stressing you out it might help.

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[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
This log never ceases to make me smile.

Also, with lifting, do whatever you will enjoy doing. If you make you’r own program, and at some point miss a rep, or otherwise do the program ‘wrong’, it doesn’t really matter, cos it’s YOUR program and you can do whatever you want to do with it. It might not be best for gains, but in terms of stressing you out it might help. [/quote]

This made me smile, thank you!! That is exactly how I feel. Ready made programs with specific weights and %%% that you HAVE to hit or whatever cause me a great deal of stress.

If you think I am in panic attack mode now, you shoulda seen me during my 5/3/1 plateau months, LOL. I was not pleasent to be around…

So after having a real heart to heart with myself I realized it made me sad to be off my broz inspired, max out on squats daily, powerlifting template thinger mCbopper.

HOWEVER, I was doing a few things quite wrong.
A)My back off sets were wayy too high. I thought that 175 was ‘around’ 80% of my 200lb max, but actually 160 is more accurate.
Back off sets=around 160!!!
Bench back off I was doing 130-135 for a max of 140, LOL. 80% is like 115.
Front squats as well, back offs were 135, shoulda been 125.
ANND my deadlifts shoulda only been doubles and triples @80%, which is NOT 235 pounds, it’s more in the 205-215 region.
B) Well, ya, that ^^ bascially covered my biggest mistakes, but also one day off a week was not happening, and that was stupid.
So I am going to try and be a good girl and follow the rules cause I really found doing things this was fun/exciting, and effictive.
STAY TUNED FOr tomorrow’s hopefully non-shitty workout!!

:smiley:

BYE

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Make sure your backoff sets are based off an actual max. Or at least something close to it. In fact I would be very interested to see you get a good spotter and try to truly max each of the lifts (not necessarily on the same day). You’re constantly low-balling your numbers. For example I would bet a hundred bucks you could bench 150 anytime, anywhere. You just need to try it for once!

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[quote]csulli wrote:
Make sure your backoff sets are based off an actual max. Or at least something close to it. In fact I would be very interested to see you get a good spotter and try to truly max each of the lifts (not necessarily on the same day). You’re constantly low-balling your numbers. For example I would bet a hundred bucks you could bench 150 anytime, anywhere. You just need to try it for once![/quote]

Oh, ye have so too much faith :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hallo

I have decided to open my log with a greeting from a new language every day!

That^^^^
^^^

was German.

LET’S LEARN TOGETHER, FRIENDS :slight_smile:

THings are looking up! Today’s workout was back right on track, WOO to the OOT!

Squats
95 x 5
115 x 5
135 x 5
145 x 3
155 x 3
165 x 2
belt
175 x 1
185 x 1
190 x 1
200 x 1
200 x 1

belt off
14 minutes of back off doubles @150 and 155
Just kept goin’, real short rests, totally lost count of everything. I think i am going to do it like that from now on, I get more accomplished that way cause I am not standing around trying to remember what set I am on.
12-15 mins of back off doubles will be ideal. MOAR MOAR FASTER FASTER!!!

Gettin’ sweaty up in thurrr I was.

UMM bench
95 x 5
115 x 3
125 x 3
135 x 1
140 x 1***
140 x 1

120 x 7 sets of 2 short rests
All reps paused
***2% chance that *** ^^^ rep wasn’t paused. Except I sorta remember how I know that I paused it. It was cause I remember thinking I was gripping really firm while waiting for my pause to end, so it would be weird if that paused never existed HAHAHA. K ya…

hammer curls
22.5 lbs x 12, 10 , 6 HA, lame…
SS with rear delt fly DB edition
15lbs…
2 x 12

3 really pathetic chin ups cause I am retaining water or I am getting weaker at chin ups…

K LIFE NEWS:
Rough night last night, and not in a sexual, fun way. HERE’S WHY:
I was down a facebook friend last week and I have been trying to figure out who it was over the last couple days.
It hit me last night that it may in fact be the only powerlifting man that I know and talk to in real life. So i got my cell and checked my facebook, but I couldn’t figure out how to spell his last time. So I went to a friend in common to try and find him on his list and then click on his name to see if he was all private and non-friendy.
AND IT WAS HIM :O!!!
WHY??!
WHY?!?!!?

WHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY?!!?!
I thought…

SO I back tracked and was on that person’s friend list and somehow accidently added like 3 of his friends as friends :O!!!
LIKE HOLY FUCK, I was just scrolling!!!
So then I had to message that person and be like “OMG I am so sorry I was on your friends list and acccidently added these people as friends so if they ask you who the fuck I am just tell them it was a mistake!!!”
So I was just lying there blushing like crrrrazzzay trying to figure out why the FUCK this person un friended me.
It’s illogical, and here’s why:
1.)If he simply does not like me why have we been friends for over a year?
2.)Why does he occasionally ‘like’ my stuff, and make kind comments back on me commenting on his comments?
3.)If he thinks I am annoying (which I am) why not just set it up so you don’t see me in your news feed?
4.) ALSO, he has like 600 friends so how could I be the mOST ANNOYING person out of those 600 people, and how could he even see much of my shit in all that mish mash?
5.) Maybe I don’t comment on his stuff enough, but I know this one girl who is his friend who has NEVER ONCE commented on anything of his and she is still on his list.

This makes no sense to me. I don’t care that I am deleted, I care that I don’t know why!!!

FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

K BYE

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pershendetje!!!

THat is hello in albanian.

The J is silent.

It sounds like this:

PER SHUN DAT TEE AYE

K moving on

Front squats
115 x 5
125 x 3
135 x 1
140 x 1
145 x 1
150 x 1
155 x 1
155 x 1

125 x 10 sets of 2 short rests, took like 10 mins.

Deadlifts

185 x 3
195 x 2 sets of 3
200 x 3
205 x 3 sets of 2
210 x 2

Tried to keep rests as should as I could and focus on speed, etc…

DB row
35lbs
2 x 15

standing cable ropey abs 2 x 25
SS face pulls 2 x 12

leg lifts x 25

K, pretty good.

I think I’ll add weight to my deadlifts and back off sets like every 2-4 weeks or something.

Life news:
Paper Mario sticker star has been completed. This was a very proud moment for me because it was the first time ever that my son beat bowser all on his own. He went fucking nuts after too, LOL. LIke screaming and running around the house. He was hyper for hours…
Now I feel a little empty inside because I spent a lot of my free time walking around collecting stickers and coins to help us in battle.
I know another game will eventually take it’s place, but how long exactly is unknown. It could be days, could be months, it could even be years.
When I beat final fantasy III for the SNES I was just dead inside for as long as I can remember. I don’t think I got into another game after that until I started beating my brother’s high scores in mario kart double dash and I enjoyed how mad it made him. Sigh…
Time will tell I suppose, time will tell…

I had a really realistic sex dream where it actually felt like Anthony Kiedis was on top of me and I was touching his hair. Except it wasn’t his current hair, it was more like Californication era.
I don’t know why my sub-concious picked that hair, that is not my favorite hair.
Actually, maybe it is…
NOOO I like his hair from the stadium arcadium era!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

KBYE

674

ahoj!!

That is Czech, it is pronounced like Ahoy! One of my faveskies…

Squats
95 x 5
115 x 5
135 x 5
145 x 3
165 x 2
belt
175 x 1
185 x 1
195 x 1 <—slow
195 x 1 <— Came forward a bit, but it felt fast
I loaded it up to 200, but I think my 195’s made me a little anxious cause my brain was like omg I think I didn’t do up my belt, so I re racked it, so I could re do 195 and get my head back in the game!
195 x 1 <— perfect
200 x 1

belt off

150 x 5 sets of 2
155 x 5 sets of 2
really short rests, all felt great.

Closer-than normal grip bench
Super close grip feels funky to me, but one of my bench days is supposed to be close grip so I just do as close as I can until I can move it in a bit more without it feeling really weird. I think I have a pretty wide grip usually, this time it was like pinkies inside rings or whatever. NOT EXCITING INFORMATION HERE.

95 x 5
115 x 3
125 x 1
130 x 1
135 x 1

115 x 8 sets of 2

ALL PAUSED
My 8 sets of 2 was really like 13 sets, but I kept being on my 7th set for some reason :confused:

plate side bends 25lbs
25/side

ab stuffs
medicine back straight legged sit ups, other kinds of sit ups, patrick bateman abs.

back ext 1 x 25

K, not bad.

Last night I started thinking for some reason my deadlift was totally strained/back roundy/awful. Even though I never once thought that during my workout. Especially since it was only like 205, but all I could picture in my head was it being really wrong.
I said to my mom like “WHat is going on?! Why can’t I stop picturing myself doing it this way?? This makes no sense! It’s like my brain erased what really happened and totaly fabricated it’s own scenerio.”

My mom said that they did a study on people with OCD and there’s a certain part of their brain that over fires all the time, and she thinks that the creative part of my brain is what is overfiring.

Okay so I understand that, I do like to be creative, but why make up lies?!
My mom was like,
“Why don’t you just picture yourself picking it up over your head and walking around the gym with it? That’s just as nuts as all the crap you’re making up now.”

ANyway, it was nice to talk about it for a while and it made me realize how silly I’m being.
I do that with people too. I’ll see a person, never speak to them, yet somehow I make up entire stories about who they are and how they feel about me and I tell it to myself as though it’s fact.

Like how I think Jack white: Gym edition hates me because I use the rumble roller, LOL. I also think he has had sexual encounters with all the girls who work in the physio clinic and he thinks I am nasty/other negative things, Blahhhhhhhhhhhh blahhhhhhhhh.
HE could be married for all i know.
Or just got dumped. Maybe his somewhat ugly girlfriend just cheated on him and he needs emotional support. Maybe he really like short girls.
OR girls who wear super hero t-shirts to the gym.
WHY IS IT ALWAYS NEGATIVE!???
Maybe my deadlifting was the most perfect that it’s ever been in my entire life and I shoulda made up the flawless-ness image instead.

I really do think JW: Gym edition finds me extremely annoying cause I am always singing to myself when I have to walk by him becaues I am pretending to act nonchalant about him. I figure singing and looking away is the best way to make those feelings come across.
YA ANYWAY

I start training at my new job next monday, so i will have to maybe only work out 4-5 days a week or I’ll never see my kid. I JSUT HAVE TO GO I DON’T HAVE TO MOVE MOUNTAINS EVERY DAY!!!

BYE

675

Halla!

That is swedish, it kinda sounds like haa looa.

Front squats
95 x 5
125 x 3
135 x 1
140 x 1
145 x 1
150 x 1
155 x 1 ← Might not have been as deep as the others, I dunno. Felt hard so I stopped there.

125 x 10 sets of 2 which was probably actually like 20. It was like 15 minutes of reps with like 10 secs rest, so yuh.

deadlifts
185 x 2 sets of 3
195 x 2 sets of 3
200 x 3
205 x 2 sets of 2
210 x 3 sets of 2

latpull down drop sets x 5 sets
cable ropey abs 1 x 50
face pulls 2 x 12

other mat ab stuff that’s probably useless.

K pretty good! I am really enjoying all this lighter weight, short rests stuff. I get all sweaty and drippy so I feel very productive.

Life news:
Nothing really… I think I am getting anxiety about work. Not really work, just worrying about rushing all my workouts for the next few weeks while I train. I know it’s not very long considering I want to lift for the rest of my life and why the fuck would like 15 workouts matter, but like…
The gym will be so busy after work and I wont get a squat rack. tear
My gym is busy as hell at 9 in the morning, I can’t even imagine how busy it will be at 5…
Maybe I’ll workout at 6am or something. I wonder if it would be busy at 6 am with the go getters???
HMMMMMMMmMMMMMm. Ya I might do that instead.
KBYE

676

Just think of it as an opportunity to meet more boys! Someone is bound to notice dat squat ass.

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[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Just think of it as an opportunity to meet more boys! Someone is bound to notice dat squat ass. [/quote]

I think many boys do notice it and then run away scared :S…

I ALSO Forgot to add back EXT. x 25 after facepulls before random mat ab shit

OHH THE HORROR!

I am thinking about titles for my blog and I was wondering if I could call it this:

“Are you there vagina? It’s me, Jenn.”

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OH MAN. In my experience the gym is WAY busy at 6am but just don’t even try from 5pm to about 8. Not only busy, but full to max capacity of the worst kind of gym goers–bros, wannabee bros, stupid people who take up the rack for stupid things for hours–really while they cycle thru every friend in their gang of group curls in the rack.

Earlier would probably be better gym crowd wise…they are far less annoying. The early crowd I find are mostly cardio types, and older dudes, and life long kind fit types at least at my gyms. The wt’s are typically left alone until the bros get off work after 5pm or so then they ruin the place.

GOOD LUCK AT YOUR JOB SPOCK!!!

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:

[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Just think of it as an opportunity to meet more boys! Someone is bound to notice dat squat ass. [/quote]

I think many boys do notice it and then run away scared :S…

I ALSO Forgot to add back EXT. x 25 after facepulls before random mat ab shit

OHH THE HORROR!

I am thinking about titles for my blog and I was wondering if I could call it this:

“Are you there vagina? It’s me, Jenn.”[/quote]

How about “The Spiralling Meat Staircase Of Awesome” or “Jenn’s Smashtastic Power Life”?

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[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Just think of it as an opportunity to meet more boys! Someone is bound to notice dat squat ass. [/quote]

I think many boys do notice it and then run away scared :S…

I ALSO Forgot to add back EXT. x 25 after facepulls before random mat ab shit

OHH THE HORROR!

I am thinking about titles for my blog and I was wondering if I could call it this:

“Are you there vagina? It’s me, Jenn.”[/quote]

How about “The Spiralling Meat Staircase Of Awesome” or “Jenn’s Smashtastic Power Life”?[/quote]

HAHA!!!

My mom thought both of those were wonderful by the way…