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[quote]scj119 wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
195 x 1 <— This was a little fast and felt oddly easy so I am going to assume I did not hit depth on this rep. Suspiciously easy. Like easier than 185. Did not hit depth, but did not re do!!
See, here’s the thing, does a fast, maybe-not-to-depth 195 count for anything? Like, it has no purpose in my workout. That is why I typically re do stuff, they need to have a purpose.

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Yes, remember the greater purpose of working out is to put your body under a load that forces it to adapt. Your body has to think it NEEDS to change in order to survive your particular day-to-day life. The purpose of strength training is NOT to hit x reps at y weight. THAT is just the means by which you force adaptation. In other words:

**SET/REP SCHEME is just the TOOL by which you accomplish the goal of adaptation. It is not the end goal itself!

Example: if your workout calls for 200x5 on something as your top set, it means that that one set of 5 should be incredibly difficult - difficult enough that your body says HOLY SHIT THAT WAS HARD and you really aren’t sure if you could repeat that set if you tried. If you pick a weight low enough that it will allow you to attempt 3 sets of 5 in case of mistakes… you aren’t picking a high enough weight to accomplish the goal of adaptatione.

Same thing if your program calls for 3x5 or whatever. If you think you won’t be happy with a couple sets so you pick a weight low enough that you can do 5 sets of 5 if needed… your weight was not high enough to force adaptation. Those 3 sets of 5 are supposed to be so hard that a fourth set of 5 is impossible or damn close to impossible.

I really doubt anyone who is very strong has had a top set with perfect form on every rep in many years. To get that strong you have to lift a weight so heavy that PERFECT form is impossible.[/quote]

!! THis is very brain fixy, thank you!!

I think I was reading too much stuff where people were like form nazi’s and it started making me feel guitly about my form.
I know there is a less anal me inside, gotta let her out! GOTTA GOTTAAAAAAA !

:smiley:

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[quote]Heracles_rocks wrote:
Ya know Jen, i think we all have a little Dr. jekyll and Mr Hyde opposition in our pysch. I know that for me Mr Hyde is awesome, but other people dont agree. So my Dr Jekyll side allows me to temporarily reign in MR Hyde, but only temporarily. Its probably why i prefer to be by myself more than not. Because when Mr Hyde is out to play… So that is where i turn to Dr. Jekyll to reign in my other side then unleash that in the gym. Letting Mr. Hyde out to play is like playing with fire, sometimes its awesome, and sometimes i get burned badly.

So what i’m saying, you’re probably asking how this relates to life and powerlifting. Well, i will say that you gotta let Hyde out, or in other words you got to let yourself get a little crazy. Who’s to say what the percentage is, but you also have to use DR Jekyll to reign in MR Hyde sometimes to accomplish things. For powerlifting Mr Hyde is awesome, that side of you gives you that drive to push your limits, and you should let that part of you out once in awhile, especially when you need to push your limits to establish new ones. But Dr Jekyll is where the planning comes in and the wisdom in planning what you’re going to do and stick with it.

So while i think your nuts, i think i can make a case that i’m just as nuts if not more so than you. :slight_smile:

Happy lifting Jen and get that 225 squat already, i know its already been done, just a matter of actually doing it.

Oh sorry about the novel, but one more thing, look up brandon lilly’s youtube vids and watch ben rices vids as well. They both have some good points to progression and sticking to the plan. Of course there’s always Supertraining06 as well like git said, mark bell is one cool mofo. [/quote]

Hey buddy!! That makes a lot of sense, I feel very much like that…
I know how to use my OCD to my advantage most of the time, but sometimes the mental takes over and it all goes downhill from there.
IT comes in waves, ya know!!!

Glad you are back posting on these forums again, BTW!

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K great workout today!

Ooops, HI

squats
115 x 5
135 x 5
145 x 5
155 x 5
belt
165 x 5
175 x 5

belt off
135 x 12

military press
65 x 8
70 x 8
75 x 8

standing cable ropey abs
2 x 25

facepulls
2 x 25

plate side bends
45lbs
2 x 10/side

some curls

back ext. 1 x 25

GOOD
NESS

Me that was enjoyable!

DON"T HAVE a lot of time for chit chatty chat chat cause I am wayyy behind on my facebook scrabble :open_mouth: !

Um

BYE

724

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

!! THis is very brain fixy, thank you!!

I think I was reading too much stuff where people were like form nazi’s and it started making me feel guitly about my form.
I know there is a less anal me inside, gotta let her out! GOTTA GOTTAAAAAAA !

:D[/quote]

There’s a great buttsex joke here I’m missing.

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[quote]scj119 wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

!! THis is very brain fixy, thank you!!

I think I was reading too much stuff where people were like form nazi’s and it started making me feel guitly about my form.
I know there is a less anal me inside, gotta let her out! GOTTA GOTTAAAAAAA !

:D[/quote]

There’s a great buttsex joke here I’m missing.[/quote]

HA!

HeLLLLLLOO FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES!

Squats
115 x 5
135 x 5
145 x 3
155 x 3
belt
165 x 3
175 x 3
185 x 3
190 x 3
190 x 3
belt off
140 x 10

Great stuff!! I am sure that is a PR of some kind, maybe…

Leg ext. drop set x 5 sets

lat pull down 2 x 12

back ext x 25

random mat abs

Good.

Really good day at work today. I changed the step status for all our potential candidates from NEW to in review or 1st interview, fun times.
I was even brave enough to answer the phone. I was too chicken to last time so everyone made fun of me, but I answered it today. Then I got recognized during our closing huddle for answering the phone, LOL.
OH THat reminds me, tomorrow is interesting fact day and I want to google interesting facts about T-rex to share with my “peers”.
REMEMEBR JENN!!
REMEMEBR !!!

UM, good news on my twitter account front! It turns out the anthony kieids I was pestering (who ignored me and it sorta almost made me cry) wasn’t actually the real anthony kiedis, and his account has been suspended.
That means if the real anthony ever joins twitter I can have a fresh new start!

K BYE

726

Happy thursday buds!!

Squats
115 x 5
135 x 5
145 x 5
155 x 5
belt
170 x 5
180 x 5

belt off
135 x 12

close grip bench press
95 x 8
95 x 8
95 x 10

seated cable row
85lb pin
x 10
x 10
x 12

decline sit ups
3 x 12

back ext 2 x 10

Good.

OHYA Me and the other HR girls were working at the mall today in our little target booth or whatever and guess who I saw?! GUESS…

YA! That’s right! Jack White: Gym Edition.
So I started freaking out and I got all red and then I hid behind the counter which was really uncomfortable and then I moved people so they could block me and stuff and then he walked away so I made everyone look at the broadness of his shoulders.
Good times.

Now they know why I’m single, heh.

NE WAY, TIRED.

BYE

727

Top O’ the mornin’ to ya!

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

belt off
145 x 10

deadlifts
175 x 8
185 x 8
190 x 8

single leg leg ext
3 x 10

plate side bends
35lbs
2 x 15

back ext
1 x 25

leg lifts x 25

kewl
kool
coo
tre chic

life news:
Um
so yesterday I was giving my kid a bath and he was like
“Mommy why don’t you have more than one kid?”
I replied
“Because I only want one and I don’t have a boyfriend so can’t really have another.”
He said
“Why do you need a boyfriend to have a kid?”
I was thinking WTF, is he talking about in vitro fertilization, LOL.
I said
“Well a boy plays an important role in it too.”
And he said…
“Well what about grandpa?”
I was like

“EWWWWWWWWW GABE!!!”

I know he has no idea what he is talking about, but fucking puke.

Puke x’s 10000!

So ya, no other life news.

BYe

728

hahahahahhahahaha. ew sorry. thats funny though.

729

Hiyo

Squats
115 x 5
135 x 5
145 x 2
155 x 2
belt
165 x 2
175 x 1
185 x 1
195 x 1
200 x 1
200 x 1
175 x 6

belt off
145 x 10

bench
120 x 6
125 x 6
125 x 6**
125 x 6
125 x 6***
first/last paused

** Indicates one rep may have not fully touched my chest, I think it like, grazed it or something.
*** Indicates I am uncertain if the last rep was paused because I cannot remember. I would assume it was because I typcially only notice when it’s not paused. Like OMG i forgot to pause! I never thought that, so it was probably paused.
Blah blah blah

leg ext. 2 x 12

standing cable roepy abs
3 x 25

facepulls
4 x 12

K good, other than my bench OCD-ing. O_o

Um life news:
I dunno.
…
My boobs hurt all the time and I would like to complain about it even though that’s not very testosterone nationy. I wanted to take a bath yesterday, but then I realized that meant I’d have to take off my bra which sounded way too painful at the time. Then I decided I’d just bathe in my bra, which was weird. I wonder if I have too much of some hormone or something.
ANYWAY
Now some manly talk :
UHmmmm …

…

OH I bought a daily planner, and it came with stickers!!! Now I get to plan my year and put fun stickers around important dates, YAYYYYYYYY!

BYE

730

Hope you’re enjoying your job!

731

Your log should never make it all the way to page 3.

732

Spock?

733

Miss Jenn is fine. Shes been hooked to the TV watching hockey and downing maple syrup.

734

OH MY GODNEESS! I am sorry, I was unaware people were attempting to communicate with me during my posting absence.

SO HELLO AND A FEW UPDATES:

One day last week I decided I was no longer a powerlifter because it was making me miserable. Incidetly, that also happened to be the day where we had to announce a “fun fact” about ourself to all our newly hired employees at work.
FUn fact: “Uhh, I have a kid, he’s six, yeah…”
Not:
“OMG ME POWERLIFTER SO UNIQUE LOVES IT SO MUCH YUHH”
Very heart wrenching for me to be so indentity-less…
Anyway, it only lasted a day, and I got right back at it. However, I was hoping that me “punishing” myself with giving up powerlifting was enough to scare me into quitting all this mental obseessing/panic attacks over imperfect reps etc…
I WAS WRONG.
One day back and I was all like OMG THINGS WERE WRONG AHHHhHHHhH!
Thankfully, one morning I woke up and was like “I don’t want to fucking squat everyday. My bench is turning to shit. Something needs to change”.
So I started 5/3/1 for the millionth time in my life.
POWERLIFTING: TAKE 5834589748378392
But I didn’t post because I wanted to wait and see if I could stick to something for a few months until I announced an official “plan”. I wrote in my little paper journal, but it’s really not the same.

So past few workouts:

Squat day
115 x 5
125 x 5
140 x 16

deadlifts
135 x 4 sets of 10
145 x 12

Cardio day=boring

bench day
85 x 5
95 x 5
105 x 17

Military press
55 x 4 sets of 10
55 x 12

Deadlift day
155 x 5
175 x 5
185 x 16

squats
115 x 4 sets of 10
115 x 12

That’s all so far. Really pleased with how things are going KNOCK ON WOOD*
Nothing is bothering my brain at all, so my anxiety is down like 86%

My mommy was also doing some internet googling and thought that I may have some thyroid issues due to some iodine defiency. Mainly because I am tired all the time/anxious all the time/fat even though I workout like crazy and eat really healthfully/have the most fucked up periods ever/have wonky hurty boobs etcetc…

So I got this like iodine supplement that helps with thyroid function and I cannot even begin to describe how much better I feel. Like I actually have energy and my boobs stopped hurting and maybe that’s why I feel so much stronger at the gym? I dunno? Those rep maxes far exceeded my expectations. My brain feels a lot less cloudy as well.
We’ll see how things go from here, but I am optimisitic!

Anyway, that is all to report for now, which is probably too much, LOL.

I found batman chucks online ! ! !!! I am figuring out some way to include them into my monthly budget. I am sure they could fall under my groceries category…

BYEBEYBEYBYE
B
Y
E

735

I think the ‘best program’ is probably the one that keeps you interested and coming back to the gym.

are you doing any assistance work?

736

Lol. Spock doin the ol’ 5/3/17

Nice rep maxes friend.

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[quote]zenontheterrible wrote:
I think the ‘best program’ is probably the one that keeps you interested and coming back to the gym.

are you doing any assistance work? [/quote]

Howdy buddy!!

Why yes, I am an assistance work addict!

I do things like:
Abs stuffs
DB row
leg ext
back ext
lat pull
bi/tri shit
chin ups
face pulls
DB presses

ETC

.

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[quote]csulli wrote:
Lol. Spock doin the ol’ 5/3/17

Nice rep maxes friend.[/quote]

LOL!

Thank ya !

739

HI

THERE

yesterday I did some cardio

Today:

Military press
55 x 5
60 x 5
65 x 15

bench
95 x 10
95 x 10
95 x 10
95 x 10
95 x 12

lat pull down
85lbs pin
x 10, 10, 12

Pee Break

Boring bicep shit

rear delt fly

One arm NG DB press 25lbs
2 x 12

other mat ab shit

K
Good.

Life news:

Don’t judge me.

I have applied to work at wal mart to stock shelves because I really enjoy doing that and I really hate how my boss gives all my co-workers real work to do andgives me nothing to do.

I have also somehow been bitterized over the years and really find all this happy pappy group huddle event days bullshit to be tiring/stupid.

STOP ALL THE SMILING !!! :expressionless:

I am a simple broad. Stocking shit at wal-mart was my favoritest job until I popped out my kid and starting fucking that alcoholic dude who cheated on me every night and my world got turned upside down…:slight_smile:

So I dunno. I’m mental and having a panic attack or whatever.

I am also freaking out because yesterday in the bath my kid started crying and saying he hated daddy days because they make him eat food that he doesn’t like. Then he started begging me to tell his daddy to stop making him eat food that he hates.
"PLEASE MOMMY!! PLEASE TELL HIM I DON’T WANT TO EAT EGGS! "
Uhg.
Why force a 6 year old to eat eggs if he hates eggs? LIke, pick your fucking battles. Eating eggs is making him cry, is this really worth it?
You hate tomatoes you fuck wit, how about he makes you eat tomatoes for no reason.
This is all about control. He just likes to control HIS son. He always says it so possessivly, too. I CAN MAKE DECISIONS FOR MY SON

MMMMMMYYYYY Son.!!!

Now I don’t know what to do. I told gabe i’d do something because he wouldn’t stop crying, but his dad ignores everything I say to him.

OPINIONS>>>>>>>>>…???

KBYE LOVE YA

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:
I am also freaking out because yesterday in the bath my kid started crying and saying he hated daddy days because they make him eat food that he doesn’t like. Then he started begging me to tell his daddy to stop making him eat food that he hates.
"PLEASE MOMMY!! PLEASE TELL HIM I DON’T WANT TO EAT EGGS! "
Uhg.
Why force a 6 year old to eat eggs if he hates eggs? LIke, pick your fucking battles. Eating eggs is making him cry, is this really worth it?
You hate tomatoes you fuck wit, how about he makes you eat tomatoes for no reason.
This is all about control. He just likes to control HIS son. He always says it so possessivly, too. I CAN MAKE DECISIONS FOR MY SON

MMMMMMYYYYY Son.!!!

Now I don’t know what to do. I told gabe i’d do something because he wouldn’t stop crying, but his dad ignores everything I say to him.

OPINIONS>>>>>>>>>…???

KBYE LOVE YA
[/quote]
You could try telling whatshisface that HIS son “hates daddy days”. So maybe he’d like to slacken the leash a little bit.