YES! Such an awesome workout—I loved your fight, I found myself squeezing my butt with you like I could help via youtube…plus, DAT ASS! nom.
the band sounds perfect, then - muscular recruitment breakthrough. i bet you will adapt to it really quickly and be ready to add weight soon 
Band squats seriously brought a huge smile to my face. Lookin good.
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You sweetheart you <3
That’s some fine benching. 87 for 2 reps is amazin’.
Glad you got in a good rebab sesh.
Glad you found a way to rehab the squat. That seems like it’s going to help you break on through.
You’ve convinced me on the sumo DL idea. I’m gonna go watch that again.
Go Kimbakimbakimmmmmeeeeee!
ManfromMass, I’m here to entertain. That sucks that you have to re-do your rehab. There are lots of broken peeps around here, so log your rehab and you’ll get lots of support to keep it going.
Betty, yeah baby! Single-minded focus on removing this obstacle in my path.
Snap, so here is a question: better non-legal depth and no “butt-wink” or legal depth with a loss of arch? Obviously I do want both legal depth and a perfect arch, but the question is how to get there?
c-lula, squeeze those glutes right along with me. Butt-karma…its gotta help.
alexus, that is a good point about adapting to the band. I’ve never consistently used it, so that would be a great benefit should it happen.
BG, a puppylulz! Thanks for the smile.
Nikki, I wish rehab were more interesting. But I gotta log what I’ve got. If I make up shit, then CBear will bitch-slap me.
PP, thanks for the encouragement! I’d LOVE to see a video of you deadlifting.
Today’s training was stride intervals, 1 min walk/1 min. strides x 10. This went well. My IT band seemed like it was starting to twinge on the second-to-last walk, so I stopped and stretched it and then it was fine until the end. I also leaned up against a telephone pole to stretch it again on the 5 min. walk home. Right now it feels no better and no worse than before the run, so I’m cautiously optimistic.
My chiro really warned against me heel striking. I’ve been especially careful on my two stride outings to land mid-foot with short strides, keeping my center of gravity right under my body. The point of running faster is also to keep my strides shorter. I think this strategy is helping my knee issues. Plus, a bit of sprinting is a GREAT workout done efficiently in 20 minutes. Feeling it in my hammies and butt – my favorite areas to train, so its all good!
First, you know i’m going to say it, but I concur with Nadia - your arms are just so very, very lovely! God, I covet them!!
Sumo DLs are looking good! And the squat rehab seems to be coming along quite well - esp considering the DOMs. The rehab do you wonders, i’m sure - glutes firing, good looking buns, what more can you ask for?
Oh man, now you got me wondering about how I srike when I run…hmm…
And yay for sprinting!! Love it. I didn’t know you should keep your stride short btw! Learned something new. Thanks Kimba!
your shimmy to get to the rack was awesome!
band squats look great- they do really help with glute activation
I have to do allot of work for ma glutes-
THATS what im talkin bout, Willis!!
Maschy, thanks for the arm love! I’m not sure there are universal truths with the running, just as with lifting. I need to take shorter strides, but you may not have to. Definitely think long and hard before changing up your running style. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
kmc, I had to replay the video to know what “shimmy” that was. Glad to be entertaining!
CBear, my ass is always available for you to kick it.
Today’s training was squats. Not heavy, sets of 10, no knee cave. Tonight is the rehab…stretching, clams, monster-walks…butt and hips, watch out!
with the adapting to the band thing…
i guess i was thinking that the band does seem to be working to cue you to really push your knees out hard, and you got some DOMS from using the muscles to do that. the muscles should strengthen up pretty quick. fingers crossed for a fairly straightforward carryover to squatting without the band (i’ve heard that there does seem to be).
I’ve always heard that it is better to keep your lumbar arch and only go as low as you can go than to sacrifice your lumbar arch for depth. This is because if you keep your lumbar arch and try and push it as low as you can you will get depth over time as things stretch out. If you get the depth without your lumbar arch then you might injure your back (since keeping the back safe is the point of the lumbar arch) and probably won’t make progress on keeping your lumbar arch.
The no knee cave is good news at that rep level even if they were light.
alexus, thanks so much for your thoughts on the squat situation.
Joe, good news indeed!
I was sitting in a seminar for most of today, a bit sleep deprived to boot. yawn.
When I returned home, I went for a rain run. Well, a run/walk featuring sprinting intervals. Because I hate bicycling in the rain, I have pretty negative associations with rain. Turns out, I really like running in a light rain. It feels like I’m getting away with something…getting my workout in when most folks are stuck inside!
i went on a rain run in the woods this week. it is good for the soul.
You commented on your right side feeling stiff, less mobile, pigeon pose thing… very common that the ‘ok’ side is kinda locked up. Do what you need to do to create balance but don’t feel too bad. Everyone is a little crooked, imbalanced in their pelvis. I work to correct my issues but we’ve all got them. Just don’t want them to hinder progress.
Kimba: I had some serious IT knee pain last summer. I know you like your nike frees, but I’ll recommend the NEWTONS. I was a horrific heel striker. The Newtons saved me. They’re spendy as shit, but my knees have never felt better.
I like rain as well, as long as it’s not heavy. But I’m English so rain is something I have had to learn to love! (Mind you we have a mini-drought at the moment - it’s the hottest, driest spring in years).
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Apparently we’re getting all of your rain here…haven’t seen the sun in a week and a half.
Kimba - those kind of reps with no no knee cave is good, even if the weight is on the lighter side. Keep it up.
It depends, down here we get lots of early all rains where the water temp is pretty high and running in that cna be great.
But running in cold rain is out of the question.
Veggie, I very much appreciate your insight on my locked up right side.
Nadia, interesting that the Newtons helped you. I’ll keep that in mind. Interestingly, since I’ve consciously been mid/forefoot striking, I’ve gotten new DOMS in my feet! Its mostly gone now, but that is proof that I changed something up!
Cal, like MFM said – we’ve got all your rain at the moment. Want some of it back?
Joe, I have run in cold rain and it wasn’t so bad. Running keeps me very warm, so even when wet its OK.
This weekend has been a whirlwind.
Short training on Friday nite and the hubster and I had a function to attend looking dressed up.
BW = 110.5 lbs. in the AM, probably something like 113 lbs. at the time of the training.
Sumo Deadlifts
from floor
95# 1 x 5
115# 1 x 5
135# 1 x 5
155# 1 x 2
belt on:
175# 1 x 2
185# 1 x 2 ← Rep PR +1
190# 1 x 1 ← ALL TIME PR +5 lbs!!
I been gunning for the 190s for quite some time, and I credit all the rack pull work for making this happen. Very excited!
Rack Pulls (2 risers)
195# 1 x 1 <–felt heavy, and there was a riser malfunction (one riser stuck to the plate. I’ll have to take Snapper’s suggestion of using the steps next time.
Today’s training was a run/walk consisting of 1 min walk/1 min strides x 10. Between a 5 min. warmup and cooldown walk, I covered about 2.8 miles. Getting faster with the strides and my knee is getting stronger…very, very slowly and I’m not yet ready to change this run/walk mix…but there is snail-like improvement.
Then a 2.5 hour bike ride (actual ride time), not counting stopping to stretch out my ITB and for half a pulled pork sandwich. Knee is doing OK.
Now off to catch up on some logs!
Then it was off to eat rubber chicken (actually it wasn’t bad).
Outstanding PR’s, you’ll be pulling two plates per side in no time.