Just wanted to say Happy Holidays Tiny Freak. May you find a few reasons to smile amidst the chaos, you grinch 
Know Iām a bit late - but the using the other leg to help balance for one-legged deadlifts idea does sound good. Iāll have to give it a shot. Know what you mean about Christmas being work. I prefer for it to be ājust like any other dayā as much as possible but then people get wind of my being around while they are going away and then I get stuck with a whole bunch of cats to feed and chores like that. On the upside: It will all be over soon.
Hope you manage to negotiate things so that the whole day doesnāt just feel like work. Best.
Pretend itās my b-day tomorrow & see if that doesnāt make you feel 100x better.
I should attach a pic like Hallow. Some kinda xmas dogā¦ when I get to work Iāll check. Somehow, someway,
were going to the green out of you.
See Kimba, you could have it a lot worse.
^ lol!
Just giving you one lost obnoxious HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! to our tiny freak!
Happy Holidays Kim! :*
I know youāre probably slaving over a hot stove by nowā¦ looking hot regardless though.
There are women all over the world with flappy arms, saggy asses and squishy muffin tops that are dreading going to holiday parties praying that there Spanx Shapewear is going to fix it.
You, on the other hand, can get your swagger on since you can breeze in all firm, round and frigginā killer.
If any woman should be blueā¦it aināt you.
If that fails, have a drink. Make it a double.
Have some sex too. And be bossy about itā¦that helps.
^^^^^^^
What my bro saidā¦
New Years is coming soon too.
Hallowed, that picture reflects how I felt in my own Santa hat. Hope your holiday was great!
Frenchy, the Christmas stuff is thankfully over. I have a lovely family, and the sink didnāt clog until after the guests had left. Luckily my sense of humor returned just in the nick of time! Just a day like any other.
alexus, the whole day was pretty much work. But its over now and there were good parts to it too. Its never all one thing.
print, that was funny! You indeed are correct that perspective is all.
Maschy, thanks for being a luscious Christmas present that I unwrap all throughout the year.\
Nikki, I made an extra hotness effort yesterday going with the black satin blouse, pin-striped black pants and the same boots I wore in the Santa picture. Iām betting you are looking fine today, and I hope you are having lots of holiday fun.
giterdone, I sure like the way you write. Indeed, I proudly own NO Spanx shapewear. And, I took every last one of your suggestions. 
Joe, thanks so much for sharing some of the joy you find in this holiday with me. It really did help alot.
Yesterday I took 30 minutes out of the mad race to put xmas dinner on the table (which I did not have ā not everything got done, oh well) to squeeze in an at-home training.
5/3/1 - Wave 13, Week 2 - Military Press Day and Squat Rehab
Military Press
49# 1 x 3
56# 1 x 3
63# 1 x 4 <āmoney set, YAY!
Bar 3 x 10
Honestly, I think my at-home oly bar and weights are lighter than the ones at the gym. Every time I hit MPs at home, I do great. At the gym, I suck. Iām going to try and weigh the bar and see what is up with this.
Squat Rehab
Extra-wide stance BW box squats with doubled band right under my knees, courtesy of lil power.
to stool 1 x 10 <ānot low enough
to milkcrate 3 x 10 <ādid these slow and controlled and they were HARD
to milkcrate with oly bar 1 x 5 ā these were too hard.
I was working on pushing my knees out against the band all the way out of the hole and was very challenged in doing so. It seems Iāve found my weakness.
Today I plan to run off some of the food and alcohol I consumed yesterday.
Wishing everyone who celebrates a Merry Christmas and a kick-ass Saturday to all.
Merry Christmas Kimba! and kudos on doing a MP session in the middle of everything, Iāll bet nobody noticed or cared that everything wasnāt done.
George, Merry Christmas right back atcha!
Today I was hoping to calibrate my new Nike plus at the local high school track, but it had snow on it so I was foiled. Instead I went for my usual 3.31 mile run and did it in 33:32, a 10:06/mile pace and about 20 sec. slower than last week. And honestly, I couldnāt have done it any faster today. Alcohol and rich food donāt make for Kimba PRs.
But it felt great to be out and about, enjoying a bit of cold sunshine.
Merry Christmas to you.
BTW, I was thinking of you when I tried the dips with a 25. You are the wind beneath my plate
so glad you got thru Christmas in one pieceā¦
also glad the box squats w/bands may be something to help
O, and you are showing me how everything else is done. Oh to sumo like O.
lil power, those banded box squats are hurting me but in a good way. I will beat this knee cave with all yāallās help, yes I will!
After my run today, I got on the scale. 112.5 lbs. Then I fetched my oly bar and stood on the scale with it. 150. Soā¦that means this bar only weighs 37.5 lbs. instead of 45 lbs. Thus, NO WONDER I canāt do military presses in the gym like I can at home. There is a 7.5 lb. difference there.
Well, at least now I know what the deal is. Time to take some PRs off the books and reset my MP max.
No wonder. Weighing bars is not crazy. I do it all the time in gyms. That sucks.
In my recent wide-stance squat vid, I have [gasp] knee cave. Never have it with my normal squats.
Kimba:
Look how productive you have been! A nice home cooked meal, a run, and a workout. Sucks about your bedroom bar being light. I have to erase my MP prs tooāI donāt think Iām close to doing full range of motion. Oh well. Itās okay. It wasnāt very long ago that I couldnāt even lift the bar up over my head.
Snap, at least I can compensate for the difference now that I know. Gotta love those microplates! Honestly, I donāt wish knee cave upon you cause it bites. But it will help my struggle to see how you attack it.
Nadia, indeed MPs need to come down to top of chest height in order to really count. At least, that is my rule. Weāll ride the back of the MP bus together. At least the company will be good!
The differences in some bars drives me apeshit. I weighed the EZ bars at my gym and you have to take them down stairs to the locker room to do that which made me look like a nut.
Joe, chances are the gym rats already thought were a nut. I donāt plan on weighing my gymās bars. All my lifts in the gym are hard enough as is.
My favorite Christmas present was my very first pair of running shorts! When it stops snowing, Iāll put them on for a picture.
5/3/1 - Wave 13, Week 2 - Sumo Deadlift and Bench Press Day
Sumo Deadlift
95# 1 x 5
115# 1 x 5
135# 1 x 5 <āworking, this was supposedly to be 3 reps but I forgot
155# 1 x 3 <ālooked good, felt a bit hard
173# 1 x 3 <āmoney set, I was lucky to get my reps today, form was marginal at best
Extra wide Box Squats
4 risers/step
Bar 1 x 5
3 risers/step
65# 1 x 3
75# 1 x 3 ā felt hard, knee wiggle last rep
80# 1 x 3 <āhard, but pretty good job keeping knees out
I was using this as an accessory to sumo pulling today. Iām sure if I had gone any heavier, there would have been major knee cave. I was getting tired.
Bench Press
Bar 1 x 5
65# 1 x 3 <āworking
74# 1 x 3 ā working
83# 1 x 3 ā money set, I was lucky to get the 3rd rep.
Single leg deadlifts using the technique suggested by Hallowed (keeping the non-working foot on the ground but not putting any weight on it)
17.5s 3 x 10
This worked great! I felt my hammies getting worked, but I didnāt embarrass myself by falling over.
supersetted with
Neutral grip pullups
3/3/3/2 <āfailed on 3
Overhead squats with broomstick
1 x 10
Just to practice the movement.
Hip Abductions (with a new Cybex good girl/bad girl machine which is WAY harder than the old machine)
90# 1 x 10 with 3 sec. pause at max. bad girl
Nice sumos lady