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2248

Ok today was ok.

I feel my womanhood is destroying me with uncomfortable amounts of hormones right now so I kinda felt out of it and super tired .
Honestly, I’ve been sleeping for 9hrs a night for almost two weeks now.

I dunno if it’s just because I’m work from home now and I’m finally able to shut my brain off or if I’m a little down in the mouth. Maybe it’s both.
Also, never taking 3 rest days off again , lol. That was too long and some reps I felt like I forgot to squat

Squats
135lbs x 5
155lbs x 5
165lbs x 5
175lbs x 5
185lbs x 2 x 5 these were thankfully the best sets I had. Felt very easy .

High bar paused
145lbs x 10

Bench press
105lbs x 5
115lbs x 5
120lbs x 2 x 5
Tempo bench
105lbs x 3 x 4

Db ss
27.5lbs x 3 x 8

Leg spreader
250lbs x 10
115lbs x 3 x 12
70lbs x 25

Leg ext
115lbs x 6
70lbs x 6 , x 8

Cable pull through
25lbs x 15
30lbs x 15
35lbs x 15
Ss leg press machin
110lbs x 20 , x 25

Stepmill intervals x 20

Done.

I think I squat higher than I used to…
I feel guilty about it, but deep down I dont think it’s a bad thing really .

Uhg my kid is going on a band trip soon. Right after a daddy weekend too.
I’ll have like a week all by myself which I dont want.

Also , we’re watching House and I’m not allowed to watch it without him which is going to be extremely difficult.
Differential diagnosis!!!
BYE

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2249

K better day today .

Yesterday the fog was so thick on the way to the gym I didn’t listen to/rap venom. Maybe that’s why I wasn’t primed for my squats, LOL. Never lift without the pre Slim !!

Today
Deadlifts
135lbs x 6
185lbs x 6
205lbs x 6
Belt
220lbs x 6
230lbs x 6

Bent over row
95lbs x 15, x 2 x 12

Leg spreader
55lbs x 100 + 50 partials

Two d handle lat pull down
70lbs x 3 x 10 1 drop 55lbs x 15
Foot on seat lat pull to me 40lbs x 3 x 10 1 drop 25lbs x 15
Lat pull down 27.5lbs x 3 x 10 1 drop 20lbs x 15
Seated leg curl 55lbs x 2 x 10
All that super setted

Rope bi curl 10lbs x 12, x 20

T bar row
Bar plus
60lbs x 8
70lbs x 2 x 6
50lbs x 10

Barbell curl
30lbs 3 x 8

Hammer curls
20lbs x 6
15lbs x 8
10lbs x 12

Front lat pull down machine
27.5lbs x 2 x 8
20lbs x 8

Stepmill intervals x 20

K good.

To toot my own routines horn here is something I was thinking about:

6 months ago I paused squat 185 for singles
Now I’m doing it for 5s and paused 205lbs for singles

Deadlifted 235 in Oct for slow as fuck single
Repped 230 x 6 today and 260 for a fast single
Front squatted 140 x 1 few months back now 140 x 5 and 155 x 1
Had a hard time 8 weeks ago with 120lbs paused bench for 2. Almost missed the second rep. Knew to back off and build back up now I can do it for volume without a spot or any struggles

8 months ago I did a horrible military press for 80lbs x 4. Now I did 4 x 4 with ease .

My program allows me to make decisions based on feel of the day , but always offers the opportunity to progress in some way.
Progression is slow, but always there , and nothing is ever too daunting to handle.

Volume lifts can progress into top sets with back offs and then done the next month for 2 sets, then volume .

I don’t ever really feel overly beat up, and my workouts, though never a test of my strength , are always fun, and they offer the opportunity to either progress by volume , weight or reps on any given day.

Tis perfection, just saying … :yum::kissing_heart:

BYE

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2250

This makes me sad. I love being with women and having friendships with women. It’s a different dynamic than my friendship with my husband. It also seems more rewarding as I age. Most of the best laughter has been with my women friends.

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2251

K great

Paused squats
135lbs x 4
155lbs x 4
175lbs x 4
185lbs x 4
195lbs x 2 x 4

Military press
75lbs x 4
85lbs x 4 sets of 2

Seated db press
30lbs x 10
35lbs x 10
27.5lbs x 12
20lbs x 8 Arnold press

Leg spreader
190lbs x 15
115lbs x 3 x 12
70lbs x 30 partials

Lateral raises
Plate raises
Rear delt shit

Stepmill intervals x 10

All wonderful!!
Rest Tom

BYE

2252

If you lived near me,I’d wanna be your bestie

2253

I so agree. I love my girls. A neighbor runs sap lines on land we own, and yesterday we worked with them, then had lunch and a couple of beers in the sugar house*. It was me and five men and it was fine, but not anything like laughing until I cry with my girlfriends. A couple of topics I might cover with them that I would never talk to yesterday’s crew about:

How working in community mental health has made me afraid to wear red lipstick because I think maybe it makes me look mentally ill.

My friend’s dirty dream about Prince. Like, really? That tiny little man, with his high heels and makeup and wispy ass mustache and soul patch? WHY?

I can talk to my husband about the above, but it’s not nearly as satisfying.

*Maple syrup talk

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2254

Exactly. There’s just something about the company of women. I’m sure it’s the same for men. There’s just a different atmosphere. Maybe it just has to do with living life in a similar skin.

FYI, I find prince oddly compelling.

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2255

I don’t even know what to say.

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2256

Well , for the record, I would love to develop connections with women. I just haven’t found any that I end up becoming close with.

Yesterday

Front squats
95lbs x 5
115lbs x 3
135lbs x 3
145lbs x 2 x 3
130lbs x 2 x 3

Paused bench
105lbs x 4
115lbs x 4
105lbs x 2 x 4
Bench blockz
130lbs x 9

Leg spreader
70lbs x 50
85lbs x 15
100lbs x 15

Cable cross over
10lbs x 2 x 10

Face pulls
15lbs x 15
30lbs x 10
15lbs x 15
All done without rest

Incline db press
32.5lbs x 12
30lbs x 2 x 10

Bent over db rear delt fly
5lbs x 35

Step mill intervals x 10

K good .

Front squats are the hardest thing for me to increase. I did 145 x 2 first and chickened out on the 3rd, rested , got mad, told myself I came here to do something and I’m gonna do it. Then did my 2 sets of 3. Its just an upper back thing too, my legs are like dude , this is light…

Anyway , had a complete emotional breakdown yesterday .
I’m like 5 days late for my period and usually when my cycle lingers on like this all the days past the date I’m supposed to start are a hormonal nightmare.
I started crying about all the things that guy from work said to me . Like, I let him convince me everyone at work dislikes me, I have an ugly walk, poor taste in everything, I’m a horrible rapper and shouldn’t feel joy from it or do it for fun, I shouldn’t try new things because I’ll just fail, yadda yadda, and still let him sleep with me… AFTER those things are said.
Wtf is wrong with me !?

So then I’m bawling driving home from the gym and call in sick for work…

I died my hair blonde, went to see an osteopath, went for 2 walks and took my kid out for a really nice dinner.

Probably the best mental health day I could have done, to be honest. I feel better today .
I didnt feel guilty for it , and I actually did things that boosted my spirits .

In my reflective state I realized I need to make some life changes .

Because I’ve always been alone, and my son can’t really tell me to cut back on the OCD habits, I’m totally enabled to be as obsessive as I want to be.
I have time off around my birthday, I should take my son to the mountains, but instead I’m like um, no, I must workout instead .
My whole life is about planning optimal workouts and massages and recovery . I plan nothing that actually is for true life happiness .

Like my shrink said, I’m like 110 percent in some good areas of my life, but 0 percent in others. They all need to be more balanced out. I’m not gonna be as fulfilled as I could be if all I plan are workouts.

Anyway, rest today and tomorrow

BYe

2257

Yay! I do this pretty much every day - you’re normal, or we’re both weird.

Don’t we all?

You’re good bro.

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2258

You the special snowflake Jenn, you really are.
OCD and whatnot.
Looking forward to the life changes :slight_smile:

About the front squats try to lead with your elbows coming out of the hole. Let the elbow go up against the ceiling.

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2259

If guy from work says that again, let him know that’s a losers mantra. Most of us fail… a lot. The beauty is we keep going and trying. The losers are the ones who never try at all. It’s weak.

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2260

Just don’t close off to it because you haven’t yet, you know? We’re out there, wanting to talk about our own OCD workout and diet stuff. As far as the rest, I defer to Michael Jordan, who went out and fucked it up over and over again.

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2261

Drop the Teddy Roosevelt ‘Man in the Arena’ quote on him, it’s an all-time classic:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

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2262

Great workout today

Squats
135lbs x 6
155lbs x 6
170lbs x 6
180lbs x 2 x 6

High bar paused
155lbs x 3
165lbs x 3
145lbs x 2 x 3

Bench press
105lbs x 6
115lbs x 2 x 6
Belt
115lbs x 10

Tempo bench
95lbs x 2 x 5

Leg spreader
150lbs x 2 x 20
90lbs x 20
75lbs x 20

Db split squats ss Bulgarian split squats
25lbs 15 lbs
X 8 x 8
X 8 x 8
X 8 x 8

Leg ext ss leg press machine
70lbs 130lbs
X 8 x 12
X 8 + 1 drop 40lbs x 6 paused / × 12

Step mill intervals x 20
Goblet squat
25lbs x 20

K done

BYE

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2263

K

Deadlifts
135lbs x 4
185lbs x 2
205lbs x 2
225lbs x 2
Belt
240lbs x 2
250lbs x 2

1.5hrs of other shit
Stepmill intervals x 20

Rushed today. Went shopping and bought a dwarf hamster , whoops .
It looked at me and it was love

ByE

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2264

Look at this thing!!

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Her name is Ellie. Like from jurrassic park

The door locks , ellie boot up the door locks!

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2265

K hey

Paused squats
135lbs x 5
155lbs x 3
175lbs x 1
185lbs x 1
195lbs x 1
205lbs x 1
210lbs x 1

Military press
75lbs x 3 sets of 6

Leg spreader
205lbs x 12
130lbs x 2 x 10
55lbs x 25

Tons of other shoulder super sets
Rear delt super set

Stepmill intervals x10

Plate raises 35lbs x 20

Tired
Rest tomorrow
BYE

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2266

Good one

Front squats
95lbs x 5
115lbs x 3
125lbs x 1
135lbs x 1
145lbs x 1
150lbs x 1
155lbs x 2 x 1
140lbs x 1

Paused bench
95lbs x 5
105lbs x 3
115lbs x 1
120lbs x 1
125lbs x 1
130lbs x 1
Board press
130lbs x 5
135lbs x 5
140lbs x 5

Leg spreader
85lbs x 50
70lbs x 25
55lbs x 25

Face pulls ss cable rear delt
20lbs 5 lbs
X 12 x 12
X 12 x 12
X 12 x 12

Incline db press
35lbs x 10
27.5lbs x 10
Lying flat one arm db press
20lbs x 10

Stepmill intervals x 10
Damn I forgot tri ext wow fml

K
BYE

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k awesome

squats
135lbs x 4
155lbs x 4
175lbs x 2
185lbs x 2
195lbs x 2
200lbs x 3 x 2

bench press
105lbs x 4
115lbs x 4
125lbs x 2
130lbs x 2 x 2
tempo bench press
110lbs x 2 x 4

leg spreader
175lbs x 15
115lbs x 2 x 12
70lbs x 20

leg ext ss leg press machine
85lbs 150lbs
x 6 x 8
x 6 x 10
x 6 x 12
norest

barbell undermy legs something split squat ss bulgiarian split squat
30lbs 15lbs
x 10 x 10
x 10 x 10
x 10 x 10
norest

stepmill intervals x 20 mins

wt; 135.6lbs

my 200lbs squats felt like no weight
WZHOppppppps

kbYE

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