What Business is it of Yours Where I'm From, Friendo?

This post made me tear up.

Reframe your thinking as this:
You are working your ass off, doing the most you can to provide a good life to your child, on your own. This should make you feel pride, and feel strong. Not everyone can do that. It makes you a better person, not less of one.

Stop comparing yourself to others.

I could go all tough love on your ass, but while that works for me…well it’s not for everyone.

Just over the internet you seem like a fun, unique and awesome person. So stop beating yourself up.

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You are gorgeous! What do you mean undesirable? That is just plain silly! Congrats on the weight loss!

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Thx for the replies guys :heart_eyes:
I guess I’m just in a bit of a negative mood phase. I’ll snap out of it in sure.
Hugggs

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Damn Jenn

You really need a hug :slight_smile:
Those girls at the gym, they look at other 30 - 40 something girls, then they look at you thinking… Damn I want to be like Jenn when I grow up.
They might not be single moms or work a minimum wage. But I’m pretty damn sure at the outside you look like a strong minded MF with the attitude of don’t get in my way :smile: and you lift weights and you’re losing weight, and from that recent photo you’ve got one hell of of a body.

Like the Hog said, you know a thing or two about lifting weights and working out, you know a lot about losing weight (did I say you don’t need to lose any more) so get you some clients they give a bit of extra for fun
Try to become friends with them young ass girls there, they might do you good.

AND Well… Don’t get back to that stupid ex right …

Sending love all the way to you Jenn.

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Well I appreciate you guys thinking I would be a qualified trainer, but here in Canada you need insurance to train people and my gym would fire my ass so fast if I started doing that on the side :laughing:
Would be awesome though

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K Monday benched
95lbs x 10 sets of 5
Tuesday off
Today front squats 110 x 10 sets of 4 and military pressed 70lbs x 10 sets of 4
I combined then because I wanted to rest days as I’m dead and need this week to end.
Sets of 4 are so much easier than 5 lol srsly. 3s will be great .

It’s been a very stressful week at work . Lots of issues with the manager (most of the staff are having issues, it’s about 90 percent of us), and it’s creating a very unpleasant atmosphere to say the least . We’re all trying to take steps to resolve the issues , but obviously it’s a slow process.

I’ve not really been able to sleep and my hormones are very messed up right now.
It’s tmi, but with my skipped period I’ve had like 3 weeks of pms symptoms and nothing is changing. It’s just increasing and I’m having more and more issues as the days go by .
I am just hoping the next two days can be slightly more chill but I doubt it.
K
Bye

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Well hello there ladies and gents.

Let me start out by saying the week got very interesting and it was all due to me being the center of the universe LOL. K but first today’s insane holy fuck hardest workout ever

Squats
155lbs x 10 sets of 4

bench press
100lbs x 10 sets of 4

smith machine reverse lunge SS bulgarian split squats
10lbs /10lbs
x 8/ x 8
20lbs/10lbs
x 8/ x 8
x 8/ x 8 + BW x 10

leg spreader
100lbs x 10
115lbs x 12

single leg ext.
40lbs
x 2 sets of 8
x 6

leg squisher
something x 2 sets 8 or some shit

step mill intervals x 20 minutes

WT: 124.4 staying the same

this might not really seem like a lot, but it took over two hours because squats took like FOr EVE RRRRRRRRRRRRRR holy hell.
i am so weak
beching took five min LOL
I feel like light weights shouldn’t be challenging even with the tempo aspect, but i have to remind myself these weights were only light when i was 20lbs heavier and not working.
100lbs when im 125lbs for bench would be like 120lbs at 145lbs and for 10 sets of it it would have been equally as taxing, same goes for 175lbs of squat, especially with the tempo added in.
My brain still thinks these are light weights because these were barely even warm up sets for me a year ago.
Oh well, W/E
Shit is crazy hard, this is the hardest program i’ve ever done, have i said that yet? If i have get used to it because ill say it every post, LO>

K Anyway
LIFE
NEWS:

So for whatever reason last sunday i started having a panic attack and was flipping my marbles all over the place. It continued into a very sleep deprived monday and a shaky as fuck, basket case Tuesday.
AS stated previously, we’ve all been having issues with the manager.
He makes offensive jokes, awkward sexual remarks at times, talks negatively about other staff, gossips, so on and so fourth.
People have quit, left home in tears (including me as you know), and things were bubbling up inside all of us.
But it was up to me to explode because i am the most emotionally unstable, or was on that day anyway (tuesday)
He took me into his office to put down some shit i was doing or what have you, and i literally went insane. I let it rip, and can’t even remember a single thing i actually said, it was like a state of shock. I have done this three times in my entire life (one with my most recent shit ex, and one with my kids dad) and now this person. I guess i do it once a decade LOL.
I didn’t care anymore, the work environment was so toxic i wasn’t functioning.
Anyway, i was a merciless bitch, and maybe someday ill remember what i even said.
He avoided me the rest of the day and i actually felt quite happy, like the least anxious ive felt in weeks. I finally slept that night and had absolutely no anxiety when i woke up.
THursday morning he took me into his office and apologized for all his wrong doings. He promised to change, he said i was doing an amazing job and it was wrong of him not to be saying so. He was going to be more careful of his humor and more respectful basically. It’s like a different work place. He treats everyone differently in a good way. He greets people and is respectful towards people he used to treat like garbage, he’s acting more maturely , and isnt bashing staff behind their backs.
I took a huge risk and literally changed the work place for dozens of people (humble brag) .
I also now feel a lot freer and more confident.
Not being scared to go to work is also a pretty big plus, LOL.
K
BYE

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Right on Spock!

FWIW - I don’t enforce my boundaries very often but when I do, I do it emotionally, like you did. I think it’s great that you stood up for yourself.

What I have found is that if I do it more often, and less passionately, it gets easier and easier. Been doing some Buddhist meditation shit, and they’re into the respond as opposed to react. The idea is to view your life as if it is a movie and you are watching it rather than living it. To me, sometimes it seems counterintuitive, as if what’s the point of being detached, it feels like you’re not really living. But, it does make the highs less high and the lows less low.

@EmilyQ may have some thoughts on this, and figured I would tag her to enlighten her on my boundary issues from another thread, lol.

Bottom line, right the fuck on girlfriend!

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That’s awesome :grin:

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That’s a very interesting concept!! I think my movie would still get me insanely rialed up though lol .
I do put a lot of emotion into everything , I didn’t even really think, or stopped thinking rather , that it can be very draining to live that way .
I hope i never really have to explode like that again for any reason, but I feel less intimidated by the thought of it , that’s for sure.

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“Boundary issues” is a big topic, and I don’t think belongs in someone’s training log. I really think it was probably best where it was, so that Spock (or anyone) could participate or not. If it’s in here she’s stuck with it, as well as making others who might want to talk about it feel that they shouldn’t because they’d be derailing someone’s log with their own shit.

(Hi Spock! Let me just take the opportunity while I’m here to say how much I’ve loved watching your progress over the years, in the gym and out of it.)

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My apologies, but you misunderstood my intent. I will work on being more clear in the future.

Sorry Spock.

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Hey thanks lady!! Glad to have you stop by :hugs:

Lol no worries buddy. Any conversation is great , unless it turned into real estate pricing from around the world :rofl:

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K today

Deadlifts
165lbs x 10 sets of 4
Took 8 minutes . Little bit less taxing than the hour of squatting …hmmm 10lbs heavier and 52 minutes less rest time . Houston I think i may me much better at deadlifting than squatting
Stupid squats the only one that ever mattered , why can’t you love me as I love you?!?!

Anyway , I ordered adidas powerlift 3.1 . The less heeled of the heel and are apparently good for shorter, low bar squatters . (Moi)
I’ve been front squatting as much as back squatting these days so maybe they will work better for me than chucks .
Excited anyway.
1hr back stuff
Cardio
So.dead
One more tough work out and then it’s rest days and easy shit till next weekend . Whoop
BYE

I remember that.

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k today was surprisingly good, especially since ive had two very taxing workouts in a row and i wasn’t really looking forward to the third.

Front squats
115lbs x 10 sets of 3

military press
75lbs x 10 sets of 3

these were both easy and didn’t take very long

bulgiarian split squats
10lbs
x 3 sets of 10

front food elevated split squats
10lbs
x 8
20lbs
x 6
yes thats right folks, i did a single leg exercise with 20lbs db’s

landmine press
10lbs x 6
20lbs x 6
25lbs x 6
** arm
DB lateral raise
7.5lbs x 25
10lbs x 20
15lbs x 15
7.5lbs x 15

bent over rear delt db fly
3 x 20

single leg ext
40lbs x 2 x 8

cable ass back
10lbs x 2 x 10 one bent one straight

seated db press
27.5lbs x 10
30lbs x 8
25lbs x 8

done i think.

Felt strong and not like death.

Front squats feel so much more natural to me. They require so much less form obsessing I. I think that’s common ? Maybe just among women as they have a tendency to be more quad dominant? WHich i never thought I was because i can fire and feel my glutes way more than my quads , but maybe that doesnt mean anything, IDK. just rambling.
Maybe my new shoes will help with back squats and their suckage . THey are enroot!

k
BYE

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Got my shoes today! After I squatted this morning, of course :roll_eyes:

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Awesome! Keep me posted on how it goes after your next squat workout !:hugs:

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It’s because there’s pretty much one way to do them without losing the bar. Apart from grip, everyone does them the same.

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