The august ladies' August check in and chat
lwoodroff
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*groan* the puns are back! 
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Yep, I'm feeling "August" alright, LOL! Spent the entire summer to date eating high carb to train for and participate in a cycling tour. Weight is up despite all the excess cardio. Just goes to show I NEED to lift heavy and have a balanced approach to exercise. Now that it is over, I can't wait to get in the power rack.0
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Hello
Posted my workout in the July thread to much of a scarey cat to post a new topic!
Happy august lifting x0 -
Checking in! Been a little absent from the gym, but back on it next week.0
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*tagging to follow*
My program has gone too far away from Stronglifts to be posting about my workouts any more, but I read and follow everyone... 'cause you are all so full of WIN :flowerforyou:0 -
*tagging along, just hanging out with the cool kids***
I have been frustrated with my lack of progress due to form issues and still haven't found anyone in my local area that I have confidence in to coach/train me, so I am putting SL5x5 on hold for a while. I have contact with a trainer in Austin, but until I get some $$$ for some private sessions, I can't schedule anything with her - maybe in a month or so.
I haven't had any weight loss since mid June, and July was a totally f-ed up month. I haven't been getting the cardio/calorie burn workouts like before due to the heat. This month I plan to focus on C25K and weight loss, hopefully get some momentum rolling.
I really want to continue with SL, but my frustration is getting in the way and I need to just step back for a while. But I need some one-on-one training (not that you guys aren't the absolute greatest!); I just feel like I'm spinning my wheels and more frustration will breed discouragement, and enough discouragement will breed failure.
:drinker: to all you ladies here. I look forward to following your exploits in the gym and out. Hopefully, I will be able to join you all by early fall.0 -
I hope to get back on track with my lifting. My mom has been in the hospital and that has been killing my motivation.0
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HI Ladies,
I'd like to start "Checking in" with your guys. :flowerforyou:
I think it's much easier to track my workouts if i post, instead of in my Diary Notes. ( I don't put it in the database because i don't want to see the extra calories i can eat :laugh: )
Anyway, i've posted before on how scared i was and how all of you made me really take the plunge. :bigsmile:
Now I'm fearless :drinker: Well, of the free weights at least. :laugh:
I'm not 'upping' the weights as the program calls for. Being that i workout alone, i'm afraid of getting stuck under a barbel. Therefore, i stay on the same weight until i can do 6 sets comfortably. Are any others doing something like this?
I started on April 29th with a Personal Tainer.
About the end of June I saw him for the last time and I've been on my own. :drinker: I haven't missed a workout, however, i haven't gone up much since He and I stopped working together.
For example:
Squat end of June = 105 Presently = 110 :blushing:
DL end of June = 115 Presently = 120 :blushing:
OHP end of June = 55 Presently = 55 :frown:
Rows end of June = 65 Presently = 70
BenchPress end of June = 55 Presently 60
Will I still see lost of inches doing it this way?
Thanks again for having this Group :flowerforyou:
Edited to Add: I've not done any of the HIIT the Trainer had me doing at the end of our workouts I know i should, but it's so much easier to just get on the Stairmaster for another 20 minutes. I find tracking the time intervals in HIIT, hard. :laugh: Is this a Huge Mistake?0 -
I hope to get back on track with my lifting. My mom has been in the hospital and that has been killing my motivation.
So sorry to hear about your mom. Hoping she gets recovers very soon. My mom is 86 and i cherish everyday we have. :flowerforyou:0 -
sorry about your mum random, hope things improve soon
and sorry to lol at the spelling mistake, but 'stuck under a barbel' brought this to mind.. http://www.anglersmail.co.uk/news/huge-barbel-follow-this-8-lb-2-oz-chub/
spicy, there are free HIIT apps you can get - I have one for android for the bike or running or rowing and it times you/counts you down etc.. 0 -
tag for later so I don't go back and post in the July thread 0
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I did Workout B today after a few weeks rest from any lifting whatsoever.
Squats @95# PR is 105# but wasn't feeling the love
OHP @45# This is my hardest lift and can't seem to increase
Deadlifts @115# Ready to increase weight
Would love any advice on how to increase on the OHP and BP. My left arm/shoulder is noticeably weaker than the right and that is keeping me from advancing weight.0 -
Hey guys. The muscle on the inside of my legs near my knees is so sore from the squats! Is that normal?0
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Hi everyone. This is my first time posting, which is exciting! I'm looking forward to getting my squats back in check this month. The Smith machine (bad, bad idea) ruined my form unfortunately. But I'm hoping to get my own weight set this weekend so I can start over with my squats and really get the form down. I will conquer the squats! Everything else is progressing nicely though!
Also, I can't wait to get to know all you lovely ladies 0 -
Would love any advice on how to increase on the OHP and BP. My left arm/shoulder is noticeably weaker than the right and that is keeping me from advancing weight.
You could do some dumbbell exercises for assistance work and focus more on the left side. You could also use fractionals and increase the weight a little at a time and see how that works out. You could also add in extra reps at your current weight, and when you can hit all of those, bump the weight up and see if you can do them. The last method is what enabled me to finally hit all 5 reps on all sets of my rows.
Lifting tonight after work since I was too tired to go yesterday and too lazy to go on my break. The gym should be nice and quiet. :drinker:0 -
sorry about your mum random, hope things improve soon
and sorry to lol at the spelling mistake, but 'stuck under a barbel' brought this to mind.. http://www.anglersmail.co.uk/news/huge-barbel-follow-this-8-lb-2-oz-chub/
spicy, there are free HIIT apps you can get - I have one for android for the bike or running or rowing and it times you/counts you down etc..
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This is my first time posting. I have been doing SL since the end of January. Went down to one day a week for about 3 months though while doing some other heavy lifting. Went back to regular SL 5x5 the first of June. Here are my stats:
Squats: 110 lbs.
OHP: 55 lbs.
Bench: 70 lbs.
Rows: 70 lbs.
Deadlift: 120 lbs.
I have been upping my weight very slowly, even with a few deloads, trying to really focus on form. It is just me in my basement, I have a power rack so that helps. I am almost done reading Starting Strength too.0 -
Hi everyone. This is my first time posting, which is exciting! I'm looking forward to getting my squats back in check this month. The Smith machine (bad, bad idea) ruined my form unfortunately. But I'm hoping to get my own weight set this weekend so I can start over with my squats and really get the form down. I will conquer the squats! Everything else is progressing nicely though!
Also, I can't wait to get to know all you lovely ladies
Hi Storm!
I don't post here too often either, but I'm going to commit to posting my workouts.
How exciting for you to get your own set of weights. Is it like a whole Barbel set? A squat rack too? You will be squatting great in no time.
After all the reading i did here, I knew to use the smith machine only to get the hang of doing a squat and getting a feel for the it, Soon after i was in the Rack.
Glad i'll be able to follow your progress here.
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This is my first time posting. I have been doing SL since the end of January. Went down to one day a week for about 3 months though while doing some other heavy lifting. Went back to regular SL 5x5 the first of June. Here are my stats:
Squats: 110 lbs.
OHP: 55 lbs.
Bench: 70 lbs.
Rows: 70 lbs.
Deadlift: 120 lbs.
I have been upping my weight very slowly, even with a few deloads, trying to really focus on form. It is just me in my basement, I have a power rack so that helps. I am almost done reading Starting Strength too.
Hi WIllabe!
Those are great stats. And even greater that you have your own set up! Nice.
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BTW,
Just did my Workout
Squat = 110. 5 x 5
OHP = 55 5 x 6 Being that i came down 5 lbs. i did an extra set.
DL = 120 5 x 2 Been doing 2 sets of theses because my Grip strength sucks.
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I did Workout B today after a few weeks rest from any lifting whatsoever.
Squats @95# PR is 105# but wasn't feeling the love
OHP @45# This is my hardest lift and can't seem to increase
Deadlifts @115# Ready to increase weight
Would love any advice on how to increase on the OHP and BP. My left arm/shoulder is noticeably weaker than the right and that is keeping me from advancing weight.
Yes, i'd like to know too. This is the hardest move for me to increase on. You are not alone. :flowerforyou:0 -
Would love any advice on how to increase on the OHP and BP. My left arm/shoulder is noticeably weaker than the right and that is keeping me from advancing weight.
You could do some dumbbell exercises for assistance work and focus more on the left side. You could also use fractionals and increase the weight a little at a time and see how that works out. You could also add in extra reps at your current weight, and when you can hit all of those, bump the weight up and see if you can do them. The last method is what enabled me to finally hit all 5 reps on all sets of my rows.
Lifting tonight after work since I was too tired to go yesterday and too lazy to go on my break. The gym should be nice and quiet. :drinker:
Oh i missed this. Great advice. My personal trainer suggested the dumbell method when i want to increase the BP, because he knows i'm working out alone. Didn;t think to use it for other moves... duh. THanks a bunch.0 -
Hi everyone. This is my first time posting, which is exciting! I'm looking forward to getting my squats back in check this month. The Smith machine (bad, bad idea) ruined my form unfortunately. But I'm hoping to get my own weight set this weekend so I can start over with my squats and really get the form down. I will conquer the squats! Everything else is progressing nicely though!
Also, I can't wait to get to know all you lovely ladies
Hi Storm!
I don't post here too often either, but I'm going to commit to posting my workouts.
How exciting for you to get your own set of weights. Is it like a whole Barbel set? A squat rack too? You will be squatting great in no time.
After all the reading i did here, I knew to use the smith machine only to get the hang of doing a squat and getting a feel for the it, Soon after i was in the Rack.
Glad i'll be able to follow your progress here.
:flowerforyou:
For now I'm just going to get a barbell and plates, but I would love a squat rack someday! My boyfriend can just lift the bar onto my back for the lower weights, but I'll need to get a rack eventually if all goes well lol. My gym (Planet Fitness unfortunately) only has one free barbell so I used the Smith machine because it was all that was usually available. They don't have a rack either :ohwell: I'm hoping my university's gym does so maybe I can use that during the school year if need be. Thanks for the interest! Nice to meet you!0 -
Hello....Happy August. I know I'm looking forward to my kids getting back to school late this month, they are driving each other and me crazy because they are starting to get bored and restless.
Also looking forward to the end of detassling season because all the young males are in the gym at 3:30/4:00 am because they have to be in the fields by 6. But, it will be done in the next week or two and I'll be back to being the lone person in the gym early mornings most days.
Took 4 days off of working out and came back stronger, I think.
Squats: 115 5x5 with good form and all the way down. Tried to go up by 5, nope, not yet.
OHP: 80 5x5 w/good form, wobbly on the last few of set 5. (I had been stuck at 75 FOREVER)
BP: 105 5x5, very wobbly on the last set, but I managed it.
DL: Back down to 185, kept hurting my back at 190, so I'll stay here for a little bit and do some extra reps, I guess.
BBR: Form was iffy at 105, so went back to 95 to work on that again.
I am not sure how I feel about the rows. They feel strange and awkward when I'm doing them.
I feel like I'm not progressing fast enough, but any progress is good, right?0 -
I backed off to 2 heavy lifting sessions + 1 cardio/bodyweight session per week and the inches finally started falling off again. I felt like I was overtraining (again...).
1" off the pooch, 1/2" off the boobs!
DL: 180#, good form except on that first pull.
Squat: 125#
Bench: haven't benched in a while actually
OHP: 65#0 -
Thanks! I have been checking out this group for a while but thought, geez I should actually participate. 0
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Thanks! I have been checking out this group for a while but thought, geez I should actually participate.
Okay I am not good at the quote/reply/aaahh whatever!0 -
Hollywood - what are your knees doing at the bottom of your squats? Make sure that they are tracking out over your toes. You want your hips, knees and ankles all in a line - turning your toes out a bit helps make this happen. You can also try to visualize ripping the floor apart with your heels as you come up out of the squat, and this will help keep your knees from falling in (which may be what is causing your trouble).
So many new folks - You are all ripping it up and getting all RAWR! WTG!
Bikergirl - We are always happy to hear about your awesomeness with the weights, no matter how far from SL you get!
Ok - can I just say I LOVE Fridays on the Texas method! No better way to feel like a BAMF all day than to set some PR's.
Squats 1x5 @185. YEEEHAW! These were super tough and required mad focus. When I was done a gentleman asked if I was a powerlifter. I told him I was trying to be, and he said that he had grown up on a block in Brooklyn that had 8 powerlifters, so he knew one when he saw one. So, yeah, my day was pretty much made at that point.
Bench 1x2 @ 117.5 I had thought I'd go for 3, but 2 was pleeenty.
Power cleans 5x3@65 - dropped back a bit to focus on the drop from the clean to the hang. But getting better at the rhythm, and man oh man - you do these at speed and they are their very own cardio workout!
Push ups to failure - 26. Slow but steady increases here. I'm sure if I did them before everything else I could do more, but it's fun to see what I can push out after a full session.
Farmers walk/waiters carry around the gym.
Then I finished everything off with 15 minutes on the stair master. That thing is a demonic torture device, but I kinda like it. In small doses.
Have a great weekend, all!0 -
I'm exhausted just reading that lol!0
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I actually weighed the bar we have at home (I usually lift at the gym at work during a late lunch break). It was 30 lbs (and not 45). No wonder my deadlifts and OHPs were on point!:blushing:
Finally getting some good gains. July was a big travel/vacation month for my family so I deloaded for my first sessions after coming back, so progress has been a little bit on the slow side, but it's getting there!0 -
Happy to be a part of this group of amazing women! I'm inspired every time I read about what some of you are pushing and pulling around. I started July 12 with dumbbells for everything. Progressed to here:
85lb squats - will probably stall here as I noticed my form starting to collapse. May even deload or take up auxiliary to strengthen core and back
110lb deadlift - I'll probably only increase by 5lbs each week, this **** is heavy!
70lb bench press - very wobbly here, so staying put a while
55lb OHP - damn, these are HARD! I do feel like a BAMF with that bar all the way over my head, though
65lb lat pull-down - well, I really dislike the BBR so I'm doing these instead. BBR is just so awkward
This week I started using the empty bar to warm up but I think I'll also go back to doing some calisthenics and planks, too. Push-ups really challenge me. I'm totally in awe of PP upthread who can do 26 in a row!0
