The august ladies' August check in and chat
Replies
-
Hi BAMFs.
Today was B session:
Squats - bodyweight again, but going ATG and didn't hurt so much. Had more control while lowering, which is the goal for deloading all the weights
OHP - the bar for 2 x5, 22.5kg for 1x4, then the bar again for 2x5. Next time I'll try adding 1 rep to each set rather than add weight. These are HARD!
DL - tried for 65 kg but couldn't lift it. Dropped to 62.5, gave an almighty groan and got that b*st*rd off the ground! Did this 5 times, so I'm chuffed! That's heavier than my sister! (Not me... but I'll get there!)
Strange Monday things that happened yesterday - had hair coloured by the apprentice hairdressers at the college I work at and then conned their teacher into cutting it into the style she recently got. Was feeling so cool that I drove to a caryard and tried to testdrive the car I've been pondering buying for a year or 2. They didn't have any there, so I just bought one anyway! I have to wait 2 weeks for it to be delivered.
Got home, did the usual blah blah, and slept all night (which was lovely. I can be a crap sleeper, especially with buyers remorse!). Got up, reversed the car up the driveway to go to gym before work and realised the wife's car was missing. Woke her up to find out where she left it, and we discovered it had been stolen. Cr@p!
Did my session and read texts from her. Cops have found it, ignition stuffed, but she can get it back after its fingerprinted.
Geez, crazy 24 hours!!0 -
AMAZING session tonight.
Squats - 75lbs (3rd day at this weight but I think my form is slowly improving)
OHP - 55lbs baby, all 5x5!!! I cheered for myself when I got that last one up. :-)
Deadlift - So excited - TRIPLE DIGITS!!! 105lbs. It was hard, but I wonder if part of that was psychological, LOL. But I'm so proud of myself! Hard workout, but god, how fantastic do you feel afterwards when you DO IT???0 -
Posterior chain pain (good type) !
I had the distinct feeling that I was squatting differently (better) yesterday, butt out, chest up. Today, I have new-found soreness in my glutes, hamstrings, and what a Google image search tells me might be my adductor magni.
I think it's a good sign, and I can't wait to get back tomorrow and make sure that I haven't lost it!0 -
Strange Monday things that happened yesterday - had hair coloured by the apprentice hairdressers at the college I work at and then conned their teacher into cutting it into the style she recently got. Was feeling so cool that I drove to a caryard and tried to testdrive the car I've been pondering buying for a year or 2. They didn't have any there, so I just bought one anyway! I have to wait 2 weeks for it to be delivered.
Got home, did the usual blah blah, and slept all night (which was lovely. I can be a crap sleeper, especially with buyers remorse!). Got up, reversed the car up the driveway to go to gym before work and realised the wife's car was missing. Woke her up to find out where she left it, and we discovered it had been stolen. Cr@p!
Did my session and read texts from her. Cops have found it, ignition stuffed, but she can get it back after its fingerprinted.
Geez, crazy 24 hours!!
That sounds like a crazy day! Glad they found the car though. You don't want the wife to snitch your new one!
0 -
AMAZING session tonight.
Squats - 75lbs (3rd day at this weight but I think my form is slowly improving)
OHP - 55lbs baby, all 5x5!!! I cheered for myself when I got that last one up. :-)
Deadlift - So excited - TRIPLE DIGITS!!! 105lbs. It was hard, but I wonder if part of that was psychological, LOL. But I'm so proud of myself! Hard workout, but god, how fantastic do you feel afterwards when you DO IT???
Happy to hear you're so excited! It does feel fantastic, doesn't it!!?
Workout A for me today - did everything out of order. There was this gorgeous couple of strong folks tying up the squat rack for 45 minutes - a boy/girl couple using most excellent form - I probably looked like a crazy stalker woman I was watching them so much!
Squats - 75 lbs 5x5 - form might finally be clicking! Felt pretty good today and upped the weight
Bench - 75 lbs 5/5/5/4/4 - first time at this weight - I am getting stronger!
T-Bar row (I know!) - 70 lbs 5x5 - form is better doing this, but I suspect the range of motion is limited and not doing me any favours. Going to stick with this for now regardless...
Finished with some glute work - bridges and glute/ham raises along with some planks and crunches.
Good workout overall - treated myself with a sauna and hot tub afterward!
Joanne0 -
Today -
Squats 5x5@165. I think I will take a few lbs off, since I don't think I'm getting quite low enough.
OHP - 4x4 @90. Last week I got 44332 over 5 sets, so getting 4x4 is an improvement
DL - 1x5 @205 - still feels very heavy. I'll probably repeat again next week.
Then for fun, I did a few sets of curls (not sure when the last time I did that was), skull crushers and a set of chair dips.
Holy moly girl! Those are impressive numbers (and glad your foot's better, too)!Squats - 75lbs (3rd day at this weight but I think my form is slowly improving)
OHP - 55lbs baby, all 5x5!!! I cheered for myself when I got that last one up. :-)
Deadlift - So excited - TRIPLE DIGITS!!! 105lbs. It was hard, but I wonder if part of that was psychological, LOL. But I'm so proud of myself! Hard workout, but god, how fantastic do you feel afterwards when you DO IT???
Awesome on the triple digits! Who's the bamf now?!Strange Monday things that happened yesterday - had hair coloured by the apprentice hairdressers at the college I work at and then conned their teacher into cutting it into the style she recently got. Was feeling so cool that I drove to a caryard and tried to testdrive the car I've been pondering buying for a year or 2. They didn't have any there, so I just bought one anyway! I have to wait 2 weeks for it to be delivered.
Got home, did the usual blah blah, and slept all night (which was lovely. I can be a crap sleeper, especially with buyers remorse!). Got up, reversed the car up the driveway to go to gym before work and realised the wife's car was missing. Woke her up to find out where she left it, and we discovered it had been stolen. Cr@p!
Did my session and read texts from her. Cops have found it, ignition stuffed, but she can get it back after its fingerprinted.
Geez, crazy 24 hours!!
This cracked me up! Glad you got the car back.
Day off from lifting for me--went for a run and felt awesome. I'm doing a 10k training program; it's taking forever because I only run once or twice a week, but I got to 20 minutes straight (then two minutes rest, then another 15 minutes running) today, which felt like progress. My stupid thigh/hip is killing me, but whatever.
Also, I put on some pants I bought at my skinniest last summer but couldn't even get up my body this year and they fit! (Okay they were still a little tight, but totally wearable.) My paleo/primal experiment seems to be working, hooray! Weighing/measuring on Thurs, which should be interesting.
Have a great day all.0 -
Good job everyone! I need to get my butt back to the gym.. a lot of stuff going on and I can't let it derail me from my progress.0
-
Be careful! Running through pain is the worst thing I have ever done in training in any sport. It's not that kind of good bite-the-bullet stuff. If you aggravate an injury, it will just multiply the recovery time you will ultimately have to take. Better to take a week or even two off until the pain is completely gone before continuing than to have to take months or quit entirely later on.My stupid thigh/hip is killing me, but whatever.0 -
Workout B
Squats: 165lbs 3x5
OHP: 70lbs 3x5--- these were a *****
Deadlift: 195lbs 1x5
Do any of you only squat twice a week? Do you throw an assistance lift in on days that you don't squat, or do you just do the other two lifts?0 -
Do any of you only squat twice a week? Do you throw an assistance lift in on days that you don't squat, or do you just do the other two lifts?
Sort of. In the Texas method, I squat 3x, but the weights vary. Monday, I did 5x5 @165; tomorrow I'll do 2x5@130, Friday, I'm supposed to attempt 1x5@180, but I think I'll do 175. On the "light" day, I do usually do some other leg exercises like glute bridges and leg curls.0 -
Finally got my lifting in! Glad I went way down in weight because as it turns out 3x8 is a totally different animal from 3x5. Gonna take this up slooooooowly and let my core catch up while keeping things moving cardio-wise. Which seems to be working cause the scale is trending downward finally. I did notice that my measurements were the same even though I had put on like 4 pounds. So recomping is happening, looks like. This winter I just might be able to wear my jeans comfortably without anything pinching. We shall see. Learning to not eat my feelings is certainly helping with all that intuitive eating business. :glasses:0
-
Dani, I would love to not eat my emotions (or drink them). that is a fine art I have yet to master. Congrats on your weight loss.0
-
Dani, I would love to not eat my emotions (or drink them). that is a fine art I have yet to master. Congrats on your weight loss.
Yep, lifelong habit. Obviously not rectified quickly. It's an ongoing progress as things are unearthed and have to be dealt with by something other than rummaging for the Doritos and/or wine. I'm pretty outspoken as it is, but as it turns out, I've been stuffing a lot more than I care to admit :huh:
Baby steps ... :flowerforyou:0 -
Hum. I don't know how I feel about today's workout. I felt good after that I did it, but everything just seemed hard.
Squats: 5x5 @ 32kg
Bench: 55535 deloaded to 25kg - Agh, I've lost my bench.
Rows: 55533 @ 32.5kg - Finally hard. Too hard.0 -
Hard isn't bad, sadly once you've found your level, those lovely regular incremental linear gains just seem to disappear. It becomes more of a grind, but although this is frustrating at times, it's ok. You will keep getting stronger, just progress becomes slower.
0 -
Life is really sucking for me lately, so I am going to take it out on the gym. I hope to get some PB's today.0
-
Life is really sucking for me lately, so I am going to take it out on the gym. I hope to get some PB's today.
I know PB = Personal Best, but I still read it as Peanut Butter.
Go get you some!! 0 -
and now I want some peanut butter... *sigh*
hope you get those PBs Random!0 -
Finally got my lifting in! Glad I went way down in weight because as it turns out 3x8 is a totally different animal from 3x5. Gonna take this up slooooooowly and let my core catch up while keeping things moving cardio-wise. Which seems to be working cause the scale is trending downward finally. I did notice that my measurements were the same even though I had put on like 4 pounds. So recomping is happening, looks like. This winter I just might be able to wear my jeans comfortably without anything pinching. We shall see. Learning to not eat my feelings is certainly helping with all that intuitive eating business. :glasses:
Congrats on the loss!! I swear I dont think my measurements ever change so I never use those!
Yesterday was Squat Bench and row
I had to do a quick run through everything because I was late getting to gym and the ex was bringing home the mini version.
So here is the workout:
Squat 4x5 75 lbs
bench 5x5 90lbs
Row 4x5 90lbs
some lunges, glute bridges( also a most awkward move to do in a weight room full of men), and calf raises
40 min walk on lunch 0 -
Thanks, good advice. It's not an injury, really...just muscle tightness. I'm stretching a lot and I think I'll try to get in a deep tissue massage soon--that's helped me in the past.Be careful! Running through pain is the worst thing I have ever done in training in any sport. It's not that kind of good bite-the-bullet stuff. If you aggravate an injury, it will just multiply the recovery time you will ultimately have to take. Better to take a week or even two off until the pain is completely gone before continuing than to have to take months or quit entirely later on.
I came so close to blowing off my workout this morning—actually, when I went to bed last night planning to sleep in!—but I managed to go and had a pretty good workout. Still struggling on the OHP (guess I'll give in and deload next time) but went up on squats and deads, so was happy about that. And, I did front and side planks and lots of hip/thigh stretching, yipee!
Today:
Squat 5x5 125 lbs
OHP 55443 55 lbs
Dead 1x5 155 lbs0 -
Hey BAMFs!
Broke all types of records today! Also now I want peanut butter lmao :laugh:
I finally do not hate bench pressing
Did 60 lbs on the bench
95 lbs on my rows
120 lbs on shrugs
135 lbs on my deadlifts
105 lbs on squats
70 lbs on machine crunches
Also did 50 leg hip raises
Anyone else hate the "on the fly" math required to figure out which plates to put on the bar? :grumble:0 -
Good solid lifting session tonight. Nothing horrible or spectacular, just SOLID, which I'm fine with. I am thrilled however because for some reason my squats kicked into gear and I made it below parallel. The first time it happened I actually exclaimed out loud, LOL. Good thing I'm in my basement. I'm still leaning forward, but at least I'm getting low enough now. Baby steps. Kept all the weights the same as the last time:
Squats: 75lbs - been here a few workouts now, but still working on form. And my, they do get a lot harder when you go deep, don't they? And holy hell talk about a sentence for some sexual innuendo! LOL
Bench: 65lbs - going to move up to 70 next time.
Row: 80lbs - think I'm going to try 85 next time.
And on a random note, I got a major promotion today totally out of the blue. Should kick in mid-September I'm guessing. So I'm super excited. :-)0 -
Good solid lifting session tonight. Nothing horrible or spectacular, just SOLID, which I'm fine with. I am thrilled however because for some reason my squats kicked into gear and I made it below parallel. The first time it happened I actually exclaimed out loud, LOL. Good thing I'm in my basement. I'm still leaning forward, but at least I'm getting low enough now. Baby steps. Kept all the weights the same as the last time:
Squats: 75lbs - been here a few workouts now, but still working on form. And my, they do get a lot harder when you go deep, don't they? And holy hell talk about a sentence for some sexual innuendo! LOL
Bench: 65lbs - going to move up to 70 next time.
Row: 80lbs - think I'm going to try 85 next time.
And on a random note, I got a major promotion today totally out of the blue. Should kick in mid-September I'm guessing. So I'm super excited. :-)
Congrats on the squat depth AND the promotion. What a great day!
I missed my SL session this morning - had to do something for work that made the gym inconvenient. I was annoyed and saying to myself that I needed my routine to get back to normal when it dawned on me that this is normal for me. I regularly have random things I have to do before / after / during work. And I'm a teacher, so I regularly have a break from all things normal and have random road trips for a week or 2 at a time. So, I really want to get some weights for home, and hope I actually use them. It would be so much easier to just do it when I get home from work, rather than go to the gym before work and have a shower there... Hmmm, might start planning this.
In my imagination, I need ALL the things to make this work. But I don't really. If I had a bar, some weights, one of those adjustable squat racks they have at my Crossfit gym and a bench, I'd be set to start. I always think I need the whole kit and caboodle, ie the gym cage thingo. But I've never seen one in real life. Neither of my gyms have one! It'll be a while before I'm anywhere near scary weights that would be a danger.... Anyways, pondering pondering pondering. Will wait until I've actually got my new car before I think of the next big purchase!0 -
zz you are such a magpie lol! but your point is very true, life happens and everything has to fit with that.
well after my bingey evening I'm all set with my kit in the car to go straight to the gym from work at 2pm the joys of my mum having the kids!! 0 -
Bah! What! No! If I could even do ONE rep @ 55lbs, I would be all proud and stuff.OHP 55443 55 lbs0 -
In my imagination, I need ALL the things to make this work.
You don't. I lift in my garage without a power cage. I purchased a used Olympic barbell set with bench/squat rack for about $350. It's a bit rusty around the edges from sitting in my garage but it's been working well for me. We got the squishy floor mat thingies to protect our garage floor (because weights do get dropped from time to time and can and will get damaged or damage the floor) and those were about another $100.
You can start basic and go from there. I'm very cautious lifting without a power cage, but I'm not out to break world records so I'm not going too heavy anyway. I just listen to my body, and it always lets me know where the limits are.
Here is what I have:
0 -
Sigh.... I wish I had a garage for lifting... stupid NYC.... stupid no space anywhere... :grumble:0
-
I hear ya! Same problem here in Paris. :'''(Sigh.... I wish I had a garage for lifting... stupid NYC.... stupid no space anywhere... :grumble:0 -
ha I have a garage but the huz wouldn't even contemplate using it, and if I suggested using one of the bedrooms he'd worry about the floor (a bit on the OCD side bless him..).
anyway, hit the gym after my early finish today, had such a giggle - one of the ex-PTs still trains there (allegedly he's now a 'fitness model') anyway, he was there as usual and I suddenly realised he'd be a great candidate for one of those chicken-legged 'friends don't let friends miss leg day' photos. Admittedly he was doing one-legged squats but he has totally girly legs, and a fairly puffed up torso. lol!
so.. stuck at 45kg squats as I'm still 'good-morning'-ing a bit on the way back up from some, so trying to focus on form. It felt really heavy again. Can't believe I got over 10kg heavier before I deloaded *sigh* will 60kg every appear?! anyway, 3x5
Bench I am back up to my nemesis number, 37.5kg. managed 4,4,5 (after a proper 3 minute rest). Grr.
Rows I totally cocked up the maths, so ended up doing 1x5 at 35kg, 1x5 at 40kg and finally 3x5 at 42.5kg!
Couldn't be bothered to do anything else! Shocking huh?!0 -
I would love to have a garage, but I doubt the fiance would let me fill it with lifting equipment. He goes on rants every time we visit his parents because they have too much stuff in their garage and can't park their cars in there. Theoretically, I could put some equipment in my basement, but it's dirty and scary down there and the stairs are an accident waiting to happen. Some day, I'll buy my own house and it will have space for my own equipment.
Workout A today
Squats: 165lbs (again) 3x5---so much easier to do these when you don't do deadlifts first. Whoda thunk?
Bench: 105lbs 3x5-- PR happy dance yay
Rows: 105lbs 3x5 (ish)-- didn't hit all the reps, but came dang close.0
