August workout check-in thread - August one more rep!
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I need to get back to that, but I'm horrible with finishing projects.
oh gawd . . . i keep trying to figure out a way i can use lifting as my excuse to escape from making a button band, and knitting as
my excuse to not go to the gym. if i could just work out how to make those two procrastinations work together, i'd be unstoppable.
and i swear, the way my son wears through the heels of plain cheapo cotton socks from the grocery store, he is GOING to wear wool socks this winter and thank me for them. i've got handmade socks that are eight years old.
I have some darn tough socks, and they have a lifetime warranty. I prefer smartwool, although I do wear through them in 3-4ish years it seems. But, dude, LIFETIME WARRANTY. The cheap side of me loves it!0 -
Kind of annoyed with myself because I only got two workouts in last week because of a cold (which was really a 24 hr sneeze fest). It sucked because I had been on a 7 (?) week streak of going 3x per week. But oh well. Tried to make todays workout pretty quick because I had to take my 5 yr old daughter with me, but thankfully she was an angel today and played with her tablet the entire time until I was done. So...
Squats - 5x5 175 lbs
Bench Press - 5x5 95 lbs
Barbell Row - 5x5 95 lbs
Not sure where my mind was at when I was doing the barbell row, but I was supposed to be doing 100 lbs. Forgot to put the damn 2.5 lbs plates on the bar and didnt realize it until I was finished.0 -
I need to get back to that, but I'm horrible with finishing projects.
oh gawd . . . i keep trying to figure out a way i can use lifting as my excuse to escape from making a button band, and knitting as
my excuse to not go to the gym. if i could just work out how to make those two procrastinations work together, i'd be unstoppable.
and i swear, the way my son wears through the heels of plain cheapo cotton socks from the grocery store, he is GOING to wear wool socks this winter and thank me for them. i've got handmade socks that are eight years old.
I have some darn tough socks, and they have a lifetime warranty. I prefer smartwool, although I do wear through them in 3-4ish years it seems. But, dude, LIFETIME WARRANTY. The cheap side of me loves it!
I wear through shoes quicker than I wear through socks... Is that normal? lol. I buy a set of 6 socks of each ankle and low calf socks (ankle socks when it's -30 out is a big no-no lol) per year on average, so I'm basically rotating out with the ones from the past year or 2. Only reason I've gotten rid of socks lately was because they'd gotten too loose. I can't remember the last time I had a hole through them! lol
Today's workout was OHP 5!
52.5x5
62.5x5
70x9
glad to see so far only the squats seem to have suffered!
Then did 5x5 of pendlay rows @ 105 and did get all the reps although a few 5th had some momentum behind them so I'll repeat the weight.
Threw in some handstand work, and am rebuilding the callouses with some Knees to bows xD Supposed to go do a "workout" with my mom and sister tomorrow so I'll try to push them and keep MY own energy >_> Might go for a run this afternoon. Depends how beat up I am after vacuuming and mopping the darn floor lol0 -
I have some darn tough socks, and they have a lifetime warranty. I prefer smartwool, although I do wear through them in 3-4ish years it seems. But, dude, LIFETIME WARRANTY. The cheap side of me loves it!
i'm a sucker for superwash sock yarns with a bit of nylon in them. the stash that i have is just horrifying. i'm currently fighting myself to not-buy a whole new pile of this: http://www.elann.com/Commerce.Web/product.aspx?catID=&id=130035
serious bike commuting through a winter rain forest will drive you to things like this, and i basically need at least two pairs per day when i'm in a real groove.0 -
Workout B (Sun) - 2 increases, overhead press and barbell rows...go me!
Dumbbell Skis - 5 x 25 - 40
underhand bicep curls 5 x 5 - 140
Reverse curls 5 x 5 - 100
Overhead Press, Barbell - 5 x 5 - 70
Barbel Row, Bent Over - 5 x 5 - 100
squats 5 X 5 - 190
flys 5 x 10 - 400 -
i have to write this down before it evaporates. i ate two whole packets of starburst candy last night . . . not sure what came over me. and bean salad for breakfast.
and look what happened!
squats: 3x10@30, then 1x6@45, then 6x6@65. this is a huge jump back up from 30lbs two or three days ago, but it felt like it was worth trying, and it was okay. form tweak: i'm using a dead-parallel stance, not too wide, and pushing outwards like hell to brace my thighs all the way. feels like piriformis or gluteus medius or something. completely different from tighten-your-glutes and rotate the femurs in the sockets to match a slight outturn of the toes. i also spent every break between sets stretching my quads to death. the form change felt really good at the time, but guess i'll see how it really stacks up later on.
ohp: i found a swear-word painful area in i-think my left teres minor while rolling initially, and also stretched/rolled my thoraxic spine, which tends to curve over. so when i got to ohp i did 2x10@30 to warm up, and then!
3x6@45, 1x3@45. ohp is so weird. everything's great, until it suddenly . . . isn't. but anyway, i left it there on the first fail, went and did my deadlifts instead, and then i came back to the ohp and did another 4x6@45. it did start to get ugly, but the ones that weren't ugly felt a whole lot stronger and less asymmetrical, which was so cool i can't stand it.
and deadliftsssss . . . drumroll. 7x1@115. another huge jump, from friday.
spent a lot of the time watching my form in the mirrors of course, but also if i'm honest admiring my new 126.6-pound self since i was wearing skintight leggings this time. i guess it's a good thing i got it while i had it, because after today i might puff back up.
anyway, happy september everyone.0 -
Bench day. Had to adjust my schedule a bit as I wanted to hit the arc training after bench, and the commercial gyms I go to are closed tomorrow. Strength gym is 24 hour so I can go and squat+prowler anytime.
I did limber 11 and simple 6 today plus some other stuff and my bench felt really good. Sometimes my hips get tight and it's hard to get good leg drive with an arch.
I also tried bringing the bar more towards my nipples (up from lower sternum) and I found a couple things. The distance between touching my chest for a legal depth and squishing my boobs in a painful way is very short. I also found that I was concentrating on bringing the bar higher so much that I let my elbows flare and my tendonitus is a little mad at me. Not too bad though. I didn't really notice a difference strength wise, but I did feel like I was using different muscle proportions to get the bar up if that makes any sense.
Anyway here's my workout.
ABench
45x10, 65x5, 85x5, 90x3, 100x3, 115x12, 125x3, 135x2, 145x1
Paused
95 3x5
Superset x3
Band assisted pullup x3
pushup x100
