Daily Chat Thread
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Thanks Dawn! I don't have any dumbbells at my house, so I was practicing without them. I think I did alright. Maybe I'll find a secluded corner of the gym tomorrow, haha.
Nice job on the DL's!0 -
I've been MIA with life too. Still training of course. Moved house last week too.
So Saturday, my coach finally said to me "you can squat "0 -
Happy Monday, everyone! I'm feeling not so happy that it's Monday, but trying to pretend. Fake it til you make it.
Saturday I did Candito Linear Program, Control Upper Day
Spoto Press - 6x4@29 kg
Paused DB row - 6x4@30 lbs
OHP - 1x10@19 kgs
Chin ups - 2x5@1.5" band assist
Skipped accessories as it was late.
Yesterday I did 5.2 mile run. Weather was lovely, finally.
Jo - glad you can squat! Haha!
Dawn - nice deadlifts, that's some heavy weight!
Aubrey - I have never done dumbbell snatches, but agree with Dawn to start with light weights0 -
Aubrey - dumbbell snatches look fun, I might try some tomorrow - I will let you know if I hit anyone
Aigre - Great running & lifting as always! How are you finding Candito?
Dawn - Great job getting it all done around your schedule, have you decided if you're entering another meet?
Jo - good luck squatting, and I hope your house move went smoothly
I don't really know what I'm doing at the moment, pretty much just turning up at the gym and doing whatever I feel like. Today I kinda followed the 5/3/1 set up, for no other reason than I wanted to squat and deadlift!
Squat: 5@ 50kg, 3 @ 55kg, 8 @ 62.5kg (was aiming for 7, so I was pleased I got the last one)
Deadlifts: 5 x 6 @ 60kg
Planks: 5 x 30 seconds
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Aubrey - ah, I don't have dumbbells either. But does help to try them out with actual dumbbells if planning to use them since it's more just getting used to how the weight gets balanced in the hand and the control of the motion. And thanks.
Jo - Good to see you. Here I thought you could squat this whole time.
Aigre - And it feels heavy. Am a tad sore from it too.
Stephie - Thanks. Right now it's just not in the budget and I haven't really found one. I don't have a membership so would need to pay to be a member of an organization and pay the fee for the meet. Until sister gets a more stable job and actually makes all of her rent and maybe even can buy some of the food, I can't splurge on a meet. But some day.
Off to a meh start today. Ended up a little rushed and forgot a couple of things at home. Then forgot they do street cleaning over by work as I'm not usually over here on Mondays so there is half the unpaid parking unavailable. Ended up parking in garage by gym and having to pay for it while I was using the gym. Then moved the car to a spot since the "cleaning" ends at 1pm. Forgot lock in my jacket so had to carry my bag around the gym with me cause I don't like using the other lockers they have that have the built in locks.
Did upper body accessories day but skipped a couple of things. Then studied on treadmill for an hour.
wide grip bench press paused - 2x8 @ 45, 1x8 @ 65 and 2x5 @ 80
preacher curl - 1x6 with the bar then 2x8 with bar + 20
tricep pushdown with rope - 3x10 @ 70
overhead tricep extension with rope - 2x10 @ 40
treadmill - 60 minutes at 5 incline and 3 speed then about 10 minute cool down
Now I'm going to do a little bit of online stuff. Still have like 15 stories to review, then it's studying and going to talk to boss about a shift that is in question. Might walk over to a clothing store too as I really need a new pair of work pants and may have enough from tax refund to at least get that.0 -
So I started Stage 3 today.
Dumbbell snatches - Weren't as bad as I was expecting, though I did hit myself in the head with the dumbbell once ROFL. Felt GREAT (jk).
For the 1 Leg Romanian Deadlift, my arches HURT. I have high arches and do wear supports. I'm wondering if I need to wear harder shoes for those. Or is there an alternate exercise? I couldn't do the 3rd set because my arches hurt so bad. I also had difficulty with the balancing part of it. In Stage 2 I replaced the 1 Point Rows with regular rows using an exercise bench because of the balancing part.
The Body Weight Matrix kicked my butt! I have a difficult time with lunges and was unable to do the lunge jumps. So I just did the squats, lunges, and squat jumps. I had to stop a few times because I was exhausted. I also only did it once instead of twice. Last week was a planned rest week, so I figured I need to work up to it.0 -
Aubrey - nice workout! I have never had my arches hurt with SL RDLs before. The balance is definitely tricky though. I actually love that exercise and haven't done it in a while.
Dawn - have you done a meet before? cool! You definitely have the strength for it.
Stephie - I really like Candito! I feel like I'm making good progress, but yet the workouts don't take hours, and I can keep it interesting with the different optional exercises. Your squats looked great!
Candito Linear Program
Heavy Lower Day
Back squat 3x6@94 lbs
Deadlift - 2x6@131 lbs
Hip thrust - 3x12@83 lbs
Back extension - 3x30@BW
Not my heaviest weights ever, but probably my most reps with those weights!0 -
Aigre - Yep, I competed about a year ago up in Oregon. I ended up with a 198 squat, 115 bench and 248 deadlift. Used to have one of the clips as part of my youtube intro before lost bunch of stuff when computer crashed. Do also have a video of some of the meet lifts that someone filmed for me over on my channel. 0
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Interesting, Aigre, that your WHT is lower than your DL. My DL are MUCH lower than my WHT!! I kind of have this twinge-y thing happening in my lower back, so I have dropped my DL weight waaaayyyy back. I think my form is right, but I am having trouble upping the weight in DL.
I remember when you competed, Dawn!!
I am meeting my goal of 0.5 lbs down per week....although I am nervous about this week. Tomorrow I weigh in, so we shall see. And I won't pout if I didn't make it. I will just try and do a bit better next week.
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Beeps - It's weird, I could move more weight with a lower rep hip thrust, but for whatever reason feel it more in my glutes when I do a lighter weight and more reps. When the weight goes up I feel I get my quads/hams into it too much somehow.
Yeay for the slow and stead weight loss!
Dawn - nice, will have to look it up!0 -
Candito Linear Program, Heavy Upper Day
Bench press - 3x6@30 kg
DB row - 3x6@30 lbs
OHP - 1x5@22 kg
Chin ups - 3x2@1 1/8" band assist
Lateral raises - 3x12@8 lbs
Rear lateral raises - 3x12@8 lbs0 -
Nice foggy 4 mile run this morning. Able to turn my flashlights off partway through. It's getting lighter out!0
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Where is everyone??
Candito Control Lower today
Paused squats - 6x4@34 kg
Deadlifts - 1x4@125 lbs
Paused deadlifts - 2x4@103 lbs
Spent some time working on my video set up so ran out of time for accessories.
Anyway, psyched to say that I signed up for coaching with Patrick at Eat, Train, Progress starting in May, so looking forward to seeing what happens from here!1 -
Aigre - oo a foggy run sounds nice.
Been busy. Worked at 3 different stores over the last 3 days. My main store on Tuesday, which was also my day in pharmacy so didn't handle any of my overstock or other stuff on the floor. Got asked to work at a different store on Wednesday to help with their freight (though a tad annoying fact is it was an hour less than I would have worked at my regular store). Yesterday was the one day I work at my secondary store and at least the technology worked all day this time so could get the stuff done that I needed to there and it was a small shipment for the freight.
Aside from that, I've been trying to study, taking practice tests and not quite passing on them but not far off, and doing a little at the gym.
Yesterday after work went to the gym by the secondary store, the one with the dry sauna in the locker rooms. Did bench, sauna then studied on treadmill. More people there this week so had to wait for a brief time for the flat bench even though this location has 4 of them (one measly squat rack but 4 flat benches cause #priorities hehehe). Even had to wait for the one incline bench too and ended up working in with the guy.
Bench - 2x10 @ 45, 1x8 @ 75, 1x5 @ 95 and 2x3 @ 110
close grip bench - 1x10 @ 45, 1x8 @ 65 and 2x5 @ 85
incline bench - 1x10 @ 45 and 2x5 @ 80
dry sauna
50 minutes walk treadmill at 4 incline and 3 speed
Today went to gym before work and it was shoulders but I only did a couple of the exercises from that and did a couple other ones instead.
hack squat - wide stance 1x8 @ 90 and 1x8 @ 50, narrow stance 1x8 @ 90 and 1x8 @ 50 (just counting the plates)
hack squat calf raise - 2x25 @ 140
side lat raise - 2x12 @ 12.5
front single db raise - 2x12 @ 12.5
hour walk on treadmill at 5 incline and 3 speed
Need to study but I have all weekend off. The test is Monday.0 -
Study weekend. Today trying to get out to the beach but sister was having a rough morning (ah shark week) so I went to the gym first so she could cuddle with the cat and stuff. It was rocky though because today was at my max weight from last cycle for deadlfits. All I've eaten is a quest bar that I had right before leaving plus was a little still a tad sore from trying that hack squat. Won't do that next week. Will either retry the 255 or 265 but after more foods and later in the day and we'll see what happens. I'll later post the video because today's reps were rough, it was almost like the chalk worked too well so my grip was a bit off. I only did 30 minutes of cardio but tried out reading the large textbook on the elliptical.
deadlifts
1x10 @ 115, 1x10 @ 135, 1x8 @ 185
with belt 1x4 @ 215, chalk added 1x2 @ 255 (rough) tried 3rd rep but couldn't get to the knee
sdl on 35 plate 2x8 @ 135
elliptical 30 minutes while studying0 -
Haha great study efforts Dawn!
Good training Aigre. Not surprised your DL is heavier than your WHT at all, I think it would be for most. Definitely so for me given that I don't do WHT hahahaha
Squats for me today. Not sure how I'll go. Head space is squiffy at the moment. We'll see!0 -
Dawn - Nice deadlifts! 255 is awesome!
Jo - Nice new pictures. Hope squats went well!
Saturday Candito Linear Program, Control Upper day
Bench press 1x6@30 kg
Spoto press - 5x4@30 kg
Paused DB row - 6x4@30 lbs
OHP - 1x10@20 kg
Chin ups - 2x5@1.5" band assist
Hammer curls - 3x12@12 lbs dbs
overhead tricep press - 3x10@12 lbs
Yesterday a 6.1 mile run. Legs felt heavy and pace was slow.
On the bright side, down a pound or so, probably due to not sabotaging myself this weekend with wine and such due to being on call. But I'll take it!0 -
Thanks Aigre. Squats went well, so did bench today. Hating the volume (6 sets of 5 @ 35kg) but hopefully one day I'll see that weight go up! Unfortunately body weight went up - likely wine sabotage hahaha0
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Jo - ah, wine sabotage is such a problem! Nice benching, though!
Heavy lower day today -
Squats - 3x6@~45 kg
Deadlifts - 2x6@136 lbs
Hip thrusts - 3x12@83 lbs
Back extensions - 3x15@BW
Hit 131 lbs BW this morning. Sub 130 here I come!0 -
Aigre - Nice lifting you have going on there. I haven't done back extensions in a long time. And woot to sub 130 coming soon.
Just work for me today. My cut is going painstakingly slow. I saw 131 at the end of March, but spent most of April 133-134 with the end again being 131 ish. Now it's May and had hoped I'd be getting closer to 125 by the end of the 13 week cut. It's just so hard to get my body to go under 130. I know slow is good but at the same time it's so annoying.
Also, have to decide by tomorrow if I'm going to make the 16.5 hour drive each way in order to go to my uncle's funeral. Have a few pros and cons for either decision. Just not sure what I'm going to do.0 -
Dawn - sorry to hear about your uncle. We are the same weight but you are so much stronger!
Heavy upper day -
Bench press - 3x6@31 kg
DB row - 3x6@30 lbs
OHP - 1x6@21 kg
Chin ups - 3x2@1 1/8" band assist
Nice day out today, so hope to get some steps in!0 -
Aigre - We all have our bits. Though I'm sure a couple of lifts some type, you are stronger. ;-) And you'd beat me in a run. It is getting nice out and maybe I'll get that "run outside at least once" checked off my list this month, maybe.
Long day so far and I haven't really eaten much. I had some leftover coffee, cold, that I mixed with leftover portion of a vegan protein premade chocolate drink. Lunch was a green juice from Kreation that we'd gotten free due to a cancelled order when sister was doing postmates. Went to buy something but then didn't feel much like eating. Made the decision to not travel to the funeral for various reasons, so whenever it is (they haven't figured it out quite yet even) I'll have to honor my uncle from afar. Emotions are raw today and it doesn't help that shark week also started this morning. So, spent part of work dealing with cramps too. And right knee was acting up this morning. Not my week.
Still went to gym after work and brought belt so did squats and a little bit of upper body. Kind of intermixing the end of this cycle as I didn't go to the gym as much while studying for the test. It went okay though super slow and had a guy ask if I needed help in the middle of the set. He was nice though and I did another rep after that. Then did a little cardio but not as much since right knee still isn't all that happy.
squat 2x10 @ 45, 1x8 @ 95, 1x8 @ 135, belt 1x3 @ 175 and 2x3 @ 195
wide grip pause bench 2x8 @ 45, 1x8 @ 65 and 2x5 @ 85
cable kickback 20 2x15
elliptical for 20 minutes
Had to get to bank and such so kept it short. I've got gym time for the next two days, which will be upper body and cardio. Also, work and maybe, just maybe I'll get some writing done. We'll see.0 -
Sorry to hear about your tough time, Dawn. Nice squats though!
4.1 mile run this morning. First time without flashlights in months and months. Yeay for spring.0 -
Aigre - Thanks. Yay for spring and running.
I went to gym after working at the other store. It wasn't too bad, just did bench for the most part but also enjoyed the dry sauna. Bench is a bit hard now being around my max. I probably should eat more before lifting now. I had cold brew and a granola bar for breakfast plus part of a salad from yummy.com that had poppyseed dressing. Not sure if it would be better to have more of my calories before lifting or not but when I lift later in the day, does seem logical.
bench - 2x10 @ 45, 1x8 @ 75, 1x5 @ 95 and 2x2 @ 115
close grip bench - 1x8 @ 45, 1x8 @ 65 and 1x4 and 1x3 @ 90 (fail on rep 4 with a haphazard re-rack)
incline bench - 1x8 @ 65 and 2x4 @ 85
dry sauna
20 minutes on the elliptical reading Beyonds Seeds of Rebellion0 -
Dawn - I'm always torn on eating before lifting. I get the mechanism by which it should help. I just always feel heavy and slow after I've eaten much. I usually lift fasted, early in the AM, but on the weekends I'll put the kids down for a nap and lift after lunch. I never feel so so much better or anything. But maybe I just don't lift enough!
Control Lower Day today
Paused squats - 6x4@83 lbs
Paused Deadlifts - 3x4@103 lbs these really are hard for me!
RDLs - 3x8@29 kg, light weight to go nice and slow and feel it in my hamstrings
Scale for 3 days now has said 130.x. Just have to keep it together this weekend!0 -
Aigre - Yeah, if I did things in the morning it would be fasted but I often end up lifting at like 7 or 9 pm, which requires a different approach. Think with mornings, have been resting before while an evening workout is after working all day, so the fuel helps but at least am warmed up and don't need too much to get going to the workout. Though I rarely ever eat right before lifting. Just need to make have a better lunch than just over half a salad.
Shoulders today. Had to be near work early since it's Friday and sister has her internship. Did shoulder and a couple tricep ones that I skipped earlier in the week. Tad nuisance as could only find one 15 db and should have increased last time so was determined to do it this time as I've meandered on these instead of trying to improve cause well, it's later raises... I had to do one arm at a time but managed it.
one arm db side lat raise - 2x8 @ 15
one arm db front raise - 2x8 @ 15
one arm db row - 2x8 @ 50
one of the hammer machines with plates - 2x10 @ 50
tricep pushdown with bar - 3x8 @ 85
face pull with rope - 2x10 @ 85
overhead tricep with rope - 2x10 @ 40
30 minutes on elliptical reading Beyonders Seeds of Rebellion
Enjoyed a nice acai bowl from Body Energy Club. Much better than the organic place near the beach and a bit cheaper. I also have a coffee and am trying to get some stuff done at Starbucks since I have plenty of time before my shift starts at work. Need to finish short story reviews from contest I judged. Better get working on them.
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Hello! Me again!
I am plugging along with Stage 3. My gym doesn't have a lot of adjustable benches, and the lines can get longer than Disney it seems. The only workout I need the dang bench for is the incline dumbbell presses. Today I was in a rush, as I have somewhere to be this evening. So I subbed the chest press machine, figuring that was better than skipping the exercise completely. It was the one where you push the handles straight out in front of you. But as I was there, I realized there were several different chest machines. I tried to Google search, but didn't come up with much. Does anyone know which one would be the closest replacement, if I ever have to sub again? They are doing something to the dumbbell section in a week and a half, and I can only hope that includes more benches.0 -
Hey aubrey,
Well benches are a gym staple so I hope they include them too! Incline bench works the chest, shoulders and triceps to varying extents so you could sub for other exercises which work these muscle groups so long as it's still in a 'push' way rather than a 'pull' (as that's more back work). I'd be thinking push ups, floor press (like bench but on the floor and your elbows hit the ground), cable flyes, dumbbell flyes, overhead press (to some extent - more a shoulder focus). It depends what your weak point is as to which is a good substitute. If you aren't sure, ask someone to watch you and see where you fail a lift. Mine is always triceps so I add tricep accessories to my program.
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Hey aubrey,
Well benches are a gym staple so I hope they include them too! Incline bench works the chest, shoulders and triceps to varying extents so you could sub for other exercises which work these muscle groups so long as it's still in a 'push' way rather than a 'pull' (as that's more back work). I'd be thinking push ups, floor press (like bench but on the floor and your elbows hit the ground), cable flyes, dumbbell flyes, overhead press (to some extent - more a shoulder focus). It depends what your weak point is as to which is a good substitute. If you aren't sure, ask someone to watch you and see where you fail a lift. Mine is always triceps so I add tricep accessories to my program.
Thank you! I sure hope they get more benches, too! I will look into those exercises. I really appreciate the help!0 -
Epic squat day! Took two hours but done.
squat - 7x5 @ 57.5kg (126lbs)
front squat - 3x4 @ 37.5kg (82lbs)
Walking lunges 3 x 20 with 10kg plate
Leg press 3 x 20 @ 60kg (132lbs)
Hanging leg raises 3 x 20
Doesn't look much written like that lol
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