January Check in and Chat - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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So the horrible nerve pain/shocks have subsided in the right side...but my shepherd barral rolled into my in the kitchen yesterday (from behind). I had a glass in my hand so I couldn't catch myself and went down, hard. Landed on my tailbone and rolled my ankle. Ankle is ok...but now I have nerve pain on the left side of my back...grr!
ETA: A NSV - a friend from police academy (also on MFP) emailed me telling me that my abs were sick and she wanted to know my secrets. She's a beachbody coach in another town. I think that's kinda funny! I told her there was no secret...just heavy effing weights and a lot of protein!
Sorry to hear about your fall! That really sucks!
That's a great NSV! You should be proud!0 -
So totally off topic but I had to share with you guys.....I've been looking at going back to school so that I can up my computer programming skills. So I finally did that today....
The major bonus was since I already went to this school that I don't have to reapply and pay fees - which makes it so stinking easy that I'm wondering why I didn't do that earlier.....
yet I'm a little scared of going back to school in my mid 30's.....
but yeah!!!
back to the regularly scheduled programming....0 -
Congrats! You will do great; just think of all the awesome life skills you have aquired since the last time! Those 19 years won't have *kitten* on ya!
yet I'm a little scared of going back to school in my mid 30's.....0 -
ETA: A NSV - a friend from police academy (also on MFP) emailed me telling me that my abs were sick and she wanted to know my secrets. She's a beachbody coach in another town. I think that's kinda funny! I told her there was no secret...just heavy effing weights and a lot of protein!
THIS ^^^^^^^ is so super effing awesome!
And they are. I'm so jealous.
I don't understand how you could get visible abs without Shakeology and muscle confusion. Plz explain.
Darwin - what school? What do you do for work now? My husband is a programmer. I'm in software too but not on the programming side.0 -
...Did that Peachee person just come in to the group and drop a promotional thread for herself or is that a legitimate non-self-promoting facebook page? >_> I can't see fb at work.0
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Tameko - It's a local technical school round these here parts. My degree will be in IT Programming/Analysis. I'm a business analyst with an analytics department right now. So I do a lot of metrics reporting and report building, database stuffs. It's really exciting - but I'll get more into the actual programming, business intelligence end of it, which I bridge a bit, but not from a programming stand point.
I use a software called Tableau a lot and cognos.
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Tameko - It's a local technical school round these here parts. My degree will be in IT Programming/Analysis. I'm a business analyst with an analytics department right now. So I do a lot of metrics reporting and report building, database stuffs. It's really exciting - but I'll get more into the actual programming, business intelligence end of it, which I bridge a bit, but not from a programming stand point.
I use a software called Tableau a lot and cognos.
do you know those at all?
Hey, I'm also a Business Analyst! I tend to try to steer more to the business side than the coding size, but one of my tasks for this week is read the C++ code of our API so I can write the "requirements" for when we port it to a new framework.
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Today, I made that 35lb BP My B1tch. P0wned it. Made it mine. Hugged it, squeezed it, and called it George (OK, maybe not that one...) And I'll do it again next time. Then I'm thinking of trying the Oly bar, because right now I have to pick the 35lb bar off the floor, sit on the edge of a Step Aerobics step, lower myself so I'm lying along it with my feet on the floor, move the bar up my body, THEN lift the bar to lock-out before I can do the set. Clearly, at the end of the set I have to do the opposite and it's that first push up from dead that I'm finding so hard.
Squats - back to 53lbs dumbells.
Pendlay - first go with the unloaded Oly bar! yay! and it was easy. I did the final set at 55lbs because I mis-calculated the lb/kg split, and that was too much. But next time, totally increasing to 50lb.0 -
so I suppose what Im doing is a hybrid/modified SL program...at least for the Month of February
I will add weights once weekly instead of at every workout.... on Mon-Wed-Fri I do squats, OHP, bench press, barbell row deadlifts plus thigh adductor and leg press machine
Tues & Thurs I do an hour of combo cardio ( c25K, cycling, and/or swimming)
I have a decent Yoga app on my phone that I will use a coupe of times a week as well...
the problem is going to be eating enough calories to keep it up....
Im working on building recipes so I can pack lunch for work and cook higher protein meals at home..... Pinterest is going to be my other BFF for a while
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today's gym session was mediocre.....I took an an antihistimine which slowed my performance down tremendously.... I usually take 45 minutes... I was closer to 90 minutes...nothing was too hard, just seems like I was moving in slow motion
I did get a few laughs in though....like the dude who tried to talk me into goin higher on weights and then proceeded to load his bar up and ended up barfing....
then there was the creeper who between sets kept looking into his underpants....0 -
I've heard of cognos but never used it. I'm a ...pff. I think I'm a Product/Technical Engagement Manager. Which, are two different jobs technically. But my product just went to pure maintenance mode in December (because we fired our offshore dev team, but oh my god that thing is a disaster, I can literally taste the bad code sometimes when I watch it hang on a process, ugh) so I'm not sure how much of the actual product management side I'm going to be doing? Maybe I'm just a TEM now. pff. But then why am I doing meeting minutes and project plans? WHAT IS THIS JOB I DON'T EVEN....
My workplace is so nutty. My management is not real management, they're individual contributors with management titles, so we have like 5 good people and we herd along 10 medicore to crappy people, and a bunch of people in India, and there's no title in software dev that means "herder of people we really should try to replace with better folks"
also, what kind of BSA has to read other people's C++? that sounds sucky like my job.... in a different way but still.0 -
Jessip I sorry those people are such jerks! I know it's cheesy, but the saying "those who matter don't mind, and those who do mind don't matter" is totally applicable here. Unless ignorant misogynist *kitten* matter to you? (Well it could be family in which case selectively ignoring works well.)
Grats everyone on your lifts!
I feel like for being such I nerd I should know more about computery stuff. I programmed a UofM "M" in 6th grade using whatever code was awesome in 1993. It was beautiful blue and maize. Ofc it only printed in grayscale though. I can commiserate with hating dev teams based on my video game and android app usage. Beautiful widgets update just effed my phone UI, and they're not fixing it fast enough. /shakes fist.
Darwin I've been thinking of going back to school as well. I've never had a job relating to my degree. My last job was in sales, and I'm currently job hunting. I've been thinking about going for physical therapy assistant (the person who actually does your physical therapy.) It's in super high demand right now, and only 2 years of schooling. I've been pretty much thinking of going back to school since I graduated the first time though so who knows. Lol. Be brave (and let me know how it works out..)
I had a training session today at a powerlifting gym near me. I did the normal lifts I would do today, but not the same sets/reps. The trainer said my squat form was prosauce, and it was probably overuse that was causing me any pain. I got up to 5 reps of 135 =D I may be sore tomorrow. Did 5 sets of 85# bench, and some 75# rows. Wooo.
I feel like every time I post after I get home from the gym I feel like a crack monkey (not to be confused with a juice monkey.) Chatty chat chat chat.0 -
I had a training session today at a powerlifting gym near me. I did the normal lifts I would do today, but not the same sets/reps. The trainer said my squat form was prosauce, and it was probably overuse that was causing me any pain. I got up to 5 reps of 135 =D I may be sore tomorrow. Did 5 sets of 85# bench, and some 75# rows. Wooo.
awesomepossum, I still wnat to get a powerlifting trainer to watch me.
for everyone else, someone just linked me this. looks pretty cool.
http://users.telenet.be/WBtE/cunning.html0 -
So totally off topic but I had to share with you guys.....I've been looking at going back to school so that I can up my computer programming skills. So I finally did that today....
The major bonus was since I already went to this school that I don't have to reapply and pay fees - which makes it so stinking easy that I'm wondering why I didn't do that earlier.....
yet I'm a little scared of going back to school in my mid 30's.....
but yeah!!!
back to the regularly scheduled programming....
Good for you! That's so awesome! You will do fantastic and leave all those little kids in the dust :bigsmile:0 -
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Tomorrow morning I hit the crack!!! Woot!!!!
I was excited listening to you all talk about your jobs because I'm preeeeeety sure that's what my BFF does. :laugh: She's a "business analyst" and she is moving into "project management" and she interfaces between the product people and the code people. And now I feel a little better about not being exactly sure what she does, but I'm damn surprised so many other people do it.
I bought a gorge pair of Converse One Stars at Target tonight. Purple. Can't wait to wear them tomorrow. I have very high hopes that they will revolutionize my lifting experience.
I'm also jazzed for you guys who are / thinking about going back to school. I would love to restart my career and financial life but I'm sunk in way too deep. I was meant to be in education and I made that totally impossible by going to law school.0 -
Kicking *kitten* ladies! I've given up on lifting this week...I was waylaid by the plague that's circulating around my school.
All of you computer people sound like Charlie Brown's teacher. :laugh:
Sare, my current lass is Educational Law and I'm so gee king out on reading all the case law...I was thinking about whilst I was reading yesterday.0 -
That could always be your next step after principal! :drinker: <-- drinker, cause that's what you have to do to stand yourself when you're an attorney 0
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I've heard of cognos but never used it. I'm a ...pff. I think I'm a Product/Technical Engagement Manager. Which, are two different jobs technically. But my product just went to pure maintenance mode in December (because we fired our offshore dev team, but oh my god that thing is a disaster, I can literally taste the bad code sometimes when I watch it hang on a process, ugh) so I'm not sure how much of the actual product management side I'm going to be doing? Maybe I'm just a TEM now. pff. But then why am I doing meeting minutes and project plans? WHAT IS THIS JOB I DON'T EVEN....
My workplace is so nutty. My management is not real management, they're individual contributors with management titles, so we have like 5 good people and we herd along 10 medicore to crappy people, and a bunch of people in India, and there's no title in software dev that means "herder of people we really should try to replace with better folks"
also, what kind of BSA has to read other people's C++? that sounds sucky like my job.... in a different way but still.
I'm theoretically head of Product Management as well as a BA, but that's not a popular title for me to use because it means I might *shock!horror!* be telling Dev what to build to meet our customers' long-term needs, and what would I possibly know about that? That's slowly getting better, but it's hard graft at times.
Re: reading C++. I know. I usually refuse on principle to reverse engineer requirements, but since I'm also trying to introduce the idea that requirements-dev-test-accept is a good software lifecycle, I'm making an exception. At least this way we'll know what the new API should do, even if we don't exactly know what the old one did because no-one bothered to document it...
I feel your pain on managers and herding cats!0 -
First lifting injury last night!!!!
I trapped my fingertip between a 15kg plate and the squat rack trying to deload from some other lazy b'stard's lift.
Hurts like a mother.......0 -
Ok, I agree with the Charlie Brown adult talk... I have no clue about computers. I can install software and fix a lot of my boss's problems when she can't figure something out (thanks google!). As for schooling, I'm beyond done. But 22 years of school is enough to turn anyone off to schooling!
I almost had the OHP at 50# today. I really thought I was going to do it, but failed on the last rep of the last set. I failed in my fourth set the last two times, so at least there's improvement. I guess I'm supposed to deload since I failed three times, but I think I'm just going to try and power through it (and there's not much weight to deload anyways).
Knee is still a little tender, but I think I'll start slowly adding weight back in. And actually did 105# for DL today! Yay for correct adding!!
Alwyn- sorry to hear about the injury. Sounds like it hurt! There really can't be more signs in my gym to rerack weights, but they might as well be in Cantonese...0 -
Alwyn- sorry to hear about the injury. Sounds like it hurt! There really can't be more signs in my gym to rerack weights, but they might as well be in Cantonese...
Wait, you're supposed to re-rack when you're done? Wow, no-one ever told the guys in my gym either!0 -
I've heard of cognos but never used it. I'm a ...pff. I think I'm a Product/Technical Engagement Manager. Which, are two different jobs technically. But my product just went to pure maintenance mode in December (because we fired our offshore dev team, but oh my god that thing is a disaster, I can literally taste the bad code sometimes when I watch it hang on a process, ugh) so I'm not sure how much of the actual product management side I'm going to be doing? Maybe I'm just a TEM now. pff. But then why am I doing meeting minutes and project plans? WHAT IS THIS JOB I DON'T EVEN....
My workplace is so nutty. My management is not real management, they're individual contributors with management titles, so we have like 5 good people and we herd along 10 medicore to crappy people, and a bunch of people in India, and there's no title in software dev that means "herder of people we really should try to replace with better folks"
also, what kind of BSA has to read other people's C++? that sounds sucky like my job.... in a different way but still.
I'm theoretically head of Product Management as well as a BA, but that's not a popular title for me to use because it means I might *shock!horror!* be telling Dev what to build to meet our customers' long-term needs, and what would I possibly know about that? That's slowly getting better, but it's hard graft at times.
Re: reading C++. I know. I usually refuse on principle to reverse engineer requirements, but since I'm also trying to introduce the idea that requirements-dev-test-accept is a good software lifecycle, I'm making an exception. At least this way we'll know what the new API should do, even if we don't exactly know what the old one did because no-one bothered to document it...
I feel your pain on managers and herding cats!
Ugh herding cats....NOOOOOO I hate that term!!!! Only because a coworkers that I absolutely CANNOT STAND uses that analogy all the freaking time....drives me insane. Well it probably wouldn' drive me insane but she drives me insane, so the two have a relationship.
I have a hard time getting people to understand what we're trying to accomplish. Our goal is to automate all of our client reporting, which is a necessity since we've had an insane amount of layoffs in the last year and probably more to come. Which is probably one of the reasons they don't like me....they see me coming and know my projects...."she's gonna take my job!!!". So yeah...I get it. But then people dont' understand which database to use - and then you build a report specifically for them to use and they don't use that because they think this other one some dumbass built for them is better or whatever. Even though that one is specifically for spend vs headcount.....yeah ok. Rant over.
I'm learning C++ with my degree. I know some SQL right now and then our own internal systems and whatnot - Plus I just did six sigma and lean training. So I'm thinking within the next year I will be absolutely kick *kitten* on paper to match my actual self.
The software I use predominantly which is where I do a lot of my development, tableau - it's pretty stellar - you should check it out. They have a free 2 week trial. But it's popular for doing any type of analytics and visualization - and if I had the other skills behind it to back it up, it really opens a whole new world of jobs to me. Especially ones on either coast that pay a lot more money.
On a different note - I feel like absolutely crap today. Caught some stupid virus and having a raging case of PMS.0 -
Here's the herding cat video that I would love were it not for my coworker.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8 0 -
I'm learning C++ with my degree. I know some SQL right now and then our own internal systems and whatnot - Plus I just did six sigma and lean training. So I'm thinking within the next year I will be absolutely kick *kitten* on paper to match my actual self.
The software I use predominantly which is where I do a lot of my development, tableau - it's pretty stellar - you should check it out. They have a free 2 week trial. But it's popular for doing any type of analytics and visualization - and if I had the other skills behind it to back it up, it really opens a whole new world of jobs to me. Especially ones on either coast that pay a lot more money.
Cool I'll have a look, since we have basically zero budget for tools. Lean & Six Sigma training...now I'm jealous
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Hi all!!! I am on my second week of SL 5x5 (yesterday was my 5th workout) and just joined this group a few days ago. I was nervous at first, but so far I am loving this program! I haven't increased my weights too much because I want to make sure I have my form down before I increase every workout. So far, so good!!
Here are my weights right now:
OP: 40
Squat: 75
BB Row: 50
Deadlift: 85
Bench Press: 50
So glad I found this group! Feel free to add me, and I'm sure you'll see more of me on these message boards!0 -
Welcome LaurenLou!
Great day in the gym this morning!!!
Squats 45 - but they felt FANTASTIC. I love my new Converse.
Seriously, I felt so grounded, I think someone else had actually used that term to describe it. And I feel like I really nailed my form. I stopped thinking about Rip's stupid videos and focused on his words and pictures and Mehdi's video. ALSO - I remembered to use the thumb over grip. This was completely different. I had to move my grip much wider as a result, and I feel like that was an improvement too.
OHP 55 - back to my prior high
Deadlifts 115.
Afterward I did Hip ad and ab, some ball crunches, push ups, butterfly stretches, unweighted glute bridges. I keep meaning to do some leg lifts in the captain's chair and I forget every.single.time.0 -
Everyone is doing great this week!
Fittree - I would really like to check out a class like that; its awesome that your form is spot on!
Ladies - sorry but I glossed over all the chit chat about computer thingymabobs and whatnot...not my forte.
I really think that after a couple more days, I will be ready to kick it in the weight room again and I can't wait!
Sarah - glad that the converse shoes made lifting a magical experience. I would like to get a pair, but then I would feel like a poser at the gym, lol.0 -
I feel like the fact that mine aren't All Stars makes me less of a poser. :laugh: I'm just in it for the crappy shoes.0
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Welcome Lauren!
Alwyn....brutal injury! One time I dopped a plate on my lower abdomen while trying to prepare for weighted glute bridges. Hurt like a mofo!
I also skipped through all the computer speak. I'm in sales.....that should tell you all you need to know :laugh:
Lifting in my airwalk converse knock offs totally revolutionized my lifting experience. I have these wicked awesome real converse that I will save for when I start going to the real gym :bigsmile:
Great day for me!
Squat 5x5 @ 125#
Bench 5x5 @ 57# (FINALLY!)
Row 5x5 @ 87#
Very happy with these numbers this morning
In other news....turns out the out of town guy really is just clueless. I *may* have over-reacted :noway: Although with that being said, clueless really isn't that much of a turn on for me....so we'll see where this goes lol I'm still going to keep my options open :drinker:0 -
Thanks for the welcome, sarah! Have most of you ladies been doing the program for awhile?? I have some friends on MFP that have done it, and their success is amazing! I have muscles that are sore I didn't know I had, and didn't even realize I was using during the lifts! It feels amazing!
Today is rest day for me, last day of week 2 tomorrow after work!0 -
Last day of the month ladies! Welcome to all the new girls! Where are you gonna leave this month at?
For me I'm leaving at
175x4 deadlift
75x3 ohp
157.5x5 squat
and 100x4 bench, although I am going tonight to do that and hope to knock it out of the water.0
