March Check-in&Chat - Green beer to fuel your lifts!
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Ok...it's been twenty hours since my workout last night. Since that time, DOMS has come to visit me. And in the weirdest place: my wrists and inside of my very lower arms. dafuq? That's new.
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Did someone mention legs?
Hubba hubba!Ok...it's been twenty hours since my workout last night. Since that time, DOMS has come to visit me. And in the weirdest place: my wrists and inside of my very lower arms. dafuq? That's new.
Anyone else every get that?
I do sometimes. I stretch my lower arms (sounds weird) by putting my palm face up and pulling down on my fingers so the wrist bends back. It gets my lower, inner arm.0 -
Happy birthday Hiit!0
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Ok...it's been twenty hours since my workout last night. Since that time, DOMS has come to visit me. And in the weirdest place: my wrists and inside of my very lower arms. dafuq? That's new.
Anyone else every get that?
I do sometimes. I stretch my lower arms (sounds weird) by putting my palm face up and pulling down on my fingers so the wrist bends back. It gets my lower, inner arm.
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Yeah - that stretch works really well - you canalso put your hands flat against the wall and just lean into them.
If you deadlifted it could just be from the gripping. If you benched ... make sure you're holding the bar more towards the base of your palm, not close to your fingers.0 -
Ok...it's been twenty hours since my workout last night. Since that time, DOMS has come to visit me. And in the weirdest place: my wrists and inside of my very lower arms. dafuq? That's new.
Anyone else every get that?
I do sometimes. I stretch my lower arms (sounds weird) by putting my palm face up and pulling down on my fingers so the wrist bends back. It gets my lower, inner arm.
Yeah - that stretch works really well - you canalso put your hands flat against the wall and just lean into them.
If you deadlifted it could just be from the gripping. If you benched ... make sure you're holding the bar more towards the base of your palm, not close to your fingers.
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Yuppers...deadlift it was, tameko...I didn't notice it until this afternoon. Will do that stretch beforehand next time. Thanks, y'all.
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Tameko, that's a great stretch for forearms! If you do it finger by finger, it hits every bit of the wrist and forearm too--I had my kids do it all week between their testing.
Xidia--your leg looks like it's playing peek-a-boo!0 -
I'm in this same boat with DOMS. IT band is killing me. Foam roller is killing me BUT I know it's good. What's not killing me LIFTING! I'm living through foam roller, stretching three times a day and trying to warm up my body without doing cardio because I wanna be bada$$ and get to my body weight on squats! I just feel so rockin seeing the progress I'm making!
I've taken to treating the brisk half mile walk to the gym as my warm-up, mostly because I'm too lazy to do "proper" cardio in the mornings when I know I'm running in the evening.
Keep going with the foamroller, and if it isn't getting better after a few days, go see a doctor.
Finally some relief today. Not as tight. Ill just keep trying to build in stuff that helps stretch out the muscles.0 -
Ok...it's been twenty hours since my workout last night. Since that time, DOMS has come to visit me. And in the weirdest place: my wrists and inside of my very lower arms. dafuq? That's new.
Anyone else every get that?
I do sometimes. I stretch my lower arms (sounds weird) by putting my palm face up and pulling down on my fingers so the wrist bends back. It gets my lower, inner arm.
Yeah, I love that stretch. It was a good aikido stretch. I found out I have crazy flexible wrists and shoulders, but only against aikido locks. Took me for ever to be able to hold the bar without pain for squats.
I keep saying I need to give yoga a try and never do. Hmm...0 -
A good down-dog flow would help that wrist pain too!
Also, I just posted a back pic as my "before". That was hard to do for a variety of reasons LOL.0 -
This thread goes WAY to fast for me to keep up!0
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A good down-dog flow would help that wrist pain too!
Also, I just posted a back pic as my "before". That was hard to do for a variety of reasons LOL.
Thank you!!! Want to do yoga so badly, but my current (read: only) DVD is sucktacular and annoying!
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I swear by my yoga. I'm one of the most ridiculously flexible people I know despite lifting and running, and I credit it all to my yoga background!!0
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Speedy speedy thread.
I lifted weights today.
Squats- 125 5x5 Oh man 10lbs away from big girl plates.
OHP- 76 55554
Deads- 175 1x5
I pushed through my heels so much on my deadlifts they hurt for a half hour afterwards oO My butt did too. :laugh:0 -
I had a great time lifting today! My Big plates are 25 lbs. It is so exciting to get to use them!
Squats: 95 lb
OHP: 65 lb
DL: 115
I am absolutely blown away by all the heavy weights you people are lifting!0 -
Well, I went to the gym super late, but I got a lot done!!
Squats 5x5 95lbs
Deads 2x5 65lbs 3x5 95lbs
OHP 55554 45lbs FIRST TIME EVER!!! Never did the OHP before, but watched some videos today and felt I could give it a whirl.
Rows 5x5 45lbs
Plus a random few other things I do along with just a little cardio. Good night!
I know this isn't "on program" or whatever, but I wanted to give the OHP a try, and the gym was dead tonight. I'll do it right when I officially start!!0 -
Well, I went to the gym super late, but I got a lot done!!
Squats 5x5 95lbs
Deads 2x5 65lbs 3x5 95lbs
OHP 55554 45lbs FIRST TIME EVER!!! Never did the OHP before, but watched some videos today and felt I could give it a whirl.
Rows 5x5 45lbs
Plus a random few other things I do along with just a little cardio. Good night!
I know this isn't "on program" or whatever, but I wanted to give the OHP a try, and the gym was dead tonight. I'll do it right when I officially start!!I had a great time lifting today! My Big plates are 25 lbs. It is so exciting to get to use them!
Squats: 95 lb
OHP: 65 lb
DL: 115
I am absolutely blown away by all the heavy weights you people are lifting!Speedy speedy thread.
I lifted weights today.
Squats- 125 5x5 Oh man 10lbs away from big girl plates.
OHP- 76 55554
Deads- 175 1x5
I pushed through my heels so much on my deadlifts they hurt for a half hour afterwards oO My butt did too. :laugh:
All of you ladies are doing awesome!!! Seriously impressed with your OHP! I like doing them, but they're so frustrating!!0 -
Well, I went to the gym super late, but I got a lot done!!
Squats 5x5 95lbs
Deads 2x5 65lbs 3x5 95lbs
OHP 55554 45lbs FIRST TIME EVER!!! Never did the OHP before, but watched some videos today and felt I could give it a whirl.
Rows 5x5 45lbs
Plus a random few other things I do along with just a little cardio. Good night!
I know this isn't "on program" or whatever, but I wanted to give the OHP a try, and the gym was dead tonight. I'll do it right when I officially start!!
WTG on the OHP. It's the lift I loathe the most!0 -
Well, I went to the gym super late, but I got a lot done!!
Squats 5x5 95lbs
Deads 2x5 65lbs 3x5 95lbs
OHP 55554 45lbs FIRST TIME EVER!!! Never did the OHP before, but watched some videos today and felt I could give it a whirl.
Rows 5x5 45lbs
Plus a random few other things I do along with just a little cardio. Good night!
I know this isn't "on program" or whatever, but I wanted to give the OHP a try, and the gym was dead tonight. I'll do it right when I officially start!!
when Im deloaded, which seems to be a lot lately, I do all 5 SL exercises instead of A day vs B day.....so yeah, I go off program too.... that said, you rocked that OHP!!! Congrats0 -
'K, I don't know if I can keep up with all the posts here but I will do my best and at least check in now & then.
I went this morning and the gym was empty -- we have snow forecast today. I hadn't done barbell rows in a while so I needed to see where I was with them. So these are my starting Stronglifts weights -- not working real hard right now because, well, you're supposed to start light. Except the deadlifts and OHP, those are probably working weights for me.
Squat 45
Bench 55
OHP 45
Rows 60
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Ok so was kind of a bigger idiot than usual this morning. I have been sleeping all kinda of weird hours and its really kinda throwing my workout schedule off track. Well I had thought I had remembered going to the gym at 11 Pm on Thursday night which would have been a day and a half since my workout which is still really close but I thought I could probably get through it . It wasn't till I got to the gym when I realized that I didn't actually end up going until 5 am so basically it was only a day between my last workout. Walked on the treadmill and noticed my back was a bit tight nothing more than usual though. Started doing warmup sets back still tight. Go agead and do the first set and it was pretty rough but stil made it through ok form wise. But my back was getting tighter so I'm like ok let's do one more and see what happens. So I get through the next 3 reps ok and then remember that I'm supposed to be keeping my head neutral kinda looking towards the ground. Well I did that and on the way back up I was leaned so far forward that I almost fell on my face. Luckily I was able to recover and re rack it but then I had the bright idea of trying to bust out that last rep and boy was it bad it was an almost fail I had to grind it from the bottom all the way up. After that I said a few choice words to myself, re racked my weights and left.
Live to fight another day I guess
My backs only a little sore I think it just needs to be stretched out not very good at that. Need to work on getting better0 -
Ges, you mentioned snow, so I checked your profile and sure enough...you're in Colorado too! I need to get the husband up so I can hit the gym before it really starts coming down. (I'm in Highlands Ranch)0
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Ok so my stronglifts week has been ok... not fantastic but ok. I was only able to work out twice (due to scheduling).
I got 5/4/4/3/3 on the bench press at 29 kg (after a very embarrassing fail at 30 kg where a guy had to rescue me from the bar after a mere rep)
Other than that I hit 5x5 on all my other lifts this week
Squat: 46 kg
OHP: 21 kg
Deadlift: 49 kg
I have noticed something new for me this week. I cannot, I simply cannot do anything else well after the big stronglifts lifts. I was doing some extras after my 5x5 routine until now, and was doing fine with some push ups, inverted rows, negative chins, underhand lat pull downs (all in an effort to work up to chin ups) and various planks. Now, after doing the lifts I'm supposed to do I am EXHAUSTED and my muscles are putty and I can't do more.
I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to get stuck on all my lifts soon. I've already gotten stuck twice on the bench press and once on the OHP. (so far still going linear for deadlifts and squats)
I bought myself a podometer (the omron walking style III) and I love it. I used to walk a lot but ever since i had the baby I kind of lost the habit and it's motivating me to get back to it. I've been hitting 6500+ steps per day this week.
I'm making good progress but I'm starting to resign myself to the fact that I probably won't be bikini-ready this summer unless my stretch marks miraculously fade and unless I speed up the fat loss. I can somewhat control the fat loss (but I want to retain as much muscle mass as possible and not starve myself obviously). But the stretch marks? Those aren't going anywhere and they don't look like they have decided to fade, ever.
Tattoo question (since so many beautiful ladies on here have tattoos): I really want to get some sort of tree branch with flowers and a hummingbird on my back (so a fairly large piece, saving up and looking at artist profiles for now). What would be the best time of year to do that and how long do you think I'll be out of commission as far as lifting/exercise after the tattoo?0 -
I say do it in the winter, sine you'll have to keep it out of the sun anyway. The how long til you work out again question just depends on how it's healing. The one I my side mad erunning a little rough the two or three days after, but I was fine. The one on my back didn't bother me since I wasn't really working out at the time.
Doozer! Be careful!
Also, does anyone else have a hard time wanting to do anything else but lift? I have so much fun lifting that I dread my off days when I should be training for my ten mile race in May.
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I get the feeling there will be more blokes popping in here soon what with the back, leg and naked skin porn...nice pics ladies and you all look so damn HOT!!!
Am doing third heavy lifting session for this week and on my deficit I am not doing too badly, was a bit miffed my deads are almost 14 lbs down from PR and other lifts about 10 lbs down, but strength goes down with the lower cals. BOO! (am doing full body workouts now, instead of the stronglift and 5/3/1 splits) Oooh and I just tried glute bridges the other day. They rock! Must use the foam pad (could not find it the other day in the gym), pubic bone will thank me later oooohweee...0 -
Tattoo question (since so many beautiful ladies on here have tattoos): I really want to get some sort of tree branch with flowers and a hummingbird on my back (so a fairly large piece, saving up and looking at artist profiles for now). What would be the best time of year to do that and how long do you think I'll be out of commission as far as lifting/exercise after the tattoo?
I am tattooed from my left shoulder to my right knee, along with some work around my belly button and in the area below my hysterectomy scar/right inner thigh. A lot of it I did over one winter (yeah, when I had more money than I knew what to do with LOL). I definitely recommend the wintertime, new tats in the the summer heat are kind of icky. If it's large you will need more than one sitting. I always sort of crashed at about the three hour mark, and your artist needs a break, too. My experience was that I could wear a soft sports bra and work out pretty quickly afterwards, just a couple of days off really.0 -
Also, does anyone else have a hard time wanting to do anything else but lift? I have so much fun lifting that I dread my off days when I should be training for my ten mile race in May.
Yes. Before I discovered the high from lifting, cardio was one of those things I did because I needed to for my physical and mental health. Now I've discovered lifting, motivating myself to get all hot and sweaty in cardio is really hard. I have set myself the goal of doing a sprint tri (400m swim, 12mile bike, 3mile run) at the end of March, and once it's done I can cut back on the cardio to 2-3 half hour runs a week.
I kinda like the way I feel when I get back from a run (like now), but the 40mins of actually running were unpleasant. At least when I'm on a stationary bike I can read...0 -
Poppin in just to *kitten* out my progress pics, lol! Took these this morning. Still "bulking" but have actually only gained a pound in one month, with an 11,000 calorie surplus *scratches head*, maybe I should bump my cals up some more!
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@Doozer -- Go get a REAL, deep muscle massage. You will be a new man. My husb. got to the point of barely walking while on a business trip once, did that and it saved him! Worth every penny.
My backs only a little sore I think it just needs to be stretched out not very good at that. Need to work on getting better
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Quick pop in to brag a bit. I pulled 160 this morning, 1 x 5. PR for me and I feel like a BEAST!
I still feel like my squat progress is ridiculously slow, but I'm working my way back up and did 113 5 x 5. Failed the stupid OHP (53443) at 62 after OWNING it last week at 60. Damn 2 pounds can make a big difference.
@ fit: I totally want your lifting numbers. You are inspiring.
@a-vette: I totally want your body. VERY inspiring!0 -
Vette, looking fab, woman!!
Did A today and failed on my bench and rows again...well, not "again" as in in a row.
squats: 120 3x5--felt good
bench: 92 5, 4, 1
rows: 87: 5, 5, 3
I had a couple dudes compliment my squats and ask for tips on how to get *kitten* to grass, so that was fun!0
