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:

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!

OHP 55443 55 lbs

Bah! What! No! If I could even do ONE rep @ 55lbs, I would be all proud and stuff.

Sigh.... I wish I had a garage for lifting... stupid NYC.... stupid no space anywhere... :grumble:

Anyone else hate the "on the fly" math required to figure out which plates to put on the bar? :grumble:

Yes, I'm math-challenged, especially as early in the morning as I work out, so I use my phone calculator!

Sigh.... I wish I had a garage for lifting... stupid NYC.... stupid no space anywhere... grumble

I'm from NYC, too...live just north of the city now. I've thought about trolling Craigslist for a squat rack, etc. to outfit my basement with a home gym, but I kind of like the routine of going to the gym—it pushes me out of my comfort zone a bit, and makes me work harder (damned if I'm going to take weights off the bar in front of all those people!!) On the other hand, stumbling downstairs at 5 am would be a lot nicer than driving to the gym on those cold, dark winter mornings!

So, I was doing this 30-day Paleo eating plan (no grain, dairy, alcohol, sugar, legumes, soy, etc.), ended up extending it to 37 days, which finished yesterday. Weighed myself this morning and I was down 9.5 lbs. So psyched! Weightloss wasn't really the point of the plan, but what a nice side-effect. Of course, then today I ate some stuff that wasn't on the plan and now I feel like crapola. Maybe that's good? It makes me want to go back to to the diet tomorrow.

I love how low that bench is. I wouldn't have to find something to put under my feet to make them high enough to bench properly! How do you get under that to squat? Or does it raise up to high enough? With me it wouldn't have to go very high to be high enough!

I'm not sure if you can tell with that picture, but the squat rack is on the other side of the bench (front of picture) and you can see the barbell resting on there if you look closely. I just step under it, hunched a little bit, that's all. It's a proper squat rack.

Hello
still building back up so technically still deloaded on everything
Squats 5x5@72.5 kg/159lbs - gawd I love squatting!
Ohp 5x5 @22.5kg/49.6lbs (been watching videos, changed my grip... still know I just suck at these)
Deadlift 1x5@75kg/165lbs

usual accessories - full push ups, sit ups, planks, body weight rows. chin ups, air squats

Weight still on the up & up back to my starting weight of 140lbs -but my arms are looking very nice f I do say so myself!
happy lifting ladies x

Deadlift day today, back in the 100s. Elbows are really bugging me, I think I have tendinitis. Going to add bromelain to my supplement regimen twice daily and give them a proper rest. Nothing much else to do since I type for a living. Sigh.

Awesome lifting session tonight. Still at 75lbs for squats for form purposes. Bumped my OHP up to 60lbs and actually did it! Sooooo hard and almost didn't make it, so I'll repeat it, but I'm so thrilled I actually managed all 5x5 on my first try! And then deadlifted 115lbs, which is more than half my body weight! I love this!