Yay for bumping up the reps on the OHP too!! I'm getting good at this bumping thing. lol

goblet squats - 5x8 with 20lbs dumbbell
OHP - empty bar 5x7 oh my gawd the last one was hell but i got it!!!
Deadlift warm up then 1x5 @ 95lbs

@canadianlbs resting is very important. you'll be glad you did!

Have a great day everyone :bigsmile: :flowerforyou:

Totally spaced yesterday on my check in..it's been one of those weeks.

Workout B yesterday...on a deload still...self imposed just feeling "tired" this week.

Squats 3x5@150 but 2min rests
OHP 3x5@80lbs 3min rests
DL 1x5@180lbs...

Still can feel it at those weights but it's not "draining"...looking forward to switching to Wendler in Sept.

Then took a walk trying to calibrate my jawbone...screwed it up but still got a walk in.

I won last week at work on the walking challenage (just for the week tho) 120k steps so they gave me 25$..Yah me.

Oh and if anyone uses jawbone and wants to add friends my email is stefcgreen@hotmail.com

Today was workout B
Squat 90lbs 5x5
OHP 65lbs 5x5-last set was horrible. Hubby was there yelling in my face. If he hadn't been there, I would not have gotten all 5 reps. Staying at this weight for next time.
DL 115 lbs 5x1

Then I did that 100 burpee challenge immediately after. 11:06. I had to take lots of breaks, doubled over trying not to puke. But-I decided today I'm going to somehow incorporate this into my exercises because I HATED the way my gut hitting my knees felt.

If he hadn't been there, I would not have gotten all 5 reps.

. . . oh okay; the good kind of yelling, i guess. i guess you weren't motivated to get the bar up for that last rep just you could drop it on his head then.

i rode my bike. yuppers. i think i'm still kind of disappointed or coming to terms with the way i thought lifting would make me more of a fiend on the bike . . . because i'd be stronger and all. well, i am stronger, as far as plain muscle goes, but it's more like i'm having to share the same amount of energy out between both of them. so my biking is taking a hit in order to make room for lifts.

i'm not complaining because i could always quit one or the other if it bugged me that much . . . but it is true that instead of getting easier as i expected it would, it's become a bit more of a slog.

also, i'm a couple pounds heavier this week than last

Workout A (Fri) Yes! another squat weight increase.

overhand bicep curls - 5 x 5 - 120

Reverse curls - 5 x 5 - 80

Bench press - 5 x 5 - 90

deadlifts 5 X 1 - 160

squats 5 X 5 - 170

flys 5 x 10 - 40

I will try to find it later today and inbox it to you.

thanks . . . i think i've probably seen it, so if it's going to take up too much of your day, then don't worry about it. as far as his prescription for once-a-month . . . well, i guess i'm just a little tired of women being told by men about everything women should do, not to mention that at my age the concept of 'cycles' might not even be a terribly relevant thing. i wouldn't know since i use a bc option that has let me off that hook since they first put it in.

guess i'd see a point to monthly weigh-in if i had no prior day-to-day-patterns experience to draw on here. but i have been weighing myself every day for a couple of months, and so i do know that this is anomalous. it most probably is just my body's response to me getting serious again after a week or two of being off/lifting light, but i guess i won't feel like i can confidently believe that until it proves itself by going away. it could have something to do with me suddenly deciding to play around with the idea of carb cycling too, right at around the same time.

or, i dunno. not that i want to burden you with tmi but <crude joke alert> it's also possible that i'm just full of ****. </cja>

Wow suremeansyes that sucks. Maybe they're feeling guilty because they did suspect something, but didn't do anything about it and it's manifesting itself in weird ways.


Props to all your burpeeing *****es. I have like NO conditioning which is why I'm working on it now. I did 7 swings+7 burpees 5 times on Monday and it took me like 12 minutes.


I was so busy this week I didn't post my wed or thurs workouts.

Wed-Deads
45x10, 135x5, 185x5, 225x3, 260x3, 295x6

Reverse box hyper
4x10

Prowler 135lbs on turfx 7
High handles down+low handles back

Thurs- OHP
45x10, 65x5, 75x3, 80x10

Supersets x3
Dips various weights/reps
Pu various weights/reps

@sure sometimes family sucks. Sorry they are making a difficult time even harder on you.
@canadian I agree, that once a month weigh in thing struck a chord with me too. Less data is never the answer

My last SL workout for the next little while. B

Squat 155 3x5
Ohp 70lbs 3/3/2 55lbs 2x5
Dl 1x5 175
Sldl 3x8 135lbs
Glute bridges 3x10 155 lbs

Start wendlers 5/3/1 next week. Much excite.

OHP: SERIOUSLY PROUD HERE GUYS, I was stalled out and deloaded from 80 before. 80lbs 5xFREAKING5

this. right here, this . . . is spectacular. such a high five.

on the family stuff and the . . . family stuff . . . everyone and his dog has to have an opinion, don't they. that kind of thing is such a drain, but it sounds like once it's all dealt with you're just going to feel so much better in so many ways. probably some of them you haven't even thought of yet, if my similar experiences are worth anything. so there's that to look forward to and to keep you trucking.

my day: workout a.

squats: 3x4@45, 1x5@55, 5x5@75. same as last time, by intention. not easy, i could feel sweat running down my legs inside my pants, but they felt better than last time and i'm not trying to progress with squats yet. starting to feel like they'll feel pretty good if i stay at this weight for the next workout as i'm planning to do. 80 was where i hurt myself and i really want to be stronger before i try to go there again.

bench press: i did 2x5 at 45 to warm up, and then 5x5 at SIXTY. sixty pounds!! the very last few reps really weren't easy, but i feel like i held my form well through them all, and i kept the bar under better control the whole time than i ever have before. i dunno, though . . . maybe someone can chime in for me here. i narrowed my grip to about what i use for ohp, and it felt a lot safer for my iffy shoulder - but it also felt like a lot more of the lift was coming from my front delts, which could completely explain how i managed it. am i bypassing my pecs too much by using a shoulder-width grip? i'm going to stay at 60 next workout, but now i'm not sure about whether this workout even counted for brag/progress purposes. off to cruise youtube, i guess.

rows: still hatin' rows. they just make me ANGRY. i went so far as to put in a formal feedback card to say that we HAVE TO HAVE BUMPER PLATES, as a (swear words) safety-is-all-about-learning-good-form thing for newer lifters. i got through around 4 sets of 5 at 65 that almost killed me because of what i had to do with my legs to get my back parallel with little 10lb plates on their curl bar. then i lost my temper again and moved up to 25 plates after all, with a few booster pads. ended up doing another full 5x5 at 70, which is a 10lb jump instead of just 5.

and then because of that weak left shoulder, i did 5x5 extra one-armed rows on the left side with a 25lb kettlebell. i just don't feel like that shoulder is getting itself in on the act. i may start doing my rows one arm at a time all the time, actually.

Workout A yesterday:

Squats 145 lbs 5x5
Barbell Rows 95 lbs 5x5
Bench Press 80 lbs 5x5

Adductors 120 lbs 3x10
Some miscellaneous shoulder work
And 15 mins on the stairmaster at speed intervals