GIFt us your lifts! (or other achievements!)
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Awesome! And you’re rocking the tyedye shirt. I know where you can get great leggings to match. 😉
Knee high socks is all they'll let me use
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Okay, they're not GIFs, but they're stills from my powerlifting meet last weekend. Did relatively easy 297.6 lb Squat, 241 lb Bench and 330 lb Deadlift. I wanted to go 9 for 9 and avoid injury. I accomplished both goals. Sorry about the size of the pics . . .
This is so awesome! Congrats on the 9 white lights!
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My trainer has been starting me over to work on technique like chest touches and “*kitten* to the grass”.
Today I did my first “chest touch” bench press over 100 pounds, at 105. My higher benches have all been with a block. I did 125 with the block.
Inspired by y’all, I’ve also started doing OHP. Today is my second time trying. As you can see, after the second one she got after me for hyper extending. The heart is willing, the technique is a work in progress.
And I have to remember, at my age and janky rotator cuff, I’ll never compete, so I need to get over my disappointment I’ll probably never go heavy.
But then I remember, less than three years ago,my BMI was 35 and I was obese. Could I have seen myself doing this then? Ummmmm……nope.
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springlering62 wrote: »My trainer has been starting me over to work on technique like chest touches and “*kitten* to the grass”.
Today I did my first “chest touch” bench press over 100 pounds, at 105. My higher benches have all been with a block. I did 125 with the block.
Inspired by y’all, I’ve also started doing OHP. Today is my second time trying. As you can see, after the second one she got after me for hyper extending. The heart is willing, the technique is a work in progress.
And I have to remember, at my age and janky rotator cuff, I’ll never compete, so I need to get over my disappointment I’ll probably never go heavy.
But then I remember, less than three years ago,my BMI was 35 and I was obese. Could I have seen myself doing this then? Ummmmm……nope.
Yay! Your back looks so strong!
It's good to change things up every once in a while. It makes the body pay attention and may help reset and grow.
I too have rotator cuff past injuries so I'm careful about pushing too hard if I'm not confident. It's awesome you have the trainer you do! Way to kill it!
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For me, there's a difference between participating in a competition and "competing". I run 5k races with absolutely no hopes of winning with times in the 35 minute range. I participated in a powerlifting meet knowing they have "geriatric" divisions where there's little chance of any real competition. But I get to have my lifts validated by qualified USPA referees/judges and that gives me a "warm fuzzy" feeling. Were I to actually compete in the open class with the 20 & 30-somethings, I'd get annihilated. It's kinda fun, at 62 years old, being able to run, jump & play with my grandchildren.3
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There was a guy at our gym yesterday squatting 650 at age 66. And the gym owner’s husband, who is a year older than me, regularly squats far more than that- and he had open heart surgery four or five years ago.
So who or what defines geriatric? It’s not the same for us as it was for our parents, or even many of our friends.
But I get ya. At my age I’m reluctantly discovering that while I feel like I’m finally in pretty ace condition, it’s too late to do some of the stuff I now wish I could. Years of face stuffing couch potatoism took its toll.
So I do the best I can and try to learn to do it properly, simply for my own satisfaction.
I did attemp pull-ups yesterday. (Assisted. Somebody call a forklift, please!!!!!) Yeesh!!! But otoh I killed a series of arm balances in yoga this morning and attribute it to that “failed” pull-up workout yesterday. You never know how or when it’s going to pay off.4 -
Allllmost strong enough to add a second close grip... And alllllmost got my first wide grip, too.
It's all I've been doing lately. Stuff has been really difficult lately.
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Well I’m impressed. You didn’t have either a band or a five foot tall trainer pushing your butt up from underneath. Impressive, indeed.4
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springlering62 wrote: »Well I’m impressed. You didn’t have either a band or a five foot tall trainer pushing your butt up from underneath. Impressive, indeed.
Haha thanks! No band for this hard fought single. But I do use bands if I want to do more than one. It feels like it's taking for EVER, but I am also moving 185lbs. Haha2 -
I did it! One (and 3/4!) full hang unassisted wide grip pullup! Wooooo!
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »I did it! One (and 3/4!) full hang unassisted wide grip pullup! Wooooo!
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »Ahhhhh!!
I've been working on wide grips lately and I did a pile of singles and assisted yesterday. Today... I don't know what happened... But look!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Yesssss 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 This just made me smile so hard!!!!0 -
Okay, they're not GIFs, but they're stills from my powerlifting meet last weekend. Did relatively easy 297.6 lb Squat, 241 lb Bench and 330 lb Deadlift. I wanted to go 9 for 9 and avoid injury. I accomplished both goals. Sorry about the size of the pics . . .
This is amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congrats!!0 -
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3x body weight beltless hatfield squat
CHIEF!! Awesome work! Dayum. That's amazing. 🤩0 -
Not a lifting gif but I wanted to share with this crew as pretty damning evidence to corroborate speculation about being under-recovered. That big drop coincides with a reduction in training volume and intensity, switching from the rando Reddit guy’s program that I had been doing (that I did really enjoy and thought very effective) to the RP 6 day Men’s Physique Template. I can’t attribute that drop to anything other than a reduction in inflammation and cortisol. I’ve been feeling significantly less creaky and generally a higher level of wellness. On the plus side, I found my threshold for MRV which I could sustain for a while. I’m really looking forward to this hypertrophy phase and how auto-regulated this program is for volume and deloads.3 -
Not a lifting gif but I wanted to share with this crew as pretty damning evidence to corroborate speculation about being under-recovered. That big drop coincides with a reduction in training volume and intensity, switching from the rando Reddit guy’s program that I had been doing (that I did really enjoy and thought very effective) to the RP 6 day Men’s Physique Template. I can’t attribute that drop to anything other than a reduction in inflammation and cortisol. I’ve been feeling significantly less creaky and generally a higher level of wellness. On the plus side, I found my threshold for MRV which I could sustain for a while. I’m really looking forward to this hypertrophy phase and how auto-regulated this program is for volume and deloads.
I confess... I don't think I understand what I'm seeing... But it sounds like what you're saying is that not getting enough rest between sessions will, over time, whittle away at your ability to progress. Is that correct? It makes sense, so it's neat to see data that corroborates it.0 -
Also... Seeing real progress now. These are all from this morning.
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »
Not a lifting gif but I wanted to share with this crew as pretty damning evidence to corroborate speculation about being under-recovered. That big drop coincides with a reduction in training volume and intensity, switching from the rando Reddit guy’s program that I had been doing (that I did really enjoy and thought very effective) to the RP 6 day Men’s Physique Template. I can’t attribute that drop to anything other than a reduction in inflammation and cortisol. I’ve been feeling significantly less creaky and generally a higher level of wellness. On the plus side, I found my threshold for MRV which I could sustain for a while. I’m really looking forward to this hypertrophy phase and how auto-regulated this program is for volume and deloads.
I confess... I don't think I understand what I'm seeing... But it sounds like what you're saying is that not getting enough rest between sessions will, over time, whittle away at your ability to progress. Is that correct? It makes sense, so it's neat to see data that corroborates it.
I had been speculating that my volume and intensity got to the point where I needed either a deload or a wholesale change in program. Comparing sets/week to Max recoverable volume (MRV) guidance my hypertrophy sets were at or exceeding the high end with some other strength sets tacked on. My efforts to cut some fat had leveled off in conjunction with feeling run down leading up to that virtual lifting competition I did (where my lifts also suffered). Calories and food practices stayed roughly the same but weight started falling off over the last two weeks (graph is rolling average weight) as soon as I even slightly deloaded.
What really struck me was that I always expected overtraining to present with performance falling off a clif, rather than a gradual accumulation of fatigue and nagging injuries. I’d been not getting great sleep and kept blaming myself thinking it was leading to poor training. However, I think it was ultimately more a symptom than the cause.1 -
KickassAmazon76 wrote: »
Not a lifting gif but I wanted to share with this crew as pretty damning evidence to corroborate speculation about being under-recovered. That big drop coincides with a reduction in training volume and intensity, switching from the rando Reddit guy’s program that I had been doing (that I did really enjoy and thought very effective) to the RP 6 day Men’s Physique Template. I can’t attribute that drop to anything other than a reduction in inflammation and cortisol. I’ve been feeling significantly less creaky and generally a higher level of wellness. On the plus side, I found my threshold for MRV which I could sustain for a while. I’m really looking forward to this hypertrophy phase and how auto-regulated this program is for volume and deloads.
I confess... I don't think I understand what I'm seeing... But it sounds like what you're saying is that not getting enough rest between sessions will, over time, whittle away at your ability to progress. Is that correct? It makes sense, so it's neat to see data that corroborates it.
I had been speculating that my volume and intensity got to the point where I needed either a deload or a wholesale change in program. Comparing sets/week to Max recoverable volume (MRV) guidance my hypertrophy sets were at or exceeding the high end with some other strength sets tacked on. My efforts to cut some fat had leveled off in conjunction with feeling run down leading up to that virtual lifting competition I did (where my lifts also suffered). Calories and food practices stayed roughly the same but weight started falling off over the last two weeks (graph is rolling average weight) as soon as I even slightly deloaded.
What really struck me was that I always expected overtraining to present with performance falling off a clif, rather than a gradual accumulation of fatigue and nagging injuries. I’d been not getting great sleep and kept blaming myself thinking it was leading to poor training. However, I think it was ultimately more a symptom than the cause.
That is some really good insight and I wonder if it's why I always do so well to start on stronglifts and then invariably get injured and tank.
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »KickassAmazon76 wrote: »
Not a lifting gif but I wanted to share with this crew as pretty damning evidence to corroborate speculation about being under-recovered. That big drop coincides with a reduction in training volume and intensity, switching from the rando Reddit guy’s program that I had been doing (that I did really enjoy and thought very effective) to the RP 6 day Men’s Physique Template. I can’t attribute that drop to anything other than a reduction in inflammation and cortisol. I’ve been feeling significantly less creaky and generally a higher level of wellness. On the plus side, I found my threshold for MRV which I could sustain for a while. I’m really looking forward to this hypertrophy phase and how auto-regulated this program is for volume and deloads.
I confess... I don't think I understand what I'm seeing... But it sounds like what you're saying is that not getting enough rest between sessions will, over time, whittle away at your ability to progress. Is that correct? It makes sense, so it's neat to see data that corroborates it.
I had been speculating that my volume and intensity got to the point where I needed either a deload or a wholesale change in program. Comparing sets/week to Max recoverable volume (MRV) guidance my hypertrophy sets were at or exceeding the high end with some other strength sets tacked on. My efforts to cut some fat had leveled off in conjunction with feeling run down leading up to that virtual lifting competition I did (where my lifts also suffered). Calories and food practices stayed roughly the same but weight started falling off over the last two weeks (graph is rolling average weight) as soon as I even slightly deloaded.
What really struck me was that I always expected overtraining to present with performance falling off a clif, rather than a gradual accumulation of fatigue and nagging injuries. I’d been not getting great sleep and kept blaming myself thinking it was leading to poor training. However, I think it was ultimately more a symptom than the cause.
That is some really good insight and I wonder if it's why I always do so well to start on stronglifts and then invariably get injured and tank.
Thank you for sharing!
Re:Stronglifts. Probably? Since it’s a linear program it accumulates intensity quickly if you’re adding weight consistently. With more than a few months-year of training history it’s not expected to PR weekly given the level of adaptations achieved.
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I made it into the gym today. Went easy on the weights. I'll have to try to either build up slowly or just stay lighter weight/higher rep🤔
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »KickassAmazon76 wrote: »
Not a lifting gif but I wanted to share with this crew as pretty damning evidence to corroborate speculation about being under-recovered. That big drop coincides with a reduction in training volume and intensity, switching from the rando Reddit guy’s program that I had been doing (that I did really enjoy and thought very effective) to the RP 6 day Men’s Physique Template. I can’t attribute that drop to anything other than a reduction in inflammation and cortisol. I’ve been feeling significantly less creaky and generally a higher level of wellness. On the plus side, I found my threshold for MRV which I could sustain for a while. I’m really looking forward to this hypertrophy phase and how auto-regulated this program is for volume and deloads.
I confess... I don't think I understand what I'm seeing... But it sounds like what you're saying is that not getting enough rest between sessions will, over time, whittle away at your ability to progress. Is that correct? It makes sense, so it's neat to see data that corroborates it.
I had been speculating that my volume and intensity got to the point where I needed either a deload or a wholesale change in program. Comparing sets/week to Max recoverable volume (MRV) guidance my hypertrophy sets were at or exceeding the high end with some other strength sets tacked on. My efforts to cut some fat had leveled off in conjunction with feeling run down leading up to that virtual lifting competition I did (where my lifts also suffered). Calories and food practices stayed roughly the same but weight started falling off over the last two weeks (graph is rolling average weight) as soon as I even slightly deloaded.
What really struck me was that I always expected overtraining to present with performance falling off a clif, rather than a gradual accumulation of fatigue and nagging injuries. I’d been not getting great sleep and kept blaming myself thinking it was leading to poor training. However, I think it was ultimately more a symptom than the cause.
That is some really good insight and I wonder if it's why I always do so well to start on stronglifts and then invariably get injured and tank.
Thank you for sharing!
Because SL is only mainly useful for a person who is a beginner or somebody who has stopped lifting for a significant time.
SL has virtually no auto regulation and even worse zero proper load management which increases injury risk once you start "grinding".
Best to stop and move on to appropriate programming before any grinding is going on.
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Lifted again today. I hate not having good AC1 -
DancingMoosie wrote: »
Lifted again today. I hate not having good AC
You're killing it. I look at those pullups with such awe. I'm still working hard at getting TWO for one set. Lol. You'r strength is fabulous!1 -
Back in the gym and the AC was working a little better. My friend also joined me.
I'm hoping to increase the weight a little if the AC stays on...and my friend will motivate me!
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DancingMoosie wrote: »Back in the gym and the AC was working a little better. My friend also joined me.
I'm hoping to increase the weight a little if the AC stays on...and my friend will motivate me!
Man, I'd love to have a workout partner. It's so much better! Great work!0
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