GIFt us your lifts! (or other achievements!)
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amorfati601070 wrote: »KickassAmazon76 wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »🦋 / 🐝
Wow! Peett fancy footwork and awesome coordination! My ankle is so bad, I don't think I could jump even once. 🤪
Well done!Minion_training_program wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »🦋 / 🐝
DAMN! that's some nice rope jumping skills...and here i am being exhausted after just 10 minuts of normal rop jumping, singles, because i can't do those double unders yet
Jump rope is so underrated. I’ve seen my HR go over 200bpm with double unders.
Yeah ahah, I was a ninja in a past life.
More showing off…
Boredom at my old job XD
Color guard? You’ve got those kinda moves.2 -
amorfati601070 wrote: »KickassAmazon76 wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »🦋 / 🐝
Wow! Peett fancy footwork and awesome coordination! My ankle is so bad, I don't think I could jump even once. 🤪
Well done!Minion_training_program wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »🦋 / 🐝
DAMN! that's some nice rope jumping skills...and here i am being exhausted after just 10 minuts of normal rop jumping, singles, because i can't do those double unders yet
Jump rope is so underrated. I’ve seen my HR go over 200bpm with double unders.
Yeah ahah, I was a ninja in a past life.
More showing off…
Boredom at my old job XD
I think I've watched this a dozen times already.
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Still no gif, but I finally got to use the Smith machine last night and I'm starting to like watching my form in the mirror. That's huge for me. I usually avoid looking at my body!3
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Punching stuff is fun 😂3
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »This IS huge!!! So happy for you!
Thank you! That really means a lot to me. I'm starting to feel like an athlete for the first time in my life!
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »This IS huge!!! So happy for you!
Thank you! That really means a lot to me. I'm starting to feel like an athlete for the first time in my life!
That really is awesome. I overlooked the strength of positive self-talk/identity for way too long. It amazes me how much we have get out of our own way sometimes.2 -
KickassAmazon76 wrote: »This IS huge!!! So happy for you!
Thank you! That really means a lot to me. I'm starting to feel like an athlete for the first time in my life!
That really is awesome. I overlooked the strength of positive self-talk/identity for way too long. It amazes me how much we have get out of our own way sometimes.
So true. To think I was capable of this my entire life, I just never knew it. Really raises the bar for everything in my life.
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »This IS huge!!! So happy for you!
Thank you! That really means a lot to me. I'm starting to feel like an athlete for the first time in my life!
That really is awesome. I overlooked the strength of positive self-talk/identity for way too long. It amazes me how much we have get out of our own way sometimes.
I am so stealing that.2 -
My self identity may be a little too positive. So I’ve been told…… haters 😋2
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How’s everybody been doing? I hope the holidays and the start of ‘22 has been treating you all well. I came down with a sinus infection the week before Christmas, pulled a muscle around my ribs coughing during what I discovered to be an allergic reaction to cough medication, and still dealing with a little bit of congestion when the weather swings, but otherwise healthy. Working my way back after taking about two weeks off lifting. First time I’ve been idle for that long since December 2016. GIFs from a lower rep push session Monday night. I’ve cobbled together a PPL schedule using PHUL rep range principles, so far so good two weeks in.
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I went back to the gym after having 3 weeks off for vacation. I do Sydney Cummings workouts while I'm out of the gym.
Yesterday's session:
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How’s everybody been doing? I hope the holidays and the start of ‘22 has been treating you all well. I came down with a sinus infection the week before Christmas, pulled a muscle around my ribs coughing during what I discovered to be an allergic reaction to cough medication, and still dealing with a little bit of congestion when the weather swings, but otherwise healthy. Working my way back after taking about two weeks off lifting. First time I’ve been idle for that long since December 2016. GIFs from a lower rep push session Monday night. I’ve cobbled together a PPL schedule using PHUL rep range principles, so far so good two weeks in.
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Solid work!
Glad to hear you're on the mend and back at it. I took about a month off from lifting... Life, depression and a knee /ankle issue that was really ticking me off all played together.
I started back at "it" on Jan 4th. Logging food, getting at LEAST 40oz water a day (which is about 30oz more than I usually got🙄), and two workouts a week.
My weights are lighter (again, rehabbing that knee), but still doing the work.
Just starting tonight's session, so I'll do a recap after. 😊3 -
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I've been adding some different exercises to target and hit some areas from different angles.
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No gif, but i wanna thank @KickassAmazon76 for sharing her 7 week meso cycle with me
I only just started this 7 week training, but i think i am going to like it.
As someone who is more used to lower reps/ higher weight, this feels really challenging for me
During the Wide stance singel DB squat (or goblet squat) i was using a weight, which normally wouldn't be a problem for me, for 5 or 8 reps
But after rep 13, my legs started shaking like crazy, even one of the instructors noticed it and came up to me after, asking if i was okey? 🤣🤣4 -
Minion_training_program wrote: »
No gif, but i wanna thank @KickassAmazon76 for sharing her 7 week meso cycle with me
I only just started this 7 week training, but i think i am going to like it.
As someone who is more used to lower reps/ higher weight, this feels really challenging for me
During the Wide stance singel DB squat (or goblet squat) i was using a weight, which normally wouldn't be a problem for me, for 5 or 8 reps
But after rep 13, my legs started shaking like crazy, even one of the instructors noticed it and came up to me after, asking if i was okey? 🤣🤣
Haha I'm glad you're having fun with it! It made a big difference for me when I was doing it 4x a week. Now that I'm doing it 2x a week, I've lost some, but at least I'm still pushing!
I like that no matter what weights you' pick... You still feel it at the end! Lol
Also, the day with the walking lunges... I hate that day. 😂
This is my take on W6 d1
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I haven't taken video in a while. Just trying to keep going. My strength has dropped...I'm wondering if cutting weight too fast also cut strength🤔
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No GIFs but I did two strict pullups consecutively this week. My goal is now to reach 5 before the end of the year. I love this thread and this community! I don't know how to make a GIF though..only a video!
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No GIFs but I did two strict pullups consecutively this week. My goal is now to reach 5 before the end of the year. I love this thread and this community! I don't know how to make a GIF though..only a video!
If you download a gif maker app, you can convert a video into a gif pretty easily and then you'd just upload it here like you would a picture. 😊
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I love bamboo day. It’s me versus the small but lively, wriggling masses of weights.2 -
springlering62 wrote: »
I love bamboo day. It’s me versus the small but lively, wriggling masses of weights.
This looks like an accident waiting to happen (if it was me, lol). I'd never seen or heard of anything like it before you.
This was my workout:
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@springlering62 - Wow that sounds crazy hard but you make it look easy!
Haven't posted in a while, but I'm still lifting - bumped up to 3-4 days a week. Have a piriformus issue due to one side being stronger than the other, so I've been working with my trainer to try and even out and doing my stretching at least once a day.
I'm trying to talk some friends into joining me now, so guess I'm an evangelist now too!0 -
@DancingMoosie it was only 60 or so pounds so my trainer was confident I had it. It’s great for focus, control, and working on form.
This is an interesting article about them:
https://powerliftingtechnique.com/bandbell-bamboo-barbell/
You get different “feels” if it’s straight up plates versus a kettlebell and/or chains added, since they oscillate differently depending on the shape of what’s suspended.
I just love them because they’re fun and a challenge to keep from wobbling insanely. Once they start wobbling, it’s all over. They’re uncontrollable, like trying to hold on the the wrong end of a whip.1 -
Ok, I’m not in y’all’s league, but I’m really happy with this. With injuries and too low weight, and to improve form, I got busted down to starting from scratch on squats last year. This is only 105, small potatoes, but I’m very happy with the significant improvement in depth, and this was 20 pounds higher than I’ve been allowed to do for a while.
I’m never going to compete, I’m never going to be an Iron Lady or a bodybuilder, and I may never get *kitten* fully to the grass, but I’m OK with that. I do weights for my own pleasure. I’m “lapping everyone on the couch”.
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….Have a piriformus issue
Same here. My butt hurts 24/7. What’s helped me has been dry needling followed by one of those muscle hammer guns, and, of all things, the aquafit classes I *kitten* about taking with my husband. I want to poke my eyeballs out while I’m doing them, but boy, all the side kicking, jumping jacks and scissors sure help.
My physical therapist has also started doing this thing where he pulls my leg straight upwards so hard he lifts me up, and then he pushes my leg towards my nose.
I find myself silently thinking, he’s not charging enough for this very physical treatment, and thank God I lost some weight, because there’s no way he could slam fat-me around like that.
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