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Went cycling today with a group of friends, 45 miles in the wind. Man, I've not been doing enough cardio recently, I'm wiped out!

Hmm, thanks, that's interesting. It's the involvement of my lower back that concerns me in regular deadlifts! I'll keep trying both, see how I go.

Got carried away in the gym today - husband is away, so I had no reason to head home in any hurry, so I was there for nearly two hours. I was half expecting them to throw me out! Squats: 5x5 @ 69kg OHP: 5x5 @ 21.5kg deadlifts: 1x5 @ 61kg I did lots and lots of warm ups on the deadlifts and tried to remember everything from…

Oh, you poor thing. I hurt mine on stairs, too - running down them. I'm still a bit funny about stairs!

I might try this if there was another woman around. I wouldn't feel comfortable asking (most of) the guys, I try to just stay out of their radar, really. Which is mostly my issue, not theirs, no one's been problematic...

Oooohhhhhhh, I see! I feel a bit silly now - I've read people talk about the 'roll of shame' and I imagined it meant rolling to the side, the weights falling off ... crash ... bang ... etc. But I could do this! I do this with dumbells - lower them to my chest, kind of roll them down to my tummy and sit up. So ... thanks to…

A couple of answers to that, @BethAnnieT! Neither perfect... You can bench in the squat rack and use the safeties. That's good in theory but I'm a bit too small and in some racks I can't get the safety pins low enough - so the bar gets stopped a couple of inches above my chest! So the other solution is not to put clips on…

Cheers, @StephieWillcox! That confirms a few of the things I've been thinking. What I think is half way up my foot, is not!

Wow, that sounds like good news, @canadianlbs. Hope it keeps feeling good.

Just feel like a ramble here. I've been sitting watching form videos for deadlifts and I'm keen to get in and try out some new ideas. I'm not due to deadlift tomorrow but I think I'll have a play with some light weights just to practise what I'm doing with those, because something's not been right so far! I think I've been…

How did you hurt your tailbone, @Llamapants86 ? Been there. It seems such a 'silly' injury and yet it's miserable and so painful for so long. Hope you're on the mend.

Thanks. I do warm up, but maybe not enough - and yes, I have some fractional plates I should try. I also need to really study some form videos because it always feels like far too much stress on my lower back, which is what scares me. I'm so strong in squats and yet the old deadlift is defeating me - I need to get it right!

Good going, @kimiuzzell! And everyone else, of course :-) My first workout of December. I was going to go easy on the squats, as I went to the gym yesterday, but I felt strong, so f-it, might as well go for it. Squats: 5x5 @ 68 kg Deadlift: 5x5 @ .... 60kg - I'm kind of stuck and a bit scared on this. It's so heavy! OHP:…

Oh dear. 1) Done! 2) not done. At all! 3) a little bit 4) nope 5) kind of... 6) made it through 3/4s of it! And was glad I did - there was lots of recognition of things while I was there

Ha, that's great!

Hi @BethAnnieT ! I've been doing 5x5 for a couple of months. Mostly I just stick to the compound lifts - to be honest, with all the rest periods, I don't have time for more! And theoretically they are enough Having said that, I'm looking to work in some other stuff, maybe from Strong Curves, to keep things interesting.…

Guy strolled over to the dips bars, looked like he was just going to do standard stuff - then flipped himself upside down, raised his legs in the air, and did them upside down! Holy mackerel. The whole gym stopped to watch. Then looked away and carried on with their own thing - this is Scotland, we don't make a fuss :-)

ooh, we've hit the same weight on the squat, @StephieWillcox ! Hope you feel stronger next time. Squat: 5x5 67.5kg Bench: 5x5 32.5kg - I felt pretty good with this, it was really hard but doable rows: 5x5 40kg (I suppose that's how to write it - using 20kg dumbbells, one at a time) pull ups - 2x10 using the machine on…

Seriously?!? My first reactionary that this was really funny, but actually, it's really pretty inappropriate and I think I'd freak out if some guy touched me like that, and punch him! Sounds like you were ok with it, though, so that's fine!

Hotel gym and nothing smaller than 5kg plates. If I'd been in 'my' gym I'd have done 67.5 kg squats (using my fractional plates) so it was either 60kg or 70kg. I decided to go sensible, on 60! Similarly, did 5x5 OHP on 20 kg and 1 x 5 deadlift on 60. Hey, I'm away for the weekend, I think that's pretty good going. Followed…

Oops, there was meant to be a photo there!

Not bad for a hotel gym! Nothing smaller than 5kg though, so have dropped back a bit rather than overdo things. There's no one here to rescue me if it flattens me!

ha! Thanks, that's made my morning. Well done on recovering with aplomb and carrying on.

The smaller gym that I use midweek doesn't have any benches with rack hooks, so if I use a barbell then I need to be in the squat rack anyway, safeties or not. Your job sounds so hard, @DawnEmbers ! Such long hours, too. I'm impressed you make it to the gym at all.

It is, isn't it? And on some racks I can't use the safeties because they won't go low enough - on the rack last night, set at their lowest point, they stop the bar at about two inches above me! Very frustrating.

Empty gym tonight - not sure where everyone was! Squats: 5x5 @ 67 kg - feeling good Bench: 5x5 @ 30 kg - not so good! I had to drop down a weight. I need to get less chickenshit about getting stuck - it's not like I couldn't get out from under just 30kg! Row: 5x5 still at 18kg dumbbells - happy enough with this Pull ups:…

Wow, well done, I'd love to deadlift that weight! One day...

hehe, yes, ok, sometimes it's pretty obvious. But you never know - your workouts always look pretty impressive :smile:

Wow, sounds great, good for you! It's the running bit that puts me off those - I could probably do the other stuff but running 10k would kill me :smiley:

Well, I thought that first squat felt weird. Re-racked and ... I had 5kg more on one side than the other. Idiot! Once I got that sorted, all good! Squats: 5x5 @ 66.5 kg OHP: 3/4/5/5/5 @ 22kg - getting better, and suggests I just need more warm up Deadlift: 1x5 @ 62.5kg - this felt so much better, I feel like I'm getting…