McCloud33 Member

I don't know how long exactly I'll be out. At least another 3-4 weeks for my hand. My shoulder could take 4-6 months *yikes*. Right now I can't make a super tight fist with my left hand so anything with grip required is out of the question, and 2 pull-ups in and my shoulder aches. I'll probably start running just to be…

I'm right there with you. Haven't been to the gym in almost 6 weeks. Bone bruise on my right shoulder and cracked a bone in my left hand :cry:

After several weeks of feeling blah at the gym, today felt really good. Just for shtis and giggles I switched up everything last week. I dropped my base weight way down and going for 20 reps on everything to start out and then slowly moving up in weight and down in reps throughout the workout. I also decided to take a…

Thanks @juliewatkin I haven't had a meet or anything and really haven't done anything too stressful. I've started soccer again on Sunday's, but that's only been the last 3 weeks. I did start a new job at the beginning of the year, but it hasn't been "that" much more stressful than my previous job. IDK...I'm just not sure…

Feeling extremely frustrated in my training. I was doing 270x20 squat around Christmas and 375x5 DL...My leg strength since then has all but disappeared. A 315 squat is about all I can handle and I couldn't even manage 1 rep of 365 yesterday. I'm still essentially at the same weight (-2lbs) and my upper body lifts haven't…

I guess I'm blessed and cheap. My employer subsidizes our gym memberships to 3-4 different ones in the area so my out of pocket cost for Gold's is less than $10/mo. There's a strongman gym in town too, but it's not included in my employer's subsidy so it's $60/mo. Ultimately I'd love to have my own home gym to train in,…

Hell yes girl.

Squats are still plateauing - 300x5 for my 3+ day of 5/3/1 Bench on the other hand is feeling great! 5+ day for bench with a rep goal of 9...grinded out a 10th rep! And moved up to 45 pull-up reps in 7 min this morning too...10-10-5-5-5-5-5 alternating between wide, neutral and underhand grip. https://youtu.be/XOYEaxxeev8

Feels like forever since I've been on here to post. A good workout last Friday after not calorie restricted for a week. https://youtu.be/2vYEThTKN-8 Then good upper body this week with a 220x5 bench and 140x7 OHP https://youtu.be/x0_5LS7VWI4 https://youtu.be/171Wqy6U5rs Squat has felt weak this week though 315x2 was all I…

Super proud of you. I know how much of a grind this is and just the mental gymnastics that we go through just to get under the bar sometimes and especially at the tail end of the program.

Now you just need the super and beast medals for a matching set :D

Anything is possible while wearing those pants! :wink: Nice job!

I feel ya. I'm just in a constant state of sore on my restricted diet. Nothing major but always at about a 2-4 on the pain scale. Only three more to get to 200!!!

Excellent beginners program. I ran it for about a year and a half. I had never lifted before, but had played soccer for like 20 years, so my lower body progressed more than upper. I got up to 335x5 DL, 315x5 squat, 215x5 bench, 200x5 row, 130x5 OHP.

My 1+ day on 5/3/1 for both squat and bench today. Plus since I get MLK day off, I spent a little extra time...did some singles after squat and some 10 rep paused bench with 135#. I also ran a couple of miles on the treadmill after the weights. Would have liked to have another rep or two on each top set, but I'll take it.…

Wasn't expecting it, but this morning was a great day in the gym. Hit new rep pr for both my squat and deadlift even while still being on my cut (down to about 188-189bw) Especially happy with the 290 squat for 8 :smiley: https://youtu.be/IRv12_cM-ek

That's awesome! Would love to see the video, but it says "this video is private"

Girl, you're going to pass 200 this time. Those looked smooth! If you don't mind me asking, what was the cue that helped?

So a few things for me this week. First I went and had a bodpod reading done for the second time. I had the first done about 9 months ago. I've gone through a few bulk cycles while doing the 20 rep squats in that time as well as some cuts and maintenance. All in all it was maybe 12-16 weeks of bulking. I know there's…

Haha... those weren't actually gloves either. He had wrist wraps on and then was hold "fat grips" that he was using while curling the bar. Being dialed in and tight might have something to do with the belt too. I was doing the 20 rep program without it.

Here's my 5/3/1 for today. I'm doing it modified so I do the full 5/3/1 cycle for squats every week and then my other lifts are on the regular 3 weeks schedule. The deload day helps to vary what day I'm doing my heaviest squats so it doesn't always correspond with my DL day. Today was 1+ squats, 5+ DL, and trying to work…

Making those look easy Jo!

I'm only doing it 3 days a week, so hopefully I won't mess up any joints. I did a 10,000 push-up challenge about a year and a half ago and that was a brutal month...basically 500 push-ups 2 days, 1 rest day, repeat.

@JoRocka have fun! Post some vids from time to time, I'd like to see how you handle it as it gets heavier. 30 lb jump is going to be impressive if you can pull it off

Especially if you're wanting to move to muscle ups. When I've done weighted pull-ups in the past I've noticed a big difference with going more chest to bar opposed to chin. That's more of an explosive movement in my opinion though and hard to do if I'm going slow and strict.

I'm doing them trying to leave 1-2 in the tank with every set...45ish seconds between sets.

https://youtu.be/WnBvr66cwUs Here is day 2...I took out all the dead time between sets. Hopefully these are a little more strict :#

@JoRocka @TresaAswegan @juliewatkin ...yes it was very awkward and I totally cut my reps short because he was there. I was going to try for 15, but when I got to 10 and him standing back there I just racked it. And @TresaAswegan I'm right there with you starting 5/3/1 again! Good luck! I'm looking forward to hitting some…

The first 5 I'll give you that it wasn't the full ROM, but I felt they got better as they went on. I didn't think I was kipping that bad though? The last rep I did, but the others my legs bend, but they aren't really propelling me up?

https://youtu.be/L2c7WqO0ttA Too good not to share! This guy goes from curling in the squat rack next to me to unsolicited spotting of me in the safety rack. Bare in mind that I've never talked to this guy before in my life LOL. I was laughing about this pretty hard when I got home, but was not amused at the time as I was…