This is on my workout mix and I refuse to take it off.
Anyway, badly. I didn't go for about three weeks. I made the mistake of reading a bunch of fitness trainer blogs - most of which were like "ugh everyone is awful why can't they do it RIGHT. Especially WOMEN. Why aren't they trying harder?" - and then I felt super insecure for a while.
How's by you?
I caught these guys on 480 Minutes. Immediately shot up into my top 50 songs of all time.
Zseni, I am disappointed in you. You cannot punk out on this. It's probably one of the best decisions I've made in the past 5 years. At least show up, goddamn you. Go do some machine weights to get your confidence back or some shit, but don't NOT go. I have endured ocular surgery, relationship troubles, and dickheads who talk more than they lift taking up my precious time occupying the free weights section, and none of that shit is slowing me down. I love lifting. It's great, especially when you do crap that even the hardest snot-nosed high school kid won't touch like power cleans and real squats. I want to look better, but I don't necessarily want to be thin. I like being the biggest/heaviest guy in the room, I'd just rather that be something I can actually brag about instead of being because I'm a lardass. I get to eat as much as I used to and actually have something to show for it. Meanwhile, it's the laziest activity you can commit to. I spend more time sitting down and reading Caltrops on my iPhone in the gym than I do actually lifting weight. Best of both worlds!
I deadlifted 295 on tuesday. Still not sure I'm anywhere near my max, but if I have one weakness it's that I don't feel like upping my weight too fast. I do it when I'm goddamn good and ready.
My squat went down back to 225 and just recently went back up to 245. FUN FACT: The second time (NOT the first) that I squatted 225, my legs crapped out on the last rep and I tried to dump the weight but wound up falling on my ass, with the squat bar getting caught . Very embarrassing. Some dude came over to lecture me on how I was doing shit wrong and how I'd break my back etc. Well, I out-squat him now and I do it without a power belt. Asshole.
My bench press is stagnant but that might be because I was doing chins/pull-ups before my squats, and THEN benched. Funny thing, wearing yourself out on chin-ups and pull-ups makes you incapable of unracking a weighted bar without a spotter.
I just recently started doing presses and power cleans. For the longest time I wasn't interested, but I've really learned to love the overhead press. It's a simple lift, but even being able to pull off 150 pounds means you're a manly motherfucker. AND nobody does it. If I had to rate the big six exercises by the frequency I see them it would be:
1. Bench Press
2. Squat
3. Everything else
Overhead presses will make the backs of your shoulders and the back of your neck ache every morning when you wake up, though. No joke. =(
I hate power cleans, but that's mainly related to how difficult they are to get down pat. Plus I'm lazy so as soon as I'm done with presses I set the bar down on the floor to do power cleans. Still, I'm getting the idea that I'm supposed to use my back and my legs and not my freaking arms to do them.
The only bad thing I have to report is that I think I may have developed a minor's case of Runner's Knee. A couple of weeks ago I started putting more power behind my squats so that I came out of the bottom faster, and while it seemed to improve my form immensely, I started having a dull ache sometimes when I'd get up or when I'd move into a slight crouch while flexing my quadriceps. I never feel it when I'm exercising, just when my legs are stiff from being tucked under a desk for awhile at work. Still freaks me out a bit though.
:|a not sure about your sore quads. I have a knee that likes to pretend it hurts every now and again; my pet theory is that I overstretched it and it just slips around, but really i have no fucking clue.
As far as three week break is concerned, fuck you, I'm insecure. I was at the gym today though and as usual i was the only motherfucker doing deadlifts ever. The infinitely many muscle gorilla dicks doing pec flys and bench presses actually stopped to watch. THERE ARE MIRRORS EVERYWHERE BTW.
fucking irritating day at the gym.
there was the dick who wanted to do row and lat pull down one after another, SO HE LEFT HIS FUCKING BASEBALL CAP ON THE LAT PULLDOWN MACHINE WHILE HE SWITCHED BACK AND FORTH. What a fucking douchebag. And it's the nicest lat machine so soon there were like three of us cagey and glaring at his dumb frat ass. There were a ton of guys doing bad form everything, which makes me double angry, because yeah you can do a third of the exercise and get bulging whatever, but your fucking friends are still going to call me when they need their furniture moved.
Bad Form Guys make me as angry as Reading A Book On The Exercycle Girls.
I seriously saw a girl doing reps at 30lbs on the hip abductor today and I was like bitch what.
how does that even
...even as spot toning, which is fucking illusory
Guys stare at me a TON at the gym. It's not because I'm hot b/c as we all know I am permanently unhot, but because women dare not tread in the free weights, and women are definitely not supposed to bench or deadlift fucking anything. BTW your metrics are off for the gym I go to; the top 6 here are
1. that one machine where you pull a rope down
2. bicep curl
3. bench/chest press - don't give me shit for lumping these together, you haven't seen how people do them
4. row
5. lat pulldown
6. toe lift. YES REALLY.
Probably I am complaining too much as my cardio today was "jog to the liquor store."
