The Most Loathed

Which style squat are you using? That makes a pretty big difference on you supplemental exercises, which is really what you seem to mean to be asking about.

Heavy Squats No seriously ok, ok, I also do toes to rings, tons of kettlebell clean and jerk too, pilates, yoga, TRX workouts, 2-hands-anyhow and TRX workouts. all that crap has helped in injury prevention but I can't claim that any of it helps with the big lifts in the way the doing more big lifts does.

I was 270. I haven't been over 250 is several years. Over the last three years I've worked my way down to 200. If I take all the guard rails of I do gain weight but that doesn't mean I'll never be healthy and it doesn't mean I'll never be lean. I'm currently leaner than most of my peers. It just means that I am responsible for my weight. I'm only one person, I'm not data but if there are exceptions and I'm one of them then there's not a good reason to not try. Just know what you're getting into. Be the exception

Yep, hang out, move your hips around, go from the ball of one foot to the ball of the other. Do five to ten reps but spend ten to thirty seconds at the bottom of each rep just getting your groove on. Look at variations of cossack squats and stretches too. I've had less success there but still some.

+1 for giving a title to the Oly lifters (not me, I'll pull but I won't win) I don't bench and I run out of weights a 400lbs so I'm not gonna drop any jaws but I'll see you guys in the Google Docs.

enjoy your run

tsk tsk...fun things I hope.

The most important thing in that post: you guys both honestly admitted to one another how you felt.

I gained a fair amount of hip mobility with daily goblet squats burying my elbows into my thighs, forcing them out. Your ROM is pretty short so you may not be able to get your arms low enough to do that but just getting into the goblet with 30 or 40 lbs and working the bottom of that position may improve mobility. As a powerlifter you'll have to decide how much of that you want. Powerlifters tend to have deliberately short ROMs so if you see your numbers tank you have to decide, do I want to sit deep or do I want to pull heavy. also, your bicep was mentioned above in regard to your underhand arm, both your arm are pulling. In fact, when you break contact with the ground, you're basically rowing it.The whole reason your left side comes up first is that your bicep is stronger in that underhanded position. You'll need to teach your arms to hang. You'll unlock some serious power when you let your hips start working for you.

yeah, Arkham Horror is a commitment. There's slightly less setup in Eldritch Horror and the game itself is streamlined a bit. It takes a 3 to 4 hour setup-play-teardown game (AH) down to a 2 to 3 hour setup-play-teardown game (EH). Elder Sign, the board game or the iOS/Android app is a great way to capture the same idea in an hour or less.

My eye is drawn to this line. Snacks are the diet killer. Your meals add up to about 500 calories which means that they are almost certainly the vast minority of your caloric load for the day. You're turning a blind eye to the bits that matter.

I can't begrudge anyone for falling silent. This isn't my first workout log on a forum and I've habitually had issues of just getting bored and wandering off while still training. I cam over to NF because my last board had amazing people on it but for several years we had been in the low teens for membership and it was really hard to care about posting there knowing that we might go weeks between conversations. As a result, i was known to fall silent for weeks at a time. I always missed having those records to refer to later though.

06/02/2014 bodyweight: 200.2 Workout: none Notes: Monday Recap Last week was a little light for my tastes with regard to training frequency. However, I feel like I had a couple really great sessions. Wednesday showed good volume on kettlebell work and Sunday just felt great and had good numbers. I missed the extra days on account of Laura's job becoming an obstruction. She's looking for another but the going is slow and I'm frustrated at her approach, but it's hers and I try to let her have it. I've suggested that we build a budget that means that she can quit for a while. She was on board but talking to family over the weekend, she was shamed away from the idea. I don't know where that will land long term. plan for this week Monday: Games Tuesday: 24 kg long cycle, barbell (barbell is at risk because I need to mow and it was too rainy this weekend to do so) Wednesday: Granite Games Workout Thursday: 28 kg long cycle and likely pilates or barbell depending on Tuesday Friday: off - my parents are coming to town and want to go out for dinner Saturday: Crossfit - I'm going to visit our local box. I'm trying to work out some Oly coaching but I suspect that they will want me to just join. I don't see that happening Sunday: possibly 24 kg kettlebells again, possibly Granite Games repeat Have you read H.P. Lovecraft? If you've not read it, check out the Cthulu Mythos. I think it's a little overhyped in the nerd community but I mention it here because I just bought an expansion for Eldritch Horror and I can't wait to play it. I bought Eldritch Horror last year at Fantasy Flight Games during their Arkham Nights event which is just a big weekend for them to promote their Cthulu themed games. I bought all the card sleeves and really tried to trick out my game. Since then I've played the game a half dozen times or more, which is about as much as you can get out of that base game without feeling like your playing the same experience over and over. The expansion seems to expand the game in exactly the right places to get the most out of the new experience. I'm hoping to play tonight. Last note...time to start my top 50 game list build! Monday Music - something chill

Glad to hear it! I'm just surprised by how quiet the forums have gotten. This stuff is such an important part of my week that I forget that for some people a week of no commitment is probably something that they look forward to.

Laureleye, I'm sorry to hear of your loss and I wish for the best for you.

It's amazing how quiet it gets around here between challenges...you guys are still training right? 06/01/2014 bodyweight: 198.0 (pre-breakfast) workout: warm up - heavy bag 1on/1off X 3 - kettlebell snatch 24 kg 25/25 backsquat 100 kg 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 between sets, lots of muscle up work - pull ups, transitions from the floor and negatives. power snatch - 60 kg 5 - 62 kg 3 - 65 kg 2 - 67 kg 1 (see notes) power clean and jerk 80 kg X 5 Row (damper at 6) 5 km 19:03 notes: super happy with how this workout went. It was humid as heck out because it's been raining pretty solidly for about 24 hoursgave myself credit for one 67 kg snatch because I got four more that were super ugly and I had to press out quite a bit

Surprise-bonus-super-secret-mini-workout Laur headed down to lift and I went down, rolled out the yoga mat and picked up my copy of Pilates for Men that she bought me a decade or so ago. I worked through the advanced mat routine with a pretty good amount of skill. It took about 30 minutes. I discovered a whole second half of the book, reformer on the mat, that I played with and will play with in the future.

Good for you, If you don't blaze the trail, no one can help you. No matter how Monday goes, keep this attitude.

I'm gonna have to batten down the hatches, it sounds like Jitters's party may spill over into the streets and all of the twin cities will be consumed in the spirit of birthday.

Interesting tip,, I'll have to bear it in mind I think my primary issue though is going the distance, not overtraining. I missed posting workouts a couple days, it was just one of those I'll get to it later kinds of things. 05/29/2013 bodyweight: 198.6 workout: 1 hour pilates Notes: Final pilates session. I will have to make sure I continue to do some kind of stretching and mobility work in the future. Please feel free to remind me if you see me ducking this responsibility 05/30/2014 bodyweight: 198.6 workout: none Notes: I tried to get home early to get a kettlebell set in but didn't make it. Laura and I were supposed to go for a bike ride (I hate riding but she loves it so I was going to try and join her on her thing) but neither of us was feeling it and we just ended up doing random stuff for the rest of the night. 05/31/2014 bodyweight 197.6 workout 2 X 28 kg long cycle 0:45 on/0:15 of 6 rounds circuit 1 (adapted from crossfit) - 500 m row - 25 clap push ups - 500 m row - 25 burpees - 500 m row - 25 regular push ups - 1X in 12:30 TRX circuit - left arm press - right arm press - left arm row - right arm row - skull crusher - left leg pistol - right leg pistol - off, use time to set up for next exercise - hamstring curl - mountain climber - pike - off, use time to set up for next exercise - 2X 0:45 on/0:15 off Notes: My bodyweight has been really bouncy this week but I haven't been as disciplined in my eating. It will likely settle down next week.I adapted the first circuit from Thursday's crossfit workout. They were doing 20 handstand pushup of various types between the rowing sections, I didn't feel like I would be able to keep it an aerobic challenge if I attempted that so I switched to pushups. It was still tough. I was sweating, huffing and puffing.TRX circuit was there primarily to get some asymmetrical, rotational work in. It was slightly tough but I think very good for me. I'm happy with it.We're looking at some thunderstorms here later today and tomorrow. If the timing works out I will do barbell work and run the park tomorrow (I'll map the route and share here if I succeed in that). Otherwise, I may go ahead and pull my car out in the rain and do some garage work (back squat, power snatch, heavy bag) or if things are terribly gross I'll just go down to the basement and give myself a beating there. Also, my new favorite t-shirt, courtesy my wife:

That sucks about your friend. Is he a reader? When I had failed out of college and my girlfriend was living two states away and I was working any job I could just to get out of my parents basement, I spent all my spare time reading finance and budget books. It didn't feel like it at the time but it probably changed my life by changing the way i think about stuff.

Welcome back! I'm really glad you had such a great experience and got some coaching time in. I hope you guys do more meets.

I wish I had said it as cleanly as you just did.

I put together this chart today to give myself a snapshot of the last several weeks. I think it gives me an interesting perspective on my programming. The benefits of this view is that it gives me a glimpse into large scale trends of my programming. For example, I miss a lot of Friday training sessions. I trained more Mondays than I expected. I do a good job of not stacking kettlebell days in sequential days. I get 2.5 kettlebell sessions per week which is slightly less than I'd like (3 is the goal). The downside is that it conveys info at a very crude level. I don't see the quality of the training, i don't see why I missed so many Fridays but hit so many Mondays.

great celebration! I did bodyweight (on the barbell) squats for my age X 10 a couple years. I know a guy who does kettlebell complexes for his age in minutes, he's in his fifties. I haven't figured out how I will treat myself this year.