xanthe88

Cool beans. I was thinking about squeezing my shoulder blades and keeping my shoulders down but I'm sure I can work on that more. I'll also figure out how to get my feet on the ground (or some substitute) so I can get the arch goin. Thanks!

Ok. I finally got a video today. Thoughts? (Well, minus the little shuffle at the beginning. I realize that was ridiculous...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ocU6O5uAls&feature=youtu.be

Cool. I was looking at Madcow which says it's similar to the Texas Method. I'll check out Leangains as well. Ooof. Yeah. This was a typo kind of. My PT told me to drop bench for awhile and OP forever. Curls were Ok'd though so I added them just to do something with my arms. I didn't quite get the hatred for OP though. I was up to 37.5x5x5 on OP with no problems... Awesome. I certainly felt ok doing OP but not bench. I may add OP back in slowly and see how my shoulder does. I'll also try to figure out when to incorporate these others. Will do. I keep getting conflicting information on how far to go down. What do you suggest? The current conclusion I've reached is that only going to 90 deg doesn't work your chest the same way as touching your chest with the bar, but that it's easier on the shoulder. Is this correct?

Greetings! I've been doing stronglifts 5x5 for close to 3 months now but am getting a bit stuck. I've been dealing with a fussy shoulder - not injured, just super weak (it wasn't staying in the socket during bench and was very pissed about that fact). Anyway, I've had to drop OP and bench will be slow moving. I'm looking to find some supplementary exercises (namely upper body) that I could add and suggestions on when to add it. Info Dump: Female, 26, 5'1'', 123 lbs SL 5x5 since 8/18, (Sun, Tues, Thurs) Current Weights for SL: * Squat 115x5x5 * Deadlift 130x1x5 (grip is the weak link) * Bench 45x5x5 (just ok'd by PT to start again) * Row 57.5x5x5 Current Additional Exercises: * Curls 40x5x5 (replaced OP) * Sumo Squats 60x2x5 * band exercises, 1.25 lb rotator cuff exercises, 10x3x10 'punches' (all from PT - 5 days a week) * cardio or yoga 1-2 days Thanks!

Overall for this challenge: 1) Stronglifts: 6/6 100% 2) Yoga or Cardio 2 days: 6/6 100% 3) *personal*: 6/6 100% Side: Coding in C or Java 4/6= 66.7% Booooo Score: 91.7% 5x5's Increase Squat: 85 ->120 Dead: 90 -> 130 Rows: 47.5 -> 57.5 Curls: 25 -> 40 Had to drop OP and Bench due to shoulder problems but with PT I benched 45x3x5 Sunday. Woot!

Yuck the lifts didn't show up right Squat: 115, 120, 95, 100, 105, 110 Dead: 120, 125, 130 Rows: stuck at 57.5 Curls: 37.5, 37.5, 40 Bench:!!!! 45x3x5 PT is paying off!

Wow I haven't posted in a while. Here's my lifting dump from the past two weeks: Date Squat Dead OP Bench Row Curls 10/13/14 115 57.5 10/15/14 120 120 37.5 10/19/14 95 57.5 10/22/14 100 125 37.5 10/24/14 105 57.5 10/26/14 110 130 40 I've also been running 1-2 miles 2 days a week. I didn't get to do C coding week before last but this week I've had to learn to use C's MPI so I can run my python scripts on the supercomputer. Overall for this challenge: 1) Lifting 6/6 100% 2) Yoga or Cardio 6/6 100% 3) *personal* 6/6 100% Side: Coding in C or Java 4/6= 66.7% Booooo Final Score: 91.7%

Yay! Me too! My current 5x5 weights are: Squat: 115 Deadlift: 115 Row: 57.5 Curl: 35 Also got some running, hiking, and yoga in this past week. Momentum is a wonderful thing

My problem is exactly this. My shoulder was rotating forward and up, subsequently getting in it's own way. I will definitely try these once I get stronger. I tried dips a while back and could only go down about an inch. Updates for the week: Squat: 85->95 Rows: 50->52.5 Deadlift->105 Arm raises: 30 deg -> 60 deg Other: yellow band -> yellow band doubled Running: 2 x 2 mi Coding: 10 more 'learn C the hard way' exercises

Cool. These look very similar to the exercises the PT gave me. I'll add these in without weight to start.

Yeah. It's an instability but hasn't become impingement yet. (woot!) I had just pissed it off doing bench. The bone wasn't staying in the socket properly so it was moving around and pinching things. Once I strengthen up the little muscles in there I should be good to go.

I haven't been doing super well with posting here but I have been keeping up with the challenge for the most part. I didn't do the coding last weekend unfortunately. My boyfriend's family came to visit which I was probably told about in the distant past but had forgot. The other kink has been that I now am not allowed to do OP or Bench which makes my 'Stronglifts' kind of wonky. Anyway, I've still been doing what I can there and have added Curls and PT exercises. Also cleared to run some so I got 2 miles in yesterday which felt great.

Tuesday: yoga and biked to the grocery store (I'm super psyched about this. I sold my car last spring and just got my bike fixed recently. I was out of breath walking my bike up the hill to my house. ha! ) Thursday (Today): Squat: 100x5x5 Curl: 27.5x5x5 Row: 50x5x5 +some ab stuff Got some ideas for coding this weekend. I was bouncing some ideas off a some members of my research group. Results: *Friday a bunch of us are getting together to watch some tutorial talks on 'Deep Learning for NLP without Magic'. *Got directed to a site with a bunch of language data *Had tons of textbooks and other cool books lent to me This weekend I'll either start building a recurrent neural net in C or cleaning some data in SQL. The tutorials are kind of tedious. I think I'll learn more if I'm trying to do something with it.

Lifts for today: Squat: 105x5x5 OP: 35x5x5 Deadlift: 95x1x5

Weekend updates!! Coding: * started the javascript tutorial on code academy - got to 34% completion then the page kept messing up. I'll try again next weekend * went through the first few tutorials on learn c the hard way - mostly setup, using make and valgrind, basic print statements, etc Lifting: * Squat: 100x5x5 * Curl: 25x5x5 * Row 50x5x5 Cardio/Yoga: * 30 min elliptical + bonus ab stuff

I will take a video next time I bench but it will probably be a while. It's still shooting pain at rest and my hand is numb. I went to the Dr yesterday and he said his 0th order guess is impingement. Evidently my right arm is a lot weaker (I'm right handed so this is weird) and my range of motion is pretty bad. I went to physical therapy ~7 yrs ago but they couldn't figure out what was wrong so I quit going. These folks seem to know what they're doing though, so I'm starting physical therapy again on the 29th. This sucks but fortunately OP and Row seem fine. I'll probably replace bench with some other lift (maybe curls) for the time being.

Yesterday I went to a yoga class. Today's lifts were: Squat: 95x5x5 OP: 32.5x5x5 Deadlift: 90x1x5

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Cool. I'll check them out this weekend Lifts for today: Squat: 85x5x5 Row: 47.5x5x5 I hit 100 for squat on Sat but realized I wasn't getting low enough so I dropped some weight. Bench was a nightmare. I think I need to have my shoulder checked out

*To learn C I was thinking to follow the tutorials from 'learn C the hard way' to start off. I think using python is convenient but has made me lazy in some respects. *For SQL, I just wanna grab a bunch of data off the internet and see what I can do with it. Maybe start with ystockquotes and redo some of the cleaning and simple calculations I've already done in pandas. *Java's on the backburner for now.

I'm late! I'm late for a very important date! Yesterday was very hectic. I should have planned ahead but I'm on it now. I've started my next challenge here http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/topic/54281-the-magical-land-of-xanthe/

Main Goals: 1) Stronglifts 5x5 program (3 days a week) 2) yoga or cardio (2 days a week) 3) *personal* I don't want to post the third one but it it health/bad habit related and if I don't do it as a 6 week challenge, I don't think I will. This one will be super difficult, so I'm intentionally not adding a diet related goal. For diet, I'm just going to shoot for 80/20 home cooked, non processed food (ie no refined grains and other junk) Side Quest: Work a little bit on learning a new language each week (Right now java, SQL and C are on the menu)

Haha. It kind of died out a bit once I started keeping a daily battle log.

Summary for Xanthe's Adventure Main Quest: Get stronger and decrease bodyfat% 1) Lift 3X a week (starting StrongLifts 5x5) - 100% 2) Do yoga 1X a week - 100% 3) No grains unless I make them myself - 100% Side Quest: Read three papers a week related to my research - 83.3% Overall 95.8% A This challenge went very well but had some hiccups. I didn't grade myself for the first two weeks while I was out of town on vacation/ before school gym passes started which was my intention from the start but left me too much leeway. I'm still not back to the BF% from before vacation (Right now: DoD 27.28%, YMCA 21.17%, Mod YMCA 25.32%). On a brighter note, I have lost 1.4 lbs since then putting me at 116.2 lbs. On an even brighter note, I started squating 45x5x5 and couldn't walk. Saturday I was up to 85x5x5 with no problem! Overall, this challenge was a success because I stuck to it. Next time, I want to reframe my diet. Wufkar dropped by my battle log and pointed out I may not be eating enough. After logging for a few days, I realized this was accurate. Also, I was certainly not getting enough protein. I'll be pondering how to fix this for the next challenge. Cheers!

Final post for this challenge! My current lifts are at: Squat: 85x5x5 Bench: 52.5x5x5 Row: 45x5x5 OP: 30x5x5 Deadlift: 75x1x5 My weight and bf% are still higher than last challenge though I did lose 1.4 lbs post vacation. My main goal was to get stronger this round and considering I could only squat 45x5x5 and then couldn't walk I'd say that's going well Overall score: 95.8% A Thanks again!! (* edit - the gym at school was a nightmare. I looked around and found one by my house. My boyfriend ended up joining with me so we can spot eachother and have been cracking out on form videos. Hopefully soon I'll have some of my own for critiquing.)