Raptron Rages On

[Mad Hatter]

16 hours ago, Harriet said:

Does lifting on more days lead to more strong? Or does it lead to exhaustion and collapse? Hmmmmm.  

Yes.  

 

On 8/22/2019 at 4:46 PM, raptron said:

THREE REST DAYS IN A ROW?!?! What is this? Who am I? Oh yeah, a totally recreational fitness person who goes way too hard most of the time and is starting to shake off the reins of immense workout guilt! Woooo!

Three rest days got me slightly concerned for a second when I started reading but it ended on a rad note. Very happy for you! 

[Manarelle]

17 hours ago, raptron said:

 I had to head home after for a quick jaunt because, like @Manarelle, my apartment is also having a fridge crisis. They couldn't get the new one in and I was under the impression that meant all of our stuff was left out rotting on the counter, but apparently they put it all back when it was clear that it wasn't going to work. So I actually ran home for no real reason, but I did use it as an opportunity to shower and change. The new fridge will come on Tuesday, but our old one is still in place for now! 

 

Noooo, suck. Worst reason to be mentioned in someone else's thread. Glad they had the decency to put it back, though, were you able to save anything? 

 

19 hours ago, raptron said:

I was not. Also it seems to be okay now? Bodies.

 

Yup. Logic doesn't always hold. Hope the shoulder has shaped up and stopped bugging you. (I mean, obviously them delts have a d**n fine shape, but you know what I mean).

[KB Girl]

Ohh how did your teammate help you with mind-lat connection? Can always use more tools for that particular problem! 

Hope your shoulder feels much more awesome (not because of the above but just because it stopped hurting, hopefully). 

[raptron]

22 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

i just love that you knew this haha <3

They're really lovely books if you haven't read them! I might add them to my reread pile.  

 

19 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Three rest days got me slightly concerned for a second when I started reading but it ended on a rad note. Very happy for you! 

It all worked out!

 

19 hours ago, Manarelle said:

Noooo, suck. Worst reason to be mentioned in someone else's thread. Glad they had the decency to put it back, though, were you able to save anything? 

A few things, but because of the transfer I've been running really lean on groceries and didn't want to restock again in case there were more issues. :| 

 

19 hours ago, Manarelle said:

Yup. Logic doesn't always hold. Hope the shoulder has shaped up and stopped bugging you. (I mean, obviously them delts have a d**n fine shape, but you know what I mean).

Seems to still be doing well!  

 

Day 4.1

Before practice, we had a brief team meeting to go over the next couple of months and make a few announcements. I brought cookies, of course, as social coordinator/party pharaoh.  Practice itself was actually pretty productive for me! My toe shoots went about 1000x better than on Saturday and I kipped out of a few of them. I did a short bit of tumbling, but something about my timing was really off and most of my passes felt a little funny. I ended with balance beam: all my usual skills on the high beam plus backhand spring on low beam and then up on high beam with all of the mats. It's time to start weaning off of mats, I think. The skill itself is basically perfect 90% of the time, I just need to get used to not having my safety net of mats. 

 

We got dinner after practice, as usual for Mondays.

 

Jog: 3/3 

Lift: 8/15

Write: 5/10 writing, 5/10 journaling

Job applications: 5/10

 

So I was going to take off of lifting today because I've worked out the last 5 dayssssss. But then I would be lifting W, Th, and Friday? Which doesn't sound great either. I'm going out of town Saturday morning probably through Monday afternoon... HMM. Maybe I'll just go lift today after all. 

[CourtnieMarie]

1 hour ago, raptron said:

They're really lovely books if you haven't read them! I might add them to my reread pile.  

I'm glad you said so because otherwise I wouldn't have given the book a second thought or found out that tim curry reads it...

[@mu]

To lift or not to lift that is the question

 

On 8/26/2019 at 3:06 AM, raptron said:

Elbow to hand plank things 4 sets of 15 

 

What is this again? do you push from a bent arm plank to a straight arm plank, and back? sounds interesting!

[Mad Hatter]

7 minutes ago, @mu said:

do you push from a bent arm plank to a straight arm plank, and back?

You mean a push up?  

 

 

Sorry, had to.

[@mu]

I was thinking tiger bend PU sort of

[raptron]

23 hours ago, KB Girl said:

Ohh how did your teammate help you with mind-lat connection? Can always use more tools for that particular problem! 

Hope your shoulder feels much more awesome (not because of the above but just because it stopped hurting, hopefully). 

She poked me a lot and suggested I think about spreading my shoulders instead of pushing up/back which I think helped a lot. And gave me some like pull down type drills that I'll try to find a video of on the internet. It was more mental cueing than like drill drills, though. I don't think I engage my left side (my problem shoulder) very well in general so it's something to start working on. 

 

19 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

I'm glad you said so because otherwise I wouldn't have given the book a second thought or found out that tim curry reads it...

OOOOH. NICE.

 

8 hours ago, @mu said:

What is this again? do you push from a bent arm plank to a straight arm plank, and back? sounds interesting!

Like this:

 

Shoulder stability and core stuff. You try not to move anything but your shoulders but as you can see by this guy (and most people), you wind up moving your hips sometimes. Just over here trying to make stability work interesting.

 

[raptron]

Day 4.2

In the end, she did not lift. I care more about being rested for my heavy day 1 and day 2 workouts rather than being less fatigued for my lighter day 3 workout, so we're just gonna string them all together because I'll be out for the weekend. I'll just take it relatively easy on Friday, maybe do more hypertrophy style accessory work than nailing home more barbell squats.

 

Instead, I found one of our cats that got out when the fridge got replaced (yay new fridge, but BOO it's smaller now) a few yards over and hauled him back in the house, took a nap, did laundry, folded and put away laundry (yeee), got some groceries, prepped dinner food for the next three nights, etc. etc.

 

Jog: 3/3 

Lift: 8/15

Write: 5/10 writing, 6/10 journaling

Job applications: 5/10

 

W - lift and D&D and job applications

Th - lift and gymnastics meeting pt 2

F - light lifts and attempting to make gluten free pie crust (WISH ME LUCK)

S through M - Rhode Island for a bachelorette party: drinking, eating, sailing, and debauchery anticipated 

[raptron]

OH! I also finished the cut of my new floor music that is based off of a Gremlins theme remix... hahahaha. I'm very excited about it!

 

 

 

[miss_marissa]

Yay for resting and heavy lifting!!!! 

 

I'm always impressed by your ability to go go go go go. Sometimes I get tired just reading your thread lol 

[Manarelle]

1 hour ago, raptron said:

Instead, I found one of our cats that got out when the fridge got replaced (yay new fridge, but BOO it's smaller now) a few yards over and hauled him back in the house, took a nap, did laundry, folded and put away laundry (yeee), got some groceries, prepped dinner food for the next three nights, etc. etc.

 

Ugh, my sympathies on the fridge. It's so hard to get used to the idea that you can't stock as much as you used to. Yay for recovering the cat, though, and glad you've got a working fridge again. 

[Raxie]

2 hours ago, raptron said:

Shoulder stability and core stuff. You try not to move anything but your shoulders but as you can see by this guy (and most people), you wind up moving your hips sometimes. Just over here trying to make stability work interesting.

 

Ack one of my dance teachers has been making us do these lately AND JEEEEZ THEY ARE THE WORST!!! Effective though I must say...

 

I love that floor music cut!

[Mike Wazowski]

3 hours ago, Raxie said:

Ack one of my dance teachers has been making us do these lately AND JEEEEZ THEY ARE THE WORST!!! Effective though I must say...

Thanks for the reminder to unleash these on my college kiddos!!!

 

Also, wayyyy to freaking go 'tron - glad you're able to find a mindset that embraces recreational fitness and leaves you feeling zero workout guilt (or at least, a smaller number that's approaching zero).

[KB Girl]

5 hours ago, raptron said:

did laundry, folded and put away laundry (yeee), got some groceries, prepped dinner food for the next three nights, etc. etc.

So adult! it's unreal! ..I should do some laundry..

 

5 hours ago, raptron said:

and job applications

You go girl! 

 

3 hours ago, raptron said:

OH! I also finished the cut of my new floor music that is based off of a Gremlins theme remix... hahahaha. I'm very excited about it!

 

I look forward to the entire video of your routine

[raptron]

23 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

I'm always impressed by your ability to go go go go go. Sometimes I get tired just reading your thread lol 

Same.

 

22 hours ago, Manarelle said:

Ugh, my sympathies on the fridge. It's so hard to get used to the idea that you can't stock as much as you used to. Yay for recovering the cat, though, and glad you've got a working fridge again. 

I think it's going to work okay, but it is extra annoying as 3 adults trying to share fridge space. I definitely don't have as many random condiments and things anymore, so that probably helps with like a "minimalist" fridge approach.

 

22 hours ago, Raxie said:

Ack one of my dance teachers has been making us do these lately AND JEEEEZ THEY ARE THE WORST!!! Effective though I must say...

Definitely effective!

22 hours ago, Raxie said:

I love that floor music cut!

Ahhh, thanks!

 

19 hours ago, Mike Wazowski said:

Also, wayyyy to freaking go 'tron - glad you're able to find a mindset that embraces recreational fitness and leaves you feeling zero workout guilt (or at least, a smaller number that's approaching zero).

<333 Ty! It's a longggg road. And definitely approaching zero, but not quite AT zero. It's 

 

19 hours ago, KB Girl said:

So adult! it's unreal! ..I should do some laundry..

The amount of time I have when I DON'T go to the gym is unreal, lol. 

 

19 hours ago, KB Girl said:

I look forward to the entire video of your routine

Me too, hahah. I feel like with the speed of this one, it's going to be a very tough routine! 

[raptron]

Day 4.3

 

Squats:

5 x 260 <-- one of my side spotters starting helping on the last rep and I AM A BIT ANNOYED ABOUT IT, but I think I had it so I'm considering this a real 5RM

2 x 260# to make up for the "missed" rep

5 x 245

2 x 5 x 235#

 

Bench:

5 x 140 <-- woo! a gym friend was like "...this is so in your head. if I had snuck up and slid more weight on before you did the set, you would have been fine too, you dingus."

4 x 5 x 135#

 

Glute ham raises: 3 x 8

Curls: 3 x 8 x 20#

Toes-to-bar: 3 x 8

 

I went home, showered, ate a very filling dinner of quinoa + spinach + chipotle black beans + sauteed ground turkey with hatch chilis and onions (all things I prepped on Tuesday). The D&D game went a bit late and our group for this short 2-shot is completely insane. We have my aforementioned snooty southern belle yuan-ti shadow monk, an elf fanboy dwarf bladesinger who likes to tell us facts about elves and how elves would do things, a gnome rogue who is basically a turn-of-the-century rough rider, and a dragonborn thunder-obsessed sorcerer-din. We almost died and then we got sucked into a trap world where apparently we are tiny or everything else is really big and a massive bug orgy is trying to chase us up these 100 ft tall stairs on a spooky house in the woods. WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT!

 

Jog: 3/3 

Lift: 9/15

Write: 5/10 writing, 6/10 journaling

Job applications: 6/10

 

[Mike Wazowski]

Woooooo bench PR!!!!

 

And I'm blown away by the creativity of your D&D group, haha.

[WhiteGhost]

On 8/28/2019 at 12:23 AM, raptron said:

My toe shoots went about 1000x better than on Saturday and I kipped out of a few of them

Nice!  Do you think they will be in good enough shape to throw down at comp time?

 

Also, I love your D&D stuff.  Wish I could be a fly on the wall watching your sessions

 

[Mad Hatter]

5 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

Also, I love your D&D stuff.  Wish I could be a fly on the wall watching your sessions

Same!

 

Have you thought about streaming the sessions?

[raptron]

20 hours ago, Mike Wazowski said:

Woooooo bench PR!!!!

Finally!  

 

9 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

Nice!  Do you think they will be in good enough shape to throw down at comp time?

Almost definitely! I'm excited for them

 

20 hours ago, Mike Wazowski said:

And I'm blown away by the creativity of your D&D group, haha.

9 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

Also, I love your D&D stuff.  Wish I could be a fly on the wall watching your sessions

3 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Same!

 

Have you thought about streaming the sessions?

We would need to be a lot better/more disciplined about clarifying between in-character and out of character speculation, I think if we wanted this to actually be entertaining to watch. Andddd get rid of a lot of unrelated jokes. And be a litttttle bit more focused and in-character more of the time. BUT MAYBE EVENTUALLY! I think we have the potential to be very entertaining but need to all commit a bit more.  

 

Day 4.4

Deadlifts defeated me again, guhhh. I did 290# x 5 last week but this week, I loaded up 295# for a set of 5 and could barely eke out a double. I'M SO IN MY HEAD ABOUT THESE FOR NO REEEEASON. I think I just rush my set-up and try to pull off the floor without taking the slack out when I get intimidated. I also get really really aware of how I am breathing which is NOT HELPFUL. I unloaded down to 285# and the set of 5 was relatively easy. 

 

Deadlifts: 2 x 295#, 1 x 295#, 5 x 285#, 3 x 5 x 275#

Handstands: various to ground myself between deadlift attempts when I was losing my mind

Close-grip bench: 4 x 8 x 120#

Lateral raises: 3 x 8 x 15#

DB rows: 4 x 10 x 45#

 

Went home, ate dinner, and had a meeting about starting a nonprofit, showered, and tbh then it was time for bed, so I did some mindless scrolling and went to sleep around 11.

 

Jog: 3/3 

Lift: 10/15

Write: 6/10 writing, 6/10 journaling

Job applications: 6/10

 

I need to step it up with my job applications if I want to be serious about leaving this jobbbb. I will get some in today and then make an effort next week after the holiday to really get after it. That phone interview turned out to be a bust, btw, because the position was a bit too small fry for what I am looking for -- though it is a kind of nice feeling to say "oh, actually that's not going to be enough for me" and move on. 

[Mad Hatter]

4 minutes ago, raptron said:

We would need to be a lot better/more disciplined about clarifying between in-character and out of character speculation, I think if we wanted this to actually be entertaining to watch. Andddd get rid of a lot of unrelated jokes. And be a litttttle bit more focused and in-character more of the time. BUT MAYBE EVENTUALLY! I think we have the potential to be very entertaining but need to all commit a bit more.  

Haha fair enough. I get if you wanna keep it casual between friends, but based on your awesome descriptions it seems like people would watch!

 

Boooo about deadlifts. Hope the mental block goes away soon!

 

6 minutes ago, raptron said:

That phone interview turned out to be a bust, btw, because the position was a bit too small fry for what I am looking for -- though it is a kind of nice feeling to say "oh, actually that's not going to be enough for me" and move on. 

Of course you shouldn't settle for anything less than the awesomeness that you are!

[Harriet]

On 8/30/2019 at 6:19 AM, raptron said:

Deadlifts defeated me again, guhhh. I did 290# x 5 last week but this week, I loaded up 295# for a set of 5 and could barely eke out a double.

Heyyyy, this exact same thing happened to me, but minus 100lb. 190lb x 5 with brio, then 195lb x 2 with doom and despair. I think your doom-set sounds awesome. I would trade it for my win-set. 

 

On 8/30/2019 at 6:19 AM, raptron said:

I need to step it up with my job applications if I want to be serious about leaving this jobbbb. I will get some in today and then make an effort next week after the holiday to really get after it. That phone interview turned out to be a bust, btw, because the position was a bit too small fry for what I am looking for -- though it is a kind of nice feeling to say "oh, actually that's not going to be enough for me" and move on. 

 

On 8/30/2019 at 6:26 AM, Mad Hatter said:

Of course you shouldn't settle for anything less than the awesomeness that you are!

For some reason, I imagine Right Said Fred singing "I"m... too sexy for this job". It's good that you know what you want. And starting a non-profit sounds cool. Tell us more? 

[raptron]

Day 4.5

My lowkey lifting day was pretty nice actually. I left work early because my boss was like "scram, kid!" and went right to the gym. 

 

Paused bench press: 2 x 5 x 125#, 3 x 5 x 130#

Lunges: 4 x 10 x 35#

Kneeling DB press: 4 x 10 x 30#

Pull-ups: 3, 3, 2, 2

Reverse hypers: 4 x 10 x 75#

Various handstand holds, including some attempts to come down to crow from handstand -- but I hadn't worked on that transition in a long, long time AND I was very sweaty so there was no way it was actually going to work because I forgot about that whole bending your arms aspect.  

 

 

Picked up some wine on my way home and attempted to make a gluten free blueberry pie. The pie crust I made was more like a cookie crust than a flaky crust but people said it tasted good! Though I'm not sure the bride even had any and she was the one who insisted I do it. 

 

Days 4.6 - 5.1

The bachelorette weekend involved a dueling piano bar (of course), very late night beach escapades, a brief sailing trip, a nice seafood dinner, etc. Unfortunately, the bride went a bit too hard on Saturday night and didn't have a great Sunday, but she did her best, haha. 

 

I got home on Monday relatively early and everything in our freezer seemed to be melted. Over the course of the day, both the freezer and the fridge got warmer and warmer... so I guess the new fridge saga still continues. Hopefully it'll be fixed by Wednesday!

 

Jog: 3/3 

Lift: 11/15

Write: 6/10 writing, 7/10 journaling

Job applications: 6/10

 

T - tattoo consult + lift + job applications

W - lift + D&D

Th - job applications +  dinner with friends

F - lift

S - gymnastics + local wedding 

S - maybe lifting + friend bday plans