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02-05-2008, 10:13 AM
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#91 (permalink)
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Cheesy Rack Guy Wannabe
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 5,606
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I gotta ask... was he doing curls?
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02-05-2008, 10:14 AM
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#92 (permalink)
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Made in the USSR!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Posts: 714
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Ha-ha-ha  big burly men have to DIE!!!!!! Another solution - get strong quickly. And put'em to shame! |
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02-05-2008, 10:27 AM
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#93 (permalink)
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Cheesy Rack Guy Wannabe
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 5,606
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Taking a riff from a beer commercial:
Big Burly Guy: First time in a squat cage?
You: First time in one this small.
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02-05-2008, 10:51 AM
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#94 (permalink)
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 883
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Kara, it will go better next time. For the step-ups, you can always go slower than your norm and work on the muscle contraction if you have to use the lower steps when big burly men are hogging the equipment. And, you can put your hands on the steps/benches to do your push-ups rather than the bar at the Smith machine if you have to. I like Natalia's and Tom's solutions, too, but thought I'd try to help you out in the meantime . |
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02-05-2008, 12:07 PM
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#95 (permalink)
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Mom's little bodybuilder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 1,153
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lol thanks guys! It would be great to eventually get stronger and not have to be the weak little girl in the "men's territory" lol. Every time I go in there I feel their eyes I know they're thinking "What the heck is SHE doing here?"
And thanks for the step-up advice Karen. I still hate those things. It was easier to have better form doing them at a lower step with some added weight and I could definitely feel them working. My legs were all trembly today, just an overal blah day. I wish there was an intermediate height step I could use, but no such luck in this small gym.
And Stingo, I have no idea what he was doing while wasting my time, lol. The bar was loaded with the big wheels, but I don't even know if I saw it move most of the time I was there. He was talkin to his buddies a lot. I might have asked if I could use it if he wasn't so darn intimiidating.... unfortunately for me my gym is kind of in a mini-ghetto, so he probably had a gun in his waistband, lol.
Oh well... hopefully next time will better... If I can learn to wake myself up a little earlier hopefully the gorilla won't be there...  |
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02-05-2008, 12:52 PM
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Hungry
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,956
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Kara,
Just chalk it up to a bad workout, we all have those and it sucks that big burly chatty man, was an ass.
Keep it up, you are doing great!
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begins with believing you can become who you wish to be." - Thanks, K.
"Suck it up for a week or two and you'll be used to it. Part of the problem is the somewhat recent line that goes something like this... "If you're hungry, you're eating too little." Total bullshit. We're hungry because we're on diets." - Roland
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02-05-2008, 12:54 PM
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#97 (permalink)
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dividing by zero
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Orange Cty, CA
Posts: 3,833
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next time just ask if you can work in.
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"Have fun and be determined to finish"-- Jack "UpNorth", 9.
"You see yourself every day. Nothing changes. Change comes in an explosion of awareness. You wake up one day and it dawns on you that it's not a sleep line but a wrinkle." - Deserve (aka Gabe)
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02-05-2008, 01:06 PM
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#98 (permalink)
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Back to business.....
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Maryland
Posts: 1,448
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Sorry to hear you didn't have a stellar workout today - it happens to all of us!
Think of it this way - YOU did a workout, while most of the rest of the world did NOT! Even if it was a crappy workout - it was a workout, and for that you should be proud!!!
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02-06-2008, 08:16 AM
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#99 (permalink)
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Mom's little bodybuilder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 1,153
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Thanks everyone!
Just a random tid-bit that made me excited yesterday...... when I plugged all my food into fitday, the macros came out to 33%, 33%, 33%.... how crazy is that?! Random I know... but hey, whatever floats your boat right?
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02-06-2008, 08:17 AM
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#100 (permalink)
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Made in the USSR!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Posts: 714
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Littlemermaidklb
Thanks everyone!
Just a random tid-bit that made me excited yesterday...... when I plugged all my food into fitday, the macros came out to 33%, 33%, 33%.... how crazy is that?! Random I know... but hey, whatever floats your boat right?
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I tell ya, it's some kind of a sign....hmmm. |
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02-07-2008, 01:56 PM
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#101 (permalink)
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Mom's little bodybuilder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 1,153
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Workout 6B
Well I had a heck of a time getting motivated today since I was in lab from 8:30 this morning... but I got there! Here's workout 6B
Deadlifts
1x10 @65lbs
1x10 @75lbs (total accident... I thought I made it 70)
1x10 @80lbs
Superset of DB shuolder presses and Lat pulldowns
DB presses:
3x10 with 15s
Lat Pulldowns
3x10 @ 65lbs
Superset of Lunges and Ball crunches
Lunges:
3x10 with 12.5s
Ball Crunches
3x10 longarm with 10lb DB
-I totally surprised myself with the deadlifts today. I accidentally added 5s to each end instead of 2.5s and did the set and when I went to up it by another 5lbs total I realized what I did and thought..."Dang! I'm impressed!   "
-The DB presses stayed at the same weigth as last time, I might up them next tem since I'll be doing less reps, but we'll see.
-Lat pulldown was rough, I used 65lbs for all 3 sets for the 1st time, but ti went pretty well
-I don't like lunges at all... I must do them wrong because I feel it in the quad of the non-working leg and my balance isn't very good. I've done "walking lunges" before and never had that problem so maybe I will change to doing them that way. I feel like I use too much momentum going back and forth like this.
-Ball crunches.. this long-arm thing is rough at the end of a workout! But manageable... I think I'll stay at this weight.. maybe up it slightly next time when I go down in reps.
Overall I'm pretty impressed with myself today  |
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02-07-2008, 02:09 PM
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#102 (permalink)
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Made in the USSR!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Posts: 714
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Littlemermaidklb
-I totally surprised myself with the deadlifts today. I accidentally added 5s to each end instead of 2.5s and did the set and when I went to up it by another 5lbs total I realized what I did and thought..."Dang! I'm impressed! " |
Good for you, K! And you put identical weight on both ends. My friend's husband wasn't paying attention and put different weight on her bar (for barbell chest press). When she tried pushing it up all the plates from one side came crashing on the floor |
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02-07-2008, 03:34 PM
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#103 (permalink)
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Mom's little bodybuilder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 1,153
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Originally Posted by Natalia
Good for you, K! And you put identical weight on both ends. My friend's husband wasn't paying attention and put different weight on her bar (for barbell chest press). When she tried pushing it up all the plates from one side came crashing on the floor |
Oh goodness! That's terrible! lol.
Remebered another reason to be proud of myself today.... I resisted birthday cake at work! Go Me!!!! |
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02-07-2008, 03:56 PM
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#104 (permalink)
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Back to business.....
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Maryland
Posts: 1,448
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You are just having an all around awesome kinda day!!! Congrats on the deadlifts - AND on passing up the cake!!!
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02-07-2008, 04:19 PM
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#105 (permalink)
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Scale Watch: Going down!
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Ohio
Posts: 3,836
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Natalia
Good for you, K! And you put identical weight on both ends. My friend's husband wasn't paying attention and put different weight on her bar (for barbell chest press). When she tried pushing it up all the plates from one side came crashing on the floor |
And that's how a guy at my gym injured himself for 6 months and came very close to injuring those of us in the path of the crashing plates! This guy was howling in tears and pain and had to go to the ER (which, luckily, is part of my gym. The trainer at the gym really gave him a talking to about using the safety clip thingies.
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"If someone says I can't, then it makes me all the more determined to prove that I can."
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02-07-2008, 04:49 PM
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#106 (permalink)
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Hungry
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,956
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Another great workout, Kara! You are rocking and congrats on the upped weight, even though you didn't mean to do it!
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Ginger "The secret to becoming who you wish to be,
begins with believing you can become who you wish to be." - Thanks, K.
"Suck it up for a week or two and you'll be used to it. Part of the problem is the somewhat recent line that goes something like this... "If you're hungry, you're eating too little." Total bullshit. We're hungry because we're on diets." - Roland
My Training Log
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02-07-2008, 07:08 PM
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#107 (permalink)
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Mom's little bodybuilder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 1,153
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Oh my goodn | |
