Never 2 Late 2 Chase the Dream (it's better than liposuction)

[stingo]

Nice rack there Karla - have you used it yet?

[dillytl]

Originally Posted by stingo

Nice rack there Karla - have you used it yet?

LOL - I pop into Karla's log to see what's up, and the first thing I see is this!!!



Nice rack, and GREAT bargain!!!! I love the stage you have set up - that's awesome!!!

[nutbar]

Close but no cigar. You need to put your rack up ON the stage. Then you can start collecting tips.

[GinnyLou]

I love the rack! And the price rocks. We just bought one this past weekend, too.

[stingo]

Originally Posted by dillytl

LOL - I pop into Karla's log to see what's up, and the first thing I see is this!!!

(Wonders how many people immediately went to the previous page... lol)

[sveta]

Originally Posted by stingo

(Wonders how many people immediately went to the previous page... lol)

lol...I sure did...
you guys are wild! lol

[kfisherx]

OMG!!! What great timing for that post Tom. LOL! Here I am working my ass off in the gym and you guys are all sitting around and talking about my rack. To answer your question Tom I really haven't the chance yet to use it. I've played around with it but I am on a pretty stricked rest/training schedule and I am only allowed to squat at home now and then. Once I get rid of this trainer I will do more at home. (Not for some time though)

Today's workout was with said trainer and guys I tell you I would have liked to kill him. He pushed me so hard that my quads gave totally out on about 3 occasions during the hour. I could not even stand for some period of time and could just lay on the floor and shake. It sucked but it was also sort of cool in a sick sort of way. One of the times I was lying on the floor another trainer walked up and asked what was wrong and he told him what he had done to me and the other trainer looked at me with empathy. I wanted to hug him. Anyway here is what we did.... It was KILL Karla's quads day. (Right after last nights kill her hamstring workout)


Warmup: Run 1.5 miles 2% incline. 5.5-6.0 mph

Cable squats
warmup 1x20x100lbs
1x15x125lbs
1x12x150lbs
1x10x175lbs

Core superset (30 sec rest)
Side bend 3x15
Power bar crunch 3x15

Russian Shuffles with 12 lb bar over back
3x20 each leg (this one really sucks)

Standing dyna disc lunge
3x15 each leg (by the time I got to these my quads were spent and I finished the last one of each of these and immediately fell to the floor)

He gave me a workout for the weekend that sort of has me scared. My workouts are definately getting more and more intense.

[kfisherx]

Originally Posted by GinnyLou

I love the rack! And the price rocks. We just bought one this past weekend, too.

Very cool. Do you have pics?

[stingo]

Good work effort though - seems you have a love/hate relationship with your trainer lol. What's a russian shuffle?

[sveta]

Originally Posted by kfisherx

LOL! Here I am working my ass off in the gym and you guys are all sitting around and talking about my rack.

Can't really leave us all to ourselves here, can you.

Great work on those quads. Sometimes I wish I had a PT...on days when I'm not kicking my own butt hard enough...

[Willie]

Originally Posted by kfisherx

OMG!!!
Russian Shuffles with 12 lb bar over back
3x20 each leg (this one really sucks)

What are these?

And, I LOVE that feeling of not being able to get off the floor

[SpacecityPaula]

1. How the hell did I miss the vircarous date description???? sounds like you had a blast on your date.

2. Congrats again on the Pullups (which somehow I didn't miss).

3. Nice rack!!! Very similar to mine (see below). You might want to get some rubber matting to protect the floor in your house tho.

[stingo]

Originally Posted by kfisherx

Here I am working my ass off in the gym and you guys are all sitting around and talking about my rack.

Oh c'mon - you thought it was hot. Besides, this is one of the few places where saying "Nice rack" is considered a compliment.

[kfisherx]

Actually you can always say that and it is always a compliment. It isn't always appropriate but always a compliment.

The Russian Shuffle is where you place a bar like you would in a squat over your shoulders (behind head) and then you get down into a squat position (ass to grass sort of thing) and then you pop up just until the legs are not quite parallel to the ground take a step forward (always remaining in your heels) and repeat.

Our gym is rather smallish so he took me out to this very long hallway in the building and stood in front of me and had me walk towards him. The hallway was so long... This exercise really hurts and there was more than one occasion that I paused and tried to quit. He yelled at me... I think he said something like "Don't you dare..." I was in so much pain. The good news is it took me back to the Marine Corp and I just went into warrior mode. I sucked up the pain and focused right on his crotch (that is where my line of vision was) and took one step at a time all the while imagining that I would physically crush him if I could catch. I was imagining how good it would feel to rip his head off or possibly crush him in the crotch and that is what made me go forward. So there we were in the hallway outside the gym, me in super pissed-off focus mode waddling down the hallway with a bar over my shoulder and he yelling at me to not quit if I even thought to hesitate in my steps. We drew a few spectators and at the end of the hallway he finally allows that I can get up. I try to stand and cannot. My quads just don't have and juice and I collapse against the wall in the corner and slide to the floor and tell him that I hate him on the way down. The owner of the gym was watching this and said he hates him too. Everyone laughed.

After it was all said and done and I had managed this journey down the hallway 3 times he told me that only a precious few of his clients could ever do that and I confessed to him how I wanted to hurt him. He laughed and asked me if I got all "Ninja" on him. He said it was good to use the anger to get the most out of an exercise. We have a pretty good understanding of each other after working together for 2 plus months. The time always flies and it is always very productive. At one point during this session he commented that he would be willing to make a trainer out of me one day. He says I have good confidence and attitude. Oh yeah it was after I had tried to stand up and collapsed for the third time and I just laid there and shook for awhile and then as I was getting up very slowly and with great care, I looked at him and asked him if that was all he had. Then I told him that he didn't scare me. He is a good 11 inches taller than me but I am sure that I am bigger. Of course it was all in fun and it always is fun.

It was a good workout and the kind of one where you feel good about spending all that money on a trainer. I can promise you that I could NEVER push myself that hard.

[Willie]

Originally Posted by kfisherx

Actually you can always say that and it is always a compliment. It isn't always appropriate but always a compliment.

The Russian Shuffle is where you place a bar like you would in a squat over your shoulders (behind head) and then you get down into a squat position (ass to grass sort of thing) and then you pop up just until the legs are not quite parallel to the ground take a step forward (always remaining in your heels) and repeat.

Our gym is rather smallish so he took me out to this very long hallway in the building and stood in front of me and had me walk towards him. The hallway was so long... This exercise really hurts and there was more than one occasion that I paused and tried to quit. He yelled at me... I think he said something like "Don't you dare..." I was in so much pain. The good news is it took me back to the Marine Corp and I just went into warrior mode. I sucked up the pain and focused right on his crotch (that is where my line of vision was) and took one step at a time all the while imagining that I would physically crush him if I could catch. I was imagining how good it would feel to rip his head off or possibly crush him in the crotch and that is what made me go forward. So there we were in the hallway outside the gym, me in super pissed-off focus mode waddling down the hallway with a bar over my shoulder and he yelling at me to not quit if I even thought to hesitate in my steps. We drew a few spectators and at the end of the hallway he finally allows that I can get up. I try to stand and cannot. My quads just don't have and juice and I collapse against the wall in the corner and slide to the floor and tell him that I hate him on the way down. The owner of the gym was watching this and said he hates him too. Everyone laughed.

After it was all said and done and I had managed this journey down the hallway 3 times he told me that only a precious few of his clients could ever do that and I confessed to him how I wanted to hurt him. He laughed and asked me if I got all "Ninja" on him. He said it was good to use the anger to get the most out of an exercise. We have a pretty good understanding of each other after working together for 2 plus months. The time always flies and it is always very productive. At one point during this session he commented that he would be willing to make a trainer out of me one day. He says I have good confidence and attitude. Oh yeah it was after I had tried to stand up and collapsed for the third time and I just laid there and shook for awhile and then as I was getting up very slowly and with great care, I looked at him and asked him if that was all he had. Then I told him that he didn't scare me. He is a good 11 inches taller than me but I am sure that I am bigger. Of course it was all in fun and it always is fun.

It was a good workout and the kind of one where you feel good about spending all that money on a trainer. I can promise you that I could NEVER push myself that hard.

This whole experience sounds fantastic.

I bet I could do those Russian Shuffles, but I can't load my spine... hmm... maybe with a pl