we were up in the 200 section which is pretty damn nice, even though i didn't take advantage of all the eateries and bar space up there, cuz paying arena prices is for fish. I just hated how much music and **** they pumped in. Almost all arenas do this too much (boston doesn't), but at AAA it's sooo loud.

I love it for the squat. I wear it very loosely for the deadlift. Don't like it in the bench press (gave it a shot a few times).

Amazing for the press imo

yeah, i do like it for the pryess

so i pretty much suck at life. pretty much two months without a workout. fml. plenty of excuses to be had, but the truth is, life woulda been better these past two months if I trained even a little, 1-2x a week at least. My cat having 4 kittens has been stressful, but also pretty cool:


prime candidates for SS+GOMAD
alternatively
i can haz do-wins?

So I've felt like ****, ate like ****, slept like ****. Back acting up again, probably from lack of mobility work and load bearing activity. During warm ups today, it felt like I pulled my tailbone. Not sure if it's a muscle thing, a tendon thing, or what, but when I get in the full squat the left side of my tailbone is really sensitive and acts up. It'll go away soon I'm sure, just annoying.

Today was just to kinda ease back into things. Gonna just do SS for 2-3 weeks to get the movements back in order and probably do some cardiotarding on saturdays.

6/7

Squats - 225x5x2
Press - 115x5, x3
Deadlift - 225x5

Squats went OK. Need to focus on knees out, not automatic anymore. Got up off my heels a couple times. These weren't too hard, so that's good news.

Pressing kinda sucked. I took a short break between work sets and the bar was all over the place on the 2nd set, so I just shut it down.

I wasn't trying to go heavy on the DLs (obv), just wanted to do the movement and see how the back felt. Honestly, the hardest part of this was the aerobic stress. I was kinda out of breath. So pathetic.

Short term goal: "tone up" (lol), lose 10-15 before my bro's wedding in 6 or 7 weeks, get close to previous PRs on all lifts within a couple months.

long term - get "lean" within a year. just stay consistent with diet (lifestyle change, basically), keep learning about nutrition. Eventually want to compete. Would really love to learn olympic lifting and compete primarily in that (less contestants, shorter meets, no bench monkeys).

welcome back, son of H&F

Glad to have you back

I saw this thread was bumped, then I saw it was a kyleb post, then I was pleasantly surprised to see there was an actual KC sighting. Good to have you back.

yeah ****'s just been semi crazy between work, travel for a couple different weddings, the cat + kittens and some unfortunate health problems they have, and of course, playoff basketball. aka, ima bitch.

but seriously this tailbone thing hurts. i'm gonna declare it a pulled ass.

Good luck on the comeback. Moar kitten pics please

kc,
don't worry it will all come back pretty quick. I'm pro at this stopping and restarting thing.

ok, so getting back on the wagon wasn't that smooth. Might as well write off the time during the NBA playoffs each year.

Got into the gym late today. Just 40mins before closing. Quick two sets of squats and press. All while wearing no socks.

6/20

squats - 255x5x2. These went pretty well and weren't too difficult. bounce was a little sloppy but otherwise solid.

press - 115x5x2. much better than last time.

I'm flying back to MA later this week for work. So I'm going to lift tomorrow and Tuesday, maybe Weds. Doug Funny, you're in Somerville or something right? Any chance we can lift Friday? I'll PM you. Since you've been doing oly stuff I was hoping I could get some helps on my power clean.

Good to see you back KC. Your strength will be back quick I bet.

yay KC is back!

If it makes you feel any better, I've been cutting and lost a bunch of weight and a lot of strength, probably as much/ more than you, and I've actually been doing some half assed lifting without stopping.

But I digress.

If you are still down in Sac I aim on a trip down realatively quickly and then we can lift and lol about how weak we are. Sad face

6/21

squats - 135x10x3

wanted to DL today, but my back was pretty beat up from yesterday so just did some low intensity medium volume work to loosen up some and get the groove back.