The only cliche people should ever feel bad about having is "tribal" tattoos IMHO.

Would be keen to see that anyway. I havnt been tattooed in ~18 months. Starting to get real itchy.

Asian language characters that don't mean what you think they mean?

That's just funny.

Revamped garage gym ~90% complete. (New house ~6 months ago.) Still need to do some work to free up some overhead space over the platform, but it's looking pretty good.

oh man, home oly gym porn, the best kind.

that looks so sick, how much did that run you?

Great question, I have no idea. I would estimate $3500 off the top of my head. The Eleiko bar was the big and unnecessary splurge though.

The bench was $30 though!

yeah econo plates and a cheaper quality bar and that's prob ~2-2.5k imo.

edit: xibalba just ****ing brings it. jesus.

sweet sweet setup, im jelly

Man, I was stoked that I put down carpet squares under my rack last week.

That looks ace!

Awesome seating placement for that bench!

nice!

I like where the bands, small plates & KBs are kept.

homepwner itt

Session 10:
I have mold allergies and feel bad. Record mold spore count ever in Chicago.

Squat: 115x5x3
Bench Press: 70x5x3
Deadlift: 140x5x1
Blast strap pushups: 6, but they hurt my (hopefully former) sternum injury a lot. I will have to stay away from these and also dips, maybe also fallouts. All of those are the main reasons I got blast straps. Cool.

Blast strap fat-man pullups 5x10
supersetted with
Lightest (mini?) 1-arm band pull across, almost like a "pec deck" 5x10
Cool.

This song is good and makes me feel good.

don't really dig APMD that much. Not a fan of most of the new wave of thrash metal or whatever you want to call it. Like Doomriders. They ****ing suck.

Actually this song is pretty tough. Maybe I'll give them a legit shot.

Still no Hope Con.

pro bacon

I legit like you more everyday.

Looks great.

We're cleaning the garage right now and picking up stuff to put something together at our house.

Sweet. I am sure you have the hookup on tons of gear, but if you ever do happen to buy anything new I have been happy with Rogue stuff and I'd suggest it. I could drive a tank over this new rack and I think it'd be ok.

8.10.12
Alright, I'm gonna stop numbering my rehab sessions in hopes that I'm just okay now. We'll see.

Warmup
TKE Medium band x each leg 3x15
Squat 120x5x3
vid of set 2
Press 55x5x3
Power clean 85x3x5
warmup set of 60
set 1
set 2
set 3
set 4
set 5
All comments welcome. Pretty boring. I see a couple of things to work on.

Narrow neutral gril pullup with 2 medium bands around knee to assist 2x10, 8

Rotator cuff thing that weightlifters do 1kg weights x 10 x 3

Something quite metal indeed:

What is TKE? I see all the cool kids doing it. I Googled it and I uh... well I don't think it's that.

terminal knee extension

ETA: I'm trying to add lot of little stuff to avoid any nagging injuries from jumping back in quickly.

WU, lol jumping, TKE, band pull aparts

Squat 125x5x3
I didn't really have a good attitude for these and I was sluggish. Go up just 3kg for next time.

Bench Press 75x5x2, 75x10x1
This is the first time my setup has felt solid on the women's press. Got in the zone and decided to do 10 for my third set. I probably left 4-5 in the tank, just want to keep form good on this one. I'll go to 80 next time.

Snatch Pull
Light, up to 50. Just working on feeling here. Felt bad. No pain, just ****ty bar path and positions. Meh.

Deadlift
145x5x1
I decided to get in the zone and get mentally focused and fired up for this and I just smoked it so easily. Pretty ridiculous how a good attitude and a little adrenaline can make such a difference.

ETA: Oops, forgot that I also sprinted.
~8x~50m @~80%, rest 60s between efforts

Squat 128x3x1 (planned 3 sets of 5)

Hurt my lower back on my third rep on my first set on the way up... that has never happened on squat before. I had a similar dl injury ~5 years ago, but this feels different iirc.

My low back felt a little janky today, which was odd. Nothing acute, I thought it was just tightness and I did warmups up to 120x2 and felt fine.

I rolled extensively over the past two days (but not today), so it's possible I inadvertently did something then (didn't roll low back of course). I have no radiating pain and I can still move around ok, so for now let's say that it's something small like a pull and I will be fine.

Pressing also felt bad so I just iced.

Lots of mobility work over the past few days. It helps. On days where I really do well and work hard my back is probably 70-90% at any time and improving, which is a good sign. Sitting is the worst, and I sit a lot during the week.

Today I did lots of stretching, rolling, stick, flossed terribad spot on my L quad (same side as injury) this morning and then felt ok to work, so did a short workout.

Neutral-grip pullups: 2
Press: 57x5x2, 57x7x1 Back felt fine.
Supinated mini band pull aparts: 3x20
Pullups: 2,2,2,2
Kb DL: 2pdx20 Back felt fine, but tight (still, no pain) when I started a second set, so I stopped.

Did you lean forward at all on the ascent?

Nah, that's why I think it was something I did in the prior day(s) that made me prone to the injury (or was a minor injury I didn't notice) and showed up when I loaded weight on my back. Like maybe something I did when I was rolling, stretching, etc. Not sure. After the prior workout and sprints I felt 100%, so I don't think it was then. It also could have been ****ty mobility that caused a poor position that I wasn't aware of. AFAIK my squats on Tuesday (injury day) looked just the squats I videoed one or two sessions prior.