MacFhearchair's off-season anti-slack

**Alan H** · 19th November 12, 12:24 PM

Nope, no end - you can do all sorts of awkward looking things!

When my workday ends at 8:00 PM, I usually can't summon up the juju to get to the gym, either. So that means I try to make it up the next day if I can.

**MacFhearchair** · 20th November 12, 12:10 AM

Tonight I got out to the gym. I didn't feel like going, but my new strategy seems to work pretty well (I don't *have* to do anything; but I do have to show up - and apparently that breaks the whole thing down into digestible parts).

New squat PR: 145 I can almost do a pull up, and I'm doing sets of 5 @ 45 lb dumbbell bench presses (90 total).

I did a whole bunch of stuff; no deadlifts though.

Too tired to really go into much detail. ...but I did the stuff. So there.

**o1d_dude** · 20th November 12, 12:17 AM

90 Percent of pretty much everything is just showing up.

If you get there and don't think you can handle the weights, go lighter. Just get the reps in.

I have a sign on my garage gym's motivational bulletin board that says "If it doesn't happen here, it won't on the field".

**Alan H** · 20th November 12, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by MacFhearchair

Tonight I got out to the gym. I didn't feel like going, but my new strategy seems to work pretty well (I don't *have* to do anything; but I do have to show up - and apparently that breaks the whole thing down into digestible parts).

New squat PR: 145 I can almost do a pull up, and I'm doing sets of 5 @ 45 lb dumbbell bench presses (90 total).

I did a whole bunch of stuff; no deadlifts though.

Too tired to really go into much detail. ...but I did the stuff. So there.

NINETY PRESSES??????
Dear Lord, woman.

you'll get beastlier, faster if you do 1/4 as many with 2x the weight.

**Alan H** · 30th November 12, 04:17 PM

MacFhearchair is being shy with her log but she let drop at lunch the other day that she got a single squat at only 5 lbs under her bodyweight in her last workout.....which I won't reveal, as I ain't THAT much of a fool.

**MacFhearchair** · 30th November 12, 11:47 PM

Last week was a bit of a bust due to holiday travels and adventures. ...That's sort of expected, right?

I missed Monday because I was still adventuring, and got back to the gym Wednesday night, making 9 be the total number of days in my break from lifting.

On Wednesday I surprised myself by bringing my squat max all the way up to 160 and doing a set of 90 lbs total in dumbbell bench presses. I was going to move up 100, but some nard lost one of the 50lb dumbbells. Grr.

On Thursday I surprised myself by getting hit pretty hard with DOMS from Wednesday's lifting - is 9 days really long enough to justify that? wth?

Then tonight (Friday) I thought I would take it easy since the DOMS is still making itself known etc etc. Well, lo and behold, the squats were going really well, so I kept moving up and I did it - I squatted my bodyweight for the first time ever - 165 lbs. I did it 3 times before I failed out, too.

woo!

I also demonstrated that I can still deadlift 205 lbs, albeit only a couple times. Presently, 75 lbs is a challenge for a set of 5 overhead presses, and I can do a roughtly 130-lb chin-up. Someday, I'll do a freaking chin-up (like, the first one since childhood).

We're getting there.

**Martin Roy** · 1st December 12, 08:44 AM

Nice work, Jessica. You'll see a real difference next season. Keep it up.

**Alan H** · 1st December 12, 01:13 PM

Nice! Bodyweight squat ain't no joke, and a triple, too! All of this is going to translate to more footage on the field next season.

**o1d_dude** · 1st December 12, 01:42 PM

There are two different styles of "chin-up" so are you trying them with the palms of your hand facing you ("pull-up") or facing away from you ("chin-up" or "chin")?

You may find the pull-up a little easier to do in that you'll be using your arms more. A chin-up is more back/shoulder/lat oriented.

**MacFhearchair** · 3rd December 12, 11:03 AM

I can't do either, although the ones I attempt most frequently are chin-ups. My greatest performance comes from orienting my arms perpendicular to my body (neither a proper pull-up or chin-up) so that I'm sort of curling my body weight? That's the way that feels easiest, but I can usually match the weight I do that way with a chin-up.

Alan, I've thrown the light weight a couple times where, according to my step-offs, it's gone 48-50 feet. I'll believe it when that's what the tape says, but I'm eager to get it measured.