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mjnewland
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then yes Steve, I am like you. it would have become 5 pcs, no doubt.
Harry, I have a weak spot for meat as well, but nobody ever brings a bunch of that and leaves it around. My hip is doing okay, it doesn't hurt while lifting but gets stiff after. For the life of my I cannot stop my hip flexor from trying to do the glute's work. go figure. i must be a mutant.
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ecogenx
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mjnewland wrote:
then yes Steve, I am like you. it would have become 5 pcs, no doubt.
Harry, I have a weak spot for meat as well, but nobody ever brings a bunch of that and leaves it around. My hip is doing okay, it doesn't hurt while lifting but gets stiff after. For the life of my I cannot stop my hip flexor from trying to do the glute's work. go figure. i must be a mutant.
Didn't you make a prowler? Why don't you push/pull that around. I get a great leg workout dragging my sled around without any knee or back pain that I get with squats.
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mjnewland
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Yes, I was admiring my prowler tonight during squats. I can't really use it again until I learn how to weld. All the stuff I did with bolts to keep the pipes from turning only worked for 2 weeks. Once I get it welded, I'll start pushing it once or twice a week. until then, its just kettlefag swings
lighter than the usual lightness of my extremely light, light front squats.
10x 95/95/95 I'm up to sets of 10, which is good.
military 10x 55/65/75
starting over blows ass.
never stop, or this could happen to you
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mjnewland
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kettlefagging, 34# (up 7 lbs, I'll add a couple more next time so it will be a whole POOD)
8x10, was in a hurry, tried to do them fast, nothing in between sets but breathing hard.
fatness 288. equals personal best over past 1.5 years. diet is working. for now. don't want to get too cocky. knock on wood spin around
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mjnewland
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got bored with tens. went back and forth between front squats and squats.
5x 85/105/125/145/155
rode my bike
weighed 280
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mjnewland
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1 pood swings, breathing ladder of 8. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. first time kettlekwearing in almost 2 months. I am sure I will pay for htis
270. lost 30 pounds. weak as a kitten
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ecogenx
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Holy cow, 30 lbs. Awesome. Pumped for you because I know how tough it is. Still on the Medifast diet plan?
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mjnewland
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ecogenx wrote:
Holy cow, 30 lbs. Awesome. Pumped for you because I know how tough it is. Still on the Medifast diet plan?
Thanks Steve,
This is my last week on it, so I'm transitioning, adding back some protein. I'm going to try carb backloading for a while, see if I can get some strength back without putting on pounds.
Medifast works if you can stay on it, but its really hard to stay on. I lost 22 lbs the first month and only 8 the second month. I think if someone has a lot of lard to lose like me, it makes sense, but I think you should only do it in 1 month blocks, when its most effective. I may go back to it after some months.
My energy level was very low, and I gave up lifting and kettlebells 3weeks in. Now that I'm adding in more protein, I feel energized, and I can't wait to get back in the game.
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1 pood, breating ladder of 9, so 81 reps. you're supposed to take as many breaths as you do swings at each part of the ladder. On the way back down, at 6 reps, I took ALOT more than 6 breaths.
hammiez iz killing me
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Great work on the weight loss, MJ, that's awesome. I am curious about the carb back loading, so I'll be following along for sure. Please keep us posted.
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started off too hard, hamstrings seriously DOMSed. found a tall building, walked up the stairs until my legs shook. I predict not hurting so bad tomorrow (pleezpleezpleez).
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jjackkrash wrote:
Great work on the weight loss, MJ, that's awesome. I am curious about the carb back loading, so I'll be following along for sure. Please keep us posted.
thanks Jack. I won't actually start backloading for a couple weeks, I'm doing more of a carb-nite thing. some birthdays are approaching, and I have serious food debauchery planned.
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congrats on the weight loss buddy
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mjnewland
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Thanks Pete.
squatted some doubles at 95, 135, 155, just to get the feel. this was a couple days ago. my bad knee is the size of a basketball, and hurts like hell. Before I stopped lifting, my knee hadn't bothered me for a long time.
getting old sucks
today benched 5x 95/105/115.
Again, trying to take it real slow and get back into the habit. Too bad they don't make a pill for falling apart
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mjnewland wrote:
my bad knee is the size of a basketball, and hurts like hell. Before I stopped lifting, my knee hadn't bothered me for a long time.
getting old sucks
Too bad they don't make a pill for falling apart
That's just Death chipping away a little bit of you every day. Does that make you feel any better?
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ecogenx wrote:
mjnewland wrote:
my bad knee is the size of a basketball, and hurts like hell. Before I stopped lifting, my knee hadn't bothered me for a long time.
getting old sucks
Too bad they don't make a pill for falling apart
That's just Death chipping away a little bit of you every day. Does that make you feel any better?
Steve, I think that's the most accurate thing I've ever heard.
also, SportKilts are expensive. If you want to go cheap your first time around, check out the econo-kilts at Stillwaterkilts.com they're acrylic, and not very nice, but only $30 or so.
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mjnewland wrote:
ecogenx wrote:
mjnewland wrote:
my bad knee is the size of a basketball, and hurts like hell. Before I stopped lifting, my knee hadn't bothered me for a long time.
getting old sucks
Too bad they don't make a pill for falling apart
That's just Death chipping away a little bit of you every day. Does that make you feel any better?
Steve, I think that's the most accurate thing I've ever heard.
also, SportKilts are expensive. If you want to go cheap your first time around, check out the econo-kilts at Stillwaterkilts.com they're acrylic, and not very nice, but only $30 or so.
I may have been drunk when I said that.
It's going to be a year or so if I do a HG. Harry has given me a bunch of great info but I'll be asking a lot of questions. Hope you don't mind.
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been not training, really, single-leg rehab kind of stuffs.
benched today, 6x 45/95/115/135, 5x155, 3x175
rows 135x 5/6/5/5/4/3
being weak sucks. i recommend against it. getting back to it after a long layoff truly blows
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mjnewland
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did single-leg RDL for low reps with pathetically light weight.
followed by single leg bulgarian squats or whatever to not very low pad for 3x6 on each leg.
meh
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I'm glad you are back at it. Coming back definitely sucks balls, but it sure beats the hell out of not coming back. I can attest to this fact from personal experience. Just keep it up and before you know it it won't suck balls and you will be kicking ass and taking names.
Jack
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mjnewland
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so, I snuck in a super quick session yesternight. supersetted military press and pull up negatives (too fat to pull up)
militaries
6x 45/65/85/95/105/115/125
did the following between each set:
waddled my fat as up into the top of the pull up position and resisted gravity as long as I could. which wasn't very long towards the end.
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Good to see you back at it. The good thing about coming back is that the gains come fast!
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mjnewland
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kpsnap wrote:
Good to see you back at it. The good thing about coming back is that the gains come fast!
Hi Snap! Thanks!
You're right. My bench should be picking up about 50lbs a week for the next 2 weeks!
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tonight. rehab consisting of single leg RDL from a box due to bad mobility and stability and crippledness and old and weak
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