SSD: Still not respectable

[stuffedsuperdud]

Power snatch:
20kg x a bunch
40x4
50x3
60x3
70x2
78x2x6 Coach says I'm sluggish and should go faster but I can't because bad athlete. My wrist is still sore.

[stuffedsuperdud]

Power clean + jerk 1+2
20kg x many
40x1
60x1
80x1
90x1x8 lolwut. Gotta grease that groove, yo. First time jerking in a long time. Nothing hurt.

Deadlift:
100x10
130x10x3
This was embarrassingly challenging and I had to fall back on ye ol "Hands feet shins set pull" cues for noobs to keep things tight towards the end of each set. Remember when cleans where the easiest part for me? Well, they've been feeling noticeably heavy off the floor lately, so....moar DLs?

No going-ons right now sorry.

[stuffedsuperdud]

Slipped on some black ice outside the front door of the gym and managed to pick up three injuries, to my left shoulder, arm, and hip. One for each stooge in me, perhaps. Coach was morbidly amused and sent me home. Let' see what things feel like tomorrow.

[simonrest]

I hope you pull up, come to your senses, and move somewhere it doesn't snow

[Wilhelm]

Sorry to hear you were injured, @stuffedsuperdud

It's pretty lame the proprieters didn't deal with ice right outside their door.
*Folds arms and shakes head*

[stuffedsuperdud]

Ah it wasn't their fault. This was technically on the street (I was stepping out of the car) so the city of Arlington's probably on the hook. We were all just surprised by a bit of sleet that came out of nowhere, which ended up sticking on the ground and icing over once temps dropped below freezing. Coach goes, "Good thing you're not a 45 year old woman who works in HR, or else it's lawsuit time."

Today:
Squat:
20kg x 10
60x10
100x5
130x5x2
140x10
151x10
160x8

On the first set of 130 I felt a twinge in my low back. Might have aggravated the old injury. I did a second set very slowly to make sure it was okay and then managed to get to the top set, but left two reps in the tank just to be safe. Bleh....it's always something.

Push press:
2kgx 10
40x10
50x10
60x10x2

Easy easy except for the bangs and bruises from yesterday.

Saw Star Wars. Credit where credit is due, they've gotten quite good at distilling what people like about these movies and then expanding it out to 2.5 hours. Long movie but never did it feel like it was dragging. Epic skirmishes were epic. And I've been rock throbbing hard for Laura Dern since 1993 so there's that.

[Wilhelm]

Ah it wasn't their fault. This was technically on the street (I was stepping out of the car) so the city of Arlington's probably on the hook. We were all just surprised by a bit of sleet that came out of nowhere, which ended up sticking on the ground and icing over once temps dropped below freezing. Coach goes, "Good thing you're not a 45 year old woman who works in HR, or else it's lawsuit time."

Today:
Squat:
20kg x 10
60x10
100x5
130x5x2
140x10
151x10
160x8

On the first set of 130 I felt a twinge in my low back. Might have aggravated the old injury. I did a second set very slowly to make sure it was okay and then managed to get to the top set, but left two reps in the tank just to be safe. Bleh....it's always something.

Push press:
2kgx 10
40x10
50x10
60x10x2

Easy easy except for the bangs and bruises from yesterday.

Saw Star Wars. Credit where credit is due, they've gotten quite good at distilling what people like about these movies and then expanding it out to 2.5 hours. Long movie but never did it feel like it was dragging. Epic skirmishes were epic. And I've been rock throbbing hard for Laura Dern since 1993 so there's that.

Ah yes, Rambling Rose.

Good to see you are back in action. : )

[stuffedsuperdud]

Well, I wasn't all back. Was kind of beat up still going into Monday. I did lift yesterday though:

Hang snatch:
20kg x a bunch
40x4
50x4
60x4
67x4
72x4x2
65x4

And today:
Hang clean + front squat 4+1
20kg x a lot
40x1
50x1
60x1
80x1
86x1
92x1x2
85x1x2

Press:
40x10
50x8
60x5
65x5
67x4,5

Remember when I liked pressing? It's hard now.....but I'm getting some of it back maybe.

Ugh long week. My favorite bartender was working last night and hooked me up with way too much shitty bourbon, resulting in a gnarly headache. Something about cogeners? Anyway, Lil L showed up being shitty and drunk-overly-honest-me put her in her place (whoops!) and then some so our next conversation will be awkward, whenever that is. She left for Louisiana today too so she'll get to ferment on it for two weeks and come back really hating me it's fine.

[stuffedsuperdud]

Squat:
20kg x 10
60x10
100x8
130x5
140x10
152x10
165x9 9RM PR FWIW

Was trying to take the 165 for 10 but got pinned on the last rep. Previous 10RM was, IIRC, 162. Was kind of fatigued from yesterday and should have just taken 163 but I wanted to just get a nice round # into the books already, plus I don't have time to fuck around with cheapo PRs, amirite? Rep #9 was definitely not an RPE 10 type lift though so probably a mental failure more than anything else, i.e. come testing day maybe I'll be able to PR anyway since it takes much less willpower to do a 1RM than a 10RM.... Anyway I was sore and tired and called it there.

Relevant:


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[stuffedsuperdud]

Hey I'm back.....

Well I never left, but last Saturday I was down with crippling DOMS. Then the gym was shuttered Sunday Monday Tuesday for the holiday and then on Wednesday and Thursday I was sick.* This is why I will never be world champion. But I trained today:

Snatch:
20kg x many. Exxxxtra long warmup actually due to the combination of feeling cruddy and stuff, and the cold weather outside
40x3
50x3
60x3
70x2
77x1
83x2x6 whooo

The first 2 at 83 felt wonky but I found the groove after that and the rest were easy.

*On Sunday I went to a Christmas buffet brunch thing and ate like 12 eggs, a pile of bacon, a few bowls of clam chowder, an omelette, and like 50 oysters. All washed down with maybe 12 minosas the bartender comped. I then stumbled into my car in the parking lot (remembering to sit on the passenger side thanks @mgil), pulled my linen-cotton double-breasted blazer tightly around me, and passed out. Next thing I know it's an hour later, my head is spinning, and my phone is full of texts from the Latin girl, something about me coming over.

Managed to clear my head a bit and drove over, where she made me a big ass pile of food. I noticed that she had a case of the crud, apparently aggravated from doing some sort of 21-15-9 CF workout earlier that week, and wasn't super diligent about cross-contamination, i.e. would go from rubbing her nose with her arm to touching raw chicken to pulling veggies from the fridge without washing in between. Didn't want to be weird about it though so I gambled with my immune system and lost. Only caught her cold, fortunately. No salmonella shenangians.

Didn't get laid its fine because when I say Netflix and chill, I mean Netflix and sit around hurting my neck on her shitty couch while she drifts in and out of consciousness, and while her absentee roommate's brother, a weird (high-functioning autistic? Srs.) 25-year-old visiting from the homeland, interrupts every hour or so from his room to ask her in Spanish if we are his babysitters for the night.

[simonrest]

No one can judge themselves against Mart Seim, the man is a fresh. He should swap to WSM since he can't seem to fix his snatch

[mgil]

Glad you remembered to sleep it off in the passenger seat, @stuffedsuperdud!

Hope you have a great New Years and at least get a handy j from someone you’re mildly attracted to.

[stuffedsuperdud]

Last training of 2017:
Clean + jerk 1+2
20kg x many
40x2
50x2
60x2
70x1
80x1
90x1
100x1x6

And then I had to hustle over to the nearest SuitSupply to get the button on my velvet dinner jacket fixed.

No one can judge themselves against Mart Seim, the man is a fresh. He should swap to WSM since he can't seem to fix his snatch

I think he actually came from strongman. Antonio Krastev said once that for supers, strongman is an alternative way to make some $$, but in 1980s Bulgaria, it was nowhere near lucrative as weightlifting, since the latter is an Olympic sport with federal support. Dunno if that's the case in 2017 Estonia though, esp if WSM is more lucrative these days. Oh hey it's already 2018 over in your upsidedown country. Happy new year, etc.!

Glad you remembered to sleep it off in the passenger seat, @stuffedsuperdud!

Hope you have a great New Years and at least get a handy j from someone you’re mildly attracted to.

Happy new year to you too, sir. I will be in a dark room with loud music blasting while an emotionally unavailable woman dry humps my leg. Also there will be open bar and her roommate told me that she got super sloppy two years ago and puked up something she ate in 2011, so that's kind of exciting maybe. But I bet I will be the best dressed person there. Definitely the sexiest one to not get laid tonight.

[simonrest]

Makes sense. He may be too short to be actually competitive in wsm. Still freakishly strong.

Happy New year to you too. By now I hope you're 5 drinks into not giving a shit

[SeanHerbison]

But I bet I will be the best dressed person there.

Well hey, that's something. Not to brag, but I was also the best dressed person here.

There is a possibility that's just because I was alone in my house.

[stuffedsuperdud]

Hey I trained finally:
Hang snatch:
20kg x a bunch
40x4
50x4
60x4
67x3
73x4
78x4
73x4x2

Snatch 3rd pull from jerk blocks:
20x5x2
25x5x2
30x5x3

Well hey, that's something. Not to brag, but I was also the best dressed person here.

There is a possibility that's just because I was alone in my house.

Smart man. I went to a hotel party where everyone realized around 9:30PM that we had been kinda scammed in that the buffet sort of sucked and the promised activities were decidedly lame. So we all tried our best to recoup our costs at the open bar with shitty liquor and people were getting sloppy by 10. I showed up in a bunch of pics taken between then and 3AM and have little memory of any of it whoops.

[stuffedsuperdud]

Weather sucked today (by DC standards) but #dedication! Gym was empty save for the assistant coach on the floor and two crazy goobers. The room has a heater but we still had to lift in our hoodies anyway because it like the walls have zero thermal insulation and serve only to keep the windchill back.

Hang clean + front squat 4+1
20kg x a few
40x1
60x1
70x1
80x1
90x1
80x1x3

Coach has been really harping on my 3rd pull lately so that's what we drilled.


I got drunk while watching The Crown season 2 and when I came to, I found that I had ordered a pair of Dents gloves (same ones Prince Charles uses.....but he probably gets his for free huh............). Do I keep them?

[SeanHerbison]

Weather sucked today (by DC standards) but #dedication!

Did you hashtagriseandgrind? Am I doing this right?

Although I guess if you're grinding O lifts, you're not doing that right.

[mgil]

y u post @3:16 am east coast time @stuffedsuperdud???

[simonrest]

Do I keep them?

of course. even if it's only to belittle your manservant