Blut Wumps Another 25

[bignate73]

i can relate.
i understand the description, just cant put it to words right now.

its tucking your hips under, in my case, on the way up. otherwise you leave your ass back a bit and it seems like a gm squat. its different than a PL squat in that there is more hip action, with this its getting in a particular groove on the way up so the legs can be in prime position to push. kindof reminds of just before I do my second pull on cleans. the "double dip" as some say.

 

[blut wump]

Pretty much so. Usually, I drop down and a bit back and then just try to stand up. Sometimes I find that I rotate downwards with my hips and then extend my quads to straighten. Very occasionally, I get a truly easy rep and I've not been able to explain it although there's been a nagging doubt in my mind whether I really went deep enough despite feeling sure that I had.

Since I'd been kind of alert for the funny hip movement which gives me a slightly easier rep, today I was in a position to realise that my hips had come through when I got an actual easy rep. I know it's a standard instruction to spread the floor and push with the hips but I think I now know what the instructions mean.

 

[nelmsjer]

Clarity and insight is a wonderful thing...

 

[Introspective]

What happen to wednesday and Friday, this journal still going ?

 

[blut wump]

What happen to wednesday and Friday, this journal still going ?

I've had problems with my right hamstring. Any kind of tensing of my core has been sending a tightness down the muscle. I've been doing home chiro and stretching out the muscle and I expect to be back at the gym tomorrow.

The last workout was on Tuesday so I wasn't intending another workout until Friday so I've just missed one workout although, by tomorrow, it'll have been six days between workouts.

 

[anotherbutters]

I cringe whenever someone mentions right hamstring trouble. I hope everything's ok for you tomorrow.

 

[blut wump]

It's been kind of building for a couple of weeks. I just didn't fancy trying to set deadlift PRs on it. I'm never going to get my deads down at this rate.

This was one of the reasons I finally ordered some weights for home (see Jim's thread here). I don't feel the urge to drive for 20-odd minutes and back again for half a workout but being able to go out to one of the stables twice a day would be no hassle.

 

[blut wump]

My weight was 124.0 again this morning. I think I'll drop the Sunday Weigh-In now. It did it's job.

Over the past three months, I've gained about a pound and definitely lost my post-Christmas bulge. It might be time to start working on the paunch from the previous Christmas.

 

[nelmsjer]

How many Christmases do you go back?

 

[Introspective]

I've had problems with my right hamstring. Any kind of tensing of my core has been sending a tightness down the muscle. I've been doing home chiro and stretching out the muscle and I expect to be back at the gym tomorrow.

The last workout was on Tuesday so I wasn't intending another workout until Friday so I've just missed one workout although, by tomorrow, it'll have been six days between workouts.

I see, maybe setting all those PR squats has bashed up your hamstring i know the squats hit my hams hard. Good luck at the gym.