I just have to say this ...

[SteelWeaver]

I LOVE BODYBUILDING!

Just called my trainer (yeah, from the AIRPORT, where I'm still sitting, waiting for my sister) to set up my first "growth" (heh heh) session with her. I can't believe how excited I am.

Training feels so good. And I know with a trainer I'll be able to push myself that much harder. She'll help my body keep up with my mind, and the other way, too.

When I look over the years I have ahead of me ... wow ... what a huge thrill, thinking about how I will be able to work on this physique, hone my mental focus - thinking about where I've come from, and what I can still do - feeling all the time strong and healthy, brimming with life. And how every time I reach a goal, I'll have a new one, and just keep learning, and getting better and better.

I feel so LUCKY to have this choice.

It's so much the journey, isn't it?

Wow








(OK, now everybody hold hands around the circle ... bwaa ha haa)

 

[JJFigure]

I recognize these posts - must mean Steel is really back! Missed you.

And ditto on loving the whole bodybuilding/weight training thing. You've really gotta try some of the PL type training - I'm having a blast and learning new stuff every day. Who knew Military Presses worked your triceps when done properly? LOL

 

[Puddles]

JJ, I did some push-ups tonight for the first time in years. It's gonna be fun adding them in every week...I won't admit to how few I did, but I'll figure a goal and have fun getting there.

Steelweaver, nice to meet you. And yes, you are fortunate to have this choice. Enjoy it!

 

[valerie]

Hey Girl we be happy now right? Yes it is a journey that starts with you and ends with you. A trip where you never reach the end so go for it-Valerie

 

[SteelWeaver]

I recognize these posts - must mean Steel is really back! Missed you.

Yo! I missed me too, lol Thank you, sweetie. I haven't told you this in a while, but I think you're super cool, and I'm really glad you're here on this board

Do you mean the last portion of the ROM on MP's, near lockout? Are you doing them standing or seated? How wide is your grip? How far do you bring the bar down - to your collar bone? Do you keep your elbows aligned with your hands? How about on db presses? How far do you bring the db's down?

Hi Mrs Puddles - you don't know this, but I did see a post of yours way back when you explained your handle - I near fell off my chair, lol! And your progress pics are truly LOVELY

Valerie, yes, yes, I'm so much a happy girl now. Fat & happy Thank you so much for your support and encouragement in the last few weeks before my comp - it made me feel so much less crazy - really really helped me. And JJ too, thank you.

This road of life is so fantastic - some people think I'm weird, but I just can't help waking each day with a huge lust for the new time that's been given me on this big old, crazy ol', gorgeous, fucked up, wild and exquisite, confused and tumultuous planet. I feel like I'm in a permanent shower of glittering lucky blessings. There is so MUCH out there, so many lessons, so many challenges, and wow, rather a lot of wonderful people (THIS, from not a people person)

Aaahhh!

Doing chest and bi's tonight with trainer - I can hardly sit still I'm so excited - it'll be the first really really intense training I've done since my comp - I've just been doing somewhat lighter full body workouts for a few weeks, nothing forced, no eccentrics, nothing to failure, no drop sets. Tons of heavy pack carrying though

Train like mofos girls, we have so much.

 

[JJFigure]

Hey Mrs Puddles - I love pushups too. And there are so many variations - guarantees you'll never get bored.

Ok Steel, let's talk about REAL military presses. Standing, hands slightly shoulder width. Picture this - stand in front of the bar and raise your hands to shoulder width w/ elbows tucked in at the side. That's how you approach the bar and that's your grip position. You pull the bar off the rack and hold at collar bone level. You tuck your head back and push the bar in a straight line directly above your head - arms in line w/ your ears. You will definitely feel the triceps kick in when the bar gets above your head.

I've always done military presses standing, but I'd press the bar so it would end in front of me, not directly above me. This tended to bother my rotator cuff; after my PL friend revamped my form, they are pain free and they work my tris.

 

[fitmedic]

welcome home steel!!

 

[SteelWeaver]

Thanks fm! I'm poised to be handin' out lovin' and good vibes, so if you're in need of either anytime soon, just give a holler

"Ok Steel, let's talk about REAL military presses." lol - yeah, LET'S! You GO baby! Ooh, just picturing it makes my hands itch to lift - I love the cool roughness of the bar. Heave ho! I wish I could train every day - pity there's this whole recovery thing we have to consider.

I did only standing military presses for the whole first half of this year - I really liked them, but finally I got a bit bored and started doing seated bb or standing or seated db versions for variation. It sounds like your hands are spaced more narrowly than I'm used to - does that push your elbows more out to the front than the side? I could see how that could really work the long head of the tris. Your upper arms are thus not in the same plane as your body? I normally butt my pinkies up to the ... second ?? ring - you know - normal bench width - but my arms are fairly long.

I'm kinda in two minds about what to do for my programme now. I was intending to go with a full-body cross bb/pl style routine, but I have this trainer now .... who incidentally I'm completely in love with - my god she looks so friggin' GOOD when she shows me certain moves - she looks so normal til she picks up a weight, then she looks like a goddess - such perfect form, you can see EXACTLY what she's targeting as soon as she performs the move. She seems to know exactly my limits, by intuition, and always pushes me just enough past them that it's incredibly intense, but not so far that I fall off the edge. We seem to have a really good connection. Anyway, it's all strictly BB style - not much in the way of PL at all. I think I just need to go with whatever she suggests til the end of Jan, have her teach me everything I can absorb about straightforward bb training, then start playing with all the PL stuff and WSB and so on when I get home and can access my tool trunk

I'm pretty sure just about anything I do right now will make me grow - I'm just so into it. I wonder if really focussing on growing, along with the eating and traiing, makes it happen faster - you know - power of positive thinking ... lol

 

[JJFigure]

"my god she looks so friggin' GOOD when she shows me certain moves" - that's exactly how I feel about my PL friend. He was doing plyometrics during one of our first workouts; I just couldn't quit watching. There's something sexy about a man who can carry on a conversation while doing plyometric pushups. He's another one with perfect form - while moving some significant weight. It's very motivating getting to train with someone like that. Speaking of, he just finished his World competition in Slovakia - gold in the squat and 3rd overall. Hopefully, I'll be following his footsteps onto a platform in Germany.

 

[fitmedic]

lovin' and good vibes huh?!!