blah blah blah pico lifts weights
Good workout this AM, and I wanna write my future workout plans out so I can keep 'em straight.
Today I did
Squat: 60kg (bar-20, 2x10, 4x5) twice
Deadlift: 85kg (bar-20, 2x15, 2x10, 2x5, 2x2.5) thrice
Bench: 40kg (bar-20, 5x2, 2.5x4) thrice, but with spotter
and also 30 sit-ups.
Feeling pretty good about this. Talkies:
Squat - that's pretty much my max right there. But! it was easier getting up to it today than last time - I don't know if I need to warm up with a bare bar anymore or if I should warm up with a little weight on. Will ask brothy about that.
Deadlift - my max is +2.5 from that, so I am feeling pretty :D about this. Arms n back n legs a little tired today, but I attribute that to general exhaustion from running around this week and coordinating these singing groupies. Was told by a student-friend who was also there that I was lifting too fast - I didn't think so, since I try intentionally not to rush my lifting and since my deadlift is a slightly-slowed normal-standing-up-speed, but it could be. Will watch that.
Bench - this is the first time in ages that I've been spotted on the bench, and said student-friend did it. The frustrating part is that it would be a max, but I don't know if he helped my first time lifting back up; I know he did the second and third. Think I'mma go for unaided next time because I don't like wondering, and I know what i do if I can't lift something all the way.
Sit-ups - obvs I can do tons more, but I felt like chilling after these weights.
Overall -
obvs my bench is the least, but being female one has to expect that. (Irritating, but well.) I am hap-hap-happy with deadlift, and very happy with the squat, that last because I feel the most improvement and the most also potential for improvement there.
What I want to do: get to the gym more. I usually intersperse big-3 lifts with overall workouts, but I only get over there a couple times a week because of le class and also because the friggin gym doesn't open til 9am. (What gym doesn't open til 9AM? come on.) (I prefer AM because no grunters and the people there are quite pleasantly quiet.
Other thing I want to do is toss some more just sort of endurance in there - do these big-3, but more frequently at the lower weights so that I can get properly used to them. I'm good now, but I want to get that dang bench up a bit (50? can we maybe manage 50? my body weight would be nice but that's a way long-term dream.) and so I figure more overall arm stuff in general. I think I want to add a couple things on my not-big-3 days (every time I use the machines at this gym I get all irritated, because they're badly-maintained, squeaky at best and scary at worse - and by scary I mean "fuck shit is that cable going to hold or is it going to snap" - way bad shit, you guys D: ) so I'mma ask brothy and my dad about that, too - more leg stuff (as in not just squats) with free weights/dumbbells, if possible, and more overall/core stuff. I generally go for 60-75 sit-ups on all-over days, so that's okay.
Last thing is I'd like to keep the time reasonable - 1hr30 is ideal, 2hr is okay, but I don't want to spend my whole day at the gym. I'll ask my dad, since I know he gets in and out of the gym right quick at lunch hour.
weights blah blah done
I am starting to get lifty calluses yay :D
but i am not going to chew on them like my brother does
silly brother
Well, this has been one hell of a week, and no mistake! A good one, definitely, but quite one - we've had an exchange between our choir and one from a school in the States, and I was along all the time helping whatever I could - I couldn't coordinate activities, since our conductor did that, but I did translate, accompany, try to keep things running smoothly, explain, and geenrally do all-over stuff.
It reaffirms my choice of future career nicely - I really like making cross-cultural/inter-country things work, helping/making people understand the whats and whys, and fitting my figurings-out to the individual situation. Intermediary. Cultural Consultant. Facilitator. I am good at it, and I think it's important in a variety of situations. I can handle it. I can handle groups. I can do it. Now - can someone please give me money to do it?
They headed off this AM at 7, and I, despite trying to resleep, could not (so I wrote a shitty query instead yaaaayyy) and interneted. I don't feel like being in the least bit social for some time now, though, so right now I'mma go to the massage place (my first time in a year! when I brought the guys there they liked it so much and I was reminded of how confortable it is that I was like "...well... okay." and decided today yes), then lunch upon dumplings and 山东拌菜, and then bus on down to the Jile Temple, where I'd really like to do some sketching (practice shading, especially, but it's a beautiful environment and I'd love to just sit and sketch there) and then wander on downtown and sketch/read/chill moar. Then tonight I'll head over to Catlike and draw a few more pages of the What Is Pico Doin Comic (WIPDC).
I'll grade and study tomorrow. Today is for me to chill.
Today I did
Squat: 60kg (bar-20, 2x10, 4x5) twice
Deadlift: 85kg (bar-20, 2x15, 2x10, 2x5, 2x2.5) thrice
Bench: 40kg (bar-20, 5x2, 2.5x4) thrice, but with spotter
and also 30 sit-ups.
Feeling pretty good about this. Talkies:
Squat - that's pretty much my max right there. But! it was easier getting up to it today than last time - I don't know if I need to warm up with a bare bar anymore or if I should warm up with a little weight on. Will ask brothy about that.
Deadlift - my max is +2.5 from that, so I am feeling pretty :D about this. Arms n back n legs a little tired today, but I attribute that to general exhaustion from running around this week and coordinating these singing groupies. Was told by a student-friend who was also there that I was lifting too fast - I didn't think so, since I try intentionally not to rush my lifting and since my deadlift is a slightly-slowed normal-standing-up-speed, but it could be. Will watch that.
Bench - this is the first time in ages that I've been spotted on the bench, and said student-friend did it. The frustrating part is that it would be a max, but I don't know if he helped my first time lifting back up; I know he did the second and third. Think I'mma go for unaided next time because I don't like wondering, and I know what i do if I can't lift something all the way.
Sit-ups - obvs I can do tons more, but I felt like chilling after these weights.
Overall -
obvs my bench is the least, but being female one has to expect that. (Irritating, but well.) I am hap-hap-happy with deadlift, and very happy with the squat, that last because I feel the most improvement and the most also potential for improvement there.
What I want to do: get to the gym more. I usually intersperse big-3 lifts with overall workouts, but I only get over there a couple times a week because of le class and also because the friggin gym doesn't open til 9am. (What gym doesn't open til 9AM? come on.) (I prefer AM because no grunters and the people there are quite pleasantly quiet.
Other thing I want to do is toss some more just sort of endurance in there - do these big-3, but more frequently at the lower weights so that I can get properly used to them. I'm good now, but I want to get that dang bench up a bit (50? can we maybe manage 50? my body weight would be nice but that's a way long-term dream.) and so I figure more overall arm stuff in general. I think I want to add a couple things on my not-big-3 days (every time I use the machines at this gym I get all irritated, because they're badly-maintained, squeaky at best and scary at worse - and by scary I mean "fuck shit is that cable going to hold or is it going to snap" - way bad shit, you guys D: ) so I'mma ask brothy and my dad about that, too - more leg stuff (as in not just squats) with free weights/dumbbells, if possible, and more overall/core stuff. I generally go for 60-75 sit-ups on all-over days, so that's okay.
Last thing is I'd like to keep the time reasonable - 1hr30 is ideal, 2hr is okay, but I don't want to spend my whole day at the gym. I'll ask my dad, since I know he gets in and out of the gym right quick at lunch hour.
weights blah blah done
I am starting to get lifty calluses yay :D
but i am not going to chew on them like my brother does
silly brother
Well, this has been one hell of a week, and no mistake! A good one, definitely, but quite one - we've had an exchange between our choir and one from a school in the States, and I was along all the time helping whatever I could - I couldn't coordinate activities, since our conductor did that, but I did translate, accompany, try to keep things running smoothly, explain, and geenrally do all-over stuff.
It reaffirms my choice of future career nicely - I really like making cross-cultural/inter-country things work, helping/making people understand the whats and whys, and fitting my figurings-out to the individual situation. Intermediary. Cultural Consultant. Facilitator. I am good at it, and I think it's important in a variety of situations. I can handle it. I can handle groups. I can do it. Now - can someone please give me money to do it?
They headed off this AM at 7, and I, despite trying to resleep, could not (so I wrote a shitty query instead yaaaayyy) and interneted. I don't feel like being in the least bit social for some time now, though, so right now I'mma go to the massage place (my first time in a year! when I brought the guys there they liked it so much and I was reminded of how confortable it is that I was like "...well... okay." and decided today yes), then lunch upon dumplings and 山东拌菜, and then bus on down to the Jile Temple, where I'd really like to do some sketching (practice shading, especially, but it's a beautiful environment and I'd love to just sit and sketch there) and then wander on downtown and sketch/read/chill moar. Then tonight I'll head over to Catlike and draw a few more pages of the What Is Pico Doin Comic (WIPDC).
I'll grade and study tomorrow. Today is for me to chill.