Burner02

two words: tele conference....

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Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Burner02

...can u hear me now???

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Archangel

How goes it Brother Boiler!!!

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

Emma-Leigh

Hey Steve!!

How go-eth the chrissy preperations? Is Nathan getting all excited about 'Santa'?!

Are you all heading off to relatives places again or are you staying put?



And how did your leg workout go today?!

boilermaker

Hello Archie. Not so good today. Rough day at work. I lost an order for a robotic palletizer in a dairy production facility. I was really counting on that one. Someone came in with a price $50,000 less than me! I didn't even have that much PROFIT in the job
Oh well, life goes on.

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Archangel

Sorry to hear you had a crummy day, keep your chin up and heart light my Friend!!!

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

boilermaker

Hi Emma . We're having a party next Saturday at our house for about 10 people. I'm making my grandmother's (I'm 50% Italian) spaghetti and meatball dinner. Complete with fresh pasta if I decide to dust off the pasta making machine.

Nathan loves the TV and non-live versions of Santa. Real live Santas scare the bejesus out of him , so we'll have to wait another year for that one. Christmas is always a whirlwind of travel for us. We go to my parents for Christmas Eve, Andi's parents for Christmas Day and then to Cleveland on the 26th for a big dinner with my grandma and the rest of my mom's relatives.
It's alot of driving, but we made the decision years ago to not skimp on visiting family this time of year.

Leg workout????? Was I supposed to do that today? Just kidding. I had a long and frustrating day at work and haven't been. But I'm going at 9 o'clock. I promise . And I'll give my report as soon as I get back.

On that note, I looked over all the resources you provided me about my shoulder. I think it may well be bicep inpingement. When I do that stretch where you use a towell behind your back (I don't need the towell) I can feel that same pain when I'm pulling my left arm up. So, I'm stretching more, doing the rotator cuff exercises and not lifting overhead. We'll see if that helps.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope all is well with you.

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boilermaker

I won't let it get me down. I'm off to vent my frustrations in the squat cage

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Archangel

Go get it my Friend!!!

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

Pylon

Yay!!! Leg day!!! Yay!!!

Hey, don't bogart that sauce recipie....

I feel ya on the travel, too. We've got about 400 miles in three days.

"For beverages, I only drink water or whiskey and when I’m drinking whiskey, it’s usually when I’m working out. It gives me the courage to lift more than I can when I’m sober." - C. Bratton

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Devlin

Sorry to hear about the rough day. Hopefully you made up for it at the gym.

Time to face the jury (and myself)

Time to bring sexyback

boilermaker

Well, as I mentioned above, this week hasn't started out too good. To make matters worse, I still have every man's worst nightmare of a doctor's appointment on Wednesday and then this........... I get to the gym to do my leg workout and some bonehead has got the squat rack tied up. He did everything you could imagine in their except for a squat. Curls, swiss ball crunches and shrugs to name a few. Oh, and he hung from the bar a few times to stretch out his arms and shoulders. Anyway, enough of my griping and on to the workout, which was pretty good considering I had to do most of it in reverse order. This allowed me to get some higher weights on stuff that I usually do after squats and deads.

Cardo: 8 minutes warmup on bike, strength level 7

Weights: Legs

Seated Calf Raises: 135# - 10, 12 (did some extra reps here, needed more #)

Standing Calf Raises: 137.5# - 12, 12 (more #s and reps here)

Seated Leg Curl: 110# - 8, 8, 8 (Finished all reps at this weight this time)

Back Free Squats: 135# - 6; 160# - 18 (upped weight 5 lbs. from last time and came up 2 reps short of 20. Probably could have forced out 2 more, but better safe than sorry)

RDL: 135# - 8; 185# - 8, 7 (Dropped 10 #s and added another set here over last time)

Leg Press: 370# - 8, 8, 8 (Felt like I could have done more on first 2 sets, but third was just right)

Diet:

Meal 1: 1 egg, 4 egg whites, peppers, onions, mushrooms, basil, slice ww toast

Meal 2: 6 oz. chicken breast, 2 slices ww toast, 1 tsp. light mayo, 1 tsp mustard

Meal 3: Shake - 6 oz. skim milk, 1 scoop protein whey, 1/2 cup oats, 1/2 bananna

Meal 4: PWO Shake - 6 oz. skim milk, 1 scoop protein whey, 1/2 cup oats, 1/2bananna

Meal 5: 2 cups chicken, tomato basil soup. 1 cup 1%CC, 1 tbs. npb

Supplements: 6 fish oil pills, multi-v

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boilermaker

I'm not familiar with this term. Help, please.

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boilermaker

Thanks, Devlin. Had to gripe somewhere. Gym was pretty good, considering.

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b_reed23

Chin up boiler!!

I hope everything goes well on Wednesday...you and your ass cam will be in my thoughts and prayers

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Pylon

bogart
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: to selfishly take or keep something; hog
Example: She was drunk and bogarted attention at the block party.
Etymology: probably from Humphrey Bogart, US actor
Usage: slang; bogarted, bogarting

"For beverages, I only drink water or whiskey and when I’m drinking whiskey, it’s usually when I’m working out. It gives me the courage to lift more than I can when I’m sober." - C. Bratton

Burner02

sum biatch! Can't stand it when some SOB uses the squat cage for things other than squatting.... wait....I'm one of them sum biatches....hhmm...
but there are 2 racks in my gym...
I'm not the kind of person to walk up to someone and ask if they are gonna be done w/ 'that' soon. So, I would not suggest that you just go do that.
"Hey..I have to use this squat rack to do...SQUATS...not your panzie little girlie curls....fuqqer...now piss off before I do an intimidating double bicep pose on you and deflate you already fragile ego and send u cryin' back to your mommy....

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Triple Threat

All you have to do is say something like "I'm not trying to rush you, but could you tell me how much longer you'll be using the rack?". At least you'll be able to plan your workout, ie, if only 5 minutes, go stretch and loosen up, then come back and squat.

Burner02

...if u wanna do it the 'nice' way....

was'sup, trips!

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

boilermaker

Thanks B, I appreciate that. But don't waste any time praying for the ass cam, just my ass please .

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boilermaker

Well, Pylon. I'm not sure how "the family" would react if I gave out my grandmother's sauce recipie. I don't want to end up with a pair of cement shoes for Christmas, if you know what I mean.

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boilermaker

I think I said something like "I know these guys named Burner, Triple, and Archie that are going to be here shortly to dismantle you if you don't do at least one squat pretty soon. And it better not be a partial either!"

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Triple Threat

I'll leave the praying for your ass to the lovely ladies that frequent your journal.

I've had that procedure done once before, and at one point things weren't progressing as smoothly as I had hoped. Trying to bring a little levity to the situation (well, as much levity as can be had at such a time ), I said "This would probably be a lot easier if I were gay". The damn doc did not have my sense of humor.

dougnukem

There was a great thread a couple weeks back about how to deal with folks who hog equipment. It had some great ideas in it.
It sounds like a blessing in disguise though, as you were able to have some higher weights in those exercises normally done later. A good changeup without you even doing it. As far as the recipe goes, just adopt Pylon as your long lost brother, and then you can share it with him.

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