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Mostly masters track & field. And I mean, MASTERS. Super fun.
If I were Debbie’s coach, then I’d advise Debbie to get her elbows slightly in front of bar, not to arch her back like that and make sure her hands are outside of her shoulders. But alas, I’m not her coach. 
And they have “some old guy” deadlifting a double at 420 lbs. Where do they find these people? 
I love these IG suggestions @Midwest67
I just love the press (standing overhead press). It’s so difficult, and also so satisfying when the bar goes.
Today I managed a PR of 67# for 3 sets of doubles followed by 10% back-off sets. I failed an attempt to push 67# for 3 reps on the first set. It makes me laugh how the bar gets stuck at nose level like it hit an invisible brick wall.
I pushed and pushed & upon reviewing the video confirmed that bar was going nowhere.
I am loving my current 4 day split with heavy-light days. Physical and mental relief.
I am still taking it easy with the chins. Today I did 3 sets of 5 with a band, neutral grip.
Elbows are definitely better, but the right one is still sensitive. A strength coach/PT on IG suggested I try to find a sweet spot with intensity/volume that will allow me to continue to train and also give the elbow the message to get strong and heal up.
@Midwest67 although I know you don’t like to deviate much from your workout/workload, if you love the STRICT press, there are a couple “offshoots” you might want to try where your knees and legs are involved and you can get even more weight overhead. But strict should always be your base press exercise.
If there’s any interest, “we” often use the “push press” and “push jerk.” I may have mentioned a long time ago and I may have forgotten your nixing of them. If so, feel free to ignore. 
Thanks! I was urged to avoid doing a push press for my program.
However, Starting Strength has Press 1.0, Press 1.5, and Press 2.0 — and recommends each one for different points in progression.
I would probably benefit from some in-person help on timing the breathing & lay-back & hips for Press 1.5 & 2.0
Maybe if I find myself closing in on 75#, I’ll go visit the coach again.
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@Midwest67 Once “we” have you doing push presses, then the next progression would be the Press 4.0, which is otherwise known as the handstand push-up. :lol: (I kid)
Haha! That would be something! Thanks for the laugh!
Well, you guys are doing great! I just stick to the machines for upper body work – no deadlifts for me – because of my osteoporosis, I don’t want to risk possible injury to my spine. I realize there is a right way and there are wrong ways to do lifts – I just want to stick with equipment that doesn’t provide the opportunity for me to do things wrong. I’m pretty much all about working to build muscle strength while trying to be super-conscious of my posture and spinal alignment.
When I was on the rower at the gym yesterday, a real-live white-haired little old lady got onto the rower next to me. She must have been in her 80’s, she moved quite slowly and gingerly to get herself situated, and once she started she was rowing a lot slower than me (I saw on the monitor that she was doing 20 strokes per second) – but I was silently cheering her on all the way! I don’t think she lasted more than 5 or 6 minutes, but I only hope that I’ll still be as active when I’m her age. Sitting next to her, I was feeling a very young and vigorous 66!
“steps gained in puttering around in the work and home environment.” - I say those count too (maybe not so much for this group already aware of fitness needs… but great way to encourage sendentarypeople to “get moving”)
When I switched to home office, some days I only had a few hundred steps. The pedometer was my reminder to take a lunchtime walk. I now have an onsite office again (4th floor, up 72 steps… sometimes multiple trips). I get about 2000 steps just from the long walk back/forth to car plus stairs … sometimes more if going to other buildings. I don’t look at the iphone step count much … I just log 15 or 20 min of walking in MyNetDiary (my food app)
We all have to have our minimum standards and maximum goals. The problem is I think too many people give neither a thought for the most part. I’m thankful for the motivation I have.
I read this thread for a while and then decided that yeah, I’d better go down to basement gym. Did mostly armwork and abs today as I’ll be on my feet all day tomorrow.
Not my favorite but did a strength training 30 minute workout at home after work - it focused on legs and shoulders. Lots of squats, lunges, pushups and weights! If you have Amazon Prime and are looking for some exercise options I have done several of the free Gymbox videos.
I’ve been wearing a fitness tracker for awhile, but I find it useful mostly for giving me an overall record of activity rather than day-to-day goal setting. My house is quite small so not a lot of opportunity to rack up steps on household chores. The tracker counts my movement on the rower at the gym as steps, but not the treadmill. But I definitely can use it to get a sense of how active vs. sedentary I have been over the course of time. (Assuming I remember to wear it - as far as the device is concerned, I was dead on Sunday, because I forgot to put it on after I got out of the shower)
^^You’re saying it doesn’t count steps on the treadmill?? Why not, you’re moving? Def counts my steps on an indoor track or treadmill.
I can’t understand why it wouldn’t pick up the treadmill, unless you are holding on to the rail and not moving your arm at all. I get good treadmill tracking with my Apple and also with my prior FitBits.
Did an indoor cycling wattage training ride tonight on my Kickr Bike using Sufferfest as the platform. In the past, I’ve used TrainerRoad and Zwift but Sufferfest may be the smartest and most entertaining program of the 3. Only my second Sufferfest session, so time will tell.
For anyone contemplating handstand push-ups, using a TRX can be a great tool to progressively train to get there. Look for YouTube videos of inverted presses if you have an interest.
I don’t have the app but do have lots of sufferest videos (back in the day this was how they monetized it) and it was what I used for many a winter night. I love blender, half is easy, fight club (love) ISLIGIATT, etc. Sometimes they just make you LOL. I have a bit of sufferfest music on spotify and it triggers muscle memory!
The advances in technology available to us “civilian” cyclists today is unbelievable. With “Smart” trainers and indoor bikes and streaming software platforms that will connect to them in both directions, so that the software can read what you are going on the bike (watts, speed, cadence, heart rate) and can also control the resistance level and (in the case of the Kickr Bike) even the tilt of the frame to match the topography of the ride or wattage profile of the structured training ride you are doing, the possibilities are endless.
Add to it that the newest high end indoor cycles enable you to perfectly match the sizing and fit of your favorite bike, down to the crankarm length, and program the bike to provide a simulated drivetrain that matches your chainrings and cogset with onboard shifters that can be programmed to as Campy, Shimano, Sram mechanical and Sram ETAP. Couple all of this with the virtual world of Zwift where your avatar rides with avatars of cyclists from all over the world or the bird’s eye helmet cam videos of actual pro peloton rides from your vantage point of where are in the pack, it’s just amazing. And I can choose to either ride a structured training ride in erg mode where the program controls the resistance or ride in the sim mode where the program adds resistance and tilts the frame to match topography, I can shift gears like I am out on the road. Freakin’ amazing.
Is there a zwift/sufferfest marriage?
Anyone that ever considered a peleton package really needs to have a friend who knows better.