More posting about nothing!

Experiment success - grind coffee the night before and store it in a tiny container. Faster coffee, still fresher than pre-ground, less worry that the grinder wakes anybody up. For someone who doesn't cook much, I spend a lot of time preparing and cleaning up coffee.

Filled the tank today, 281 miles 8 gal. Love me my decade-old civic. Get one. I also may be buying honda (or toy) stock soon since I think people are over-estimating the impact of disaster on those company's profits in the next few years.

I walked, on my new grr program, to the gym yesterday at Rosslyn instead of driving to my fav Ballston. To my joy I found they renovated again - the bathrooms and shower I'll never use look downright clean and modern, but the real joy was the replacement of the squat racks and weights. The old squeaky cages are gone and replaced with new easy to adjust squat cages - joy! The weights are all new too, so I'm going to hit Rossyln more. Soon it won't be a choice as if I walk to the metro station I'd have to go there or foolishly walk home from nearly the same location only to hop in my car and drive to a gym.

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Edit - far more interesting to read about
A VEGETARIAN SABER TOOTHED CAT!!!

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I was worried I would not be able to do DL today
My back has been weak and hurt for about a week as of today
but to my joy, I not only made it through the "3" day of 5/3/1, but I also made the 5 sets of 10 reps at the end with lighter weights and best of all
I think I figured out what I was doing wrong. I think I found the source of my back injuries!

I was dead serious about resetting between reps, and was using the deloading part to pull my butt down to teh ground by pulling my hands on the bar. Somehow this was associated with a release of the arch of my back which then was jerked or wrenched back into stress when I went for my next rep. The relaxation would explain why I was more likely to get hurt on a 50-70% lift than a 75-95% lift.

Also, I wasn't squeezing my butt enough. Low and behold when you really squeeze your ass on a DL it pulls a lot of the stress off of the lumbar region. That makes no sense to me, but at least today it worked.

Whew. I think I feel better than before I lifted. I'll be happy if after over a year I found the source of my back/DL problems. Imagine the gains possible! I'll be driving around the beltway waiting for someone to have a flat tire...