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5/22/2021 Workout Squat Clean Workshop Focus on Front Squat movement Thoughts: The "Warm up" was a combination of deadlifts then squat cleans until it got to a "heavy" weight. If I wasn't so sleepy at the moment from doing Contest Raid in D2 with FG, I would probably type more. But, short of it is that front squat got up to 175lbs, with 1 fail at the supposed 175lbs because my coach didn't swap the plates correctly on one side. It was a bit of a hilarious fail. Because when I got into the "hole", I couldn't get back up. I just went, "nope." Actually said it. The guy in front of my just started cracking up because he was watching me squat. My coach just held the bar, and I crawled under and away from it. No one knew it was unbalanced and heavier than expected until my partner, who was sharing the bar with me, got to it to back squat it and said, "this is unbalanced." Hah. HAHAHAHA. So, we fixed it. She back squatted it, I had to front squat... Good session.. I rushed to the store then home to get ready for the raid. 😄

😂 - that's usually my strategy. No prep... just show up. Lol.

Totally understand. I originally wanted it because of our work commute. So, that's about an hour each way. There's only so much Sudoku I could play on the train lol. Plus, I wanted to play Zelda and a few others. I was weighing my options of "how many days of train snacks do I not have to buy to get one?" Then, @TurboR56Mini surprised me with it. 😄

I'll go poke at them for that.

The series was geared toward teenagers. Not an adult novel. Not a pre-teen novel. More mature than Goosebumps. Not the level of Stephen King and Anne Rice. However, I read the books as more of a mystery than a thriller. Sure, parts were... "gory", I guess. But, I wasn't of the mind at the time where that stuff freaked me out. I just wanted to figure out who was the one murdering people in each "chapter" essentially. I thought it was really cool for an author to create such a universe that existed within multiple books and multiple centuries. It started in almost present day and would sometimes go in the past. This was before Harry Potter (Harry Potter books started in 1997. Fear Street started in 1989. I started reading them in like 1995 until the series originally ended in 1999), so it was a new-ish concept for books. Per R. L. Stine (author): "Fear Street fans are in for a treat -- and some major surprises," says Stine in the press release. "Readers know that the book series is rated PG. But the movies are rated R. That means a lot more thrills -- and a lot more terror!" Fear Street on Netflix: R.L. Stine gets rated R in new movie trilogy WWW.CNET.COM Goosebumps author R.L. Stine's other famous '90s book series turns in back-to-back movies in July.

Here's the thing... I was told to stay off my foot and work from home for at least 2 weeks. There was no way I was gonna just watch TV lol. So, I was looking specifically for the backwards compatible version. The last 2 available, which was the MSG edition, was about 50+ miles away. Hence the drive hahaha. Nintendo has some fantastic cult classic games that are almost infinitely replayable... this is why I will probably always have one. Just for those one or two games haha. There's always the Switch if you want to get into it!

Love Super Bomberman! Such nostalgia for me. Growing up, when all my first cousins would get together because of family events, Bomberman is one of the games we would play with each other. Such a blast. Would love to play it with FG! Maybe get some of those hilarious moments again.

You are not helping me with my apprehension about this lol. However, I will stick through it! And, I promise I will try not to wipe the team too often.

How many movies are there really... that you would actually watch again? Speaking of "horror", did you hear about the Fear Street movie trilogy launching on Netflix in July?? I'm pretty excited for it. I read all the books growing up as they were released. They were my easy reads during summers and whatnot.

Fun topic! You'll find my history on my first post in my PPR (I didn't include handhelds): But, also here: Gaming Consoles Owned: Apple IIc (here because it's the only out-of-the-box computer used for games) Atari 7800 NES Sega Master System SNES Sega Genesis Playstation 2 (first console I bought with my own money) GameCube Xbox 360 (out of sympathy for my now-husband) Playstation 3 (I drove 100+ miles with a broken foot to buy the backwards compatible version) Wii Playstation 4 Wii U Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Pro Playstation 5

I've seen @Ajay as a Titan... We all might need to hash out team composition during IB tonight. Please remember that we have two non-FGers to consider who signed up long before we even had a full second team, who would probably make a great addition to FG in the long run... I'm trying to get the third team formed currently too. Otherwise, we're going to need to put some on "benches" to cycle in when needed.

And here I was thinking, "I don't have to touch Lost Sectors again for a long time." 😒

5/20/2021 Workout Rowing Class Thoughts: The amount of how much I did not want to do today's workout was immense. I'm tired. Sleepy. Sore. I had the realization while walking out the house at 5:30AM that my body is happy at 4x a week of workouts and not 5x. But, I'm still glad I went. That only happens after the workout lol. If I wasn't sore enough before the rowing class, I am now! Because rowing 6,933m hurts... with intervals of body weight movements. I want to nap. Maybe I'll see about napping during lunch lol. Rest day tomorrow. Finally.

Somehow, I missed this... Or maybe I wasn't really here by September. Anyway. This is difficult, because for me, this always changes. This would only be my current Top 5. Sword Art Online Ayashi No Ceres Death Note Parasyte Clannad Not putting in Dragonball or Sailor Moon in this list. I watched them when they originally aired in Asia, and I loved them. You try explaining to your friends in US when you come back home the storyline of Dragonball Z... 😅

5/19/2021 Workout 21 minute EMOM Minute 1 - Wiper Press (65lbs) Minute 2 - Hollow Rocks Minute 3 - Rest Thoughts: If yesterday's jack knives and ring hold stabilization movements didn't give you sore abs... today's workout would! (My abs are sore from yesterday) I walked in and said, "WTF is a wiper press?" Coach James said, "Oh, how I have missed your enthusiasm at 4:45AM. Don't worry. We will show everyone what it is before the workout." I did my stretching and warm up, then as a group, did the stretching and warm up. So, Coach James started explaining the workout, then he explained what a "wiper press" was. It's the wiper movement where you are on your back on the ground, your legs are up, and you move them side to side. Fine. We know what that is. The press part is that after the "side to side", you basically do a bench press with a barbell. My reaction, "Now, you are just making shit up." Everyone laughed. Sally said, "Oh, we missed your snarkiness at 5AM!" I said, "Is it snarkiness if I'm just saying what everyone is thinking? And, I'm too asleep to keep it in my brain?" He then gave us a few minutes to add weights to the provided bars as needed. He said, "If you go light, it's more of an ab workout. If you go heavy, it's more stabilization." Me? I'll just do the 35lb bar. That's enough. For a minute a round... for 7 rounds. I'm good. A couple of minutes go by, and he says, "Everyone good with their weights?" Obvis.. yes. We're all good. He then says, "LA! Are you good? I don't see any weights on the bar." I put the 35lb bar down... then reached for the 45lb. Gave him a thumbs up. He gave me a stare-back. I said, "I guess I'm going for 65lbs then." Slapped on the 10lb plates, then he finally started the clock. Thanks, Coach James... Thanks... Not like my abs and upper body isn't sore from yesterday's stabilization workout... 😄 Got the workout down. The wiper press at the 65lbs wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be, but I did start failing at the 5th round. I will definitely be sore later tonight, and rowing tomorrow will be painful. But, for some reason, I like being sore... so I guess everyone wins?