Testing this week
Well, I taught my AOA class today, and did the normal squats, lunges, etc...then abs, and tried to test for squats. I did a full warm-up, a few reps with just the bar, and loaded up 350.

My first attempt was a good one, slow down, got deep, and forgot to push...failed...

Second attempt adjusted, went way shallow, and got it back up...didn't count to shallow...

Third attempt, I went down and had a slight bit of help with the push up, and I think I was too shallow again...(I counted it as a 350 lift with an asterisk)

I really need to get a beeper so I know when to push, especially when testing...

I got a great quote off of Brian Eremita's Face Book profile today...

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt

I am going to get the deadlift and clean goals this week, and jump 6'10" in December!
- posted by Pete Ippel @ 11:30 PM