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Workout

A Sprained Glute =(

Makes squats really hard. I thought I had tweaked something during my powerlifting session on Monday and since I was only doing upper body on Wednesday, I thought I'd be over it by today. Tossed down the foam roller as usual at the beginning, and didn't hit anything there, so I moved on to hang power cleans without much fuss.

My Body

Maura Barclay on Sublimating Your Urge to Run

Maura Barclay is a former two-time Junior Olympian gymnast and a former professional fire fighter. She's also the creator of Unbreakable Woman, Awesome Arms, and a Yoga Tuneup teacher and teacher trainer.

I’ve evolved from being a posing weight lifter to being a yogi who's changing the world one body at a time. The truth is, I grew up with dangerous men in my family, and I’m a survivor of that. Because I grew up in a dangerous environment, it usually goes one of two ways. Girls have very bad boundaries, because your boundaries are trespassed again and again. So women are very flirtatious and are looking for protection. Or my route, I became my own protector. I became a warrior. The weight lifting was to protect me, to make me strong. Because I grew up feeling like at any moment something was going to happen to me, I grew up always feeling like I had to be careful. The weight lifting was a function of that mindset.

Why the Y

Russian Mole People Take Over Weight Room

Ed Note: When she's not interviewing DVD Divas, Kim is our YMCA Correspondent. "The Y is like my little brother," she says. "I love it, but also insist on the right to criticize it perpetually."

While my family may have fled their Eastern European shtetl some time in the early 1900s, I can still bond with my Slavic brethren anytime I want, just by going to the Park Slope YMCA weight room. Russian speakers don't abound at the Park Slope Y in general, just in the basement weight room. They seem to arrive via an underground tunnel directly from the Soviet Bloc.

New York

Workout

worked out despite swollen and sore muscles

So, day 2 of really super, horrible muscle soreness I still dragged my little self to the gym. I was hoping to spin, but the class was full of all these new years resolution people. So, I went to WellSCULPT and it was surprisingly ok. I mean, I can barely go from sitting to standing but I can still do a sculpt class miraculously. Maybe I am a badass after all!

Workout

mood lift

Yesterday afternoon I was sleepy from class, feeling a little sulky and overwhelmed.  Remedy?  Big lift day.  I didn't get a ton of playing time on Sunday, so instead of recovery I hit weights: