You can stop mocking me now, 70# press

I am *finally* feeling better today, yay. Thanks for all the advice and thoughts as to why it is I might keep getting sick. I'm sure the answer is (D) all of the above.

I did get into the gym today for a little while, just to kick a few things around and test how much I can do before I start hacking up a lung. (Answer: not much) Did 30 kipping pull-ups (in sets of 3-5) and accumulated 3:00 of handstand holds. The pull-up bar at LRF is such that I need to put my hands either wider or narrower than normal. rant: Why can't my gyms just put up a normal f'ing pull-up bar? One bar, normal thickness, straight across, high enough so I can keep my legs straight when I kip? Nothing sticking out in the middle, no weird structure, just a god damn BAR. HOW is that so f'ing DIFFICULT? /rant The kipping went better when I narrowed my grip. I tuckered out quick today, but I plan to get lots of kipping practice in the next six weeks and today was a decent start.

Also, random... on my way out, I had this sensation of being quietly taunted. As I was in the gym by myself, I couldn't figure out what it was, but I also couldn't shake it. Then I realized... it was the squat rack. More specifically, the bar sitting on the squat rack. It was calling me names, backed up by a pair of 10# plates and a couple of 2.5#s. It was a chorus of mockery, and I could NOT just walk away. Dunno, for some reason I just wanted to try to push that damn elusive 70# up over my head today. So I warmed up with a few 45# presses and then loaded up the bar and gave it a go.

And it went.

Kinda easy, too.

Yes.

Note, I have already broken the rules of my new program (which sort of hasn't even started yet), which was that 1RM attempts would be done in a structured fashion after several weeks of working 3x5s. Spank me. And fuck it, because I've been going for this press FOREVER and finally, today, I got it.

If a press PR goes up in a gym all alone, does anyone hear my happy dance?