Love the log. When you say baby is that the diameter?
Yeah. Probably about 8 inches? Iām not really good at estimating this stuff, to be honest.
Any log is hard. I thought it would be easier as the hand positions are neutral - this is not the case.
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Log and Sandbag between them have gone a very long way in teaching me that I am not strong recently.
Really? Or are they just harder exercises?
The Stoltman brothers train using a 125kg sand bag. If your sand bag is even 1/2 of that - thatās strong. Dam a 50kg bag is hard work. And the log is brutal. Love it as I do Iām crap at it.
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My Sandbag is mid-60s somewhere and packed pretty loose. I reckon I could get another 10kg in there if I tried.
Now you are just bragging 
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I was willing to bet as I typed it that you or cyrrex would have something to say about that
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Mate @Cyrrex would have told you that you have a small one. I am more modest.
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60kg bag looseā¦
That is hard work. Just picking that up would suck.
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It sucks in a big way, yeah. Thatās why i like it. I like being able to physically feel that youāre working on a weakness, if that makes sense.
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Work for today:
Squats:
5 x 20kg
5 x 60kg
5 x 70kg
5 x 80kg
5 x 5 @ 90kg
Snatch Grip SLDL:
3 x 20 @ 80kg
Back extensions: some
Leg Extensions: lots
Hamstring curls: lots
Notes:
- Worked up pretty slowly and carefully on squats. Pain was definitely there, but no more so than unweighted squats. It seems to be the position, not the load. Got the minimum amount of work that I could consider to be training and left it at that. Pain was irritating and not making me happy to push hard.
- Shoulda brought straps for DLs. Would probably up the weight and lower the reps in future. Took a long time of tedious work on each set to get to any useful reps.
- Went a bit ham on isolation stuff because it was pain-free and I could, basically. Also an element of feeling the weight out, because I donāt do these often enough to have a handle on how much weight to use.
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Thatās how we roll my man
Train through the pain
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Possibly the smartest thing on the internet today. When returning from an injury its all about do no harm. Any work out you donāt make it worse is a good one.
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After the machine work, the pain was totally gone. I mean, I still couldnāt walk properly, but for good reasons. Debating trying to go John Meadows style and do some isolation work first next time.
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If you have achy knees I really recommend you to try leg curls first during your leg day
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Knee, singular. The other one is fine. Itās getting better over time though, but Iāll definitely try some isolation first next squat day
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Why is that? I mean what is thinking behind it - to warm up the joint or something? (genuinely interested)
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Yeah the main movement afterwards feel just better. The knees, the hips feel better. John Meadows always do this, and I did some with CT as well. He doesnāt have a clear scientific answer but it really does. Iām guessing it has something to do with the hamstrings being the stabilizers in these quad coumpounds movements, and warming up the muscles and the articular ranges of motion
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Hmm. Makes sense, thanks for explaining.
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