10 Miles Back Again

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5007

It’s just going to be a 5 day trip, but 5 days with no work and no training sounds awesome right now.

They work, and they’re what I should be doing. They aren’t exciting though, like at all. I know you can make the choice between productive training and entertaining training. For myself, I’m trying to find the balance between both because this is just a hobby, so an element of entertainment feels important.

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5008

I know I don’t have a partner and kids to add fuel to the fire, but let me say I feel this 110%. I hope your trip rejuvenates.

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5009

I personally disagree, but maybe that is because I do it a bit different. Whenever I run it seriously, it scares the shit out of me every session. That’s exciting!

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5010

Work for this morning:
Bench:
5 x 5 @ 70kg

Dips: 5 x 10
Pull ups: 5 x 5

Notes:

  • Quick, basic work, nothing fancy or difficult here. Too early to figure out how well I’ve recovered from yesterday at this point.
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5011

That is so important. Better to keep it fun and keep at it long term, than to burn out doing effective stuff that becomes a chore over time.

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5012

Work for this morning:

10 x goblet squats ss. Prowler runs there and back.

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5013

I have prowler tonight, not looking forward to them.

5014

You can really tell they’re working. Because they’re awful.

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5015

Clock officially punched my man

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5016

Transformation week: the final chapter. 193.2lbs. Very similar week to last week. I did “some” training but it’s not a high priority right now. One more week of “some” training, with a pretty restrictive schedule, then a week away with the family. I plan to start to start my Kroc/531 mash up when I get back, and I’m in the process of writing out a template for it.

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5017

Work for today:
500 push ups while stuck on a 5 hour Teams meeting. Because what else are you going to do?

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5018

In my mind this totally took place in a conference room full of people and not via telecommunication.

Didn’t expect such a bold move from you but you definitely asserted your dominance bro!

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5019

Holding a meeting while working out? Quite a power move.

Sadly, this was just a “meeting” that could have been a presentation that probably should have been an email.

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5020

Work for today:

Squat:
3 x 60kg
3 x 70kg
5 x 80kg
5 x 90kg
5 x 95kg

Leg Press:
10 x 130kg
8 x 150kg
6 x 180kg

SSB lunges:
3 x 20 @ 35kg

Ab curl machine:
Some

Leg Curls:
3 x 8 @ 40kg

SLDL:
3bx 8 @ 110kg

Notes:

  • Took a whirl at the “heavy” day of the Squat program today. All done comfortably in an hour, including fannying around trying to find sensible weights and a whole lot of waiting for the Leg Curl machine (hence the ab machine). Plenty of opportunity to push hard here.
  • Squats are genuinely embarrassingly light. I was expecting these to be easy enough I could just blast through and fully expected to be able to get some air, but my Squat seems to have taken a massive hit.
  • Not convinced SSB lunges are the way to go here. Walking lunges make more sense, simply because I’m better at them.
  • I severely overestimated the ROM on Leg presses. The ROM is tiny, even with the seat tilted all the way back. Room to load up more here. Also worth noting, sled weight isn’t included in the listed weights here.
  • Ran out of energy hard on SLDLs. These alone took me 20mins, for 3 fairly easy sets. Hit a wall hard there. Maybe all the waiting around.
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5021

Sorry dude fallen off the pace with your log.
Whats happening? I see you’re doing a volume week / heavy week for your legs.
Going well? Enjoying it?

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5022

No worries dude, I’ve been a bit absent myself.

I spent the first part of the year doing variations on Morningstar which is powerclean/squat/press every session. Then I did “something” to my knee a month or two ago, and I’ve been in a kind of holding pattern ever since trying to get it sorted. I’m on holiday next week, then I’ll be going for an alternating heavy and volume weeks on squat, try and get back to where I was before my “injury”.

Today was just a test run to try and find some appropriate weights and iron out any creases before I start in earnest.

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5023

Yeah I like the idea of volume days vs heavy days. I think they push the boy is slightly different ways so recovery is easier. And you won’t burn out as fast.

I do remember your injury news. Glad to see you can still carry on training.

Whats the goals for 2021? Bigger or stronger or leaner?

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5024

Yes.

My goals for 2021 are Wendlers standards that seem to have disappeared from T-nation so apologies to the mods if this link isn’t allowed:

For me, the biggest hurdle there will be the conditioning/Cardio element because I haven’t really done much before this year.

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5025

Conditioning is easy. You can go from out of shape dad to super human killer in 8 weeks.
Week 1 100m row emom 4 of
Week 2 same but 5
Week 3 same but 6
Week 4 same but 7
Week 5 same but 8
Week 6 every 50 seconds
Week 7 every 40 seconds
Week 8 every 30 seconds.
If you manage this you’ll be in great shape.

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5026

I genuinely might steal that.

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