Am i deciphering this correctly in that you hit 100 for a PR and you aren’t ringing the bell. Forget your rep PR you hit an actual single PR. Nice work man.
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I took it as he matched a previous PR, which not his goal is still good in my book. Beats regression!
@simo74 @wanna_be that’s pretty much bang on, yeah. The 100kg is a PR by 10kg actually. I was pretty happy about that. That’s my 1 plate press and 2 plate bench knocked off with no real prep, onto the squat and dead.
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WTF Dagill I’ll second Simo I read it to wondered WHAT.
Then Simo wrote it, I reread it.
The first time you bench 2 plates there should be bells and whistles man.
Well then “just congratulations then”
Thsnks man. Yeah, i was writing it at 1am so probably wasn’t too clear.
First 2 plate bench since restarting, 10kg PR. Not gonna lie, I was pretty happy with that, especially as it was completely unplanned.
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In the word of Ric Flair WOOOOOOO
Great job mate.
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Thanks man. I’ll try not to get too carried away and start trying to max everything out.
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Good job on the PR!
Nice work on the cleans as well. You’re not as weak as you say! First time I did them correctly my legs were smashed by the ATG front squats. And well, conditioning should not leave you on the floor panting anyway
Oh, I didn’t say I did them correctly. My form would probably make plenty of people wince, but it was getting smoother. I’m going to try and practice a bit before I start programming them heavy. Broken wrists sound unfun.
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Nice job on the single man!
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Congrats on the mostly undocumented bench PR!
CT has videos on YouTube and his ThibArmy site on learning the clean. They’re pretty useful.
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Thanks man.
I’ve vaguely searched on here for O lifting articles, didn’t really occur to me to check Thibs stuff really. No idea why not. I’m trying to take my time with it, because I’m not allowed to leap into new programming now anyway, but the half assed O-lifts I do are definitely proving to be one of the stand outs of a surprisingly successful program.
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His videos are great. Performing the “catch drill” without weight is a great exercise. I do them often for warm-ups
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I’ll slowly start trying to take a look. 3 months to learn (although I have some low key targets already)
Work for today:
AM: 2km rower in 500m intervals, average 1:55 per 500m. First much slower, last much faster.
Try and throw a kettlebell around later, depends how work goes.
Work for today:
Skipped morning training because I’m lazy and disorganised.
PM: 10 rounds of:
10 kb swings (24kg)
20m sprint start.
Rest is the 20m walk back. Sucking a surprising amount of wind here for what I thought would be an easy one. Glad I didn’t go for the hard option of 10x10 squats superset with swings. That can go on the back burner for when I’m feeling brave.
So a response to @Frank_C post in his log:
Thank you for this post J, it’s a sentiment I’ve been feeling a lot lately as well, put far more eloquently.
I lift/exercise first and foremost for my health, mostly mental but also physical. In fantasy land, that means I can aim to look like a cover star, but in the real world we all know I won’t get there without making sacrifices I’m not prepared to make. So what can I do?
- Get stronger, it makes me happier, it makes me better at life.
- Get bigger, see above.
- Not get fat - no-one can see how shredded my abs aren’t. In a few years I may decide to get more serious and shred down. For now “Not fat” is plenty
- Get out of breathe some - see above. It makes me happier, healthier and better at life.
These are my “big picture” goals. They will probably change over time. At a certain point I will probably be “strong enough”, at a certain point I will likely want to lean up etc. etc
For now I’ll eat mostly clean, count calories occassionally to keep my eye in, weigh myself every week ish and eat for performance. Lift regularly and hard, get out of breathe some.
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So disclaimer up front: I came into this feeling like shit and dreading the workout so I wanted a win.
Work for today:
Squat: worked up to 92.5kg x 5
100kg x 1
110kg x 1
120kg x 1
130kg x 1
Paused squat: 5 x 5(?) @ 75kg
RDLs: 2 x 15 @75kg
Bench: 8 x 3 @ 85kg
Pulldowns: 5 x 10
Seated press: 8 x 3 @ 55kg
Notes:
- So I decided to go for a max squat, because I’m stupid, see disclaimer above. Sleep has been poor, fighting off an infection and tweaked my lower back yesterday doing stupid at work. Seems like a perfect time to go for a 3 plate squat right? Especially if you haven’t squatted over 2 plates in several months. I’m a fucking genius. Hope the red eyes clear up by the morning or the missus will rip me a new one.
- Rest of the workout was fine. Felt pretty light and stable, ready for weights to increase next session.
No more max attempts until Christmas. Hold me to it.
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Deal.
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It’s tough. I feel your pain!
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