10 Miles Back Again

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661

Congrats on the pr!

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662

Thanks man. Still weak sauce compared to most on here, but itā€™s coming back slowly.

663

Everyone has got their own journey and besides progress is progress.

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664

Work for today:
Jumps: 10
Squat: worked up to 5 x 95kg ss hanging knee raises and pull ups
Then: 25 x 75kg
Hamstring curls machine: some
Bench: 8 x 3 @ 80kg
Seated press: 8 x 3 @ 50kg ss pull ups.

Notes:

  • slightly different approach tonight. It was a long day and I just wanted everything done so:
  • all squat FSL sets combined into one set of 25 (donā€™t do this if you still have a bit of a cough going on, itā€™s silly)
  • subbed pull downs for pull ups and supersetted them with any movement with a bar near.
  • used the hamstring machine instead of RDLs, purely because I forgot them and couldnā€™t be arsed to reload the bar. I do quite like this though, so it may become a regular feature.
  • I backed off weights on the 8 x 3ā€™s substantially and cut rest periods. The weights were meant to go up again, however I hadnā€™t completed the 8 x 3 at the last weight especially on bench.
  • Everything felt fairly smooth today, slight pain in the right knee on some of my heavier squat sets, but it disappeared on the light set.
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665

LOL this sound horrible

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666

Honestly? It hurt my lungs more than my legs. Especially the hacking coughs on the last 5 or so reps.

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667

Work for today: 20ish minutes incline treadmill. Felt considerably more difficult than normal, which is a bad sign. No more coughs or sniffles though.

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668

20 reps were horrible. Canā€™t imagine doing 5 more reps after that

669

Thereā€™s an FSL version that is a widow widowmaker set. You just made that worse.

670

@MarkKO @johnimperial it was meant to speed the workout up, but factor in ā€œtrying to push the floor off your faceā€ time, Iā€™m not sure it saved me much.

Iā€™m seriously considering some pretty grotesque squat volume come January though, so I guess Iā€™d better get used to it.

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671

That sounds awful man. Donā€™t you feel like puking on those kinds of sets?

672

Not on that particular one, no. I just felt like my diseased lungs would fall out.

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673

Work for today:
Clean and Press: 60kg x 2-4-4-4-4
Deadlift: 4 x 5 @120kg ss. 20 decline sit ups
Seated press: worked up to 55kg x 5
Then: 2 drop sets of:
55kg x 5
50kg x 5
40kg x 10
30kg x 10
20kg x 10
Y-raise (2.5kg plates) x 12
Y-raise (1.25kg plates) to failure.
Wendler rows: 2 x 25
Dumbbell incline bench: 3 x 12 ss. 12 x Seated cable chest flyes.
5 x 10 walking lunges (20kg)

Notes:

  • Absolutely knackered going into this, to be honest. Hard work getting myself out the door here. Itā€™s been a long week, with very little sleep and these sessions are getting less and less motivating, particularly this one which has had the most ā€œstuffā€ crammed into it.
  • Clean and Presses went fine, weight really isnā€™t a limiting factor anymore, itā€™s the fatigue that builds. Closing in on the 5 x 5 goal.
  • Deadlifts were smooth as anything. I started putting the @Alpha bracing tips into use (thanks @ChickenLittle). Going to take a bit of practise to get the most out of them I think, but itā€™s not like Iā€™m going to be moving big weights in a hurry anyway.
  • Press was technically a PR, because I donā€™t think Iā€™ve pressed that weight for AMRAPS before, but was still about half of my aim. Clattered my chin on the second rep, which probably didnā€™t help. I went on and did the same weight for 5 reps in the two drop sets, so Iā€™m just putting it down to a bad set.
  • Iā€™m just playing with the ā€œchest pump workā€ now. I kinda liked this set up, but not sure I can be bothered with it again.
  • In terms of the #committed challenge, Iā€™m planning to complete the 9 remaining sessions which should take me most of the way to Christmas anyway. If I end up with one or two ā€œspareā€ sessions at the end I intend to do the last 2 sessions of the Kroc Deadlift program as I wonā€™t quite have finished them, plus whatever else I want. Maybe try some new ideas out for January, maybe try a stupid challenge or two, weā€™ll see.
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674

Whatā€™s this committed challenge?

675

Thereā€™d a thread about it in the Bigger Stronger Leaner section, battling program ADD.

TL:DR is you pick a program and run it from September through to Christmas.

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676

Ok cool. Thanks.

677

Itā€™s been pretty successful so far so I wouldnā€™t be surprised if @Frank_C runs it again next year.

678

Sounds interesting, Iā€™ll definitely join next year. I have a tendency of jumping on to the next shiny program lol

679

Work for today:
10 x 10 kb swings, 36kg.

Lower body slightly DOMS-ey today. Even quads for no reason I can figure.

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680

That was the point! Iā€™ll let the T-ransformation Challenge do itā€™s thing til June. I think the end of the year works well for this challenge.

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