Good news: Neck finally loosened up and I can turn my head easily again.
Bad News: While I slept I suspect the ghosts of my old pet hamsters who I tortured with spinning their little travel globes around and around and around day after day, have come back in the night and cursed me by inserting a butterfly mounting pin into the middle of my back.
Can’t even take a deep breath. !Que Lastima!
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Good news: Neck finally loosened up and I can turn my head easily again.
Bad News: While I slept I suspect the ghosts of my old pet hamsters who I tortured with spinning their little travel globes around and around and around day after day, have come back in the night and cursed me by inserting a butterfly mounting pin into the middle of my back.
Can’t even take a deep breath. !Que Lastima![/quote]
Sounds like massage time Tony. Hope it loosens up soon.
[quote]soldog wrote:
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Good news: Neck finally loosened up and I can turn my head easily again.
Bad News: While I slept I suspect the ghosts of my old pet hamsters who I tortured with spinning their little travel globes around and around and around day after day, have come back in the night and cursed me by inserting a butterfly mounting pin into the middle of my back.
Can’t even take a deep breath. !Que Lastima!
Sounds like massage time Tony. Hope it loosens up soon.[/quote]
Thanks for the good wishes, Soldog.
I get these periodically. They fade in a couple days, but it’s gonna screw up my schedule for squat/DL’ing today.
Thats some damn fine pressing and rowing. Hopefully you’ll be feeling better soon.
tennis/lacrosse ball leaning hard on the wall is the only thing that helps me with that upper back nerve lockage. give that a try if you’re not already doing it
I may try the hepburn program some time. Arent you supposed to end the workout with some pump-up stuff? or was that the wrong part in the article?
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
tennis/lacrosse ball leaning hard on the wall is the only thing that helps me with that upper back nerve lockage. give that a try if you’re not already doing it
I may try the hepburn program some time. Arent you supposed to end the workout with some pump-up stuff? or was that the wrong part in the article?[/quote]
That was one of the things the biographer and the article got wrong. You’ll kill yourself if you try to do all that. I tried it. Lemme tell ya - it’s hard pressing these keys down with mind power and wispy ectoplasm.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
mjnewland wrote:
tennis/lacrosse ball leaning hard on the wall is the only thing that helps me with that upper back nerve lockage. give that a try if you’re not already doing it
I may try the hepburn program some time. Arent you supposed to end the workout with some pump-up stuff? or was that the wrong part in the article?
That was one of the things the biographer and the article got wrong. You’ll kill yourself if you try to do all that. I tried it. Lemme tell ya - it’s hard pressing these keys down with mind power and wispy ectoplasm.[/quote]
Whispering ectoplasm, Batman! What are you talking about?
I did quite a bit of hunting around on the internet (where everything is true). I got the impression that Mr. Hepburn did a lot of experimenting on himself, and sort of found what worked best for him. As he got older, he cut out the pump sets. I have to wonder if he just didn’t need them as he got older, or if they became too much for him, or what exactly.
Quite a bit of what I read was from guys who claimed to have known Mr. Hepburn, and to have gotten their info directly from him, like the guy on the thread.
Anyway, regardless of the true religion of Hepburn, I really like the 8x2 as opposed to one set of 5 ala Madcow. You get more work, but it seems less stressful. Also, I like the idea of the gradual progression (8x2, 1x3 + 7x2, 2x3 + 6x2, etc). I think Madcow progressed to fast for an old fart like me.
Thanks for introducing this!
Thanks for the kind words. I’ll be out of control at Eagle Gym. If it’s a nice day may go tire flipping. They have an 18" platform for deads that I love, my poor form doesn’t matter there. The texas bar they have will eat up your hands, normaally leave bleeding. I hope you caught the zercher vid on HT’s thread, I was thinking of you. Train hard and whenever possible may it fucking heavy.
Your buddy
The Missouri Mule
2009-10-19
Anderson Squats
135x5
185x5
225x3
275x3
315x2
335 1,1,miss,1,1,1
Deadlifts
The good bars were taken so…
DB stiff legged DL
230 5x2 sets
(Bar was free)
DL
315x3
385x2
435 1x5 sets
Pullups
BWx5 (to sternum)
+25x5
+50x3
+70 1x7 sets (Gonna put 10 more pounds on - too easy)
Hammer curls
(cross body “touch the titties”)
60’sx8
(straight out “shlam the shoulder”)
60’sx8
right arm cable press downs
50x12
60x12
40x15
db L’s in front.
20 20x1 set (left)
20 20x2 sets (right)
Good session. Weight loss has made things harder (185 again), but still in the game. Took the poundage down by 10 on Anderson’s because that’s where it’s supposed to be based on percentages and I wasn’t going to get 5@345 anyway. Bad setup on set #3 and started taking 5 min between sets after that.
DL’s feel a lot heavier when they share the day woth squats, but they’re not wrecking me (e.g. back is not twanging after the session) so it’s good.
[quote]barryjenkins00 wrote:
Thanks for the kind words. I’ll be out of control at Eagle Gym. If it’s a nice day may go tire flipping. They have an 18" platform for deads that I love, my poor form doesn’t matter there. The texas bar they have will eat up your hands, normaally leave bleeding. I hope you caught the zercher vid on HT’s thread, I was thinking of you. Train hard and whenever possible may it fucking heavy.
Your buddy
The Missouri Mule[/quote]
I did catch that lift. I was impressed, naturally.
Great work, DCA. That is a lot of lifting! Everything looks strong (as usual) but the chins and curls really blow me away. You must have nanobots in you lats and biceps…
185!!! You need a double whopper stat. And a banana split to follow.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Great work, DCA. That is a lot of lifting! Everything looks strong (as usual) but the chins and curls really blow me away. You must have nanobots in you lats and biceps…[/quote]
Those are the only two places where I have advantageous muscle attachments.
I should have been born a gibbon.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
185!!! You need a double whopper stat. And a banana split to follow.[/quote]
I’m thinking triple Whopper.
Twice a day.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Thats some damn fine pressing and rowing. Hopefully you’ll be feeling better soon.[/quote]
Feelin’ better. Still hurts but it doesn’t seem to keep me from keeping an arch for squatting and deadlifting, so I dood them yesterday.
I think it cam about from doing extra rows on the right side. The upper mid back there is weaker and smaller than the left. The growth and tension of new muscle is yanking the mid back vertebrae back where they ought to be, I’m thinking.
Still trying to fix all those mini-probs that arose due to my biceps tendon being out of it’s groove for two years of training.
maybe you can write up a good version of hepburn’s workout, make a book like Jim Wendler’s, and sell it online to be a jillionnaire
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
maybe you can write up a good version of hepburn’s workout, make a book like Jim Wendler’s, and sell it online to be a jillionnaire[/quote]
Hmmmm…
2009-10-20
Rolling Thunder lift
100 1x10 sets (each side)
100x20sec (each side)
2Hand Pinch block lift
100x0,0,0,0 (wth?)
2-hand Plate pinch lift
3 quarters 1x3 sets.
Well my pinching strength is waaaaay down. Used to be able to pick up 50lbs one handed in the plate pinch lift. My hands might still be tired from doing the 10 sec hold on the last deadlift yesterday, though.
edit:
6 mile bike ride. Didn’t have to switch gears at all during the ride and kept the gear settings at the highest the whole trip. Felt just fine at the end of the ride. I think I’ve adapted.
or you could be a pussy now.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
or you could be a pussy now.[/quote]
or that, yeah…