I am become soreness. Not recovering quickly enough from the higher reps I’ve been doing at the weight I’ve been doing them. I’m going to have to reevaluate the poundages I’ve been using for assistance work on lower body and revise downward if I want to survive my own program.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I am become soreness. Not recovering quickly enough from the higher reps I’ve been doing at the weight I’ve been doing them. I’m going to have to reevaluate the poundages I’ve been using for assistance work on lower body and revise downward if I want to survive my own program.[/quote]
Rub some dirt on it…sorry, couldn’t resist. I am experiencing mucho soreness myself, the fact that it is cold now doesn’ help either. Once the thermometer drops below 30 I find it harder to every feel truly warmed up and ready these days.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I am become soreness. Not recovering quickly enough from the higher reps I’ve been doing at the weight I’ve been doing them. I’m going to have to reevaluate the poundages I’ve been using for assistance work on lower body and revise downward if I want to survive my own program.[/quote]
Rub some dirt on it…sorry, couldn’t resist. I am experiencing mucho soreness myself, the fact that it is cold now doesn’ help either. Once the thermometer drops below 30 I find it harder to every feel truly warmed up and ready these days. [/quote]
Dang! My petard has been auto-hoisted!
On second thoughts, I’m rushing things again with this extra volume. I have a good two months to boost my deadlift and what I was doing previously worked pretty good. Dunno that I need to push volume SO hard…
Sorry you are one of us form challenged deaders. Awesome pressing. Congrats on the PR. I always wonder what the number would be with decent form and at 54 I may never know. Have a great week.
[quote]barryjenkins00 wrote:
Sorry you are one of us form challenged deaders. Awesome pressing. Congrats on the PR. I always wonder what the number would be with decent form and at 54 I may never know. Have a great week.[/quote]
I don’t mind so much being form-challenged, except that it’s robbing me of pounds down the road. Still too much back and not enough hamstring, dangit. Gotta do something about these skinny pins.
2009-12-13
Reverse band OHP (Doubled minis - ~90lbs at bottom)
230x1 (Push Press - Testing)
140x5
190x5
210x5
220x3
230x1 (and just about passed out - baseline PR)
205x5
These are very different from pin press lockouts. They force me to push my head through more for some reason. I need to think about how to extend the bands lower. I’m getting too much help at the bottom, I think. Doing RB push presses would be an interesting experiment as well.
These are going to be christened Arby presses just because I think it’s funny.
edit: After the Honey-Do list (during which I bought 12 feet of chain for my soon-to-be chain yoke)
Arby Squats
230x5
320x3
410x3
480x2
520xmiss (Got folded over)
515x1 (PR +5 lbs)
460x5 (PR +2 reps)
8" step ups (right leg only)
230 10x2 sets (PR + 5 lbs)
Now for to buy Kriztsmas tree and rows after that.
edit #2: Christmas tree is in the living room, happily shedding needles. And I am beat from the earlier stuff and the extra volume of previous days. Rows tomorrow maybe. Deload for the next 2-3 sessions.
Nice work!
One of my teammates told me that at higher weights, you’ve got to push your head through to get the weight up. It’s a leverage thing.
If the minis are too much accommodation, you could go to micro minis. They have the added benefit of being cheap. 
(and EFS now has smaller-diameter micro minis, so you wouldn’t have to quad them)
Thanks MCL,
That’s the way it seems to be working for sure.
I’ll look into the micro minis. thye may be just “the thang.”
Nice work my alibaster friend, but do tell, what are Arby squats? Aren’t those what you do after curly fries and a greasy fake roast beef?
[quote]PeteS wrote:
Nice work my alibaster friend, but do tell, what are Arby squats? Aren’t those what you do after curly fries and a greasy fake roast beef? [/quote]
Reverse Band = R.B. = Arby.
Ah - blessed deload cycle - though if how I feel is any indication it’s going to be a short one. I’m feeling pretty good. Took down more calories than normal yesterday and feel like I’m at 90% as it stands.
Next two sessions, maybe three, is 65% of top set weight for 5 and trying to rebalance this shoulder and hip to match the left side.
Rotating out the arby squats and replacing them with box squats. Going to try banded front squats, high Anderson’s and keeping the sumo’s in. Thinking of working incline presses for reps rather than a max but haven’t decided yet.
I like where you are going with this. The variety is killer!
2009-12-14
Right Upper rebalance work
DB row (Keeping shoulder socketed - no stretch)
60 10x3 sets
Fat man diamond pushups (bar at pin 5)
15-20x3 sets (using left arm as fallback on failure)
DB Curls (keeping shoulder back)
35 8x3 sets
UPright DB extensions
25 15x2 sets
DB External rotations
25x8
10x20,20
Right arm and rotator cuff is PUMPED baby. Time to hit the beach.
scale sez…
195!
I don’t think I ever remember you doing curls before. Pump the guns!!! congrats on the 195.
I am dusted. I had some sort of gastrointestinal stressor last night and couldn’t sleep for the feeling of someone burning their way out of my belly and back with an oxyacetylene torch. Second time I’ve gotten this and I have no idea what triggers it. Completely gone this morning. Happens at the site of the solar plexus and position doesn’t matter - lying, sitting, hanging from the ceiling (don’t ask) or writhing around on the carpet.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I am dusted. I had some sort of gastrointestinal stressor last night and couldn’t sleep for the feeling of someone burning their way out of my belly and back with an oxyacetylene torch. Second time I’ve gotten this and I have no idea what triggers it. Completely gone this morning. Happens at the site of the solar plexus and position doesn’t matter - lying, sitting, hanging from the ceiling (don’t ask) or writhing around on the carpet.[/quote]
Oh shit, thats no fun. Do you have a hiatal hernia?
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I am dusted. I had some sort of gastrointestinal stressor last night and couldn’t sleep for the feeling of someone burning their way out of my belly and back with an oxyacetylene torch. Second time I’ve gotten this and I have no idea what triggers it. Completely gone this morning. Happens at the site of the solar plexus and position doesn’t matter - lying, sitting, hanging from the ceiling (don’t ask) or writhing around on the carpet.[/quote]
Oh shit, thats no fun. Do you have a hiatal hernia?[/quote]
Nope. So far as I know I have nothing wrong with me. I’m trying to figure out if it was something I ate, or nerve pressure or what it is. It’s very rare and the last time I got it was pretty much the same situation as last night: I did some concentrated right shoulder rebalance work. It hurts along the right side of the spine right in the upper middle goes through my body and presents pain in the solar plexus. So I wonder if I’m irritating a nerve or something. Otherwise, it’s the rice pilaf and brussels sprouts I had. It’s all gone now, no trace, so I dunno.
rub some dirt on it, you pussy. congrats on the fading abz.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
rub some dirt on it, you pussy. congrats on the fading abz.[/quote]
Ah - crap! There it is again…
K. No more whinging.