hspl mp
10x10x110
hspl incline bench
10x10x110
hspl pulldown
10x10x140
hspl shrug
10x10x180
hspl flat bench
10x10x110
hspl decline
10x10x190 (oops, missed that there was an extra pair of plates, didn’t figure it out until 4 set seemed heavier then it should be)
hspl row
10x10x140
hspl pullover
10x10x180
Sunday
Gorgeous day, wonder ride with SO, some long hills…
31 miles, 10.9 average
10x10 is awesome and frightening.
You are the MAN!
yesterday
3 reps on the AB WHEEL OF DOOM! didn’t think I could do 1!!!
Quite sore.
Given the way life is going, I just HAD to go HEAVY, HEAVY as hell…
– side note–
Daughter has become sick of her Mom’s shit, so sick of it she wants to move in near full time. She’s currently half time… Mom won’t let her. Gave her even more shit… and more and more…
DL
5x225 (no straps)
3x315 (no straps)
3x405 (straps from here on)
495 felt heavy
495
495
565 PR+10
495
495
495
3x405
AH, SO MUCH BETTER!!!
Funny, pull 565 and abs are sore-er-er from that Damned ab wheel.
Canada_k: I’m actually enjoying 10x10. Still trying to get weights dialed in. Seeing progress. Body is responding well. The puny weights are hard on the ego. Injuries are healing up, even arm tendons…
Recovery is holding up. Need more sleep. Need to eat better. Need to deal with stressors…
Damn fine pull! Congrats on the PR! That is a big pull…
[quote]Null wrote:
… Need more sleep. Need to eat better. Need to deal with stressors…
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don’t we all!
keep on, keepin’ on null!
The 495 felt heavy and you still successfully locked out 565. Wow!
Sometimes life stress feeds good lifting. Seems like it did in this case.
Damn fine pulling indeed.
solid work Null
good luck with the daughter stress too.
Thanks guys!
Injuries did not flame up after going heavy! Seriously sore..
ab wheel is the worst, a nasty, vile, evil, machine. Damn effective though. 3x3 (knees)
F’n spent from PR! and that Damned Evil Ab wheel… so 2 isolation exercises in program…
You know, I gotta say thanks guys, your comments meant a lot.
My SO gets what a PR means, even though she doesn’t really do max’s…
I have been quite absent from T-Nation… Too much shit going on in life… Funny, much has been positive (promotion, mass layoffs 7,500 to start, 120,000 to follow) and much has been well, the shitz…
tonight!
hspl mp
10x10x110
hspl pulldown
10x10x140
hspl flat bench
10x10x110
hspl shrug
10x10x180
hspl incline bench
10x10x110
hspl row
10x10x140
hspl decline
10x10x140
hspl pullover
10x10x180
Looking forward to a ~40 mile ride this weekend, IF weather and life cooperates…
42.65 10.3 average, 42.7 max…
Warm, gorgeous and just all in all a great day!
SQUATS…
hspl v-squat
5x270
5x360
3x450
3x540
3x630
720 (774 with weight of RAC! PR! +70)
3x3x540
Firstly, congrats on that 565 pull. That is damn, damn strong!
And congrats on the squat PR too.
How do these squat weights compare with free weights? I have no idea what a v-squat machine is sorry.
And RAC?
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
How do these squat weights compare with free weights? [/quote]
Curious to see what your answer is here.
I found that I could add more and more weight to the leg press but it never appreciably carried over to my squat.
Hey Farmer!
It’s a Hammer Strength plate loaded machine. it has like a straight padded bars that sit on your shoulders a back pad and hip pad on a long lever pivot. The foot plate is on a 45 degree angle and you push up. The weight. Given the long lever pivot the the weights have a mostly vertical path… I would say the loading feels like half way between a back squat and a front squat.
I would say they don’t compare, completely different lift. IMHO, Maxs on machines are like no skill or sublety just force in the plane (well, arc) of the machine motion. I’ve done a 465 decline bench on a machine, but flat bench (real) best I could do was 335. To be fair, my decline is much higher then my flat even on machines but I don’t have a real pre-injury flat machine max…
The gym formerly known as Gold’s has only squat racks, not cages. SO I don’t feel comfortable lifting anything I might fail on. Somewhat pathetic as I haven’t dumped a squat.
Funniest thing. John Stewart just had a funny as hell segment on Planet Fatness, about a guy who’d been tossed for grunting.
Anyway tonight’s lift.
hspl mp
10x10x110
hspl flat bench
10x10x110
hspl pulldown
10x10x140
hspl shrug
10x10x180
hspl incline bench
2x10x140
8x10x110
hspl row
10x10x140
hspl decline
10x10x180
hspl pullover
10x10x180
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
How do these squat weights compare with free weights? [/quote]
Curious to see what your answer is here.
I found that I could add more and more weight to the leg press but it never appreciably carried over to my squat.
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Most leg presses (except plate loaded) are at 45 degree angle, a few are at 60… SO physics dictates that lifting a weight half the height is half the work (neglecting the friction in the carriage)… So to get a like for like on work you have to double the weight loaded… All in all it’s a great ego stroker…
I’m sure a Rocket scientist could explain this better. We happen to have a friendly Rocket scientist… SolDog!
The magic of Hammer Strength is that they designed the leverage and curves of arcs of the weights to closely approximate a normative strength curve for the targeted excercise. He told his Dad, Arthur Jones, that he could use CAD and get similar resistance curves as the Nautilus at much lower cost and use normal commercially available materials… Think how incredibly expensive it must have been to fabricate chain cams… and not like a bicycle or motorcycle chain an anchor chain cam!!! I used to marvel at the machining those machines required! Arthur Jones would not hear of it… So Hammer Strength was born, and put Nautilus out of business!
dl
5x315 no straps
3x3x405
2x3x495
3x500(just had too)
3x3x405
hspl v-squat
5x360
3x5x450
3x3x540
hspl decline bench
3x5x270
3x3x360
3x3x450
hspl mp
10x10x120
hspl pulldown
10x10x140
hspl flat bench
10x10x120
hspl shrug
10x10x180
hspl incline bench
10x10x120
hspl row
10x10x140
hspl decline
10x10x140
hspl pullover
10x10x180
Massive stressful week… It’s all gonna work out on all of the fronts, but getting there’s gonna be a bitch.
Lift well, didn’t meet goals. But it did burn out the stress quite effectively.
DL
5x315 no straps
3x3x405
2x0x575 F!!!
3x500
500
V-squats
3x5x270
5x360
5x450
3x5x540
yesterday 5 miler hike in woods… Great trail! Daughter held up well. Reminded me that hiking 2 days after leg day was uh, not specifically a good idea…
Today:
30 miles, 10.2 average. cool gorgeous windy day! We were making good time, but we both just ran out of gas…