Looking at the pictures, especially the space outside the handgrips, it may be the 60kg I’ve used. I’ll compare when I eventually get access to it again (April 12th, all being well).
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Yea yea stop trying to make yourself feel better!
Weirdly enough the 60kg one has a smaller diameter.
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Yeah - SW Cornwall is a long way from ANYWHERE lol.
The 50kg log looks to be the right starting place. I might hold off though - with gyms opening in 7 weeks (I think) its an investment I don;t have to make right now.
I think working with a bigger log is always better. Its easier to adjust to a smaller than the other way around. Once I used a 12 inch log the same weight on the 10 inch feel SO much easier.
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Do they have a 300kg log? Because if so, it was definitely one of them.
The log is definitely one of those tools that you use once and go “what the fuck was that?” If I was going the home gym route (and I probably will once living arrangements change), its pretty high on my list.
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It’s funny, because you see a log and go “big deal: all I can do is clean and press it”, and then you do a viper press with it and go “oh, this is a full body thing now”
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Even the normal log lift is all over tough. First time using the log it felt more like a legs and core exercise.
Being explosive through the clean, getting your hips under takes so much out of me. As does the leg drive before the press.
As time when on - it changed to my back. Trying to keep the log as tight to my body as possible and keep my elbows high and back.
In fact I think every time I’ve maxed on log clean and press its because my clean has gone. Even when the press looks to the be the bit that’s given up - its because my clean was poor and the log is sitting too low. And I’m using a lot of energy up just holding it in position.
It helps that I give absolutely zero f**ks about leg drive, haha.
I need it. Other wise my log numbers become embarrassingly low…
Viper press is another solution there.
I have seen the viper press. But I’m that poor at normal I feel like I owe it to myself to get this to a respectable standard before swapping. Otherwise I feel like I’m giving up too easily.
Eh, I figure, you get good at that, you’ll get good at all pressing. Same reason I prioritize strict over push. When my strict goes up, my push press goes up. When my push press goes up, my strict press can sometimes go down.
Fair comment. I doubt many people will add 5% to their strict and not add something to their push press.
Today:
Front squat:
Bar X 5, 60kg X 5, 80kg X 5, 100kg X 2, 110kg X 1
Chins (varying grips): 10kg X 5 X 5 set
Dips: 10kg X 10 X 5 sets
Felt like the lower section of my obliques were going to explode at 110kg - bracing working like it should, needs strengthening, can’t believe I’m going to say this but more front squats are the answer here. Back felt good despite feeling tight going in.
Front squat: 60kg X 10, 10, 8 rest pause 8 breaths.
Football bar press: 30kg X 5, 50kg X 3, 60kg X 3
S/s
kB swings: 24kg X 10 X 3 sets
Emom:
Floor to OH axle: 38.5kg X 5 - 10 mins (well actually an additional minute was taken at 7 minute mark so 11 and one set was a 2 minute rest) this is deceptive and looks so easy on paper but getting that bar off the floor destroys my CV system, then about set 6 my shoulders start screaming at me. Finish collapse on the floor with actual steam rising off me.
Axle poundstones: 21kg X 70, 30 - rest pause 8 breaths, my hands have ceased into a claw shape and typing on my phone is difficult. These are awful and wonderful.
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Top work ya big ripped stud muffin
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Haha thanks dude!
Already got massive DOMs from those front squats amazing how a change of movement within the same pattern can elicit such a response. Can’t imagine I’d get any doms at all if I’d done the same session with a back squat.
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I hate front squats. Because they suck and they work, which is a horrible combination.
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For sure, I hate them so much, but doing stuff I hate generally works, doing stuff I like not so much.
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That right there is the secret to physical transformation.
Whenever you see a really jacked dude, or a great runner, or a superior athlete, you’re looking at someone that spends a LOT more of their time being unhappy than most other people.
Which is also why so many of the best athletes in the world tend to be a-holes: they’ve been having a bad day every day for decades.
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Haha that gave me a good laugh.
But yes definitely the secret to physical transformation, it’s the reason why I never get very lean, I like eating crap too much and never force myself to stop for long enough.
I have a semi regular lecture at my kids because they frequently reply when I say to stop something, “oh but I want to/I was enjoying that”, which is just terrible argument and leads me to lecture then on how I might enjoy not going to work/not going shopping/not cooking for them/ not paying the bills but we’d soon be homeless and hungry. I do so enjoying boring my kids with lectures.
The secret to success in almost anything is delayed gratification, or suffering in the present for the future gain.
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I remember a smart guy once threw this quote in response to that line of thinking:
Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I’m mostly playing Devils Advocate here, because I pretty much agree with you.
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