You’ve shown some real discipline there. Glad your recovery has gone so well.
[quote]Elaikases wrote:
You’ve shown some real discipline there. Glad your recovery has gone so well.
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Yeah - the prospect of public humiliation is a great motivator for me.
edit:
Whoops - thought you were talking about the GPP post.
That wasn’t discpline, recovering from the back injury. That was desperation and an education in gratitude. I literally cannot imagine NOT working out in some fashion. It’s part of my mental and spiritual health regimen.
In a large part I felt the injury itself occurred because I was harboring ill will toward someone who most certainly did not deserve it. Further, I was maintaining an unhealthy competitiveness with them as well. I had polluted a healthy, life-giving past-time with negative intent.
I was given an injury from which I COULD recover so that I could put my emotional house in order around the issue and also learn to be grateful for even being able to engage in the past-time at all. God was kind - first to allow allow me to be injured, thereby alerting me to my mistake and secondly to allow me to recover from that injury (and hopefully rectify my intentions).
I haven’t talked about it in this context as most people will likely think it slightly nutty, but this is how it’s appeared to me ever since it happened. I had NEVER been injured while weightlifting. Hurt, yes, from overdoing or doing too much too soon, but never injured. And the occurrence between bad intention and injury was nearly immediate. I had done that exercise in that way numerous times before with no harm.
Those who understand will understand and may peace settle upon the rest.
[quote]mday wrote:
skidmark wrote:
The QL is the muscle responsible for maintaining hip position with respect to the spine along with the external oblique muscles. The difference is that it attaches to the hip and the spinal column.
Helps with walking by both lifting and rotating the hip and stabilizing the above relationship of hip to spine when holding an offset load. Also when both QL are firing they strengthen and brace the lumbar spinal column during squats and deadlifts.
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It might just be me, but Skidmark reminds me of the Holiday Inn Express adds.
Q. “Are you a doctor?”
A. “No, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
Skid, I thought you worked on computers for a living?[/quote]
On second thoughts - them’s fightin’ words.
Go insult someone who can kick your ass and then write to me about it.
Y’know -
I was looking at my avatar there and taking a close look at Norb Schemansky (guy on the right) you can see that he’s got big arms, big legs, big shoulders and almost next to no chest development.
I’m pretty sure that guy could move around just about anything in his house that he felt like. All without a chest. And he doesn’t really look the worse for it.
This got me to thinking bout something else. If it wasn’t for the fact that our fool heads are in the way our shoulders muscles could have the same advantageous leverage that the pecs do, which comes from being attached at the midpoint of the body. Wouldn’t it be something to be able to press overhead (so called, since we have magically reseated the head in some other location - and no scatological references from any of you!) the same amount of weight that you can bench? Not push press but flat out military press.
I’m going to bed now.
Your heart rate must have been sky high doing those kettlebell swings. Nice change of pace with that workout.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
mday wrote:
skidmark wrote:
Never listen to a doctor who does not believe in the human spirit.[/quote]
Fixed that for you.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
skidmark wrote:
mday wrote:
skidmark wrote:
Never listen to a doctor who does not believe in the human spirit.
Fixed that for you. [/quote]
Yours is better and more accurate for sure.
Thanks Hel.
2008-10-24
Lower and shoulders
Atg Squat w/u
135x5
185x5
225x5
275x3
Box Squat (Parallel)
315 3x3
Sumo Speed Deads
335 8x3
Seated Overhead press from chin
135x3
155x3
175x3
185x1 (banging against the squat rack)
1 Arm DB Press
75x5
80x5
85x2,2
80x3,3
Close Grip Pulldown
150x5
200x5
250x5,5,7 (PR sets and Reps on last set)
Face Pulls
80 12,12,16
Happy with the squats though no PR. THese were the most solid I’ve done at this weight. I even lost my balance on the last rep of the last set and sat down too fast. Getting up was hard, but I got some encouragement from another gym member and that got me out of the hole.
Sumo’s are weird. It’s like someone rubber cemented the plates to the floor. The cement breaks about 2 inches off the floor and you practically throw the bar over your head. I can really feel them working the right areas in the glutes and legs though.
You really need a power rack to do overhead pin presses. I tried a squat rack in the gym, but the catcher pins are too long and I kept running in to the set above where I was racking the bar on the push up. called it and did the 1 Arm DB Press.
Good session. I feel worked.
12 days left in my gym membership and someone finally seriously asks me what the hell I’m doing.
A fella saw me doing box squats and was curious about them. He started asking me all sorts of questions about squatting wide - why I did it, what the benfits were, how come I was deadlifting and squatting in the same session.
I told him about speed work and not going heavy-heavy on the two exercises in the same session, how wide squatting saved the knees and really built the glutes/hams and how sitting on the box develops power out of the bottom.
We talked about training the Central Nervous System with the speed work and why you should try to lift as fast as possible regardless of weight on the bar.
At one point he said “Well - that’s okay for you young fellas, but I don’t think it would work to well for 50-year old guys like me.” So I told him I was only 4 years younger than him.
Made him think a little, I believe. He asked me if I was going to change the way I trained when I hit 50 and I told him that I didn’t see any reason to.
We’d gotten a little circle of older guys going by then all of them listening to what we were talking about. We might have given them something to think about…
No GPP today. Went swimming last night at the community pool with the Wife and son and a friend of his.
I. Do. Not. Float.
I’m going to have to do some recovery work today. My back, ass,and hamstrings are so tight I had to wear slipon shoes today. Fuggedaboud socks.
In short, precisely the effect I wanted from yesterdays session. Sumo’s are the ticket.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I’m going to have to do some recovery work today. My back, ass,and hamstrings are so tight I had to wear slipon shoes today. Fuggedaboud socks.
In short, precisely the effect I wanted from yesterdays session. Sumo’s are the ticket.[/quote]
Tight calves are the worst.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
12 days left in my gym membership and someone finally seriously asks me what the hell I’m doing.
A fella saw me doing box squats and was curious about them. He started asking me all sorts of questions about squatting wide - why I did it, what the benfits were, how come I was deadlifting and squatting in the same session.
I told him about speed work and not going heavy-heavy on the two exercises in the same session, how wide squatting saved the knees and really built the glutes/hams and how sitting on the box develops power out of the bottom.
We talked about training the Central Nervous System with the speed work and why you should try to lift as fast as possible regardless of weight on the bar.
At one point he said “Well - that’s okay for you young fellas, but I don’t think it would work to well for 50-year old guys like me.” So I told him I was only 4 years younger than him.
Made him think a little, I believe. He asked me if I was going to change the way I trained when I hit 50 and I told him that I didn’t see any reason to.
We’d gotten a little circle of older guys going by then all of them listening to what we were talking about. We might have given them something to think about…[/quote]
That may very well be the first time they have heard the truth. The fact that you are walking the walk as well as talking the talk, may well have changed a couple of life’s. So much misimformation out there, the truth must be spoken.
Great training Skid! Those sumos have done the same thing to me this week. Felt sore in some new places. I’m gonna try different rep schemes and see how it improves the lift for me as I’m new to them. Those box squats are outstanding!
[quote]daddyzombie wrote:
Great training Skid! Those sumos have done the same thing to me this week. Felt sore in some new places. I’m gonna try different rep schemes and see how it improves the lift for me as I’m new to them. Those box squats are outstanding![/quote]
Thanks DZ.
I’m sticking with conventional on the DL days. Squat days I’m going sumo on the “speed” sets and see if that helps push the conventional DLs up. I’m also hoping they’ll build my squat which, while moving up, isn’t doing so as fast as I would like. I can’t help but think the volume is going to make some muscle happen back there.
[quote]streamline wrote:
skidmark wrote:
I’m going to have to do some recovery work today. My back, ass,and hamstrings are so tight I had to wear slipon shoes today. Fuggedaboud socks.
In short, precisely the effect I wanted from yesterdays session. Sumo’s are the ticket.
Tight calves are the worst.[/quote]
I’d have to agree with you on that one. I’m afraid to work the buggers due to the impossibility of movement if you go too far.
2008-10-26
Illegal Wide Paused Bench
135x8
175x5
210 3x5
Speed Bench
135x30 (PR Reps +3 - more weight required now)
Tate Presses
55’s 3x6
BB Rows
245 3x5
1-Arm DB Rows
105x20
BB Curls
115 3x5
Reverse Curls
90 1x10,1x8
Feeling strong today. Left wrist hurting on the outside (pinky side) which made BB curls challenging. 210 was just right. Took the reps down slow, paused and attempted to explode up. rep 5 is about half as fast as rep 1.
At least not all my reps are half-fast.
Right shoulder and arm still lagging in strength and size. Even the right trap is smaller than the left. Doing unlogged compensatory work but progress is slow. It’ll come - just at it’s own pace.
This occurred to me today…
If you are looking to progress you have to realize this:
It will never get any easier. It will never hurt less. The top weight you lift will never feel lighter than the last top weight you lifted, regardless of poundage. You will sweat more, hurt more, be as tired and sore every time you finish.
The goal has to be more important than the suffering you experience attempting to attain it.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I told him about speed work and not going heavy-heavy on the two exercises in the same session, how wide squatting saved the knees and really built the glutes/hams and how sitting on the box develops power out of the bottom.
We talked about training the Central Nervous System with the speed work and why you should try to lift as fast as possible regardless of weight on the bar.
Made him think a little, I believe. He asked me if I was going to change the way I trained when I hit 50 and I told him that I didn’t see any reason to.
.[/quote]
Damn Skid. What I would give to be that guy you were talking to. You wanna train a guy cross country via email? I’d have loved to been a fly on the wall of that conversation!
[quote]streamline wrote:
skidmark wrote:
12 days left in my gym membership and someone finally seriously asks me what the hell I’m doing.
A fella saw me doing box squats and was curious about them. He started asking me all sorts of questions about squatting wide - why I did it, what the benfits were, how come I was deadlifting and squatting in the same session.
I told him about speed work and not going heavy-heavy on the two exercises in the same session, how wide squatting saved the knees and really built the glutes/hams and how sitting on the box develops power out of the bottom.
We talked about training the Central Nervous System with the speed work and why you should try to lift as fast as possible regardless of weight on the bar.
At one point he said “Well - that’s okay for you young fellas, but I don’t think it would work to well for 50-year old guys like me.” So I told him I was only 4 years younger than him.
Made him think a little, I believe. He asked me if I was going to change the way I trained when I hit 50 and I told him that I didn’t see any reason to.
We’d gotten a little circle of older guys going by then all of them listening to what we were talking about. We might have given them something to think about…
That may very well be the first time they have heard the truth. The fact that you are walking the walk as well as talking the talk, may well have changed a couple of life’s. So much misinformation out there, the truth must be spoken. [/quote]
There really is not enough truth out there.