[quote]ecogenx wrote:
I PMed you my OLDER lifting brother.[/quote]
Lol…I am indeed older. Just not stronger. So what is the benefit of age?
LS, you need to represent us in this thread:
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
LS, you need to represent us in this thread:
Starting at 300# might be cheating. It would suck to sign up, have a great week, next week, and do 315#. lol
Its not called “cheating” when you are in the O-35 section, its called “experience” or “tactics.” In any event, 315 is gonna be awesome when you hit it, be it this week or sometime later.
Went into today’s workout feeling beat to hell. I spent 3 hours in the yard, yesterday, with it bouncing between 100 and 101 degrees, trying to get a pool out of the ground. I used muscles I didn’t know that I had and, apparently, dehydrated.
Shoulders and especially my back felt sore and tired. It definitely was not a day for max efforts, but turned out okay on reps.
Oh…and it is 104 degrees right now…
Military Press
barx20
95x10
135x5
185x3
215x3
245x2
260x6 - PR +2 Reps - Legs almost buckled during rep 5…very strange
270x4 - PR +1 Rep
Alternated with
Lat Pulls
115x15x3
175x15x2
220x10x2
DB Laterals
40x10x3
Great work, tough to get rep PRs stacked on top of each other like that.
scary stuff thinking your legs gonna give out with that much weight above your head, way to solider on.
Still trying to come up with a plan of attack for a 405# bench and 315# MP.
Last workouts…
Bench went
barx20
95x10
135x8
185x5
225x3
275x2
315x2
340x2
365x1
385x1
405x0 - nothing left
That 5th set, after crossing over 300#, if killing me. I just don’t have enough oomph left to put into the max attempt. 385# went up strong, as did 390# the week before. Both times, though, I didn’t have enough left for the attempt at 405#. I either need a new progression, conserving energy, or to just up my damned work capacity.
Military Press
barx20
95x10
135x5
185x5
210x3
240x2
260x1
280x3 - PR + 2 Reps … lost my balance in rep 1 and took a few seconds, weight over head, to regain it
290x1
I should have had 4 reps at 280#. I really lost my balance on rep 1, though, and actually stumbled backwards a couple of steps, with the weight well overhead. I managed to recover and still get 2 more reps. So, I was still pleased, just frustrated that I didn’t get what I was shooting for.
I hope to hit both goals before Summer is over…preferably before July is out…but we will see.
Shhhh, we are tracking the elusive and rare Little Strick…in order to get a Little Strick to come out of hiding you have to be very quiet and pretend like your not reading his log…which is 2 months STALE!!! Shhhh
I clicked on here expecting a video of 315 OHP!
If I may…your progression is the progression for a “workout” not a “max attempt” scenario -the two should be different. No I’m not knowledgeable enough to tell you what to do but I remember Tim Henriques wrote an article on here on progressions for max attempts. I’ll see if I can find it.
Here it be: How to Warm Up for a One-Rep Max
OG, it is almost 2 months! Wow! And not that rare or elusive…just running in circles. Unlike you Dads who are used to their kids playing sports, I am just starting to learn. My youngest is playing football and my daughter has started gymnastics. Couple that with shuffling my workouts around their schedules and a major, lengthy, project at work, and I have just been running in circles.
Thanks for checking on me.
PG, I still haven’t hit the 315# OHP or the 405# BP. I have duplicated the 300# OHP twice and upped my max to 305#, but I am still just too fatigued on my 315# attempt. I do need a new progression. I just have trouble with “large” jumps in weight, once I get past 215-225#.
Same thing with bench. I have hit 390# three times and 395# once, but I am fatigued on my 405# attempts.
For now, I am dialing back and doing a few weeks of reps. We’ll see what that does.
Oh, and if anyone knows a sure fire way to get a six year old to fire off the ball and knock someone’s head off…please let me know.
So was this cameo appearance or are you putting stakes in the ground? Hopefully you stick around! I understand the work / kid thing; for sure.
Hope all is well in Stricklandville!
So you have edged closer to your goals…thats a good thing, no? you’ll get there.
[quote]OldGoat wrote:
So was this cameo appearance or are you putting stakes in the ground? Hopefully you stick around! I understand the work / kid thing; for sure.
Hope all is well in Stricklandville!
So you have edged closer to your goals…thats a good thing, no? you’ll get there.
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I will try to do better OG. I’m just not as driven to post when there isn’t really anything of note to post about.
Things are going well. Just have to outlast a particular ass, at work. That or find another playground. Even in OK they frown upon thrashing people, even if they deserve it. Who’da thunk…
No need to thrash him, LS, just overhead press him a few times. He’ll get the picture real quick.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
No need to thrash him, LS, just overhead press him a few times. He’ll get the picture real quick.
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Unfortunately I gotta tread lightly on this one. And, at this point, it might be worth the night in jail…just not the unemployment.
backing off and upping volume is a good plan. I’m not a big bencher or presser, but both lifts have always responded well to being done often with sub-maximal weights for a while and then ramping up. you kinda have to wave the volume and intensity inverse to each other.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
backing off and upping volume is a good plan. I’m not a big bencher or presser, but both lifts have always responded well to being done often with sub-maximal weights for a while and then ramping up. you kinda have to wave the volume and intensity inverse to each other.[/quote]
Tony, you are so right. And I suck at maintaining volume. Today’s workout was no different. But I am working on a plan.
I am thinking of going to 5-3-1 for bench, just to give it some consistency of program and allow me to work sub-maximally for a while, as I concentrate on MP.
For MP, I think I am going to scale back and do a rep out at 250#, next week. Each week, I will rep out at 5# higher. Once I get through a rep out at 275#, assuming it is 5 or more reps, I will try 315# the following week.
If I can stay disciplined enough to make myself do it.
So that OG thinks I am actually going to hang around for a while…
Shoulders!
Not a bad workout. The weight is still feeling heavier than I would like. I am getting decent, though not my best, reps, but it just feels heavier than it should. It is hard to explain. Sometimes everything just feels tight, stable, primed and powerful. Right now things feel fragile, unstable and just out of sync. I think that 315# is a done deal, if I can just find my groove again.
Also, I had issues with light-headedness. That happens from time to time and usually on really heavy MP. I think it is just a combination of tight belt, holding breath and straining/pushing like hell. You will see it on my 3rd rep with 275# and on my 2nd rep attempt with 285#. On the 285#, the 2nd rep was at the top of my sticking point. It was a done deal, except I was light-headed enough that I was dizzy. So, I dumped the weight. Next time…
Military Press
barx10x2
95x10
135x10
185x5
225x3
250x3
275x4 - PR +1 Rep
285x1x2 - 1st set should have been a double.
225x3 - last of warmups
250x3…way harder than it should have been
275x4 - PR - dizzy on rep 3, staggered on rep 4. Felt good about the save. Stronger than the 250x3.
285x1 - should have been 2…
Alternated Lat pulls in with MP, just as a counter movement
115x10x2
115x12x2
Supersets - 3 exercises
Laterals
30x12
35x12
40x10
drop sets w/rest pause
40x12
30x18
20x8
Tricep Pushdowns
91x12
115x12
127x10
drop sets
127x15
91x10
55x12
Rev. Flyes
30x12
35x12
drop sets w/rest pause
40x12
30x8
20x7
Shoulders are fried. Need to scale back slightly on the weight and do a few weeks of 5-8 reps.
Strong work Skip. Man you look huge. In a good way. You make the bar and weights look like toys.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Strong work Skip. Man you look huge. In a good way. You make the bar and weights look like toys.[/quote]
Thanks Steve. Trust me, the “huge” isn’t all good…shoulders, arms and legs = good…torso, not so much. lol
On a good note…I have noticed lately that I am having a hard time getting my elbow sleeves on. I have been griping about it for months. Jennifer pointed out, tonight, that my arms are now 19 1/2". They were just below 18" when I bought the sleeves.
But I still have absolutely zero bicep peak! So frustrating…