Yeah we’re kind of flipping out… the event insurance company wouldn’t say if a pandemic would be covered or not. They said we have to wait until within 10 days of the event and file a claim to see if it would be covered.
Our plan now is to postpone. Unfortunately the only available dates are during hurricane season (we’re going to be on the outer Banks NC) which we don’t want to mess around with, or spring time next year. So we’re going to wait another year. All deposits should transfer and all the major players in the wedding (catering, photo, video etc) seem happy to help with our situation. Definitely a relief.
As far as training goes, I haven’t been doing a whole lot this past week. Did a short bench session and a squat session. Kept everything fairly light.
I will not be running building to monolith at this point due to diet. Even if I was eating the way I should, I don’t think I’d be able to find 7 dozen eggs a week, or the beef necessary to truly do the program. I really want to run it but in order to do it justice I’m going to wait until things start transitioning back to a more normal state.
I have been trying to find a program that is a little unconventional for what I’ve been doing. I may start a Paul Carter guaranteed muscle mass program. I can do 90% of it true to how he wrote it in my home gym and hopefully it’ll be a way to give my joints and stuff a break from all of the heavy lifting lately.
Started PC GMM today, probably stick with it for a few months and see how it goes. Felt good to do some different stuff. Today was kind of putting my feelers out for what weights to use/settle on. Did pretty well IMO for not doing high reps in a while.
I actually like that way of doing things, I tried it at some point I do however think I did to much so within a couple of weeks I crashed and burned. But I might do it again some time.
My mistake wasn’t the weight on the bar, it was more doing to many exercises each day.
Like 3 or 4 sets of chest + 3 or 4 sets of shoulder on the same day doing it twice a week.
It’s pretty intense. Good luck with it
Ah that makes sense. Yeah the upper days have 5 movements.
My main concern at this point is the curls. They really do not agree with my left arm, especially a day or two after squatting. I’m going to keep them super light until I feel comfortable and confident enough to not screw it up.
Unless you really want big guns (and don’t we all) take it easy on those suckers, try some different variations. As you say light weight maybe try to do them slowly concentrate on the pump and flexing the muscle. BUY hey I’m only a bro, no science to back this up.
I got in the practice of doing super light curls and lateral raises at the end two workouts per week. One day Dumbell curls one day empty barbell or lighter. The goal was 100 reps in as few sets as possible. Only bump the weight if you can get the 100 in 2 sets. And you don’t have to up the weight even. I did this when I had a tweak and it helped it heal.
Band curl- didn’t count reps. Just did them until it burned, then did some more, 3 sets.
Trying to find a decent way to do lat pulldowns, wrapped bands around the rack and got a good pump. Bench kind of felt like shit, left elbow/bicep was definitely the culprit.
Band curls felt like shit initially and then something popped in my left forearm where bicep meets elbow(place where there have been issues a lot lately). I was scared as hell because I thought i just destroyed that tendon or ligament or whatever. Everything felt better after, and it’s been a couple hours and it still feels good. IDK what happened haha.
Hoping to up the weight on the 350 sets until I start failing. It’s crazy how easy 95lbs feels at first on the press… Then by rep 15 it feels like my chest is on fire haha.
Week 1 Lower 2
Practice front squat form for 30 mins, worked up to 135lb. Didn’t feel right so I am not comfortable using it as a main YET. It will happen once I get it down. First time trying it ever and it felt so wrong
Doing zercher for the time being instead of FS. I honestly love zerchers as it really taxes abs/obliques and upper back. Sets in the video are 185x1, 135x12 and 135x10.
The one time I tried front squats, I was not able to get in a good position with the clean grip. The actual squat part felt pretty natural but I was doing the crossed arm thing and it feels really weird to hold a 7 ft bar in a small spot in the middle like that. How do you find it?
It just felt… wrong. I could get the hand position decent enough to feel confident in the lift, but once I started breaking at the hips and knees the weight just crept out in front and the bar wanted to roll away from me. It’s becoming apparent that Im pretty sure I have have some hip mobility issues?
Keeping my chest up as I break at the hips is not something I can do right now… I definitely have to work on it. I feel like it hurts my back squat too, which is what mort and garagerocker have been trying to help me with… bar travels forward and I start leaning onto my toes, not good.
Front squats are a very upright squat.
I am struggling with it as well, trying to backsquat it. Meaning I’m pushing my hips to far back and leaning forward.
You should sink the ass between the legs keeping the torso upright. Really difficult to do.
Try grabbing with a bit wider and only with the tip of the fingers. The bar rests on the deltoid.
Zombie squat is a way of learning it…I can’t do it, I’m all stiff and bad postured so I’m out of it.
Those Zerchers looked really good man, I’ll have to try them out, should help you get a strong upper back.
Yeah same here, I think I’m just going to stick with zercher until I can get FS form but every lower 2 day spend the first half working on how to front squat. Lots of YouTube form videos in my future.
Weight was 201.5 this morning, so I’m up a couple lbs which is good. Probably due to work slowing way down and shitty weather here so I haven’t been on as many walks with the dog.
I just acquired a lawn roller with hook ups to a riding mower to flatten out the yard. My rider has been broken down since before last summer , so I’m going to build handles for it and push it around. It weighs ~70lbs empty, and I’m thinking I’ll have to add maybe 30-50 lbs of water to the drum for it to do anything so that will be a good little conditioning workout… im on a 0.75 acre lot so it’ll be quite a bit of work.
Also planning on leveling out the back yard, so lots of topsoil needed and shoveling/dirt taking.
My work has been slowly transitioning to non-essential, with the only things we’d be able to do being emergency calls. Luckily I’m the only service technician under 65. One is 70 and just had surgery on his arm, the other has a broken foot, and one is 69 years old and isn’t comfortable coming in to work. I won’t be able to roof with my brother as planned, as it is not qualified as essential work, barring emergency repairs, which he would have to do alone. It’s going to be difficult not to just go to the back room every day and lift.
