Today
farmers handle carries 157#/ arm x 50 feet x ten total trips
suitcase dead lift only 182#/arm x 1
pull ups ss and mixed between lifts 10, 7, 5, sets of 3-5 for 50 total
tried a camber squat bar - bar x 10 here and there
tried a big strong man rig, I’ll find the name but it was 185# x 50 feet x 2 trips and NOT comfortable. I need big 3d traps to support this thing and mine are not that great
a mini strongman log press no wt added x 10 x 3 sets
some pull thrus
did a leg press machine 10x200, 10x290
pushed a prowler with 20 pounds added x 100 feet x 2 trips
Measured the distances of the walkway today. Yesterday’s best 347# tbar carry was a for 130 feet.
Z! No one wanted to do a pull up competition and I was all prepared to do it too! My brother in law is pretty strong…but the real surprise was being knocked out by my sister on one of the arm wrestling matches. After that I unleashed The Hammer and beat her the next time.
Woke up today ready to go at 1am. Got to Turbo Gym by 2:30.I’ll be tired later today but it was worth it. Also the first fs on a different squat rack went ok. I’m very prone to being classically conditioned so slight difference can set me a bit off. I might have been able to get some more reps out the first set if I had had my beanie off! My hot head was a distraction.
Today
fs 45x5, 135, 205, 225
200x8, 205x5, 215x2, 225
200x5, 205x4, 215x2, 225
200x3, 200x2 x 3 sets
Farmer’s handle carries 152#/arm x 100 feet, 152#/rm x 80 feet, x 30 feet
ghr’s 2 sets of 10
pull ups mixed into everything 10, 8, 7
a set if 5 push ups
yesterday’s pull up total was 50- 6 were wanna be L’s, also did 50 Saturday
Here’s some more color for my log-- Me and Twinnie, Me and Twinnie and My sister who beat me!
Today
dead lifts 45x10, hook grip 135, 225, mixed 285, 345, fail 360- refused to budge- s’ok! I just wanted 345 today
pull ups 8, 4 sets of 4
t bar rows 60# on apparatus x 20, 80x15, 100 x 10
row machine thing wt x10, wt x8, wt x5
That’s it! Little session today and then blasted to King Soopers to gear up for cold defense. 9/10 of my co workers are walking around with respiratory distress and fevers and just sharing it allll over…NO THANKS!! Zinc, Vitamin C, fluids, Spinach are my first line for now.
Did a total of 50 pull ups yesterday, 10 of which were wanna be l’s, a set of 6, a set of 4
I feel off today, not sure if its a bit of overload or hormonal or what but not quite in the right mind set. I need to take some time off work, and I will. Only thing is I have to give two weeks notice for approval.
I’m going to see if I can fin-angle a way around it…because I need it. Frazzled. Burnt out. I get that way I’m fine until the truck hits and I realize I’ve been walking with a sucking chest wound for weeks!
Oh my word; sounds like time off IS needed, and of course has been earned x10. I like to take my Weds night shift off (time to time); gives me a 3 day ‘weekend’ from both jobs. It’s paid time off, so that’s nice. I’m sure you must have a similar set up at your work.
Still, plenty of awesome F-squats in here; Furious volume as always:)
Thanks Z, I need too just do it. It’ll only add up frustrations if not and the lil poopers deserve the best nurses not harried wound up ones.
Today at Turbo Gym-- just a bunch of funzies
Tbar carries 352#x110 feet, x 50 feet, x50 feet, x 40 feet
Rack pulls just above ankle hook grip 135x3, 225x3, mixed 295x2
Clean up and oh carry 115#x130 feet x 4 trips
Ssb bar walking lunges x 110 feet x 2 1/2 trips
Pull ups x5
Yoke zercher carries!!! I believe I met my new best friend!!!
Yoke weights 185# x 50 feet x 3 trips, x 100 feet
Yoke wt at 205# x50 feet x 2 trips, yoke wt at 225# x 50 feet x 4 trips.
Lady log press just the log x 25
EeeeeeeeEeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
My only complaint is the tbar at the gym’s knurling on the handles kills my hands. My own tbar is knurled too but I put elasticon tape over it so its kinder to hands. My hands get tore up fast on that tbar there.
I did some pull ups Saturday but none yesterday. That’s all I’ve done since Friday lift wise. A nice lil break.
I do feel the need to get out and walk some mileage but alas its winter! Too cold for Mossi with his arthritis and platinum plated stifle! Not as enjoyable being bundled up in 8 layers of thermals with out my Italiano beside me.
Cardio on a machine is no compassion for what a good long walkabout does for my mental well being.
Today
dead lifts hook grip 45x12, 135, 225, mixed 305, 350, fail 360
t bar rows 70# on apparatus x15, x15, 15, 45 x 20
all the rows and stuff ss with each other and pull ups 12, 6, 5
machine rows wtx6, less wt x12, wt x10
back extensions
That’s it! My left knee blew up a bit- swollen from fs yesterday, that or the weather so I used sleeves for dead lifts and general warmth in the gym today.
I’m being gentle on the pull ups because I think I over did it on zerchers last week on my bicep/elbow area tendons. I must protect the tendons! But the zercher carries are so much :}!!! FUN! I do think I can hold them more upright which might help as well to distribute the wt so I’ll see.
My knee sleeves are getting super loose. I wonder if I can wash them…to shrink them?? I’ll look around the interwebs to see.
Snap!! Thanks for stopping by!! I have cheapo Maximo ones.They were either $25 or 29 bucks!
I’m going to experiment maybe with um…altering ( shrinking!) them but only after I get a new pair. These ones will suffice but they are getting loosey goosey in the wrong spots and rolling up a bit.
Today
fs 45x5, 135, 200, 215, 230
205x5, 215x2, 225
205x5, 215x2, 225
205x5, 215x2, 225
205x2 x 3 sets
tried some mp’s off safties in an attempt to mimic a log press
I am going to be doing more strong man lifts. I follow Alpha V’s log on here and he has some cool videos!!! Lots of tips!! I want to eventually get the log press mojo ingrained into my crazed weekly gamut of lifts. It takes me a while to add new things however so lil bits at a time until i get a genuine hunger for it.
Today
t bar carriers 357# x 72 feet, x 30 feet, x this will take a bit to figure- total feet was around 200 some odd feet with that wt, I had stops
327# x 102 feet x straight shoots a total of 8 trips
lady log presses from the rack on the safeties log + 20# x 5 sets of 8, log + 30# 2 sets of 5
rack pulls but not really
power clean up the OH carry 115# x 204 feet x 2 trips
back extensions
COLD COLD COLD! Gym wasn’t too bad but I wore my knee sleeves just to be warmer! I really could use a nice long walk to loosen up after this workout but its not even going to happen when its 2 degres outside. I’m going to have to suffer because I don’t wanna walk on a treadmill either!
Biceps tendons feel good and set so I’ll do some pull ups today once my grip comes back.
There are a bunch of new things at the turbo gym! I took pictures to google mage search them to see what they are. I think one might be a belt squat which I’ve never tried and also am not sure if it’d even be an option for me with my specific back injury hx. I have to be careful when try stuff so I don’t piss it off. However it looks exciting cool to see!
The second one: I saw someone using it this morning. I don’t know what it’s called but you put the yellow belt around your waist and squat. Looked awkward to me.
:D!!! Thanks guys!! I thought the grip thing was some kind of make your own kettle ball…but obviously I was wrong! I am interested in the belt squat thing! I did try to figure it out today and had no clue where to start. I’ll have to see someone do it and tinker about with it.
Today
farmers handle carries 152#/arm x 34 meters ( I figured it out since strongman seems to only use meters) x 4 trips of straight shoots, then a final one that I stopped twice on
ssb bar only walking lunges x 76 meters no break
pull ups x 5
oh walking lunges bar only snatch grip x 60 meters x two trips
yoke carry no wt added- empty yoke wt is 185# x 3 trips of 15 meters, then I figured it out and did a straight shoot x 118 meters
tried out the kegs for duck walks 85# x 15 meters x 2 trips, 100 x the same, then 125# x some goblet type squats x 5 or so
alligator tucks 45# x 50 feet, 100# plate x 6 feet ha!
yesterday’s pull ups 10 sets of 5, grip was still trashed form tbar carries
Had a good party day fuel by Elk Meatball Power!!! I wanted to get as much in since I already know I’ll be sore today in general.
From what I’ve read up on I anticipate soreness and fatigue from the yoke. I haven’t had any wt on my back in years, but I hope to take it super slow and be very tense and flexed out for the carry itself. Once I figured my bar stance- super tight -close-hands to shoulders in my old school squat stance I used to have it was a bit less completely uncomfortable.
Pulls ups today
8, 5, 7 sets of 5 -7 mixed with L’s x a total of 50.
Grip was out yesterday so no more then the first 5 pull ups were completed yesterday. I’m not as sore as I thought I’d be from the yoke except my knobby cervical vertebrae. I’m not ashamed to made some kind of muff for the yoke so its less of a bone on metal experience. Maybe I can tape a big fluffy sheep skin onto it! HA HA!!
Or a pool noodle. :)!!!
Bottom line is I wanna use it! Probably more for cardio type conditioning use then heavy since I’m afraid. I’ll figure it out.
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