LS,
Sorry to hear about all the troubles. I hope you’re past it now.
Thanks Mathineer… I am past it. Life sometimes sucks. That, however, is life. You take the good with the bad. You either grow from life’s trials (be they losing pets, family, jobs or serving as comforter to others)or get buried beneath them. Since I have an extreme aversion to being buried alive, I think I will choose the other path.
On a side note, I have been experiencing some distress at the SS (spot of Spondy). There is no numbness or shooting pain, but definitely a persistent ache in the area. I am going to take your advice, in your log, and back off the DLs and squats a bit…just to be safe. I am not stopping them, just being more cautious and not pushing them as hard.
This too shall pass. Life just being life again…
Can’t say that about the aches and pains, though-- such is life in the Old Fart’s forum 
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
This too shall pass. Life just being life again…
Can’t say that about the aches and pains, though-- such is life in the Old Fart’s forum
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Yep…and I turned 40 today. I really never thought I would live to see it.
HEY!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUDE!!!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
You smell like one, too!
just a youngster - Happy B’day!
Thanks, Gents…
There was a time when I, like most of us, thought that 40 was older than dirt. Seeing it from the inside, though, it seems pretty damned young!
Squat Day-
Sticking with my previous observations, that squats and DLs on the same day are too much, and that my SS has been aggravated, I stuck with squats and rack pulls…and did not exceed 300#.
Hip/leg stretching
Squat
barx10x2
135x10
225x5
275x3
300x3x2 … again, about an inch shy of parallel. I think that the hip disomfort will be gone in the foreseeable future. There has been vast improvement.
225x8
Bent Over BB Rows
185x12
205x10
225x8x2
Rack Pulls…letting weight settle at the bottom
300x10x2
300x17 - I’m sure this must be a PR of something. This set really fried me.
Shrugs (not power)
225x12
250x10x2
Wide Grip Lat Pulls (front)
160x12x2
160x10
This was a slightly different approach. Because of the back issues, I decided not to exceed 300#. That made for high rep rack pulls. It also allowed me to up my squat poundage a bit, but keeps me locked there, so I can spend some time working on form while my back decides if it wants to recover.
The back feels good, if not tired. But there is no pain from this workout. I may stick with squats for a few leg days, then switch to DLs, to see if one puts more stress on my back than the other.
Sorry it took me so long to catch up on your thread. Belated happy birthday and trust when I say 40 will seem young some day. Why when I was 40 I could…ah,never mind. Can’t offer you much in the way of training advise as my system is pretty primitive compared to most on here. Lift heavy shit, increase weight, to it again. Keep at it you’ve made a good re-start at it.
Happy Birth Day my friend!
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Sorry it took me so long to catch up on your thread. Belated happy birthday and trust when I say 40 will seem young some day. Why when I was 40 I could…ah,never mind. Can’t offer you much in the way of training advise as my system is pretty primitive compared to most on here. Lift heavy shit, increase weight, to it again. Keep at it you’ve made a good re-start at it.[/quote]
Hel- Thanks for dropping in. Your log was the first one I read, in the 35+, once I found the site. What wasn’t to like? You’re from 'Bama (I moved out here from GA) and you throw heavy stuff! Not to mention, you prefer swimming in a river instead of a pool and get into scraps with, and kill, cottonmouths. Good sfuff…even if it isn’t all fun.
Strick,
Happy belated B-day! Echoing Hel, 40 just keeps getting younger all the time. So does 41.
[quote]63Galaxie wrote:
Happy Birth Day my friend! [/quote]
Thanks! And, honestly, I should thank all the folks here. I would have considered 40 older than I now do, had it not been for the folks on this forum. Good people…
Happy belated B-day LittleStrick. Your workouts continue to awe me
[quote]sfp wrote:
Strick,
Happy belated B-day! Echoing Hel, 40 just keeps getting younger all the time. So does 41.[/quote]
Thanks… An y’all are right. As long as it keeps looking younger, life is good. Remembering back, when I was the age of my oldest (8), my dad was only 27. For all of us around here, each year better see its own brand of youth.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Happy belated B-day LittleStrick. Your workouts continue to awe me [/quote]
j-willy- Good to hear from you. The only awe I get from my workouts is how much stress comes out of my pores when I do them. I am blessed that my only major physical complaint, my back, started at 16. So, besides a little nagging this and that, my body doesn’t know that it isn’t 20.
On a side…noting your travels reminded me. Almost 2 years ago, work tried to send me out to CA for a conference. I ended up having a mild anxiety attack (sweating, rapid pulse, very stressed breathing) just before take off and got off the plane. (Long story but it was really nothing.) Somehow, upper management translated that into my being afraid of heights, which I am not (okay, I don’t like dangling, unsecured, from several stories up). Since this misconception has prevented me fom having to fly all over creation, I haven’t bothered correcting it…
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
j_willy3 wrote:
Happy belated B-day LittleStrick. Your workouts continue to awe me
j-willy- Good to hear from you. The only awe I get from my workouts is how much stress comes out of my pores when I do them. I am blessed that my only major physical complaint, my back, started at 16. So, besides a little nagging this and that, my body doesn’t know that it isn’t 20.
On a side…noting your travels reminded me. Almost 2 years ago, work tried to send me out to CA for a conference. I ended up having a mild anxiety attack (sweating, rapid pulse, very stressed breathing) just before take off and got off the plane. (Long story but it was really nothing.) Somehow, upper management translated that into my being afraid of heights, which I am not (okay, I don’t like dangling, unsecured, from several stories up). Since this misconception has prevented me fom having to fly all over creation, I haven’t bothered correcting it…[/quote]
LS, Thats not such a bad deal. My fear of heights keeps me from helping our installation guys hang steel. Seems they dont like how the 8" steel beams shake when I’m shaking on them.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
LS, Thats not such a bad deal. My fear of heights keeps me from helping our installation guys hang steel. Seems they dont like how the 8" steel beams shake when I’m shaking on them.[/quote]
lol…I can understand that. See, there is a silver lining in every cloud!
Sorry for the late happy birthday! I’ll be 40 in August. I’m already bald and fat so 40 shouldn’t hurt to bad. Hope the hip feels better with the squats.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Sorry for the late happy birthday! I’ll be 40 in August. I’m already bald and fat so 40 shouldn’t hurt to bad. Hope the hip feels better with the squats.[/quote]
Thanks ecogenx… Oddly enough, 40 feels no different that 39. I would say I feel no different than 19, except that I now find women in their 30s and 40s attractive, as opposed to old.
Hips are doing better. There is hope. And I’m dumb enough to already be having visions of that 405# squat that I missed when I was 18.
Your log is another that I follow. It’s been fun, inspirational and informational watching you and Bunny working with Meat. Great work! Keep it up!