Oh Cav, lets all suffer together!
That would be great if you got a lifting partner! I always thought it was good teaching, because you
will probably say something, you may have been forgetting to do.
Cotenbroek, Kairiki, I’d damn well better get a 800 deadlift and 500 bench out of this crap or I’m gonna want my money back.
Up, you have a way of making things sound so . . . kinky. Anyway, a training partner would be great, I love teaching, fortunately I don’t need to teach to remember stuff.
No time limit? No problem just keep working.
[quote]Co tenBroek wrote:
No time limit? No problem just keep working.[/quote]
Well, when you hit 55, you do start wondering about how much time you have left on this earth. And considering I’ve been weight training for some 35 yrs now, starting to get a tad impatient. Of course, spent many yrs eating and training wrong . . . sigh, you don’t get those yrs back.
Ate & ate yesterday, napped, ate some more, had a good night’s sleep. Woke up feeling swole as hell, barely any DOMS at all. Fun. Encouraging I didn’t really break anything.
My miscellaneous day seems to be turning into a shoulder day. Eeek! I’m becoming a 5/3/1 guy! Someone stop me!
Overhead press
45 x 14
65 x 10
85 x 5
95 x 4
90 x 5 . x 5
Standing calf
155 x 15
215 x 10
255 x 6
275 x 5 . x 6 . x 6
that’s 3/4 of the weight stack
Face pull
70 x 15
80 x 10 . x 10 . x 10
making these slow, squeeze at end
DB side raise
20 x 5 . x 5
Off to grade student projects. Joy.
Just go ahead and take the plunge the weights are fine. . .
How did the grading go?
NICE WO Cav. Lots of ohp, calf raises on there own is a good idea. I may give that a go myself mine could use the work.
Cotenbroek, the weights may be fine for someone who’s just been lifting 6 mo or a year or so, but considering I’ve been at this for a few decades, they really need to come up.
Kairiki, just finishing up. A really great way to hate video games is to go through endless numbers of them and write emails with your evaluation. BTW, I don’t get paid for grading stuff, but gotta do it anyway.
Bruce, thanks. For some weird reason, my calves have always been as strong as anyone’s, they never lagged. Damn shame nobody has calf contests, it’s gotta be bench, squat, press . . .
OK, the pain from the deadlifts has subsided, so going to push . . .
Squat
95 x 10
135 x 5
165 x 6
175 x 6
185 x 5 . x 5
good, maybe could have done a tad more, but these were tough enough. will do doubles/triples next week, ought to get over 200.
FreeMotion good girl bad girl
50 x 15
80 x 8
90 x 5 . x 5 . x 6
wow, spreading legs really whacked things, muscles not used to working that way. Definitely have to do more, got some untrained muscles down there.
Leg press
2 plates/side x 12
3 x 10
4 x 5 . x 5 . x 5
whew! tough! legs got good workout.
In a good mood, and hungry. Must be the spring weather, doubtful it’s the grading . . .
Slept really great last night, expecting a good workout:
Bench
45 x 12
95 x 7
135 x 6
140 x 5
145 x 5
120 x 8
100 x 8
This is a teeny tiny PR for me . . . bench is going up, but so slowly.
DB Pullover
40 x 5 . x 5 . x 5
gaining good on this
Hammer Dip
90 x 15
140 x 8
feeling good, pushing for it
180 x 5 . x 5
Humor is so hard on the internet. Sorry Cav I meant that statement more like come on in the water’s fine.
On other stuff, nice lifting. Good Job on the PR.
Cotenbroek, you’re funny, I’m just grumpy.
OK, ready to do doubles & triples on deadlift. Worked so very hard over the past few weeks, straining, grunting, hurting, crying. Ate and ate. Did mobility stuff to recover back. Got lots of deep sleep. Hit the gym.
I lost strength.
Sumo DL
135 x 10
215 x 1
255 x 0 - WHAT THE SHIT, THIS SHOULD BE WARMUP
235 x 1 - THIS is my MAX??? It should be 300 or more
225 x 0 - I CAN’T believe this one
185 x 5 - finally, a weight puny enough to handle
195 x 5 - tough, but can handle this too
205 x 3 - this can’t be my triple, it just can’t
Sweet Jesus, I did 275 for a double a month ago and now this. I’m so goddamn sick of this. Ten years, 20 years, 30 years, NOTHING seems to kick this body into gear, no matter how much suffering I endure. I do what the experts say will work . . . zilch. I take advice . . . doesn’t work.
One over 55 to another brother. More warm up. When I can pull (sigh) I pull sumo also easier on my back. Cav do some triples at 135 3x3 185 3x3 205 2x3 (still light)225x3 then single yer way up 235 x1 etc. I know I have to do some work before I can approach a max work set. Takes me a while to get warm enough. Maybe you too? Hang in there.
Hey Cav, try the 5/3/1 on your next dead lift day:
take 90% of your 1 rep max (this is the number you base your percentages off of)
Warm up:
Bar x 5
40% x5
50% x5
560% x 3
then 5 @ 65%/75%/85% on last set go for as many reps as possible
[quote]cavalier wrote:
wow, spreading legs really whacked things[/quote]
I know you’re presently despairing about your DL, but this ^^ made me laugh. Must be in a twisted mood.
So DL is such a mental lift. Don’t sweat it.
No expert but I say walk away from the deads for a while. You’re psyching yourself out of your lifts. Hit some sldl or trap bar lifts for awhile. Do some partials above the weight you’re tryin to hit. Let yourself know you can handle the weight. Anything but full dls. Then go back and rip it.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Cotenbroek, you’re funny, I’m just grumpy.
OK, ready to do doubles & triples on deadlift. Worked so very hard over the past few weeks, straining, grunting, hurting, crying. Ate and ate. Did mobility stuff to recover back. Got lots of deep sleep. Hit the gym.
I lost strength.
Sumo DL
135 x 10
215 x 1
255 x 0 - WHAT THE SHIT, THIS SHOULD BE WARMUP
235 x 1 - THIS is my MAX??? It should be 300 or more
225 x 0 - I CAN’T believe this one
185 x 5 - finally, a weight puny enough to handle
195 x 5 - tough, but can handle this too
205 x 3 - this can’t be my triple, it just can’t
Sweet Jesus, I did 275 for a double a month ago and now this. I’m so goddamn sick of this. Ten years, 20 years, 30 years, NOTHING seems to kick this body into gear, no matter how much suffering I endure. I do what the experts say will work . . . zilch. I take advice . . . doesn’t work.[/quote]
This happened to me a lot when I was deadlifting more often. My DL would be going good and then I’d hit a wall for a bit and my top warmup weights would suddenly be my top weight for the day. Seems to go in cycles. I wouldn’t sweat it. Go work something else like front squats or rep sumo pulls or pause squats. Something that helps build the deadlift but isn’t the deadlift.
One things sure, unending progress each and every day in the same lifts just doesn’t happen. Have a bad lift? Go PR in a dfferent one so you don’t feel so badly. Winning at something, (even if it seems a stupid lift) in a session goes a long way to keeping a positive mindset in this pursuit, which is very important. Some days the mojo just isn’t there, but you have to believe it will be there later.
Can’t PR weight? PR for reps at a certain lower weight. Can’t PR for reps? PR for sets at a certain weight. That particular lift is completey borked? Do a different, but similar one and PR in that for that day. Succeed at something for the day and focus on THAT, rather than what couldn’t be done. It makes this thing we do more enjoyable and less stressful.
Cav, have you ever considered doing sled work?
Bruce, warmup is good. I can do more.
CotenBroek, I’ll be damned if I can figure out what max is. I already am setting weights at percentages, could have sworn I had it worked out, but everything just collapsed.
Snap, you’ll have no idea how hard I bit my tongue to keep from responding when I saw Up pumping a long, hard bar between her legs . . . besides, you were the one who reminded me of that machine.
What’s irritating is that mentally, I knew I was going to make it - and didn’t. My body crapped out before my mind did. I’m just staring at it going “WTF?”
Harry, will think about it. Rack pulls appeal to me.
Albino, will also think about changing things a bit. Yes, I know unending progress shouldn’t be possible, but . . . jesus, there are guys training only a year or two already way stronger than this, I feel like I have to have progress, progress, progress just to catch up with the beginners. I mean, what backsliding does a guy with 6 months experience do and still outlift me? Am I missing something?
Kairiki, sleds sound fun, but don’t have one, money is very tight, gym doesn’t have one.
I appreciate everyone’s attempt to help . . . but everyone has different advice. Is this just shooting in the dark, hoping something will help? Do I keep experimenting over and over, hoping to find something by shear accident?
Kept eating, body feels good after DL, don’t know if it means strength building
Overhead press
45 x 10
65 x 3
95 x 2 . x 1 . x 3
75 x 6 . x 6
I lost strength. Previously did 95 for 4, now can’t do that.
Standing calf
195 x 10
255 x 7
295 x 4 . x 4 . x 4
calf did fine as usual
DB side raise
20 x 3
15 x 7
20 x 4 . x 3
15 x 5
Face pull
60 x 12
80 x 6 . x 6 . x 6