Dasher - I’ve had several injuries to my hips/knees over the years. I blame most of my hip pain from my years of running cross country but then later in college, I had two accidents. One, two dogs were playing together and crashed into my right knee. It was sore but nothing came of it. A few months later in jiu jitsu, I was rolling around with a friend and the same knee popped out. That time it tore my MCL and I think I possibly injured other parts of this weak knee since then just from sleeping and moving wrong. A few months after THAT hell, my orthopedic said that I had patella femoral syndrome and that my patella tendons are much longer than my kneecap. My knees are feeling so much better from powerlifting but I still can’t do simple motions like sit on my heels, squat ATG or kick off of things to move away. I honestly don’t think I will ever be able to do those things either…
Sorry, long post. But it would have been hard to state what was wrong without all of the details! And I agree completely about the conditioning. I probably won’t increase the intensity on the prowler/sled pulls until after the comp.
[quote]theBird wrote:
Well if your doing MMA, then conditioning is important. Although training your martial arts is probably enough conditioning at the moment, unless you have a fight coming up soon?
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I wish I could edit that out of my log title. [/quote]
Hey, if you go to your very first post and hit ‘edit’ you can change your log title.[/quote]
[quote]theBird wrote:
Well if your doing MMA, then conditioning is important. Although training your martial arts is probably enough conditioning at the moment, unless you have a fight coming up soon?
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I wish I could edit that out of my log title. [/quote]
Hey, if you go to your very first post and hit ‘edit’ you can change your log title.[/quote]
Well, hey, look at that! Thank you![/quote]
Happy to help. I think the new title makes your intent very clear
Happy to help. I think the new title makes your intent very clear
Good training in here.
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Thanks
9/16/11
Press/Suprsetted with chins (sets of 2)
Bar x 10
Bar x 10
50 x 5
55 x 10 Rep PR
Bar x 10
Total chins = 12
DB OHP
20 x 10
20 x 10
20 x 10
Ab wheel rollout 3 x 5
Decline sit ups x 15
Notes: I had a really busy, wonderful day. Got home, ready to lift, wanted to bring my camera to take a photo of my new Chucks and so I started to look for my camera in my BF’s car. Everything in the console was on the passenger seat and a box of stuff was tipped over in the back. Someone had broken into our car last night and STOLE my camera! I called the cops, they know who did it and are in the process of hunting them down. Apparently many people in my neighborhood got robbed last night. Fuckers. I hope I get my camera back
conditioning is good to improve lung and heart capacity. In terms of powerlifting carry over, I usually ditch the conditioning when prepping for a meet and throw it back after.
Thanks nimain! That’s a good way to put it regarding the conditioning. I’m definitely going to keep it easy on the prowler and not do anything else for conditioning. Oh, and still no word on the camera grrrrrr
ouroboro - I know, right? I am baffled every time I look at the scale. Most of my friends and family don’t believe me when I tell them my weight and when I look at others that weigh 130 at my height, they look a lot more chubby than me! Not sure where all of that weight is coming from. It certainly is not in my boobs or ass lol I’m also having a hard time losing weight for this meet. I’ve been dieting and using the prowler and not a pound has budged. Might just not worry about my weight class at all.
Warm up - 2 mile walk to the gym
Barbell step overs
Plyo box jumps
Deadlift
95 x 5
95 x 5
115 x 3
130 x 5
145 x 5
165 x 4 rep PR
DE Deadlift…used 50% of my current training max. Too easy.
95 x 3
95 x 3
95 x 3
Good mornings
Bar x 10
Bar x 10
Bar x 10
BW chins - 3,3,3,3,2 Total=14
Decline sit ups
2 mile walk back home
Notes: I walked to the gym today with high hopes for the deadlift today. Wanted to get 7 with 165, so I am disappointed that I didn’t even get the prescribed reps. Still, 165 x 4 is a PR. I could have eeked out one more rep I assume but my back was rounding pretty bad on that fourth rep. Even 145 felt like a ton today. I tried to think about why I felt so weak today and I remembered that I had taken a magnesium pill to get to sleep last night. Then I realized that there was another time where I was questioning the effects of taking magnesium the night before.
Also, I’m back in the 120’s! I think I am going to start adding a write-up of my meals to keep me motivated.
9:00 3 eggs, 1 cup green beans, 1 tbsp dressing, fish oil
10-12:30 Gym
12:30 PWO protein shake - 1 scoop protein, handful of spinach, 1/2 tbsp peanut butter, milk
1:00 Tuna with light mayonnaise on ezekiel bread
5:00 glass of milk + 1 scoop of protein
7:00 ground beef with spaghetti squash
I fucked up and didn’t make lunch for work. Ended up staying late so didn’t eat anything substantial until about 5pm.
8:30 Peanut butter and preserves on ezkiel bread, chocolate milk + fish oil
11:00 Apple
12:00 Bag of goldfish and a banana
1:00 Piece of “Death By Chocolate” cake (it was my boss’ birthday! C’mon!)
5:00 Chicken, green beans, spaghetti squash, chocolate milk + fish oil
The above is really embarrassing to post lol I swear in a perfect world, I do know how to structure meal plans but I was just unprepared today. MUST WAKE UP EARLIER!
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
so much action over here!!
HI!![/quote]
Hey there!
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
I actually looked over your power clean video from way back when - your form was actually pretty damn good, better than most people in my gym[/quote]
Thanks. I have a really great coach. He attended a Starting Strength seminar a while back and he has helped me a lot. I think my power clean is even a lot better than that original video. I kind of cringe when I watch old videos lol
Hi Dani. Been there on the car break-in situation. Sounds like at least you didn’t have a window broken. I drove home from San Fransisco with cardboard taped in the window after our car was burglarized. Very ghetto. At least it happened on the last day of the trip and I know someone somewhere is enjoying the laptop.
About conditioning, I’ve been getting on the stair mill and it has given me more definition in my legs for sure, but my strength is down. I think if I were trying to max my lifts for a comp. I’d have to just eat and do no cardio at all. Congrats on getting down closer to where you want to be for your weight class. How low you gonna go?
Ppuff - It’s crazy how many people have gotten their cars broken into! I called my insurance company today and they said my camera wasn’t expensive enough to be covered under my insurance. WTF? They also aren’t covering flood damage in my apartment. I really don’t know why I pay so much money every month for something that doesn’t help me in these situations lol
And that sounds about right for the cardio. I am trying to get to 123 on a casual diet. It seems as though my body doesn’t really want to go below 129 without a serious change to my diet so I might end up just competing at my natural weight which might take a huge load of stress off.
9/21/11
Bench
Bar x 10
Bar x 10
65 x 5
75 x 5
85 x 5
90 x 3 (failed rep 4)
90 x 5 (spotter said he barely helped on the last rep) meh, I’m gonna pretend I got 'em all by myself
Chins (supersetted with bench)
BW x 3,3,3,3,3 Total chins = 15
Triceratops
Mysterious weight x 15 x 3
Leg press
110 x 10
130 x 10
130 x 10
Weighted decline sit ups
BW + 10 x 15
BW + 10 x 15
Notes: Those stupid volleyball girls showed up again. Seems everytime I bench they show up…must be the same time and I never noticed. I’m seriously thinking of buying some kind of iPod or music device to drone out people like this. It’s not even funny anymore. Just makes me annoyed and distracted. Any suggestions on good (cheap) mp3 like players?
Also, I am trying to work on slowing down the eccentric part of my bench. Trying to keep everything tight and activate my lats while focusing on speed on the way up. But it was just making it harder/slower on the way up. My coach says that it looks like I am just trying to go slow on the way down instead of actually tightening up. Will have to work on this.
Press
Bar x 8
50 x 5
55 x 5
65 x 2 + 0
65 x 1 + 0 fuckkkkkkkkkk
65 x 1
65 x 1 (for some reason, this was the strongest rep. Prob because Michael Jackson started playing in the gym)
50 x 12 Rep PR
Chins
4,4,4,4 Total = 16
Barbell rows (each rep from the floor)
65 x 10
DB OHP
20 x 10
20 x 10
Single legged leg press
x a bunch
Notes: I was aiming to get 5 with 65, which would have been a rep PR. I kept doing singles until I reached my prescribed reps. Bummed about my press, happy with my chins.
Now, I’m stuffing my face with steak fajita rice and beef then taking my beast into the woods for a 5 mile hike. Life could be worse.
