Now that is a manly work out! You should strap a sleigh to your back and pull your dogs across the tundra!
Great Job DZ!
Workin that lower back a lot. I’d be bent over for a week. Keep it up!
How the fuck did you DL after shoveling snow off the drive??? My back woulda been fried!!! I don’t often get to shovel but when i do, it’s a workout in itself! You have a nice thread going here, keep up the great work!
Art
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
Now that is a manly work out! You should strap a sleigh to your back and pull your dogs across the tundra!
Great Job DZ![/quote]
Thanks Colin! That’s funny Bro cause that’s exactly what I would do if I had a sled. My folks have a farm not far from me, and we’ve cut a trail around the perimeter. The snow gets REALLY deep out there, and I go hiking around out there for exercise sometimes.
Thanks, hel, and QT! I guess I should clarify, when I get out to clear the drive way, I use the snow blower. I’ve got a double wide driveway, and we get an average of 85 inches a year here, and one season we had 12’. When I moved here I said there’s no way in hell I’m shoveling this big assed driveway. When the snowplows bury the end of the drivway, I have to shovel that, but otherwise everyone has to have a blower around here.
Let’s start with some benching today.
1x15xbar
1x10x95
1x8x135
1x6x185
1x4x205
1x3x225
1x1x235
1x1x245
Missed 255
Hanging Clean and Jerk
1x5x105
1x5x125
3x3x135
Damn those things really take it outa ya!
Seated OH DB Press
3x8x40
One Arm DB Rows
3x10x40
Don’t pull to the chest, pull up and back toward the waist.
Much more difficult.
Plate Raises
3x8
Struggling to put together a workout today. I like to plan my workout the day before, but nothing was jumping out at me. So, let’s throw together some things I’ve had trouble with recently.
Bentover Rows
1x8x135
1x6x155
5x5x185
Front Squats
1x10xbar
1x8x95
1x6x115
3x6x125
1x4x145
1x6x145
Looked back to realize it’s been a month since I’ve done front squats. Then realized I’m working out with 10lbs. less than a month ago, so, threw on 20 more lbs. and got two more sets. Is it just me, or are these really fuckin’ hard?
Shrugs
4x6x245
Push the weight up a bit on these as well.
I always hate the bruises on my delts from the front squats. But they’re good for the soul and you know it. 
Hello Daddyzombie. Your creative workouts take me back to my logging days. Me would mix nuts and bolts and any other pieces of metal in five gallon ice cream pails with cement, shove a bar in them, different weights for curls and presses.
Drag logs for legs and any other objects that we could lift or throw, crazy days kind of miss them. Funny what a person can come up with when you’re isolated in the bush for sixty days at a crack. Keep it up Dude. One more rep!
[quote]daddyzombie wrote:
Looked back to realize it’s been a month since I’ve done front squats. Then realized I’m working out with 10lbs. less than a month ago, so, threw on 20 more lbs. and got two more sets. Is it just me, or are these really fuckin’ hard?
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It ain’t just you. I either get it right across the damn throat or it’s how long I can take the weight on my delts. Can’t hold the bar unless I cross my arms.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
It ain’t just you. I either get it right across the damn throat or it’s how long I can take the weight on my delts. Can’t hold the bar unless I cross my arms. [/quote]
I like to call that the Cossack Grip because I always felt like I was doing one of those Russian dances when I did them that way. Then I made the mistake of working out with an OLer for a while and he ripped my hands off and taped them back on so I could grip the bar the OL way.
I cross over as well. My beat up tendon in the left arm can’t take the stress of the redical bend otherwise.
DZ it’s the hard that makes it so good, huh?
[quote]streamline wrote:
Hello Daddyzombie. Your creative workouts take me back to my logging days. Me would mix nuts and bolts and any other pieces of metal in five gallon ice cream pails with cement, shove a bar in them, different weights for curls and presses.
Drag logs for legs and any other objects that we could lift or throw, crazy days kind of miss them. Funny what a person can come up with when you’re isolated in the bush for sixty days at a crack. Keep it up Dude. One more rep![/quote]
Thanks streamline, you’ve given me some ideas!
Thanks Pencil Neck, and hel320, so I’m not the only one who finds those really tough. And Colin you are right sir, if it aint tough your not using enough weight. You guys won’t believe this, but we got another 6 inches of snow last night. I’ve gotta get out and clear the driveway, and the damned snow plows have buried the end, so, I’ve gotta get out the shovel.
After a big snow winter your gonna pull 500 this year bro!!The bench is moving up.Great work. Jimmy T
[quote]Jimmy T wrote:
After a big snow winter your gonna pull 500 this year bro!!The bench is moving up.Great work. Jimmy T[/quote]
Oooh, I like the sound of that Jimmy! Nearly back to 400, and Winter isn’t really over here till around April. :-).
CG Bench
1x10xbar
1x10x95
1x8x135
1x6x155
6x4x185
One Leg Squats
4X6 each leg W/40lb.DBs(damned sadist made those things up)
SLDL
4x6x205
Each workout I’m tryin’ to push a bit more than the last, either in reps. or weight. Those One leg squats are one of the most painful things I’ve tried.
In my military training we had to sit with our backs press against a wall with our legs at 90 degrees supporting us. After a few seconds it was agony. Last time I did one leg squats got the same fondly remembered feeling.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
In my military training we had to sit with our backs press against a wall with our legs at 90 degrees supporting us. After a few seconds it was agony. Last time I did one leg squats got the same fondly remembered feeling. [/quote]
Just hearing wall squat makes my legs burns, I’ve got 90 seconds down working toward 180 sec’s. Also do them with one leg up for ten second intervals for 80 sec’s working on 180 sec’s as well. One legged dead lift squats, yah I feel your pain, ain’t it great.(Why do you do that, because it feels so good when I stop)lol! Keep it strong DZ. One more rep!
Good ole West Michigan weather today. Snowing, with about 14" on the ground. Outside for heavy yard work.
6 sets across the yard and back with the 80lb stone. stone feels like 90 today covered with snow.
6 sets one arm bucket farmers
3 sets cinder block farmers through the deepest part of the yard.
My family and I belong to the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society. Not much star gazing in Winter around here, but we’ve got a fun night planned on the campus of WMU with the astronomers, for movies and snacks.
[quote]daddyzombie wrote:
Good ole West Michigan weather today. Snowing, with about 14" on the ground. Outside for heavy yard work.
6 sets across the yard and back with the 80lb stone. stone feels like 90 today covered with snow.
6 sets one arm bucket farmers
3 sets cinder block farmers through the deepest part of the yard.
My family and I belong to the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society. Not much star gazing in Winter around here, but we’ve got a fun night planned on the campus of WMU with the astronomers, for movies and snacks. [/quote]
Thats cool brother!
[quote]daddyzombie wrote:
Good ole West Michigan weather today. Snowing, with about 14" on the ground. Outside for heavy yard work.
6 sets across the yard and back with the 80lb stone. stone feels like 90 today covered with snow.
6 sets one arm bucket farmers
3 sets cinder block farmers through the deepest part of the yard.
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Thats got to be some serious full body work. I grow up in Alberta, I can remember walking through knee deep snow, hence I live on Vancouver Island, the south end. There is something appealing about outside workouts, maybe it’s the fresh air. Or maybe it’s the Conan approach, grueling hard work equals rock hard muscles. Give her hell Bro.