Friday! But this didn’t go so well. Missed a push press at 100kg and a SGHP at 105 so decided not to push it past 3x220kg squats.
I need to get in and train more often.
Weekend beyond that: dancing my arse off to Kruder & Dorfmeister, same in a different style at ballet class on Sunday, back in TODAY for some Saturday. Time 23.46, plus the assistance.
Totally weak week. did the Tuesday heavy workout today in a pitiful 32 mins and then did a whole lot of arms. (Hammers 18/20/22/26kg each for 20, 16, 14, 10, to failure reps. Curls with an ez bar and 2 20kg plates, 3x 10. DB curls, 22kg, each side, 3x 10 and to failure.)
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I spent two and a half hours campaigning for the elections in an icy wind and then went to take ballet. Turns out no-one less than this guy is standing in for my teacher:
And you know what? I sucked. My right ankle is doing something odd and painful, calves felt like death (possibly from all the standing around on doorsteps), the result was a depressing exercise in contemplating my own mediocrity.
Here’s an interesting article about why a lot of dancers have given up stretching in favour of doing a shit-ton of one-legged calf raises:
This started in Australia but it’s catching on and thinking about it I could have done with a few to warm up.
Also, they discover the sumo deadlift:-)
Maybe time to start that PNF stretching regimen and finally be able to do side-splits…
Wednesday workout on…Wednesday, and done in 22 minutes 15. Did the Romanian deadlifts and got out of there.
huh, that’s a time PR.
Belated Friday. 35 minutes but pushed all the way to 235kg 1RM on squats, 110kg on SGHP and press, 115kg on bench.
Low operations are down to being out campaigning, btw
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How long have you been running Built for Battle? How many barbells do you occupy?
I’ve been doing it since the beginning of this log. As for the set-up, the first few posts on the log chronicle the struggle, but the solution I eventually developed was: one barbell at the inner (wall) end of the rack, set at notch 6, a bench in the rack with the head end outwards, another barbell at the outer end of the rack, set at notch 12.
Our rack has pull-up handles at the outer end, so the circuit goes pull-ups, dive under the barbell, bench presses, turn over, push the bench clear, drop the outermost 2.5 or 5kg plates, SGHPs, turn around, squats, remove plates, push press.
As a twist, once things get heavy I set the bar catches at 14 for the squats but you really need 16 or less to have room to lower to the hang for the SGHP.
(August 2018, apparently.)
Saturday workout, after dance on Sunday. time 24 minutes 05 after waiting like an hour and a half for the goddamn rack.
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(In case anyone wondered, the loong wait had consequences - on Tuesday night I woke up with my right piriformis so tight pain was radiating down the leg. A bunch of weird stretches helped but I was definitely not going to lift on Wednesday. I took ballet - the last class of the year at Central School - on Thursday and this actually seemed to help.)
Christmas Eve: did the Tuesday workout using our all new second rack and new plates. Missed the last squat at 220kg. That said the SGHPs were both easier and more felt in the traps with the fresh knurls?
Anyway, Merry Christmas. In the new year I think I’ll lift really big iron plates and put them down again until my arms and shoulders become freakishly large
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Join the T-ransformation challenge with freakishly large arms and shoulders as your goal?
Did the Wednesday. 31 minutes - not sure what happened there - and then banged on the DB press, DBR, BSS.
Friday done for the first of the year. 200x5 was fine, 210x4 needed a reset, 220x3 great, 230 MISS. That said the bench pressing and SGHP-ing was cracking. Back in tomorrow but now thinking about a new plan.
You’ve been running Built for Battle a long time. Kudos.