a non lifting training day yesterday. climbed this, 1046 metres high. 6 hours in total, no paths, the whole lot was cross country. More snow at the top than the picture has, needed crampons really.
[quote]bluebrasil wrote:
a non lifting training day yesterday. climbed this, 1046 metres high. 6 hours in total, no paths, the whole lot was cross country. More snow at the top than the picture has, needed crampons really.
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Pretty.
“Fatima Whitbread and Her Troupe of Squirrels” sounds like a back-up band for the Charming Albino 
Wow! What a view! And I thought Pittsburgh had hills.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
[quote]bluebrasil wrote:
never tried throws. there have been a few world class Javelin and Shot folk from the UK but its not something kids grow up wanting to emulate. The only sport is football really.
theres plenty of Highland Games’ on in the Summer months obviously but I’m no heavyweight. Dont recall ever seeing weight classes either. [/quote]
We have “girls” which are women, and any men under 200 lbs, which is the same thing
As for when you get to the point where you don’t improve every workout, reduce your weights by 10% (or some other number) and wave back up, you’ll hit past the sticking point.
Plus, that’s 5/3/1-ish enough to keep you alive and uneaten into your dotage. Like Harry. Dotage that is
Besides, lots of us here do 5/3/1. its what many of the coolest people do. You want to be thought of as cool don’t you? Be accepted by your new friends? dont be afraid…[/quote]
All right watch that under 200lbs talk.
Today felt like it was going to be a day of torture as I didnt think I’d recovered from walking up that bloody mountain. Knees and hips were sore and was still generally gubbed.
Theres definately a good reason why people who climb are small wiry sorts
However the weights were surprisingly kind to me
Hang Power Clean
60x3
70x3
80x3
90x1
92.5x2,1
Military Press
bar x10
37.5x5
47.5x5
57.5x4
Back Squat
warmup
77.5x14
Dumbell Floor Pullovers
60x10
[quote]bluebrasil wrote:
5/3/1?
what is this 5/3/1 you all speak of?
(goes away and reads up on it)
its just another variation of progressive resistance training isnt it?
and it doesnt include cleans or snatches. And bench presses hurt my shoulders.
but that doesnt make it a bad programme, its just not been written to include things I like and to exclude things that hurt me. But then the 5/3/1 author didnt ask me before he wrote it (smiley face or whatever the kids do these days)
oh I know I’m not cool, my wife and kids tell me often enough that it must be true[/quote]
just another variation? How dare you?
well, yes. with built in waves. I like it because I have a very limited time in the gym, and this is the only program that I can complete during my lunch break, so it works for me.
do snatches before you deadlift, cleans/c&j before you squat.
On bench, toughen the fuck up. just kidding. what you’re doing now seems to be working, so all kidding aside, why change? just because some guy threatens to kill and eat you? nah.
of course, I’d change for that…
thats not a bad idea of doing snatches/deadlifts and cleans/squats, might be worth a go–with the exception of the benching. Dips could go in there I suppose.
Whoever was going to eat me should leave me alone and wait for my big brother to come along. He should eat him instead, he’s much bigger and tastier than me.
That makes me a billygoat and the person doing the eating would be a troll. But then this is the internet.
[quote]bluebrasil wrote:
thats not a bad idea of doing snatches/deadlifts and cleans/squats, might be worth a go–with the exception of the benching. Dips could go in there I suppose.
Whoever was going to eat me should leave me alone and wait for my big brother to come along. He should eat him instead, he’s much bigger and tastier than me.
That makes me a billygoat and the person doing the eating would be a troll. But then this is the internet.
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now that just hurts
The dB floor pullovers, doing them for the chest or lats, both, or something else?
Hel
well, I find that pullovers are absolutely, without question the best Lat exercise, bar none. For me at least, maybe not for everyone else.
They also seem to work my Pecs in a way which other out and out Pec exercises dont. I think its because Pullovers work the Pec Minor more than the major, but I’m no expert. Im not a fan of the big pec look on me, I’m too narrow shouldered to want to exaggerate that by having a deeper chest than I already have.
I do them straight armed as you would expect seeing as I do them lying on the floor, and as such they work the Triceps quite hard too.
And, for me, they really do something to the lungs. I’m not talking about “enlaging your rib cage” but done after squats it feels as though my lungs have been forced to open up a bit because of the heavy breathing. And that feels nice.
And I do them on the floor purely for safety reasons, I want a stretch on the lats, I dont want my arms to fall off.
FFS that was hard today, this squatting 3 times a week is a killer. I hadnt just started trying to do 20 rep squats when I posted on here first you see, oh no,I started a few weeks back with 50kg. So now its a wee bit tough going.
Hang Power Clean
60kgx3
70x3
80x3
90x1
92.5x1,1,1,1
Military Press
bar x10
37.5x5
47.5x5
57.5x5
Back Squat
warmup
77.5x15
Dumbell Floor Pullover
27.5 x10 just realised I’d posted my previous entry as 60. But that was pounds, my mistake. oops.
RDL
97.5X5 just for a change, one set of these for a ham stretch. Might keep it in and add sets, might not.
Thats a hell of a lot of squat reps. Did you lose a bet?
is 15 reps a lot? I thought I was wussing out by doing one work set. Admittedly I cant face a second set after Ive done the first.
as for losing a bet, it feels like it after about 12 reps. Its hard work, even at low weights.
Ive heard people say that the best way to improve is to do heavy weight for high reps, which sounds a bit tricky.
But Ive got plenty of time and nothing else to do, so might as well give it a go
15 reps for squats is good, even at modest weight. Pretty much has to be low weight. Of course, we could always try to emulate Tom Platz and try 300 lb squats for 50 reps straight, but I get woozy just thinking of it.
If you’re thinking of the Super Squats routine, it works like this. Determine the weight you can get 10 reps in good form. Squat 10 reps, but don’t rerack. Do 10 more reps rest-pause. Take a good 3 or 4 really deep breaths between each rep. After 20 reps, rack it, then fall down and hyperventilate for half an hour. You’re welcome to try it, but you really need to feel like you deserve punishment.
Cavalier, naw not trying the supersquats routine, just doing higher reps in squats for a change. Theyre fun but not easy
[quote]bluebrasil wrote:
is 15 reps a lot? I thought I was wussing out by doing one work set. Admittedly I cant face a second set after Ive done the first.
as for losing a bet, it feels like it after about 12 reps. Its hard work, even at low weights.
Ive heard people say that the best way to improve is to do heavy weight for high reps, which sounds a bit tricky.
But Ive got plenty of time and nothing else to do, so might as well give it a go [/quote]
Oh hell, I thought you wrote 77x5x15 so I thought you were doing 5 sets of fifteen which mae me want to puke in sympathy.
you do make me think I should do more than 1 work set though. I’ll go for a 100% increase in sets next time! not many folk can increase their volume that much
Hang Power Clean
60x3
70x3
80x3
90x1
92.5x 1,1,1,1,1
Military Press
bar x 10
40x5
50x5
60x3
Back Squat
warmup
77.5x16
Dumbell Floor Pullovers
27.5x10
tough one today, I guess I was tired from arguing with the other forum people. You lot were right, there are a lot of brotards etc there. “look at me I am stronger than you, therefore I am right”
anyway…back to the relative sanity of the weights
Hang Power Clean
60kg x3
70x3
80x3
92.5x1
Military Press
bar x 10
40x5
50x5
60x1
Back Squat
warmup
60x5
70x5
80x5
90x5
this has taught me that a month or more of 20 rep squats does nothing for my 5 rep squats.
Dumbell Floor Pullovers
30x10
I think 20 rep squats have their place but I’d better its more for size than strength gains.
Oh yeah, some of the other forums are absolutely retarded.