Thanks, all. I am amped about it. Just need to pull it all together at the right time.
Colin, that is great! Best of luck to the two of you! The good thing about the previous bad relationship is that you had a better idea what to look for going into this one.
My wife brought an enormous amount of baggage with her. It took years, even after being married, to get her to realize that it was all good.
Damn fine benching, now go eat.
Back and Biceps - Recovery Edition?
Want to shy away from heavier weights for the rest of the week. Hopefully it will give me more umph come Sunday.
Static Stretching
Supersets - Lat Pulls (Wide Neutral) and Seated Rows (Close Neutral)
Lat Pulls
160x12x3
Seated Rows
160x12x3
Supersets - Lat Pulls (Close Neutral) and Seated Rows (Wide Neutral)
Lat Pulls
160x10x2
Seated Rows
160x10x2
Hammer Curls
35sx10x2
DB Preacher Curls
30sx10x2
dont deload weeks suck?
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
dont deload weeks suck?[/quote]
Yes sir they do. I hate them and I am not good at them. But I do know that I need them. My advanced age demands it.
Of course, that might be why my progress was so slow, when I was younger. We used to do the same basic workout every Mon., Wed. and Fri. And every one of those workouts included a million sets of bench, going to max. Damn I was dumb!
Sunday’s fireworks got canceled due to weather. Which is kind of weak. Our forefathers fought under some ungodly conditions, but we can’t man up and watch fireworks in the drizzle? And don’t say it is because the fireworks would get wet. We’ve been to the moon…you can’t tell me we can’t shoot fireworks in the rain.
Anyway…they had them last night instead. My youngest spent 90% of the time with his hands over his ears and 50% of the time saying he wanted to go home. My daughter just enjoyed herself. This is the 5th one she has been through. My middle child (autie boy) was the one we weren’t sure how he was going to react. He LOVED it! He sat in my lap and watched every single one of them, commenting on the ones he really liked. It was a good finale and I will be surprised if he doesn’t now want to go into pyrotechnics.
On a side, NOT trying to start a political discussion, note/rant/lamentation… I have learned more about my country, and those responsible for its creation, in the last couple of years than I ever would have believed. Man was I misinformed! Saints? No way. Sinners? No doubt. Enlightened? Very!
“A republic…if you can keep it.” And I reflected, as I celebrated 234 years of America, with my children. And the most prevalent thing I felt was…fear. The America of my youth is gone. I can still see it, from time to time. But this is not the America that I grew up in. And while, in some ways, we have changed for the better. In others, we seem hellbent on heading down a dark path. I worry what America will be like in just one decade, when my daughter ventures out on her own. Or a decade and a half from now, when my youngest steps out.
How did we ever get from the mindset that government was a necessary evil. Where they so feared a powerful central government that their 1st attempt at a constitution gave birth to the impotent Articles of the Confederation…after all, better too weak, than too strong. And now, tens of millions of people think that government is the answer. We went from looking out for ourselves and one another, through family, friends, churches, communities, to believing that some godless, soulless, merciless, power hungry monolith could do it better.
“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.’ 'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
Fortunately, most of us aren’t there yet. There is still the prescience to see that things will eventually become unsustainable. Unfortunately, barring a tidal wave of commonsense, I will live to see it. But for my kids sake, I hope to God that I am wrong.
Sorry for the vent…
^^^x10^^^
Late to the game with the PR’s Skip. Your training is looking damn awesome!
Thanks, Wilson. It is also frustrating…
Shit…I mean…Squat Day -
Didn’t happen. I did some static stretching and tried to squat.
bwx10x2 - sluggish
barx10 - sluggish
135x5 - sluggish and my IT band felt wonky
225x2 - hit the 2nd rep and my IT band hurt too much to keep going. It is tight as hell. (Not sure how tight that actually is).
I think the knotted feeling in my IT band is somehow tied to my spondy. No medical proof, but there seems to be a harmonious rhythm connecting them.
Spent the next 30 minutes foam rolling…from every angle I could figure to do.
Also, I somehow tweaked my left shoulder. It seems to emanate from the border between my medial and posterior delt. And it is radiating. Thing is, I didn’t do anything. Hopefully it will be gone by morning.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
dont deload weeks suck?[/quote]
Yes sir they do. I hate them and I am not good at them. But I do know that I need them. My advanced age demands it.
Of course, that might be why my progress was so slow, when I was younger. We used to do the same basic workout every Mon., Wed. and Fri. And every one of those workouts included a million sets of bench, going to max. Damn I was dumb![/quote]
I hear ya dude…I know that I need deload weeks , but I cant seem to figure out what works best . I was even thinking of taking every deload week off the rest of the summer , but after the last off week , I think not . felt too stale coming back .
Sorry to hear about the tight ITB, Strick. Some things it’s good to have tight, but the ITB ain’t one of 'em!
[quote]marlboroman wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
dont deload weeks suck?[/quote]
Yes sir they do. I hate them and I am not good at them. But I do know that I need them. My advanced age demands it.
Of course, that might be why my progress was so slow, when I was younger. We used to do the same basic workout every Mon., Wed. and Fri. And every one of those workouts included a million sets of bench, going to max. Damn I was dumb![/quote]
I hear ya dude…I know that I need deload weeks , but I cant seem to figure out what works best . I was even thinking of taking every deload week off the rest of the summer , but after the last off week , I think not . felt too stale coming back . [/quote]
I agree completely. I am still trying to find the right recipe for a deload. Too little and I come back feeling weak and off. Too much and I don’t get enough recovery.
[quote]mathineer wrote:
Sorry to hear about the tight ITB, Strick. Some things it’s good to have tight, but the ITB ain’t one of 'em![/quote]
Lol…amen. I am working it. But I have enough going on that I am not overly concerned about it.
Shoulder Day -
Shoulder is still tweaking, but not as bad. I felt really weak and fragile today. I sure hope that is gone by Sunday. Deload continues…
Static Stretching
Military Press
barx15x2
95x10
135x10
155x10
175x10
DB Laterals
25sx10x2
Reverse Flyes
25sx10x3
I think I did like 150 x 10 on my money set for my ones day. Only 4 more cycles till I hit your deload numbers. Now I am depressed. 
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
I think I did like 150 x 10 on my money set for my ones day. Only 4 more cycles till I hit your deload numbers. Now I am depressed. [/quote]
Lol…it is misleading. It is a deload, but I didn’t have many reps left @ 175#. Having done 185x14, I should have had several left, but, like I said, I felt weak and “fragile”. It was almost a grinder.
175x10 is a deload? Wow, nice military pressing. I couldn’t do that on a “regular” day, haha.
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
175x10 is a deload? Wow, nice military pressing. I couldn’t do that on a “regular” day, haha.[/quote]
Military is the one lift that I actually seem to be pretty good at. If I couldn’t do millies, it would be depressing. I am trying, hard, to get my bench to where I feel good about it.
Very good looking pressing numbers. If your deloading with 170, you’re doing something right. I’m hoping to hit that as a max. And that bench is looking good too.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Military is the one lift that I actually seem to be pretty good at. If I couldn’t do millies, it would be depressing. I am trying, hard, to get my bench to where I feel good about it.[/quote]
That sound of violins you’re hearing is just me playing “Woe Is Me”.
Tell you what, I’ll swap you your numbers on MP or BP, you’re choice.