From Humble Beginnings...

8th May

Close grip 2-board press
80kg 2x5
85kg 3x5
90kg x1
95kg x1
100kg x1 - PR

Shrugs
3x20, 85kg

GHRs
x30, x20 (these were two huge sets, hammies are dead now)

10th May

Deload cos I’m ill, got exams, injury etc.

Stretching

10 mins on bike

DB press 2x15, 26kg

Ab wheel some x some

Inverted rows some x some

12th May
Deload

Pull ups 5x8

Face pulls
5x12, 20kg

Tri pushdowns
3x10, 27.5kg

Rolling tri extensions (trying them out, I love them!)
some x some

JM press with DBS (again trying them out, pretty decent)
some x some

Hammer Curlz
3x10, 16kg

Foam rolling, shoulder dis, stretch

FRIDAY 13th… OOOHHHH

Squats
warm up x 0

Slightly re-strained the same injury on my second warm up set. Didn’t kill, but I couldn’t squat on it. Damn.

Bench - paused
wu
70kg x5
75kg x5
77.5kg x5
80kg x5 - Probably a paused rep PR

Incline
60kg x some - felt really weird on my left shoulder so didn’t push these too hard.

Rolling Tri extension
35lb DBs 3 or 4 x 8

Pull ups
some x some

Decided to try deadlifting and it didn’t hurt my hip.
70kg x10
Got some evil ideas about high-rep deadlifts, and of course I had to try it.
70kg x20 - Easy enough
90kg x15 - BAM. Seriously knackered afterwards
100kg x10 - As soon as I put the last rep down, BAM - huge headache. But not done yet…
105kg x5 - Done.

Didn’t help that one of the guys kept telling me to do more! He was testing me out, since I had told him that once I get crazy ideas in my head, I have to do them. Good session today, think I almost found my limit. Now I know what to break next time…

What kind of stance do you use when you squat? Maybe a narrower, olympic stance could help take stress off of your hip.

Edit: Oh yeah, and out of curiosity, did you switch to sumo due to your back issue? I’ve personally found that sumo pulling is much for forgiving for me.

I squat just a bit wider than shoulder width. It’s a really weird injury and I’m not sure I can pin it down in particular to my hip - feels like some little glute muscle right under there. I just tell people my hip is hurting when they ask when I’m limping LOL.
The strain is actually really close to my arsehole :smiley: and I thought I had strained that at first :confused:

And yes, I went over to the dark side because of my back. Conventional never seemed right, though supposedly I have the right build for it - I always felt there was too much lower back and not enough legs.

Same here on sumo. I also supposedly have better conventional leverages, but what you find to be right and what someone else finds to be right are often two different things. GL with your injury.

Cheers man.

Sunday 15th May

1-board Full grip
70kg x5
75kg x5
80kg x3
85kg x3
90kg x3
92.5kg x3 - PR

Pull ups
5xF

GHRs
3xF

Ab wheel
5xF

Tues 17th May

Leg press - high and wide for hamstrings
3 or 4 x 10, 190kg

GHRs
2xF

JM Presses
3x10, 22kg DBs

Calves - 2 minute sets
2x 2 minutes, 90kg. Absolutely agonising. I’m sick of looking like a 12 year old stamp collector when I wear shorts, so calf work is back in.

Ab wheel
2xF

Thursday 19th May

1-arm Cable row (got creative and figured out how to row heavy with no dumbbells) - really liked these, and felt them in the abs as well.
30kg 2x12
35kg 2x10
40kg 1x8

Face pulls
5x12, 20kg

Hammer curlz
3xF, 16kg DBs

Calf stetching on leg press - calves are on FIRE and tight as cheesewire

Ab wheel
Some x some

Pretty short session today, but getting more and more pissed off with the school gym.
Should have a bar and rack in three or four weeks, on my continual asking lol.

“Come to our gym, where mediocrity is encouraged”.

Saturday 21st May - End of the world

Box Squat - first time I’ve ever done them and (becoming such a cliche now) I love them. No glute pain so far. And it’s the first time I’ve felt my hamstrings when squatting. Yay!
w/u
60kg x5
70kg x5
80kg x5
90kg x5
100kg x3
105kg x3 - call this the PR, bit of a grinder

Bench - competition pause
w/u
62.5 x5
72.5 x5
77.5 x5
82.5kg x5 - PR. Nice grinder

Deadlifts
w/u
105 x3
125kg x3
145kg x3 - PR, another grinder lol.

Conditioning
Motorbike pulls, 6 runs.

Decided that since it was the end of the world, I might as well do some conditioning so I don’t die as a fatass LOL. Fucking hard, quads glutes and abs were screaming. Bro was sitting on the bike and he can brake to make it harder.

Great session today with three PRs - can’t ask for more. I’ll put up a pic and a video later when upload is working. :confused:


Video is of the max set from the box squats - 105kg for a triple. Ignore my brother being a fucktard behind me.

Pic is of me destroyed by the conditioning LOL

Christ these forums are shit.
Here’s the video:

Good Doomsday training man. :slight_smile:

Lol cheers man. Feels good to have one last awesome session before the rapture haha!
And I just added you on FB BTW.

Sunday 22nd May

Close grip 1-board press
w/u
60kg x5
70kg x5
80kg x3
85kg x3
90kg x3 - PR

Motorbike pull - 1 long run around yard, probably about 150m. Proceed to die.

RDLs - explosive with good ham stretch
60kg x5
70kg x5
80kg x5
90kg x5
100kg x5

Shrugs
85kg, 3x20

Ab wheel
some x some

Had to do two training days in a row because I missed my friday night session, which I had to do on Saturday. Actually quite surprised with my 1-board PR seeing as I’m sore from my bench PR yesterday haha.

I was wondering who that was! :stuck_out_tongue: I’ll be sure to accept it!

Tuesday 24th May

Leg Press - narrow stance
3x10, 190kg

JM Press
3x10, 24kg DBs

2-minute Calf raise
2 sets, 90kg. Agony

Weighted situps
+20kg, x12
+26kg, 2x10

Fin.

Starting to get pretty bored of the leg press and I’m running out of ways to modify it to keep it fresh.
I’m planning to progress my calf raises until I can do 3 sets on 120kg, twice a week. Then I should have put a bit of mass on my calves.

Fired off a question to EliteFTS about my squat and deadlift form

http://asp.elitefts.com/qa/default.asp?qid=146533&tid=

Useful and awesome.

Thursday 26th May

One-arm cable rows
w/u
30kg x5
35kg x5
40kg x5
30kg x25 - like a kroc row

Face Pulls
4x10, 20kg

Hammer curlz
3xF, 18kg DBs

2-minute calf
100kg x1 set

In and out in 30 mins. Think my creatine is starting to kick in.

Friday 27th May

Squats - with knee wraps
w/u
80kg x5
100kg x3
120kg x1
130kg x1
140kg x1
145kg x1 - PR - stalled halfway up but grinded through

Bench - competition pause
w/u
60kg x5
70kg x3
80kg x3
85kg x1
90kg x1
95kg x1
100kg x1 - Half pause - PR

Rack pulls from below knee
w/u
120kg x5
140kg x3
160kg x3
170kg x2
180kg x1 - First time I’ve ever had 4 plates in my hand.

Decent session tonight.