did a dog walk. great thing about dog walks in the ‘inner-city’ area I live in (almost typed ghetto, far from) is that I get to see new fashion trends. OK, for the past 10-15 years we have seen baggy jeans down around the ankles. Now the tight “new wave” fitting jeans are coming back. Tonight I saw a kid jump out of a car wearing good old levis withe red Chuck’s, tight and rolled at the bottom, 80s punk style, but then baggy and showing the boxers 2000s style.
Butch wanted to eat him.
Nice squatting Pete. My standard uniform has been straight leg levi’s and a tee or hoodie for the past 30 years. About every 8-9 years I become really fashionable.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Nice squatting Pete. My standard uniform has been straight leg levi’s and a tee or hoodie for the past 30 years. About every 8-9 years I become really fashionable.[/quote]
Relaxed fit and boot cut. Great for when you got your ‘bloat’ on 
Same with the t’s and sweatshirts. Flannel as well.
i wear 40" x 30" relaxed fit jeans… those aren’t easy to find. but jeans are all i wear most times. i’m not a big fan of only t-shirts because i hate the ol’ “how much yeah bench??” comments. my favorite shirts to wear are the “dry fit” golf shirts. they don’t rinkle or fade. the short sleeves are also longer so i’m not having to pull them down off the ol’ guns. that’s pretty much my dress code every day for work with a pair of nike shocks.
Levi’s relaxed fit 38 by 30s here. But these days, now that I am an unemployed, I simply change into my next clean pair of track pants for the next workout. Change them when full of sweat and chalk.
Today:
Foam roll, stretch, dynamic crap.
Box squat, all w/100lbs of chains:
225 x 2 x 2
275 x 2 x 2
315 x 2 x 2
365 x 2 x 2
GMs: 225 x 8, 315 x 8
hack squat 360 x 8, 540 x 10, 360 x 17
fugmaster 5000 'outwards) 4 x 10-20 squatting in briefs I need to get actually stronger at 'pushing the knees out"
hyperextension bwt x 10, 25 x 10, 45 x 10
sled:
ankle pulls 4 x 40 yrd
backward pulls 4 x 40 yrds
forward pulls 6 x 40 yds
body feels like bag of smashed assholes, time to deload.
my tcel dbag wod:
Bent rows: for the past 4 years I have been doing these Yates style. These were proper 90 degree, rows to sternum. 135 x 10, 185 x 10, 225 x 10, 275 x 10, 315 x 6.
shrugs 315 x 20, 405 x 20, 495 x 20
HS rows 3 x 15
cable rear delt 3 x 20
barbell curl, 95 x 10, 135 x 13
reverse curls 3 x 10 @ 95
concentration curl 2 x 20
elliptical 25 minutes
Pete, still looking strong as ever. I’m back on a strength cycle. Hope I can max your warm-up weights in a few cycles.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i wear 40" x 30" relaxed fit jeans… those aren’t easy to find. but jeans are all i wear most times. i’m not a big fan of only t-shirts because i hate the ol’ “how much yeah bench??” comments. my favorite shirts to wear are the “dry fit” golf shirts. they don’t rinkle or fade. the short sleeves are also longer so i’m not having to pull them down off the ol’ guns. that’s pretty much my dress code every day for work with a pair of nike shocks. [/quote]
Meat, you gotta quit buying size medium. You are a little bigger than that now.
Steve, you are so full of sh@!. In a week you are going to be close gripping my comp grip.
Yesterday, did 30 minutes of cardio in the a.m. on the elliptical.
Then I kissed the wife and kid goodbye, went and picked up a training partner, and drove to Illinois, so he could compete in the APF state championships there.
We made it to beautiful Bolingbrook in six hours, fifteen minutes. Not bad at all. Found their highschool, he weighed in, and then it was off for Italian beefs and dogs. Do you sesne a recurring theme here?
Then it was to the hotel. The most I can say about the hotel is they had, er, the most, er, overqualified woman working the front desk. I think I went out and bought 5 $2.50 small bottles of water to reconfirm. One at a time. My roomate for the night hit the hottub to loosen up, I read a crappy grocery store fiction novel.
Alarms went of at 6 a.m. and we complained to each other about the other’s snoring. Got dressed, hit up Starbuck’s, then McDonald’s. Two things dependable in any American suburb.
Meet was well run, in this gargantuan highschool. Partner hit opener in the upper 800s for squat, missed 920something to beat his own M2 world record.
Somewhere in there Ed Coan showed up in the warm up area, as well as Jose Garcia, the Lillibridge clan, and some other big names in PL.
Unfortunately my partner couldn’t get a bench in. His opener was with a weight he had hit many times, first one no lock out, second butt of the bench, third his foot slipped out. Shit happens and somehow I feel depressingly responsible.
Drove back and my wife handed me a glass of whiskey and the three year old. I was pretty fuggen happy.
i almost forgot the biggest highlight, a 74 year old lifter in the 148 class, Can’t remember his numbers but they were respectable for that weight class, despite age. After the meet he was going to drop down to the 130s for a triathalon. (He was short, like KMC short). Really fuggen inspiring.
glad to deload
dl worked up to 545 x 1
hyperextension 3 x 10-15
ab wheel 3 x 10-15
prowler 6 trips, 40 yds each, 90 lbs
sluggish from crappy food and two days in the truck. easy stuff until Saturday
1000 miles on the truck + antacids - $250,
Getting worked up about a hotel receptionist and romance novel - $20
Hanging out for the weekend with the big dogs and yelling your ass off for meet records - Priceless
Pete, next time get seperate beds and you won’t hear each other snoring as much. My strongest friends can’t squat 800 lbs. No wait I don’t have any friends.
Embracing the deload, no lifting today.
30 minutes elliptical cuz I couldn’t find a good enough excuse not to.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
Embracing the deload, no lifting today.
30 minutes elliptical cuz I couldn’t find a good enough excuse not to. [/quote]
Or not!!!
[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:
1000 miles on the truck + antacids - $250,
Getting worked up about a hotel receptionist and romance novel - $20
Hanging out for the weekend with the big dogs and yelling your ass off for meet records - Priceless[/quote]
I’ll second that!
deload continued. It is usually right about here that I blow off the deload and do something heavy. Well, last couple days, in addition to feeling run down, have felt actually a little sick, so I am sticking with the plan.
DE bench 6 x 3 w/175 straight weight
pulldowns wide 6 x 10
cg bench 225 x 8, 275 x 8, x 8
reverese pulldowns 3 x 8
hammer strength incline 4 x 12
rope down/extension 4 x 15 each
alt cable curls 5 x 12
laterals 5 x 12
face pulls 3 x 12
cable abs 3 x 12
cardio dog walk later
managed 2mile dogwalk, after picking out and picking up paint for 3 year olds new room. The baby room will remain the baby room, he graduates into the bigger room called the ‘den’ or ‘guest room’ although it has mainly been a place for his toys for the last two years.
lately fighting a little depression/anxiety with the unemployment issue. Operations people treat me like a technical person, technical folk treat me like operations. What happens after this though is I just get pissed off and work harder at networking, job applying etc. Shit’s gotta change. For the better.
Almost summer buddy… sun will be shining and the birds will be singin’ and you will feel better.
Especially when the “turtle skirts” come out again…
Def: “turtle skirts” Noun- skirts that are just long enough to cover the snapper…
thanks Bunny
woke up even sicket today, sinuses fugged
after steamy shower, netti pot, ibu, and nasal steroid made it to the gym
Box squats 10 x 2 s/275 casual pace, light weight trying on different briefs to see what works best for training
rack RDL from 2 pin worked up to 585 x 3 still lots in tank
power squat worked up to 810 x 12
hyper 4 x 12
leg raise 4 x 12
sled sprints 10 trips, 40 yards, worked up to 170 on sled
feel like hell again, gonna try and convince 3 year old to take a nap with me.