I Lift, I Lower...I Lift Again

13/4/24

  • Deadlifts
    240kg × 4
  • Farmers walk handles
    100kg per hand × 4×20 metres total
  • Static farmers hold
    120kg per hand × 30 second hold
    https://youtu.be/4LpQKjk816k?si=dLfnwI4y3pciJhif
  • Prowler pushes
    200kg × 2×20m
    250kg × 2×20m
    300kg × 2×20m

Traps and obliques are killing today :laughing:

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No shit mate. That was a tough session

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Think ill stick to just posting on my own log, ya can post nothing elsewhere without some prick coming in and pissing on what youve said.

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Ooh what did I miss :joy:

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I thought he was just commenting on himself and whether he had the right to offer advice, not directed at you at all. :person_shrugging:

Lol…mate there still bloody sore :rofl:

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16/4/24

  • Tempo bench (3 sec eccentric)
    Top set; 125kg × 5
  • Incline bench
    Top set; 110kg × 5
  • Neutral grip chins
    BW × 3 sets × 5
  • Incline DB rows
    2×40kg × 3 sets of 10-12
  • DB lateral raise
    2×12.5kg × 12
    2×15kg × 3 sets of 10-12

Another good productive session. Rest day tomorrow (well, work and active recovery lets say lol).

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Still training away, just been working loads…training pretty abbreviated.

Currently…
Mon - Weighted dips & rows
Wed - Deadlifts & squats
Friday - Weighted chins & close grip bench
Sat - Side & rear delts, sled work

6/5/24

  • Weighted dips
    BW (113kg) + 20kg × 2 top sets of 7, 6…followed by a back off set to failure with BW only
  • Seated cable rows
    130kg × 2 sets of 8, followed by a back off set @ 100kg to failure

Dropped a few more kgs in the last 3 weeks, want to be 110kg by my birthday on june 18th.

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only 3 kegs off, just have a big dump.

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Haha…its 3kg more blubber im looking to drop lol

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23/5/23

  • Hip belt squat machine
  • Goblet squat on a squat ramp
  • Weighted 45 degree hypers
  • Calf presses on a seated leg press

21/5/23

  • Weighted dips
  • One arm DB row
  • DB lateral raise
  • Rear delt flye machine

18/5/23

  • Weighted chins
  • Close grip benches with chains
  • DB lateral raise
  • Rear delt flye machine

2 top sets on each. Cut out the Saturday workout, just Mon, Wed & Fridays now. Shoulders are my focus at themoment, hence the laterals and rear delts on both upper days.
Tweaked my lower back last week at work, so no deads or back squats on my lower day for the next week or two, still theres always a way to work around these things. Strength is going up weekly on my 4 main upper compound movements too. The extra recovery days are paying off.

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Hey all, hope everyone’s doin goòd…

Still training away every other day. Weighted dips and rows are my main focus at the mo, so every workout begins with those 2 movements. Ive dropped chins because i injured my left teres major 3 weeks ago, any vertical pull seems to irritate it. Ive also dropped benches, weighted dips are the only upper body pressing movement im doing now, my shoulders feel great for it.
Im finding if i preform slow eccentric only dips first on my warm up sets i can then press myself pain free.
Still salt in some laterals, curls, weighted hypers or some leg work on each workout. Also haven’t deadlifted in 3 weeks, much as i love them, they zap a lot of energy and resources for little in return.

Ill be 47 on Tuesday, been training since i was 14, and the older i get the more i realise (for me) that trying to be a jack of all trades and to push hard on everything at once ain’t gonna lead anywhere fruitful. To improve now…there has to be a focus on 1 or 2 things only, everything else gets put on maintenance mode.

Ill get back to posting more soon…

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16/6/24

  • Weighted dips
    BW 108kg + 20kg × 5 clusters of 3
  • Chest supported row
    https://youtu.be/xDsgKdxDa6E?feature=shared
    -Machine lateral raise
    2 top sets of 6-8
    Eccentric only preacher curl machine*
    Eccentric only kneeling rope cable pushdowns*
    *Simgle set to near eccentric fail

17/6/24

  • Front foot elevated BSS
    2 top sets of 10 per leg
  • Heel elevated gob squats
    Singlw top set to fail
  • DB SLDL
    2 top sets of 12
  • Hip belt weighted calf raises
    5 clusters of 5

Was able to get two separate upper/lower sessions in, off work this week.

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Birthday today…something tells me i may require an extra rest day tomorrow lol…

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happy birthday

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Happy birthday mate. Hope you had a great day.

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Hope it was a good one.

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Happy Birthday :gift:

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Thank you so much peps…had a great wee break away for a couple of night. Drank too much jack and ate too much cake lol. But back to business as usual today.

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Had a funny encounter with yet another one of these 20 something year old would be expert today online lol, its always “the bodybuilding literature” says or “the science” says, or heres “a meta analysis that debunks what your saying”…like its the ace of spades or something lol.

Frankly, poorly designed short term studies with fairly inexperienced subjects with overstated results doesnt interest me in the slightest. How about long term studies or studies with highly experienced sujects, and how about specifying what type of additional growth came from said traìning method or technique, i.e., was it merely artificial sarcoplasmic hypertrophy?? But i digress…

Its funny, people for thousands of years have looked to their elders and those with experience for wisdom and knowledge…but not now, oh no… not since goggle came on the scene. This is the same generation that also apparently dont know what a woman is and think we should just stop using oil overnight…because “the science” says so lol.

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