140kg 6 sets of 2. This was pretty easy. I felt like I could have gotten this to my belly button. Which means I’m moving fast.
Squats 6 singles.
190, 190, 190, 200kg , 200kg, 200kg.
Video below. This was good. Felt like I had a few reps at 200kg - even at set 6.
This is even more impressive that I also had a pretty poor day for overall calories today. And had to “carb up” as I worked out. This was a peanut butter and jam slices (not together).
The reason I did not reply to you in someone else’s log the 1st time is the same as to why I’ll not the 2nd. A log is the ONE threat you have to visit. You can not avoid it. If you pick an argument in general threat. FINE. But two other people having an argument in a third persons log. They might not want to see that.
If you want to talk about the reasons I think your wrong ask away.
Can you tell me what I wrote that made you feel that I was picking an argument? I had no intention of doing that. I’d like to know what it was about my post that made you feel that way because I’d like to avoid doing that in the future.
What was wrong with my observations with my time doing Judo and my personal conclusion that it’s a poor sport for hobbyists?
Simple - I do not know you to trust you. You might be a perfectly reasonable guy. I don’t think we have chatted before to know. That is all. Genuinely it. My aversion to starting an argument on a log is close to 100%.
This is wrong. I trained on unsprung floors for years. And whilst I sustained an injury, this was because I decided to fight a super heavy weight European champion competitor. Week to week - training was not painful at all. It should not be. If it was - then you were taught wrong. As evidence - we had an 82 year old man train with us. Full throws as well. 82 year old me can not train through pain.
This a teaching issue. Sorry but it is. Progression is for the most part not “that hard” I saw guys with 0 experience become competitive in local competitions within 9 months.
With regards to your shoulder throw - not everyone is good at every throw. I trained with guys that had competed at international level who were worse at some throws than me. A yellow belt. Having a crap throw is fine / normal. Mine was hip throw. The 1st throw.
So the idea that Judo is bad as a hobby as its painful and hard is wrong. To be fair weight lifting has caused me more pain, and is harder. But this is also a point. Things that are hard and painful make great hobbies. As the point of a hobby can be to test yourself. To be the best you can. And any one can be good at soft and easy.
Farmer walk 100kg per hand. 20m return. This moved SO quickly. Video to be uploaded. Runs two and three where a bit slower. But not too much. I can see from the video on my phone my shoulders are a bit hunched. That will get fixed.
Dead lift into bands. 140kg into red bands. Moved easy enough. Not really working to hard here.
Pendlay rows - 3x8
1 set at 100kg then 2 at 80. I should use 90 for all.
Then volume on the leg press, leg extensions, GHR and banded pull troughs.
Edit in video of the farmers walk. 19 seconds to do 20m there and back. I also lost time on the turn around. I can get to 17 seconds.
So - I don’t know how many people follow my log. Apparently a few (lots of people say they do) but I wanted to talk about something REALLY odd.
On the way to the gym today I got a genuine nervous feeling. And felt almost ill with nerves. The odd thing is - its the most friendly gym in the world. I talk to the owners when I see them. All the coaches know me and I talk to a few of the guys there. I’m not sure why that happened. But it did.
Until now I’ve given no thought to “covid anxiety” but I think today I got a bit. Or maybe it was just excitement. Who know?
I will say this; as someone with a home gym some people ask me why I still have a gym membership. Well firstly to get all the equipment I need to move away from the gym, would cost about £5000. There are machines, bars, bands, and other bits of equipment they have that would be too costly to buy.
But also - and this might be tied up with the above. The gym is different. As well as being a friendly gym - it has some serious athletes. And when you turn up and the gyms got 4 people in it, and 3 of them can bench your squat. And the 4th is a 65kg woman that’s pulling 180kg from 6 inch blocks. You feel the pressure. Not to preform. As its not a judgey place like that at all. But the put the hard work in. Sure not every one does. But I do. And I missed that. That innate air of competition. Its too easy to blow smoke up your owe arse working alone. Well I find it is. Being around really strong people. Who put in the hard work drives me on. I can’t leave there having not put 100% in.
That said - one of the guys from the gym is in the same comp as me. He’s in the category above. But I’m already eye balling his lifts…
I feel like I use this site for a similar reason… Not necessarily to compete with people, but it gives me something to aspire to and for feedback from people way more knowledgeable about this stuff. It does make me wonder if I’m leaving effort on the table though, being able to physically BE THERE as opposed to just reading things.
I also use a home.gym… and I’m sure I’d feel the exact way you described walking into a gym. I’d be nervous as hell haha. Probably for a different reason entirely though.
Yeah it really took my by surprise. As the gym owners and I are “friendly” - like I’ve not been invited to their house for dinner. But I know where they live and pick stuff up some times. We message on facebook and stuff. So it is a really comfortable place for me.
I really do think it the habit of putting it all out there.
And again not in a “you can’t lift this - you’re weak” kind of way. More of a “You told me you wanted this. So - where’s the effort” sort of thing.
No actually that is it - the gym keeps me accountable. At home no one is watching me train. I can get away with taking the easy way out. At the gym - I’m in front of my peers. And I have to put in the work.
Sorry to get all deep. But it was an odd sensation.
I think that’s exactly the sensation that gets you results though man. That’s exactly why some gyms collect big strong lifters and some gyms you can walk into with a 3 plate squat and have all eyes on you. It’s a very big reason why I’ve been paying part fees at my gym through lockdown. When you walk in and the girl behind the reception desk can squat 5 plates, you just feel the difference. Hard to replicate for me in a home gym, and even more difficult in a 24 hour fitness centre.
I can imagine it was strange, especially after being required to take so much time away. Probably a total mindset change between home and gym.
That seems like a good way to encourage people to try as hard as possible. That’s pretty awesome tbh. Seems like they have a true interest in your success!
I feel like the “can’t lift this” would be the main thing holding me back from lifting in a gym if I wasn’t lifting at home. I am sure no one would even bat an eye at me, but not measuring up to my own expectations and displaying that “failure” in public would scare me.
It’s stuff like this that makes me wonder about lifting at home. I personally love it, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t think about where I’d be if I was in an actual gym.
Do you have a number? I joke. I love my wife, with all my heart. But there is something about strong (not muscular) girls.
Horses for courses. You and I have different reactions to the same stimulus. Both are valid.
You might have hated it and given up! You might have not come to T nation to compare and thought - yeah my 120kg squat is king. Man you’re doing just fine.
Google Sarah Harpin if you want to see her credentials. She’s just the receptionist at my current gym. She is exceptional in that she’s competed successfully on the national and international stage in bodybuilding and powerlifting, but she isn’t the only accomplished lifter there by a long, long, long stretch. Plenty of national level competitors and ex competitors in all sorts of disciplines.
I do like strong ladies. Not in a weird way. My wife can’t do a single press up. But I admire them. And nothing about a woman with a six pack and delts makes me think “too manly”. I also admire their attitude. I’ve had the please of talking with some female athletes. And the crap they had to put up with just to get taken seriously. To be the best is hard. To be the best when you keep being told it doesn’t count because your a girl…
Talking to the owner of the gym yesterday on facebook I said to her I loved training there as it drives me on. Because no one ever squatted 250kg in a David Lloyd.
6h later she posted a video of 2 of the strength coaches that work out of her gym with the strap line “Because no one ever squatted 400kg in a David Lloyd.” I got the credit for the inspiration. But Dam. I’m lucky enough to work with one of these coaches. And he’s amazing. I’m exploding in size and power. But seeing that I’m like Wow - Must do better.
Some equipment at home here too, but with family commitments, it’s far more efficient for me to hit the gym early before the family are awake. Plus yep, stacks more equipment (that’s brand new) at the gym.
Yeah - I just about managed to convince the wife a squat rack combined with a yoke was value for money. Trying to get her to agree to a log, 5 atlas stone and GHR machine is not gonna work.
This - this is real. Gym work is quicker. At home the work out can take all night. The kids go to bed at 20:00 and if it take 2h to do then so be it. Where as at the gym I only like to be out of the house for 90mins. So thats 1h of working out time. I need to be quick.
@carlbm i like the gym for community, but I’m definitely “more productive “ at home. I’m naturally curious and have a hard time staying out of interesting conversations. It’s also easier for me to stick to my own thing
You’re a talker? I can be to. I have to be REALLY controlled. I also have low level ASD and I can miss peoples social signs they are pissed off with me. So I tend to exit conversation early. And avoid that whole mess.
I don’t talk to ppl, but if ppl talk to me or I overhear an interesting conversation, I get sucked in. I was in a uni gym, so there’s ALWAYS an interesting conversation
