roll, stretch
prowler 50lb x 40 yrd x 10
treadmill 30 min, 5 incline, 5 interval, etc.
decline sits 3 x some
anyone know about how hard it is to workout when you have a baby? We are having one in a month…will I be able to? sleep etc? extra honeydo jobs?? to help out the wonderful mommy?
Ps. I am a fitness nut and for 10 yrs have almost never had a week off…I am in for trouble i take it.
[quote]steviebeast wrote:
anyone know about how hard it is to workout when you have a baby? We are having one in a month…will I be able to? sleep etc? extra honeydo jobs?? to help out the wonderful mommy?
Ps. I am a fitness nut and for 10 yrs have almost never had a week off…I am in for trouble i take it.[/quote]
not sure why you are posting this in my log, but yeah, a baby does not mean the end of training. I have 3 kids (23, 6, and 2) and I can say I haven’t missed a planned training session due to any one of them, ever. I did take a week off when the 6 year old and 2 year old were born, but more for sanity’s sake than anything else.
tonight
DE box squats to foam 325 + green bands 2 x 2, 375 + green bands 2 x 2, 415 + green bands 5 x 2, 30 sec rest
stiff legs in rack, 375 + 200 in chains 5 x 3
ghr 4 x 8
hlr 4 x 8
1 leg leg press 4 x 12
looks like a little, felt like a lot, couple of hours later am still sweating
on a side note, spent most of last year experimenting with carb back loading. never did anything but make my blood work bad and my weight unpredictable. gone back to more of a carb cycling thing, that I have used for years, plus more conditioning work. in 3 weeks down ten lbs, and energy feeling way better. best way to describe my current diet is a hi bred of DASH and carb cycling, and including lots of super foods.
condo work
sucked ass after squatting and pulling last night
foam roll, stretch
prowler 50 x 40 x 10
treadmill
5 min incline
5 min intervals
5 min incline
5 min intervals
5 min incline
5 min intervals
some core work
[quote]steviebeast wrote:
anyone know about how hard it is to workout when you have a baby? We are having one in a month…will I be able to? sleep etc? extra honeydo jobs?? to help out the wonderful mommy?
Ps. I am a fitness nut and for 10 yrs have almost never had a week off…I am in for trouble i take it.[/quote]
Good work as always Pete. Didn’t know you were the baby expert???
Any other random topics we should just drop in your log?
Just to commiserate- I took off about 3 days of lifting when my last baby was born about 3 years ago and I will take off a couple or few days in about 2 months when my next baby girl will be born. Luckily I am able to sneak away from the hospital, after the baby is born, when other relatives are visiting, and pound some weights at home. This kind of lifting helps to restore my mind and put me at ease, plus I’m lucky and my wife is understanding.
All this prowler work is making me want to buy one so much more. It’s like a constant reminder.
today
fucking cold as hell, could not get warmed up, and somehow had no handoff/spotters. almost time to head back to bb club for benching
rotator work/pressdowns/hammer curls, warm ups x ton
db bench worked up to 110s x 8 for three sets. right tricep is feeling great now as far a ROM, but is so fucking week, by last set 8 reps was a struggle
had planned on close grips next, again no hand off guys/spotters so tried dips for the first time since tricep tear
dips bwt x 4 x 10
pullaparts 4 x 15
first time being able to do these since injury, so a starting point
machine incline, 4 x 10, 2 standard, 2 neutral
pressdowns 4 x 15
diamond pushups 4 x 15
laterals 35s/45s/50s/40s x 10
cable up rows 4 x 8-10
cable skull crushers 3 x 8
1 arm db overhead ext - right arm only 15 x 20, x 15 again a ROM couldn’t perform weeks previous
hammer curls 65s/75s/85s x 6
wrist curls some x some
great session today a) considering it was at a commercial gym and b) I lost my iPod so was forced to lift to commercial drivel
foam roll, stretch
front squat bar x 20, 135 x 10, 225/315/365/415 x 3, PR by 10 lb
close stance gms 4 x 10 w/225, very slow and controlled, no belt
bent rows, 135 x 10, 225 x 10, 3 x 8 w/315
unilateral leg press 3 pl x 15, 4 pl x 15, 5 pl x 8 x 2 sets
walking lunge 3 x 10
db shrug 3 x 20
decline sits 4 x 10
calves 4 x some
back extension 2 x some
poundstone curls 45 x 100
tonight
shoulder beat up from being forced to sleep on sides due to munchkin invasion, oh well
rotator work, forearms, pressdowns
then close grip bench, called for 205 but seemed stooped so did 225 5 x 10
v grip pulldowns 6 x 8-10
db inclines, shoulders stiff, was gonna go heavier but stuck with 70s x 5 x 15, maybe 40 sec rest between sets
face pulls 4 x 15 w/stack
cable OHP 3 x 15, light
plate front raise 4 x 20
pressdowns 5-6 x 12-15
nose breaker with oly bar 45 x 100
alt cable curls 4 x 12
condo work:
backwards sled drag
90lb x 80 yrd x 1
135lb x 80 yrd x 1
180lb x 80 yrd x 1
prowler
90lb x 40yrd x 8
treadmill 30 min total
10 min intervals
5 inline
5 intervals
5 incline
5 intervals
Awesome work in here Big Pete!!
Word to the wise: (vanillagorilla) they make sleds with reinforced runners/bottom plates built-specifict for use on concrete/asphalt.
google black widow sled. The guy has a bunch of other stuff as well.
sorry to hijack.
We were talking about babies and “carb-backloading” (<–which sux BTW) right?
missed my chiro this a.m., that combined with the front squat PR on Sunday and the more intense condo work yesterday, was feeling pretty beat, so kept some in the tank aka deload, sorta kinda maybe
ssb squat to low box 135 x 10, 225 x 5, 315 x 5, 405/455/495/545 x 3
ghr 4 x 8
db shrugs 4 x 10
hlr 4 x 8
one leg leg press 4 x some (10-15ish)
rev hyper 3 x 8
main goal over next few weeks is to improve the condo work, which is happening on 3 non lifting days. so if I feel beat up on lower days, so be it, price I need to pay right now. that being said if I had done recovery work like I was supposed to last night, and seen the chiro this a.m., would have been in a lot better position for squatting tonight
condo work today
lots of stretching and rolling
sled backward drags
90 x 80 x 1
135 x 80 x 1
180 x 80yrds x 1
prowler sprints
50 x 40yrd x 12
treadmill 30 min
5 intervals
5 incline
5 intervals
5 incline
5 intervals
5 incline
abs on fancy ab machine some x some
today:
life gets in the way of shit sometimes
initial plan was trip to Los Campeones for their 30th anniversary, then Home Depot, PetSmart, then to commercial gym for some upper training with wife. However wife has been fighting a cough for two weeks, wouldn’t listen to me until today to go in. Unfortunately every clinic we went to after the Los Campeones party turned her away saying she needed to go to ER because of flu epidemic. We both know it is bronchitis that she is prone to, not flu, so ended up dropping her off at home and taking two short ones to gym while there was only one hour left in child center.
rotator circuit, hammer curls, pressdowns 2 circuits
push ups ss/w pullaparts 3 x 20 each
bench 135 x 10, 10, 185 x 10, 225 x 10, add rev avg bands 275/315/365 x 5, all easy. think I will keep these in for a couple of weeks, should be able to add a lot more weight in hand while deloading the lower portion
face pulls 5 x 12
dips 5 x 12 (20 more reps than last week, will build this up to 100 total reps shortly)
db bench 80s, 100s x 20
pressdowns w/v bar 1 x 50
again short on time, wife finally diagnosed with pneumonia, juggling 6 and 2 year old all day, by the time got to gym only had 1.25 hours before day care closed.
roll, stretch x not enough
dl, conventional 155 x 10, 245 x 6, add rev average bands 425, 515, 605, 695, 745 x 2. last one didn’t have enough room on bar for collars with stupid commercial gym plates, so there was a pause between reps to reload bar; think that was a PR
leg press 8 plates, 14 pl, 18 pl, 20 pl, 22pl, 22 pl x 10, all set up so my feet were just like when I pull conventional
db rows 5 x 10 w/125
leg curls 5 x 10, not sure of weight
I am in awe of those numbers pete.
worked from home last two days cuz of wife’ pneumonia. kids are amazing 80% of the time, will keep each other busy, off in different corners of our relatively small house playing, not bothering me when on conference calls, etc. the other 20% of the time they make my blood pressure read 456/339 or something like that, attacking each other, arguing, name calling, i.e. the stuff that brothers do
yesterday skipped the trip to the gym, it was a condo day, but didn’t seem feasible with it being 200 below zero, and the fact the kids triple any trip to the gym, so I did
30 minutes elliptical
while watching Jeopardy. I woulda won
today
bundled them up and headed to commercial gym for upper work
rotator circuit, hammer curls, press downs x 2
push ups 2 x 50
pullaparts 2 x 50
DE bench, bar x 50, 135 x 20, 185 x 3, 9 x 3 @ 225
pulldowns, various grips 10 x 8
db inclines 75s/90s/100s x 10, 65s x 30
bent laterals 4 x 12 w/55s
cable overhead press 4 x 10
laterals 30s/40s/50s x 10
rolling tris 4 x 8
ez curls 4 x 8
rope down/ext/cable curl 3 x some each
last two weeks a new/old impingement in both shoulders is back, as noted previously due mostly to sleeping on sides. hard habit to break. also seems to be seasonal largely. will work through it
already fighting another stupid sinus infection, so condo sucked. plus I accidentaly doubled up on pre workout stims, so felt extra pukey
roll, stretch
backward sled drags
135 x 80 x 1
180 x 80 x 1
prowler 50lb x 40yrd x 10
treadmill steep incline (up to 11) 30 min, varying between 3.2 to 3.6 pace
That’s basically the treadmill work I’ve been doing. 3.5 at 2-3 level keeps my heart below 130. Once in a while a jog or incline interval but i try to stay in fat burn range. Do you monitor heart rate?