Barbell complex 4 sets 5 reps each movement
Treadmill interval 15 minutes
Another morning with a 90 lb “snatchplex”. By the 4th set of OH squats I was about to puke. I am SSOOO out of shape. Trotted and sauntered on the treadmill. I’m so out of shape its not funny! Back tomorrow. Hope I can get a “run” on and make it in about 10 days in a row. Hells bells, I need to try for 2 days in a row.
JW’s Morning thought: (heard on CNBC’s Squawkbox): Government is the only entity that hires employees when they don’t need, or cant afford them.
Barbell complex, 4 sets 5 reps each movement with 90 lbs
Treadmill interval: 15 minutes
Added the Polish Press to my snatchplex. That takes some getting used too. Back in the olden days of my foray into Oly lifts, I don’t remember doing this movement. I can already feel it in my back and shoulders. Once again I was at the puke point by the 4th set. As always, I HATE treadmill intervals, but they are essential to getting my lardiness under control.
JW’s morning thought: A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.
You hear about the Polish terrorist? Went to blow up a bus but burned his lips on the tailpipe. So many jokes come to mind for the polish press. (My apologise to any skis out there), Looks like you’re getting back into the swing of it. Good.
Joe, Your Polish Press is a helluva lot better than the one I did.
Harry, you are a hoot. Since I’m of Welsh heritage there arent so many funny jokes for us.
Since I had the gym to myself, I set things up for a big ole upper body complex. Actually, I 'spect its more of a super set than an upper body complex. However I was running through the gym like a mad man. In a strange way it was kind of fun to train like that. I don’t know what good it was other than to do something off the wall different.
Squats tomorrow. While not my favorite, I’m excited.
JW’s lunch time confession: The SUBWAY SANDWICH DIET doesn’t work! I have not eaten anything but one Subway sandwich a day for a month and I’ve gained twenty-two pounds! Not only that, those six-foot-long Subway sandwiches are really expensive
Finally got to squat. I’m going to make it a favorite lift sooner or later. I think 225 may have been a little much. I “good morninged” and chicken winged the last set of 5 up.
JW’s morning thought: The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for twenty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found
Squat warm up 135x20
Decline Bench press: 135x15, 205x8, 3x255x3, 275x1, 185x10
Incline DB press: 65x10, 75x6, 85x3
Cable Xover: 3x60x8
Rev grip incline (NOT in the smith): 135x10, 155x8, 175x4
Triceps push down: 190x10, 190x7, 190x4 super set with 1 arm ext: 60x10, 60x5, 60x3
I don’t know what I’m doing decline bench presses other than I like the blood rushing to my head. I need to figure out how to “kick up” the heavy DB’s when
I’m doing the incline presses. There isn’t anybody to help me with a DB pass in the gym that early,
Dateline: Sunday 5:15 am
Kroc row: 3x110x8
OHP 2x135x8 135x5 super set with Haney shrug in the smith: 3x135x15
Lat pull down: 3x135x8 super set with reverse fly: 3x35x8
Rickshaw shrug: 3x325x6
Face pull: 3x100x8
Rack pull: 3x275x4
Nothing to shout about. Just another back workout. Lots of personal issues seem to be getting in front of my training mentality. Hopefully something will shake out and I can find my ‘spot’ in the world again.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Joe, Your Polish Press is a helluva lot better than the one I did.
Harry, you are a hoot. Since I’m of Welsh heritage there arent so many funny jokes for us.
[/quote]
I’m an Englishman living Wales. I’ve got plenty of Welsh jokes for you, they all tend to involve sheep, such as,
What do you call a sheep tied to a lamppost in Cardiff?
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Joe, Your Polish Press is a helluva lot better than the one I did.
Harry, you are a hoot. Since I’m of Welsh heritage there arent so many funny jokes for us.
[/quote]
I’m an Englishman living Wales. I’ve got plenty of Welsh jokes for you, they all tend to involve sheep, such as,
What do you call a sheep tied to a lamppost in Cardiff?
Answer - A Leisure Centre!
etc [/quote]
Youre a funny dude Brett. Those jokes are probably all about my ancestors. We never were known as the bright ones.
You’re definitely back in the groove at the gym. I used to have the same problem with heavy dbs on the incline. Haven’t done any kind of incline in years.
Trying to envision a rickshaw shrug. Hands by the side comes to mind. Your lifts are actually looking pretty good.
Seen the dumbbell hangers? Wrap onto the dumbell and hook on the bar on the bench. Got a pair a while back. Work all right instead of kicking them up.
Thanks Joe, seems hard as hell to keep my head in the game of late.
Steve, I think I may have to find the hanger thingies Hsrry is talking about. I do like the DB work for some depressing body builder reason.
UN42, I’m gonna get back to complex hell sooner or later. I cant puke in the gym becasue they keep the mops locked up all the time!
Harry, we have this thing called a ground base. It has handles like a wheel barrow. You’re right, its with hands at your side. Sometimes I imagine im wheeling in about 40 yards of concrete.
After 4 days of struggling to get moving I made it to the gym. I had a fairly decent workout and thankfully Sunday some soreness developed.
Dateline Sunday 10:50 am
Squat warm up: 135x20
Kroc row: 3x115x8
OHP: 2x135x8, 135x4
Haney shrug in the Smith: 3x135x15
Lat pull down: 3x155x8
Face pull: 3x110x8
Rev fly: 3x35x8
Rack pull: 3x275x4
The daughter had a sleepover so I slept in, fixed the girls breakfast and snuck out for a quick workout. I need to find my groove again and start making gains. I’m really having problems getting traction with my training. Seems harder than ever to get my head in the game.
JW’s morning thought: By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education… From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.
Squats: 135x10, 185x8, 5x225x5
Glute Ham raise w/ 20lb DB: 3x10
Knee raises: a whole damn bunch
Broke the funk today and made it to the gym. Was going to do a complex but felt the need to get back to squatting. I think I will add some good mornings to the routine as well. Already feeling the extra stuff. That’s either damn good or scary that my training has degraded so much of late. The daughters 13th birthday is Friday. Saturday she wants to take 10 friends to Chuck E Cheese. Go figure! I told her I was going to rent a prison work crew van and she was going to ride in the tow-a-long Porta John… All I can hear is the Tim Wilson song, Chuck E Cheese Hell…
JW’s morning question: If Superman could stop bullets with his chest, why did he always duck when someone threw a gun at him?