Good looking complexes, sometimes you’ve got to let the diet go to hell for a bit.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Good to have you back! Hope the week at the beach did you good.
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Huh?
Username said…
huh, what?
Joe said…
Ok, I’m lost. Did you post something naughty that got zapped?
[quote]hel320 wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Good to have you back! Hope the week at the beach did you good.
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Huh?
Username said…
huh, what?
Joe said…
Ok, I’m lost. Did you post something naughty that got zapped?[/quote]
I dont know, unless they didnt like me eating Pizza and burgers at the beach… Must have had a software change here!
Skip, I dont envy you with all that driving! Hope your trek to the South is fun and chilaxing in spite of the driving…
UN42, you got it… I’m WAY to damn lethargic!! Yes, it’s all one long excercise. No resting!
Thanks Joe, It was grilled chicken and shrimp and a salad last night… Greek yogurt for breakfast!
Slept thru the alarm this morning, so I missed the gym. Tomorrow I will try to work on the chesticles.
JW’s morning question: How come you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?
Glad you got a vacation in. You needed it!
The mystery is semi-solved. Don’t ask me how but apparantly when trying to PM you the other day I put you on my ignore list. Don’t know how, didn’t know there was such a thing. Very weird. I could see all the post of people pposting except your’s. Very twilight zone-ish. Glad I got you back. Now, get to work.
Dateline Saturday 5:25 am chest training
Squat warm up 135x20
Flat DB press: 80x12, 3x90x8
Incline DB press: 3x50x12
Flat cable Fly: 50x10, 3x60x8
One arm Tri ext 4x60x12 super sets with OH ext. 4x90x6
Treadmill interval 10 minutes
Dateline Sunday 5:30 am back training
Squat warm up 155x20
Kroc rows: 3x90x12
Hammer low row: 3x115x8
Lat pull down 3x150x8 super sets with face pull: 3x90x10
Shrug in the squat base: 360x10, 3x410x6
Rack pull: 3x275x5
Treadmill interval: 10 minutes
Dateline Tuesday 4:17 am Complex day
Barbell complex: 6 sets r reps each movement.
After a week of personal trials I was able to get back to the gym Saturday. I was generally pleased with the training on both Saturday and Sunday. I will admit motivation has been hard to come by over the last few weeks. I bailed on Monday and then forced myself in today. I have to admit I feel a lot better with the little bit of DOMS working. I hope I can find my groove again soon.
I’m not sure of the direction I’m taking with my training. I guess the battle is getting into the gym. So that will be my focus.
JW’s morning thought: If Harry Potter’s so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage kid shouldn’t need a broomstick to cling onto.
Great to see you back…'bout time 
I’m not sure the direction of your training really matters right now. Just get in there and do something. You’ll be glad, as you already mentioned, that you did.
Hope things settle down for you…
I’m with Strick. Good to see you in the gym!
I say try some 5/3/1. Couldn’t hurt and it would different than what you are doing now. And there’s cake at the end.
Having just fought this same battle i would say do something fun that makes you want to be in the gym. Even if it is having no plan other than doing what feels good. Get the pattern down again and the routine of going the goal will materialize later.
Good job!
I say throw shit. Even if your not great at it you sure get rid of a lotta fustration. And I agree with Colin. If you aren’t having fun you aren’t going to stick with it.
Thanks Skip and Jack, it’s good to be in the gym again!
UN42, I should probably drift to the Dark Side for a while… But I think I’ll keep bumbling along a bit more.
Harry you and Colin have a point. I need to find a real training focus.
Dateline: Wednesday 4:21 am chest training
Squat warm up: 155x20
DB chest press: 80x12, 90x9, 105x4
Hammer decline 90x8, 2x90x6 super set with Hammer incline 90x6, 90x5, 90x4
1 arm triceps ext: 3x60x10 super set with OH triceps ext. 3x100x8
Tread mill interval: 10 minutes
I worked this in a 40 minute time span. I didn’t take much rest between sets, as you can tell as my rep count fell with the same weight. I don’t know what possessed me to go all body builder with super sets and machines. I guess I was hoping for another case of DOMS. Anyway I worked up a good sweat and while the whole training session was lackluster, I’m OK with the work I did.
JW’s morning quote stolen from Groucho: A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Wilson, I bet supersetting incline and decline was a bear! Great job getting it done.
And workouts don’t always have to have laser focus. Have fun with it. No matter what you do in the gym, it is better than sitting around doing nothing.
I’d like to work in one machine press via Hammer Strength but I have no idea where I could shoe horn it in. 105 DB presses are outstanding.
So bodybuild for a while. Ain’t nothing wrong with lookin good. Don’t know what it is about the hammer decline but it’s the only thing hits something right in my shoulder and hurts like hell. Love the hammer incline though.
Dateline Thursday 4:21 am Complex day
Barbell / Dumbbell complex: 6 sets, 5 reps each
Treadmill interval
The complexes about killed me today. I raised the weights on the squats to 185 and used 40 lb DBs for the OHP portion. I really tried to do each set faster than the last. My tongue was wagging by the 6th set. I don’t know why I ran on the treadmill, but I did.
More complexes tomorrow!! I should really be enjoying the torture by then.
JW’s morning commentary: There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Dateline Saturday: 5:27 am Chest training
Squat warm up 155x20
Flat chest DB press: 95x12, 105x8, 2x115x4
Hammer incline: 2x115x8, 115x5 super sets with Hammer decline: 45x12, 2x55x6
Flat cable fly: 3x60x8
1 arm triceps extensions: 3x60x10 super set with OH triceps ext. 2x120x8, 120x5
Treadmill interval: 10 minutes
Dateline Sunday: 5:33 am
Squat warm up: 155x20
Kroc row: 90x12, 3x110x6
Hammer low row:3x115x8
Lat pull down 2x150x8 150x6 super set with face pulls 3x120x8
Shrug in the squat base doo-hicky: 4 x375x6
Treadmill interval: 10 minutes
Sorry for the delay in posting. Seems life gets in the way more and more these days. I had a pretty good chest day. took some vids of my chest presses and I will try to post later this week. I forgot to upload them from the camera. I got a pretty good pump from all the work. I really didn’t have much of a plan going in, so i kind of kept up with the midweek junk I have been doing. I hope to get back to a more structured program when I can find more structure in my life.
I was pretty pleased with my back day other than the shrugs. I had loaded 435 on the squat base after my first set of 375 and my grip just sucked. So I backed it back and did all I could do. That was really disheartening! I may back off the heavy shrugs and do some with DB’s for a while. I blasted my triceps a bit more with a sets of reverse grip incline presses in the Smith machine.
JW’s morning thought: Silence is golden but duck tape is silver.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
Having just fought this same battle i would say do something fun that makes you want to be in the gym. Even if it is having no plan other than doing what feels good. Get the pattern down again and the routine of going the goal will materialize later.
Good job! [/quote]
I have issues with motivation especially during the summer. Getting outside and training has helped me. And also not worrying about setting PRs helps me.
Any particular reason why you warm up with squats, before you do your chest, back training?