stress demons got to me, barely slept last night. maybe 4 hours. made it through work, got to gym real late, and did the following:
deficit DL warm ups then 515 x 1, 585 x 1, 635 x 1 (PR), 655 x 1 (PR)
lat pulldowns 6 x 10
leg press 5 x 15
cable abs 5 x 15
ghr 5 x 15
then home, so tired I could puke.
actually I did puke, apparently wasn’t as over this flu thing as I thought. then sucked down some powerade, ibu pm, went to bed. woke up with the other side of the stomach issues. managed 20 minutes elliptical though. feeling skinny and depleted. at work, and starting to feel a bit better.
I find that puking really works the abs. As does coughing incessantly like I’ve been doing for the last week.
Hope you get feeling better soon.
yeah, my abs are pretty sore
did manage prowler, 90lb x 40yds x 10 trips after work. gotta get caught back up on conditioning, slacking a little last week
[quote]PeteS wrote:
deficit DL warm ups then 515 x 1, 585 x 1, 635 x 1 (PR), 655 x 1 (PR)
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then home, so tired I could puke. [/quote]
Holy SHMOLY!!! Nice pulls brotherman!!!
Puking is a badge of honor!
655…
Damn.
Steely, Null, real happy with my deficit pulls (3 inch). For how shitty I felt they came up easy. I just need to man up more on the weight with my straight pulls…
[quote]PeteS wrote:
stress demons got to me, barely slept last night. maybe 4 hours. made it through work, got to gym real late, and did the following:
deficit DL warm ups then 515 x 1, 585 x 1, 635 x 1 (PR), 655 x 1 (PR)
lat pulldowns 6 x 10
leg press 5 x 15
cable abs 5 x 15
ghr 5 x 15
then home, so tired I could puke. [/quote]
DAMN! 655 Wow. Congrats on the pr’s. Damn strong.
Yesterday biggest snow storm in twenty years. Ok by me. I was curled up in fetal ball still sick. Today dug us out and got wife and kids to gym. Still feeling queasy I did this. Bench up 405 x 3. Bent rows 5 x 10. Shrugs up to 585 x 8. Face pulls 5 x 15. Preachers 5 x 12. Cable tricep stuff x some. Then puked. Now at urgent care hoping they can do something been going on way too long
note: above training posted from blackberry. Dr. did blood work and basically told me to quit being a pussy, I will be fine. Amazingly, after this, I started to feel better. Went on a bloat-a-thon last night, eating a couple of heaped baked potatoes, a one pound ribeye, a couple of powerades, some lemonade, huge salty ham and cheese omelette, gold fish crackers, natural pb, etc.
Woke up feeling pretty dang good today, did elliptical for 20 minutes, ate oatmeal/whey breakfast, plus yogurt, and even drank coffee w/o any spasms of the gut. huh.
finally made it to bb club to squat for first time in four weeks. happiness truly is a monolift and a stiff, well knurled squat bar.
RAWWWW skwats 145/235/325/415/505 x 6, top set with some left in the tank.
leg press 400/600/780/870/960 x 15
ghr 5 x 15
leg raise 5 x 15
felt good and pumpy. fugg it, enjoying raw squatting right now. only downside is post blizzard traffic nobody knew how to drive and 20 miles took 1.5 hours.
Great looking squats. I’d also have liked to have seen how loaded that leg press had to be on the top set.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
note: above training posted from blackberry. Dr. did blood work and basically told me to quit being a pussy, I will be fine. Amazingly, after this, I started to feel better. Went on a bloat-a-thon last night, eating a couple of heaped baked potatoes, a one pound ribeye, a couple of powerades, some lemonade, huge salty ham and cheese omelette, gold fish crackers, natural pb, etc.
Woke up feeling pretty dang good today, did elliptical for 20 minutes, ate oatmeal/whey breakfast, plus yogurt, and even drank coffee w/o any spasms of the gut. huh. [/quote]
Pete’s new Flu Cure: Meat, Potatoes, Ham, Cheese, Eggs, and of course gold fish crackers…
Glad to hear you’re feeling better, and it’s amazing that you were able to lift such huge weights in the middle of an illness like this.
Thanks ag918w35 and Joe. Joe, this leg press machine is the mac, it has custom extra long arms so you can stack serious weight on it. But with hundreds it doesn’t take much.
This a.m. 30 minutes ellitpical.
I am going to have to get creative with conditioning stuff. Right now no parking lots are cleared enough to do prowler (it isn’t very hard when it slides on packed snow). And my time is tight. My home treadmill is currently broken, but the wife has someone coming to look at it tomorrow. You can walk on it right now, but it ‘stops’ when you try to run on it. If we get it fixed I might start doing intervals on it the morning after heavy training. Also going to try and get the overall volume of cardio back up a little bit, down last week because of working long hours and being sick. As they say, where there’s a will, there’s a way.
You might try the poor man’s prowler. Get on the treadmill and don’t turn on the power. Grab handles and get the belt moving. It’s a lot of work to keep it going. I do this sometimes in the gym when I’m feeling really macho.
Snapper, thought of that. Might try it, after the treadmill repairman takes a look at it.
Hey pete. as soon as I get my christmas money, I’m building a prowler for myself. the plans are a big fucking secret, but I’ll share after.
Just discovered this thread, will def be following, already learning from you.
Keep up the good work.
MJ, that is a weird, esoteric, mysterious post, even for you. And I mean that with true no-homo manlove. My advice, just buy an econo-prowler when there is a sale. I plan on doing that to replace my loaner lung-breaker come spring time. Unless the lung breaker owner gives me a deal. I have already spent a ton of money to make it usable. Way chaeper than a treadmill, and ten times as effective, and the econo-prowler is built to be transported and the ability to replace skis. Jeesh, I sound like an advertisement.
DixiesFinest: Hey there my southern friend. Already learned from me? jeesh… I feel honored.
When it comes to geared lifting I am still very much a beginner, especially when it comes to getting all the pounds out of the gear I can. If you dont mind me asking, how often do you train in gear and how often raw? Is it planned or do you play it by ear each day?
Thank you in advance for any and all advice.