Let Me Try This Again.....

Training Over 35 Lifter
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[quote]gorillavanilla wrote:
Many happy decimals to you. Do you have a Harley to go with that beard? [/quote]

You are a gentleman, thank you.

You ride?

Just got rid of the Sportster (my second, I was born in 1957, the year of the XL) to get my newest Ural (my 3rd.)

I’ve had 2 HD, 2 Victory, 2 Royal Enfield, 3 Ural.

I’m 2 years, 8 months from retirement. My wife wants to do road trips and I had her on the back of a 2 wheeler once and she hated it. A lot.

I bought a busted 2005 Ural Gear-Up back in the day(camo paint and a machine gun mount on the nose of the hack), got her running and my wife sits in the lounge chair of a hack and she’s like “aaaaah.”

The Ural looks like it’s the ticket for tooling about the world. The new one has real brakes and fuel injection. Oooooooooooh.

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A friend had an old Soviet-made Ural. Loved the sidecar. It was a lot of fun. Then it caught on fire. Twice.

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[quote]LiftingStrumpet wrote:
A friend had an old Soviet-made Ural. Loved the sidecar. It was a lot of fun. Then it caught on fire. Twice.[/quote]

Well…that’s, um, well, a bad story.

Maybe we should confine our riding to rainy days.

(Actually, that is kinda funny.)

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[quote]emskee wrote:

[quote]LiftingStrumpet wrote:
A friend had an old Soviet-made Ural. Loved the sidecar. It was a lot of fun. Then it caught on fire. Twice.[/quote]

Well…that’s, um, well, a bad story.

Maybe we should confine our riding to rainy days.

(Actually, that is kinda funny.)

[/quote]

I guess you can’t trust Soviet reliability.

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She’s Russian; Soviet Union is no more.

Company is privately owned. Lots of international parts to include American. Actually, a really well made machine.

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4/8/2015

Bench-like Stuff:

BENCH:

18" grip

Warmups:

45x15
95x3
135x3
175x3

210 x 8 x 3 EMOM

140 x 5 x 6 EMOM

V-bar pushdowns:

105 x 13, x 6, x 3 20 second rest pause

Barbell front raise:

105 x 2 x 10

Walk 30 minutes @ 3.3 mph

Nothing much to say about my Wednesday workout. I bench to keep my breasts looking perky.

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[quote]emskee wrote:

[quote]DBasler wrote:
I think I have a reasonable chance of reaching a 600 lb. pull but I don’t hold out any hope that I will ever be able to do 480 every minute for 12 reps. Very motivational work emskee.[/quote]

I betcha can. The first 2 weeks I do the every half minute on the half minute. Those blow. When I get to the EMOM weeks it’s like a vacation.

Have fun whatever you do.[/quote]

Every 30 seconds is insane. I don’t think I could get 315 for 12 at that pace.

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I think you could.

Only one way to find out.

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I used to ride and I was born and raised in Daytona(been to many bikeweeks-hell I lived with them). I stopped riding years ago after a drunk in jeep turned right in front of me on A1A in Daytona and I buried my head a foot deep in his door. Well, I lie I have ridden since then a little but I don’t own a bike now.

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[quote]emskee wrote:
I bench to keep my breasts looking perky. [/quote]
And are they?

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:

[quote]emskee wrote:
I bench to keep my breasts looking perky. [/quote]
And are they?[/quote]

You know, I truly do think so.

This shows that you read to the end of my post. I thank you for that.

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[quote]gorillavanilla wrote:
I used to ride and I was born and raised in Daytona(been to many bikeweeks-hell I lived with them). I stopped riding years ago after a drunk in jeep turned right in front of me on A1A in Daytona and I buried my head a foot deep in his door. Well, I lie I have ridden since then a little but I don’t own a bike now.[/quote]

Ouch. What kind of recovery did that take?

I think I may be done with owning 2 wheelers. Don’t feel as “confident” as I once did.

My first Harley had most of the heat sink on the voltage regulator corroded away from all the road salt because I used to ride all winter. Well, not ALL winter, but I did ride in the snow. Now, I’m a bit more conservative. When I ride in the snow its on 3 wheels.

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I too need to be like emskee when I grow up.

nice work.

Ive had good results with EMOM brutal but it works well

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After the motorcycle accident I was in the hospital for about 4 months and then in physical therapy for much longer. I was lucky to live through the incident. I was in a coma for 2 1/2 weeks following the impact with the drunkard’s jeep.

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[quote]brotardscience wrote:
I too need to be like emskee when I grow up.

nice work.

Ive had good results with EMOM brutal but it works well[/quote]

I just went through your log from top to bottom.

You are some kinda badass, keelhauled as you were.

Saw the EMOM stuff up front in your log, before the tire blew.

You are one inspirational SOB coming back as you are. A good read.

Nice work back at you. I’ll be following, so thanks for stopping by!

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[quote]gorillavanilla wrote:
After the motorcycle accident I was in the hospital for about 4 months and then in physical therapy for much longer. I was lucky to live through the incident. I was in a coma for 2 1/2 weeks following the impact with the drunkard’s jeep.[/quote]

This Over 35 Lifter forum is just full of the battle scarred isn’t it?

That is a phuqued up story!!!

Well, all I can say is, and, if I may speak for the entirety of the human race, we are glad to have NOT lost you.

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[quote]gorillavanilla wrote:
After the motorcycle accident I was in the hospital for about 4 months and then in physical therapy for much longer. I was lucky to live through the incident. I was in a coma for 2 1/2 weeks following the impact with the drunkard’s jeep.[/quote]

This Over 35 Lifter forum is just full of the battle scarred isn’t it?

That is a phuqued up story!!!

Well, all I can say is, and, if I may speak for the entirety of the human race, we are glad to have NOT lost you.

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Thanks emskee. There’s a lot of living to do.

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Carry on my brother.

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4/10/2015

We start with a joke:

So a person with the same paternal ethnicity as I is sitting upon a curb, smashing himself about the head with a two foot long piece of pine one-by-six. Up walks a bit player of inconsequential ethnicity who implores “pray tell, why do you pound yourself about the head so? Surely it must be quite painful!” To which the Polack, I mean person with the same paternal ethnicity as I responds “for it feels so good when I stop!”

Thereby hangs a tale…

DEADLIFTS:

Same costume. I shall stop listing this datum until such time as I get new shoe laces or something. You’re welcome.

WARM UPS:

(beltless)

245 x 5
295 x 1
335 x 1
385 x 1

(belt at cinch - 2 holes)

425 x 1

(belt at cinch - 1)

475 x 1

(worksets, belt at cinch - 1)

510 x 10 x 1 EMOM Pull each rep as fast as possible (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)

(other deadlifts, same belt)

360 x 5 x 3 speed triples, E(M/2)O(M/2)

[wanted to do more but I was really gassed and the room was looking differently than from what I had remembered it to be from a few minutes ago]

BARBELL ROWS:

135 x 5, 155 x 5, 185 x 5, 205 x 5, 225 x 4

Walk 30 minutes at 3.3 mph

So…years ago, I’m telling my lifting buddy Ralph that my triceps are sore the day after deads along with my lats. He asks me what the hell is wrong with me, am I some sort of freak? I say “Bob” (to protect his identity I will call him “Bob” now) “you know, the long head of my triceps attach to my scapulae and help keep MY ARMS FROM FALLING OFF!!!”

Anyone else get sore tris from deads? OR AM I TRUELY A FREAK?!?!?!?!?!

OH AND ANOTHER THING…When I lower myself to the bar, I close my eyes and usually don’t open them until I am in the midst of the pull somewhere, maybe when the bar is past my knees. I find that my eyes lie to me (like when I look in the mirror and think, no, my gut isn’t so sticky outy) and if I reach down and grasp, and do it all by paying attention to where all my body parts feel in relation to each other, balanced and all that, I achieve a better, more symmetric, straighter pull.

That probably wasn’t worth sharing but, this is my log.