Made up for the lack o cardio this a.m. After work I had to run to the bank, then went to the park and shoveled about 12 more big bags of wood chips, then went home and humped them into the backyard. To give you an idea of why all the wood chips, last year we decided to divide the back yard between “kids playground” and “dog area”. As I noted a couple of months ago I have succeeded in making the playground area a plush lawn, but now the dog area was dirt dry as the Saharah. When it rains that means more mud in the house. Hence the 2000lb of woodchips. Now suddenly my dirt rolling American Bulldog actually looks like his coat is white.
Mother-in-law and my wife’s two younger siblings rolled into town tonight. With the creative sleeping arrangements I am banished to my mancave for the weekend… darn. I have my cardio equipment, oversized leather couch and chair, best internet access in the house, full cable, fridge, bathroom, my stack of Playboys, and right now 32 ounces of water and 4 ounces of Makers Mark… and Austin Powers in on right now. I win!!!
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
PeteS wrote:
This week has turned into cardio deload week, lol. Maybe I am just pissed that Meat can simply think about losing weight, and drops something like 20 lbs in two weeks, basically just by f!@#ing thinking about it. A@#hole. j/k buddy.
The wife starts her vacation today, so her and I sat up jabberjawing until midnight. 5 a.m. wake up time for cardio wasn’t gonna fly. I will make up for it with ‘gpp’ tonight and all day tomorrow, getting ready for the little boys big birthday bash.
i can lose the first bit easy, but then it gets really hard. training looking solid hoss!!!
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I do remember you had a fast gain after a vacation, but still, dude, you are losing a lb a day… nice work. And then someone wants to criticize your form on a 405 x 10 bench… bwahahahahahahha idiots…
Alright, I hate deloads but I am due for one. Trying to listen to my body.
Non ME lower: DL, worked up to 515 for a single.
Sumo 3 x 5 w/335.
leg press 450 x 20, 720 x 20, 990 x 10 for 3 sets
leg curl 3 x 15
Shrugs 225 x 20, 315 x 20, 405 x 20
cybex low back 3 x 15
Nautilus abs 3 x 20
The 515 for a single was the first time doing full range DL since I hurt my back. Need to start getting various full range rep work in, just to get back in groove. By reps I mean 3s and 5s.
God I feel like such a pussy from today’s workout. I know I need the deload, after last week everything hurts, but still, not pursuing something heavy just gets under my skin. Need to get my head straight about that. I will live. Or maybe take up chess for my major hobby…
I am posting this copy and paste from McMillan’s post on Elitefts just becuase I need a little reminder. My 515 was way slow today but so what? I know what I can do:
Big Mac-
My DL is streaky as hell. Sometimes, I’ll come and pull 650(conventional) and it’ll be fast. Other days I’ll come and 450 feels like a ton. Seriously, I’ll stop and look at the bar to make sure one of my training partners isn’t fucking w/ me and throwing extra weight on. My best pull in a meet is 682 but I have some lower back injuries so I have to work for EVERY extra pound. What suit do you wear?
Jeremy,
I wear the Metal King deadlifter, and really like it a lot. The tighter you pull the straps the harder it is to get to the bar, but it comes off the floor great. If you pull traditional, this is a great suit.
Everyone has days like that in the gym especially with the deadlift. I remember 3 weeks out from doing the UPA Ironman last Oct. I went in to train with my training partner (Kurt Kroczaleski 800+ deadlifter) and had full gear on and got stapled to the floor with 630lbs. I flipped out and took my suit off and through it out the garage and sat there pissed off why he pulled 750 for reps. The thing is, 3 weeks later I pulled 777 in a comp. Deadlift is like that, days you have it and days you don’t. I find it hard to pull in the gym heavy that is why for this last meet the heaviest I went was 720lbs after squating and they weren’t the easiest pulls. Even got ripped on some forums saying I would be lucky to get that in a meet. Well last weekend pulled 804, with my heaviest training weight being 720 in the gym. Would rather be a meet lifter than a gym lifter anyday. I really concentrate on lower back work and hamstring work and it carries over to the deadlift (stiff leg deads, cambered bar goodmornings, deadlifting off 3 inch platform, rack pulls).
Nice post Petey. I know exactly how you feel… must be the full moon or something, I have been fucked up mentally for the last couple of weeks.
As for the post from Mcmillan… too true. I am not experienced by any means, but I know that before my last comp 12 days out 585 felt like a ton… and I thought I would be lucky to get 600 at the meet. Ended up pulling 635 really easy, pissed me off because I was gonna go 650… should have. Live and learn right?
Bench 3 x 15 @ 225. I actually could keep an arch for 15 reps, amazing.
HS incline 3 x 15-20 x some weight. A couple of years ago they changed the Hammer Strength machines out, replacing the plate loaded ones with pin selector ones, which makes them 10 times shittier.
Dips 3 x 20
supersetted with
chins 3 x 6
haven’t done chins in forever, didn’t feel bad
low cable row 3 x 12-15 was going to do more but an older gent in running shorts sans briefs sat down at the pulldown session accross from me
HS pull down 4 x 10-15
Military press in power squat machine:
5 sets worked up to 450 x 12
Not sure where I got this idea, but the parrellel handles allowed some shoulder work w/o much shoulder stress, plus the angle of the machine translated to the ability to pile on the plates. Wish this translated into a 450 x 12 military press.
rope downs supersetted w/ rope extenstion 4 x 15-20 each.
The funny things is it took a high caffeine pre-workout energy/creatine drink to get me motivated to do this. Now I do have a wicked pump, ready for the pose down…
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
To much booze over the weekend Pete? [/quote]
That was moderate. Too much crappy, processed food was my problem. Sunday we had the little one’s Bday party, and had huge vats of sloppy joes (on white buns), pasta salad, potato chips, etc. Plus cake and ice cream. I seriously think I downed 7 sloppy joes over the course of 5 hours. Monday woke up to bacon, eggs and HASHBROWNs (which I ate a plateful of). All around piggish behaviour for 48 hours. Starch kills me.
Box squats 13 inch box, 325 straight weight (no bands or chains) 8 sets of 2
Speed pulls 6 sets of 1 @ 315
Power squat good morning 270 x 10, 360 x 10, 450 x 10, 540 x 10
Power squats 540 x 10, 630 x 10, 720 x 10, 810 x 8
back extensions 5 x 15
leg raise 5 x 12
sweat out a lot of that bloat, and some of the weight loss/hypertrophy must be showing, got a few comments about how muscular I look. Take that for what its worth, but I haven’t heard that since June, so it felt good.
Box squats 13 inch box, 325 straight weight (no bands or chains) 8 sets of 2
Speed pulls 6 sets of 1 @ 315
Power squat good morning 270 x 10, 360 x 10, 450 x 10, 540 x 10
Power squats 540 x 10, 630 x 10, 720 x 10, 810 x 8
back extensions 5 x 15
leg raise 5 x 12
sweat out a lot of that bloat, and some of the weight loss/hypertrophy must be showing, got a few comments about how muscular I look. Take that for what its worth, but I haven’t heard that since June, so it felt good. [/quote]
Pete, Just what are Power Squat Good Mornings and Power Squats? And how is 810x8 a “deload”? Just askin…
As I stated in the top of my post ‘kinda deload’. And as I stated before, I suck at deloads. That being said, kind of like a 45 degree leg press, the powersquat allows you to handle somewhat ridiculous amounts of weight due to angle/leverage factors. 810 for 8 was challenging, but not to failure.