Mac, if I ate ice cream sitting outside in the snow I’d be tough. But I turn the heat up and pull a blanket on when I eat ice cream.
1/26
1a. bench: barx25 95x10 135x10 185x10 225x10 245x10 265x7 225x10
1b. neutral grip chins: BWx7 sets, +25x1 set
2. 150 and 200 lb sandbag lifts x a bunch
I finished the 200 lb sandbag Friday night but my back wasn’t up to lifting it until today. My son shouldered it. I’m still working on that.
I knew it, we’re twins, just separated by strength!
My brother from another mother!!
1/26
I lie on the plyo box and wrap chains around my ankles for rev hypers. Seems to work ok. The sandbags are tough to carry because they’re to fat to get my arms around. It really works the grip.
2/29
I’m not sure how much weight the chains added. I wanted to do more GMings but my back was tighter than hell.
Hey man awesome training log. I read through here a while back and saw you also have a powertec lever setup. You use yours banded. How did you band the powertec squats?
Thanks for reading Zeptrey. I’m not sure if this is the powertec machine you have but this is how I’ve set the bands up. It seems to work well.
Yes sir that’s it kind of. Nice. I’ll have to see if I can band there on mine. Mine is the one with the pulldown and bench all attached together. I’ll look when I get back but I dont believe mine has the lower arms like yours. I’ve done a couple minis over the top…which didnt really work except for calf raises. I’ve tried with dumbbells that’s kind of a pain in the ass. Was just curious how you set it up.
Zep, let me know if you figured a good setup.
1/31
I was trying out db incline and wanted to see if the cambered bar would work for MP. Still on the fence with both.
I don’t see a lot of positive in Cambered bar for militaries, honestly. The biggest benefit for me was BTN though, mostly because it took my chest out of the move and forced some triceps activation, which was my weak point. Cambered would just increase the ROM in a way that would make most guys shoulders cry.
Thanks HA. I always appreciate advice from someone with more experience than myself.
Zep, I know our machines are a little different but could you use that center bar to attach the bands to?
2/1
1a. leg curls 50x20 75x15 100x10
1b. powertec calf raise 1 ppsx3x10-15
2. deadlift + chains: 135,225,315,405+50-75 lbs chains
3. 140 lb keg carry + 150 lb sandbag x 50 feet each x 3 sets
4. rev hyper x3x20 with no weight
I hook gripped all the sets of deadlift. My thumbs felt fairly pain free.
I’ll give it a shot. Seems like it would over stretch the bands and possibly nut me. But…I’m not having any more kids anyway so I’ll give it a whirl. Actually when I look at it again. It should be fine because that middle bar on mine comes up quite a ways.
Zep, I apologize if I’m telling you something you already know but I have 2 bands in that picture. It’s not 1 stretched really far.
Yep, I got that part. Thanks for the help sir. I’ll let you know how it goes next week when I try it out.
