Hey man nice log!
My old gym made me deadlift of yoga mats too, by the time I left I was using 2 mats folded in half! Stupid!
Try standing on a yoga mat too?
[quote]gregron wrote:
Damn man that sucks about having to find a new gym. Chicks who get scared by the clanging of big weights are lame as balls.
Also, lol @ your boxers not fitting… That’s why you gotta go commando. Underwear is for chicks and fags man lol
Congrats on the pendlay PRs (I had a lot of catching up to do I’m here)[/quote]
Thanks man. I’m still getting the feel for pendlays… so many people speak well of them that I’m going to hammer them for at least another month or two and see what it does for me. Lats IMO are a weak point of mine (not that someone of my size should care too much about weak points yet).
Commando? And you wear those tiny ass shorts? And you’re engaged to a GIRL? Go figure.
[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:
That’s rough about the gym man. I almost got kicked out of a YMCA once for putting the weights down “too hard”.
Sorry, I’m not up to date on your log, but are you doing a specific program or is it a split you made? [/quote]
Thanks for stopping by
Yeah, they aren’t kicking me out, but I can kinda see the writing on the wall. It just confuses me that I’ve done virtually the same amount of deadlifting, 1-2 times per week, for well over a year, and no one’s said anything.
At the moment, I’m just doing a Push/Pull/Legs split I made myself. I experiment with the assistance exercises somewhat, but I make sure every push day has an OHP and bench, every pull day has t-bars or Pendlays, and every legs day has deadlift (and also now that my knee is healed up, has a squat). I try to do a lot of submaximal volume (sorta like CT’s HP Mass and Wendler 5/3/1) so I recover quickly enough to train frequently.
2 days off is good for me to hit a muscle group so I just work out every day I have time, which 99% of the time means 5 or 6 days in a week.
Test maxes every 6 weeks or so. In three weeks before I head off to Vegas, I’m going for something like 290x3 bench, 435x3 deadlift, and 190x3 OHP. No idea what I’ll shoot for in squats since I just started doing them consistently again. 275x3 might be a start.
[quote]MAsteve wrote:
Hey man nice log!
My old gym made me deadlift of yoga mats too, by the time I left I was using 2 mats folded in half! Stupid!
Try standing on a yoga mat too? [/quote]
Yeah that’s exactly what he had me doing.
I thought about doing that with the mats, but I can’t imagine deadlifting off a soft surface. I’m thinking I’ll use 45lb plates next time. I wonder if they’d let me deadlift if I bought a couple bumper plates and kept em there.
Thanks for stopping in.
Btw my nutrition post yesterday was a big fat lie. When I got home I decided instead to go out and get a sloppy bacon cheeseburger and some beers at a bar nearby for dinner. Then I took some girl from texas back to her hotel room and managed to sleep over without getting laid.
You could staple $100 bills all over my body and shove me into a brothel and I still couldn’t get laid right now.
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Commando? And you wear those tiny ass shorts? And you’re engaged to a GIRL? Go figure.[/quote]
almost all my workout shorts have underwear built in… and when I wear one of the 3 pairs that dont I wear compression shorts underneath. Im engaged to a girl… I said it was ok for girls to wear undies… Only if they’re hot ones though lol
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Then I took some girl from texas back to her hotel room and managed to sleep over without getting laid.
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Damn man, thats rough… did you at least get a blowie or something?
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Then I took some girl from texas back to her hotel room and managed to sleep over without getting laid.
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Damn man, thats rough… did you at least get a blowie or something?[/quote]
Nope. We got a whole 5 minutes of fooling around and she got sick from the whiskey shot the jackass bartender (friend of mine) made her take. That’s what sucks, shit that’s out of my control keeps ruining my nights.
My roommate has even started calling me “Scottie Blue Balls”
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Then I took some girl from texas back to her hotel room and managed to sleep over without getting laid.
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Damn man, thats rough… did you at least get a blowie or something?[/quote]
Nope. We got a whole 5 minutes of fooling around and she got sick from the whiskey shot the jackass bartender (friend of mine) made her take. That’s what sucks, shit that’s out of my control keeps ruining my nights.
My roommate has even started calling me “Scottie Blue Balls”[/quote]
Should have tried for morning sex.
Hahahaha that’s awesome! You should have tried to set up a night out for the next night or something. Blue balls are lame fa show
when all else fails, there’s always hookers?
She was not having any of my morning shenanigans. Also I left town the next day.
Not sure what to make of the fact that my training log traffic doubles when I tell hookup failure stories.
8/8/11: PUSH
Worked out in a different golds tonight, the bench I laid on for bench press was horrid… so soft and fluffy I didn’t feel stable at all. I’m thinking I’ll use this gym for deadlift days, and use the one that yelled at me for push and pull workouts. At least for now, I’ll play it by ear though.
Workout:
A) Standing OHP
95 x 3
125 x 3
135 x 3
145 x 3
155 x 3
160 x 3
165 x 3…after this switched to push press
165 x 3
175 x 3
185 x 3
190 x fail… I feel like I have the strength for this and just can’t activate my fast twitch muscles. Maybe I’m still getting the coordination down between leg drive and push.
Anyone wants to tell me why I’m flaring my elbows so much in my heavy overhead presses, I’m all ears. Here’s a vid
B) Bench
185 x 3
205 x 3
215 x 3
225 x 3
230 x 3
230 x 3
C) Close Grip Bench
175 x 5
180 x 5
185 x 5
190 x 5
195 x 5
D1) DB Shrugs (right arm)
90 x 11
95 x 8
95 x 7
D2) HS Iso Chest Press
2pps x 6
2pps x 7
2pps x 7…hold peak contraction long as possible on last rep
D3) Lateral DB Raises
30 x 7
30 x 7
30 x 7
edit: I really, really need to stop beginning every video with a gratuitous crotch shot
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Not sure what to make of the fact that my training log traffic doubles when I tell hookup failure stories.[/quote]
I dont like to give away my secrets… but thats the key! Tell enough funny/embarrassing things about yourself to keep people coming back! Training is only half the battle lol
Not sure why your elbows flare so much… maybe try a closer grip if you want to keep them tucked? I have no idea though, just throwing things out there.
Also, those crotch shots are what keep the ladies coming back for more!
[quote]gregron wrote:
Also, those crotch shots are what keep the ladies coming back for more![/quote]
pssst… no ladies have posted in here yet
8/9/11: PULL
Had fun today, trying some new exercises I’ve seen in the recent training labs. They seemed to work pretty well… maybe this Thibaudeau guy has a future in the personal training business.
A) Pendlay Rows
bar x some
95 x 8
135 x 8
145 x 6
155 x 6
160 x 6 (thought this was a PR, it merely tied one…whoops)
-here I started doing Pullups until I got 25 reps (total 6 sets / 27 reps), started supersetting with triangle-grip pulls but it took me into the first 2 sets of the rear delt flyes. From there I supersetted the whole time, but it got messy in terms of logging it because each new exercise started halfway through one being done. I’ll log them as straight sets but I was always alternating exercises.
B) Triangle Grip Pulls to chest (break apart the bar at the bottom, squeeze peak contraction)
110 x 8
110 x 8
110 x 7
110 x 7
pullups etc.
C) Blast Strap Rear Delts, this lit my rear delts on fire like nothing else
bw x 11
bw x 10
bw x 9
bw x 8
D) Concentration Curlz
25 x 8
25 x 8
25 x 8
E) Kayak Rows (like in the vids)… holy fuck, these lit up my lats like a christmas tree
— I’m counting “right-middle-left-middle” as 1 rep
32.5 x 6ish
37.5 x 4
35 x 5ish
35 x 5ish
F) Hammer DB Curls
40 x 6
40 x 6
40 x 7 w/ body english
G) Straight-Arm Pulldowns
60 x 9
60 x 7
So, I might not train tomorrow (for the first weekday in forever) as I’m going to a speed dating thing down the street. I’ll be sure to update after for the lulz.
OH YA and I joined match.com for shits and giggles. It’s time to face the fact I’m not meeting the future mrs. scj on a bar dance floor at 2am
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Also, those crotch shots are what keep the ladies coming back for more![/quote]
pssst… no ladies have posted in here yet[/quote]
they’re just lurking lol
WHAT A FUCKING NIGHT!!!
First off, speed dating was an epic fail. Let’s just say that I did it as a “fun thing, something to do on a wednesday, meet new people” and the girls all did it as a “I desperately need a guy who will pay attention to me”
Every girl there had like one tragic flaw. Hot girl with a huge ass mole right on her lip, cute girl who stood up and faced you and you realized she was as wide as a trailer home, and the only perfectly attractive girl who was just WAY too excited to talk to a real live male (she lives in WVA). I mean, DC has plenty of attractive women - there was ONE out of TWENTY who I would go on a date with. The sheer odds of that poor of a turnout are preposterous.
Then, I went to my favorite bar down the street, and the talent was horrid except for one really hot girl. So I asked her if she came there often and she said “um yeah I work here, I see you like all the time. But you’re always really drunk and it’s hilarious”. DAGGER!
Went to a different bar, and we ran into my roommate’s ex-gf’s best friend. His ex who pretends he doesn’t exist, and lives in New Orleans (met in Amsterdam), has a best friend in a freaking random bar in northwest DC.
Also, the bar scene on Wednesday nights is henceforth referred to as “Ugly Wednesdays”
So, I’m going to a different golds to deadlift tonight. The power rack area is isolated from the rest of the gym pretty well. Only problem is it’s more crowded because I’ll have to go after work.
Really hope the squat racks aren’t taken when I get there. We’ll see.
It’ll be time to test maxes soon. My goals are 290x3 bench, 190x3 standing OHP (no leg drive), 435x3 deadlift, 275x3 squat (I could be off by 40lbs in either direction… have no idea what my squat max is right now)
P.S. looks like I had a bit more to drink last night than I thought haha…wtf was that post?
edit - was gonna note that I hate having taken off a weekday of training for the first time in so long… I am literally itching to hammer my legs
One more thing. I’m sorta thinking about buying this indigo shit just so I can get a customized program from CT and put my hat in the ring for a trip to CO…thoughts?
8/11/11: LEGS
The more things change on T-Nation, the more they stay the same. Prof X involved in a shitstorm thread… Chad Waterbury writing articles about pullups… haha
Today’s workout sucked for about half, then once I put the straps on things really picked up. I didn’t warm up as much on squats, just trying it out to see if I could spend less time in the gym (I worked out late at a different Golds because of the deadlift incident last week)…it didn’t work.
A) Front Squat
135 x 3
185 x 3
205 x 3
215 x 3
225 x 3
230 x 3
230 x 3
B) Deadlift
225 x 3
275 x 3
295 x 3
315 x 3…switched to mixed grip after this… I had no grip strength tonight for some reason
315 x 3
325 x 3…switched to straps after this
335 x 3
345 x 3
315 x 8… strapless, overhand on the first 6 reps, mixed the last 2… this set was explosive as hell and had me breathless for quite a while after
C) Leg Press
4pps x 10
4.5pps x 10
5pps x 8
D) Glute-Ham Raise
bw x 8, 7, 5
E) Abzzzz wheel
3 sets
I do like this Golds because of the GHR apparatus… it’s just more of a pain to get to.