[quote]hel320 wrote:
Not as fancy as that one but it’s the same thing. Found the same thing. Lower I put the pad the more I hit the hams and glutes.[/quote]
But Hel, who is that in the corner. the sly wink and knowing smile. she waits for you hel. The GHR. She loves you. Give In.
Training with the flu sux! I can’t do it, took me at least a couple days to feel human again after the last bout. Hope all is well again OL.
well, the last time I trained was a week ago today. I’ve decided to stay out of the gym until this bug has passed. funny, the 2 days I was sickest was later in the day when I had a stellar training session. can’t win for losin’, as me sainted father would say.
since I can’t lift, I decided to make up for it by not dieting. GFH!!!
Im getting my tummy swole
Eat Harder
john
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
well, the last time I trained was a week ago today. I’ve decided to stay out of the gym until this bug has passed. funny, the 2 days I was sickest was later in the day when I had a stellar training session. can’t win for losin’, as me sainted father would say.
since I can’t lift, I decided to make up for it by not dieting. GFH!!!
Im getting my tummy swole
Eat Harder
john[/quote]
You go buddy!.. Eat it!
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
well, the last time I trained was a week ago today. I’ve decided to stay out of the gym until this bug has passed. funny, the 2 days I was sickest was later in the day when I had a stellar training session. can’t win for losin’, as me sainted father would say.
since I can’t lift, I decided to make up for it by not dieting. GFH!!!
Im getting my tummy swole
Eat Harder
john[/quote]
There’s a flaw in this logic somewhere. I can FEEL it, but I just can’t put my finger on it…
not only is it not flawed, it is sublime…
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
not only is it not flawed, it is sublime…[/quote]
I will be having sub-lime in my Corona… peace, see ya next week!
2/21/09 DE Bench
All manner of queer-looking prehab and warm up stuff
Speed Bench:
205x 2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2
Military Press:
5x 45/95/115
3x 135/145
1x 155
Tates
55x 8/8/8/8 ^
DB Side Raise
35x 10/9/8
Reverse flies
25x 10/8/8
Pull Down Abs
110x 10/10/10/10/10
Rack strip DB hammer curls
8 reps per hand, 35/30/25/20/15 no rest
So, it had been 11 days since my last training session thanks to the flu. I arrived at the gym early, because I didn?t want to rush things, but I needed to get a full-plus workout in. The bar felt most slow on speed bench, about 50% of where I would want it, so I figured I?m still a little weak. I do still have a little head cold, but I digress. New pr (155, big deal) on militaries, but I don?t mention it above because it still pretty pathetic. Tri and delt work went fairly well.
As an homage to Skidmark, I also worked BIGG GUNNZZ? and HAWT ABZ?. Actually, the hammer curls are to help with my rowing, which is pretty weak, and I knew that if I didn?t do some kind of precursor HAWT ABZ? workout, I would pay for it on ME Squat day Tuesday.
Considering it was the first session back after a week and a half of pestilence, not too bad.
Comeback Harder,
Old Lardass
2/23/09 DRAGGY-SLED
We have a nice new soccer stadium a couple blocks from where I work. the driveway that goes along the stadium from the main road to the parking lot has a straight part that is exactly 1/8 mile long. I dragged 1/2 mile with sled+25 pounds. first 1/8 was backwards for knee rehab, and the rest was forward dragging. took about 15 minutes, which is faster than last time. Time to up the load!
Drag Faster
john
drag faster
eat more
come back harder…
all in all a good plan and nice workout
He’s back. Setting new PRs and dragging harder then ever. My sled will be operational either this weekend or the next.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
He’s back. Setting new PRs and dragging harder then ever. My sled will be operational either this weekend or the next.[/quote]
I love dragging the tire sled. You get 45 minutes of uphill walking in 15 minutes. Besides, everything is better when you add a load.
The snow here is almost melted. Just the place where I park all my snow from shoveling.
My Bruthahs, it is time to build some new Yard ToyZ™.
I’m gonna give a sledge hammer a try as well. I have this big loader tire I’m gonna beat the hell out of.
a word on the hammer…
I have some pretty good callouses
both from work, and training.
find some decent gloves -
the Hammer can really excite blisters,
and tear of callouses
kmc
2/25/09 ME Squat
Low Box Squat
3x 45/95/135/185/225/275
1x 315/335/355/365 (20 lb PR)
Dimel Deadlifts
185x 15/10
155x 16
Pull Through
5x 100/120/140/160/180
Pull Down Abs
120x 15/15/11/10
I hate the low box. My form really sux, and its hard to keep a tight arch when I go that low (3 inches below parallel), and its hell on my fat guy hips. I still got a new PR, which felt awesome, but my lower back took it pretty hard. Dimels, I bit off more than I could chew. Those were all supposed to be sets of 20. I think next week I?ll start off at 165 and I should be able to get all 3 sets of 20. This was my first time with pull throughs, so I probably did them wrong. I will need to find a way to add weight to that stack (I will be fabricating a new piece of ghetto gear to help add weight to cable stacks, stay tuned for details).
By the time I got to pull down abs, my lower back was screaming for mercy. I only got 4 out of 5 sets of HAWT ABZ?, and as you can see the reps took a nose dive. This was more due to owweee back than tummy muscle failure.
I got my gut nice and SWOLE while I had the flu, so Im trying to stick to my diet better (so far so good today, but yesterday was baaaad). I had stopped trying to do GHR and reverse hyper movements in the gym, but I still havent built any substitutes at my house, so my p chain is weakening. The template called for GHRs today, but substituted Pull Through?s. It also called for reverse hypers, which I usually sub with 45 degree back raise, but my back was so cooked by then, I wouldnt have even been able to do bodyweight, so I gave myself a break. I?m sure some reverse hypers would make my back feel better, so I need to build one soonest. Better get off my butt, I spose.
Train your Back more Brutally,
John
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
a word on the hammer…
I have some pretty good callouses
both from work, and training.
find some decent gloves -
the Hammer can really excite blisters,
and tear of callouses
kmc[/quote]
Eco, the hammer is a bag of fun. Kmc is definitely right about blisters and callous. I had to remove several tons of concrete driveway that my wife didn’t like. I really loved hitting with the hammer, but my hands did get chewed up. I’ve never done it for exercise, but it sure will wear you out.
Make sure that the handle is in good shape, too. I lost the head on a big swing, and I was lucky no one got hurt…
(edit) need to make some of DZs cinder block farmers walk things.
The hammer vs tire sounds like great fun, and a cheap addition to the Yard ToyZ™
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
2/25/09 ME Squat
Low Box Squat
3x 45/95/135/185/225/275
1x 315/335/355/365 (20 lb PR)
Dimel Deadlifts
185x 15/10
155x 16
Pull Through
5x 100/120/140/160/180
Pull Down Abs
120x 15/15/11/10
I hate the low box. My form really sux, and its hard to keep a tight arch when I go that low (3 inches below parallel), and its hell on my fat guy hips. I still got a new PR, which felt awesome, but my lower back took it pretty hard. Dimels, I bit off more than I could chew. Those were all supposed to be sets of 20. I think next week I?ll start off at 165 and I should be able to get all 3 sets of 20. This was my first time with pull throughs, so I probably did them wrong. I will need to find a way to add weight to that stack (I will be fabricating a new piece of ghetto gear to help add weight to cable stacks, stay tuned for details).
By the time I got to pull down abs, my lower back was screaming for mercy. I only got 4 out of 5 sets of HAWT ABZ?, and as you can see the reps took a nose dive. This was more due to owweee back than tummy muscle failure.
I got my gut nice and SWOLE while I had the flu, so Im trying to stick to my diet better (so far so good today, but yesterday was baaaad). I had stopped trying to do GHR and reverse hyper movements in the gym, but I still havent built any substitutes at my house, so my p chain is weakening. The template called for GHRs today, but substituted Pull Through?s. It also called for reverse hypers, which I usually sub with 45 degree back raise, but my back was so cooked by then, I wouldnt have even been able to do bodyweight, so I gave myself a break. I?m sure some reverse hypers would make my back feel better, so I need to build one soonest. Better get off my butt, I spose.
Train your Back more Brutally,
John
[/quote]
That’s a ton of box squats. I’da probabaly done just one more posterior chain movement rather than two. That’s a lot of stimulation.
That is a big Pchain blowout…
lots of work in there.
I think senior skid ( as usual) is right
less is more,
I have to do OH squats , light before
and sometimes after a Pchain destruction work out.
I did the hammer for conditioning
on a rubber and tape box thing, and have used it to break up concrete as well.
Good times
the best part of breaking up concrete with the hammer was the wheelbarrow superset awesome.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
That is a big Pchain blowout…
lots of work in there.
I think senior skid ( as usual) is right
less is more,
I have to do OH squats , light before
and sometimes after a Pchain destruction work out.
I did the hammer for conditioning
on a rubber and tape box thing, and have used it to break up concrete as well.
Good times
the best part of breaking up concrete with the hammer was the wheelbarrow superset awesome.
[/quote]
I always found the hammer/wedge splitting and then whellbarrow/stacking wood combo the best. But only after several months of chainsaw wielding/lifting and loading of blocks…
but that was a decade ago.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
That’s a ton of box squats. I’da probabaly done just one more posterior chain movement rather than two. That’s a lot of stimulation.[/quote]
That’s what I was thinking, but I promised myself I wouldn’t second-guess the template. templit say do box squats then dimels then GHR. I do box squat then dimel then pull thru. no try think, get skwarshed like grape