Old Lardass

Training Over 35 Lifter
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Traveling always messes me up too.

I’m at the “country” ymca its a mess of gear 100lb plates they have a power cage here,
some rickety ass benches.

Their regular bars are horrendous- the collars don’t spin and they have no rings just cross hatching.
However they do have an olympic cambered bar
and a trap-deadlift bar, both of which I intend to use somehow.

As for pricing I go to a bare bones gym in NYC- no rack, a few select pieces of gear but nothing good to speak of.
a pool and its cheap for nyc 59$ a month.
Most gyms here are 89$ a month or more

tear those 100lb plates up!

kmc

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Good old Laramie. Had to stay overnight there once, and hope to never do that again. That was winter, though. Just don’t let out that you’re a Ute (or a Cougar in my case, even worse), and you’ll be safe.

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4/21/09 5/3/1 Military (1)
Military Press:
5x 95/120
3x 140
155x 3

95x 10/10/10/10/12^
Supersetted with Nautilus Pulldowns
10x 120/130/130/130/130

Money set 1-rep equivalent: 171 No PR

This is my 3rd day in a row lifting. I think I might have missed a pr on the money set just due to lack of recovery. Tough shit. I strained, so there was a training effect, even if I couldn?t get a PR. I only needed to get 1 rep and I got 3. so there, dammit.

Tomorrow, I get to deadlift with 100 pound plates. In the words of Dieter, ?Im excited as a little girl?.

I will be travelling all day Thursday, and my schedule won?t allow a training session on Fridays. So, if I don?t deadlift tomorrow, not only do I not get to use 100 lb plates, I wont get to train again until Saturday. That would just be wrong.

So, big deadlift session tomorrow, followed by 2 days of recovery. I usually do Hawt Abz with deadlifts, but they don?t have the gear. They do have an original nautilus ab and back machine, so I?ll probably do that supersetted with accessory deadlifts. On the other hand, I may just skip all accessory work, get my reps, and split. I?ll report tomorrow night.

Oh Yeah, in addition to some good training, I have also done some work for the company that sent me here.

Train Harder
john

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[quote]mjnewland wrote:
4/21/09 5/3/1 Military (1)
Military Press:
5x 95/120
3x 140
155x 3

95x 10/10/10/10/12^
Supersetted with Nautilus Pulldowns
10x 120/130/130/130/130

Money set 1-rep equivalent: 171 No PR

This is my 3rd day in a row lifting. I think I might have missed a pr on the money set just due to lack of recovery. Tough shit. I strained, so there was a training effect, even if I couldn?t get a PR. I only needed to get 1 rep and I got 3. so there, dammit.

Tomorrow, I get to deadlift with 100 pound plates. In the words of Dieter, ?Im excited as a little girl?.

I will be travelling all day Thursday, and my schedule won?t allow a training session on Fridays. So, if I don?t deadlift tomorrow, not only do I not get to use 100 lb plates, I wont get to train again until Saturday. That would just be wrong.

So, big deadlift session tomorrow, followed by 2 days of recovery. I usually do Hawt Abz with deadlifts, but they don?t have the gear. They do have an original nautilus ab and back machine, so I?ll probably do that supersetted with accessory deadlifts. On the other hand, I may just skip all accessory work, get my reps, and split. I?ll report tomorrow night.

Oh Yeah, in addition to some good training, I have also done some work for the company that sent me here.

Train Harder
john
[/quote]

The best of all worlds while on travel - I’m impressed! Good stuff!

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[quote]mjnewland wrote:
little college town in the high desert. 2 hours from Denver, 50 minutes from Cheyenne. Sadly, 5.5 hours from Salt Lake, which was the drive we made today.

I found the coolest gym. more when I post my training in a minute
[/quote]

mj- If you head back south down I-25, in Fort Collins there’s a pretty well stocked “24 hr Fitness” on Timberline. I know, I know, “good gym” and “24 hr Fitness” are rarely heard in the same sentence.

I’m out in FC often because the company I work for is HQ’d there. I love it out there and it’s just minutes from the WY line. Can’t get wifee-poo to budge on moving out there, though…

Nice workout.

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So professional to fit the travel work in while training…
nice lifting.

Dude the road can suck, I traveled with a few shows and lived on the road, hotels,planes, bus and truck its called cause you sleep on a tour bus. it got old fast.

the “ymca” in the country where I am staying
has 100lb plates too, I am going to dead on thursday or friday.

I bet they dont have a jack- use a 2.5 plate.

train with 100s only

kmc

367

[quote]mjnewland wrote:
4/21/09 5/3/1 Military (1)
Military Press:
5x 95/120
3x 140
155x 3

95x 10/10/10/10/12^
Supersetted with Nautilus Pulldowns
10x 120/130/130/130/130

Money set 1-rep equivalent: 171 No PR

This is my 3rd day in a row lifting. I think I might have missed a pr on the money set just due to lack of recovery. Tough shit. I strained, so there was a training effect, even if I couldn?t get a PR. I only needed to get 1 rep and I got 3. so there, dammit.

Tomorrow, I get to deadlift with 100 pound plates. In the words of Dieter, ?Im excited as a little girl?.

I will be travelling all day Thursday, and my schedule won?t allow a training session on Fridays. So, if I don?t deadlift tomorrow, not only do I not get to use 100 lb plates, I wont get to train again until Saturday. That would just be wrong.

So, big deadlift session tomorrow, followed by 2 days of recovery. I usually do Hawt Abz with deadlifts, but they don?t have the gear. They do have an original nautilus ab and back machine, so I?ll probably do that supersetted with accessory deadlifts. On the other hand, I may just skip all accessory work, get my reps, and split. I?ll report tomorrow night.

Oh Yeah, in addition to some good training, I have also done some work for the company that sent me here.

Train Harder
john
[/quote]

Good going, mj.

I didn’t do any better on 1’s day and I didn’t have your excuse.

I think you’re about to take off on this program.

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4/22/09 5/3/1 Deadlift (1)
Deadlift
5x 135/225/275
3x 315
350x 3
250x 10

Money set 1-rep equivalent: 385 (down 21 pounds from last week)

I knew that there would be no PRs today, because this is the 4th day in a row that I have trained. My lower back was really tight, since I squatted 2 days ago. My recovery is off, since I?m travelling. However, my next opportunity to train won?t be until Saturday 4/25, so I had to train today. Plus, I paid $25 for a week at the gym, and only working out twice would not get my money?s worth.

So, I used regular plates for my first 2 sets. At 275, I loaded the 100 pounders, plus a 10 and 5 on each side, and hit my 5. That felt pretty good, so I loaded 315, which was the hundreds plus a quarter and a 10, and hit my 3. This old gym not only has the hundreds, they also have the old York 50?s and 75?s. I wanted to load the 50s, but it turns out they only had 1, so I had to take it off and load the 45s, a 5 and a 2.5 to make 350. I almost cried, I wanted to use 100s and 50s so bad. Any way, I was hoping to get 5, but I only made 3. Again, not a real big disappointment since I trained 4 days in a row. I strained to get the 3, so there was a good training effect. I skipped the accessories, and got 1 down set of 10 at 250. This felt good, cuz I normally would have gotten 5 sets of 10 at 215.

After all this, I went to dinner with some colleagues to a micro brewery that has a great seared tuna (not what you would expect in WY, which has no coastline. Now, understand that I normally have only 2 beers per month (and weak-ass-piss 3.2 beers at that, thank you Utah). I had a number of large beers, and am currently nearly half in the bag. This partially accounts for me taking so long to tell such a short story.

Tomorrow, 3 hours of meetings followed by nearly 6 hours of driving to get home. I will be napping and drinking protein shakes, because Sleepy Bear cannot be trusted to drive distances. The payback for such awesome training and hard working will be that once we get back to the land of the saints, I will drive directly to my shitty night job, and enjoy a few hours of customers shitting on me for $13/hour.

Can?t have it all, but at least I got to deadlift with 100 pound plates!!!

Train Better!
Old lardass

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[quote]SteelyD wrote:
mj- If you head back south down I-25, in Fort Collins there’s a pretty well stocked “24 hr Fitness” on Timberline. I know, I know, “good gym” and “24 hr Fitness” are rarely heard in the same sentence.

I’m out in FC often because the company I work for is HQ’d there. I love it out there and it’s just minutes from the WY line. Can’t get wifee-poo to budge on moving out there, though…

Nice workout.[/quote]

Steely D, in the winter time they let us fly to denver and drive from there (2 hours) instead of driving 6 hours from SLC. When that happens, we drive right through FC. Sadly, its not winter anymore, so we’ll be driving straight west on I-80. Thanks for the recommend, though, cuz I’m sure I’ll have to go that way again!

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Awesome work!
great pulls
I need a night job too.

when any customers give you shit
just remember

100lb plates FTW!!!
[photo]18353[/photo]

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[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
the “ymca” in the country where I am staying
has 100lb plates too, I am going to dead on thursday or friday.

I bet they dont have a jack- use a 2.5 plate.

train with 100s only

kmc[/quote]

TRU DAT! Except, i needed to use a 25 pounder as a jack. There are 2 problem with the old hundreds. (1) they are not quite as large in diameter as a current 45, and (2), the hole is much larger. I used a 25 as a jack, then slapped a regular plate and a collar. this really helped keep the plate upright…

Speaking of things I’ve never seen in a gym, deadlift jacks. I have only seen pictures, just like with the hundreds until this week. I’m sure I will see some before I die. I hope.

I agree.

Train more hundredly,
old lardass

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[quote]skidmark wrote:
Good going, mj.

I didn’t do any better on 1’s day and I didn’t have your excuse.

I think you’re about to take off on this program.
[/quote]

Thanks Meng,

I hope so on the taking off thing. I have a meet in 31 days. Id really like to hit at least a 1200 total. Its a uspf meet, so its single ply. I don’t have any money for gear, so I’ll be lifting raw. Obviously, I will be getting the shit kicked out of me. On the other hand, I will get lifts in the books, even if they are lame. If I can hit 1200, that would be a 85lb PR since January. its possible, but not real likely. Still, if you dream, dream big!

Dream More Bigly,
old lardass.

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Don’t take the calculated drop in max too seriously. Like you said - it was your fourth day in a row training and on a program that is supposed to span at least 8.

You’re going to get a good rebound effect with some rest.

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[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Awesome work!
great pulls
I need a night job too.

when any customers give you shit
just remember

100lb plates FTW!!!
[photo]18353[/photo][/quote]

Thanks meng,

that is a fairly new plate! The ones I used were cast probably in the '60s or '70s, with plenty of rust.

And, while you may need a night job, you don’t need one like this! I wouldn’t wish this on someone I hated, much less any of the elder meathead brethren!

give it hell with hundreds at the Y!

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[quote]mjnewland wrote:
kmcnyc wrote:
the “ymca” in the country where I am staying
has 100lb plates too, I am going to dead on thursday or friday.

I bet they dont have a jack- use a 2.5 plate.

train with 100s only

kmc

TRU DAT! Except, i needed to use a 25 pounder as a jack. There are 2 problem with the old hundreds. (1) they are not quite as large in diameter as a current 45, and (2), the hole is much larger. I used a 25 as a jack, then slapped a regular plate and a collar. this really helped keep the plate upright…

Speaking of things I’ve never seen in a gym, deadlift jacks. I have only seen pictures, just like with the hundreds until this week. I’m sure I will see some before I die. I hope.

I agree.

Train more hundredly,
old lardass
[/quote]

I’ve been trying to buy some fallow 100’s from a local gym. Nobody wants to pick up the damn things and load them so they’re sticking them in the back closet. And still they won’t sell them to me.

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Bastards!

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[quote]skidmark wrote:
I’ve been trying to buy some fallow 100’s from a local gym. Nobody wants to pick up the damn things and load them so they’re sticking them in the back closet. And still they won’t sell them to me.[/quote]

Bastards. If they are not going to use them, they should sell them to you. Why have plates you don’t use, or the clients of your foofoo gym CANT use, when you can sell them to someone that can and will use them.

Just getting them on the bar is a workout. They are smaller around than 45’s and only a little thicker. But there are not lips or anything, just plain heavy solid metal, so they are very dense, and not real easy to get ahold of. I am not ashamed to say that I rolled them to the bar, but I carried them back to the rack, just so I could pretend I was hardcore.

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Cool. Never seen a 100 lb plate either.

Must be cool to have a change of scenery every now and then with the gyms though…

Keep up the good work MJ!

Keep rollin’!

Kev

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4/26/09 5/3/1 Bench (1)
Bench Press:
5x 135/185/215
3x 245
275x 2
Accessory Bench
10x 195/195/195/195/195 ^
Supersetted with Kroc Rows
10x 105/105/105/105/105 ^

Fatness: 295
Time: 42 minutes
Money set 1-rep equivalent: 293 (down 2 pounds from last week)

I was still feeling just a little overtrained, or at least generally beat up. The training session went well, although I confirmed that I gained a few pounds on my trip, which is par for the course for me. I was in a rush, which helped me get in and out quickly. I do think I could have gotten a 3rd rep at 275 but the second came up slow but clean, and I had neither a spotter nor a power rack. So, I pussed out at 2.

This was on Sunday, and I am currently being visited by the DOMS fairy. Luckily for me, we have a lame workout machine here at the office, so I?ll hit a few sets of 20 on the ?sort of like a bench press but not really? machine and get some blood to the wounded muscles.

1 more session until deload week. After seeing how much trouble Skidly had with deloading (damn overachiever) I will try to do my deload week over the course of 5 days instead of 7. Ill do military and deadlift next to each other, take a day off, then do bench and squat next to each other. That way I can get to the next wave a little faster.

Now, I have to lose 20 pounds in the next month so I don?t have to compete at 308. All I really have to do is pull my head out of my ass to make that happen.

Train Harder,
john

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275x2 nice pressing.

I will refer to a post on weight cutting
that I made in the combat forum-
somone about 210 needed to cut to 205
and I replied that at his size that is
probably just a bowel movement and ear wax.

I kid I kid,

really nice progress on the bench!

kmc