Good work MJ! Sounds like you have a good month ahead of you. Tear it up.
Jack
Pullin you back in guy. New year, time to hit it.
Get the work in there MJ!
When is your buddy going to get you to take up bike racing?
[quote]soldog wrote:
Get the work in there MJ!
When is your buddy going to get you to take up bike racing?[/quote]
As soon as he is ready to pull my bike with his. There was a less fat time in my life that I wanted to race bicycles. I did one race, the snowbird bicycle hill climb. it was only 13 miles, but there was a 4k foot gain in the last 8 miles. I finished, and I was not DFL, but I have nothing else to report.
I have had some trouble getting into the gym. my buddy is having some nerve trouble, and his neuro doc said no breaking a sweat until it goes away. I can’t go to the little hardcore gym cuz the company will no longer let me use my lunch money to pay for the gym. fuckers. Our Sparta office has a nice little fitness room, with dumbells up to 100lbs, a little half power rack with pull down machine, oly weights and some treadmill things for me to hang my jacket on. They are early to work in this place, which means I want to be in and out by 7am. I woke up at 6am today, could not drag ass out of bed until 640, so no lifties. I am glad I am doing 5/3/1, because I think they might just barely have 300 lbs with the bar. I brought my spin-lock collars with me, so there is an extra 10 lbs.
Theoretically, if I stop being a pussy, I can lift wed thurs and fri mornings, and still have it turn out to be a decent week. oh yeah, I have numbers to post from my last session as well.
1/2/2010 5/3/1 bench(3) cycle 7
235x11 (equiv 321, 7 lb pr)
acc bench
185x10/10/10
kroc roze
115x 10/10/10
My weight was all the way down to 299 for this session, but I will try to go slow on this whole get skinny thing. The side effect of getting fatter has been that I got a little stronger again. in 9 weeks my “equiv” max has gone from 304 to 321. This is good for me, cuz it took 5.5 months for me to go from 300 to 304.
I was going to take some heavy singles during the (1) week of this cycle, but I only have enough weight to go heavy on bench and military. I will weight until the end of cycle 8, when I have a regular gym. unless I get a wild hair…
train harder
old lardass
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
1/2/2010 5/3/1 bench(3) cycle 7
235x11 (equiv 321, 7 lb pr)
acc bench
185x10/10/10
kroc roze
115x 10/10/10
My weight was all the way down to 299 for this session, but I will try to go slow on this whole get skinny thing. The side effect of getting fatter has been that I got a little stronger again. in 9 weeks my “equiv” max has gone from 304 to 321. This is good for me, cuz it took 5.5 months for me to go from 300 to 304.
I was going to take some heavy singles during the (1) week of this cycle, but I only have enough weight to go heavy on bench and military. I will weight until the end of cycle 8, when I have a regular gym. unless I get a wild hair…
train harder
old lardass[/quote]
Keep treadin water guy. This group’ll let you sink away to page 2 or 3. Here’s a rope. So, get a wild hair.
1/11/10 5/3/1 Military(1) cycle 7
thanks for the save Harry. In Laramie for week 2. actually did militaries yesternight and got a PR after 6 hours of driving. That felt really good. Military press has always been the weakest of my lifts, because I never did any overhead pressing, and because I never did any upper back work like rotations or reverse flies. I can press almost as much as DCA now, and I’m only 100 pounds bigger.
I squatted last week, but it was so pathetic that the only thing I will report is that I was once again schooled about trying to squat or deadlift first thing in the morning.
This week I am doing all my heavy stuff in the evenings, since my brother in arms still can’t lift.
150x 9, equiv 195 4lb pr. yippee. did my accessories like a good boy.
I appear to be down to 295, which means I’m still an Old Lardass, but at least I’m a little farther away from 300. I am back strict on Atkins, and I am trying to work some complexes back in, but its tough on the road. I want to get back down to 282 (my recent lowest) aSAP, and then start making some real progress. I really need to get doing some energy systems stuff, but its so damn cold I have lost my desire to draggy sled. I am thinking about making some farmer’s walk implements and walking around with those, but I think the main thing is to get my sorry ass in motion.
last week, it was -21 in the mornings. a website says now (730am) is +24. i guess its warming up, but not enough to drag the sled.
train harder
older lardass
I will try to start getting into the fitness room early in the am for some complexes, try to scare/impress the little girls that come in early to ride the elipticals
Good to see you’re still hitting it hard. If you have limited weights just do 20 rep squats or deads. Those will build character and empty your stomach.
i think I have 350 lbs including my spinloks. I am at the beginning of my (1) week, so it will be 3-4 weeks before I need heavy weights, and I will be back at my usual gym by then. When I do deads tonight, I will have every plate in the house, on the bar. I am going to request that they buy another pair of 25s and a pair of 45s. they just get them at walmart. I don’t know if they are in the budget, but they can’t make me cut my hair and go to vietnam, and they can’t take away my birthday, so I have nothing to lose.
I was thinking of doing 20 rep squats, but then I woke up in a cold sweat.
Good work, MJ. It is always fun to demand more weights cause “the ones you got just aint enough.” I know for a fact cutting sucks, so I wish you well in that endeavor.
Lift hard,
Jack
Fine millies, mj. I’m going to be eating your dust soon on those I think.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
I am thinking about making some farmer’s walk implements and walking around with those, but I think the main thing is to get my sorry ass in motion.
[/quote]
I’m no expert on this but I think for weight lose it’s all about distance covered. Don’t need the farmer’s walk, just the walk. Your MPs are doing great.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
I am thinking about making some farmer’s walk implements and walking around with those, but I think the main thing is to get my sorry ass in motion.
[/quote]
I’m no expert on this but I think for weight lose it’s all about distance covered. Don’t need the farmer’s walk, just the walk. Your MPs are doing great.[/quote]
yeah, i think I prefer to walk loaded because it gives me an excuse to walk slow. I can’t walk fast for very far, and I noticed that walking up stairs truly kicks my ass (I’ve been forcing myself to do this at the hotel just for punishment). You are right, I just need to get out and cover some ground. thanks for the reality check.
Oh yeah, I was so gassy and bloated yesterday, there was no way I could bend over far enough to grab the bar and deadlift, so I just went back to the hotel and drank a couple gallons of water. this seems to have helped quite a bit. I drink too much coffee and not enough water, and it tends to block things up. I will deadlift tonight, then go back to my room and do some serious work on the bottle of Rye I brought with me.
the best laid plans of mice and men…
are naught before the will of their wives.
Instead of deadlifting, I drove from Laramie WY (Sparta) to Castle Rock CO (Marathon) to pick up a coffee table that my wife found. she had been admiring the table for about a year. its from restoration hardware, originally sold for like $1200, it was a floor model, got it for $75. great deal, except for the drive. 3 hours there, and 2.5 hours back. Great way to spend an evening. sadly, my wife does not recognize “missing deadlifts” as a sacrifice made for the good of our marriage. dames is so unfair that way. So, tonight a bender with my bloodbrother, tomorrow the drive home, and with a little luck, saturday or sunday I shall deadlift my little brains out.
Try to contain your disappointment with me.
xoxoxo
old lardass
Nice work on the Rye… your a good man for doing stuff for your wife,
or maybe its just self presservation??
sometimes the trick to weight loss is just increasing your other non lifting activity.
I know there are geeks out there with terminology and abbreviations for this but wont go there.
walking is good.
even short distances- park your car further away at work, at the grocery,
use stairs, vs escalators. walk a little each morning- or night.
adding simple crap like that adds up to allot of activity over a month, or year.
You’re a good husband, OL. And that’s a great deal.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
the best laid plans of mice and men…
are naught before the will of their wives.
xoxoxo
old lardass[/quote]
Oh how I know that feeling. Still great of you to that do for your wife AND me. I supply lumber to the factory that makes the stuff for Restoration Hardware, AND I recognize your sacrifice for missing that deadlifting.
i had no idea you were a big ol’ boy. 300lbs is big. i’ve been close to that, about 295 and i thought i was going to keel over. i’m sure you aren’t nearly as fat as i was at 5’9".
keep plugging along. i really really hate pulling a sled.
well, another week in sparta, and only did deadlift. I only hit 3 on the money set, needed 9 for a PR. I noticed in my log book that I haven’t done deadlift accessories since nov, so I am sure that is why I am weak. I did accessories for deadlift the day after I deadlifted, cuz I just didn’t get up early enough to get it all in one day.
My drinking buddy backed out on me so he could coach his son’s hockey team tonight, so i will try and drag my sorry ass into the little fitness room and bench tonight. And then hit the bottle by myself.
I have to drive home tomorrow. supposed to start snowing at 2am. goody. it will be snowing all the way to salt lake, and it will snow until tuesday. driving home will suck. coming back here on monday is REALLY GONNA SUCK.
I forgot to mention, my son wanted to try cross country skiing, so the wife and I dug out the skinny boards. Mine still had wax from 1995 or so (it was a red/purple day, for those in the know), since it had been that long since my last nordic skiing adventure. We went about 3 miles, i think, and it fully kicked my ass. it was fun to get out and in the sun, and we skied where they held the nordic events for the 2002 olympics. But, the wife and kid had to frequently wait for the abominable snow lardass to catch up. for this reason I have again committed myself to dropping some weight. except for my heart exploding, it was fun to go out on the skinnies again.
meat, I drag it light for a mile. the few times I have tried to do any speed work on the sled, I tear my calf. I do it instead of walking with a weighted vest, cuz I have a sled and no vest. I don’t mind it, I just can’t find the time any more. I really need to drop some lard, so once my laramie stuff is over, if necessary, I’ll sacrifice accessory work in favor of sled dragging if I need to. I am down 5 lbs to a svelte 295.
jwilly, you got full price for the wood, even if Restoration didn’t get full price for the table, so, you’re welcome!
kmac, i walked to the office/gym yesterday, 1/2 mile round trip. I don’t think I got anything out of it, but what the hell. my sunday ski trip equalled all of last year’s cardio and NEPA (non-exercise physical activity), so when I look at it that way, I don’t have to put out again until next year.
I’ll try to spend some time catching up on y’alls logs tonight.
train more whatever,
old lardass
MJ, I’ll hit the bottle tonight so you don’t drink alone. I’m a bourbon fan though. Is that much different then rye??