1x6: deadlift 189 kg
1x3: deadlift 209 kg
1x1: deadlift 229 kg
3x11: behind the neck press 49 kg
2x13, 1x12: pullup
Being lazy today.
15x1: front squat 121 kg
25x1 (or maybe 26x1, lost count at one point) cluster: front squat 105 kg
4x3, 4x2: pullup 12 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg
1x6: deadlift 189 kg
1x3: deadlift 209 kg
1x2: deadlift 229 kg
1x12, 2x11: behind the neck press 49 kg
1x13, 2x12: pullup
15x1: front squat 121 kg
5x3, 3x2: pullup 12 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg
20x1 cluster: front squat 107 kg
3x11: behind the neck press 49 kg
3x13: pullup
[quote]DSmolken wrote:
My last log has so many entries the thread reached the limit of replies and got locked. I’m apparently pretty persistent.
To reintroduce myself in the new thread: I started lifting almost 8 years ago at age 30. I was always skinny, under 140 pounds. I’m now around 210 pounds. I train at home with very basic equipment - no bench, no rack, no pullup bar. I do have a pair of sawhorses I use for front squats, and do pullups hanging off the side of a staircase. So, I don’t do a big variety of lifts and most of the time do full body training 3 days a week.
Other hobbies: music and growing edible plants behind my house. Lifting weights makes both of them a lot easier. Here’s a bit of live video from a show a couple of months ago.
. . .
But, back to persistently lifting, here’s what I did today:
2x6: deadlift 189 kg (415.8 lbs for the Americans)
1x4: deadlift 209 kg (459.8 lbs)
My bar weighs about 9 kilos, hence the odd numbers. These are done touch and go, no belt. I do have a belt, just haven’t used it in a while.
3x10: behind the neck press 51 kg (112.2 lbs)
Only been doing them behind the neck for a few weeks, still getting used to it.
3x12: pullup[/quote]
Very cool - keep up the good work!
I have a weight room setup in an outbuilding on five acres, it shares space with an attempt to grow Shiitake mushrooms, my wife and I also plant a large garden on the property.
I have a bench/squat stand, Olympic weights, a few dumbbells, a pair of home-made Farmer’s Walk handles (cut by a friend from an old clothesline pole) and I also do chins from the rafters of the building - I also I like the idea of sawhorses for partial range movements. I dug a hole just outside the back doors of the building to do partial range dead-lifts.
Thanks. Digging holes for partials, now that’s something I haven’t done. Have tried doing snatch-grip deficit deadlifts standing on some bags of cement, though. I have a pit for car repairs in my garage, too, will probably start using it as a power rack for military presses once winter ends. Especially since I don’t have a car, just a bicycle and a wheelbarrow. Anyway, it makes a lot of sense to just take advantage of what you got…
Today:
1x6: deadlift 189 kg
1x3: deadlift 209 kg
1x2: deadlift 229 kg
6x3, 2x2: pullup 12 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg
15x1: front squat 123 kg
1x12, 2x11: behind the neck press 49 kg
3x13: pullup
So I woke up this morning and instead of wondering about breakfast or work or whether any snow fell that would need shoveling first thing I thought was “damn, I should do those squats this evening”. Haha. I guess I really do dread these clusters that much.
21x1 cluster: front squat 109 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg
8x3: pullup 12 kg
Weight: 96.6 kg so a half kilo heavier than ever before
1x6: deadlift 189 kg
1x3: deadlift 209 kg
1x2: deadlift 229 kg
3x12: behind the neck press 49 kg
3x13: pullup
Was supposed to do something else this evening but those plans fell through, so…
15x1: front squat 123 kg
8x2: pullup 13 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg
21x1 cluster: front squat 113 kg
1x13, 2x12: behind the neck press 49 kg
3x13: pullup
1x6: deadlift 189 kg
1x3: deadlift 209 kg
1x2: deadlift 229 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg (legs flat following the advice in the recent article, does make it harder)
1x3, 7x2: pullup 13 kg
15x1: front squat 123 kg
3x10: behind the neck press 51 kg
3x13: pullup
Thinking about the squats only one rep ahead - “six done, about do do seven” makes them feel a lot lighter than thinking “six done, that’s nine more to go” like I’ve usually done in the past. Go figure.
Let’s do something else with the front squats. I did some timed sets working up to eight minutes once, but had to use real light weights to survive - for eight minutes I made it with only 29 kg. I think that was in 2012. It seemed to work, so let’s try it with a bit more weight.
2 minutes - front squat 39 kg
2x3, 6x2: pullup 13 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg
So, yeah, I’m squatting less with two legs than I’m pressing with one arm. Ha.
1x6: deadlift 189 kg
1x5: deadlift 209 kg
1x2: deadlift 229 kg
3x10: behind the neck press 51 kg
3x13: pullup
Was gonna do four reps with the 209 kilos, but after the fourth one I went “what the hell, one more”.
2 minutes 20 seconds - front squat 39 kg
3x3, 5x2: pullup 13 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg
Getting over slight food poisoning.
2 minutes 40 seconds - front squat 39 kg
3x10: behind the neck press 51 kg
3x13: pullup
1x6: deadlift 189 kg
1x4: deadlift 209 kg
1x1: deadlift 229 kg
3x12: db floor press 42 kg
4x3, 4x2: pullup 13 kg