Yesterday 3 Apr 08
Weight 260
Music - Soundgarden
Warm Up Stretching 15 minutes
Core & Balance
V Situps w/h 12 pd Medicne ball - 3 sets of 30 Sec *I am getting about 47 or so crunches per set
Back Extentions w/h 10 sec hold on the last rep - 3x12
SL STBall Squats - 2x8
Obliuque Twist off a Bosu ball w/h Partner throw and catch - 3x30 Sec sets
Put on 12 pd weight vest
Reactive
Frontisde hops one legged
Sidways Hops one legged
Speed, Agility, quickness
Agility Ladder - 20 Minutes various drills
Box Cross overs - 3x30 sec sets
Cool Down - Foam Rolling & stretching
So it’s not just me then? I was starting to think maybe I was getting to “Old” to get it. (Mean old Mr Wilson!) I will just stick to the old farts section, where we train our asses off and are thankful that nothing fell off at the end of the work out.
04 Apr 2008
BW squats 3x10
Backward Lunge 3x10
DB RDL One Legged - 3x8@15 Pounds
Step Up to bench 135x10, 185x10, 225x2x10
Purple Banded Knee touch and go Box squats 10x3@135 *Very Fast
Walking lunge - 6 trips baseline to baseline
Core oblique Holds 3x30 secs
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
Caution bit of a Rant Ahead… I know the whole T-Nation thing is supposed to be cocky and in your face but I’m getting really tired of the writing styles of the contributors here. Seems like every article written has about 50% inflated ego and 50% information. Take the latest article, full of great information surrounded by paragraphs telling me i’m not that fucking special and that nothing I ever did means anything. He of course is naming an exercise after himself because his little league trophy’s are much better than mine. Why? Well he owns a gym and trains athletes. (Actually he really is wicked smart) Just read the Clinic’s and CT and Shugart will tell you that you why everything you do sucks and if you don’t do what they do, well then you are dumb and worthless.
I tell you the reason I still read and post here, you guys. Well you guys and the supplement’s are the best on the market. I’m not saying they don’t know what they are talking about, I’m saying they package it with so much bullshit that I just don’t care to read it anymore. I don’t know who said it but a quote I heard said “The true sign of intelligence is being able to entertain an idea without having to agree with it.” I should known better than to step out side the over 35 forum. Think I’ll go throw out all my old useless trophies and get Uber ripped so all the babes will want to ride my happy trail…sounds stupid even writing it…[/quote]
I’m with you, brother. I mostly stayed away from this site for years (except for Thibadeau articles) and just stumbled on this Over 35 forum when I was bored one day and checking up on weight training sites.
A lot of the writing in other parts of this site can get a bit juvenile. Some other forums I’ve been on have made a lot of fun of this site because of that. But I really like this little niche here.
Sunday Football Practice
15 Minutes of Chalk talk
20 Min Of Condition drills
30 Min of Postion Drills
30 Minuts of O line D line Drills
30 Team Drills
20, 40, 50 yard Sprints
07 Apr 08
Weight 258
Decline bench - 135x20, 225x20, 315x10, 350x6
Bench 135x20, 225x15,12,12
DB Pres off of a Stab Ball 3x8@100
BW Dips 3x10
Incline Tates - 3x12@40
Plate Raise 3x15@45
Hammer Strength press 3x10@4 plates
Leg Lifts off a stab ball 3x15
Stretch the Hammys, calfs, and IT bands
[quote]The Pencil Neck wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote:
Caution bit of a Rant Ahead… I know the whole T-Nation thing is supposed to be cocky and in your face but I’m getting really tired of the writing styles of the contributors here. Seems like every article written has about 50% inflated ego and 50% information. Take the latest article, full of great information surrounded by paragraphs telling me i’m not that fucking special and that nothing I ever did means anything. He of course is naming an exercise after himself because his little league trophy’s are much better than mine. Why? Well he owns a gym and trains athletes. (Actually he really is wicked smart) Just read the Clinic’s and CT and Shugart will tell you that you why everything you do sucks and if you don’t do what they do, well then you are dumb and worthless.
I tell you the reason I still read and post here, you guys. Well you guys and the supplement’s are the best on the market. I’m not saying they don’t know what they are talking about, I’m saying they package it with so much bullshit that I just don’t care to read it anymore. I don’t know who said it but a quote I heard said “The true sign of intelligence is being able to entertain an idea without having to agree with it.” I should known better than to step out side the over 35 forum. Think I’ll go throw out all my old useless trophies and get Uber ripped so all the babes will want to ride my happy trail…sounds stupid even writing it…
I’m with you, brother. I mostly stayed away from this site for years (except for Thibadeau articles) and just stumbled on this Over 35 forum when I was bored one day and checking up on weight training sites.
A lot of the writing in other parts of this site can get a bit juvenile. Some other forums I’ve been on have made a lot of fun of this site because of that. But I really like this little niche here.[/quote]
Yeah, I’ve pretty much abandoned the rest of the site except for this forum for that reason. The flame wars can go on for days in some places… This is the best place for reading serious training logs and gleaning useful information and there’s no posturing or juvie attitude going on. You talking about P and B, Pencil Neck? Hope you caught their April Fool’s prank, LOL
As long as the servers don’t have to handle their egoes. Ocassionally I’ll find or remember a forgotten exercise but most of the stuff is a little suspect. Colin, keep up the great work and I like the old fart attitude.
8 Apr 2008
Core
Knee raises from a Stab ball (Get in a push up stance, put your feet on a stab ball, and pull your knees to your chest)
Wood Choppers w/h 12 pound med ball
One legged squats -
Reactive
Box jump ups - 3x20
Box Jump Downs - 3x20
Speed w/h 12 pound vest
Warm up Walking A’s. Butt kicks, High Knees, shuffle, spider lunge, backward lunge twist 2 laps
Running - 4 - 40’s, 4 - 20’s, 6 - 10’s all from a stance
Speed Endurance - Tread Mill 6.5 90 secs, 7.0 90 sec, 7.5 90 sec’s
Stretch hammys, calves, and quads.
Foam Roll the same
My Achilles tendon hurt like crap today. I have been doing allot of running I hope it is just sore from training effect. Going to ice them tonight and stretch out the calves again.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Yeah, I’ve pretty much abandoned the rest of the site except for this forum for that reason. The flame wars can go on for days in some places… This is the best place for reading serious training logs and gleaning useful information and there’s no posturing or juvie attitude going on. You talking about P and B, Pencil Neck? Hope you caught their April Fool’s prank, LOL[/quote]
P and B? I don’t know that one. I was thinking of MFW, ST, WTU, DS, and a couple of other odd places.
[quote]The Pencil Neck wrote:
skidmark wrote:
Yeah, I’ve pretty much abandoned the rest of the site except for this forum for that reason. The flame wars can go on for days in some places… This is the best place for reading serious training logs and gleaning useful information and there’s no posturing or juvie attitude going on. You talking about P and B, Pencil Neck? Hope you caught their April Fool’s prank, LOL
P and B? I don’t know that one. I was thinking of MFW, ST, WTU, DS, and a couple of other odd places.[/quote]
Playing the acronym game, eh? OK, you win - I have no idea what sites those are.
Power and Bulk. They did a rip on T-Nation, pretending it was taking over the board. It was funny - in a nasty sort of way. The tone and focus of the two sets of forums is very different, with P&B being pretty much old school lifting - not many lifting newbies. Some Westsiders and state-level strongman/highland games guys post there. Dan John, too.
And now - back to the regularly scheduled thread. Sorry for the extended aside Colin.
April 10
Warm Up - Stretching, jump rope
Core Balance
V-Situp with 10 pd Med Ball 3@30 Sec
wall throws with 10 pd med ball 3x20
Reactive
Box Jumps Up
Box Jump downs transverse
Balance
1 legged Toe Touches to the side
1 legged toe touches rotating side
Quickness
Ladder Drills 20 minutes
Shuffle, line drill, 3 cone drill, 3 cone triangle spin drill
ankles still hurting, added glucosmine to my supps also 4 advil LOL. Serioulsy if I can’t get the pain under control it would put a hamper on my ability to run…
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Playing the acronym game, eh? OK, you win - I have no idea what sites those are.
Power and Bulk. They did a rip on T-Nation, pretending it was taking over the board. It was funny - in a nasty sort of way. The tone and focus of the two sets of forums is very different, with P&B being pretty much old school lifting - not many lifting newbies. Some Westsiders and state-level strongman/highland games guys post there. Dan John, too.
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Thanks, man. I’ll have to check that place out. I hadn’t seen it before.
MFW - Newsgroup misc.fitness.weights. In the early days of Testosterone, there was a running feud between t-mag and mfw. It was pretty funny. At one point, t-mag claimed to have gotten an internet expert to track down the posts and claimed that 80% of the posts were made by 5 people posting under different aliases.
ST - Yahoo group, Supertraining. Dr. Siff created this and it was a place were sports science researchers could get together and talk as well as mix in some actual strength athletes. There was a general “looking down the nose” at some of the things written in articles here.
WTU - Forum, Weight Trainers United. Some of the more hardcore guys considered t-mag a chrome-n-tone type of thing.
DS - Mailing list and later forum, DeepSquatter. Even more hardcore guys. 
It was a real shock when Dave Tate started writing articles for T-Nation.
But none of these really had the concerted approach that P&B seems to have had.
Hey Colin,
I suspect that outside of this forum, things kinda go along with the old adage, “Believe none of what you hear, and half of what you see!” A long time ago, I wrote a series of articles for PL USA for Mike Lambert dealing with injury prevention and treatment. At the same time he was writing articles about so-&-so’s training routine. I made the mistake of trying one of the routines scaled down to my maxes at the time. The routine nearly killed me - badly overtrained.
I looked back at the 6 weeks and thought why i couldn’t do it…so i wrote Mike back a letter stating the next time he writes a training article based on some famous lifter, to include the drug routine you have to be on at the same time to succeed with the routine…he never wrote me back, but I think i made my point and now kinda just follow what I know works for me…after 30+ years, I think i have a pretty good idea, don’t get me wrong I’m willing to try new things, but the old stuff suits me just fine! You probably know what best for you too!
11 Apr
BW Chins 3x10
Assited Pull ups - 3x8
Bent Rows 3x12@225
Seated Close Grip Rows - 160, 180,200 x12
Seated DB shoulder rolls - 3x15@100
Standing DB Shrugs - 3x15@125
DB Hammer Curls - 50,60 x10, 70, 80x6
Barbell Curl - barx15, 65x15, 75x15, 85x10, 100x10
Concentrated Curls 3x10@25
Swiss ball Rolls & Planks off a bosa ball
It hurts but whatever, it’s more in the tendon on the heel. I think I just over worked it a bit. I iced it down last night we’ll see how it holds up tommorow.
Nice rant Colin! I find most of the articles these days are selling something and I guess that’s what they do. I’ll pick up some new way to turture myself from time to time, so I keep reading them. But there are some authors I won’t read anymore for the reasons you’ve described. I know the powers to be here could give a shit what I think because I don’t buy their supplements, but I’m mostly here to keep in touch with guys my age like yourself. I learn more from you guys than I do these articles. Hope the ice has helped your heel. I seem to get quit a few of those over use aches and pains and eventually they seem to pass if I rest 'em a bit.
Colin,
Hope your ankle/heel is getting better by now…I know it’s hard to suggest things over the Internet, BUT if it’s not better by this date, try putting a heel lift in your shoe. Use any kind of soft material you can get your hands on…even a Dr Schools innersole that you cut the forefoot off of. Continue with the ice and think positively! let me know how it comes along & maybe i can suggest a few other ideas to help speed recovery.
Art
15 April
weight 258
Old man speed training
Core & Balance
Wood Choppers - 3sets of 30 sec each side
Reverse Hypers from a Bosa Ball - 3 x30 sec
SL SB Squats - 3x8
Reactive
Box Jumps Up 2x8 w/h Power Bullet (Added resistance) and increase height to 18"
Box jump Downs to the side w/h Power Bullet (Added resistance) and increase height to 18"
Speed, Agility, Quickness W/H Vest and Bullet
3 cone Spin Drill 5 cycles
Oklahoma 10 Cycles
Reaction drill 5 cycles
Thanks QT, I really think it is the fact that I am now runing up on my toes instead of flat footed. I ran pretty good yesterday with only minor pain, so ICE and ibprophen seem to be able to control it. Do they make like a Ice boot of sock? Keeping bags of vegtables on my feet suck, lol
DZ,
I think it really is all the chest pounding that gets to me. Guess when I was young and dumb I did the same thing. Older and wiser i realize that my goals are not everyone eles goals and I can still support and apprecaite the effort that goes into the training.
16 Apr 2008
Pull ups - 2 sets wide 2 sets close w/h purple mini assist - 4x10
Dead Hang Chins - 3x5@BW
Dead lifts - 135x10, 225x5, 315x5, 385x5, 405x3
RDL - 3x10@225
Shrugs - 5x30sec@225 (avg between 25-30 reps a set)
Hammer curls - 3x10@40
EZ bar Close grip 21’s - 3x65
Jump Rope 5 minutes, stretch calves and hammy’s