SRV was great. He did maybe 10 things but he made it sound fresh every time.
Correction: the exception was Lenny, Little Wing, and Riviera Paradise
[quote]confusion wrote:
Stevie Vai was cool too! But,Stevie Ray vaughn Was the man![/quote]
Are we comparing Steve’s? They were both quite the yum when they were younger (& alive), not that you guys would’ve noticed.
[quote]minimaltechno wrote:
[quote]confusion wrote:
Stevie Vai was cool too! But,Stevie Ray vaughn Was the man![/quote]
Are we comparing Steve’s? They were both quite the yum when they were younger (& alive), not that you guys would’ve noticed.[/quote]
Hahaha
20131113 - Wk2D3 - Bench
Warm-up - YWTL’s, 20 high pulls w/ green band
Bench
45x5, 65x5, 80x3
95x3, 105x3, 120x10
5x10@45
All bench sets supersetted with one set of ten face pulls
BB row
5x10@80
Nice and quick. 30 minutes from start to finish. My shoulders feel like I threw meat caps on them. Sadly they don’t look like that. I’m going wider with the flat bench to the middle finger centered in the ring on the bar. It may be a little too wide. I’ll adjust to ring finger on the ring next time.
Between the face pulls and BB rows my back extensors are singing away. Speaking of singing:
That track is freaking great. Being a bit of a musician myself it makes my ears zing. Since it’s the first track on Arctic Monkeys - AM disc I ended up playing it twice before moving on to the rest of the album. Awesome groove, excellent phrasing and syncopation of the vocal track, and surprisingly great lyrics (you may have noticed I’m more of an instrumental buff).
you,re getting stronger bud. your bench is 10 reps with 120 and your max when you started your log was 125. well done
Thanks, Confusion. It should have only been 9 as the last one was starting to grind a bit. My original go at powerlifting a few years ago stopped with higher squat/deadlift numbers but not \the bench/overhead press. I think i’m just trying to get back the groove on the squat/DL.
The first time I heard that song, I got really into it, it was on a booming sound system, but then the female vocals came in 
Less is more in this case. But LOVE every other bit of the song.
I like Tina and the Ikettes on Apostrophe and Overnite Sensation. It adds to the camp value. Especially on Montana and the pygmy pony.
20131115 - Wk2D4 - Squats
Warm-up - foam roll, mobility leg swings, 10 BW squats, 10x45 squats
Squat
85x5, 105x5, 125x3
145x3, 165x3, 185x7
5x10@65
No ab work. Way too exhausted. Between set rests were between 60 and 120 seconds because, frankly, 30-60 seconds would be the death of me. I got some of the thinnish rubber work mats for hard surfaces from my wife’s office (free! yay!). I’ll be lining a majority of the garage with these which will be great. Even with the concrete not being soul suckingly cold through the shoes, I did notice a difference. Let’s hope it stays that way when we hit below -10C I’ll be relatively cozy. The other option is to move everything in the house and substitute seated OHP as the ceilings just aren’t high enough to do it standing.
Tonight’s musical selection: More FZ - Overnite Sensation. Then on to Charlie Hunter with Scott Amendola - Not Getting Behind is the New Getting Ahead. Very catchy title, right? Hunter plays a wicked 7-string (sometimes 8) guitar and does the syncopated bass line with melody. Funky stuff.
Good work Crushed!
Squats=yay!
Glad you got some insulation. Surviving the snow? Bugger it is rough driving…
Thanks, sen say.
Corrm, I’ve not had to go out in the snow yet. Today I do and I expect it to be a bugger out there. Still have to shovel what was dumped overnight. I did yesterday’s stuff with the snow thrower, but being 6’3 my back feels like I shoveled it all anyway. So what’s the use, right? Shoveling it be. Besides I then get more shoulder and upper back involvement. Cardio feels about the same because the thrower’s wheels get jammed with snow and I have to push it all the way.
Squats=yay, for certain. I had to get a box of epsom salts from the basement for a post-workout bath and I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to make it all the way up the stairs. Good times.
20131117 - Wk3D1 - OHP
Warm-up - YWTLs, 20 high pulls with green band
OHP (supersetted with 10 face pulls with green band on each set)
50x5, 60x5, 75x3
90x5, 105x3, 115x5 - I wanted to go one more but just as I was about to push I felt a ceiling. Oh well.
5x1-@45 - These are going up easy now. My shoulders are not fried by the end. In week one where I was starting to feel fatigue at set 3, it’s now set 5. Time to up the poundage.
BB Rows
5x10@85 - Even these are feeling somewhat easy. I’ll go 90 next time, but only if my arm doesn’t get irritated around the elbow.
It’s bitching cold out there tonight. -15C. As I was moving my car out of the garage it was reporting -10. Having the mats just where I stand have been a saving grace for my feet. I did not pick up the remaining mats today but will get them tomorrow when I pick my wife up from work; then I can start moving crap around and laying down work mats/tiles.
I’ll be breaking out the propane heater tomorrow as this chilliness will last the week. It may be time to get some long underwear and some lifting gloves as I don’t see a reliable way to keep the bar at a comfortable temperature. I’ve heard of people putting electric blankets over the bar for some length of time prior to lifting. That requires a bit of planning and forethought. I just want to get in and get out.
The next cycle is going to be much the same. I’ll skip next week’s deload and drive right through the next six week cycle and then deload. In addition it’s probably a good time to add some sprints or carries on off days (or shoveling on snow days!) as I feel the work capacity is starting to increase. Of course I should clean up the diet as the scale is going northwards again but I like not being sore all the time. I’ll have to make some sacrifices at some point. Fortunately I feel there’s a bit of leeway with doing BBB on this cycle.
This has gone on a little long. I’ll close out with tonight’s musical selection. Sadly, it was just the radio - but - I got a Muse fix with Super Massive Black Hole. The running joke with my wife is that it sounds like “super massive black whore.” Let your imaginations run wild with that mondegreen (yes, that’s a word. Look it up).
20131118 Wk3D2 - Deadlift
Warm-up - leg swings, 10 BW squats
Deadlift
100x5, 125x5, 150x3
190x5, 215x3, 240x5
Touch’n’Go Deadlifts
5x10@75
I’m toasted after that. My lower back is all kinds of ground meat. That last 240 got my left shin to throbbing a little. I had fractured both tib and fib when I was 19 so the combination of bitchin’ cold and lifting stress makes it a bit uncomfortable.
So the garage is nasty cold tonight even with the propane heater going. It doesn’t really project the heat to where I want it to be and the Chuck Taylors bleed heat. Oh well. Enough baby whining. I see thermal underwear and really flat work boots for the winter excursions.
Any old school lifters have any recommendations for good lifting work boots?
nice work crushed. if you work hard enough you will warm up? hang in there
Yeah, time on the bar does eventually warm it up but not until I’m near the end of the session at which point either a) the bar is warmed up, or b) my hands have cooled to the temperature of the bar.
you are definately funny, no doubt about that. p.s. throw those touch and go deadlifts out the window 
I get to look forward to a conditioning session after work - the 10 or so centimeters of fresh powder on the driveway. One benefit of living up here is that these workouts are random and mandatory.
[quote]Crushed_Idiot wrote:
I get to look forward to a conditioning session after work - the 10 or so centimeters of fresh powder on the driveway. One benefit of living up here is that these workouts are random and mandatory.[/quote]
It,s good to find the,silver lining Crushed. lol
[quote]confusion wrote:
[quote]Crushed_Idiot wrote:
I get to look forward to a conditioning session after work - the 10 or so centimeters of fresh powder on the driveway. One benefit of living up here is that these workouts are random and mandatory.[/quote]
It,s good to find the,silver lining Crushed. lol[/quote]
I try.
The TnG deads are probably going to stay in the sense that I’ll be doing five sets of ten on the deadlift and I’m not resetting after each rep. It ends up being more of a Romanian deadlift in reality as I’m not going all the way to the floor because a) I’m already a bit tired from the heavy set so I know my form will break down a bit, and b) at seventy-five pounds the largest plate is a ten which puts the bar lower to begin with. Anything under 135 becomes a deficit deadlift.
[quote]Crushed_Idiot wrote:
[quote]confusion wrote:
[quote]Crushed_Idiot wrote:
I get to look forward to a conditioning session after work - the 10 or so centimeters of fresh powder on the driveway. One benefit of living up here is that these workouts are random and mandatory.[/quote]
It,s good to find the,silver lining Crushed. lol[/quote]
I try.
The TnG deads are probably going to stay in the sense that I’ll be doing five sets of ten on the deadlift and I’m not resetting after each rep. It ends up being more of a Romanian deadlift in reality as I’m not going all the way to the floor because a) I’m already a bit tired from the heavy set so I know my form will break down a bit, and b) at seventy-five pounds the largest plate is a ten which puts the bar lower to begin with. Anything under 135 becomes a deficit deadlift.[/quote]
Since I use DB’s I don’t reset either and our bars at the gym suck eggs.
Just remember to squeeze your bunz together when going up and down since you are not resetting. Keep it tight.