Nice work
depth and weight both moving along-
I keep seeing how much further you tall folks have to squat.
your kid and my kid would tear shit up.
he has a wagon he pushes all the time
he picked up a gallon of water, and put it in his wagon a month or so ago
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
I have three kids, around 75 lb apiece (2 10 year old twins and an 8 year old line-backer). Put them all in one cart…
… 220 lb of kids.[/quote]
O-kay. I’m just not used to seeing 2 ten yr olds and an 8 yr crammed into a single cart. I’m assuming they would get into too much trouble on their own? Is there any room left for groceries?
Nikki- Thank you, it’s getting there.
kmcnyc- Dang man, picked it and put it in the wagon, already practicing for the Atlas stones. Too cool.
X2 Cav, that’s a lot of beef.
Yeah by meet standards the 315 was kinda high but thats no what you’re going for is it? I did almost the exact same lift at that exact same weight today which leads me to a question.
I’m finding that if I keep pushing my weight up on squat even if my final lifts are fairly high, that my overall numbers keep moving up. Are you seeing that as well?
Now the downside is that you have to be on the lookout for depth creep on your lower weight sets but I’m thinking it works.
Foam roller
Several shoulder mobility exercises
Military press
45x5
85x5
105x3
135x3
145x3
150x3
150x3
145x3
135x10
95x10
Action around 1:15
Side laterals
20x15
30x10
30x10
30x10
Overhead triceps extension
60x10
70x10
80x10
90x10
90x10
90x10
It was a good session, even kind of surprised myself. I was only going to hit 150 once but I managed to pause the video of the first set so I decided what the hell, do it again. The set of 135x10 was to say I can and 95x10 was a finisher.
Decided to not shrug tonight since I’m pulling tomorrow.
Nice work man! I see your doing the James style 3 rep sets, seems to work good for you.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Yeah by meet standards the 315 was kinda high but thats no what you’re going for is it? I did almost the exact same lift at that exact same weight today which leads me to a question.
I’m finding that if I keep pushing my weight up on squat even if my final lifts are fairly high, that my overall numbers keep moving up. Are you seeing that as well?
Now the downside is that you have to be on the lookout for depth creep on your lower weight sets but I’m thinking it works.[/quote]
I don’t plan to compete necessarily although I have looked for some small comps around locally with no luck. My goal is to get to depth just for me. I squatted 300x10 a few months ago but was about 3 inches high and was called on it so it’s my mission to get to depth.
Since adjusting my goal to depth not so much weight I have found that once at depth moving up in weight is easier. When I started squatting again about 2 years ago now, I couldn’t get any lower than 1/4 squat. I kept adding weight until I liked where I was then lowered weight, worked to 3-4 inches high, worked the weight up to decent and here we are.
What I did probably wasn’t the right way to do it but having the experience with heavier weight does come in handy.
Agreed, gotta keep tabs on that depth if you’re going to compete. Can’t wait to see your results, you’ve been training hard so no doubt you should get every goal you’ve set.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Nice work man! I see your doing the James style 3 rep sets, seems to work good for you. [/quote]
Thanks. So far so good. Liking using heavier weight, hopefully get past some sticking points. Mostly just something different for a bit.
Deadlifts (technically)
135x2x5
185x3
225x3
275x3
315x3
365x3
405xfail
Kroc rows
60x10
110x10
130x10
Out of time.
Everyone has a bad day and today was mine. Stress of the week, concern about blood work, what ever the reason, it just was not my day. 405 was welded to the ground, I tried it twice and nothing. I’ve got baby duty tonight so I had to cut the session short.
On the bright side I may have figured out part of my problem with my recent back issues, my belt was to loose. I adjusted it back a notch and it feels right. Must have lost a half inch or so on the old gut(haven’t measured recently) it was so gradual that I hadn’t noticed the belt was so loose.
Also got my blood work back, he never tested T levels or insulin sensitivity but everything else is fine, actually lowered my cholesterol by 30 points in the last 3 years. I’m going to go back sometime next week and see if he’ll order the other tests for me.
It’s Friday and I’m going fishing tomorrow morning, F it.
Yep yep, someone in my gym told me about 8x3 rep schemes too. It’s good so that you don’t max out every workout. That’s no bueno.
Congrats on the lower cholesterol at least. The doc forgot about the important things though, no? Lol
Nikki yea he dropped the ball for sure. I’m going to try to get in this week and have a talk with him.
229.4 this morning. I have found the key to weight loss! Fasting while drinking 10x’s the RDA of laxatives. Not a good day yesterday and today isn’t looking much better. Getting a colonoscopy today, preventative only, mother had colon cancer. TMI I know but I didn’t want to leave a question why I took so much laxative. Lets just say I hope to not do that again anytime soon.
Warm up
Foam roller etc
Squats
135x5
135x5
185x5
183x3
225x3
225x3
245x3
245x3
275x3
275x3
245x3
225x3
GHR 3x10-15
Curls
4x10
Shoulders been tweeked for a bit for week or so. Saturday loading up my buddy’s bass buggy into the bed of the truck, I mistakenly grabbed the handles over hand. To get the boat in the bed I had to basically do an upright row when I heard a pop it the area of insertion of my right supraspinatus. Shoulder has been killing since then, going tomorrow or Thursday to see the Dr. AGAIN!!
In order to squat without shoulder pain I went high bar. I’ve done high bar before but it’s so different. Overall it was good, still working on depth and some of these reps were a little high but happy with the progress.
Really wanted to push the prowler tonight until I went outside, it’s damn near 100* on the street, sorry folks just not that hardcore.
Fuck that dude, if you did that, that would be uber dumb, not hardcore!
I was attempting low bar squatting last week, and that felt really weird, from what I have read low bar usually means you can load up more weight? or do I have it backwards.
Lol that whole colon comment has me dying!
Aren’t tomatoes supposed to help with colon health too?
My grandmother cooks EVERYTHING with salsa. If anything happens to my grandfather, I’ll know that colon cancer won’t be the reason.
It’s funny how people are so different. You like low bar squats, and I prefer high bar. You think high bar is awkward, and I think low bar is awkward. Hmm.
Humans are like snowflakes 0:-)
With this hot ass weather, I’m seeing a lot more people walking and running at dawn and dusk. On my morning walks/runs normally see 1 or 2 folks out, this morning there were literally a dozen, just crazy hot for this time of year. After tomorrow should be closer to normal for this time of year, low 80’s.
I think you’re right, lower the bar heavier the weight. Seems easier for me to keep a tight core and elbows in. All in what you’re used to I suppose.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Lol that whole colon comment has me dying!
Aren’t tomatoes supposed to help with colon health too?
My grandmother cooks EVERYTHING with salsa. If anything happens to my grandfather, I’ll know that colon cancer won’t be the reason.
It’s funny how people are so different. You like low bar squats, and I prefer high bar. You think high bar is awkward, and I think low bar is awkward. Hmm.
Humans are like snowflakes 0:-)[/quote]
Guess I’d better eat more tomatoes, never heard that but it’s worth looking into.
Glad you weren’t offended, wasn’t going to post it but this is my log and it’s whats happening with me so I threw it out.
We’re all special little snowflakes, like everyone else.
Got in a mile run this morning and walked another 1.5.
Went to see a physical therapist this morning about my shoulder. Seems to be a strain on the ligament that connects the clavicle to the scapula(ac joint). I was told to not to press for at least a week maybe two.
Last night I tried bench and just the bar was killing me, played around with some other type lifts to get around it but that didn’t work so I was over it. Going to just work on conditioning for the next few weeks until the shoulder heals.
Sometimes a step backwards today lets you take two steps forward tomorrow.
Heal up bro.
IMO, not that you asked, you are making the right decision. Having just been there myself I realise I wasted weeks and delayed my recovery no end by trying to train around my shoulder injury. I only started to get better when I quit all upper body work completely and just did my rehab exercises each day. Full rest now will get you back at it much quicker.
Here’s to a speedy recovery.