Dateline Thursday, 4:12 am Bastardly weak Squats
Box Squat: 135x5, 2x185x5, 2x205x5
DB Jump squat 4x25x6
Elliptical machine 13 minutes
Nothing real remarkable about today’s training. Just some weak ass squatting and some pitiful jump squats.
Off to a meeting with new bankers. These guys speak farming and rural business. Maybe there is hope with them.
JW’s morning thought: Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement
Good luck with the new bankers.
All squats are good squats. They will make you a sexual tyrannosaurus.
Good work, JW, and good luck with the bankers.
Ditto… Hope the bank-capades go well.
All work outs ain’t gonna be remarkable. How you liking the jump sqauts? I like doing them with the bb.
Nice weork, JW. Good luck with the bankers.
Thanks for the well wishes guys. Our banker meeting went so-so. Unfortunately the Ag bank can’t handle the international transfers. Plus none of the banks they partner with want to do sawmills. Anyway, they are willing to take some term debt, so we may can resturcture some debt.
Harry, I like the jump squats. I think I may start doing them with the barbell. I guess these are technically are goblet jump squats.
Dateline Saturday, 4:11 am. Bastardly poor bench day
Bench Press: barx20, 135x12, 170x10, 215x8, 250x4, 250x5, 280x1, 250x5
Incline DB press: 2x65x12 super set with elevated push ups 10,10
Dips: BW x12, BWx8
OH triceps ext. with rope: 2x140x12
EVERYTHING felt heavy today. I just quit early. the daughter had 2 girls over for a sleepover, so that made for light sleeping until about 1am. The girls had fun, I slept like crap, it showed in my training. I’m thinking I may change some of this bench training around. I’ll continue to bench heavy like I attempted today on Saturdays. Tuesdays I’m going to do some high rep work and a few different exercises to switch things around.
Shooting for more sleep tonight and a gloriously bastardly back day tomorrow! Off to the beach and salvage some kitchen cabinets. I’m going to straighten up the garage!
JW’s noon thought: The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
If you figger 250 as 80% of max, that gives you a max of 312.5. 250 is actually less than 80% for you because you could do three sets of it. So you’ve actually improved - this was NOT a poor bench day.
What Tony said, thats not a poor day.
Thanks Tony and Joe. Y’all put some interesting perspective on what I thought was a poor showing. I need that a lot of times.
Dateline Sunday 4:21 am
Kroc rows: 115x10, 115x12 (rep PR… yeah I’m a PR whore), 115x10
Lat pull downs using the D handles: 3x150x8
Rev grip bent rows: 3x225x8
Face pull: 2x110x12
Reverse fly: 3x60x8
Shrug using squat ground base: 3x360x8
12 reps with the Krocs. I’m a PR whore today. Everything else was OK. Reverse flys were a little painful, the energy level was failing by then. Finished with shrugs in the squat lunge ground base. Hope I can say I feel them later.
Off to the roof to put a new chimney cap on and then back to the beach to load up on more cabinets. I’m just about tired of the talking heads on the morning political shows. Thankfully the daughter wants to watch reruns of the Cosby show! Theo was trying to get lucky…
JW’s morning thought: After watching the Sunday morning political shows I realize that today’s public figures can not longer write their own speeches or books, and there is a damn lot of evidence that they can’t read them either.
Nice Rowing JW! Both Krocs and bent rows look really strong!
Good work JW, the Krock Rows just keep going up.
Sweet PR, Wilson. Looks like the grip is coming along nicely!
Krocs with the 115s over single digit reps make it official. You be ugly strong now. You’re making some great progress.
Dateline: Tuesday morning 4:17 am Bastardly High Rep Bench day.
Bench press: barx20, 135x20, 175x18, 175x15, 175x12
Incline bench press: 115x20, 115x17, 115x11
CGP in the Smith: 135x20, 135x16, 135x18
Cable X-over: 3x40x20
Borrowed a page out of Tim Henriques shattering bench plateaus program. I wanted to do something a little different on my Tuesday bench training. So I think I’m going to do this for a while on Tuesdays. I will continue my normal progression on Saturday. I over estimated my weights, I was shooting for 20 reps each set. Still, I left the gym with a huge pump.
Meetings with the banks are not going all that well. Seems the Ag bank has 2 members that don’t want to make loans in the forest products industry. Their concerns are well founded. The fancy dancy consultant that our bank hired felt we didn’t know our costs. So he said we were going to fail. This from a cat that has never set foot in a sawmill, and only met with us for 5 hours and looked at numbers. Now our bank doesn’t want to work with us and has given us terms that guarantee failure with them. They want their money. So 50 years of a relationship, with a company that HAS NEVER MISSED a payment is out the door. I want to sit here and write FUCK WAC%$VA, but I’m sure the mods will pull the post. Fuck them…
JW’s morning thought: Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Damn, sorry to hear about the continuing bank hassles. That blows! Nice high rep training though, JW. be interesting to see how that works for you.
Sorry to hear about the continued bank headaches. Wish I had an answer for you. Well, besides “shoot’em in the head.”
You’ve gone and turned into a bodybuilder. Great high rep training. Sorry about your financial woes. I hope the bank changes its mind and does the right thing.
Good choice dropping back to some volume after hitting some heavies.
Bankers. F*'n rapists. Mitigating risk by putting it off on you.
Thanks guys for the words of support. I think I need to quit my fucking whining on here at times. I’ll try to do better.
Skip and OG, actually I had an 8th grade math teacher always threaten me"Wilson, I’m going to shake you 'till you sweat!" That’s what I want to do to them… These guys don’t rate a bullet.
Steve, I know. I’m a disappointment. Don’t give up on me!
Tony, you got that right!! Bankers have moved to the same level as congress in my book.
Dateline Wednesday, 4:07 am Bastardly back day.
Kroc rows: 115x12, 115x10, 115x12, 115x12
Lat pull downs: 3x150x8
Face pulls: 2x110x12
Reverse flys: 3x60x8
Shrug in the ground base: 3x360x8
Slept like crap, but the workout went OK. I’m kind of happy with it. Actually I’m real happy with the Krocs. If I can get to 15 reps I’m going to raise the weight.,
I know I said I would quit this whining. The damnedest thing happened yesterday. The bank hired a consultant to analyze our business. He spent 3 hours in our office, about 8 looking at financials, and never looked at our process, our product mix, or our customer base. He never understood our niche markets or how we ran our business to de-comoditize ourselves from the big corporations. He told the bank we were not a well run company and didn’t know our costs. By his recommendation bank has decided to weight their terms of our relationship in such a way we are doomed to fail… Well yesterday afternoon the consultant called us and touted his turn around expertise and wanted us to hire him to help lead our company back to the promised land… That’s a helluva business model…Screw your client behind the scenes, then angle your way to be his savior…
JW’s morning quote: Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
-Thomas Jefferson