LS, My daughter is 11. She just casts it out and reels them in. It’s Daddy’s job to take them off the hook and bait the hook back up. Those croakers are funny. They come up in the river when it gets salty. You should hear them growl in the cooler.
Saturday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 20 reps
YTWL: 8 lbs
T Bar rows: 4x135x8
Behind the neck pull downs: 3x85x20
Up side down suspended push up pull up thingies in the Smith: 3xBW x8
Front raise in the smith: 3x115x8
Chest supported barbell row: 135x8, 2x155x8
Not much to report. Tried to work hard on pulls. The cable machine at this gym has a 4:1 reduction. So the stack plus a big wheel is only 85 lbs. I’m going to make a pin to stack more plates. I’d rather do the cables than the lat machine they have here. I went back to a barbell chest supported row. Just couldn’t get all good feeling about the DB chest supported rows.
JW’s thought of the day: Only skydivers know why birds sing, only birds know why skydivers smile.
Sunday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 20 reps
YTWL 8 lbs
Speed bench with bands, 2xbarx20, 135x8, 185x2x2x2, 3x205x2x2x2
Incline DB press: 50x12, 50x20, 50x15, 50x10
Reverse grip incline in the Smith: 135x10, 155x10, 2x185x8
Reverse flyes: 35x12, 2x45x10
I broke out the bands this morning. for some reason the speed bench was on my mind. I did my working sets in mini sets of 2 reps with a 5 second pause, for a total of 6. I was really trying to drive the weight up and push thru my toes. I should have used a heavier DB with my inclines but I was too lazy to walk to the other DB rack. The rep work gave me a nice chest pump. I have found if I end my chest workouts with reverse flyes the shoulder doesn’t hurt nearly as bad. Plus the discomfort level is really easing off. I notice it a lot when I do the YTWL warm up. Maybe I’m heading in the right direction there.
Changed the name of my thread. I kinda felt like a bad Chris Berman catch phrase of late with my training. I think this better describes my journey of late.
I’m sitting on my back porch as I write this entry. It’s about 74 outside, overcast and a light northwest breeze is picking up. I hear the cars going across both bridges in my view, the town bridge to the northwest the highway bridge to south. SOMEONE is catching some fish on the southern side of the highway bridge. About 7 boats are working within 1000 yards of the bridge. Plus both Ollie and the Mrs Osprey are fishing in that same general area. WWWHHOOPPSS… here comes the sun, from behind the clouds!
JW’s thought of the day: An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.
Great lifting. Nothing wrong with some high rep incline db pressing. I still haven’t gotten any bands. I skipped lifting friday night and took my boys surf casting. Just as it was getting good and we were getting some huge hits they wanted to leave. Maybe I need a daughter like yours.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Sunday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 20 reps
YTWL 8 lbs
Speed bench with bands, 2xbarx20, 135x8, 185x2x2x2, 3x205x2x2x2
Incline DB press: 50x12, 50x20, 50x15, 50x10
Reverse grip incline in the Smith: 135x10, 155x10, 2x185x8
Reverse flyes: 35x12, 2x45x10
I broke out the bands this morning. for some reason the speed bench was on my mind. I did my working sets in mini sets of 2 reps with a 5 second pause, for a total of 6. I was really trying to drive the weight up and push thru my toes. I should have used a heavier DB with my inclines but I was too lazy to walk to the other DB rack. The rep work gave me a nice chest pump. I have found if I end my chest workouts with reverse flyes the shoulder doesn’t hurt nearly as bad. Plus the discomfort level is really easing off. I notice it a lot when I do the YTWL warm up. Maybe I’m heading in the right direction there.
Changed the name of my thread. I kinda felt like a bad Chris Berman catch phrase of late with my training. I think this better describes my journey of late.
I’m sitting on my back porch as I write this entry. It’s about 74 outside, overcast and a light northwest breeze is picking up. I hear the cars going across both bridges in my view, the town bridge to the northwest the highway bridge to south. SOMEONE is catching some fish on the southern side of the highway bridge. About 7 boats are working within 1000 yards of the bridge. Plus both Ollie and the Mrs Osprey are fishing in that same general area. WWWHHOOPPSS… here comes the sun, from behind the clouds!
JW’s thought of the day: An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.[/quote]
You posted this early. What time do you get up?? Sounds like I was still having bad dreams while you were lifting.
Nice speed bench. It will pay dividends. And I agreee on the rev. flyes. If I don’t do them, I feel tight on in my anterior delts and the chest tie-in. Since I started doing them at the end of my ebnch days, that has gone away.
Sounds like the shoulder is coming along. That is great news.
And the morning scene is great. Just makes you want to be there (or at least me). If you were here, you’d understand how much so…
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
j_willy3 wrote:
And the morning scene is great. Just makes you want to be there (or at least me). If you were here, you’d understand how much so…[/quote]
I get up around 4:30am LS. I have always gotten up early, plus now that I dont sleep worth a shit, its even easier to get going early.
I have a friend that works for a sawmill machinery company. He is a start up engineer. He has done a bunch of start ups in Oklahoma. I swears the state tree there is the telephone pole.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
I get up around 4:30am LS. I have always gotten up early, plus now that I dont sleep worth a shit, its even easier to get going early.
I have a friend that works for a sawmill machinery company. He is a start up engineer. He has done a bunch of start ups in Oklahoma. I swears the state tree there is the telephone pole.[/quote]
I didn’t know there was a 4:30 a.m. Okay, that isn’t completely true. I preferred mids, when I was a cop. And I occasionally have major upgrades that have to start at 3:00 a.m… But not by choice.
Your friend it dead on. From central Oklahoma west, it is pretty bare. The eastern half has trees. Where I am, we do have a good bit. They are just so danged short. I guess it is because of the wind. But that is just a guess. The other thing that drives me nuts is, when they build a new home, or subdivision, they bulldoze all the trees before they start. You would think they have something against them. Then they plant a Bradford Pear or such.
When we bought our house, last year, that was one of the selling points for us. We have a couple of fully matured oaks.
If it weren’t for my wife…and the economy…I would move back east in a heartbeat.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
j_willy3 wrote:
Then they plant a Bradford Pear or such.
When we bought our house, last year, that was one of the selling points for us. We have a couple of fully matured oaks.
If it weren’t for my wife…and the economy…I would move back east in a heartbeat.[/quote]
I never understand the reasoning for planting a Bradford Pear in windy areas. During the hurricanes around here, 3 out of 4 get blown to hell and back again. Folks just plant them back.
Wives and shitty ecomomies sure seem to get the best of us at times.
Nothing like starting the day off with a workout. I may just have to break down and buy me some bands just to give them a try. Glad your shoulder’s feelin better. When you say reverse flyes, are you talking about what I call rear delt raises?
I’ve got 5 of the damn bradford pears on the side of my property. Wife made me plant them when we first bought this place. Shallow as hell root system. Figure a good straight line wind and they’ll all uproot.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Nothing like starting the day off with a workout. I may just have to break down and buy me some bands just to give them a try. Glad your shoulder’s feelin better. When you say reverse flyes, are you talking about what I call rear delt raises?
I’ve got 5 of the damn bradford pears on the side of my property. Wife made me plant them when we first bought this place. Shallow as hell root system. Figure a good straight line wind and they’ll all uproot.[/quote]
I think we are talking about the same movement. Those bradford pears and leyland cypress trees are great to look at and create some privacy. Your right, they dont like straight line winds at all.
Monday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 20 reps
YTWL: 8lbs
Barbell complex: 8 sets, 7 reps each of snatch grip deadlift, snatch grip high pulls, reverse grip rows, ohp, and squats in the smith.
I used 115 lbs on the squats and all the pulling stuff, 75 lbs on the OHP. I did a 3,3,2 set grouping. the last 2 sets I raised the deadlift, high pull and reverse rows to 135lbs. I was out of gas by set 7. Pushed thru to set 8. No treadmill today. Off to the Doc at 11, lets see what he comes up when he sticks me for blood.
I can finally rest assured knowing I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. I started to grill supper last night, 6/4 strip steaks with dry rub and 20 count shrimp, I made some creamed spinach and a tomato salad with basil and mozzarella. There was a pretty ominous dark cloud to the northwest and some rumblings of thunder off to the distance. About the time I went out to put the steaks on the grill I got hit with a few drops of rain. About the time I was to flip the steaks to get the hatched grill marks you couldn’t see my bulkhead. About the time to flip the steaks there was quarter and golf ball sized hail and 50 MPH wind gusts. JW was out under the eave of the house by the grill with his umbrella. By the time the shrimp were done, the storm ended… For some reason I felt like I was living in a Dr Seuss tongue twister…
JW’s thought of the day: The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Monday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 20 reps
YTWL: 8lbs
Barbell complex: 8 sets, 7 reps each of snatch grip deadlift, snatch grip high pulls, reverse grip rows, ohp, and squats in the smith.
I used 115 lbs on the squats and all the pulling stuff, 75 lbs on the OHP. I did a 3,3,2 set grouping. the last 2 sets I raised the deadlift, high pull and reverse rows to 135lbs. I was out of gas by set 7. Pushed thru to set 8. No treadmill today. Off to the Doc at 11, lets see what he comes up when he sticks me for blood.
I can finally rest assured knowing I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. I started to grill supper last night, 6/4 strip steaks with dry rub and 20 count shrimp, I made some creamed spinach and a tomato salad with basil and mozzarella. There was a pretty ominous dark cloud to the northwest and some rumblings of thunder off to the distance. About the time I went out to put the steaks on the grill I got hit with a few drops of rain. About the time I was to flip the steaks to get the hatched grill marks you couldn’t see my bulkhead. About the time to flip the steaks there was quarter and golf ball sized hail and 50 MPH wind gusts. JW was out under the eave of the house by the grill with his umbrella. By the time the shrimp were done, the storm ended… For some reason I felt like I was living in a Dr Seuss tongue twister…
JW’s thought of the day: The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.[/quote]
But how did the steaks turn out?
For some reason that story reminds me of the old adage, “No one wants to hear about the labor pains. They just want to see the baby.”
I had a similar occurrence a couple of years back…minus the hail. My wife took pics of me out back. I’ll have to try to find them. I was donning a quilted cover shirt, Cinderella umbrella in one hand and tongs in the other. It was a frog strangler, with nice 40 mph gusts.
Not sure what it says about me but I have no problem grilling out when the windchill is -10, or when the tornado sirens are going off, but those complexes scare the hades out of me. They look too much like suffering.
Nice work.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
j_willy3 wrote:
But how did the steaks turn out?
For some reason that story reminds me of the old adage, “No one wants to hear about the labor pains. They just want to see the baby.”
I had a similar occurrence a couple of years back…minus the hail. My wife took pics of me out back. I’ll have to try to find them. I was donning a quilted cover shirt, Cinderella umbrella in one hand and tongs in the other. It was a frog strangler, with nice 40 mph gusts.
Not sure what it says about me but I have no problem grilling out when the windchill is -10, or when the tornado sirens are going off, but those complexes scare the hades out of me. They look too much like suffering.
Nice work.[/quote]
Over cooked the wife’s, hit the young’uns just right. Thankfully I had an ASU gold umbrella and tongs. I have grilled in a hurricane and during blizzards in my time manning the Weber.
The complexes are pretty easy. I’m going for 10 sets… IF I can get my shoulder right, I’m going to bump the OHP weight up too!
I’m picturing you like this, in a storm, with a weber.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
I’m picturing you like this, in a storm, with a weber.[/quote]
I wish I had Capn Morgan’s Hair. I think this would be more me…
Tuesday morning workout:
Squats in the smith: 115x20, 135x10, 185x5, 2x225x5, 2x265x5
Floor wipers: sets of 15, 15, 8
Decline leg raises: sets of 20, 20 and 14
Typical squat day in the damn smith machine. All I can say is I worked up a good sweat.
What a day at the factory. Low on logs, email is broken, the ever changing NC building codes have us hem struck on building some storage warehouses, and the paper companies are going thru huge fundamental shifts that reverberate all thru their raw material supply chain. We are living in some truly interesting times.
I guess the youngun is getting sized up for braces today. This should prove interesting to say the least
JW’s thought for today? Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have a ‘s’ in it?
Nice lifting Mr. Crabs. Hope the blood work numbers are good.
Tuesday evening workout
Rubber band dislocates
YTWL: 8 lbs
Bench Press: bar x20, 2x135x10, 205x5, 225x5, 245x5, 275x1 and a miss, 245x5, 225x7, 205x8
Rolling DB press: 4x45x8
Reverse flye: 4x45x10
Tried for the second rep at 275 and just missed it about half way up. I cant decide if I like the rolling DB press. I may trash that and stick with the reverse grip inclines.
Wed morning workout
Rubber band dislocates
YTWL: 8lbs
Barbell complex: 6 sets 5 reps
I raised the weights on the pulling movements and the squats to 135. THAT really took it out of me. I only made 6 total sets. I was wiped out, it seems like all I could do is make it back to my truck. I think the little college boys can see the old man has lost his mind.
We have a long day in store. My Dad, brother and I are traipsing around southeastern Virginia to look at sawmill machinery. Oh the joy of a ‘boys day’ away from the office.
Nice work on the complexes…
good pressing too.
Saving steaks- buying braces- checking out new gear- sounds like a very busy week so far!
nice work.
kmc
Thursday morning workout:
Squats in the smith: 115x20, 135x10, 205x5, 225x5, 2x255x5
Floor wipers: sets of 20, 14, and 8
Decline leg raises: sets of 20, 20, 13
I could feel the effects of the increased weight yesterday. Squats wore me out today. I felt it on the warm up set of 20.
I have to go to a meeting tonight out of town. So I guess no morning complex for me. The wife and daughter are headed back to the beach today. I think Saturday I’m going to do a total body workout at a real gym down there. For the next 2 weeks I will be in commute mode again. The workouts may suffer a bit but I’ll still be trudging ahead.
My Dad and brother and I went to look at a closed sawmill yesterday. There was a plant on this site for 135 years. One of southeastern Virginia’s best operations has closed and is being dismantled. I hate the folks losing their livelihood, but the losing the tradition hurts just as much.
JW’s thought of the day: There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who canâ??t.