[quote]samoth2 wrote:
Thanks. I haven’t really been pleased about how squats have felt for a while though.
I’m looking forward to getting a belt. I think it’ll help me quite a bit on squats.[/quote]
It probably will, impressive lifting beltless.
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
[quote]samoth2 wrote:
Thanks. I haven’t really been pleased about how squats have felt for a while though.
I’m looking forward to getting a belt. I think it’ll help me quite a bit on squats.[/quote]
It probably will, impressive lifting beltless. [/quote]
When I first tried a belt, it felt like I cheated gravity.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
[quote]samoth2 wrote:
Thanks. I haven’t really been pleased about how squats have felt for a while though.
I’m looking forward to getting a belt. I think it’ll help me quite a bit on squats.[/quote]
It probably will, impressive lifting beltless. [/quote]
When I first tried a belt, it felt like I cheated gravity.[/quote]
I don’t really know how I feel about defying the laws of gravity.
Yeah the couple of times I’ve tried one has been pretty sweet. When repping squats it feels like it’s the core giving up first so I’m really exited about getting one. If only the company we’ve ordered from would get their shit together.
Perhaps I should just cancel that order and buy a different brand.
[quote]samoth2 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
[quote]samoth2 wrote:
Thanks. I haven’t really been pleased about how squats have felt for a while though.
I’m looking forward to getting a belt. I think it’ll help me quite a bit on squats.[/quote]
It probably will, impressive lifting beltless. [/quote]
When I first tried a belt, it felt like I cheated gravity.[/quote]
I don’t really know how I feel about defying the laws of gravity.
Yeah the couple of times I’ve tried one has been pretty sweet. When repping squats it feels like it’s the core giving up first so I’m really exited about getting one. If only the company we’ve ordered from would get their shit together.
Perhaps I should just cancel that order and buy a different brand.[/quote]
http://www.zuluglove.com/index.asp
^ Highly recommend their belts/everything else. They appear to be properly European and not have a terrible website now too. I have the defcon-evo signature… the new ones didn’t exist when I purchased.
Those are looking pretty good actually.
[quote]samoth2 wrote:
Those are looking pretty good actually.
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Belt was recommended to me by this guy ^
Cycle 2 Week 1 OH Press
OH Press
2 x bar x 5
30kg x 5
40kg x 3
45kg x 3
50kg x 7 PR
Almost had 8 but at that point it was turning into a high incline press so stopped it at around eye level.
Klokov Press
bar x 10
3 x 30kg x 10
Top-Half Victory Pose
5kg x 12
6kg x 12
7kg x 12
5kg x 12
Reverse Pec Dec
25kg x 12
35kg x 12
50kg x 15 PR
35kg x 15 drop
25kg x 12 drop
15kg x 12
Six Ways
3kg x 16
2 x 3kg x 10 last set straight to
Seated Laterals
3kg x 15
Cable Rear Delt
5kg x 50
2 x 10kg x 20
Did these lying on an incline bench using the high cables. I’m pretty sure gravity did most of the work on the first set.
Leg Raises
3 x bw x 15
Awesome workout. I’ll definitely keep this exercise selection. That means I figured out how I want my chest, shoulder, arms and leg workouts to look. Now I just need to figure out back.
Arms
Rope Curl
25kg x 12
35kg x 12
45kg x 10
55kg x 10 PR
60kg x 8 PR
superset
Fat W-Bar Pushdown
35kg x 12
50kg x 12
65kg x 10
75kg x 10
85kg x 8
Seated BB Preacher Curl
60lbs x 10
60lbs x 8
60lbs x 7
I like the standing version better here.
Close Grip Bench Press
60kg x 10
80kg x 5
Add Slingshot
80kg x 5
90kg x 3
Lol. No pressing power at all.
Bench Dips
bw x 12
+20kg x 12
OH Cable Extensions
30kg x 12
35kg x 12 PR
30kg x 12 drop
20kg x 8 drop
15kg x 8
Seated DB Curl
7kg x 16
10kg x 16
10kg x 10
8kg x 8
Did the first two sets as a rep ladder. For some reason my elbow was hurting during these.
Cycle 2 Week 2 DL
Deadlift
2 x 60kg x 5
80kg x 5
100kg x 5
112.5kg x 5
127.5kg x 5
145kg x 5
With a complete stop at the bottom. That makes them quite a bit harder, but since that’s where I have the most trouble I’m probably just cheating myself by doing them touch and go.
Front Squat
2 x 20kg x 5
2 x 60kg x 3
80kg x 3
10 x 100kg x 3
1 minute rest between set. All clean grip with a focus on not dying and it worked out great. My shoulders are red in just the right places.
Incline Bench
70kg x 5
4 x 60kg x 5
Ab Wheel
3 x 15
Rower
2 x 500m
Death. I suck pretty badly.
I was rereading Alpha’s log yesterday so this week will be all full body with ELITE exercises. I also found a new favorite food. Banana with PB <3. I’m sure that’s the secret to getting swole.
Even though I’m nowhere near lean I’ve decided to stop trying to get leaner for the following reasons:
- I suck at it
- Food
- Gains
- Food
Cycle 2 Week 2 Bench
Bench
2 x 20kg x 8
50kg x 5
62.5kg x 5
72.5kg x 5
82.5kg x 10
DB Rows
14kg x 5
22kg x 5
30kg x 5
36kg x 5
3 x 90lbs x 5 PR
2 x 100lbs x 5 PR
Pretty good. I’ve probably been pussying around when I’ve been doing these in the past.
Walking DB Lunges
bw x 16
4 x 22kg x 16
Good little session. I kept the breaks to 1 minute after the Bench so I was sweating pretty badly at the end.
Really solid front squatting, its been flying up as of late. This log is definitely keeping me motivated!
Cycle 2 Week 2 Squat
Squat
2 x 20kg x 5
2 x 60kg x 5
80kg x 5
107.5kg x 5
125kg x 5
142.5kg x 5
Wow this sucked. That’s what I get for being stupid with the assistance this week though.
Pendlay Row
4 x 60kg x 8
I really like this row variation. Feel it in my lats more than other rows but it also makes my lower back tired. I’ll keep it though.
Dips
bw x 5
+20kg x 3
+40kg x 3
+60kg x 1 PR
bw x 18
Got a little silly and added too much weight. The full size plates makes this really awkward. It’s way better with 10kg plates.
Pretty bad workout. That’s mainly from doing stupid stuff this week though, so I’ll jump back to everything once a week from tomorrow.
[quote]phlegms wrote:
Really solid front squatting, its been flying up as of late. This log is definitely keeping me motivated! [/quote]
Lol, but yeah it felt pretty good. I think I’ll add them after normal squats on leg day in the future instead of leg press/hack squat since those feel awkward to me.
3 plates shouldn’t be far away if I get used to clean grip. It really felt like it did a huge difference for my ability to keep the elbows high.
[quote]samoth2 wrote:
I was rereading Alpha’s log yesterday so this week will be all full body with ELITE exercises. I also found a new favorite food. Banana with PB <3. I’m sure that’s the secret to getting swole.[/quote]
Add some nutella to the PB and banana…soooo good.
Good work going on in here brah, everything going up (no homo).
[quote]Jab1 wrote:
[quote]samoth2 wrote:
I was rereading Alpha’s log yesterday so this week will be all full body with ELITE exercises. I also found a new favorite food. Banana with PB <3. I’m sure that’s the secret to getting swole.[/quote]
Add some nutella to the PB and banana…soooo good.
Good work going on in here brah, everything going up (no homo). [/quote]
No homo? 
Cycle 2 Week 2 OH Press
A few sets of pull-ups to warm up.
OH Press
20kg x 8
30kg x 5
37.5kg x 5
42.5kg x 5
47.5kg x 7
Klokov Press
35kg x 10
2 x 35kg x 8
Quite sexy
Top-Half Victory Pose
7kg x 12
2 x 7kg x 11
Reverse Pec Dec
30kg x 12
40kg x 12
55kg x 14 PR
40kg x 10 drop
30kg x 8 drop
20kg x 9
Great pump
Six-Ways
4kg x 10
2 x 4kg x 8 last set straight to
Seated Laterals
4kg x 15
Sooo hard
Cable Rear Delt
3 x 10kg x 15
Good shoulder day again. The shoulders were looking pretty good with a pump (relatively speaking of course).
Home for the weekend so today we had dinner at my grand parents. That led to an incredible amount of cake haha.
Also bought Diablo 3 yesterday <3
Cycle 3 Week 1 DL
Deadlift
2 x 60kg x 5
100kg x 3
127.5kg x 5
145kg x 3
162.5kg x 1
170kg x 1
175kg x 1
180kg x 1
160kg x 1 (Conventional)
Not quite sure what’s up with my deadlift. For some reason I’m extremely slow of the floor. Already on the 162.5kg it was moving in slow motion. I never doubted that I would complete any of the lifts but I would just prefer if it was moving quicker at the start. I tried a conventional set to see if that was better, but I’m not able to get into a proper starting position doing them that way.
Deadstop Pull-Ups
bw x 7 PR
2 x bw x 5
bw x 4.9
bw x 6
First two sets were with a wide grip, the next two with a medium grip and the last set was with an underhand grip. The 7 reps are a WG PR.
Pendlayish Rows
30kg x 10
60kg x 12
70kg x 12
70kg x 10
60kg x 15
Resetting the bar in the rack instead of on the ground.
V-Grip Pulldown 1.5 reps
“50” x 9
“50” x 8
“45” x 10
Seated reverse on the last two sets. That felt better, since I got too much arm involvement when I was seated normally.
Rope Triset
“15” x 12,12,12
“25” x 12,12,12
“30” x 12,15,15
Smith Shrugs
50kg x 12
80kg x 15
100kg x 12
Counting the bar as 20kg.
Good workout. Not entirely pleased with the DL though, but that might just be from the lack of lifting “heavy”. I’m really enjoying my workouts after I’ve switched to everything once a week.
BAM!
Birdy is in.
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[quote]theBird wrote:
BAM!
Birdy is in.
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Welcome to the log!
Glad to have you along for the ride. I hope you’ll enjoy your stay.
Cycle 2 Week 3 Bench
Bench
2 x 20kg x 8
50kg x 5
65kg x 5
72.5kg x 5
82.5kg x 3
92.5kg x 1
100kg x 1
105kg x 1
112.5kg x F
80kg x 10
I need to stop while I’m ahead on the singles. The 105 were pretty easy though.
Incline DB
24kg x 10
24kg x 8
24kg x 6
Machine Press
“60” x 14,6,4
Cable MM
3x “20” x 15
superset
Push-Ups
bw x 10
2 x bw x 9
Fine workout. I need to be a bit smarter when doing singles.