July 30th I’m dieting for 3 more weeks and doing high rep sets and conditioning work so my conditioning should be just not awful enough to let me finish the carry courses. It’s looking like there won’t be a deadlift event which kind of sucks because that is without a doubt my forte even hurt.
Here’s the link http://www.clarksportscenter.com/events/vis-vires/
Object throw for height
Hand over hand boat pull
Slater Stone Carry for Minimum Time
Farmers walk for Minimum time
Keg Walk for minimum time
Log Clean and Press. This one I might be good at.
Tire Flip for Minimum Time
Figure I’ll do decent to terrible at most of it and probably do pretty well with the log, but I’m really just going for the experience with my former college apartment mate. I really just want some experience with the events and a feel for what loaded carries are like in a full day of strongman work before I go to hit up a heavier competition.
Today
Down to 240 and my belt isn’t tight on it’s tightest notch anymore. Which is awesome and sucks at the same time.
SQWAAAAT without a belt because it wasn’t going to mean much
Still close stance my hips are being horrible
45X10
45X10
135X10
225X10
315X3
365X1
405X1
405X3 hard but happy with it
455X1 Beltless PR I think
455X2 Beltless PR for sure and brutal awesome at 240
315X12 with my loose belt
uggggh
185X4X10 Wide stance form work and stretching
Zercher Squats
95X10
135X10
225X2X10 These are hard and hurt which probably means I need them
toasted.
GHR
3X3
Yeah I know. I don’t know how I could have been so lazy on this it’s finally really coming to bite me.
worked wide stance some with Rheta and Kevin, was enlightening I didn’t know my hips and glutes sucked so much. Description given was “you have the quads of a 600 raw squatter with the hams and glutes of a 400 squatter.” Which leaves me around 5 and less voluptuous than I want to be. Fuck. Hitting GHR 3 times a week until I suck less.
nose bleed is up there with barfing. I’ve yet to experience either. I’m such a weakling ;)[/quote]
The first nosebleed is fun and if you’re in a commercial gym it freaks people the hell out and it may be a coincidence but no one will ever try to give you advice on lifting again.
Terrible Bench day had to go at 10 AM without a meal in me but got a sweet chest pump somehow. Also
Bench Press
45X2X10
135X1X5
185X1X5
225X1X5
275X1X5
315X1X2 Long pauses
350X1X1 Long Pause
335X3
295X8
225XFuckton probably a PR actually
nose bleed is up there with barfing. I’ve yet to experience either. I’m such a weakling ;)[/quote]
The first nosebleed is fun and if you’re in a commercial gym it freaks people the hell out and it may be a coincidence but no one will ever try to give you advice on lifting again.[/quote]
hmmm I must aim for epic nose bleed then. lol
good work on the beltless squats and working on the weak links only leads to more awesome.
Haven’t been keeping up on this so starting again from today
First day pulling in a suit!
Warmed up Raw
135X10
225X5
315X5
405X3
500X1
Suit on
high 5’s I think? there were BFS platesX1X1
low-mid 6’s?X3X1 straps up on the last on
high (+50 from last set) 6’sX1X0 just couldn’t breathe and mashed my left nut something feirce.
video of low 6’s which we worked out to 625 in rainbow weird ass plates but you can’t see the plates so it’s probably 135.
Then
Zercher squats… uggggh
45X8
135X8
225X5
265X20. This was maybe the hardest thing I have ever done.
Bench
Felt like SHIT
Down to 240 day after carb up
Went
45X10
135X8
225X5
275X5 felt good still
315X1 felt horrible what the hell
275X5 felt awful
325X5 was completely max effort. Fuck today
So then Rheta took out a shirt for me, it was loose enough where I got it on myself pretty easily a definitely a good shirt to start in.
Single Ply Shirted Bench
touched 315 to a 2 board which made everyone unhappy because apparently I shouldn’t be able to get 315 anywhere in a shirt, so this thing was pretty loose on me.
405X1 2 board still easy
455X2 2 board… still easy
505X1 2 board… STILL easy absolute smokeshow, would have doubled it maybe even tripled it but I locked it out back up into the racks and there wasn’t much of a way I could get it back. I literally got up and asked who pulled it because it was so fast and my spotters just looked at me like I was stupid because they didn’t. No disrespect to geared lifters but jesus a bench shirt does a lot for you if you’re a triceps heavy lifter. I feel like a million bucks and I’ve got a big dumbass smile on my face I can’t seem to make go away. Rowe also corrected my elbow path and I got a bunch of pointers on my arch and upper back placement and tightness. Awesome.
Triceps were demolished more than I thought
275X9
275 PausedX4 the day was over.
I’ve decided I can’t stick with shirted work exclusively it’s just too attractive to my ego, maybe when I get my raw bench to 500 I’ll get back into this but for now it will just be a side project likely alternating every 2 weeks or once a month, I was told my triceps are “pretty good” and that in a tight shirt 500 off the chest is a definite possibility. Hah. I can’t bench 500. Tooooooo tempting. video of the 505 up soon. I am already feeling the CNS effects of holding these weights and I’m curious if this will in fact help my raw bench. Time will tell I’m very excited either way.
Bench Wide Wide Wide still fucking weak
45X2X10
135X1X10
225X10
275X5
315X3
365X2 Cool
405X0 ALMOST damn my skinny ass.
365X3X1
Push Press
45X10
135X8
185X5
225X5
275X3
225X3X5
Close Grip Bench
135X8
225X5
315X3X5
365X1
Really feeling the weight loss and no lift offs made today a bitch
then ROWS
100’sX2X10
160’sX2X10
170’sX10,8,10,8
Pretty fucking done. Down to 236 and bench has dropped pretty hard very not carbed up ,tired as hell but still shoveling back eggs, burgers, fish, cheese and vegetables. Will be very glad to finish this keto off and rebound some water and glycogen and bench something not fucktarded soon. Also had to talk a kid down from using orals which required a few little white lies on my part and some legitimate research. Those orals are fucking poison in the last 3 weeks I’ve heard 3 different people tell me horror stories about kids as in sub 21 guys going to the hospital because they had liver problems while on fucking oral pro hormones/funny named pansy legal designer steroids. Just get older, bigger and hairier on squats and milk and then get a needle if you want to go that route, do your research and talk to some big people who have already been down it.
I think I may have retorn my hammie. Fuck. I have wildly disproportionate soreness in my left as opposed to my right hamstring, borderline painful painful relieved by knee flexion. Hoping against hope it’s just odd soreness or I somehow had more focus on it.
Not torn just probably strained because it’s weaker on that side, awesome, no bruising and much much less disproportionate pain after contrast showers, foam rolling and very very light band hamstring curls and stretching. I feel like I’m a scientist, look at all the science in that list. Still hurt the one side a lot to pull 135 so just to be safe I squatted because that didn’t hurt. Bodyweight seems content to stay at 236 so I may call the diet there, I feel plenty leaner and my strength seems to be getting a hell of a lot better because I am actually training my glutes and hamstrings hard again.
In my still loose belt which was actually tighter than last time because I made 12 bo burgers without the buns with tons of cheese for my first 3 meals and last nights last. ( I’m cool with the bloat because I saw 2 of 6 abs this morning… Which is important because I’m a little girl.)
Close Stance
55X2X10
145X1X10
235X10
325X5 sleeves on
415X1 belt on
485X1
515X1 PR
NOW I didn’t know this bar was 55lbs until Rheta told me I just thought I was having a decent day. But I wasn’t. It was actually a fucking awesome day, the best day I’ve had in a while in fact, sore hamstrings AND dieting AND still a squat PR. BOOSH the GHR is already showing it’s worth and is totally worth the suckage involved I can’t believe how much stronger I feel out of the bottom. I also found out I am now inflexible enough to not be able to get down to zercher from the floor easily however I’ve always felt I got more out of doing them from a low pin and got less low back action and more glute work from starting in a mostly upright ass to grass stance and just seems a hell of a lot harder for me than doing them from the floor, even when I was stretching my hips and could get that low effectively.
Front Squat Holds
45X30seconds
295X30 seconds
385X30 seconds
455X30 seconds
515X30ish seconds passed out a little after this set but the floor caught me. PR
ugggggh.
Then had to run home to drive my little brother to something or other. Today was awesome possibly in part because of the new pre workout sup I’m taking called 1MR or 1RM…1ER maybe? or something like that, I’m pretty much completely immune to stimulants because of my constant black coffee consumption and popping ephedrine like candy back in the day when I used to try to be lean all the time but this stuff actually kicked me right the fuck up, felt ready to go like I haven’t since I started going keto but would probably make someone who could still feel stimulants die from the inside out. Just a good day all around. Making carbless shrimp scampi again too. Fuck yeah this diet.
Hit 230. Done dieting. Finally caught up with me this bench day.
close grip
135X10
225X8
225X5
275X5
315X3
365X1
Slingshot
405X0 fuck I was awful on this one
405X1 oh yeah. the set up. that’s kind of important.
Then Scott said something like “take that shit off and put on a shirt if you’re gonna use gear”
his yelling kind of always sounds correct. Also he benched 675 today off a 2 board. Single Ply. At 215.
Shirt
455X2 2 board
500X1 1 board
felt awful
545X0 1 board. Damn so fucking close, didn’t flare right
now excuses would be the shirt was too loose and I was already toasted. But I should have had that. Fuck
Drop set close grip
315X7
225X2
135X2 re racked
135X3
So.Dead.
Incline
135X5
225X2X5
Just dead.
Weaning back onto carbs, fuck abs.Fuck them.
I’m hitting 500 off my chestX2 next week. Promised
585X1 off a 1 board next week. Fuck I love the shirt. FUCK.
Raw work will recommence after that, my triceps are getting yeti ish and I can’t wait to see how good they feel in the coming weeks.
Carbed right the fuck up and brought my A game. Almost hit a 40lb squat PR, don’t know why I didn’t just hit 525 or something. Probably because I am stupid. But I really thought I had it, just didn’t have quite enough to grind with.
Then Zerchers
300X3X10
Reverse Hypers
90X3X12
180X2X8
Toooasted. Also changed my diet up, food every 3 hours, very very very, low sugar. Rheta helped me a great deal with this and I’m going to stick to it as best as I can. One cheat meal a week of anything I damn well please and everything else is the same old song and dance, every 3 hours, every day, a protein a vegetable and a brown rice. This is fucking serious mode.
[quote]Adam-F wrote:
Nice training lately mate!![/quote]
Thanks man!
Tricep horrors day coupled with some back work
Flat Bench
280X2X10 with 90 second rests in slingshot
Close Grip Bench
250X2X10 with 120 second rests
Incline
210X2X10 with 120 seconds rest
Extending my elbows now requires acts of God.
Kroc Rows
120’sX2X10 paused at top
180’sX2X8 ugggggh Right 6, 5, Left 5, 5
Pull ups
3X8… Actually went really really well
Face Pulls
100X5X12 haven’t done these in a while, felt amazing.
Car accident today stopped me from deadlifting.
Kidding
I still Pulled.
waited for the cops to get thereX90 minutes
Fucking suckedX30 minutes
Deadlifts
135X10
135X15
225X10
315X5
405X1
500X10X1 90 second rests
315X5X5 speeds weird rep scheme just wanted to do them with 5’s
Pull ups 3X8 Cool.
Was exhausted beyond reason.
Could be dead, but not dead, all in all a pretty damn good day.
Bench day got moved to today, which pretty much sucks but I’d rather go sore than not have training partners.
Back demolished
Bench
45X3X12
135X2X10
225X5
275X5
315X3
365X1
Slingshot
385X1 arch just could not stay, back was cramping like a motherfucker
405X1 agony fucking locked out more because it hurt so bad that any conscious effort.
slingshot off
225Xfuckton
Strict Press
45X10
95X10
135X10
185X5
225X1
Push Press
225X3X5
275X3X3
Done exhausted, hungry and hurting, taking everything off til tuesday.
