The big blue experience.

Training Over 35 Lifter
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[quote]cavalier wrote:
Glad you’re having fun, Nurse. God, I hate it when guys bench more than I DL, it happens all the time.

When I saw your new title, I thought it was the old Angela Lansbury movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It’s a musical where she uses magic to defeat nazis. I’m not making it up. Oh yes, it’s set in England.[/quote]

Cav. I think i can just about remember being dragged to see that by my mother but must be when i was around 6 or 7. Feeling a bit playful with the title, had been thinking about ‘Carry on nurse’ as there was a re run of that actually playing on 1 of the tv’s at the gym (it’s that kind of gym) when i looked up between sets.

Bizzarre combination of led zeppelin on the ipod to drown out the awful laocal radio and and syd james. hattie jaques et al camping it up on screen .

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I thought you were going to call it “Getting Hugged by Naked Lesbians”.

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Ha ha…getting playful around here…

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Jackies workout today.

Jax is just in after seeing her trainer at a different gym (long story) and after a bit of working out what she did i think it went something like :

Warm up on the rower.

Rear squat.
Bare bar warm up 1x10
30kg 2x10
Might have been 35 1x10
40kg she thinks 2x5

Deadlift
Bar bar warm up 1x10
30 kg 2 x 10
40 kg 1x10
45 kg 2 x5

Chest press (we think)
sets and weight not sure
cable row ditto

Finishing work–rower.

Both of them seem happy with progress.
Looks like we are going to have to start going to the gym together …neat…

EDIT. My work tonight.

Missed the walk to gym and work due to being a bit late.
DJ complex x2 warm up.

Main lift plan Bench with progression :
Barbell warm up 1x10
66 lb 1x10
93.5 lb 3x10 (bit of a fight at the end of each set)
105 lb 5x5 ( and a real fight at the end of those sets)

During the main lifts ,as seondary lifts :
Deadlift…might have been a bit of a mistake after yesterdays hard work as i had a distinct pull on my lower back and one definite ‘warning shot’ taht things weren’t ok.
Anyway :
Bare bar warm up 1x10
132 lb 1x10
198 lbs 2x5

Second lift #2 squats
Barbell warm up 1x10
88lb 1x10
110 lb 2x5 range of movement seemed ok and aside from a little discomfort back seemed ok, probably suffer a bit later.

Finishing with
Chins 3 x 5 and press ups 3x10.

Which means that each main lift has progressed this week, ok on the deadlift but much more of a fight on the bench.
This weeks insight though is that it might bhe best not to lift on 2 consecutive days when pushing things up on the weights.

Edit–end of week.
Bit of an up and down week (no pun intended)
The mid week session was a really good one with everything feeling smooth and under control, then on the next day nothing felt right i pulled my back again quite hard and had to cut the session short.

At the end of the working week i was feeling well fed up and decided to hit the gym after my last of a set of shifts, normally a bad idea but i got completely fuelled up and hit it hard.

Main lift bench–to failure.
Something like (but lost count) :
Barbell warm up
66lb warm up 1x10
88lb 1x10
93.5 1x10
99lb 1x8 (to failure)
104.5 1x6
110 1x5
115.5 1x3
121. 2 (failure)
Then backed off a bit :then came back pushing to failure on each attempt.
110lb 1x5
115.5 1x3
121 lb 1 1 1
66lb de-load 1x10

In the intervals :
Chins 5x5

Squats
Feeling more than a bit agressive so something like (again lost count)
Barbell warm up
88lb 1x10
99lb 1x10
110lb 1x10
121 lb 2x5
132lb 2x5
143 lb 1x5.

It was one of those completely ‘out of context’ workouts, very aggressive (for me) and very focussed–maybe this is much more how it should be.

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I can relate to not knowing what things are called, glad she is still at it.

Hmmm on log name…a downer with an upper

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[quote]big nurse wrote:

Looks like we are going to have to start going to the gym together …neat…
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I have lifted with my wife in the past (she used to be an aerobics instructor back in the day) but I found that helping her distracted me and my workouts started to suffer. She always expected me to load and unload the bar for her for some reason and being a gentleman I always did.

She didn’t really take to it in the end, she would do it a few months at a time, then drop off. Then start again.

TBH I see lifting as “me” time and she was impinging on it. I don’t know, maybe I’m just a selfish bastard!

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Brett, i am hoping that she will take to it long term and some encouragement now would go a long way. If she takes to things then she usually gets stuck well in.

We do such opposite shifts that it won’t happen very often.

She is definitely going to do more sessions with the same trainer who seems to be taking her down the right route so she is learning good big stuff right from then start.

I do like my lifting time too , hate being interrupted and just like getting on with it.

Upscale-it’s really funny because we still go through the 'exercise charades after a session but it’s really early days. Log name almost became ‘carry on nurse’ but lots of alternatives came to mind.

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Week 3 of the new plan.

Jackie is having a gentle introduction to DOMS !!.

Today.
Transition to being awake during the day for a few days so pretty groggy and stiff.

Walk to gym to try to get things moving.
DJ complex x2 120 moves total and gradually loosening up.

Main lift today = squat so set up with kb db and cage.
Barbell warm up 1x10

10s sets : 1 with 53lb kb 2 with barbell at 94lb

5s sets : 2 with 92lb db and 3 with 121lb barbell. 2 additional sets 1@ 132 and 1@ 143, don’t ask me why i just felt like a bit of a spanking today !

Secondary lift 1. bench
Barbell warm up 1x10
66lb 1x10
94lb 1x10
105lb 1x5
110lb 1x5
110 lb 1x4 (failure)
66lb 1x10

Secondary lift 2. Dl.
132 lb 1x10
154lb 1x10 (keeping it light and slow after injury last week)

Finishing work
Sets of chins and push ups.

Really finishing work
Tabata done as floor to ceiling movement with the 33lb vipr tube fast and light.
Felt well weird in the shower after that,didn’t actually pass out but close.

Just found out that this is the week when we finally find out about our jobs and the future of our team.
Could be a rough shitty week ahead.

Tuesday EDIT…

Restless all day trying to have a day off but continually thinking about the work situation and the expected meeting about our future.

Eventually said ‘fuck it’ and headed to the gym.

DJ complex x2 to warm up.
Main lift today = deadlift.
Feeling a bit stiff at the start to built into it slowly.
132LBS 1 X 10
176 LB 1 X !0
182 1 X 10
176 1 x 10

198 LBS 2 X 5
204 1 X 5
198 1 X 5
220 1 X 5 (first ful working set at 100kg)

Second lift = bench
66lb warm up 1 x 10
88lb 1 x 10
110 lb 3 x 5

Second lift #2 squat
66lb warm up 1 x 10
88lb 1 x 10
132 lb 1 x 5
143 2 x 5

Finishing work , treadmill sprints (5) during 1 mile session.

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Not intended but tonight i ended up doing part of my workout with partner, rather, giving her a bit of a hand with hers.

After a restless day sitting around fretting about the changes that might be happening to my team-crunch week i just gave up and walked down for a session mainly to work off some frustration.

When i got there jax was already working away so i got on with my normal warm up but at the same time trying to keep an eye on what she was doing.
It was one of those really irritating busy sessions with people stepping over my feet when benching/ squeezing past during deadlifts–one guy actualy ducked under my bar when i was doing the ohp part of my warm up !!.

So : nice to see jax getting stuck in with the big lifts, as far as i can see doing deadlift quite slowly and carefully then setting up for squats.
Looks like she is doing a 3x10 routine.
Something like (squat)
1 x 10 @ 20kg (bare bar)
1 x 10 @ 25kg
1 x 10 @ 30kg
1 x 10 @ 35kg

Bench :
Bare bar 2 x10

Didn’t really see what weights on the dl.
Where i was (right in the middle on the bench) doing deadlifts and bench i had peopole moving around me/stepping over me (really annoying) but i managed to get her doing a bit of benching with the bare bar–early days yet but nice to help her with a bit of spotting.

Mid way through while she was taking a break some guy comes along, sits on the only bench press station and yes–starts curling a light db !! (it was that kind of evening at the gym).

Nice to say that jax seems to have a good natural squat, gets reasonably deep already.

Very irritating busy gym but nice doing some work with jax.

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Thursdays child…has far to go !.

Workout after end of shift so more than a bit tired, more slow than anything.

DJ 6 move complex twice (one weighted at 55lbs)

Main lift = bench press.
Bare bar warm up 1x10
66lb second warm up 1x10

99lbs 3x10 (progression–havn’t done the 10s at this weight before)

Then attempted the 5s at a working 50kg (110lbs) :
1x4
1x4
1x4
1x3 ( just wouldn’t go past 3)

so :
105lb 2x5
Good honest try to get the 5s at 110, just wouldn’t quite go.

Second lifts squats and deadlifts.
Squats :
99lb 2x10
Db goblet 57lb 1x10

132lb 2x5
143lb 1x5
94 lb db goblet 1x5

Got a bit carroed away with the squats, was only supposed to be a couple of sets, brain on autopilot !!.

Deadlifts
132lb 1x10
154lb 1x10
198lb 2x5

Finishing work :
chins 4x5
press ups 4x10

Finishing work 2 : breakfast at gym.

Meanwhile in a distant galaxy … (jax working with trainer at a different gym) waiting for report.

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More squats is always better!

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Squats and deads in the same session after a shift of work?

Are you crazy?

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[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
Squats and deads in the same session after a shift of work?

Are you crazy?[/quote]

Ha ha…
So the pot is calling the kettle black eh—mr insane volume …

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Today however.

Slightly different approach : bench seemed to be in constant and appropriate use for a change, deadlifted plenty this week and having been thinking about this went for another dan John inspired session.

Warm up : DJ 6 move complex 2 rounds, second one weighted at 55lbs.

Then done as a ‘set’ one set of squats, one set of 10 press ups and 1 set of 5 chins. : something like (although lost count towards the end) only posting the squats as the rest will get repetitive but each entry represents a ‘super’ set.

99lb rear squat 1x10

53lb kb goblet 1x10

99lb rear… 1x10

121lb rear 1x5

92lb db goblet 1x5

132lb rear 1x5

92lb goblet db 1x5

143lb rear 1x5

92lb db goblet 1x5

132lb rear 1x5

121lb rear 1x5

110lb rear 1x10

53lb kb goblet 1x10

110lb rear 1x10

Something like 10 0r 12 sets of press ups and chins.

Pretty hard workout.

EDIT…Just as i got stuck in someone put the awful local radio on LOUD as gym music…some dire boyband robbie/take that dreck. Worked out a way of running the ipod while lifting so todays soundtrack :

Led Zeppelin. When the levee breaks and kashmir.
Metallica Enter sandman.
Queen (live) now i’m here.
Verdi Requiem.
John Williams star wars main theme.
Muse guiding light
The CRanberries Zombie.

Eclectic and LOUD.

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Good God, are you already up to 143# squats for reps??

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[quote]cavalier wrote:
Good God, are you already up to 143# squats for reps??[/quote]

Form is a bit messy and depth isn’t there yet but i feel i need to experience the weight just to start getting the feel of it. What does noticeably happen is that when i drop the weight down i get instantly better depth.

I am working at it–squatting on average 3 times a week though.

(Dan john made me do it !!)

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[quote]cavalier wrote:
Good God, are you already up to 143# squats for reps??[/quote]

That was by far the hardest workout i have ever done though, at the end i had to pause after every couple of reps and really shaky afterwards.

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Nice workouts! been trying to catch up. Didn’t really get to look at anybodys logs last week. work was nuts.

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Good lawd! I’m tired just reading that post.

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Ok lets see if this works.

Rear shot 2010 on holiday.

Ok didn’t work --try again