Looking forward to seeing what sort of programme you’re going to follow. Right now you seem a bit torn.
Reading between the lines am I right in thinking you want to get stronger without over eating, while staying buff?
AGH! Too busy to post. Too busy to visit everyone else’s logs. Also too busy to mash together a new program (sorry Brett, prograMME), I’ve just been recycling old ones. Yesterday was 6x6 for front squats… followed by hack squats… followed by lunges… so far today the DOMS are epic.
And my mother-in-law moved in Sunday to recovery from her hip replacement.
I predict ranting…
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
AGH! Too busy to post. Too busy to visit everyone else’s logs. Also too busy to mash together a new program (sorry Brett, prograMME)[/quote]
FYI it’s spelt programme in English, the language we English invented and we let you use. How you corrupt it is up to you. I speaketh the QUEEEEEEN’S English.
So there!!
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
And my mother-in-law moved in Sunday to recovery from her hip replacement.
I predict ranting…[/quote]
You have my eternal sympathy…rant away!!!
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
AGH! Too busy to post. Too busy to visit everyone else’s logs. Also too busy to mash together a new program (sorry Brett, prograMME), I’ve just been recycling old ones. Yesterday was 6x6 for front squats… followed by hack squats… followed by lunges… so far today the DOMS are epic.
And my mother-in-law moved in Sunday to recovery from her hip replacement.
I predict ranting…[/quote]
5/3/1
Heretic
Bunny… the name was given tome when I was a youngun’ by my grandparents.
My gramps used to say that I never stopped moving around the farm, hopping here, hopping there, getting under his feet etc. He also said that if I wasn’t eating, I was shitting, and if I wasn’t shitting, I was eating, and that I could fall asleep anywhere at any time… wake up at the drop of a hat, and carry on…
So… the years go by, the name kinda dropped off with the family as I got older, but my grandparents kept calling me that, despite growing well over 6 feet and over 250 pounds… then one day I introduced one of my work friends to my grandmother… and during the entire time she is referring to me as “Bunny”… well, of course you know what the outcome was, he could hardly contain himself when we got back to the rest of our comrades… thus the name was ressurected.
So, there is your explanation… Bunny. Now, the “7568” is work related…
grrrr…
I haven’t even succeeed at printing off fresh log sheets. For the past couple weeks I’ve been working off an old, wrinkled, sheet from the bottom of a drawer. Here’s what I did today.
Mobility
5 minutes of foam rolling: glutes, hams, quads, calves, peronials, hip flexors
forward leg swings
side-to-sde leg swings
butt-kickers
bodyweight walking lunges
camel/cat
and I am READY TO GO
Workout
Sumo Deadlifts - 5x225, 5x275, 5x275, 5x275, 5x275, 5x275, 5x225
1-leg Romanian Dealifts - 6x60, 6x60, 5x60, 5x50
At this point not only was I gassed, I ran out of time. Then I got to go to work and chew out one of the guys who works for me for unprofessioal behavior. Joy. Gonna be a GREAT day…
Today I got to thinking about North Americans’ expectations of fitness. Then I remembered this OLD cartoon and how appropriate it still is today.
Unfortunately this is true for me:
My biggest complaint: I love eating like a lifter!
Its easy for me, I just like it.
- I like stuffing my face when I’m not hungry.
- I like eating massive portions of meat.
- I like powering down a platter of food before I go to bed.
- I like slugging back shakes and waddling around for an hour with a fish tank sloshing around in my belly.
- I like eating a great big meal at breakfast.
- When I get a snack craving I want ice cream- When I go out for dinner I want a steak with vegetables and a rice bowl and dessert.
This is why I’m 5’9’’ and swing between 255-275 lbs.
That’s why you squat 500lb and bench 350.
That’s why I grow abs in summer.
It’s called playing to our strengths!
I tried something from Facebook today…
“â??1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit random. The first Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 - Go to quotationspage.com. Hit random. The last four or five words of the last quote of the page is the title of your album. 3 - Go to flickr… Click on â??explore the last seven daysâ??. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4 - Use Photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together. 5 - Post it with this text in the “caption”.”
So here is my album cover. I find it funny that this looks a lot like any other album cover you’d find at the music store. Except mine took 20 minutes, and I didn’t spend thousand of dollars on artistic effort and market research.
Went to the Y for some E.E.W. Did a spin class for an hour… the one taught by the guy who’s built like Nate Green and slowly and methodically grinds you down under the wheels of the bike. Maybe that’s why only 4 people came to his class today, and the one yesterday taught by the nauseatingly perky 50-year-old couple who laugh and clap and sing kum-ba-ya was packed.
My formal title at work is “Chief Process Engineer”, which is a little odd sounding but I find to be cooler than “Supervisor”. Whenever we run a tour through this place, or when I go speak to high schools or to the college I make the joke that I like to be called “Master Chief”. For those that of you non-geeks out there, that is an overt Halo reference.
So in the last tour group, one of the kids works behind the desk at my gym on weekends. Ever since, whenever he takes my card he calls me “Lord Master Chief”. I think I like it!
Anyways, after much consternation I’ve decided I’m just gonna do another run at Carter’s BT program as written. It’s pretty much everything I love about lifting, and Phase 2 is basically 531. The only problem is, I haven’t spent enough time focusing on what I really want LONG TERM. As a consequence I’m not really dieting, not really bulking, not really strength training, and therefore not making much progress in any direction at all. I need to clear my head, take a long hard look at the next 1-2 years and formulate an action plan.
But for now, here’s what happened Sunday:
Front squats - 10x135, 7x185, 5x190, 5x195, 5x200, 5x200, 5x185
Hack Squats - 7x185, 7x185, 7x185, 7x185
There was more, but I was gassed, and my kids were going to sing at a local telethon with their school, so I bailed. I can’t wait for next week when the program calls for 8 sets of 4 on all the big lifts… note abundant sarcasm.
Friday my kids were at an evening program at the YMCA, so I messed around in the weight room while they were there. Did some bis and forearms. I haven’t done direct forearms work in years. It’s a mighty cool ego boost getting the blood rush in the arms, lemme tell ya.
Brett - Yeah, as idiotic as it may sound to the folks who dominate this place, I go to great lengths to minimize fat gain when I train to gain. It takes strategic thinking. THe big problem is I tend not to give me all unless something is at stake. That means either a meet or a BB contest. Both, quite frankly, scare the shit out of me.
MM - I love my mother-in-law. She likes to talk along with the television, speaking whatever occurs to her, addressign the characters on the tube… I’m ready to bust out the duct tape.
Joe - Like I said, I only care about getting stronger in that it helps me to get bigger. Otherwise I couldn’t care less how much I lift.
Eco - In a lot of ways, I’d have an easier time reaching my gaining goals if I could eat like you.
Bunny - OK, but I still have trouble taking “bunny” seriously. Perhaps I can suggest a new avatar?
Just The Facts Ma’m
Sumo deadlifts - 8x225, 6x275, 4x295, 4x315, 4x315, 3x315, 4x295, 4x225
1-legged Romanian Deadlifts - 6x60, 5x60, 6x60, 5x60
A1 Swissball leg curls - 12, 12, 12, 12
A2 Reverse Hyperextensions - 10, 10, 10, 10
GASSED! That’s a lotta deadlifting. I have NEVER deadlifted that much combined weight EVER.
Cold, Hard Reality Check
So there’s this big Brit who lifts in the basement gym at the same as I do every day. He’s tall, really thick, and he and his buddy are ALWAYS doing upper body lifts, lotsa machines, lotsa “finishing” exercises. I have been silently judging them for months now, secretly lifting my nose and feeling superior. He may be a big guy, but clearly I’m the better lifter, right? After all I’m doing these big lifts with the Olympic bar, right?
Well today the motherf##ker was deadlifting 5 1/2 plates for singles.
I guess I must accept the divine smackdown.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
Just The Facts Ma’m
Sumo deadlifts - 8x225, 6x275, 4x295, 4x315, 4x315, 3x315, 4x295, 4x225
1-legged Romanian Deadlifts - 6x60, 5x60, 6x60, 5x60
A1 Swissball leg curls - 12, 12, 12, 12
A2 Reverse Hyperextensions - 10, 10, 10, 10
GASSED! That’s a lotta deadlifting. I have NEVER deadlifted that much combined weight EVER.
Cold, Hard Reality Check
So there’s this big Brit who lifts in the basement gym at the same as I do every day. He’s tall, really thick, and he and his buddy are ALWAYS doing upper body lifts, lotsa machines, lotsa “finishing” exercises. I have been silently judging them for months now, secretly lifting my nose and feeling superior. He may be a big guy, but clearly I’m the better lifter, right? After all I’m doing these big lifts with the Olympic bar, right?
Well today the motherf##ker was deadlifting 5 1/2 plates for singles.
I guess I must accept the divine smackdown.
[/quote]
Don’t admit defeat yet, you can still play the “Yeah, but I bet he’s on steroids” card!
That’s a ton of deadlifting man.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
Just The Facts Ma’m
Sumo deadlifts - 8x225, 6x275, 4x295, 4x315, 4x315, 3x315, 4x295, 4x225
[/quote]
Hold your head high!
First: it is relative weights…
Second: That is some SICK rep work on Deadlifts!
[quote]Null wrote:
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
Just The Facts Ma’m
Sumo deadlifts - 8x225, 6x275, 4x295, 4x315, 4x315, 3x315, 4x295, 4x225
[/quote]
Hold your head high!
First: it is relative weights…
Second: That is some SICK rep work on Deadlifts![/quote]
Third…I’ll bet that big brit can’t dance on a treadmill!
Damn…bro your numbers are shooting through the roof, awesome man!