The Pencil Neck's Workout Log

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[quote]The Pencil Neck wrote:
weight 195.6

Squat: 135x5; 225x3; 315x1; 365x1; 415x1
Bench: 115x5; 185x3; 225xF
Deadlift: 225x3; 295x1; 360x1
Supinated Pullups: 42.5x1; 42.5x1
Close Grip Bench: 155x10
DB Curls: 47.5x10
Dead Hangs: 34s

It was a weird day. This past week, I’ve had conference calls every night from 12 to 1am. I’ve been getting about an hour and a half less sleep per night than I’m used to and I’m feeling a bit run down. Today, I got stuck in a long conference call that lasted into my normal workout/lunch break time.

So I really considered just not working out today but I decided to go ahead.

I was worried about the squats. I didn’t feel strong. And 415 went up even though I didn’t expect it to. It was hard but it didn’t kill me.

Then I thought I was going to get the 225. It felt good on the way down but then I only got it about 4 inches off my chest. So… the weights are going to go down and I start the wave again.

Everything else felt good. Until I got to the dead hangs. I couldn’t get a comfy grip with my ripped off callous and I just couldn’t hold on.

WhatEVer.

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I’ve started buffing my calluses down with a pumice stone so they can’t get tall enough for the bar to get any torque on 'em and rip 'em off. Haven’t had a rip in a year. Feels gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but it keeps me in the game. I’ve used athletic tape to cover rips too. Changes the grip but spreads the pressure enough so you can train.

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weight: 195.8

Squats: 135x5; 225x3; 315x1; 365x1; 425x1
Bench: 115x5; 185x3; 215x1
Deadlift: 225x3; 295x1; 365x1
Supinated Pullups: 45x0.75; 45x1
Close Grip Bench: 160x10
DB Curls: 52.5x10
Deadhang: 43s

The past few days have been from hell at work. We’ve got a big project going live and I’ve been swamped. I was feeling a little punky on Monday so I decided to skip it and get healthy.

So today, I wasn’t sure if I was going to be up to squatting heavy but I decided to do it anyway. I’m glad I did. This was a hard weight but I was able to push it up. It took me for a long and painful ride. :slight_smile: I’ve only squatted 425 about 3-4 times prior to this so this feels good.

I forgot that last workout, I misloaded the bar and actually benched 215 but I did it with more weight on the right side than the left. I was supposed to have benched 210 and I wrote the 210 in my log. Today I did 215 with everything even and the only problem was it drifted slightly over my face. Got to watch that.

On the pullups, I only got 3/4’s of the way up on the first rep and was pretty ticked off. Then on the second, I only got 3/4’s of the way up but really concentrated and just barely squeezed myself the rest of the way up. I was pretty psyched by that.

Curls? What can I say. I’m becoming a chick magnet in my old age. I think the curls actually help with my shoulders. An old therapist had me doing incline curls for my shoulders but I think these help, too. At least, my shoulders feeling pretty good right now… knock wood.

Wish I could have hung on longer on the dead hangs.

Overall, I’m really pleased with today’s workout.

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[quote]skidmark wrote:
I’ve started buffing my calluses down with a pumice stone so they can’t get tall enough for the bar to get any torque on 'em and rip 'em off. Haven’t had a rip in a year. Feels gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but it keeps me in the game. I’ve used athletic tape to cover rips too. Changes the grip but spreads the pressure enough so you can train.
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I used to do buff my callouses when I used to DL all the time. I guess I’m going to have to start doing it again. I didn’t think my callous was all that big or gnarly or anything before it ripped.

:frowning:

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[quote]The Pencil Neck wrote:
weight: 195.8

Squats: 135x5; 225x3; 315x1; 365x1; 425x1
Bench: 115x5; 185x3; 215x1
Deadlift: 225x3; 295x1; 365x1
Supinated Pullups: 45x0.75; 45x1
Close Grip Bench: 160x10
DB Curls: 52.5x10
Deadhang: 43s

The past few days have been from hell at work. We’ve got a big project going live and I’ve been swamped. I was feeling a little punky on Monday so I decided to skip it and get healthy.

So today, I wasn’t sure if I was going to be up to squatting heavy but I decided to do it anyway. I’m glad I did. This was a hard weight but I was able to push it up. It took me for a long and painful ride. :slight_smile: I’ve only squatted 425 about 3-4 times prior to this so this feels good.

I forgot that last workout, I misloaded the bar and actually benched 215 but I did it with more weight on the right side than the left. I was supposed to have benched 210 and I wrote the 210 in my log. Today I did 215 with everything even and the only problem was it drifted slightly over my face. Got to watch that.

On the pullups, I only got 3/4’s of the way up on the first rep and was pretty ticked off. Then on the second, I only got 3/4’s of the way up but really concentrated and just barely squeezed myself the rest of the way up. I was pretty psyched by that.

Curls? What can I say. I’m becoming a chick magnet in my old age. I think the curls actually help with my shoulders. An old therapist had me doing incline curls for my shoulders but I think these help, too. At least, my shoulders feeling pretty good right now… knock wood.

Wish I could have hung on longer on the dead hangs.

Overall, I’m really pleased with today’s workout.

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That’s the way to pull it out, PN! Nice squat. Hope to get there myself in the (hopefully) near future.

Yeah - the babes are all over my gunz, too, man…till they see the wrinkly skin. LOL Dunno about you, but I need 'em for bench. They actually do a lot of stabilizing. Yeah, that’s it. Bench.

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There’s just no stopping you. you make me feel like I don’t lift at all. I’m going to have to knuckle down and get some serious weight in my leg workouts, thanks for the motivation. Stay strong Bro!

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[quote]streamline wrote:
There’s just no stopping you. you make me feel like I don’t lift at all. I’m going to have to knuckle down and get some serious weight in my leg workouts, thanks for the motivation. Stay strong Bro![/quote]

Thanks, man… but I couldn’t do one of your workouts if my life depended on it. We’ve just got different training goals. :slight_smile:

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weight: 194.8

Squat: 135x5; 225x3; 315x1; 365x1; 435xF
Bench: 115x5; 185x3; 220x1
Deadlift: 225x3; 295x1; 370x1
Supinated Pullups: 0x2; 0x2
Close Grip Bench: 165x10
Alt DB Curls: 55x7
Dead Hangs: 41s

I fiddled with the idea of moving my warmup up from 365 to 385 just to have a little better jumping off point. But the 435 felt good coming off the pins. But when I got just above parallel, I didn’t trust myself to go deeper and I cut it short. I lifted the weight but I didn’t break parallel. Epic fail. I’ll try this again next workout. I’ve only lifted 435 or over 2 times in my life so this is reaching a limit for me.

Both my benches (normal and close grip) drifted a bit over my face today. Don’t like that. Deadlifts were heavy but again, it’s just my grip. The lifting of it isn’t really that bad.

I love going back and doing unweighted pullups after doing weighted ones. That’s so light I just was flying up. I think I’m going to train for reps for awhile and then go back to limit strength.

I couldn’t get 10 curls, but I think that’s a PR. I went for the 8th rep and it just wasn’t there. I’ll try again next workout.

My approach working dead hangs to failure doesn’t appear to be working. I might start doing these weighted and timed so that I stop before failure.