back is feeling better … hopefully i will be back at 100% soon
I know the game is still going but I can’t believe the cowboys are trashing the eagles two weeks in a row.
Sunday jan 10
good day today.
Started the day off with early church (i have not been in years so it was kinda weird, but it is good to be going in the right direction again)
Then i had an awesome brunch.
trained a 3 4 and 5 … All female athletes which is fun. I would much rather train females than males. i find them much easier to work with and coach. once the figure out they are not going to turn into man beasts they really get into it.
then i lifted upper rep day. I have a massage tomm and i have learned over the years I can’t do both on the same day so i lifted today
rep upper body day
120 lbs dumbell stability ball press
second set with pause
third set 100’s
X25 (shot)
heavy pull downs wide
4X12
paired with 3X12 plate raise standing
chest supported rows
3X8
took some weight off
x20
pairedX3
kneeling scare crowsX20
one arm cable tri ext
hanging knee raises
looking forward to getting some much needed massage work.
Got massage work today I am feeling great.
it was so sad the local police school was in the gym working out today. watching grown men one after another get crushed by 135 and less was so sad. To pass the pt test you have to do a press starting of the chest with 60% body weight and do 20 push ups … how sad
I remember a time when the police where big and strong
No lifting today. i have learned over the years I can not lift after a massage. Sometimes i need up to 2 days off training depending on how beat up I am.
Helped a friend with his squat tonight. he is getting ready for a meet in march. Kinda got me excited and thinking about competing again.
If I do decide compete again I am going to keep my weight under 250. One of the reasons i stopped competing is my weight was getting out of control and i felt terrible.
in this busy world when is the last time you sat down in a quiet place and cleared your mind and just be still.
It sounds easy but it is not, in fact it can be quite painful in a good way
Jim
had an awesome day at work today I am so lucky that I am doing what i love to do. not too many people can say that
training
wed jan 13th
well today i decided to shoot everything to hell. I like to throw something in comp different every so often just to shock myself and i did just that. Two weeks ago Molly decided she would try Strength Training, Bodybuilding & Online Supplement Store - T NATION
so i thought i would give it a shot
I used
275 for the bench for 21
405 for dead 21
add 25 for pull ups for 21
and curl 135 for 21
the idea was to go through as fast as possible I did it in 14 mins and just about died lol
I was a nice change up and i look forward to improving on my time. My lungs were the limiting factor
Jim
Doing what is right, can be very painful at times.
The peace of mind that eventually comes from it, truely is beyond understanding.
Friday jan 15th
training
Still helping my buddy out with his lifting.
I was smashed from wednesday thought about taking the day off but i decided to train and work on some week areas
did some light pin pulls working on form and bringing hips
3X8 (315)
pull troughs 3X16
hanging leg raises 3x20
one armed hammer rows
3X8 one arm
dropped weight burn out double arm
calf raises
some of my friends went and seen Mike Robertson Yesturday I am really looking forward to learning from there experience
Monday jan 18th
i really wanted to train upper today. But a buddy of mine who is a pro strong man is coming to town tomm and wants to train. So since I didn’t train that heavy on friday I decided to squat.
warm up .
hip mobility
new hip flexor strech molly showed me
streched my calves like mad
squat
bar
135X10
225X5
315X3 (start the pause regular squat bothers back at bottom I handle pause just fine)
405X1
405X1
500X1 nice long pause (starting to feel really good)
down to 275x20 super narrow stance
now for glute destruction arama
considering my friends that went to indy all had weak glutes and abs I decided to get after mine especally with my back injury from my car crash.
if you want to read about the trip check out molly’s blog
http://tnation.tmuscle.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_women_training_performance_powerful/mmgalb727s_training_log_original_i_know_d?id=2611895&pageNo=39
3Xhip pop ups with bar on pelvis 275X16 with a nice pause
3Xpaired with static bridge hold one min 30sec
circut X2
blue band pull throughs
ghr
side to side leg twist hanging onto squat rack
I was happy today and i am looking forward to learn more from Mike R through molly
Great night at work the entire university of Florida female gymnastics team
is here as we speak 
Nice stuff Jim keep the vids comin.
How anyone squats 500lbs is beyond me
Stopping by to see what the coach is up to…
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Nice stuff Jim keep the vids comin.[/quote]
Thanks For stopping by Andy …
I try and video something everytime i train to help keep it interesting
Jim
[quote]skyel7 wrote:
How anyone squats 500lbs is beyond me
Stopping by to see what the coach is up to…
[/quote]
Ahhhh thanks :).
It’s all relative miss … Everyone is good at something and I have always been good a squatting …
I time I think you will be surprised at what you will be able to
squat …
I have a little break at work … So I will start to catch up my
training
Tuesday Jan 19th
upper
Now it doesn’t happen very often but I don’t get
to train very often with someone stronger than be. My friend Jason who is a pro strongman was in town doing some work. So I decided to train back to back days.
Incline bench to take low out of it
worked up to 315
did 8x1
all reps good and strong
Then we decided to do some crazy stuff
3x12 Keizer air powered shoulder press
paired with
4x12 keiser row static hold at top
Hammer shrug machine 3x8
paired with kneeling scarecrows3x16
2 sets of push ups with 200lbs of
Chain till failure
Trunk twist
Good
lift
Jim
We’d Jan 20tth
After watching Molly and some of the crew the went up to mike Robertsons place. I decided to start to do alot more foam rolling and to declare war on my low back. There is a spot in my left glute that will just not let go ( from car wreck) so i decided to get a small kettle bell and sit right on that spot. It hurt like hell but I pressed on just sitting on it after 20 mins it finally released
My back felt amazing. Now the great readjustment begins the next day the other side of my back was tight. As my body adjusts to months of being a certain way . So the next couple weeks will be focusing on getting things right and balanced out some. I have been doing the warm up specific for weightlifting From asses and correct and it has helped big time.
Feeling better everyday
Friday 22nd lower
Lifting with Mollys bf
I am very impressed with how far he has come on his squat in a short period of
time. Everything is starting
to fire right. All is good
My back has been readjusting all week
so I pulled 10 singles with 315 working on form and squeezing glutes and getting everything firing right. By the 10th set
I felt pretty good
We then did
tempo pull throughts 3 down 1 hold 2 hold at top
One legged back ex
One legged leg press
Ab wheel
Monday Jan 25th
I had a massage Monday afternoon when I usually lift. I only
had 20 mins to train so this is what I did:
275 extended set bench
28reps
20 sec rest
7 reps
20 sec rest
5 reps
Kroc row knee on bench
100 dumbell 60 reps
Done
Had and awesome massage. She noticed a big difference from all the rolling
Tues Jan 26
One hour of foam rolling and warm up and strech
decided to try Texas push up challange
do one push up hop to feet
back down do 2 hop up repeat till 10 push ups
I did it in 40 seconds
Wed Jan 27th
body still adjusting
rolling and strech in am
Pm one of my buddies was fling powler sprints so I joined in we did 20 40 yard sprints
I then decided I would do some
pull ups
scare crows
tri extentions
dumbell curls
and some shoulder stuff
finally all
caught up lol
today I will be doing more rolling and streching. I will see
how I a feeling tomm …
My lifting partner on Fridays got his Olympic shoes in this week. He is all excited lol
Jim
hah good stuff Jim. On the Oly shoes… Fuck yeah! I love squatting in them. Today I did Oly squats (fucking phenomenal form) for 340x2, pretty easy stuff. I’m looking forward to 405 in the oly squat, cause it looks so badass.
Q: what the hell is the Keizer row/shoulder press?
and wow: “Kroc row knee on bench
100 dumbell 60 reps”
that’s some insane endurance, straps or not. Nice job. Most I ever got with the 100s is 33 reps. My core gets a huge workout out of that too.