[quote]pch2 wrote:
Are you doing any soft tissue work? Maybe that’s help both side feel the same.[/quote]
No, I’m not. But I totally should. I’ll go check it out right now. Anything more than the ‘feel better for 10 bucks’ article I should look at?
[quote]Otep wrote:
[quote]pch2 wrote:
Are you doing any soft tissue work? Maybe that’s help both side feel the same.[/quote]
No, I’m not. But I totally should. I’ll go check it out right now. Anything more than the ‘feel better for 10 bucks’ article I should look at?[/quote]
There’s a thread over in the over 35 section about mobility that has a slew of helpful links. I haven’t ventured much beyond the feel better article though.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
[quote]Otep wrote:
[quote]pch2 wrote:
Are you doing any soft tissue work? Maybe that’s help both side feel the same.[/quote]
No, I’m not. But I totally should. I’ll go check it out right now. Anything more than the ‘feel better for 10 bucks’ article I should look at?[/quote]
There’s a thread over in the over 35 section about mobility that has a slew of helpful links. I haven’t ventured much beyond the feel better article though.[/quote]
Thanks, I’ll look into it.
Also of note, on the pre-hab/Re-hab kick, apparently my gym has blast straps, which, considering that the joint feels most damage after horizontal pressing, may develop the stabilizers if done enough. Somehow. Also, there’s supposed to be a foam roller made of pain and PVC somewhere in my gym, so I’ll have something to use once I read the thread.
Friday 01/27/2011. Pull
Low-pulley Row: 160-240. 12 sets
Power Snatches: 145-205. 8 sets
Pullups: 5x3x- (bodyweight, which is not insignificant)
Hammer Curls: 35-45’s. 8 sets
Prowler: 4x70ftx270lbs (on black asphalt, which has much less friction than grey)
- Pullups interspersed with power snatches.
- Left gym tired, got to apt., laid down. Could not move for hour and half. So tired. I blame on 6-6.5 hours sleep for all week. No reason to stay up late really, except FFVII and helping my roommate with his history tests.
- Apparently, there are several stories of the people that inhabit my gym and the gym itself. All of which I’ve heard second-hand, from people who may-or-may-not have been there to witness said events. I’ll start telling the ones I hear soon.
Saturday 01/29/2011. Legs
Front Squat: 225-295. 5 sets
Back Squat: 295-345. 5 sets
Deadlift: 365-415. 5 sets
Prowler: 4x70ftx180+1Roommate (about 370 total)
- Today, weight held roughly the same at 272. Two weeks ago, it was 273. One of a few things is going on, the first being that my scale could be shit (purchased at Wall Mart for ~$25), but still there are things I could be doing better. My diet is solid- 3000kcal, 300g protein, ~130g from carbs, and I’m not particularly willing to change that. But I could be sleeping more hours more regularly (instead of 6-6.5 during the week and 10 on weekends), and I could be hitting the prowler with more balls.
Changes I intend to make: As per my schedule, I intend to up my dosage of HOT-ROX!!! from 1 cap/day to 2/cap a day for the next two weeks. Also, I’ll de-emphasize direct arm-work in lieu of pushing the prowler more with an emphasis on timed rests and regular progressions. So instead of taking 15 minutes to do 6 70ft prowler pushes, I’ll take ten (or something like that), and slowly increase the density of my prowler-pushing activities.
Also, I pushed the prowler 8 times last week for an average of 4 laps with 180lbs and full recovery. I can push for 10 times/2weeks with 6 laps with roughly the same resistance and build from there. - Workout was roughly 1.5 hours, because I brought my roommate with me, and tried to teach him how to squat and deadlift during the workout, while he’s in cargo shorts. Probably not the best idea. He ended up on the leg press anyways. Doing the prowler was fun though, because I needed a quick adjustment between my working weight and his, which ended up being… him. Pushing a prowler with an actual person on it was surprisingly fun. It feels more active. Like the difference between a deadlift and a clean and jerk.
- Also, found the foam-roller at my gym. Used it on shoulders and back. Shoulders feel… good. Were feeling abused during the workout, but using the roller afterwards made them feel more relaxed. We’ll see what it does for the muscle’s longevity.
On an unrelated note, spent the entire workout yelling at my roommate to ‘get that money’ and to ‘pay that child support’. At first this was for encouragement, then for hilarity (okay, it was always for hilarity), but after the fourth prowler push of 180+roommate, I walked over to the building and vomited about $3.25 of Biotest supplements onto the concrete in an explosion I’m told that was not unlike The Exorcist and discovered what ‘getting that money’ truly means.
It means having a feeling of accomplishment after your workout. Like pushing until you’re too stupid to keep down your suppies.
Alpha as fuck.
FFVII?
[quote]pch2 wrote:
FFVII?[/quote]
If the question was, “what is FFVII”, the answer is Final Fantasy VII - Wikipedia
If the question is “why?”, the answer is because its really fun and I didn’t get to play it when it first came out. It might even be considered more fun than sleeping.
You a gamer?
[quote]Otep wrote:
[quote]pch2 wrote:
FFVII?[/quote]
If the question was, “what is FFVII”, the answer is Final Fantasy VII - Wikipedia
If the question is “why?”, the answer is because its really fun and I didn’t get to play it when it first came out. It might even be considered more fun than sleeping.
You a gamer?[/quote]
The question was the former, sorry. I’m in no way a gamer, I played Diablo II with a boyfriend for a while, but that was mostly because it was a couple activity.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
[quote]Otep wrote:
[quote]pch2 wrote:
FFVII?[/quote]
If the question was, “what is FFVII”, the answer is Final Fantasy VII - Wikipedia
If the question is “why?”, the answer is because its really fun and I didn’t get to play it when it first came out. It might even be considered more fun than sleeping.
You a gamer?[/quote]
The question was the former, sorry. I’m in no way a gamer, I played Diablo II with a boyfriend for a while, but that was mostly because it was a couple activity. [/quote]
No worries. LOL @ Diablo being a couple activity. My brother plays WoW with his wife. He got her into the game, and now she works for Blizzard. Since they’re both so busy, and have such completely different schedules (she works nights, he works all day at a science lab), he games while she works and they chat online. It’s… cute.
Also, woke up this morning with my shoulders feeling normal. This is unusual, and while the fact that this is unusual is depressing, its also glorious. It’s almost certainly due to foam rolling yesterday. Your advice was excellent, and I will continue to use it. Thank you.
So I’m going to try out a modified form of TC’s ‘Dick of Death’ supps. The point is more for general health and testosterone boosting (though increased size, strength, length, hardness, and ability to bend space and time would be appreciated). I’ll be doing this during the month of February, and probably through March too, though since I’ll be fasting as well during March, things could get icky.
Anyways, some general costs: the non-Biotest supps are expensive as BALLS. The vitamin C and E are pretty cheap (~$15 for 2 month period), the Nettle is somewhat indecent (~$15 for two months by itself) and the Pycnogenol costs your soul, first born son, and subscription to the online edition of Hustler (~$60 for two months). Call me cheap, but unless this makes me feel like superman all the fucking time I probably wont continue it until I finish paying off my loan shark and bookie bills.
Sunday 01/30/2011. Park Day
Incline Plyo-pushupsx5reps
Vertical Jumpx5reps
Supinated Pullupsx3reps
Horizontal Jumpx5reps
Done for 4 sets in a cycle with full rest (or close to it).
- Did not get that money. Which is probably a good thing.
[quote]Otep wrote:
No worries. LOL @ Diablo being a couple activity. My brother plays WoW with his wife. He got her into the game, and now she works for Blizzard. Since they’re both so busy, and have such completely different schedules (she works nights, he works all day at a science lab), he games while she works and they chat online. It’s… cute.
Also, woke up this morning with my shoulders feeling normal. This is unusual, and while the fact that this is unusual is depressing, its also glorious. It’s almost certainly due to foam rolling yesterday. Your advice was excellent, and I will continue to use it. Thank you.[/quote]
He had two computers in his room, and I sucked so it was mostly me just being rescued or wandering behind him picking up treasures. I guess it does sound ridiculous, but it’s not that far off from watching a movie together.
I really like this shoulder warm up. Mine were getting really tight from omoplatas and it helped a lot.
Hahaha thats awesome you;re doing the dick of death stuff haha. let us know whether you shoot back to the kennedy assassination…
Monday 01/30/2011. Push
Military Press: 115-175. 8 sets
Bench Press: 205-265. 9 sets
Tricep Pushdowns: 50-80. 5 sets
Prowler: 4x70ftx360lbs
- Had to stop for a long rest between prowler push #3 and #4. I figure puking during a workout is like vacationing in France: Something you do only when you have so much money it doesn’t matter if you waste your workout supps.
- Bench Press felt good. Not perfect, but absolutely manageable. I blame foam rolling.
- Pushdowns are stupid.
- In my experience, there are three signs that you are engaged in the type of fat-burning workout that engages the lactic system and produces a motherdump of gH in the bloodstream. The first symptom is panting/sweating. If you possess the other two symptoms but not this, you’re probably just sick. The second is nausea and the third is sleepiness (not tiredness, but actually wanting to close your eyes for ‘just a minute’). So if you:
- are panting/sweating
- are nauseas
- desperately want to sleep,
you doing something that’ll burn fat with a quickness.
Considering I hit these with my prowler pushes AND full recovery, I’m just going to keep doing them rather than worry about timing etc.
[quote]RobRaynerBB wrote:
Hahaha thats awesome you;re doing the dick of death stuff haha. let us know whether you shoot back to the kennedy assassination…[/quote]
That’s probably NOT what they mean when they talk about the ‘grassy knoll’, but it’d be interesting to find out Oswald had an accomplice and it was me.
I feel like I just got put on an FBI watchlist.
Pushdowns are not stupid. youre stupid. <3
[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
Pushdowns are not stupid. youre stupid. <3[/quote]
LOL. You misspelled ‘your’.
Tuesday 02/01/2011. Pull
Low-Pulley Row: 160-230. 12 sets
PowerSnatch: 135-205. 8 sets
Pullups: 5x3x-
Hammer Curls: 30-45. 4 sets. 50x7
Prowler: 4x70ftx180
- Power snatch is just straight-up fun. If you ignore its ‘s-curve’.
- ZING!
- Prowler was with less weight because the people that run the gym closed the bay doors because they’re afraid of cold (it was balls cold today. I had to wear a jacket). So I had to sneak the prowler outside, with weights on it, push it, and get it back inside without anyone big enough to challenge me noticing a draft.
- I think I’ll do my final sets of curls and triceptzasaurases-whatever in HIT fashion, because I ain’t got time to be doing 8 sets of whatever when I should be pushing the prowler.
And triceptzasnapple pushdowns are 'tupid.
- Foam rolling is now an exquisite form of torture used by men (and pch2) with a yen for torturing themselves to make them stronger. Or more flexible, or better in bed, I forget. Today I foam-rolled my calves, just for shits and giggles, and it turns out they’re TIGHT AS FUCK too. So for today it was shoulders, armpit (teres minor and infraspinatus, which had me whimpering like a dog that just had his blanket bodily ripped off him), and calves, and the armpit was most fatal.
No he didn’t. You are (you’re) stupid 
Getting that money.
This is neither MY story, not told with the express permission of the author. It IS however, funny as fuck, and Iâ??m fairly certain the people for whom these events happened to donâ??t read this particular site of T-Nation. If you do, Iâ??m sorry.
The hero of our story is a burly young man named Kent. His nameâ??s actually Chet, but since this apparently actually happened, its important to hide his identity somehow. Kent is working at a local college gym, dispensing training advice to college patrons with wanton disregard for the gymâ??s actual stated policy of letting people high-squat and curl in the curl-rack unmolested by knowledge of proper gym etiquette. Specifically, Kent has decided that among his many groomed proteges, today’s young Padwon will be doing legs, because leg-day is the most glorious of day, fit for making mice into men and men into little puddles of drool and vomit.
Deciding his apprentice is delivering insufficient intensity to what should be a simple set of leg presses, he cautions the trainee to close his eyes- that Kentâ??s going to fix the machine to give him ‘that extra boost’. Thirty seconds pass by, and Kent, whose voice is now five feet in front and above of the leg-pressing trainee, fires up the all-dangerous, â??you ready?â??
The trainee is ready, but when he unlocks the press and opens his eyes, not only has weight been added to the machine, but in addition there is the hulking mass of Kent standing atop the weight-stack like a sadistic cross between Kratos, Batman, and Wesley Snipes. Kent begins yelling. What heâ??s yelling is largely inconsequential, as the trainee begins to press, first in fear the dark avenger will swoop down and impale him with a knee, and then later in fear that the weight will actually crush him if he doesnâ??t get it up this next time. And after every rep, the mantra, shouted from Olympian lungs from a distance that the growing nausea and fatigue seems to make fade farther and farther away, comesâ?¦
â??GET THAT MONEY! YEEEAAAHHHH! YOU GET THAT MONEY! PAY THAT CHILD SUPPORT! GET IT! GET IT! YEEAAAAHHHHH!â??
Indeed. That day, that trainee got that money. He paid that child support.
Well, um, yeah, that was a story.