Happy New Year’s to all. Let’s make it a good one.
Started the day at the gym.
Bench: Tried the total number of reps thing
135wu, 185wu, 225wu, 275x3x10 sets
Push/release bench 135 x 10 x 4s
hammer Incline: 90x12,180x10,250x8,270x8
Deadlift: 135wu,225wu,315wu,365x6,405x4,455x3
Bent Rows: 135wu,185x8,225x6,245x6,275x4
hypers: 2x20
Pancake breakfast at the State Veterans home. God bless them all. Great people with great stories (and great pancakes!)
Updated T-Nation thread
Nap time
Start of a great year
Still going with the 10 set thing (yeah, I’m sure there’s a name for it)
The cleans and presses took a lot more out of me than the bench 10 sets
Power cleans
135wu,225x3x10s
Standing Press
135wu,185x3x10s
Seated db press
55x8x4s
Rear Lat db raises
35x8x4
The following was lifted (and slightly revised) from a well-known substance abuse web site. I in turn lifted it and slightly revised it to fit lifting. Do any of the following statements apply to you?
Lighter weights no longer give me the high that they once did.
I get anxious when I’ve gone for a long period of time without lifting.
I can’t stop lifting once I start.
I spend a lot of time thinking about lifting.
I have tried and failed to cut down or stop lifting.
I have lifting-related medical or behavioral problems.
I have cut down on social or professional activities in order to lift.
If any of these symptoms describe you, you maybe a lift-aholic. Don’t despair, because help is available. Otherwise, we’ll just wait and see you on the medals stand.
Got off work early enough yesterday to get some discus throwing in on the way home at the local college. Not to get too philosophical here but there’s nothing quite like throws practice to clear the mind. Being out there all alone on a beautiful day in the middle of the empty field trying for that perfect throw is damn near zen. You’re practicing for a sport 99% of the people know nothing about just because you love it. If you don’t throw far you have no one to blame but yourself. If you get a good throw off it’s never quite far enough.
Anyway…
2k x 10 power position
1.6k x 10 South Africans
1.5k x 10 Full Spin
1.2k x 10 power position
running windmills 5 x 50yds
low hurdle hops 5 hurdles x 5
machine hack squats
90wu, 180x10, 270x8x4
front squats (to sitting on bench) Getting a little less awkward
135x8, 155x8x4
overhead squats -Still awkward as hell
135x8, 155x8x3
close grip bench
135wu,185x8,225x8, 245x6
overhead db tri ext
60x8,65x8,70x8,75x8
tricep pushdown
150x8x3
[quote]hel320 wrote:
The following was lifted (and slightly revised) from a well-known substance abuse web site. I in turn lifted it and slightly revised it to fit lifting. Do any of the following statements apply to you?
Lighter weights no longer give me the high that they once did.
I get anxious when I’ve gone for a long period of time without lifting.
I can’t stop lifting once I start.
I spend a lot of time thinking about lifting.
I have tried and failed to cut down or stop lifting.
I have lifting-related medical or behavioral problems.
I have cut down on social or professional activities in order to lift.
If any of these symptoms describe you, you maybe a lift-aholic. Don’t despair, because help is available. Otherwise, we’ll just wait and see you on the medals stand.
[/quote]
Quite possibly one of the funniest things I read this year. You say that like it is a bad thing…
Bench: Still going with the total number of reps thing
135wu, 185wu, 225wu, 275x3x10 sets
Push/release bench 155 x 10 x 4s
hammer Incline: 90x12,180x10,250x8,270x8
Deadlift: 135wu,225wu,315wu,365x6,405x4,455x3
Bent Rows: 135wu,185x8,225x6,245x6,275x4
hypers: 3x10 w/25lb
Tried to attach some pictures…didn’t work. Trying one again. If a whole lot of pictures show up, oops.
Ok, I’m techno challenged. But I’m pumped now. Just got an e-mail for my first Field and Track Meet of the season. May 2008, USATF Southeast Regional Masters Outdoor Championships, in Birmingham, Alabama. Time to kick up the plyos and agility drills and get in a lot more throwing. More explosive lifting over weight,too. Nothing like knowing the upcoming season is almost here to get you motivated. Ah, yes, the roar of the crowd, the flash of the cameras, the adoring fans. (ok, someone’s grandkid with a disposible camera.) I’m pumped!
Morning:
Throwing @ local college as the sun came up - Shot & Discus - full form
low hurdle hops - 5x5 hurdles
“bounding” (I make sure nobody’s watching when I do these) 5 x 100m
Afternoon: swimming
Evening: Took wife out to eat (let her super size her order at the drive-thru at Crystal’s. Might get lucky tonight!)
I must say, hel320, the new look is perfect for a thrower. I always strove for the “scary serial killer look” myself, thought it gave me a slight edge in psyching out the competition.
Glad to see you’re thread’s becoming a regular here. Doc
It’s that time of year again. Two of the local High School coaches called me last night. They can begin T&F practice on 25 Jan. I’ve been helping them out the last couple of years. I’ll fit it in again, somewhere, this year.
Time for a rant. I am continually amazed how some coaches, coach. Case in point. The T&F coach at a local small college, not the one I throw at, has his throwers running miles every work out. By the time they’re through with their running they get in about 5 minutes of throwing. At this point their legs are so shot they can barely walk. Their weight lifting routine consists of circuit training on machines. (Probably why a 52 year old throws farther than they do.) Nothing against distance running and circuit training on machines but it ain’t goin help a whole lot with throwing. The coach was a big cross country star in college. Big on atheletisism(?). Asked me one day about about what I thought of his throwers. Said they sucked cause he sucked. Funny, he doesn’t ask my opinion anymore.
Some people are so sensitive.
Last night:
Bench:
135wu, 185wu,225wu,275x8,315x8,365x4,385x2x2
hammer Incline: 90x12,180x10,250x8,270x8
db incline: 85x8x3
Deadlift: 135wu,225wu,315wu,365x6,405x4,455x3x2
Bent Rows: 135wu,185x8,225x6,245x6,275x4
hypers: 3x15
