When I used that belt, my head felt like it was going to pop off.
Not sure I liked that too much haha.
Here is the lift from 4/14/14.
Full mobility minus the pendlay dorsiflexion. I tried to replicate it as best I could without weights though.
YTWL
Bench Press
10x45
5x45
5x135
3x185
5x205
3x235
7x260 (Paused. Happy with this lift.)
3x235
3x235
3x235 (I wish my down sets had slightly better form.)
Kroc Row
120 lb dumbbell for sets of 10/10/10/5
110 lb dumbbell for sets of 10/5
Incline Bench Press
5x45
5x135
5x190
5x190
5x190
5x190
This was a solid lift. I am happy with this. The middle of my back is awesomely sore from something I did yesterday. I hope it is the front squats.
Tomorrow I will do back and triceps.
I have been doing a lot of reading on aneurysms lately. Have you ever heard of someone getting one from lifting?
Matt Kroc has said that he has had intracranial bleeds twice from training so hard, but I have never heard anyone else really mention it.
Yesterday (4/15/14) I did a back and tricep workout that I will log tomorrow.
I got busy and did not get to do mobility.
I got hugely busy today (4/16/14) due to travelling to another vacation spot, and I made a small attempt today to do mobility. I felt stiff as hell, so it was a no go.
I will resume lifting and stretching tomorrow. I am now back on the correct schedule with respect to my lifting work week. I will therefore deadlift tomorrow.
Thanks for reading everyone. Have a good night.
Here is my lift from 4/15/14.
T-Bar Row Machine Thing
10x45
10x90
10x135
10x135
10x135
10x135
5x135
10x90 (Probably should have gone heavier. Why doesn’t anyone have a chest supported row?)
Bent Over Barbell Row
10x135 (Couldn’t keep a neutral spine with these, so I abandoned them.)
Pendlay Row
5x135 (Easy.)
2x185 (Started having testicular pain. I gotta just find a gym with a chest supported row. I really love that movement.)
Hammer Strength Plate Loaded Row
5x1.5 plates per side
5x2 pps
5x2.5 pps
5x2.5 pps
Cable Rope Triceps Pushdown
10x30/40/50/5x60 (Mechanical climb set.)
10x60
10x60
10x60
10x60
10x60
10x60
10x50
10x50
10x50
I need to find a chest supported row. Nothing else hits my back quite as well.
I will be doing my mobility shortly, I will log that when it happens.
Shit I don’t mess with ball pain
[quote]chobbs wrote:
Shit I don’t mess with ball pain[/quote]
Yeah haha. I don’t know what was up there.
Maybe just some orchialgia from the rows or something.
Upper and lower body mobility for the day of 4/17/14 is done.
4/17/14
Deadlift
5x135
5x135
5x185
5x225
3x275 (All double overhand at this point.)
3x315 (Mixed grip with right hand up.)
3x365 (Mixed grip with right hand up.)
1x405 (Mixed grip with right hand up. Rounded a tiny bit, but spotter said rep was better than previous set.)
0x455 (Fuck. Got it way farther than usual. Used a belt and had left hand up.)
1x405 (Used a belt. Right hand up. 20 second hold at top.)
Stiff Leg Deadlift
5x135
5x225
5x225
5x225
5x225
3x225 (Did more, but the rest were more like Romanians because I didn’t touch the floor.)
(All were done double overhand.)
Leg Curl
10x50
10x70
10x90
10x110
6x130 (This set was crap.)
10x110
10x110
10x110
10x110
10x110
Took my time with this lift. Had a blast working out with a few new friends from the Gold’s gym in Myrtle Beach. This is probably the most well equipped gym I have ever set foot in. Not really a great place for olympic style lifting, but I don’t do that stuff anyway. This was my second one week membership, and I can say that I will definitely be back some day.
I didn’t do mobility for yesterday 4/18/14. I traveled back home.
I weighed in at 216.something. =[
I am going to tone down the mobility stuff a bit now. I am going to do it on off days exclusively now. That will mean that in 12 days of my wave, I will have 6 days of lifting, and 6 days of weight training. That seems pretty balanced and doable. I am glad that I got to hit it hard for a while though.
I will log my mobility here when I am done with it.
Ended up getting busy for the night and didn’t make my mobility. I have to get to sleep because I have to wake up early in the AM.
Flexibility for the day of 4/20/14 is completed.
Happy Easter everyone.
AND…I have to come clean. I am ditching the 500 lb deadlift goal for a while. I am going to focus on hitting 455 with purty form.
My goals will look like this…
Squat: 400
Bench: 300
Deadlift: 455
I am confident that given my training prior to these setbacks, that I can hit these in the next few months.
I do realize that this only adds up to 1150. That’s no problem though, because I am going to skip my goal of 1200 and go right for 1300 with 450/350/500.
I just got so caught up in the race to 1200 that I lost sight of my training and exposed myself to unnecessary risks for no reason at all.
I am going to hit these lifts with a belt and weightlifting shoes. Wrist wraps may be thrown in to the equation. I am still debating that though.
When I get somewhere close to 1300 and I am at a point in my life where I can clean up my diet and sleeping habits, I will start to strip off some fat I have been carrying around.
Okay brother nice to see to have your goals clearly defined.
If you don’t mind me asking; What template/program/principles are you following? I tried reading through your past few pages and catching up buuuut I’m pretty stupid and couldn’t figure it out.
How is the knee doing?
Seems like you got some back issues going on? What exactly? You mentioned tightness? Any particular moment that something happened?
Regarding the 415 deadlift, is that how you always lift?
Do you have a video back extensions?
Stay strong brother.
You are on track to crush those numbers.
[quote]young n wrote:
Okay brother nice to see to have your goals clearly defined.
If you don’t mind me asking; What template/program/principles are you following? I tried reading through your past few pages and catching up buuuut I’m pretty stupid and couldn’t figure it out.
How is the knee doing?
Seems like you got some back issues going on? What exactly? You mentioned tightness? Any particular moment that something happened?
Regarding the 415 deadlift, is that how you always lift?
Do you have a video back extensions?
Stay strong brother.[/quote]
Knee is actually doing better. Pain in certain positions is starting to subside. It used to hurt when I would slip my shoes off, but not any more!
I believe that I strained a muscle in my back. I am working to clean up form and set more reasonable goals now in the aftermath of that. I am pretty sure I strained it deadlifting, then in my infinite wisdom, I tried to make up for missed lifts by skipping my rest days and I really did myself in squatting. Both were terrible form lifts.
I don’t have any videos of back extensions, but I will make one if you would like to see it. Those videos are pretty accurate of how I normally lift. Sometimes I feel like I go a bit harder, but overall they are representative.
I also will make videos of my form with a belt when it comes in.