Evening workout, Saturday
So I’ve always trained my neck however I always did teeth lifting via oldtime strongman style like Mighty Atom. Atoms son is in his nineties and can still pull a car with his teeth.
That type of neck work won’t give you a thick football/fighter looking neck, what it does is it strengthens the tendons in the throat because you are working your bite power, this actually helps resist a choke hold, HELPS is the key word, this all realative to who’s choking you and how etc etc.
Anyway I used a leather strap as a mouth piece. I just played around with a new way for me to apply teeth lift for neck size. I took a ironmind dip belt, tied a 25# plate to it and wrapped a towel around the strap and used my mouth to lift it for 40 reps. I felt my jaw and bite working plus my traps and back of my neck pumped up.
Floor press-
120 warm
130 x 20 every 2reps was speed, followed by a pause.
170 x 3
3 Likes
Sunday 1-22-23
not much time today, I did this during a trip to the garage-
Behind the neck tricep extensions hammer bar - 50+bar x 17
100# plate side bends- x 25ea. x9ea.
This took less than 10 minutes and my body felt it.
3 Likes
Monday 1/23/23
Floor Press-
70 x 30 warm
120 warm
125 x 24
170 x 4
Barbell curls-
65 x few
76 x 38
3 Likes
Tuesday 1/24/23
Squat-
76 x 20
112 x 50, 10-calf raises
112 x 50, 31-calf raises
Neck curls - 30# x 100
3 Likes
I realized that I miss-loaded my squats yesterday, the weight was 102#. So I had make that up today.
Floor Press-
65 x 31 warm
120 x few warm
131 x 20
172.5 x 5
100# plate BOR - 100x15, 110x16 (load and lift)
Squats-
112# x 50
3 Likes
Yesterday, forgot to log tricep extension pushups 10# added x 22
Thursday 1/26/23
Upright rows-
57.5 + bar x 25
Teeth neck curls (vid) 25# x 50
100# plate side bends x30ea. x5ea.
Hammer curls - 50+ bar x 26
2 Likes
Friday-
Floor Press-
65 x 32 warm
120 warm
142 x 20 wide
163 x 15 narrow (all out)
behind the neck tricep extension hammer bar - 50+bar x 18
Saturday 1/28/23
GYM - BW 198#
Dead Lift (dead lift bar)-
135 x 10 DOH
225 x 10 DOH
275 x 10 DOH
320 x 15 mixed (switched under/over every 5)
I don’t log this switching of grip, however I always to half and half. I think doing this every 5 is way harder than only once because at 10reps I wanted to just TUT and keep going. It’s a mental fuker to stop at 5 and 5 again.
100# chain seated front shoulder raises x 20
Atlas stones-
BOR 155 warm
175 x 13
175 lift to chest in one motion, no lapping x 1 (first time doing this with 175).
Wen home ate-
Barbell skull crushers- 65 x 51
Sunday 1/29/23
Sore as hell!!!
Active recovery-
Floor press-
65 x 35 warm
120 few warm
132.5 x 20 semi-wide
173 x 2 speed (
I’ll have to vid these one day, but I start the set from the bottom, I roll the bar on boards and toss trust it up while lying down and start the press from the bottom, elbows on the floor. 1st rep is always the slowest.
100# plate side bends- x30ea, x6ea. (this was harder today because I was beat, then the biceps got sore from those stone BORs)
Feel alot better now. Lots of triceps work, I want the long head to look like a pair of legs!
Very underrated band-
4 Likes
Monday 1/30/23
Squats-
65 x 15
95 x 10
130 x 60
I made sure the weight was correct. I was really surprised how easy that was, I was only thinking 50 reps at first.
Barbell curls-
61.5 x 57
3 Likes
Tuesday 1/31/23
Floor Press-
61.5 x 40 warm
120 x few warm
140 x 23 wide
174 x 4 narrow
Behind the neck tri extension hammer bar 50 + bar x 19
sit ups with 50# x 40
5 Likes
Wednesday 2/1/23
Squats-
65 x 20
100 x 13
131 x 61
Doing 60 reps twice with that weight within a couple days = very happy. Doing that once this time last year about smoked me and I did more work afterwards. Keep it going!
hammer curls 50+bar x 28
One arm shrugs from the front w/ hammer bar 63.5 + bar x11ea., x11ea, x11ea.
4 Likes
Thursday 2/2/23
Floor Press-
75 x 40 warm
120 x few warm
133.5 x 20 lots of paused reps.
170 x 6
Neck curls-
33# plate x 100 (vid)
3 Likes
Friday - nothing, didn’t get a chance to do a damn thing, not even one quick set.
Saturday-
GYM, BW 196
Dead Lifts-
135 x 15 DOH
225 x 10 DOH
295 x 10 DOH (easy)
335 x 12 mixed (switched hands halfway at 6).
took a pair of light chains (like 50#?) and did standing side laterals-
x13, x15
Atlas Stone pick up to chest in one motion-
155 x1, x1
175 x2, x1 The last one was the best.
Hyper extension hold 105# stone and BOR x 16, regripped it a couple times. I was pretty fried.
Later that day…
Standing tricep extensions behind the head with hammer bar 61# + bar x11, x11
Sunday 2/5/23
Floor Press-
75 x 45
120 x few
141 x 24 semi-wide
175 x 3 narrow (just getting a feel for heavier stuff).
100# plate side bends - x30ea. x 7ea.
3 Likes
Monday 2/6/23
Barbell curls-
65 warmup
87 x 28
barbell skull crushers- 65 x 52
2 Likes
Tuesday 2/8/23
Dead lift, standard skinny bar-
Feeling slow, real slow-
175 x 16 DOH
175 x 10 DOH (feeling a bit faster, but I knew this was going to be torture). When you do this higher rep stuff enough, it’s actually a lot mentally harder because I’m well aware of the agony unlike a fresh newbie that uses pure unknown drive.
235 x 35 (I think 36, I did one more for good measure, thinking I was off by 1-rep).
DOH on every rep except 10, 20, 25 (this is where I was mentally fuking up) 32.
I started off slow and blasted the last 4-reps, damn, I was hurting in the recovery of this, but it was the greatest “high”!
I’ve never worn straps before, but I know for a fact mixed-grip is a shitload easier, DOH taxes the CNS and cardio way harder.
Here’s a write-up of what this shit is like- after like 6-7 minutes of dry heaving and feeling like I sprinted my ass off harder than ever, the lactic acid in the forearms starts kicking, which increases the heart rate, it was a struggle just to blow out the snot in my nose. MY forearms were in agony for another 5+ minutes, then my ass cheeks started getting the lactic acid burn and into the hamstrings. For about 20 minutes my throat felt like it had a frog in it.
That description is after the set!!!
It’s no wonder I feel like I’m gonna crap myself before I do these things.LOL.
4 Likes
Wednesday 2/8/23
Tired as a MOFO today, but remember the gear users are still working through their tiredness too. This is why I believe the drug-free trainee needs MORE, (I do what I can with the time I can MAKE), rest and hard gainer concept is not accurate to me. This may mean going light, but go hard with the light stuff too!
Floor press-
65 x 46
120 x few
135 x 26 (and that blasted me).
upright rows hammer bar - 50#+bar x 30 (most reps ever with that weight)!
I did that with semi-sore traps to begin with. The workout woke my ass up, and now the back muscles are feeling pumped all over.
Gotta keep going, I’m making gains, but I’m still NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING!!!
Haven’t squatted this week yet, grrrr!!
3 Likes
Thursday 2/9/23
Squats-
65 x 20
87 x 15
113 x 75
behind the neck tricep extensions hammer bar 50 + bar x 20
4 Likes
hopefully I don’t miss anything…
Friday 2/10/23
Floor press-
65 x 46
120 x few
135 x 26
hammer curls - 50+ bar x 30
Saturday 2/12/23
No gym today.
Squats Steinborn (tilt on shoulders, too heavy to press on/off) I use the 5.5# lock collars.
65 x 20
121 x 15
136 x 10
166 x 30
166 x 20
I can normally gut out 40-50, but needed a break from that and these were done at a faster pace.
one arm shrugs from side, 50+bar x15ea. x15ea. x15ea.
Sunday 2/12/23
Floor press-
95 x 30
120 x few
136 x 20
176 x 3
tricep extension pushups - x27
100# plate BORs 100 x 20, 120 x 11
2 Likes
Monday 2/13/23
Squats (again) Steinborn Style-
65 x 20
122 x 16
136 x 6
168 x 36
Good fast pace here, this is still light work, but this was best I’ve ever felt. The extra light stuff works and is important. Years ago my mistake is trying to go heavier and heavier without doing the light boring stuff.
Barbell curls- 67 x 45
3 Likes
Tuesday 12/14/23
Floor press-
67 x 48
120 x few
122.5 x 32
Teeth curls 22# x 40, x25
upright rows- 58.5 +bar x 17, x10
100# plate side bends x30ea. x9ea.
1 Like
Wednesday 2/15/23
Squats-
67 x 20
89 x 16
114 x 50
114 x 50
Barbell skull crushers - 67 x 50
2 Likes
