[quote]thebruce13 wrote:
Impressive Oly lifts then a knee injury and slide right over to bench squats etc again with some real good weight.
Good on you man.[/quote]
Seems silly to stop when the rest of me works okay, y’know?
I mean, this guy found a way to train, so what’s my excuse?
2012-4-16
Box Front SQ (1" abv parallel)
barx3
135x3
185x3
225x3
245x3
275x3
295x3
DL
245x3
315x3
365x3
395x3
Clean and Press
155x7
165x3
175x3, 2x4 sets
Pendlay Rows
225 5x2 sets
235x5
CGBP(paused)
185 5x3 sets
The end.
2012-4-18
Box Squat (1" below parallel)
135x5
185x3
225x3
255x3
285x3
315x1
295x2
and they all hurt.
BTNPP
115x5
135x5
155x3
175x3
PP
185 3x3
GM
185 8x2 sets
Pullups
BW+35 5x3 sets
Upright rows
95 8x3 sets
Boring, but small.
looking good tony. I didn’t read far enough back to hear about the new gym, but anytime any gym has a platform and bumpers its time for celebration!
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
looking good tony. I didn’t read far enough back to hear about the new gym, but anytime any gym has a platform and bumpers its time for celebration![/quote]
I do feel pretty lucky. A side benefit is listening to all the trash-talking the young guys do while they’re lifting. They’re hilarious.
Doc says I probably have some torn cartilage in the knee and turned me on to a non-surgical therapy for it. Good news is that it will get better, though it may take a while.
I also learned that while sitting in the office waiting room that pork has more protein in it per ounce than beef.
I love pork.
2012-4-23
DL
135,185,215,245,295,335,370,335x5
Clean and Press
160x5
145x8
Pullups
bwx5
+35x5
+15x5
Incline DB press
70’s x8
75’s x8
80’s x6
85’s x4
And then I went home.
Gym owner wants me to join his PL team, or so the hearsay goes. Got this from talking to member of the team tonight.
Dunno. It’s WABDL, with bench shirts and deadlifting suits. Not my sorta thing, really, but I guess we’ll see what happens.
Good luck with the knee. Keep up those awesome workouts.
I don’t think you HAVE to use gear in the WADBL. The WADBL and SPF had a combined North America’s l;ast year and it was pretty cool.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
I don’t think you HAVE to use gear in the WADBL. The WADBL and SPF had a combined North America’s last year and it was pretty cool.[/quote]
I was looking at the rules last night and it’s true that you don’t have to use gear. They don’t have a separate category for raw however. Since WABDL does team scoring, it would be in the team’s best interests for me to suit/shirt up so as to get the best individual score I could - if I were on the team.
Could be interesting, if anything comes from this talking that is.
I like lifting raw as well, but I think it would be fun to toss on a suit and shirt once in a while for sh*ts and grins. If I had a team to help me on a regular basis I’d probably give it a go. You never know, you might really like it.
2012-04-25
Dead Bench (1-board height)
135x5
185x5
205x5
225x3,2
Box squat(2" below parallel)
High bar
135x5,5
185x5
225x5
255x5
285x3
Low-bar
285x5
255x5
Pendlay Rows
235 5x3 sets
Close grip standing press
135x10
Reverse Cable flyes
20x15
30x12,10,8
DB curls
45’s x8
55’s x5
Knee’s feeling better what with the wide-stance squatting. Starting to use my right adductor and buttcheek more in the bottom and it’s relieving some of the stress that the knee joint has been taking up for the last while.
I may come out of this with better squat form than what I went in with.
2012-4-27
Box Front Squat (1" below parallel, maybe)
barx10
135x5
155x5
175x3
195x3
215x3
235x3
255x3
PP
135x3
155x3
175x3
195x3
215x2 (PR +1 rep)
205x2
1-1/2 press
135x6
CGOHP
135x8
Dimel DL
225x15,20
Slow Neg DL
315x1x10sec
DL to knees and hold for 3-1000 count, down slow.
315x3
Cable rows
200x5,8
Reverse Flyes (machine)
75 15x3
Adductors were cramping something fierce on squats. Took a lot of warmup sets to loosen up. Couldn’t catch my breath after the Dimels, really gets your heart rate up. Slow-Neg DL was torture once below knee level. Deinite weak spot.
4-30-2012
DL
135x5,5
225x5
315x5
375x5
415x1
355x5
Press
135x5
155x5
165x4,3
150x6
DB row
75x10x3
CGBP(30sec rest)
135x10
155x8
175x5
BW lunges - rt side only.
somexsome
And that’s it for me, tonight. My focus is DL right now.
2012-5-2
24 Hour Fitness
10000 sq ft and 1 power cage. unbelievable.
DB Snatch
50,60,70x5
80x3
Squats (low bar, wide)
155x5
185x5
225x3
255x3
285x3
315x3
DB stiff legged DL(3 sec pause at bottom)
120’s 5x3 sets
Bench Press (3 sec pause)
155x3
185x3
205x3
225 1x3
(I gotta make this better)
Chest-supported t-bar rows
1 platex10
2 platesx10
3 platesx8
3 plates+25x6
3 plates 6x3 sets
Clean and press
135x5
155x3
165x3
175x1
Triceps work
some x some
Knee felt good…er. It was like a sauna in there and the extra heat really loosened up the catch in my knee. Got full range on the squats with tolerable pain. Decided against a backoff set since I was sharing the cage with another fella and he wanted to do some standing presses.
Didn’t see much leg development in the male population. Dude I was sharing the cage with thought I was doing a lot of weight, so I hid my self-disgust and basked in the adulation.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Didn’t see much leg development in the male population. [/quote]
We used to call these guys lollipops. All big upper body but no legs. The guys who bench and curl 4 days a week.
Glad your knee pain was tolerable.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Didn’t see much leg development in the male population. [/quote]
We used to call these guys lollipops. All big upper body but no legs. The guys who bench and curl 4 days a week.
Glad your knee pain was tolerable.[/quote]
Light bulb and yield sign are other good nicknames for many a commercial gym bench/curl champion.