Exercise helps alleviate depression.
Who woulda thunk?
2019-04-02
W/U 10 min
Pendlay Row
135x5
185x5
215 4x6
SSB SQ
135x5
185x5
235x3
265x3
305x3 (PR +1 rep)
295 3x3
265x8
DB Hammer Curl
50āsx8,6,6
Standing Hang Clean (no knee bend to catch)
135 3x3
Seated Hamstring Curl machine
140x15
180x8,8
Axle Reverse Curl
75 2x8
Tweaked the back in the usual place. If I eat up it should be all right by Friday
2019-04-03
W/U 5 min
Axle OHP
95x5
115x5
135x5
155 3x5 (PR +2 sets)
125x10+4+4 (30 sec btwn)
Pull Up
BWx5
+25x5,5,5,3,4,4
CG BP
135x5
175x5
205 5x3
Face Pulls
70 2x15, 12
Triceps Press Downs
90x10,10,8
Presses overhead - pleasantly surprising. 160x3x3 is a pretty sure thing next time. Couldnāt find the groove on CGBP (might have been tired from the last set of OHP), so did same weight/reps/sets as last time.
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Been using my elbow sleeves the last two upper body workouts. I waited too long to return them so I figured Iād just go ahead and use them.
They are definitely too tight. I can get them on with some effort, but I gave myself a righteous forearm bruise with my own knuckles trying to pull them off last night.
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Time to try that 200/205 push press again. Think Iāll get at least one of them this time.
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2019-04-05
Hack SQ (W/U)
1 plate x 8
2 plates x5
2 Plates and a quarter x5
Guy in squat rack is willing to let me work in.
SQ
135x5
225x5
255x5
belt on
285x3
315 2x3
295x5,3
DL
345 2x5 (touch&pause)
1-Arm Unsupported DB row
105 4x6
Cable curls
90 3x5
Something of a regression tonight. Felt flat and no energy. Was just doing the weights and not attacking. Back still tweaky and distracting. Oh well, got some work done.
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Well that forearm bruise is a torn muscle. It went red again after training last night and I wasnāt wearing sleeves.
Have to reorg training a little.
Hopefully quick recovery
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It will be - itās small, but annoying.
Bruising is fading. Pulling with the left hurts a bit, itās definitely the middle and ring finger flexors that are overcooked. I think I can still do push press and bench press if I donāt let the bar roll too far back in my hand. Might strap the left hand for pullups and see how that goes.
2019-04-08
W/U a couple minutes
Push Press
135x3
155x3
175x2
190x1
200x1
Press
165 3x2
145x5
Some row machine
180 2x8
Dips
BW 2x15
Thatās it. Totally uninterested in working out tonight.
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Iāve put the burner up too high the last month or so. Again.
Stimulate, donāt annihilate.
Iām pulling back to something simpler, controlled and Doug Hepburn-y.
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2019-04-09
OHP
115x3
130x3
145 5x3
superset with
Pullup
BWx5
+25 5x3
SSB SQ
165x3
195x3
225x3
265 5x3
superset with
ab wheel
7x5
EZ bar curls
105 3x5
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Alternating A and B full-body workouts.
Starting with about 75% of max or estimated max for each main lift
Do 5x3, try to make each lift fast
Work that into 5x5, adding one rep each session if possible.
Once 5x5 achieved, raise 5lbs on upper-body lifts, 10 lbs on lower body and go back to 5x3
Iāve tried this in the past, but always got impatient, boosted weight too soon or too much and burned out. Perhaps Iām sufficiently old to control myself and find out if this really works.
Re-instituted dead-stop at bottom on presses. Makes them harder.
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Good luck
Thx, Clee78
2019-04-12
Pendlay Row
165x3
190x3
215 5x3
Push Press
115x3
135x3
155x3
170 5x3
DL
275x3
325 5x3
CGBP
205x4,4x3
Hard getting warmed up this morning. Didnāt really get limber until the 4th set of PP.
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Lasha Takhadze set two new world records at the European Olympic weightlifting championships
218kg snatch - 479 lbs
260kg C&J - 572 lbs
And he wasnāt anywhere near going all-out for either of them. He might be the first man in history to snatch 500 and CJ 600. Weāll see.
2019-04-15
Pullup
bwx5
+25 1x4, 4x3
Clean and Press
95x5
120x5
145 1x4,4x3
SSB Squat
165,195,235 x3
265 (belt)4,3,3, (no belt) 3,3
Ab wheel
5x5
45 deg hyper
5x8
DB Hammer Curl
50ās 3x8
Face pulls
70x20,15,15
Pullups and presses supersetted
Squat, ab wheel and hyper-ex giant-setted.
Tried squat with no belt. Goes OK so long as I donāt pop at the top. Losing vertical compression makes something go twang in the right lumbar area when no belt.
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Not sore today. Yesterdayās training was invigorating rather than tiring. All main-movement weights moved pretty fast.
Weāll see if this is enough stimulation to keep getting stronger. Progress will be slow, but should be glacially consistent if the programming works as advertised.
Starting to have good interactions with the members at my gym.
Iām still known among the old StrongSide Gym regulars there as the āOlympic Lifting Guyā¢ā They tried to get me on their BP/DL team some years ago immediately after I snatched near-bodyweight. I declined, though it might have been fun.
Iām getting noticed at the PAC (owned by the old StrongSide owner) now, even though Iām weak, because I work out often, āweirdā and my X-shape is coming back.
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