Re-arranged my basement today, lifting area is friggin HYOOGE now! Lots of room to do trap bar carries and it’s all around easier to move about. No longer need to worry about floor joists for press as I’ll be lifting parallel rather than perpendicular and the 25’s fit between the boards just fine. Have to watch the noggin during chins though but no biggie, gonna put some pad on the problem area just in case (my roommate learned the hard way).
Happy with 8 on the top set, may have had 9 but it would have been a big grinder so I racked it. I had about 30 seconds longer rest than usual on a couple sets since I was splitting time with the roomie which I’m sure helped.
I think we’re gonna be adding a set of battle ropes soon with all the extra space. Hooray conditioning!
Edit: just realized I did 5s instead of 3s, whoops
Prior to this the rack was centered basically where I was standing (just behind the bike on the right) and the back room had a couple couches and a bunch of storage stuff. Got it relocated into the spare room (check that dope wood paneling) to the left and it opened all this up!
There’s certainly nothing wrong with it, but, if I owned the place I’d definitley knock it down and replace it at some point haha.
This is a big step up from when we had this setup in our old apartment! I wonder if I have any old photos of that. One thing that place had going for it was ceilings that were like 16’ high.
Wednesday morning weigh in
172.2 lbs. Forgot to weigh in yesterday, down .2 from last week (172.4 if I didn’t log). Need to eat more.
Been a while since I logged conditioning, also been a while since I’ve done any.
About 30 minutes alternating between heavy bag and jump rope. Nothing structured, just kept moving and kept the heart rate up. Didn’t work as hard as I normally do, elbow and knee are a little cranky but I’m just being lazy today.
Basketball: 15 minutes of shooting around and light 1v1 play.
Left hip flexor started whining from the leg raises. Hard to isolate the abs with that exercise but I’ll keep them in the rotation since “core” exercises get so stale to me so quickly.
We got kicked off the basketball court for intramural floor hockey and I didn’t mind at all. Within the first 3 minutes my lower legs were screaming at me for hopping around. I guess the jump rope last night beat them up more than I thought?
Lost count on the AMRAP so no clue if I wound up with 8 or 9, going to log it on the conservative end though. Picked up a football bar from a friend yesterday, he wouldn’t take money for it (since I’ll actually use it instead of it collecting dust). Owe him a nice 6’er next time I see him.
Used it across the top of the rack for chins and hammer curls, nice addition to the dojo.
Hit a funk show last night and got some steps in, taking the dogs to a park with the lady in a bit and trudging through the slush next. C’s v. Warriors tonight, should be a good one!
Got to play in the woods for a while yesterday. Had one of our handful of unseasonably warm days we get every winter (45-50*) so headed to a NH state park in search of some dry climbing rock.
Most of the good stuff was wet, naturally, so my buddy and I just messed around setting up different anchors, rappelling, top rope soloing, and hiking around through the snow and ice. Shoe spikes are a marvelous thing.
Football bar pushups:
10 close grip (super close, tricep killer! noted…)
10 press grip
10 bench grip
12 hands on floor
BB row:
115x3x10
115x11
Chain fallouts: (side bolts, 35 links)
4x10
Felt pretty sleepy today and wound up with a killer session. Weird how that tends to happen. I think that was a rep PR, but given that 95 was strangely harassing me a couple months ago I’m glad to be moving it without issues again.
Really thought I had 6 reps on that top set, 5 was tough but moved well enough, couldn’t keep everything together for the sixth though. It would’ve been a real grinder so I’m okay with dumping it, that’s what the safety pins are for right?
Everything else was pretty standard. Fairly gassed after the FSL work and had no desire to continue giant setting so tried out those Myo reps I’ve been seeing @Frank_C doing. Not bad! I think I could’ve gotten 100 unbroken lunge reps but I’m a baby.
Nice! I enjoy the MYO reps. They’re essentially rest/pause with a little less weight and rules for when to quit or keep going. Some exercises feel better than others though.
