[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
Plan for this week is bench Tuesday, smash back on Thursday, then hit OHP on Saturday and go for 285, which is what I need to tie the guy in the lead in the OHP competition I’m doing. Hopefully that will coax him into attempting something higher in the next couple weeks and I can put a couple micro plates on there and overtake him on the finish line. [/quote]
Lol we have 1lb dumbbells at my gym, and you can easily wedge them between the weight and the collar to microload weight. That’s how my buddy set his bench PR of 367! That’s smart thinkin.
Dude I don’t want to be an armchair quarterback but how are you leg pressing with lower back pain? For my lower back, I find leg pressing to be one of the worst offenders at aggravating it.
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Dude I don’t want to be an armchair quarterback but how are you leg pressing with lower back pain? For my lower back, I find leg pressing to be one of the worst offenders at aggravating it.[/quote]
Leg presses don’t put any strain at all on my lower back. You should try a different foot placement.
Meadows/Reactive Pump/Plazma/Indigo/MAG-10
I hinted in the last couple posts that I might shake things up a bit to breath some new life back into my training. Those of you that know me know that I prefer the Blast and Dust mentality, so when I go, I go big.
Well, I am the newest member of the Plazma project team, which comes with a 12 week Meadows Reactive Pump Program and some Indigo 3G.
I had been corresponding with Meadows over the past few days about his programs, and realized it wasn’t a whole lot of difference price wise to just buy it through this site and get the supplements along with it, so that’s just what I did.
I intend to follow the Plazma/Indigo/MAG-10 protocol for the next 3 months and make as much progress as I can in that time. My logging will more than likely be under the Project training forum, but I’ll keep this guy updated as well with how its going.
Pretty damn excited to get this started.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I really hope this back shit gets sorted out quick[/quote]
Thanks bub. The pain is back today about like it was yesterday before working out. I really don’t know what to make of that, but if I can keep having workouts like I did I am ok with it until it gets better.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Lol we have 1lb dumbbells at my gym, and you can easily wedge them between the weight and the collar to microload weight. That’s how my buddy set his bench PR of 367! That’s smart thinkin.[/quote]
That’s a pretty good idea. Tim has a set of 1.25 plates that we used for the bench meet prep so I was thinking about using those, but maybe that half pound will make a difference haha
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Dude I don’t want to be an armchair quarterback but how are you leg pressing with lower back pain? For my lower back, I find leg pressing to be one of the worst offenders at aggravating it.[/quote]
No idea but it doesn’t bother it at all. it is actually kind of relaxing.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Leg presses don’t put any strain at all on my lower back. You should try a different foot placement.[/quote]
Eh, he may have a different type of injury than what mine is. One thing that I’ve learned through this whole injury process is that everyone experiences it differently.
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Leg presses don’t put any strain at all on my lower back. You should try a different foot placement.[/quote]
Eh, he may have a different type of injury than what mine is. One thing that I’ve learned through this whole injury process is that everyone experiences it differently.
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Yeah I agree
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Leg presses don’t put any strain at all on my lower back. You should try a different foot placement.[/quote]
Eh, he may have a different type of injury than what mine is. One thing that I’ve learned through this whole injury process is that everyone experiences it differently.
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Yeah I agree[/quote]
I’ve heard it from other people too, your back may just be weird. It doesn’t hurt when my back is healthy but it exacerbates soreness when I have it. There’s a significant amount of shearing force (force being put on the back perpendicular to it’s alingment), plus the nature of the seat sorta forces your lower back to round while that’s happening.
But if you aren’t hurting the day after leg presses, don’t worry about it I guess.
REACTIVE PUMPZ!
3/12/13 - Chest/Shoulders
First day on Meadows Reactive Pump program last night…it was fucking brutal! Definitely some movememnts my body had forgotten how to do and/or never anticipated doing.
I’m not sure what the protocol here is for logging that kinda stuff, and I don’t want to get in trouble (haha), so I will hold off on the fine details for now. Truthfully I don’t like that cause this log is what I use for my historical tracking, but I guess it is what it is…
I will say that the OHP was later on in the workout (like exercise 6 out of 7) which was fucking tough. First off I don’t know the last time I did a workout with 6 exercises in it, let alone put a big compound movement there. It called for 5x5 or something so I put 135 on there thinking that would be a good starting set and barely got it out of the rack lol…dropped down to 95 and got 5 there but that was it for me…went on to the next exercise (which is a shoulder destroyer circuit). This volume and exercise order is going to take a lot of getting used to.
My chest and delts were so engorged with blood and shit afterwards it wasn’t even funny…I could barely lift my arm up to put my bag into my truck.
I think I’m gonna like this program.
Why can’t you log details? Did you sign some confidentiality agreement or what?
Hope you can learn to work around your back.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Why can’t you log details? Did you sign some confidentiality agreement or what?
Hope you can learn to work around your back. [/quote]
hhaha no it wasn’t anything like that. Just wasn’t sure what the protocol was for the program, and all that. I’ve actually decided to start logging back over here again instead of that forum. Meadows is tending to his own forum now, so there really isn’t much incentive to keep logging there. Although most of the people who read this log probably read it for the powerlifting stuff and won’t give a crap about some wussy bodybuilding program with light weights haha
The back is doing very well actually. Little to no pain at all. I’m still having a bit of pain down my legs but not nearly what it was after the first epidural shot. It is manageable during all times of the day. Will probably still have to make a decision later on about surgery though, unless physical therapy works wonders. I dont know when Im going to start that. Probably in a month or two when I have more time.
Here’s the link to my Reactive Pump log that I was logging in for the past month. Going to just start logging here now. I’ll probably still use the updates feature in that thread though for pics/skinfolds/site measurements because it’s a pretty cool way to track all that.
Man apparently you need to buy some bands and chains lol. Half the time it was like “didn’t have chains” “guy who was gonna let me borrow his bands didn’t show up”.
I think we all know what to get VTBalla for his birthday!
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[surveySummary]971[/surveySummary][/quote]
Test. Does this show up in this log?
[quote]csulli wrote:
Man apparently you need to buy some bands and chains lol. Half the time it was like “didn’t have chains” “guy who was gonna let me borrow his bands didn’t show up”.
I think we all know what to get VTBalla for his birthday![/quote]
haha man those bans are like $80 on Elite. Its not that I can’t afford it, but I have a hard time convincing myself that paying $80 for a sack of rubber bands is a real good investment. I’m hoping they have a sale on them soon and I can go grab them!
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Man apparently you need to buy some bands and chains lol. Half the time it was like “didn’t have chains” “guy who was gonna let me borrow his bands didn’t show up”.
I think we all know what to get VTBalla for his birthday![/quote]
haha man those bans are like $80 on Elite. Its not that I can’t afford it, but I have a hard time convincing myself that paying $80 for a sack of rubber bands is a real good investment. I’m hoping they have a sale on them soon and I can go grab them![/quote]
Sometimes they have all the bands like 50% off. I admit I’ve bought shit I really didn’t need from them just because of their ridiculous sales.
How goes the new style of training?
I don’t know, man. Your chest is nonexistent now.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Sometimes they have all the bands like 50% off. I admit I’ve bought shit I really didn’t need from them just because of their ridiculous sales.[/quote]
haha yah man…I definitely have a pair of blast straps and fat grips that I have probably used a grand total of 5 times between them. My problem is I always buy shaker bottles from them and go ahead and add other shit too whenever I get them, because, hey, why not?
[quote]Drake37 wrote:
How goes the new style of training? [/quote]
Pretty fantastic man. I am gonna get an update here tonight with all my workouts from the past couple weeks. I’ve been slacking like shit on that.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I don’t know, man. Your chest is nonexistent now.[/quote]
hahah man that Mountain Dog training really makes your chest disappear!
But for real, I got tired of trying to line the tape up at the same spot every week and the variance was so huge it wasn’t even worth tracking–I have no idea how people do that correctly.
4/9/13 - Chest/Shoulder Heavy
Machine Press (3x8): 195, 210, 225
Reverse Band Bench (5x5): 345 all
Incline BB Press (3x8): 255, 235, 235
Flat DB Twist Press (3x10); 35 all
Cable Lateral Raise (3x12): 17 all
Band Face Pull (3x30): Reds
Cage Press w/ Lean-in (4x5): 115 all
Good workout. Machine Presses are weird. Whatever they call 225 feels a LOT heavier than an actual 225 on flat bench.
I liked Reverse Band Bench. That was the first time I had done them and I had a weight I could be real explosive on. These things flew up.
Not sure I did the DB Flat Twist Presses correctly. You basically start out neutral at the bottom and do a reverse twist (pinkies rotate in) as you go up. My left elbow got angry at me during these.
4/11/13 - Back
One Arm BB Row (4x8): 105 all
Deadlifts (x3): 135, 185, 225, 275, 315, 365, 405 (yay)
DB Pullover (3x12): 75, 85, 95
Stretchers (4x8): 100, 130, 130, 130
Hyper (2xAMRAP): 10, 10
Worked up to 405x3 on Deadlifts, which is way heavier than I have gone since June. It was somewhat tough but my back held up well, just not used to using man weights for this. Plus it is heavier than what my girlfriend deadlifts, which was one of my goals haha
I don’t ever really seem to feel DB Pullovers in my lats–I don’t know what I do wrong with these. Seem to at least feel something when I go heavier, but thinking I maybe should drop the weight real low until I get a good MMC going.
Stretchers were fun. They really helped loosen up my shoulder and upper back.
Gassed out pretty quick with the hypers–they were not kind to my back so stopped at 10.