Would You, Quintus? Would I?

Training Training Logs
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DE Lower:
11/16/12

Speed Deadlifts:
275 in bar weight
two light bands stretched over the bar (very tightly)
and 50lbs of chain

Dunno how much that was at the top, but it was a pretty cool looking setup.

Did 10 sets of 1

SSB Goodmornings:
did 3 sets of 10 against what I assume was an average band on each side. Was pretty cool.

Leg Curls:
3 sets of 8

Hyperextensions:
3 sets of 10 with 45lbs

Decline situps:
3 sets of 20, first 10 with 25lbs behind the head, rest of the set just BW

Some kettlebell HIT shit for cardio.

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ME Upper:
11/17/2012

Bench:
45 5x
135 5x
185 5x
225 5x
275 2x
300 1x
325 1x Made this look like nothing was even on the bar.
350 0x
350 0x Okay so, I went to the less good gym to workout with Dad since he was going this morning. The gym I normally go to now has a really nice competition bench with a wonderfully grippy pad. The bench at the gym today felt like a goddamn slip-n-slide. I’d like to blame the miss on the bench (it certainly didn’t help), but honestly it was my right shoulder. My front delt on the right side has been hurting since the last DE upper day. I think I fucked it up by going too heavy on speed bench and not using good form or something I guess. Anyhow, right shoulder was very painful the whole time, but I could lift the weight in spite of it until I tried the 350. I know I can bench that weight too. I know I’m strong enough on a good day. Everything was fine, my chest, my triceps, my left shoulder were all moving the weight, but I just felt the right side stop dead when I got it to the point that my shoulders usually take over some of the load. The left one kept moving, but I felt the right shoulder just refuse to bear the load and instead was just transmitting lots of pain. So there’s my week ruined. Now I can’t even do the one thing I was almost getting good at.

Close Grip Inclines:
185 5x
185 6x
185 8x

Tate Press:
50’s 10x
50’s 10x
50’s 10x

Cross-Body Hammer Curls:
45’s 10x
45’s 10x
45’s 10x

Preacher Curls:
90 8x
90 8x
90 8x

Reverse Curls:
90 10x
90 10x
90 10x

Standing Curls w/ 3 second descent:
90 8x
90 8x

I guess I should try to press the bar in more of a straight line as opposed to back over my face. I should make my triceps bear more of the load instead of relying on my shoulders, cuz my right one is fucked up.

That’s the same place I injured my right shoulder several months ago as well. And my right bicep still isn’t the same as my left one after I injured it months ago. And my lower back is never the same on my left side either after it was hurt years back. Does anyone else feel like their injuries never actually heal? They just sort of become less injured enough to keep going?

183

Bonus Workout
11/17/2012

GPP maybe?:
Walked 18 holes. If you’re already really angry, the best possible way to make yourself even angrier is to play a round of golf. So that’s what I did. Walking a whole course carrying your clubs is a pretty good hike though.

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lol you’ll be fine. chalk up your back and ass next time.

185

Bonus Workout:
11/17/2012

DB Shoulder Press:
3 sets of 20 w/ 35’s

Side Raises:
3 sets of 10 w/ 25’s

Dips:
3 sets of 10 These were feeling a bit rough on the shoulder, so didn’t do much

Incline Tate Press:
3 sets of 10 w/ 45’s

Just getting in some stuff I wanted to do earlier.

186

Hey do you want to be facebook friends sometime, maybe?

187

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Hey do you want to be facebook friends sometime, maybe?[/quote]

Sure lol. I bet I won’t be one of the interesting ones though!

188

Bonus Workout:
11/18/2012

Squat:
45 5x
135 5x
225 5x
275 1x
315 1x
365 1x

DB Rows:
3 sets of 10 with 120’s

Pullups & Cable Rows Superset:
3 sets of 10 pullups and 20 rows

189

Okay I think I’m going to shut down the squat pretty much every day experiment. It’s cool having legs impervious to soreness, and I did get my closer stance squats much closer in weight to my really wide stance squats. I’m starting to feel weaker on squats in general though, and pretty much feeling like shit overall, almost like I’m sick. I’ve done Smolov before, but when I did that, number one it was actually less squatting than this, and number two, I wasn’t doing deadlifts, leg curls, hypers, and conditioning and such.

So. Going to cut back to 2 times a week for legs; I need to give conjugate training a fair shot. I’m just really impatient.

190

hey young one, maybe you need to drop some of these “bonus” workouts too…give the body some time to heal/recover/build…you’re already saying you’re breaking down.

191

ME Lower:
11/19/2012

Deadlift:
135 5x
225 5x
315 5x
405 2x
455 1x
495 1x
525 1x Well that’s nice :slight_smile: This ROCKETED off the ground like gravity didn’t exist. Then when it got a couple inches from lockout it stopped dead in its tracks! I didn’t hitch it though, I just had to slowly grind it out, and I did manage to complete the lift. I’ve heard people say things like “learn to activate your glutes” to other people who struggled with locking out the deadlift. I’ll keep working on figuring it out. I’m not convinced the rack pulls were helping much, cuz I could rack pull over 600 pretty easily. And in fact I think I could pull 600 off the floor up to a little past my knees. Just gotta figure out how to put it all together.

Dimels:
225 10x
225 10x
225 10x I think I’ll bring my straps next time and try to do them in sets of 20 like you’re supposed to. I did focus on firing my glutes on these though, gonna stick with this assistance movement for a while.

Leg Curls:
3 sets of 6

Hyperextensions:
3 sets of 20

Cardio:
Flailing around with those big ass ropes for an arbitrary length of time. Was a lot harder cardio than I had imagined.

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[quote]lil power wrote:
hey young one, maybe you need to drop some of these “bonus” workouts too…give the body some time to heal/recover/build…you’re already saying you’re breaking down. [/quote]

Yeah… I never feel like I have enough time to do everything I want to do though! I should get in better shape and speed up my workouts a bit maybe. I’m definitely going to back off some though. Bonus workouts from now on will probably just be some abs/cardio that I didn’t have time to do during the workout.

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OMG lil power I love your new avi!!!

CHRIS I cannot find you on facebook because I do not know your name :slight_smile:

Maybe you could give me a hint or something…

194

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
OMG lil power I love your new avi!!!

CHRIS I cannot find you on facebook because I do not know your name :slight_smile:

Maybe you could give me a hint or something…[/quote]

OH right!

195

K accept people named Jenn!

196

Thanksgiving Weight Log:

No dehydrating or fasting, just regular resting weight.

Woke up 8am - 200.5lbs

Finished first meal 12:50 - 208.4

Net gain so far - 7.9lbs

Bah. Capped out around 8lbs this year. Not as good as years past.

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LOL !!!

I can’t find you on facebook so I give up, ha.

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:
LOL !!!

I can’t find you on facebook so I give up, ha. [/quote]

Didn’t see you either. Maybe we’re not real.

199

DE Upper:
11/21/2012

Speed Bench: Straight weight only today. Good gym was closed, so no bands.
45 5x
135 5x
185 3x Close Grip
185 3x
185 3x
185 3x Med. Grip
185 3x
185 3x
185 3x Normal Grip
185 3x
185 3x

OHP:
155 5x
135 5x
135 5x
135 5x
135 5x I think my form got better as I went. I was letting the bar get too far out in front of me.

Superset Tate Press with Cross Body Hammer Curls:
3 sets of 10 on each
45’s with both

Superset Dips with Preacher Curls:
3 sets of 8 reps with 70lbs on curls
3 sets of 20 on dips

Superset Rope Pushdowns w/ Pause with Reverse Curls:
5 sets of 10 on each

Did some made up cable tricep kickbacks as well. Then I gave up on trying to make my triceps sore, because for some reason it just never works.

Superset Ab Roller with Decline Situps w/ 10lbs behind the head:
2 sets of 10 each

Did a bit of kettlebell snatching cardio. Not long though, because I started shooting the shit with an old friend I saw at the gym. The important thing is that I attempted to do cardio though right?

Couple of gym stories from today:

Some guy asked me to spot him on bench. He had 185. He did 2 reps, and failed on the third, which I helped him with. He then said “two more”, to which I politely replied “okay”. What I was thinking though was “No, not two more, because you just fucking failed already. I’m supposed to just stand here and curl this shit for you so that you can bullshit yourself into thinking you did 5 reps instead of 2?”

Saw a dude in there who had on an Under Armour jacket, which he was wearing over his Under Armour shirt. As I investigated further I noticed that he was wearing Under Armour shorts, Under Armour socks, and Under Armour shoes. That’s not even the crazy part. He had the Under Armour logo tattooed on his frickin leg. I couldn’t fucking believe it. It’s like Under Armour made this guy in a factory. They definitely own him. He must be getting a shit load of money from them. I wanted to inquire about all this, but I didn’t want to say anything to the dude, because he was as big as a house. His arms must have been 25" I shit you not.

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ME Upper:
11/24/2012

Floor Press:
45 10x
135 10x
185 5x
225 5x
275 5x
315 1x
315 1x Well I was surprised. I thought this would be easier than regular bench, but it was actually a good bit harder. I didn’t push things too terribly heavy; 315 felt reasonably hard enough for my first foray into floor press.

Close Grip Incline:
205 5x
205 5x
205 5x

Seated DB OHP:
50’s 10x
60’s 10x
70’s 10x Gotta go heavier next time

Skullcrushers:
110 10x
110 10x
110 8x

Dips:
3 sets of 20

I did a bunch of sets of 10-20 on seated cable rows with various grips and planes (low pulls, face pulls, etc.)

Decline Situps:
10 w/ 25lbs
10 w/ 25lbs followed immediately by 10 regular