Hot chick at my work put her hand on my arm yesterday and was like “holy shit!”; then another saw me eating one of my lunches and was like “you’re always eating, you’ll get fat!” so I was pleased to see that even though I’m Yogi-fat I’m still nowhere near normal person fat; then the touchy-feely gay guy at my work gave me a hug and told me I smelled nice.
Triple validation day for me.
‘‘touchy-feely’’
I’m ded
Damn Yogi, I’m pretty sure all this reading about injuries has given me some poor mojo. Pulled my hamstring today and couldn’t even deadlift 60kgs.
LMAO! Now we have male asses in tights, an old gay dude frolicking around in a tutu and… CHARLTON HESTON!!!
I’m Scott 
Regarding injury talk. I’m broke head to toe at the moment.
Start at the top and work to bottom:
Left shoulder, right elbow, left low back, right knee.
Was reading through some Lee Boyce quotes, thought some of you might like them for some motivation, direction and reassurance:
Nov 20
Lee Boyce @coachleeboyce
STRENGTH TRAINING: It’s meant to AVOID injuries. If it’s GIVING you more injuries than it’s PREVENTING, it calls for a change of focus. Yup.
Nov 20
Lee Boyce @coachleeboyce
ALL primal lifts are IMPORTANT, but removing/replacing ONE doesn’t mean you’re no longer worth your salt as a lifter. Be healthy.
Lee Boyce @coachleeboyce
Seasoned Vets: The quicker you admit that you CAN’T warm up, train, or progress the way you did when at 20, the better results you’ll get.
Lee Boyce @coachleeboyce
STRENGTH AIDS EVERYDAY PERFORMANCE…Till it DOESN’T. If you can squat 650, but can’t move freely without discomfort, is it STILL a win-win?
Lee Boyce @coachleeboyce
If you’re STILL TRAINING, taking a hiatus from ONE LIFT won’t "KILL ALL YOUR GAINS"for that lift. STOP telling yourself it will. It’s silly.
Safe training,
Scott
it’s all been happening up in here! Where ya been?
Yo Scott, thanks for posting! I’m a big Lee Boyce fan too
if anything, my log has made you stronger. You should thank me; without it, that hamstring injury would have left you dead
Year end business stuff and watching liberal meltdowns on youtube.
it’s brilliant, eh? The whole world is totally freaking out
Apparently some people don’t understand that democracy means the other guy can get in too if he gets the votes.
You are very much welcome mate!
here’s my amazon.co.uk supplement shopping list for this month:
-D3 with iodine
-Curcumin
-EPA/DHA
-vitamin K2
-Vitamin C
-ZMA
-Red Palm Oil (essentially just a vitamin E supp)
Costs me a fucking fortune trying to delay the inevitable heart attack/cancer to which I’ll eventually succumb.
@theBird so it turns out the trap bar is the best thing ever.
Gave it a bash today and worked up to a single with 4 plates! Haha. Bailed on the rep halfway through because I felt my position going and I’m supposed to be in rehab mode, but I had a blast deadlifting today so I’m going to do trap bar deadlifts as my main leg movement from now on.
Moved on to reverse lunges with a front squat grip afterwards and I really fucking suck at those. I’m all over the place, so I reckon getting good at those’ll make a big difference to my mobility.
So it’s looking like leg day is now going to be:
-trap bar dead (5/3/1 style with a VERY conservative training max)
-reverse lunges
-leg curls
-leg raises
-stir the pot/face pulls
VERY heavy posterior chain/core focus as you can see, and my poor ole quads are going to shrivel up to nothing, but a few months of this should have me lifting like a champ when I come back to squats, hopefully with a much stronger core.
Thats awesome news.
Im so keen to try one, if and once my lower back feels 90%. Unfortunately my regular gym does not have one, but I will find somewhere that does and maybe just buy the bar myself.
How low down are you pulling from? From my understanding you have 2 options of how you can grab the handles, with one option been higher up than the other? How often do you think you will use it? Probably would be an idea to be cautious and cycle it in and out of your programming??
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Eh Yogi, I’ve always wondered, what are your main lifts (big 3 + overhead press)? I know you’re primarily training for bodybuilding and all but I’m sure you’ll have a rough idea whats your 5rm or something like that.
Considering you’ve never really posted and of your lifts before, as far as I know. I’ve always thought you would have a…
4.5 plate squat
3.5 plate bench
2.5 plate overhead press
3-4 plate deadlift considering you have a history of back injuries?
He once said somewhere that he is front squatting 315 for 5 or 185 for 30 on different leg days,yet he hasn’t back squatted 405.I don’t remember if he wrote anything else but I think there was some more at a thread called ‘‘yogi how do you train’’ or something like that
Interesting question! Sadly, between my messed up shoulder and weakass lower back, my lifts have never really been all that impressive except for my bench, which I don’t even do anymore.
I hit a 4 plate bench on a decline YEARS ago, and was pretty sure I was closing in on a 4 plate regular bench before I had to just admit that I needed to stop benching or I’d not be able to do ANY pressing later in life. Kinda sucky, but so what.
I’ve never lifted 4 plates on anything, really, because my lower body was always done with the intention of keeping my lower back healthy, so instead I opted for stupidly high reps like Straongfak said. It’s one of the reasons I’m so excited about the hex bar. The fact I practically hit 4 plates on my first go has reassured me that I’m not a total pussy, and can actually shift some iron if I find an exercise that allows for my mobility deficits.
To give you an idea of the sort of weights I’m working with for upper stuff, here’s what my last workouts have been:
-Pre-exhaust chest then hit 45 degree incline 100k, 5 sets of that with a 3 second negative (been using the smith for this for the last 6 months so being very careful and starting out slow - would probably be good for a 120k max, probably hit 3 plates by spring if my shoulder stays happy and I stop pre-exhausting)
-dumbbell bench with 42k bells (that’s the heaviest my gym has. I’ve used more in the past)
-Chins with 2 plates (3 I think, maybe 5? Can’t remember)
And lower body is currently a farce so let’s not go there. My only real go-to lifts are dumbbell bench and chest supported rows. I rotate through exercises fairly regularly for the sake of keeping it interesting.