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OG,

Because I am gigantically fat the weights are all relative, think doing a push-up or getting out of a chair with a portly 9 year old on your back, then the numbers seem less impressive.

DBasler,

I think you misunderstood (or were just having a laugh), I actually LoL’ed at the thought of pressing 145 lb d-bells overhead, that is not going to happen. I have been trying to improve my OHP so I am now trying sets of 10 to move it upwards adding 10 lbs each workout. 145 is the weight on the bar, not the weight of each dumbbell, if I could do that I would be busy fighting crime in a cape during my free time.

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Who wants to get old and what color is your cape?

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Sorry Brian, while I wish I could take credit for joking I did misread. Given what you bench I was thinking pressing 145 pound dumbbells might be within range and I remembered you recently started training at an awesome gym so I was trying to figure out if you could have possibly found two guys willing to give a go at heaving a 145 pound dumbbell into position for you.

The 145 OHP press just proves you are human which I was beginning to wonder about that given your ability to take a week or two hiatus, come back and immediately bench 400+ and squat 500+.

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DBasler,

As yesterdays workout proves, I am very human and at the moment very depressed.

Yesterday

Bench- W/Ups- 325x5, 365x1 (felt nauseous so I stopped benching, concerned I may be pregnant)

BBell Rows- 225x8x8x8

Pulldowns- weight x8x8x8

OHP- 55x10, 80x10, 105x10, 130x10 (again with the nausea)

I called it a day and went home where I proceeded to be not quite violently ill for the next 12 hours, wonderful, I have a stomach bug.

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At least you didn’t give birth to anything. Hope the tummy is feeling much better and you return soon to make us all feel like we need to bench more.

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Today

Back from the stomach virus, feeling weak and sore but ready to start moving forward again.

Today

Bench- W/ups- 325x5, 365x3, 405x1x1, 315x10 (all pauses)

BBell Rows- 235x7, 255x5, 275x4

Pulldowns- weight x7x5x4

OHP- 55x10, 80x10, 105x10, 130x10, 155x10

Skipped accessory stuff and went home for a nap.

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Stomach bugs drain the life right out of ya!

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Damn you and your auto 405 bench magic!

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Today

In an attempt to squeeze in a double workout before Thanksgiving I managed to do a 1/4 workout, so that sucked.

Bench- W/Ups- 325x5, 265x3, 405x1

Squat- 165x5, 265x3, 345x2, 415x1, 485x1, 545x1

Got de-motivated, went home, typed this.

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Though you say it’s 1/4, that’s a ton of great lifting. Happy Turkey-Giving day.

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GV,

Thanks.

Today

After a nice 6 day break of eating and watching my daughter play in 2 holiday basketball tournaments (finishing 1st and 2nd) I went back to the gym re-motivated and ready to do some work, that mindset ended during my warm-ups, but I did train anyway so…

Bench- W/Ups- 325x5, 365x3, 405x4 (back on track)

BBell Rows- 235x8, 255x6, 275x5

Pulldowns- weight x8, x6, skipped last due to elbow acting up

OHP- 60x10, 85x10, 110x10, 135x10, 160x10

DBell Curls- 65’s x8, 75’s x6

Pushdowns- Skipped

Not a bad workout but not awesome either.

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Today

Last “heavy” workout for 30 days

Squat- 165x5, 255x3, 345x2, 425x1, 495x1, 555x1

Deads- 225x3, 315x2x2, 465x1

Starting on Thursday I will be attempting the 10,000 Kettlebell Swing Challenge (and all it entails), that coupled with some prowler and sled work will be my only training for 1 month, I am doing this on a dare from my kids so I probably have to finish it.

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I think you’ll be losing significant body fat and maintaining strength on the 10,000 swing challenge and please document the torment.

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GV,

Well it seems like you might be right, swinging bells is not my new favorite pasttime.

Today

Day one of my personal 10,000 kb challenge, utter disaster, I am woefully under prepared cardio-wise for this.

KB Swings- 50lb x 25 x 25 x 25 x 25 x 25 x 25 x 25 x 25 x 25 x 25 x 5 yes that is a 5 not a 25, 255 was the limit, I nearly passed out.

alternating with

Clean and Press- bar x 8 x 8 x 8 155 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5

Prowler x 70 lbs - 40 yd “sprints” x 4

This may have been the most cardio I have done in 20+ years, I feel like I am dying 6 hours later.

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Thats crazy work! i am curious to see how long you will be sore from it

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[quote]BrianHanson wrote:

This may have been the most cardio I have done in 20+ years, I feel like I am dying 6 hours later.[/quote]

Good work.

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New Year, New Post,

I did not complete the 10k KB Challenge, it seemed like a good idea in my mind, but it was a bad idea in reality, 10,000 hinges for a guy with a few herniated Lumbar Discs is an exercise in stupidity, my brain figured that out around rep 300 and my body figured it out at 6300+ I completed 6000 reps in complete denial, possibly a new PR.

The downside is once again not completing a program…the upside is that my ass now looks like a pair of ripe 15 lb pumpkins stuffed under a bedsheet…actually that is a downside too. So back to messing around with weights in anticipation of a March 29 meet.

OHP- w/ups- 155x15, 185x8, 215x5
Squats- w/ups- 280x15, 320x8, 360x5
Pullovers-135x20
Bench- w/ups- 325x8, 345x5, 365x3, 385x3, 405x3
BBell Rows- 225x12x12
SLDeads- 225x15
DBell Curls- 65’s x8x8
Neutral Grip Chins- 3,3,2 (I am fat)

I will do this for a week or two then try one of those 8 week peaking cycle programs then hurt myself before the meet (but after I have paid).

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A few herniated discs is good for the soul. Benching still looking solid.

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GV,

Thanks.

After my 3 hour workout on Thursday I have been contemplating how best to approach my meet goal for March, so once again I have settled on the program most likely to hurt my motivation between now and then, everything/everyday, I’ve done it before with some good success, but I always give up after the “mystery pain” sets in, not this time though, this time I will grind it out until the March 29 meet, this will allow me to see if it is a viable program for the long-term. Here is what I have done so far:

1/5/14

Bench- w/ups- 320x2, 340x2, 360x2, 380x1, 400x1, 420x1

Squat- w/ups- 365x2, 405x2, 445x2x2, 495x1, 525x1

Deads- 315x2, 405x1x1x1, 455x1, 475x1, 405x2x2

BBell Rows- 275x2x2x2x2, 300x1, 225x5x5

Shrugs- 315x8, 365x8, 405x6

1/6/14

Bench- w/ups- 280x5, 320x5, 360x1, 380x1, 400x1x1

Squat- w/ups- 365x1, 405x1, 445x1, 495x1, 555x1 (w/loose wraps)

Deads- 315x1x1, 405x1x1x1, 475x1, 405x5

BBell Rows- 245x5x5, 275x3, 185x12x12

Dips- 45lb plate x10x8x8

My goal is to autoregulate and stick to 5 workouts per week when feasible, as an old dinged up fatass it is often not possible to do much more than just show up and push around some lower weights for a day or two, but I am going to give this the old college try, it’s the program that I have made the most progress on, and the program that has fucked me up the most so we will see if 12 weeks is enough time to get strong without getting broken.

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Today

The plan continues day 3 nothing negative to report, after reading other logs I have realized that I am not the only stupid SOB doing this everything every day plan, I now feel vaildated.

Bench - Barx10, 135x8, 225x5, 275x3, 325x2, 350x2, 380x2 (all pauses)

Squat- 135x5, 225x3, 315x3, 405x2, 455x2, 505x2 (all nice and deep, I stopped because I am a quitter)

DBell Shrugs- 120’s x10x10x10

Deads- 185x3, 275x3, 365x3, 415x1, 465x1, 495x1

Whole thing took less than 1 hour, yay.