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« Reply #80 on: January 02, 2010, 11:25:47 AM » |
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Update to say I will be updating this more often when I get back to school and back into a Strength Training class.
I've kept my diet fairly clean, still experimenting with it all, and I've been resting vigorously. (lol)
Will work on the basic core lifts once I get back again, really seeing where I stand and hopefully, getting much further this year.
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« Reply #81 on: January 11, 2010, 02:02:49 PM » |
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Ahh... Nice first day back. Lunch right before lifting and I guess I'm just going to have to deal with it.
anyways... Things weren't all that structured today. But I remember working power clean form and some other stuff...
Squats, worked up to 205 which I did twice just fine.
Some power cleans and whatnot. Kind of random stuff.
Weighted chins; 35 three times, then three weighted pulls at the same weight, then 4 weighted chins with 45#. I like what I have with these.
Will be working progressively higher as it goes on all the core lifts; Squat, Deadlift, Overhead Press, Weighted Dips, Weighted Chins, and... I should have another pull here. Maybe. We'll see, but I don't want to work FL progressions or the like at the moment.
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« Reply #82 on: January 13, 2010, 01:30:46 PM » |
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Holy shit today was good. Mostly worked cleans and hangs and whatnot, but goooddd, it felt so awesome.
Simple stuff, some pullups, some archer pulls, a little front lever work, a couple dips, and pulling down 130 pounds with one arm, just jacking around.
Other stuff, Snatching 135 pounds.
Clean and Jerking 185 pounds!
And tweaking my power clean for better form and all. I was missing a fairly key element which I will work on fixing.
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« Reply #83 on: January 15, 2010, 04:01:23 PM » |
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Tabata this today starting with air squats, then sit-ups, then pushups, then pullups. Followed by dodgeball.
So fucking sore and tired. T.T
I just want to sleep and not be sore anymore...
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« Reply #84 on: January 20, 2010, 01:53:56 PM » |
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Workout day: Fairly erratic today.
Jump-rope warmup.
Bench press: 135x5, 185x1, 175x4, 165x1.
Some overhead press and clean work throughout.
One arm pulldowns from standing +10 pound resistance (both arms): 45x5, 90x5, 125x3, 130x2, 140x1x2
(not full ROM unfortunately, but close.)
Deadlifts with random pullups around here: 95x5, 145x5, 195x3, 225x5x1.
Will move deadlifts up to 235 next time I do them. And I'm going to try and get some structure in here again.
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« Reply #85 on: January 22, 2010, 02:50:51 PM » |
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Today was a wash with mandatory strength endurance work.
Started with a 45 pound bumper but soon downed to a 35 regular plate so I could still grip it. I also think I pulled a muscle in my back a little, at least tweaked it.
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« Reply #86 on: January 24, 2010, 11:33:59 AM » |
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And now you've seen me on here  I would help, but alas I don't know sh** about the exercises that you're doing right now. I'm still at 2 handstand pushups with a wall haha. |
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« Reply #87 on: January 24, 2010, 11:46:02 AM » |
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And now you've seen me on here I would help, but alas I don't know sh** about the exercises that you're doing right now. I'm still at 2 handstand pushups with a wall haha. lol Just encouraging to know there's still some interest in my simple goings-abouts. And yes, now I suppose I have. Scary, you are. |
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« Reply #88 on: January 24, 2010, 11:56:56 AM » |
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Scary, you are.
Any particular reason why you're talking like Yoda?  |
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« Reply #89 on: January 26, 2010, 07:22:25 PM » |
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All of this is immediately after lunch too.
Warmup: Jumprope, light stretches (Made these as dynamic as I could) plyometrics circuit with 2 24" boxes, 2 30" boxes and one 48" box in order. Right leg, two hops, left leg two hops, both legs, right one hop, left one hop, both one hop, both over the boxes. Just barely made it over the 48" in the last one. Was an awesome jump I think.
Actual Workout: Work on power cleans. a lot. Feels good with 45#, feels really good with 95#, feels crap with 135#. Will be working on form a lot more I guess. Some overhead presses in between, 45# 5x right, 5x left, 115x2. Not too bad here, not really degraded much i don't think.
Swauts: 5x45, 5x135, 5x3x185. Squats felt pretty good, am fairly certain I got the depth I wanted, and my form and all felt solid, Valsalva, Spinal curve and all that.
Pretty good day.
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« Reply #90 on: January 28, 2010, 01:38:53 PM » |
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Total sleep for the week so far: ~26-29 hours. Need more sleep! Could explain minor performance drops too.
Warmup: Jumprope, stretches (Again making them as dynamic as possible), 25 crunches (cheated through really I really don't like these for so many reasons) 10 pushups.
Benchpress:
45x5
115x3
155x5x3
Weighted pulls:
BWx6
+25x3
+45x3x3
Deadlifts:
135x5
185x3
235x1x2
Worked PC form at (95#) all throughout the workout again. I think this is causing me to lose a lot of energy that I needed for the deadlifts which I couldn't complete. Will keep the weight on deadlifts next time I do them, and ensure I get more sleep these nights.
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« Reply #91 on: February 20, 2010, 11:30:57 AM » |
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Blah blah. Long time since I posted, I know.
Anyways, last workout, on Thursday, the 18th, I did the following...
Squat:
45x5
135x5
205x3x5
I think I'm going to bump my squat to 225x3x5 next time and just continue with ten pound jumps from there. Same with my deadlift and I'll see how it works out.
Overhead Press:
45x5
65x5
125x3x5
Felt really good. also got 5 at 135 before I even got started with my workout, so I'm pretty excited about how it's going to go next time.
Weighted Pull:
BWx6x2 (Had to make sure my wrists would be cool, which they were)
+25x5
65x3x1 65x5x1
Was going to do 3x3 here, but was running out of time so just did 5 with them at the end. Next time wil try and plan my time better so I don't have a repeat of this.
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« Reply #92 on: February 22, 2010, 04:55:08 PM » |
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Workout today was simple. Did some backflips, cartwheels, and other little stuff in a mini-tricking competition with some guys in gym class. Was awesome.
EDIT: Also at one point, I picked up 85 pound dumbbells, first with my right hand, next with my left, and pressed them with one hand overhead. Felt awesome.
Was not really feeling my workout today so I decided on doing a metcon after doing my deadlifts.
Deadlifts:
45x5
135x5
265x3
255x1
One, I upped the weight way beyond what I should have, because I thought I was at 245 the last time and thought it was a 20# jump, not a 30# one. Two, I believe my form was slightly off and my hips were too low, meaning I may have been able to get four, very scantly possibly five reps of that 265 if I had realized and corrected.
Then went on to perform 8 somewhat cheated rounds of:
1 Dip
1 HSPU
1 Pullup
3 Dip
3 HSPU
3 Pullup
5 Dip
5 HSPU
5 Pullup
Killed me. Lacked ROM on the HSPU's and half-jumped into the dips. I'm going to be ridiculously sore tomorrow
What I get for training strength so much though. (Instead of Metcon that is.)
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« Reply #93 on: March 04, 2010, 05:06:24 PM » |
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3-01-10
Squats:
45x5
135x5
205x5x3
Benchpress:
45x5
95x5
175x5 (Miscalculated at 165)
165x5x2
Was pretty solid overall.
3-03-10
Shoulders were sore, and I benched last time, so what was I to do? Max my dip of course!
Dips:
BWx5
+15x1 (A 10 and a 5)
+30x1 (A 25 and a 5)
+40x1 (A 35 and a 5)
+50x1 (A 35, a 10, and a 5)
+60x1 (A 35 and a 25)
+70x1 (35, 25, and a 5)
+80x1 (35, 25, 10, and a 5)
+90x1 (Two 45's! F*** yeah!)
+100x1 (A single, golden, gleaming third testicle of manliness hanging from the belt between my legs. York Barbell 100# plate, one of only two in the gym)
Maxed my deadlifts too, for the hell of it. Great results!
Deadlift:
45x5
135x5
225x1
245x1
265x1
275x1
295x1 (HOLY SH*T! My form degraded just a LITTLE bit here, but it felt so good)
315x1 (Fail. Such a fail. Got it off the floor, but my form went to hell)
Today, was good.
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« Reply #94 on: March 08, 2010, 02:56:32 PM » |
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Today was fairly epic and kind of fail. Maxed again.
Squat
45x5
135x3
225x1
275x1
295x1x2 NEW PR!
315 (3 Attempts and 3 fails)
Bench Press:
45x5
135x1
175x1
185x1
195x1 (Pretty easy and felt really good)
205x1x3 (FAILS)
200x1x2 (More fails!)
So this puts my lifts at:
Squat: 295
Deadlift: 295
Benchpress: 195
Overhead Press: 135+ (Have not yet tested max)
Weighted Dip: +100#
Weighted Pullup: +60# (Likely higher, have not tested true max as of yet)
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« Reply #95 on: March 10, 2010, 01:45:09 PM » |
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Today, sucked, to put it simply.
Failed on pretty much everything in my workout and the only thing of note I can say I did, was 2 sets of 2 ALMOST reps on weighted chins at 70 pounds.
FAIL DAY.
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« Reply #96 on: March 10, 2010, 03:37:21 PM » |
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It's okay, I have those every day.
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« Reply #97 on: March 12, 2010, 03:03:08 PM » |
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It's okay, I have those every day.
Today was okay. Worked a little on handstands, and even less but still mentionable amounts of planche and back lever work. Mostly to see what was what. For some reason today I just wanted to go with BW exercises, so I did half and half... Natural Leg curls (Full reps, concentric and eccentric controlled): 4x1 + 5x2 Overhead Press: 135x3, 115x5x2 (I think my form needs MINOR tweaking) Then dodgeball, where I got hit in the lips and a little of the chin with a volleyball, thrown full speed, head on, point blank by a gorilla of a guy who likely weighed more than 250 and was more than 6'5" tall. Strained/Bruised my mandible. Hurts. |
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« Reply #98 on: March 12, 2010, 03:39:15 PM » |
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Today was fairly epic and kind of fail. Maxed again.
Squat
45x5
135x3
225x1
275x1
295x1x2 NEW PR!
315 (3 Attempts and 3 fails)
Bench Press:
45x5
135x1
175x1
185x1
195x1 (Pretty easy and felt really good)
205x1x3 (FAILS)
200x1x2 (More fails!)
So this puts my lifts at:
Squat: 295
Deadlift: 295
Benchpress: 195
Overhead Press: 135+ (Have not yet tested max)
Weighted Dip: +100#
Weighted Pullup: +60# (Likely higher, have not tested true max as of yet)
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« Reply #99 on: March 16, 2010, 02:38:01 PM » |
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Had to max again on certain lifts in my class so...
Cleans:
95x5
135x3
185x2 (Form was kind of shitty here)
195x1 (Form kind of sucked)
205x1 (Really bad here)
185x1 (About 15 minutes later and my form was actually decent)
Bench:
45x5
(20 minutes passed before i got a solid bench)
135x3
185x1
195x1
205x1
215x1 (Form was a little odd here, my back arched a lot, unsure if it was good or bad, but thinking bad.)
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