5kg's Snippets of a workout

I think I work better with logs/journals than Trogs, so high time I started a log here.
 
Over the past few weeks, I've managed to hit my previous PB of 75kg DL and to surpass it with the current DL PB standing at 77.5kg. I have to add, though, that I haven't been doing much on the DL front of late, so I'm very happy with the resultant PB.
 
I love the old lifts, and have also increased my old PB of 25kg in  the 1-finger DL to a current 29kg (that's one middle finger, not using both hands).
 
My latest KB Jerk is 24kg and I'd like to work up to a 28kg KB Jerk, eventually.
 
I lift for fun, primarily, but any strength or muscle is a bonus; so this log may have some weirdness to it. I hope people will find this log interesting.

 
 
Hmmmm, I'm intrigued, I'll be keeping my eye on this journal. Looking forward to reading more.

I suffer from Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (yep a syndrome) but it makes the arms turn blue/grey and things can get very painful; even doing lightweight flyes and rows can cause pain for 15 weeks, after one session, if I just happen to have a bad day that day.
 
However, though heavy lifting is contra-indicated for people with the condition, something I started suffering from after an accident in my childhood, I prefer to lift and push the limits. It does mean, though, that certain exercises are not compatible such as pull-ups, mainly because when the arms are overhead the power drops off significantly. With overhead work I tend to limit the duration of the set, no matter what the weightload and it took me a few sessions to realise why I was having issues with 3kg weights (a few years ago) yet I had the strength to go higher...only then did it dawn on me that it was the length of time the set was taking to complete.
 
It's one thing I have to keep a strict eye on because it is a degenerative condition, if it is pushed; having said all that, even carrying rucksacks causes blue arms depending on the weightload or the weather and the weightload conmbined etc.
 
 
Some weird lifts that I do are STDs, as I term them for the fun of it, which are Shopping Trolley Deadlifts, done when the trolley is full; it started as a gag when hubby was concerned about the weight of the goods we'd bought and he wanted to go for a walk around town to get something from another shop, at which point  informed him that if I could lift it, then I could carry it. Of course, grabbing the meshed wire of the trolley makes it somewhat uncomfortable but it's fun and a challenge.

A few of the strange challenges I've done this year:
 
A) 1,000 full push-ups (no time limit) completed in 5 days
 
It took my body 3 weeks to recover from that stupidity which I should have been more aware of anyway, so that was my own fault.
 
B) DB bench press (7RM load used for 1 set to failure) 10 reps completed with 19kg DBs.
 
C) BW dips (5 minutes time limit) 48 reps completed.
 
D) DB rows (5 minutes time limit) 94 reps completed with 16kg DB.
 
Male load was set at 40% BW, with females being permitted 20% of BW but I upped it to 25% because I figured that 20% BW was too easy and therefore unfair. As many as possible in the 5 minutes and swapping of hands was permitted as necessary.
 
E) Deadlifts (10 minutes time limit at 50% of 1RM; which was 75kg at that point in time) 96 reps completed with 37.5kg.
 
I was completely exhausted after that challenge.
 
F) DB lateral crucifix hold (no time limit) completed 56 seconds, and later got to 57 seconds.
 
Male load was set at 10kg, in line with the World Record weightload for the challenge; but, since I'd never get 10kg into place, let alone hold it, I reduced it by 50% to fall in line with the supposition that females generally have around 1/2 the upperbody strength of a male.
 
 
 
Hoping to do some more whacky challenges next year as well.
 
 

28 Dec:
 
1,680 kg Total Load Work
 
Just a short 15-minute session today, just chillin'.

good luck with your training & managing your syndrome - you sound like your doing a pretty good job of that already.
 
I like the sound of shopping trolley deadlifts

I've never heard of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, will Google it to learn something new.
 
Like the sound of some of the challenges you have done, the deadlifts challenge sounds like a shortcut to pain to me.
 
Good luck with everything, I'll definately be dropping in regularly to see what you are up to.

59


good luck with your training & managing your syndrome - you sound like your doing a pretty good job of that already.

I like the sound of shopping trolley deadlifts

Thanks 59.

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I've never heard of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, will Google it to learn something new.

Like the sound of some of the challenges you have done, the deadlifts challenge sounds like a shortcut to pain to me.

Good luck with everything, I'll definately be dropping in regularly to see what you are up to.

Thanks, though the log may get a bit boring at times or just plain weird.

I consider this a daily life workout Plenty of arm and fullbody work done, as well as getting normal daily activites sorted. So...
 
 
Today, we taxied to various places just so that hubby could get some fresh air; he had a short walk in between shops but not much.

My workout today was just to push a wheelchair with hubby in it and a disabled trolley attached to the front, though we did fill the thing to bursting point, those things are not big enough for a decent shop. I ended up picking the wheelchair up, with him in it, to pull it to one side a couple of times too; he says, "Did you just lift this thing?"

I ended up asking a member of staff to get me a bigger trolley and pushed hubby in the wheelchair with one hand and simultaneously dragged the full trolley with the other arm. We got it done, in the end!

You get some odd looks when you're using two arms for two different purposes and steering a trolley and a wheelchair around corners, with one hand on each, is really a test for the shoulders and grip.


He would have wheeled himself around but it's too much for the body, as he found out when he came out of hospital a few days ago, so that's why it fell to me to do so.
 
 

29th Dec:
232kg Total Load Work


Just a quick 2-minute session, wanted to try something out, so this wasn't really a session as such.

Looking back at 2011, it has been a weird year; hubby has been ill, for quite a duration of the year (had an operation and expected a year long recover process for the intial stage and then took a turn for the worse and having to take things one day at a time, at the moment) and training seems like it has been really sparse, mostly due to the above complication. On the upside, however: I managed to lose 17 lbs of bodyweight, without trying; have increased my PB in the deadlift and in the 1-finger deadlift, and the overhead jerk (left side).

I can't complain at that

 
I realise there hasn't been much workout stuff logged here so I've put a couple of days up (in this post) from last month; hubby was in hospital, I'd found out that my eldest brother is seriously ill as well, and I had 2 sessions of a prepaid card to use up, so I decided to throw some weight about for stress relief...plus, at the moment I can't access my barbell . The "Fitness Centre" doesn't have a lot to offer, if you don't fancy treadmill work or machine based work; with the squat rack safety bars even being too high for me and non-adjustable, hence the double session of back-to-back deadlifts.
 
 
DLs (19th Dec)
10 x 40kg
5 x 45kg
3 x 50kg
2 x 55kg
2 x 60kg
1 x 65kg
1 x 70kg
1 x 72.5kg
1 x 75kg
2 x 60kg
8 x 40kg

Some other stuff as well.

DLs (20th Dec)
5 x 40kg
5 x 45kg
3 x 50kg
3 x 55kg
2 x 60kg
1 x 65kg
1 x 70kg
1 x 72.5kg
1 x 75kg
0 x 77.5kg [missed, not important, just curious]
5 x 60kg
2 x 50kg
10 x 40kg

Some other stuff, but tired today and just wanted to use up the last prepaid visit that I had available.
 

This is a very good journal, hope you keep it up.
 
Sounds like you've had a real tough time recently, I love the way you come over as so positive despite everything that you are going through and I think it's great that you still manage to get some gym work done.
 
People like you are much more interesting to follow and I think you are very inspirational indeed.
 
Looking forward to more and I really hope things start to improve for you this year, good luck with everything.

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This is a very good journal, hope you keep it up.

Sounds like you've had a real tough time recently, I love the way you come over as so positive despite everything that you are going through and I think it's great that you still manage to get some gym work done.

People like you are much more interesting to follow and I think you are very inspirational indeed.

Looking forward to more and I really hope things start to improve for you this year, good luck with everything.

Thanks

10/Jan/2011
 
OHP
20 x L/R
20 x L/R
20 x L/R
20 x L/R
20 x L/R
20 x L/R
20 x L/R
20 x L/R
20 x L/R
20 x L/R

Goblet squats
100  [paused in the bottom position]

Plank
2 mins 20 sec (not pushing it)

Finger C&Ps with KB
Thumb:
10 x L/R
Index finger:
5 x L/R
5 x L/R (oh the pain of a 1" handle)
Middle finger:
5 x L/R
5 x L/R (1" handle aggro, pain)
 
[All lifts cleaned from the floor, the thumb clean is really awkward but doable]
 
KB Snatches
30 x 5kg R/L  (1-minute time limit per arm)
  
 
I had a 5kg KB hanging around so just decided to throw an ad lib session together.

This last few days of sleep deprivation finally caught up and there was no way a heavy session of rack pulls,  which is what I had planned,
was going to be wise...so gentle KB-ing and some finger pain was the order of the day. A 1" KB handle on the more middle placed fingers is hell if you have somewhat smaller hands; the little finger isn't so bad because you haven't got the KB pulling on fingers either side, though I didn't do any of those but called it a day at that point.
 
More than happy to get something in rather than nothing.

An easy day, today, so just some Bottom-up Squat practice earlier...light KBs for now. Went smoothly, no cracked skull, so that's good.
 
1 KB Bottom-up Clean and Squat [R/L] for reps

2 KB Bottom-up Clean and Press and Squat, for reps [these were cool]