The Return of the jedi-This is not Sparta. This. Is. Madness.(now incl. Race to 100kg OHP)

BacknBis

Chins
back to super-strict pulling high
12/12/8

High Pulldown
110kg x 12/10/8
+dropset

Closegrip Pulldown
77kg x 12/10/8
+dropset

Seated Row
49kg x 12/
then young Michael gets rush of youthly vigour and drops the peg down to
65 x 10 then
77x 8
+dropset

EZcurl
40kg x 8/8/6 (took some off the first set and it was better will try for 3 x 8)

Incline curls
14kg x 12/10/8

Seated curl
35kg x 12/10/8 (just barely)

It started off too hot in there last night and increased from there to sauna as more bodies arrived.
I think I was melting at one point and now...
I have a humungous zit on my back where the arm hole of my vest was rubbing
I may sue
If you're listening Loughborough Leisure Centre
"Turn the air conditioning ON!!!!!!" FFS

Filmed my mighty gunz in action on the seated curl as evryone seems curious as to what it involves. Trouble is the 35kg is a bit too heavy at present so, although we were getting the reps, the form was not that great. Anyways I'll probably post it up later to remind me I don't always make a decent fist of strict technique.

Ooooookay.........
 
Seeing as you don't have the financial clout to carry off a MANBAG......
 
Gloves or chalk.......why do you need both?  and surely gloves can be carried ON YOUR HANDS
 
Belt.....again, you wear it.....apart from ab work and cardio which even Mr Jedi wouldn't wear a belt (girdle) for, would he?
 
phone........it's rude to take a mobile onto the gym floor.....heathen.
 
drinks bottle....fab and marvey. Do they not have a water fountain? hope it's not plastic....toxin poisoning vair unattractive in the already incapacitated
 
straps....don't even get me started on straps.....an unhelp.....not required
 
other items.....am curious.  Ipod, walkman......mooosac of some kind?
 
Of course, if you ditch the video camera, film crew and stills photographer....it might not be sooooo STUFFY in the Leeeeshire centre.
 
HTH
X

I didn't say I needed any of it
Plus I am not catering solely for personal needs re the availability of my chalk n straps etc.
Am like a walking red cross parcel.

The drinks bottle makes a guest appearance in next vid so stay tuned.
(it's metal)


Have just attempted to perform a zit-ectomy on my back with errr mixed results.
I don't think the fruit was quite ripe.

ChrissieG

Seeing as you don't have the financial clout to carry off a MANBAG......

Ouch!

Here is the vid of the seated curls which have been baffling everyone.
As I said earlier this is not a great examle of the genre in that you can see the weight is forcing my elbows back on the recovery after the first couple of reps and bring a bit of shoulder in as a consequence. Much better if the elbows are locked in place. That said, these are still better than standing curls.
Please note my drinks bottle lurking in the background
...watching, waiting, planning its revenge.

Arms are looking really good in the vid mate!

RACK

Arms are looking really good in the vid mate!

Cheers mate
...although they are outstripping the calves now which is just not quite right.

Shoulders
Smith Press
70kg 12/10/8
85kg 5 75kg 3 65kg 3 40 10 (slight spot of wonky-jedi bar loading there ooops)

front raise hammer grip
16kg x 12/10/8

lateral raise knuckle forward standard style
14kg x 12/10/8

rear raise
12kg x 12/10/8

Arnold press and v-press (after heavy bench)
20kg + 14kg x 12/10/
24kg + 14kg x 8

plus some cables.


Excellent session, probably the best performance on shoulders for quite some time.
Will try moving up to 18 for the front raise next week and then 24 + 14 for the Arnold press/v-press superset which is going to be pure agony.
Shoulder a bit sore this morning but not too bad.

Also did some dragon-flags which were videoed and was pretty pleased with the form. Probably better than I was expecting so will post that up later.

great exercise...all you need is the rocky 4 theme tune 'hearts on fire' playing in the background lol

Impressive numbers on the pressing mate.

Will have to wait til I get home to see the vid as can't get it at work

IB - I was the most pleased with those flags than anything else I've posted.
This does not seem to have been an opinion shared elsewhere -LOL.

Rack - I think the pressing is even more impressive when you take into account the asymmetric bar loading. I rilly gotta stop doing that.


Was heavy night tonight but I wimped out of the bench until tomorrow due to sore shoulder. I also made a rickets of my squat where I made very heavy weather of 150 compared to last week meaning assaults on 170 had to be postponed.

Next came deadlifts for which I donned a very fetching pair of blue neoprene tubes to protect my shins. Having spent the last two weeks in my shorts looking a complete urchin with kicked in shins. They looked so damn sexy-boyyyyy that the whole gym went into a bit of tizzy and there was soon a fkkin queue to do deadlifts
...I sh!t you not.
All of which added a bit of pressure which turned out to be a good thing as I got a nice
180.
On the downside, that was the only lift that felt 'right' and I still have a whole heap of wotameyedoin to conquer. Also, young "I eat weights for breakfast" Michael managed 180 on his first try at deadlifting
Game on.

In other news back in the changing room I.....I...think I may have been the object of a
PuRVuRT
There was a bloke in there 'reading a book' (??? - not to mention wtf?).
By reading I mean holding book vaguely in front of face
...whilst watching hot naked jedi action.
Who can blame him.

I resisted the urge to wave it at him or do 'helicopters'

impressive vidz Mr Jedi, just one thing though...
how about you lift up the shirt and show us the 6 pack?

Don't.
No.
Nay.
Titter ye not.

I am already having horrible paranoias that my changing room PuRVuRT and internet stalker might be one and the same.
Gripes

...the one time I forget to turn comments off.

You should've done the Mangina!!  That would've confused the hell outta him.

Nice deadlifting mate.

How's the eating and diet going now?

RACK


You should've done the Mangina!!  That would've confused the hell outta him.
Nice deadlifting mate.
How's the eating and diet going now?

He was probably already confused not having seen one that looks like that before.

The eating and dieting hmmmm well I am trying my best to keep on reduced cals for another week or two to take some pix and do a write-up of what I've been doing. But in taking that mental foot off the gas I seem to be letting more things slip in under the radar. Not too bad as yet although I have put a few lb's on to 12st 2-3, I am putting this down to the new squat regime.

Deads were good last night am slowly coming to enjoy the feeling, that 180 was ace. A heady mix of fear and adrenaline fuelling a performance I didn't really think was on. I'm suffering a bit in the pelvis region this morning plus, jedi-industries patented shin protection system is going to need some more development I reckon. Still look as though I've had an IRA punishment beating this morning

jedi
I'm suffering a bit in the pelvis region this morning plus, jedi-industries patented shin protection system is going to need some more development I reckon. Still look as though I've had an IRA punishment beating this morning

you're right, it does work quite well;)

^LOL
That gif reveals the woman's (well) hidden genius.
She should be on Newsnight to do that in response to politicians' answers.

Did some heavy bench before squats which I think went;
60/90/115/125/140
...without actually pressing the 140
But it was good to lock horns with the beastie, look it full square in its fiery eye and tell it to fcuk off. It certainly wasn't a case of it sinking like the Titanic all the way down to Davey Jonesjedi's chest, never to move again. I reckon I got quite a big piece of it on the way back up and definitely think it is on the menu.
PaperJackwriter also had a bash and got more than a decent piece of it. I think he might well have pressed it if it had been agreed beforehand to let him make a life or death struggle rather than stepping in with a bit of mercy spotting.
Young Michael blasted 110 then struggled a bit on 115 which is odd
...and I wasn't pressing the bar down on his chest. Honest.

On to legs.
Squat
60 x plenty
100 x some
120 x 3
140 x 5 (there might've been a few more available)
110 x 12/ 10/ 8
110 x 5 90 x 3 70 x 3

Leg Ext
77 x 12/ 10/ 8 +dropset(fairly comfortable on that may have to move up...great)

Ham Curls
70 x 12/10/8 +dropset (up a weight = hard)

Leg Press
Stack x 12/10/8 + dropset (heels on bottom of plate and not locking out)

plus some calves.

Pleased with the squatting as the 140's felt okay after Thursday's 150 debacle. I think I might need to start doing some heavy walkouts as it's entirely possible that 'the fear' is involved on being nervous under 150+.
Moved up on the rep sets mainly due to Young Michael obviously busting his guts and making me reflect that I wasn't really working hard enough. This is probably still true as I managed 12/10/8 on the 110 and it made me puff and blow a bit but really I should be moving up to a place where I physically can't quite get 12/10/8 at the start.
The idea of 30 reps on 120 is not hugely attractive at this point though.

I forgot to mention that Friday saw the launch of jedi-industries patented camping roll squat protection system. It worked perfectly and it was definitely a major bonus being able to see the actual middle of the bar rather than guessing. I'm still a bit uncertain whether the foam rubber will stand up to the folding though. I have a fear it might get the same fatigue fault that causes the old pipe lagging to split.
Dammit.

I may also have been too hard on the sexxxy boyyy shin padding as well; as, although, I got bruised they haven't lasted into the weekend which is nice.

Back and hamstrings have tightened up a fair bit but think that was from Friday's squats.

Gotta say mate, I'm well impressed with your strength.

RACK


Gotta say mate, I'm well impressed with your strength.

Cheers, it's been a bit of a surprise, as up until a few weeks ago I was
1. training mostly for 12/10/8 reps
2. having disasters in the squat -to the point that giving up was looking likely
3. not doing any deadlifts

I'm really pleased to have found a simple technical solution to the squat debacle (return to parallel stance), enjoying the deadlift a lot more than I thought I would and pleased that strength is coming back or possibly even better on bench which I am failry sure is due to the base built on those extra reps. I really hope my shoulder feels a bit better now I'm not doing paused flies as I reckon, if I have both arms to push with, there is an outside chance of geting to that 140 bench which has always just eluded me.