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

Very impressive on the EZ mate.  I know what you mean about wrist and elbow issues too.  I'm cursed with the wrists of a 9 yr old so the strain can be a bit much on them.

As for the wipers......  I'd kill just to be able to do 1 lol!

Another volumisious session. Strong going on the arms, not suprised that your wrists and elbows are cursing somewhat .

I'm impressed that you had a crowd gathered for your seated curls, mind.

Powerlifting

Squat
60-90-110 -not feeling great so far
150 not too much worse
wraps on
170 -pretty decent, a good pass
Jackman makes a solid 185 and, well,  it was on the bar....
185PB
not absolutely my finest moment depth wise but I reckon it may have passed. It was there or thereabouts. Pleased because the lift went a lot better than I thought it would re strength in the legs. The worst bit was the walkout which I continue to be truly sh!te at, combined with the fear. I should be a bit more confident next time.

Bench
60-80-105
125 paused
The 125 was okay strength wise but my shoulder was starting to give me grief so I called it a day. There would be another 5 to 10 available if I was pushing with both shoulders I reckon.

Deadlift
60-110-140
180 -ripped it up to try and inspire some confidence-worked
200 full mental jacket concentration extra aggression etc -worked
220 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAA PB
Was fkkin buzzing, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up
...if I had some on my head they might've stood up too.
Absolutely stoked to pull that after making it into 'a bit of a thing'.
Five plates.................nice


Then, as if that wasn't enough, I get in the car and this is playing
I am Iron Man....come on ...it doesn't get much better than that.

The gym can be a great place at times.

A squat and DL PB in the same session. I'm impressed. Now tho, you must have more in the DL if you were to do it fresh!?!?

Solid work tho, dude. Funnily enough, I commented today on my own issues with 'fear', concerning how apprehensive I get with my PP work. I concur, it is hugely frustrating.

Haha, well done bud. Good to see you come back satisfied from a session A 530kg is pretty damn good going.

On a side note, and abit of trivia. My nan actually used to be one of the PA's to Black Sabbath, before giving it all up to work in a car dealership.

Nice one mate, well chuffed for yah, maybe your coming over the other side of the few niggles you've had lately!

crying freeman

Nice one mate, well chuffed for yah, maybe your coming over the other side of the few niggles you've had lately!

Nope. The niggles are still present and I think it really is time to listen to all the voices of reason suggesting a brief period of not trying to break PB's in every session.

dirtyvest


A squat and DL PB in the same session. I'm impressed. Now tho, you must have more in the DL if you were to do it fresh!?!?
Solid work tho, dude. Funnily enough, I commented today on my own issues with 'fear', concerning how apprehensive I get with my PP work. I concur, it is hugely frustrating.

One factor in my favour tonight was that we had to wait a bit longer between bench and deadlifting so my legs had recovered a bit. On the one hand a pure deadlift sesh would say I had more from the legs. On the other hand i don't think it should be under-estimated that this was very much a surf the momentum seize the day type of effort. I got a boost from the squat and used that to fuel the deadlift. That is a massive factor I reckon, not easy to generate from scratch. That is where the fear creeps in and takes hold whereas tonight I just wasn't giving in to it on the deadlift after the decent performance on the squat. Really subtle stuff that actually does add up to increased performance.

No.13

Haha, well done bud. Good to see you come back satisfied from a session A 530kg is pretty damn good going.
On a side note, and abit of trivia. My nan actually used to be one of the PA's to Black Sabbath, before giving it all up to work in a car dealership.

530 - dammit that doesn't sound so good, it doesn't seem very symmetrical or anything like errr I dunno 550 or something
I can see how being a PA to Black Sabbath might drive you toward a nice job in a car dealership. There's probably only so many times you want to carry a sh!tload of coke through customs in your hand luggage

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn what a day to check in on things! Congrats Jedi! PB squat and dead ~ not too shabby at all!

Cheers dK and CF. Finally, I can deadlift your squat

Some thoughts about last night.
I think the being sh1te at the walkouts stems from a combination of me using a low bar position/being a bit of a short@rse. This means I have to fetch the bar off the hooks with my back quite upright, which isn't ideal with the low bar position as it tends to want to slide, so think I am fighting that at the same time as tottering backwards.

As for the deadlift, I think I have been a bit too static at the start of the lift. Getting down, grip, re-grip, jiggle bar, faff, come to complete standstill, start to think about lifting bar. Chances of success slim. last night was much more stomp, stomp, slap belt, game face on, psych, psych, set feet to bar, bend at waist grip bar,  butt down, shins touch bar, explode.

Straight out the coaching manual

I totally get your reasoning behind the 2 in one session, dude.

I'm also with you regarding the DL approach. Fcuk the ritual side of things, if you spend too long down there pissing about before you pull it's all wasted energy, be it nervous or otherwise.... easier said than done tho when it comes to ditching those habits

Shoulders and upper back yesterday.
Nothing much to report other than my dicky shoulder is still dicky.

Managed 10-7-5 on the 34kg seated d'bells although that was deep enough to touch 'bell to shoulder, plus I have never been very good at these. Having said that I also struggled a bit on the arnold press/v-press superset and I used to fkkin rock at that. loads of people do that superset in the gym now which is kind of funny/flattering....not so funny that they will all be doing it better than me though

I love you Jedi

Give me babies nao!

daKensta


I love you Jedi

Give me babies nao!

'Kay.
How many would you like?

Love is blind to the bad hair days
...and the people trying to ruin your infatuation for you

jedi's deload week.

I don't really understand the concept of deload weeks so we will all pretend that the set on 110 on the bench kinda sorta didn't really happen

Bench
90kg paused reps 12-10-8
Het hang on I quite liked that. I am having a 'moment of clarity' here. Instead of continuing to struggle under 110 and not really get anywhere with the reps I'm going to build back up from 95-100 but doing paused reps.

Smith Incline
70kg x 12-12-12

Flat Fly
20kg x 12-12-12

Low Cable X-over
12-12-12

Skulls
40kg x 12-12-12

Some cables
Some calves
15min cardio

All that pissing around at the bottom really dulls the stretch reflex too!

I would say "nice workout", but it was a deload, and, ya know, saying "nice workout" would be pretty lame lol

Morning.......

Oooooft...SUCH a lot of catching up reading to be done here.....luckily I had a spare hour on the Stairmaster this morning... ;-)

IMPRESSIVE!!!
on many levels.........

Morning, hope you don't mind me dropping in. Can't offer anything constructive on the training side as I don't know too much really but I read your interview yesterday and it didn't half give me a laugh....but also very interesting to read how you cope with stuff.......have a good day.....

cricket_fire


All that pissing around at the bottom really dulls the stretch reflex too!

I would say "nice workout", but it was a deload, and, ya know, saying "nice workout" would be pretty lame lol

It'll be interesting whether I can remember what I was doing last Thursday by the time this one comes round though. I don't have a great history of success in that department

I don't really get the idea of deload to be honest kept thinking "this is like the longest warmup in the history of training" not my favourite thing at all.

I have less than no idea about what to do for squats later; moderately heavy for a few comfortable reps or light for 20's? Not a clue.

ChrissieG

...luckily I had a spare hour on the Stairmaster this morning... ;-)

Yeah it can be hard to get back into if you miss a few episodes; let me bring you up to date;

Harry fancied the asian girl but she secretly blamed him for killing her ex so spurned his attempts to touch her deeply. This didn't stop Ron being jealous of Harry as the Chinese bird was quite tidy so he took his frustrations out on his mandrake root. Meanwhile Hermione was all; "Wingardium Levi-oh-saaaa" and did something magical with her wand at band-camp.