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

Northerngal


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.....

Thanks for popping in;
 

Enjoying the deload then.......

I'll swap yah all I'm doing at the mo is downloading

crying freeman

Enjoying the deload then.......

Deload weeks should be banned.
The fun continued tonight with some leg work.

Front Squats -with the fat bar
90 x 12-10-7
would've been 8 on the last set but the blasted thing was rolling forward all  the way through the sets. The worst thing is I'm not entirely and completely sure I havent jiggered my back in attempts to keep the fkkin thing on board. It has mangled my beautiful delts that's for sure

I know, I thought, I'll keep it a bit lighter for the back squats
90 x 12-10-8
Made me sweat like a malaria victim and felt worse than the 140 for similar reps from a week or two ago.

I also did some sitting down machines stuff but I felt grim so I binned it and went home. I think there may be a certain amount of "You're doing it wrong." involved in my deload week

Mentions to Deadward for explaining 5/3/1 training in a way I have finally grasped the principle.

So you've actually done it then. Strike me down.

It is hard to get your head round. There's a few approaches I guess (an dnot being much of a strnegth trainer there might not be much science here) but...

a) just do whatever but take it easy and don't stress about it.
b) lighter weight, maybe a few more sets on the main compounds and do speed work (altho that would be better utilised built into your routine properly I guess)
c) same heavier weight but just half the reps

I generally find that when I have taken a step back on the 1st main compound all the following stuff I can either cake walk it with my usual weights as I'm not fatigued, or in fact go heavier but just for a few reps and still find it fairly easy.

dirtyvest

c) same heavier weight but just half the reps

I should've done this option I reckon.
It would've been better for the ego and also, I think it is the volume that is killing me rather than CNS overload. To be honest I am tempted to do a couple of weeks of strength work in the 5rep range for the main compounds. On the other hand I am seeing the fruits of the labour at the minute and am just about nudging towards being in the best shape I've ever been in so I don't really want to rock the boat too much.

Back has deffo suffered a slight jiggering from the front squats. Quite high up at about L1.
Not too bad though and it was almost worth doing as 90 x 12-10-8 fronts on the fat bar is probably worth about 100 on the normal one, maybe a bit more.
I do like a front squat, would love to get a 140 on that at some point.

Calves are now just a quarter of an inch off my target of 16" .

dirtyvest

c) same heavier weight but just half the reps

This. Or seeing as though your an aspiring PL, 8 sets of 2 at a near-max but not quite maximum percentage, or triples etc etc. Something that'll keep your confidence high shfiting decent weight, and you get to concentrate on explosive bar speed without going all out volume wise?

The thing I like about c) personally is that my body is still holding the weight so that the next week when I get back to full intensity I haven't lost the feel of the weight (this most notably help me with pressing more than pulling TBH).

More deloading.

Biceps
EZ curl
40kg x 8
50kg x 6/6/6/

Incline D'bell
20kg x 6
18kg x 6/6

Seated Curl
35kg x 8/8/8

Meh! No pump, felt very much as though I had done the best part of bugger all. Shows me that if I did go back to a 6-8 rep range then I'd have to start humping some chunky weights. I am tempted. Sanity might also predict joint problems though. It kind of reminds me why I switched to a higher rep range and more volume in the first place.

Gymnastic abs
I was going to get someone to film my efforts as a form check but there was no-one upstairs that I knew. So I ventured downstairs into the resistance machines room and did some paused flags. I got a bit shy - what with everyone stopping what they were doing to watch- so I didn't dare ask anyone to man the phonecam.
Maybe just as well. There are now no hex d'bells so I had to do my L-sits on the pressup D-ring things. These were quite high and I was pulling some very odd shapes trying to get my balance between the phases. When I eventually finished/fell off, a yummymummy came over to ask "Are you a gymnast?" LOL she had obviously thought all my floundering was some kind of routine. Anyway she engaged me in pleasant conversation about how she used to do some gymnastics and how she'd just been to see some French acrobatic troupe, the highlight of which had been their ability to do a 'flag' which they then jigged up and down a pole. Oh dear, I could see where this was heading...
YmmyMmmy: "Can you do the flag?"
jedi: "Errr no, haven't quite mastered that one."
YmmyMmmy: "Oh........"

Wimmin No doubt if I had been able to do the flag she would've said;
"Oh, can't you do the moving it up the pole part?"
No doubt if I could do that she would've said doing it with one hand would be better.

She was quite nice though
...looked a little bit like a darker Alison Goldfrapp

hey dude! long time no posting! glad to see your still going at it!!
when you talk about flags do you mean dragon flags? ive just youtubed them and they look evil! and then i tried them and they felt even more evil! in fact I couldnt do them at all! ah well something to work on!

anyway hopefully i might manage a bit longer before disapearing again this time! (but I doubt it)

jedi


More deloading.

Biceps
EZ curl
40kg x 8
50kg x 6/6/6/

Hmm bet there's a few that wish this was their norm in training.

LOL there was a lad at my place the other day doing some mad gymnast/acrobat stuff. Very impressive, more impressive was the fact that throughout his time doing it he never came close to twatting me either.

[mod hat off]However, I am disappointed that you didn't grab the opportunity to suggest, thru innuendo, the chance for the yummymummy to do some of her own pole work. She was clearly setting you up perfectly for such a remark[/mod hat off]

BTW, saw this and thought of you

dirtyvest

[mod hat off]However, I am disappointed that you didn't grab the opportunity to suggest, thru innuendo, the chance for the yummymummy to do some of her own pole work. She was clearly setting you up perfectly for such a remark[/mod hat off]

I was rendered dumb by the magical golden band; 3rd finger left hand.

Imsimon


hey dude! long time no posting! glad to see your still going at it!!
when you talk about flags do you mean dragon flags? ive just youtubed them and they look evil! and then i tried them and they felt even more evil! in fact I couldnt do them at all! ah well something to work on!

anyway hopefully i might manage a bit longer before disapearing again this time! (but I doubt it)

I can't do 'em either mate so you're no worse off there.
Not long until the summer mate so better to try and stick with it or suffer serious 'shorts-shame'

crying freeman

jedi


More deloading.

Biceps
EZ curl
40kg x 8
50kg x 6/6/6/

Hmm bet there's a few that wish this was their norm in training.

"NORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Powerdeloadlifting

Squat
60-90-140
160 x 3 no wraps and sub basement level depth
wraps on
170 x 3
took a slight spot on the last rep and the general thought was that I would be disappointed having hit 170 x 5(with some spotting) before. Not so as I absolutely buried them for depth, well below parallel. I was more than happy.

Bench
60-90
110 paused
120 paused
125 paused
130 epic fail
not so pleased with that.
Thought I got the 125 very easily but was nowhere near the 130. i was pausing them for quite a while but to be honest I'm not convinced I'd have got the 130 touch n go. It just felt heavy and I am deffo out of practice for heavy bench.
Gutted.

Deadlift
70-110-140-150
170 x 8 full stop, pause n reset reps. Never done heavy reps before.
140 x 15 bonk n go -fairly comfortable started to blow a bit at the end.

To say you're de-loading mate your strength is still very impressive.

RACK


To say you're de-loading mate your strength is still very impressive.

Not impressing anyone, least of all me, on the bench.

You might want to look away for the next bit mate


I had some company yesterday and suddenly realised that to someone not on a carb-conscious BB diet the menu was going to look a bit like bland on bland with a side order of bland. Quick panic and then thought, "What would Ramsay do?" So, after I'd finished saying "Fvck." and "Yes?" and "Done." and "Fvck." and "Oh for fvcksaaaakes." a lot, I knocked this up;

It was described on the menu as;
bitter cheesecake with raspberry coulis on a spicy ginger shortbread.

What it actually was;
quark piled as high as physically possible on a homemade cornflour ginger biscuit
..with jam on.

Was nice.

I had some company yesterday

A potential future Mrs. Jedi?

No.13

I had some company yesterday

A potential future Mrs. Jedi?

Friends: The One With The Proposal Pt.2

Joey: Chandler is a complex fellow, one who is unlikely to take a wife.

that looks like a burst abscess