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Sounds like an interesting weekend. Gossip?

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Sounds like an interesting weekend. Gossip?

I dont remember a lot mate to be honest lol, I definitely talked to some asians for a while in a Kim Jong Il style accent from team america but aside from that im hazy!

20kg to go.

Dave284


Had a job interview on friday and then got totally ****ed friday night, woke up at 10 on saturday in the boot of my car with my car keys outside...

I'm sorry but I'm not letting you get away with posting that and not finishing this tale!!!

Was this another of those boozy rugby nights where you wake up in a strange place with someone's phone number scrawled on your hand and a very sore ring piece??

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain

lmao awesome night

LMC

Dave284


Had a job interview on friday and then got totally ****ed friday night, woke up at 10 on saturday in the boot of my car with my car keys outside...

I'm sorry but I'm not letting you get away with posting that and not finishing this tale!!!

Was this another of those boozy rugby nights where you wake up in a strange place with someone's phone number scrawled on your hand and a very sore ring piece??

Lol nah my arse didnt hurt unfortunately, clearly didnt get any action. No idea what happened to me but if any enterprising person had seen a pair of car keys next to an apparantly empty car then im surprised they didnt nick it!
 
Didnt get the job anyway, livid. Went to Cardiff monday-tuesday, session in welsh roid gym on Barry Island
 
deadlift
 
70kg x 5
120kg x 5
135kg x 5
160kg x 5
180kg x 8*
 
* I was going for 10, looked hopeful but I got shouted at to put the bar down gently on rep number 7. I couldve done 9 but this really pissed me off so I binned it there.
 
GM
 
70kg x 10
70kg x 10
70kg x 10
 
Dimmel
 
70kg x 10
70kg x 10
70kg x 10
 
Row
 
2 x 20
 
Leg raise
 
bw x 10
bw x 10
bw x 10
 
Good wankered monday night then went to the beach on tuesday. MP later today.

20kg to go.

Welsh roid gym not to happy about you deadlifting then?

How you liking 5/3/1? I am using it for bench only and it's working nicely.

badboy007


Welsh roid gym not to happy about you deadlifting then?

How you liking 5/3/1? I am using it for bench only and it's working nicely.

Yeah I was a bit surprised actually, I even had matts under the plates. I think its because it was on the first floor and probably had to keep the people downstairs happy. Not to worry though, the aim of this cycle is 200kg x 6 (hit 195 x 6 last week) so as long as I hit that then I dont care!
 
5/3/1 is going well mate, deadlift the best. Hard to tell with bench, squat and MP as ive been ill a fair bit and its knocked my upper body strength and squat back a bit. Im enjoying the sessions a lot though and I think its been good for me to work in the 3-8 range a bit more as I seem to be totally crap at rep maxes, especially whilst benching.  I also seem to be leaner than I have been for a while...
 
 

20kg to go.

Nice work Dave. 5/3/1 is pretty good.

Tell them to sod off about putting the bar down gently. I think most places, atleast someone has a problem with people deadlifting.
I get the odd comment, albeit considering in the grand scheme of things im not as strong, the gym has rubber floors and ivanko oly bumper plates!

My usual gym its fine, I just didnt want to cause an arguement because my mate trains there a lot and prefers to keep his head down.
 
MP
 
bar x loads
40kg x 5
47.5kg x 5
55kg x 5
60kg x 9 -equal pre swines PR, potentially had another as well
 
Chin
 
bw x 10
bw x 10
bw x 10
bw x 10
bw x 10
 
Dip
 
bw x 15
bw x 15
bw x 15
bw x 10
bw x 10
 
Reverse fly on pec dec
 
28kg x 15
28kg x 15
 
DB curl
 
10kg's x 15
10kg's x 10
 
 

20kg to go.

Yet another wank squat session because im a total ****

Squat

60kg x 5
80kg x 3
100kg x 3
115kg x 3
130kg x 7
60kg x 10
60kg x 10
60kg x 10

High pull

50kg x 5
50kg x 5
50kg x 5

Bulgarian squat

bw x 10
bw +10kg x 10

Ab pulldown

60kg x 10
60kg x 10
60kg x 10

Calf raise 2 x 15

I suck at squatting and I suck at life.

20kg to go.

Dunna' fret dave, your squat still pisses all over mine.
Life getting you down?
I've taken to watching abit of league lately, the challenge cup weekend was a corker, found myself really enjoying it - looks so ****ing taxing!

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Dunna' fret dave, your squat still pisses all over mine.
Life getting you down?
I've taken to watching abit of league lately, the challenge cup weekend was a corker, found myself really enjoying it - looks so ****ing taxing!

Yeah well mate ive left my thesis really ****ing late, ive done 3000/20 000 and i have 28 days left, so im a little stressed out.

That game was immense wasnt it, both semi's were good. It is significantly harder than union physically, just look at the match stats for the players. After a 6 nations game last year they were raving that Nick Easter had made 12 tackles, im the World Club Challenge last year the Melbourne Storm loose forward Dallas Johnson made 51...

20kg to go.

I was watching the huddersfield game with my future brother in law whos a die hard footy fan but watches the odd union game with me every now and again - even he commented on that in union its so easy to differentiate between forwards/backs, even centers/wings to an extent, but in league the physiques are more similiar, leaner, more athletic. Looks an absolute killer of a game at elite level.

The wolves game had me hooked, its probably the closest league club to me and they were probably the underdogs - amazing game! That Adrian Morley guy is an animal. I was less excited by the second semi as I thought St Helens would walk it tbh but watching beforehand, Huddersfield had won 6 from 6 beforehand?! I don't think I'd have the cardio capacity tbh...

Nick Easter is a mess, I don't rate him unfortunately. I'll definately be watching the final on the 29th though.

As for the thesis, I'm pretty bad at leaving work until the last minute, but I am the king of cram, fortunately I work best under pressure, but no doubt when I've got to do my thesis next year I'll be in an even worse a position.

28days, 17,000 words is doable, just depend on the qualithy get to it my man!

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Lol yeah im a massive last minute man too. Ive done 5000 now so coming along ok. The amount of running in league is savage to be honest, thats why my gains slow to a crawl in season I think. Hence maybe not playing this year.

Bench

bar x loads
60kg x 3
80kg x 3
90kg x 3
100kg x 3
115kg x 4

Reverse band bench w/doubled mini's

100kg x 5
120kg x 5
140kg x 5
120kg x 5
120kg x 5

Close grip for last 2 sets.

Bent over row

60kg x 12
80kg x 10
80kg x 10
60kg x 10
60kg x 10

Rack chin

bw x 10
+10kg x 10
+20kg x 10
+20kg x 7
bw x 10

Complex: deadlift, high pull, row, military, good morning, squat

30kg, 4 trips of 8 reps per exercise.

20kg to go.

Aye tell me about it, for two seasons my weight was stuck between 88-90kg.

Since April I've put on about 7kg with no noticeable increase in fat. And same as you, am debating having a year out - which kinda suits me anyway as I'll be snowed under with work this year and will be living double the distance away from my club.... and I hate Manchester's buses!

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Aye tell me about it, for two seasons my weight was stuck between 88-90kg.

Since April I've put on about 7kg with no noticeable increase in fat. And same as you, am debating having a year out - which kinda suits me anyway as I'll be snowed under with work this year and will be living double the distance away from my club.... and I hate Manchester's buses!

Lol yeah ive kind of come to the conclusion I need to decide which I prefer - playing rugby, getting injured and being in pain from my knees, or training without enforced breaks and being able to walk. In the short term im definitely enjoying walking!

20kg to go.

Deadlift

70kg x 3
110kg x 3
145kg x 3
170kg x 3
190kg x 8 PR
110kg 2 x 5

GM
60kg x 10
70kg x 10
80kg x 10

Dimmel

60kg x 15
80kg x 10
80kg x 10

Hanging leg raise

bw x 7, 6, 5

Big PR, on the track for 200 x 6 next week.

20kg to go.

Damn strong deadlift bro! that's nasty

cricket_fire


Damn strong deadlift bro! that's nasty

Cheers dude, was glad to hit it. Hopefully next time I pull I ll get 200kg x 6 for a 5kg PR.

20kg to go.

MP

40kg x 5
50kg x 3
57.5kg x 3
65kg x 8- PR

Chin 

bw x 10
bw x 10
bw x 10
bw x 5
bw x 5
bw x 5
bw x 5

50 reps

Chins

bw x 15
bw x 15
bw x 15

reverse fly machine

21kg x 20
21kg x 20
21kg x 20

Db curl

12.5kg x 8
12.5kg x 8

Cable woodchop 4 x 10

Good little session, big pump. I think Ive found a good groove with 5/3/1 now, I dont try and squeeze 4 sessions into a week, it usually takes 8-9 days per cycle. Keeps me fresh.

20kg to go.

Was that really 95 reps of chins above? ****ing lunatic!!!!     

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain

Would take me 6 hours to get that many chins out hahaha

Nice work diggity dawg!

Cheers boys!

Newsflash, today I sucked slightly less at squatting than I usually do. Id rate this performance as a 2/10 as supposed to the usual 1/10.

Squat

60kg x 3
80kg x 3
100kg x 1
107.5kg x 5
122.5kg x 3
137.5kg x 7
100kg 3 x 3 - all with a 2-3 second pause at the bottom
60kg x 10
60kg x 10

High pull from the hang

40kg x 5
60kg x 5
60kg x 5
60kg x 5

Cable abs

60kg x 10
65kg x 10
70kg x 10
50kg x 10

Squats were good tonight, I only did 130 x 7 last week. All were well below parallel, been stretching loads and got into a good place with my stance at the moment. Im still depressed that Im squatting in the 2-300lbs tho.

20kg to go.

Still pretty nifty my man! 7reps at 137.5, I think my kneecaps would explode.

Aim for the rest of the week?

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Deadlift 200 x 6
Bench not too fusses since im dick at benching still after swines, using 120, prob just tripple it
MP 67.5 x 6-8

137.5 x 7 = 170 according to the rep max calculator, all time rep PR is 140 x 8 so thats not too bad. Looking forward to squatting heavier.

20kg to go.

Nice squatting Dave. How did the 137.5kg feel compared to last week's 130kg? Ball-bustingly difficult or comfortable enough for an 140kg(+) x 8 attempt next week?

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain

LMC


Nice squatting Dave. How did the 137.5kg feel compared to last week's 130kg? Ball-bustingly difficult or comfortable enough for an 140kg(+) x 8 attempt next week?

Cheers champ, deload next week but I think the end of next cycle im using either 140 or 142.5. 

137.5 felt lighter than 130, bar felt like nothing. Ive been working hard on my set up and since I started training abs like 2months ago its really begun helping my squat form, I find it a lot easier to stay upright now.

20kg to go.

Some good squatting there dude!

cricket_fire


Some good squatting there dude!

 

Good squatting if you SUCK lol I weighed in at 87kg this morning, so I think that workout was like 1.5 bw x 7. 

I wanna squat 400lbs as soon as I can, anything less is just a bit gay really

20kg to go.

tbh once you get 400 you'll think "psh, anyone can squat 400.. once I squat 500 I'll be happy".. soon enough it'll be "ffs 10 people in the world can squat this weight at my bw.. I suck!" hahaha. It never ends

cricket_fire


tbh once you get 400 you'll think "psh, anyone can squat 400.. once I squat 500 I'll be happy".. soon enough it'll be "ffs 10 people in the world can squat this weight at my bw.. I suck!" hahaha. It never ends

Lol aware mate! Whats most annoying is that I squatted 160 4 years ago weighing 70kg, since then I cant put together a solid run at squatting, mostly due to my knees. Im not going to be playing rugby anytime soon, priorities and that!

20kg to go.

Lol!! I remember the days when you were 70kg and I was 105kg. Now you're 15kg heavier and I'm almost 15kg lighter!!!

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain

LMC


Lol!! I remember the days when you were 70kg and I was 105kg. Now you're 15kg heavier and I'm almost 15kg lighter!!!

Lol if I remember right I was 67 when you first started training me

20kg to go.

Failure to beat No. 13's MP PR lol

MP

bar x 10
40kg x 5
47.5kg x 5
60kg x 3
67.5kg x 6 (very closely missed a 7th)

Chins

bw x 10
bw x 10
bw x 8 
bw x 8
bw x 8
bw x 6
bw x 5
bw x 5
bw x 5
bw x 5

Dips 

bw x 10 - arm a little achy soooo

press up

bw x 10
bw x 15
bw x 15
bw x 10

Pallof press

20kg 2 x 15s
25kg 2 x 15s

Band pull apart 3 x 15

Band push down 3 x 20

DB curl 12.5kg's 2 x 20

Lat raise 7.5kg 2 x 10

Mini band woodchop 4 x 10

Supposed to bench today but my housemate/training partner isnt around to spot me so I swapped bench and MP around.

20kg to go.

I'm struggling to hide my inner-happiness

MP is the one sacred thing which you dont spank me on, I MUST hold onto it!!

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I'm struggling to hide my inner-happiness

MP is the one sacred thing which you dont spank me on, I MUST hold onto it!!

lol im coming for you!

20kg to go.

Dave's doing good...

deadlit

70kg x 5
70kg x 3
70kg x 1
110kg x 1
110kg x 2
150kg x 1
157.5kg x 5
177.5kg x 3
200kg x 7 - PR
140kg 3 x 3

Rack pull below the knee

160kg x 3
180kg 2 x 3

GM

60kg x 10
80kg x 8

gassed

hanging leg raise, 3 sets

Big PR, most Id done on 200 was 200 x 4 and 200 3 x 3 (incidently 200 x 5 was LMC's deadlift record which I have now reclaimed).

200 3 x 3 gave me 230 so hopefully there is a phat PR in the works one day soon!

20kg to go.

Nice reppage pb. 42.5kg to go though! ;) lolol

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

iaink


Nice reppage pb. 42.5kg to go though! ;) lolol

    

Lol fully aware, but im seriously running out of time now so I figure im not going to take a single until I get in as much training as possible. After I hit 210 for 5-6 I think I ll be in a good place to take 10-20kg out of the 42.5.

20kg to go.

Nice work on the Deadlift PB Dave!