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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 4 2007 16:04:00
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oasis
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Hope you feel better soon mate..take it easy.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 4 2007 17:41:54
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Thanks guys.
My own stupid fault for concentrating more on my grip than keeping my head up. Schoolboy error.
A new supplement added to the diet for a few days - Max Strength Ibuprofen 
Fingers crossed will be on the mend by the weekend and probably start back with some swimming to test the water (pardon the pun).
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 5 2007 20:44:32
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Spent most of yesterday on my back (leave it) and surprisingly managed to get a really good nights sleep.
The back felt quite a bit better today so decided I would try a bit of swimming, managed 30 minutes.
Painkillers are working well and it only hurts in certain positions and if I sneeze.
See how I feel tomorrow and I might try a cardio session.
Next weights session will be chest and triceps, hopefully sooner rather than later.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 7 2007 21:22:49
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Tonights workout
Chest and Triceps
Warm up 5 mins x-trainer
Flat BBBP 1 x 12 bar only, 1 x 8 60 kg, 5 x 8 100 kg
Incline BBBP 5 x 8 80 kg
Dips with BW (Approx 92 kg) 5 x 12
CGBP 5 x 8 80 kg
Tricep Pressdowns 5 x 8 40 kg
15 mins bike
15 mins swimming
First workout since Monday nights injury.
Took it nice and steady tonight what with the back pain and all, didn't want to aggravate it, went for volume rather than strength.
I pretty much had this workout pre-planned in my head including sets and weights but wasn't sure if I'd manage all of it, back held out really well.
Good pump in chest and triceps.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 8 2007 21:19:12
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Glad you've recovered enough to train again.
Seems like you can work with/around the injury.
Probably the right thing to do as long as you take it steady.
I know my sanity starts to suffer if I can't train even for a few days.
Hope the injury heals fully soon!
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 8 2007 21:51:47
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Cheers BTN
I'm aware of it when I'm training but I'm just taking it a bit easier at the moment.
It's gone from the crawling around on all fours type feeling to now being a tight/backache type feeling.
A few more days and normal service will be resumed.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 8 2007 22:24:08
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Just monitor how you progress back up to speed mate even if you have to drop a couple of sessions, better that than a couple of months.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 8 2007 22:33:20
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Cheers Colin
It shouldn't take too long, I've got a complete rest day tomorrow then back and biceps on Monday.
I'll take it easy again and possibly drop deads, see how I feel.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 8 2007 23:22:02
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Tonights workout
Shoulders and legs
Warm up 5 mins x-trainer
Seated OH press machine (hammer grip) 1 x 12 10 kg, 1 x 8 30 kg, 1 x 8 50 kg, 1 x 3 70 kg, 1 x 3 65 kg, 1 x 4 60 kg
Lat raises (cable) 1 x 8 5 kg, 1 x 8 10 kg, 1 x 8 12.5 kg 1 x 8 15 kg
Bent over lat raises (cable) 1 x 8 5 kg, 1 x 8 10 kg, 1 x 8 12.5 kg
Leg curls 1 x 12 30 kg, 3 x 12 50 kg
Leg press 1 x 12 50 kg, 5 x 12 100 kg
Leg extension 1 x 12 30 kg, 1 x 12 50 kg, 4 x 12 60 kg
Standing calf raises (Smith Machine) 1 x 12 40 kg, 5 x 12 80 kg
Ab crunches 4 x 30
Good DOMS in chest and triceps
Seated OH press was a step backward but I'm putting this down to all the tricep work yesterday
Didn't push it too much, back still tight and achy
Complete rest day tomorrow then back and biceps on Monday, see how we go.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 9 2007 22:36:48
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hi mate thought i would check out your journal, good improvement all the way through,hope you take it a little easy on your back,but glad its getting better mate. keep it up your doing great.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 9 2007 22:59:38
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Cheers Mark
The back felt reasonably painful this morning from yesterday's leg presses even though they were light.
Back workout tomorrow, I don't think there will be any deads though.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 9 2007 23:16:29
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no no no deads mate for a little while, i find the back is the worst of all pains as it stops you doing so much when it goes,and takes the longest to repair. anyway best of luck mate im suitably impressed with your gains so far, mark
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 9 2007 23:36:50
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Cheers mate
This first 6 months has been all about experimenting and seeing what works for me and what doesn't.
At the end of the day I'm just an average guy doing weights but trying to look like Righty Ho 
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 10 2007 21:17:05
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Tonights workout
Back and biceps
Warm up 5 mins x-trainer.
Seated Cable Rows 1 x 12 30 kg, 1 x 12 40 kg, 1 x 12 50 kg, 5 x 12 60 kg
Chins with BW (hammer grip) 3 x 6, 2 x 5
Bent Over DB Rows 5 x 12 32 kg
Seated DB Curls 5 x 8 16 kg
EZ Bar Curls 1 x 10 kg, 5 x 12 20 kg
Curls were painful on the tendons from the first rep to the last, started taking cod liver oil a week ago and it semed to be a miracle cure until tonight
Might look at cutting out bicep isolation work for a couple of weeks
No deads tonight, didn't want to risk it
5 working sets with lower weight instead of 3 seems to be working well
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 11 2007 23:27:39
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Tonights workout
Chest and Triceps
Warm up 5 mins x-trainer
Flat BBBP 1 x 12 bar only, 1 x 8 60 kg, 1 x 8 100 kg, 1 x 8 110 kg, 1 x 4 120 kg(PB), 1 x 3 120 kg, 1 x 7 110 kg
Incline BBBP 1 x 1 100 kg, 2 x 3 100 kg, 1 x 7 90 kg, 1 x 8 80 kg
Dips with BW 1 x 20, 1 x 12, 1 x 11, 1 x 10
Tricep Pressdowns 3 x 8 50 kg
CGBP 1 x 6 100 kg, 2 x 5 100 kg
Tendons hurt on first set of Incline BBBP, did 1 rep and put the weight back
Felt good overall, quite happy with that
A couple of young guys (mid 20's ) came over to me in the gym and started asking how much I could bench, what was I eating etc
I'll take that as a good sign of progress, certainly never happened before.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 14 2007 22:00:20
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Tonights workout
Shoulders and legs
Warm up 5 mins x-trainer
Seated OH press machine (hammer grip) 1 x 12 10 kg, 1 x 8 30 kg, 1 x 8 50 kg, 1 x 5 70 kg (PB), 1 x 2 75 kg (PB), 1 x 1 80 kg (PB)
Lat raises (cable) 1 x 8 5 kg, 1 x 8 10 kg, 1 x 8 12.5 kg 1 x 8 15 kg
Bent over lat raises (cable) 1 x 8 5 kg, 1 x 8 10 kg, 2 x 8 12.5 kg
Squats (Smith Machine) 1 x 12 bar only, 1 x 12 40 kg, 1 x 12 60 kg, 3 x 6 80 kg
Standing calf raises (Smith Machine) 4 x 12 100 kg
Leg curls 1 x 12 30 kg, 3 x 12 50 kg
Leg press 4 x 12 100 kg
Leg extension 1 x 12 50 kg, 1 x 12 70 kg, 1 x 8 70 kg
I normally follow chest/triceps with shoulders/legs the day after, the 2 rest days in between made all the difference.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 14 2007 22:47:42
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ORIGINAL: oasis
I'll make a push for a 40+ section!!
I guess that was a tongue in the cheek suggestion, but it's got some merit as long as it didn't detract from the other sections. I guess there are quite a few topics which become higher profile the older we get. Ok, so I'm in my 60th year and desperately need all the help I can get (lol), but I don't feel it really - maybe just the odd twinge here and there which takes longer to recover from.
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RE: The 40 plus journal - Dec. 14 2007 22:53:32
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Apologies for the oversight 40 plus, I should have said congratulations and well done for everything you've achieved so far, it seems to working out well for you apart from the occasional lapse! Keep the log going. Must get down to my own journal over Christmas.
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