Spliced and diced - perhaps one day, a little shredded!

Welcome to my blog :biggrin:

This is quite possible the most convoluted blog on TSR. It started off nearly a year ago with me being a gym bro, doing one body part a day and making precisely nought progress. This changed in the spring with me deciding to run a marathon with two flatmates. So I spent the spring and summer running and running some more! When it came to the marathon in September, heat and drinking Lucosade sport almost killed me; but I got there, with an awesome sprint finish. Time was 3 hours 59mins 30 seconds. I planned to run it in under 4 hours so I got there just :biggrin:

I might have been able to run it faster if it was cooler and I just drank water and ate jelly babies like I did in training :tongue:

Anyway, returned to lifting and some cycling after a few days of not being able to walk. Was a bit of a gym bro again, not much in the way of routine. Realising that I was wasting my time, I'm now doing a bastardised SS, with pullups/chins and Tbars/pendlay/cable rows/ inverted rows instead of power cleans. I progressed was going well, however a prior back injury flared badly which led to me stopping squatting and deadlifting

I then tore my meniscus and I had surgery for that 8 months later, which meant lower body work. I stopped lifting for a while as an attempt to heal it. I also started swimming.

My knee still isn't sorted but I'm back in the gym having had another 2 months off training post knee operation. Hopefully 2015 will be the year I can train properly!

Any questions, feel free to quote or PM

Never forget - "Push yourself, push yourself until you can think there is no more you can do, then take another step and another. One foot infront of the other; there is always more in your tank, you just have to believe.
Reach your potential - you can conquer any challenge, great or small. You know it. I know it. Now do it."

AC

Current PBs as of 05/3/14

Squat 1rm 125kg
3 x 3 120kg

Deadlift 155kg 1 x 5

Pause Bench 107.5kg

Pendlay rows 87.5kg x 3

Lifting bro style from first session

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(edited 10 years ago)

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Reply 1980

Angry cucumber

Was sore this morning

Trained @5:30 and 2 cheese and pickle sandwiches was today's total nutrition

Deficit deads
Up to 155kg 1 x 3 PB
160kg 1 x 2 PB
165kg 1 x 1 PB
Just a daily Max. Misgrooved 165, right lat was slack

DB OHP
Up to27.5kg DBs 1 x 10
1 x 8
1 x 7

DB row
50kg DB 1 x 10 PB

Incline bench
Up to 32.5kg DBs 1 x 8
1 x 5

Tricep pushdowns
Level 4.5 1 x 20
Level 5 1 x 20
1 x 15

Lateral raise
7kg DBs 1 x 20
8kg 1 x 15

Curlz
EZ + 10kg 1 x 12 then rest pause to 20

Intense as **** session

Now sat in front of a free large Dominos pizza

Did 26mins cardio earlier - in vermilion city now :biggrin:

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Reply 1981

Angry cucumber

Sprained my ankle on Wednesday night

Big PBs today
DB OHP 27.5kg DBs 3 x 9 PB

Lat pulldown
Up to 200lbs 2 x 8
Forearm pump of peace

Deadlift
60kg 1 x 5
100kg 1 x 5
130kg 1 x 3
162.5kg 1 x 1
170kg 1 x 4 PB
Started to fail on grip but I just about held onto it

Paused Bench cause gym full and gf benching
40kg 1 x 5
60kg 1 x 5
70kg 1 x 3
80kg 1 x 2
90kg 1 x 2
95kg 1 x 1
100kg 1 x 1
105kg 1 x 1
110kg 1 x 1 PB Flew up. Have a lot more in the tank - maybe as much as 10kg.
Confirms that my weak point was in my shoulders. OHP 4 dayz

Lateral raises
7.5kg DBs 3 x 20
Sucked

Tricep pushdowns
Level 5 2 x 20
1 x 15

Cable row maxed out
1 x 20

DB curlz
17.5kg DBs 2 x 9PB
Curl PBs are the most important
12.5kg DBs 2 x 10

Facepulls
Level 3 2 x 10

Finished training at 7. I've eaten an apple and a cheese sandwich all day. Who says you have to be full to train?
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Reply 1982

Angry cucumber

And as I looked sexy as hell when getting changed

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Reply 1983

Motorbiker

Original post

by Angry cucumber

Sprained my ankle on Wednesday night

Big PBs today
DB OHP 3 x 9 PB

Lat pulldown
Up to 200lbs 2 x 8
Forearm pump of peace

Deadlift
60kg 1 x 5
100kg 1 x 5
130kg 1 x 3
162.5kg 1 x 1
170kg 1 x 4 PB
Started to fail on grip but I just about held onto it

Paused Bench cause gym full and gf benching
40kg 1 x 5
60kg 1 x 5
70kg 1 x 3
80kg 1 x 2
90kg 1 x 2
95kg 1 x 1
100kg 1 x 1
105kg 1 x 1
110kg 1 x 1 PB Flew up. Have a lot more in the tank - maybe as much as 10kg.
Confirms that my weak point was in my shoulders. OHP 4 dayz

Lateral raises
7.5kg DBs 3 x 20
Sucked

Tricep pushdowns
Level 5 2 x 20
1 x 15

Cable row maxed out
1 x 20

DB curlz
17.5kg DBs 2 x 9PB
Curl PBs are the most important
12.5kg DBs 2 x 10

Facepulls
Level 3 2 x 10

Finished training at 7. I've eaten an apple and a cheese sandwich all day. Who says you have to be full to train?
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Db OHP pb with 27.5?

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Reply 1984

Angry cucumber

Original post

by Motorbiker

Db OHP pb with 27.5?

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Indeed yes. Edited now

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Reply 1985

Angry cucumber

Froze my arse off watching rugby in the rain

Went to gym after

Deficit deadlift
Up to 155kg 1 x 5 PB

DB OHP
Up to 30kg DBs 1 x 6

In and out 20mins

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Reply 1986

Motorbiker

Still can't comprehend your awesome db pressing skills compared to me. Very jelly.

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Reply 1987

Angry cucumber

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by Motorbiker

Still can't comprehend your awesome db pressing skills compared to me. Very jelly.

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Youve got to be stronger than me!

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Reply 1988

monsterzero

Solid bench

Reply 1989

Motorbiker

Original post

by Angry cucumber

Youve got to be stronger than me!

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Stronger with a barbell but I can't db press 27.5s. I use 22.5s!

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Reply 1990

illusionz

is that seated or standing DB press?

Reply 1991

Angry cucumber

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by illusionz

is that seated or standing DB press?

Seated can do 25s for reps standing

Reply 1992

illusionz

Original post

by Angry cucumber

Seated can do 25s for reps standing

Fair. When I did them in 5x5 I could do 28s for like 6x6+ paused. Could never even get 5 reps of the 30s lol. Now I'm not sure, probably 24s or 26s.

Reply 1993

Motorbiker

Man I really really need to work on my db pressing.

I have the strongest barbell press of us all but the weakest db press.

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Reply 1994

Angry cucumber

Went on a bar crawl last night. I no longer seem able to get drunk, I was remarkably sober all night lol.

Felt v.tired until snickers duo kicked in when DB pressing

Trap bar deadlift
Up to 180kg 1 x 1
185kg 1 x 1 PB
Glutes didn't fire making this slow af lol

DB OHP
Up to 2 x 7 PB
1 x 4
Gainz
Did standing in warm up up to 25s

DB row
50kg DB 2 x 8

Lateral raise
10kg DBs 1 x 20
1 x 15

Tricep pushdowns
Level 5 2 x 20
1 x 15

Facepulls
Level 3 3 x 12

Alcohol carb loading gainz
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Reply 1995

Angry cucumber

Deficit deads
Up to 157.5kg 1 x 5 PB
160kg 1 x 2 PB
Fast. Working on getting lats tight

Somewhat buried myself though and was really CBA from then on

Paused bench
Up to 100kg 1 x 3
105kg 1 x 1
Don't know why I went so heavy having done shoulder work yesterday and after deadlifts

Pullups
1 x 14
1 x 6

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Reply 1996

Angry cucumber

Trap bar deads
110kg 1 x 4
150kg 1 x 3
160kg 1 x 1
172.5kg 1 x 5 PB
Misgrooved rep 4. Made life hard, nearly had a a heart attack before going for last one

OHP
50kg 1 x 5
55kg 1 x 3
60kg 1 x 7 PB

Deadlifts errryyyyday atm

Going well

Ate 23 Tesco mini doughnuts post tea last night. Anabolic as ****

Reply 1997

Angry cucumber

I am Bulgarian

CBA Deadlifting again to prove that though. Anyways

Incline bench
22.5kg DBs 1 x 5
25kg DBs 1 x 5
30kg DBs 1 x 5
32.5kg DBs 1 x 8
35kg DBs 2 x 6 PB?

DB row
50kg DBs 2 x 10

Lateral raise
10kg DBs 2 x 15

Tricep pushdowns
Level 5.5 1 x 20
1 x 17
1 x 15

Facepulls
Level 3 1 x 10
Level 3.5 2 x 10

Hammercurl
20kg DBs 1 x 8
1 x 6 PB

Rear delt raises
5kg DBs 1 x 10
1 x 15

Then 25mins cardio playing Pokémon
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Reply 1998

Angry cucumber

Playing with fitnotes

7,798kg of volume today. Das it mane

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Reply 1999

Motorbiker

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by Angry cucumber

Playing with fitnotes

7,798kg of volume today. Das it mane

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Nice. Think I hit 18k during my deadlift session but with deadlift then RDL both for high reps and sets I had over 10k after two exercises.

Yesterday's squat workout was 9960

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