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 4080

Angry cucumber

FitNotes Workout - Wednesday 9th July 2025

** Hammer Strength Chest Press **
- 70.0 kgs x 5 reps
- 90.0 kgs x 3 reps
- 110.0 kgs x 8 reps
- 110.0 kgs x 8 reps

** Cable Pulldown Machine **
- 89.0 kgs x 10 reps
- 89.0 kgs x 13 reps

** Standing BTN **
- 60.0 kgs x 8 reps
- 60.0 kgs x 5 reps

** Dumbbell Row **
- 80.0 kgs x 10 reps
- 80.0 kgs x 10 reps

** Skullcrusher **
- 35.0 kgs x 8 reps
- 35.0 kgs x 8 reps

** Dumbbell Preacher Curl **
- 25.0 kgs x 12 reps
- 25.0 kgs x 8 reps

Reply 4081

Angry cucumber

Not been posting but have been lifting. I'm ending the blog here. TSR app keeps logging me out and it's a pain having to find my password everytime and my blog no longer appears in my read or watched coloumns.

This blog is a piece of me and I am sad to end it here.

I started this blog at 19 and I'm 31 now, I started as a student, it's follows me from angsty, somewhat aggressive at times teen to the apathetic old man I am now. Everything from my marathon is documented here to benching 3 plates and squatting 4 to coaching my girlfriend (now wife) to nationals

Many thanks to everyone who has been a part of my journey.
TSR fitness for a time about a decade ago was a genuinely brilliant place, ch0c0h0lic, Smack, Motorbiker, BSR, Appeal to reason, Illusionz, Mikey, Harrison, Michaelxyz, all massive parts of what made my early lifting "career" and I enjoyed myself immensely.

I enjoyed my time as mod of this section too, even if I did get fired!

Anyways, enough of the ramble, I did get spliced and diced. Never quite shredded though.

We are all gonna make it brahs.

Reply 4082

Angry cucumber

Lol in classic me fashion I've forgotten about half a dozen good people here, you all know who you are. Sae.HH, implication, unistident, gone revising etc etc etc
Love to you all bros x

Reply 4083

Smack

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by Angry cucumber

Not been posting but have been lifting. I'm ending the blog here. TSR app keeps logging me out and it's a pain having to find my password everytime and my blog no longer appears in my read or watched coloumns.
This blog is a piece of me and I am sad to end it here.
I started this blog at 19 and I'm 31 now, I started as a student, it's follows me from angsty, somewhat aggressive at times teen to the apathetic old man I am now. Everything from my marathon is documented here to benching 3 plates and squatting 4 to coaching my girlfriend (now wife) to nationals
Many thanks to everyone who has been a part of my journey.
TSR fitness for a time about a decade ago was a genuinely brilliant place, ch0c0h0lic, Smack, Motorbiker, BSR, Appeal to reason, Illusionz, Mikey, Harrison, Michaelxyz, all massive parts of what made my early lifting "career" and I enjoyed myself immensely.
I enjoyed my time as mod of this section too, even if I did get fired!
Anyways, enough of the ramble, I did get spliced and diced. Never quite shredded though.
We are all gonna make it brahs.

Sorry to see you going. You've had quite a varied fitness "career" so far, so hopefully you're going to keep at it, doing what you enjoy.

You mention some names I've not seen in years! Those were the days. It's a shame this place is so quiet now...

(edited 3 months ago)

Reply 4084

Aristotle's' Disciple

Hey, it's Sae.HH, can't seem to find details for my other account... or maybe it was this account and I changed the name. Either way I just randomly decided to come here after years and saw the mention.

I think about this place at times and the good days. I'm still lifting but elbow tendonitis has limited my push a lot over the last year. Also 31 and very into the software and tech industry where I've managed to do very well for myself so that takes up most of my time these days. I actually miss blogging here and would consider blogging again but it seems like the old guard have all decided to hang it up (except Smack, keep going for the rest of us!) Hope everyone is living their best lives!