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 400

Hype en Ecosse

I don't envy you having to do DB lunges - hate them! Such a boring, annoying movement. :tongue:

Expect to see constant PBs now after all that squat success.

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Reply 401

Angry cucumber

Constant PBs crew

Bench
20kg 1 x 5
40kg 1 x 3
60kg 1 x 3
80kg 1 x 3
85kg 1 x 2
90kg 1 x 1
92.5kg 3 x 3 PB First 2 unspotted, last one spotted. Last rep of last set was grindy, spotter may have touched it, might not have.

DB OHP
15kg DBs 1 x 5
25kg DBs 3 x 8 PB A set, rep PB is a small but significant PB to have

Cable flys
level 5 1 x 8
level 8 3 x 8 PB? Damn hard to get into position, but once in position, light weight

Curlz
15kg DBs 1 x 10 PB
17.5kg DBs 2 x 5 PB?

DB facepulls
15kg DBs 3 x 8

Knee is really swollen from leg extensions yesterday.. time to drop them I think.. will have to see what I can do for my quads instead

Reply 402

Motorbiker

Very solid DB OHP!

Reply 403

Angry cucumber

Recovery was shocking the last few days, sleep has been fine in quantity but not quality... however gains were to be had.

Couldn't regular OHP today due to a guy benching.. more about him later. Also my left knee is swollen from leg extensions still so I skipped my leg work :frown:

Chin ups
BW 1 x 5
+10kg 2 x 4
1 x 3
+5kg 1 x 3
BW 1 x 3

DB OHP
10kg DBs 1 x 8
15kg DBs 1 x 5
25kg DBs 2 x 10 PB
1 x 9 Just couldn't grind the last rep out

Curlz
10kg DBs 1 x 8
17.5kg DBs 1 x 4 lol
15kg DBs 2 x 6

Dips
+20kg 5 x 5 PB I can dip a lot more, but shoulders were knackered, might start doing 5 x 5 for them on my non bench day

Cable rows
level 12 1 x 8
level 14 3 x 10 PB?

Got GN sample packs.. blueberry cheesecake is beautiful

The guy benched 115kg for 7 x 3 today. Then I shared the dipping station with him... he had 75kg on his belt and he did sets of 3 and 5 for 5 sets.. and he's natty. Beast.

Reply 404

Scoobiedoobiedo

There is a natty guy in my gym who hit a 220kg squat for 3 reps the other day... He's black though, so you know.... Half natty.

Reply 405

Angry cucumber

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by Scoobiedoobiedo

There is a natty guy in my gym who hit a 220kg squat for 3 reps the other day... He's black though, so you know.... Half natty.

Massive legs right there! I think the guy I was working with has a squat 1rm of about 220kg, I'll ask him next time I see him. He weight 83kg as well.. I'm at 86-87 kg.. I feel pathetic :lol:

Reply 406

Angry cucumber

Bench
20kg 1 x 5
40kg 1 x 5
60kg 1 x 5
80kg 1 x 5
90kg 1 x 1
92.5kg 1 x 4(5) PB
1 x 5 PB
1 x 4(5)
I had an "it's all you" moment on the in bracket reps, I might have been able to lock them out but my spotter was all over the bar
Might move up next time depending on how I feel.

DB bench for volume
40kg DBs 3 x 4

Pullups
BW 1 x 5
+ 5kg 3 x 3 PB
BW 1 x 3

DB OHP
30kg DBs 1 x 3 PB
1 x 1
Nightmare to clean but I can finally rep them out. Fresh I reckon I've got 5 in me

Feel terrible today, I think I'm getting sick or I'm drastically undereating, just so tired despite sleeping alright. I should have had 92.5kg for 3x5 and more but such weak feels.

I shouldn't be complaining a session with 3 PBs... but I could have had much better PBs on another day!

Knee still sore :frown:

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 407

Scoobiedoobiedo

Nice bench! 100kg soon!

Reply 408

Motorbiker

Beastly session.

Totally catching/caught up with my bench now.

Reply 409

Angry cucumber

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by Scoobiedoobiedo

Nice bench! 100kg soon!

Cheers

100kg in like 8 weeks I think, not going to be doing much lifting over Easter due to home gyms being dreadful

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by Motorbiker

Beastly session.

Totally catching/caught up with my bench now.

Cheers, not a bad bench for 6 months training I think :smile:

I was far from a beast today, I was wobbly, my form was breaking, I felt dreadful.. all cured by a whole pizza.. who'd have thought lol

Hoping for a beastly OHP on Friday

Reply 410

Hype en Ecosse

Still heavier than me. :tongue:

Have you found anything that's okay on your knees yet? Might just be that you have to take a couple of weeks out before getting back to things like the leg extensions.

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Reply 411

Angry cucumber

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by Hype en Ecosse

Still heavier than me. :tongue:

Have you found anything that's okay on your knees yet? Might just be that you have to take a couple of weeks out before getting back to things like the leg extensions.

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It'll be fine in 3 or 4 days I think, it's still swollen as I've run on it more than once playing ultimate frisbee (don't hate, it's good cardio :tongue:

) I've rested it for 3 days and the swelling is almost gone.

Reply 412

Reps4Jesus

Have you only been lifting 6 months? I've nearly been lifting 6 months and I only bench 50kg :///

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Reply 413

tehforum

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by Reps4Jesus

Have you only been lifting 6 months? I've nearly been lifting 6 months and I only bench 50kg :///

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see start date of the thread

and it says he was a bro for a year, so lifting for 2 years

though maybe not as efficient as he wanted to be.

50kg 5x5?

Reply 414

Reps4Jesus

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by tehforum

see start date of the thread

and it says he was a bro for a year, so lifting for 2 years

though maybe not as efficient as he wanted to be.

50kg 5x5?

Yeh but only started eating properly since mid-January. Prefer using dumbbells now though and I'm currently doing 22.5kg (4x7)

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Reply 415

Scoobiedoobiedo

I've only been lifting properly for 7 months and I bench 110kg+ for reps. :colone:

Reply 416

tehforum

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by Scoobiedoobiedo

I've only been lifting properly for 7 months and I bench 110kg+ for reps. :colone:

enough toblerone for you son

Reply 417

Scoobiedoobiedo

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by tehforum

enough toblerone for you son

No toblerone, not for a good 5+ weeks anyway. I'm dieting, no chocolate for me.

I'm natty. YoutubeNatty

Reply 418

Angry cucumber

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by tehforum

see start date of the thread

and it says he was a bro for a year, so lifting for 2 years

though maybe not as efficient as he wanted to be.

50kg 5x5?

No I lifted for a few months and had a PB of 60kg for 1 x 5 on DB bench which is nothing, I never squatted to depth and I had never deadlifted when I stopped. I trained for a marathon for 6 months, I did no weight training of any kind. I have been lifting for 6 months.

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Reply 419

Scoobiedoobiedo

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by angry cucumber

no i lifted for a few months and had a pb of 60kg for 1 x 5 on db bench which is nothing, i never squatted to depth and i had never deadlifted when i stopped. I trained for a marathon for 6 months, i did no weight training of any kind. I have been lifting for 6 months.

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