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 1200

Angry cucumber

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by illusionz

Strange. I find I feel snatch grip deadlifts much more in my quads than hamstrings.

Might check my form then, was all kinds of lower back and hamstrings

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Reply 1201

Angry cucumber

Posterior chain is destroyed

Rest day today

Reply 1202

Motorbiker

Original post

by Angry cucumber

Posterior chain is destroyed

Rest day today

Eat lots, stretch, foam rolling. You'll be alright bro.

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Reply 1203

Angry cucumber

Upper

OHP

20kg 1 x 10
30kg 1 x 10
40kg 1 x 5
45kg 1 x 3
47.5kg 1 x 1

5+
52.5kg 1 x 7

Nice

Pendlay row
70kg 1 x 5
82.5kg 1 x 3
1 x 4

CGBP
40kg 5 x 10

One hand cable row
level 6 2 x 10

Rear delt flys
7.5kg DBs 1 x 12
1 x 10

Hammercurlz
17.5kg DBs 2 x 7

Not bad considering I've got a bit of an upset stomach

Reply 1204

Angry cucumber

Lower

Deadlift
70kg 1 x 5
100kg 1 x f
LOL
100kg 1 x 5
120kg 1 x 3
130kg 1 x 1

3+
135kg 1 x 3

Not well again, pleased to have got 3, if I felt well I'd have pulled 5 I reckon, no problems

Squats
40kg 5 x 10

Tfw so inflexible these days; stretched out towards the end, which was nice. I think I'm going to run these as accessory, being so light should all be good back wise. Their really good for moving fluid out my knee (it blew up Friday night/ yesterday)

Deficit deadlifts
100kg 1 x 5 with reversed grip

Cable woodchoppers
Level 5 3 x 10

Curlz
15kg DBs 1 x 10
1 x 7

Ab roll
+5kg 1 x 10
+10kg 1 x 8 or 10 I forget

Tricep pulldowns
level 2 2 x 10

Gf pulled a very ugly 102.5kg, padawan pulled 110kg

Dat teacher tho

Reply 1205

Enginerd.

Nice. What happened to that 100 f?

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Reply 1206

Angry cucumber

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by Enginerd.

Nice. What happened to that 100 f?
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Not well, just had no strength, a bit of a physche up and it flew up again :tongue:

Reply 1207

Enginerd.

Original post

by Angry cucumber

Not well, just had no strength, a bit of a physche up and it flew up again :tongue:

Cool

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Reply 1208

Implication

topkek

Reply 1209

Angry cucumber

Hungover badly and cough much worse

Bad session

Bench paused
60kg 1 x 7
1 x 5
70kg 1 x 5
80kg 1 x 3
85kg 1 x 1
3+
90kg 1 x 4
Das it

Trap bar dead lift
70kg 1 x 3
120kg 1 x 3
130kg 1 x 3
135kg 1 x 1
3+
142.5kg 1 x f
Ffs

130kh 1 x f
Well then

OHP
30kg 5 x 10

Hanging leg raises
1 x 8

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Reply 1210

Angry cucumber

5.2miles on the bike
16 mins

Been a longggg time since I last rode + cough didn't exactly aid my situation

Reply 1211

Appeal to reason

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by Angry cucumber

5.2miles on the bike
16 mins

Been a longggg time since I last rode + cough didn't exactly aid my situation

Decent pace considering. Hoping to get more use out of my bike next term, providing the weather is decent.

Reply 1212

Angry cucumber

Not sure how much training I'll manage in the next two weeks, got home at 6:30, then got to revise. Probs blast two sessions at the weekend and try and hold onto some of ma gainz which were coming nicely before my cold and end of term

Reply 1213

Angry cucumber

20mins on cross trainer

Died

Reply 1214

Enginerd.

Still training? :awesome:

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Reply 1215

Angry cucumber

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by Enginerd.

Still training? :awesome:

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Aye

Doing work at vets ATM

Start at 8, finish at 6-6:30. Come home and revise until 9-10. No time to train

Training tomorrow at bodybuilding gym

Haven't been in a year.. Physched!

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