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 1560

redbuthotter

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by Angry cucumber

Aye but due to shoulder I can't press, should have done a row variant like a pendlay in hindsight though.

Knot is still there today

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I know that feel too... ur just pretty ****ed lol. Focus on rehab?

Reply 1561

Angry cucumber

Don't ego squat
Do ego squat
Ego squat
Ego. Squat
Squat
Skwat

Skwats
20kg 1 x 5
40kg 1 x 5
60kg 1 x 5
80kg 1 x 3
90kg 1 x 3
100kg 1 x 3
110kg 1 x 3
120kg 1 x 2 could have gone for another rep to equal PB but depth and form wasn't great
125kg didn't attempt once I unracked. Backs and knees aren't to be broken for egos

Leg extension
Up to 84kg 3 x 10

Facepulls
Up to 30kg 3 x 10

T bars
Up to 75kg 1 x 5
Set up was nasty so stopped

Pendlays
60kg 1 x 5
90kg 3 x 5 PB
Can't do maths. Can do gainz. Awesome, form not as nice as a demo video but it was gains.

T bar like seated machine that is odd
Up to 65kg 1 x 5
60kg 1 x 8

Tricep pushdowns 30kg supersetted with 12.5kg DB curlz. No stopping
10/10 x 2
10

Gym closed

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Reply 1562

Squirb

Thought you did not condone leg curls at all

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Reply 1563

Angry cucumber

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by Squirb

Thought you did not condone leg curls at all

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Extensions? Yeah I don't condone them. These were super super light despite being apparently 84kg. I was waiting for gf to finish deads before getting the bar so was just playing around tbh :smile:

Don't do them, they end knees :tongue:

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Reply 1564

Squirb

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by Angry cucumber

Extensions? Yeah I don't condone them. These were super super light despite being apparently 84kg. I was waiting for gf to finish deads before getting the bar so was just playing around tbh :smile:

Don't do them, they end knees :tongue:

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Yeah extensions haha my bad, it's been a long day

Ohh I see, fair enough

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Reply 1565

Implication

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by Angry cucumber

Extensions? Yeah I don't condone them. These were super super light despite being apparently 84kg. I was waiting for gf to finish deads before getting the bar so was just playing around tbh :smile:

Don't do them, they end knees :tongue:

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Do they actually 'end knees' themselves or do people just not train hamstrings as much so end up with knee pain from imbalance?

Reply 1566

Angry cucumber

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by Implication

Do they actually 'end knees' themselves or do people just not train hamstrings as much so end up with knee pain from imbalance?

I tore my meniscus on it, so I'm somewhat biased

However having done a fair bit of reading - it loads your VMO, medial meniscus etc (i.e. everything on the inside quad/ knee area) and doesn't load much else meaning you snap your stuff up as at the best of times your VMO plays second fiddle to your vastus lateralis/ rectus femoralis in just about any movement... largely as they're a lot bigger. It also doesn't load your hamstrings and no normal movement loads one side without the other.

Hamstring curls are good though as they don't attach onto the patella :smile:

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Reply 1567

Implication

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by Angry cucumber

thank you doctor cucumber

Reply 1568

Enginerd.

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by Angry cucumber

Hamstring curls are good though as they don't attach onto the patella :smile:

Hamstring curler here, have a good few sets before I squat to loosen them and warm them up.

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Reply 1569

Angry cucumber

Pair of rides from 10 days or so ago

13.1 miles
45:03

12.4miles
50:47

Today
6.2miles
23:47
In heavy rain and an inch of water on top

Reply 1570

Angry cucumber

Deads
60kg 1 x 5
80kg 1 x 5
100kg 1 x 5
120kg 1 x 3
140kg 1 x 3
150kg 1 x 1
155kg 1 x 1
162.5kg 1 x F
140kg 1 x F

Eurgh. Ffs. Lost it mentally again + I thought knot had gone from back but not so. I was subconsciously hip shooting cause it wasn't at all comfy. In hindsight should have stopped at 140 and just said nah.
Anyways if this is what I think it is and a muscle pull... It's infuriating as that leaves me a full blown Mr Glass. Again. Ffs ffs ffs.

Lat pulldown
Level 12 2 x 8
Level 13 1 x 8
Level 14 1 x 6

Hamstring curls
Up to 35kg 1 x 12
1 x 10
1 x 8

Tricep pushdowns
Up to level 9 2 x 8

Preacher curl machine
10kg 1 x 5
12.5kg 1 x 10

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Reply 1571

Enginerd.

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by Angry cucumber

Deads
60kg 1 x 5
80kg 1 x 5
100kg 1 x 5
120kg 1 x 3
140kg 1 x 3
150kg 1 x 1
155kg 1 x 1
162.5kg 1 x F
140kg 1 x F

Very strong deadlifts, what was your previous max?

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Reply 1572

Angry cucumber

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by Enginerd.

Very strong deadlifts, what was your previous max?

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I failed it lol. PB is 160kg for 3

Analysis of my deadlift tomorrow

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Reply 1573

Enginerd.

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by Angry cucumber

I failed it lol. PB is 160kg for 3

Analysis of my deadlift tomorrow

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155 is damn strong!

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Reply 1574

Angry cucumber

Might have over done volume per time
Feel sick and shaky lol

Leg press
Up to 280kg 1 x 15
1 x 14.5
Walking was interesting for 5 mins after this

T bars
Up to 95kg 1 x 3 technically a PB but it was all over the place. I think I'm suffering the effects of failing the DL
80kg 3 x 7

Then gym emptied. I was the only person in it. So did sort of superseting on movements. Was walking from one machine to the next. Having a minute the going back to the first machine.

Lat pulldown
Up to level 14 1 x 7
1 x 8
1 x 8-10 I forget/ lost count

Hamstring curls
20kg 1 x 5
30kg 3 x 15
My walk is shaky

Fly's cable
Level 4 1 x 5
Level 5 4 x 8
Pump of peace

Facepulls
Up to level 8 2 x 10

Tricep pushdowns
Up to level 10 2 x 10

Preacher machine
15kg 2 x 8

1hour 10 session. Volume 210ish reps lol.

Shoulder feeling better

Figured out why I rep deads so well yet suck pulling ones. I don't engage legs/glutes at the bottom on first rep. I get an inch off the floor then engage usually as I'm wondering why it won't come up. Second rep onwards legs engage off bottom and I can rep it out well.

Might be operating tomorrow. The way I feel atm means that it could be interesting :lol:

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Reply 1575

Angry cucumber

Fish and chips cured all symptoms

#cleaneating

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Reply 1576

Angry cucumber

Skwats
20kg 1 x 2
40kg 1 x 5
60kg 1 x 5
80kg 1 x 5
90kg 1 x 5
100kg 2 x 5
Back twinched, I choose life I've spent 9-10 months of my 2 years lifting injured. No point doing anymore.

OHP
20kg 1 x 5
30kg 1 x 5
40kg 1 x 5
45kg 5 x 5
Shoulder fixed. Going to add weight :smile:

Cable row
Up to level 9 1 x 10
1 x 8
1 x 10

Hack press machine
127.5kg 1 x 5
That machine must claim so many knees. It's lethal

Hamstring curls
Up to 40kg 2 x 8

Lat pulldown
Up to level 15 3 x 7
All kinds of lat gains atm

Lateral raise
5kg DBs 1 x 10
1 x 12

facepulls
Level 9 1 x 8
Level 7 1 x 12

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