Husband and wife do TT...mostly husband however!

[Terry Monk]

Nice job Chris! Your wife sounds like she's really starting to get into it now. Nothing like it when she starts wanting to "max out"

Very nice job, my compliments to you both!

[Chris D]

RB, Thanks for the congrats on the loss. Like I said. if I can stay away from the bad foods we'll be doing good! On the intervals the first 2 weeks are at 6 intervals. After that it jumps to 8 on non squat days. So you've still got a few weeks to build up to them. When I do them on the bike I want to puke afterwards!

GR, Yeah it gave me hope for her. That she might be a little more serious about this lifting than I'm giving her credit for. Now we just need to tweak the diet a bit and then she'll really see results!

[kuri]

Keep it up Mr & Mrs. Dorr! You both are an inspiration.

Sometimes it's fun to have little competitions (loser buys a healthy dinner ) to measure yourselves and treat yourselves at the same time.

Your like me in having to constantly keep the diet in mind - keep it up.


PS- don't miss the live UFV event Monday night.

[Chris D]

Kuri,

Thanks for the props. I like the idea of the healthy dinner. I'll have to figure out how to get that competition going.

Going to try and catch the UFV on Monday, but we'll see about that. Probably catch a couple of them but not all of them.

CD

[bobby]

Congratulations on the weight loss! Looks like TT is a pretty tough program. Have you found any guys to train strongman with yet?

[Chris D]

Bobby,

No strongman stuff yet. I think the only way that will happen is if I start getting my own equipment. I've been tempted to make some stones and get some farmers implements, but we will see about that.

TT is pretty tough. Or is as tough as you want to make it.

Thanks for stopping by.

CD

[Chris D]

Workout October 4th, 2005: Week 4, Day 1
Morning
Wife talked me into doing the intervals this morning. Not sure if I like this or not, but I’m going to give it a try for a couple of weeks. Any thoughts on this? Craig if you are reading this I'd appreciate any comments (below has a bit more information as well).

Intervals - on bike (3:00 warmup,:30 hard/1:00 minute rest(6),4:00 cool down)

Lunch Time

A1 - DB/BB Squats - (DB) 2×8@80 per hand/(BB)8@175
A2 - Chin-ups 3×6@BW

B1 - Split Squats 3×8@40
B2- Ab Curl up 3×10

C1 - Wide Grip Seated Rows - 3×12@95

Ab work to be done at home tonight with the wife.

Comments:

I didn’t think much of this workout. I think it was because of 2 things. 1 - Doing intervals in the morning made it seem like there was less work. I’d like some thoughts on this (is it good or bad for fat loss or am I losing muscle by doing this; I usually have half a banana or some other carb to get the system going again). 2 - Not being able to do the full set of BB Squats. And the reason for that was because some large Mofo was squatting. I think he was a powerlifter. He was at 365 when I walked in and managed to do a triple at that weight. I was impressed. Then he did 405 for a single. Only thing I’d have to say is that he wasn’t going deep enough, but he was going further than a lot of other people I’ve seen. So that’s why I didn’t get in all the BB Squats I wanted.

I really need to stay away from strength sites when I am “cutting” because it makes me want to drop this program. But I am going to do at least 8 weeks of this. At that point I will see where I am and see if I want to go back to strength. It’s not like I don’t have plenty of fat to lose!

[TrainingGirl]

Do you mean is it good/bad for fat loss and are you losing muscle by doing your intervals in the morning vs. after your weights? Or are you asking if you should do intervals at all?

[Chris D]

Good or bad for fat loss by doing intervals in the morning on a fairly empty stomach. Sorry for the lack of clarification.

CD

[kuri]

Intervals burn copious calories hence I believe they are good for fat loss.

Cool that your wife is the one talking you into intervals - great support team you have!

[Chris D]

Kuri, yeah she talked me into it. I think it provides her with extra motivation. I think she's finally getting into this. [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm a happy man!

[kuri]

Mutual motivation is a beautiful thing. Use it to it's fullest CD.

[Chris D]

Workout October 6th, 2005: Week 4, Day 2

Morning:

Intervals – Bike 6 of them (should have been 8)

Lunch Break:

A1 – DB RDL – 3x6@75
A2 – DB Bench Press – 3x6@75

B1 – Reverse Lunge – 3x10@35
B2 – Single Arm Shoulder Press – 3x10@30

Comments:

Not much new to report really. Weights are exactly the same as last week. I concentrated on lowering the weight a bit slower to work the muscle more and then trying to explode upwards (DB Bench Press).

For some reason the RDL’s felt really heavy. Wonder if it was because I did intervals this morning.

Wifes Workout:

As I’m drifting to sleep last night the wife says “Do you think we can up the weight on the Bench Press.” So that’s what we did.

A1 - BB Bench Press – 3x8@60 (+5 from last time)
A2 – DB RDL’s – 3x8@25

B1 – Underhand row – 3x10@45 (we switched from doing these on the cable machine)
B2 – Stability Ball Leg Curl 2x15, 10

Intervals – On bike 6 of them!

Comments:

Weight on the bench press was a bit more work for the wife, but she got them all out without any problem. We’ll stay here for a week and then go up to 65. We need to up the weight on the RDL’s as well. Wish they made 2.5 lbs. Increments in DB’s. Perhaps we’ll switch back and forth from 25’s and 30’s next time.

On the stability ball leg curls she was finally doing them with her butt off of the floor the whole way. I’ll be pushing her to do these all the time now. She still hates them, but knows they are working her.

Great workout for the wife.

[Chris D]

A1 - Squat - 3×8@175
A2 - Chin-ups 3×6@BW

B1 - DB Split Squat 3×8@40
B2 - Ab Curl up 3×10

C1 - Wide Grip Seated Rows - 3×12@90

Weight: 206.8 (weighed on Friday)

Comments:

A pretty good workout actually. I found that when I took it nice and slow on the squats that it was easier than blasting through them. Perhaps this means I have slow twitch fibers that make me a grinder.

Everything else was kind of ho-hum.

Not sure what program I am going to do next on Turbulence training, but after quickly looking at them I think I’ll just go onto the next one which is 2K3. At that point I might call it good depending on if I do this meet Chad is trying to talk me into.

[kuri]

Chad W.? A powerlifting meet?

Keep progressing.

[Chris D]

Kuri,

I should have cut that part out about Chad. Chad is a guy in Iowa that I converse with at another site. He's trying to get me to do a powerlifting meet in February. I'm not sure if I'll do it or not. We'll see.

[Craig]

Any more feedback on the intervals in the morning?

[RacerBill]

I agree with you on the 2.5 increments on DBs. Maybe some fitness equipment manufacturer reads JPF and has noted this all over the place.

You both are doing great! The Mrs. is really making some dramatic gains.