| The Training Log Log your workouts here. Get support and critiques |
 |
|
05-12-2008, 07:11 AM
|
#271 (permalink)
|
|
Senior Hamster
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,297
|
Quote:
|
A bit of an ego boost last night as I was getting dressed to DJ a party: my dress shirts no longer fit, as in the sleeves have gotten just a hair too short
|
Just gotta ask... did the lifting make your arms LONGER too? 
Stopping in to check out your log... LOVE the tshirt!

__________________
Bytsi
Hamster training log
A lot of NEAT one day is NOT "useless" if the next day the scale doesn't move. -- Aoife
Be careful about reading health books - you may die of a misprint -- Mark Twain
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 07:20 AM
|
#272 (permalink)
|
|
Ben. Just Ben.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: CLT
Posts: 6,838
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bytsi
Just gotta ask... did the lifting make your arms LONGER too?  
|
Yeah, RedLefty's got nothing on me now 
__________________
Facebook
No Magic Pill (the blog)
No Magic Pill (the log)
liftSTRONG Challenge
"If you do not find time to become and remain healthy, you will be obliged to find time to be ill." --George Hackenschmidt
"These Canadians lure you with their kindness and Eskimo stories and then WHAM...you're bent over an IHOP trash can, pants around your knees with nothing but your tears and the smell of blueberry syrup to comfort you." --gobbla
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 08:03 AM
|
#273 (permalink)
|
|
Hiro Protagonist
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 4,741
|
He could use longer arms. Dude's built like a bald T-Rex.
__________________
Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
My New Log -- Saved by the Kettlebell
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 09:33 AM
|
#274 (permalink)
|
|
Ben. Just Ben.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: CLT
Posts: 6,838
|
As opposed to a hairy one?
__________________
Facebook
No Magic Pill (the blog)
No Magic Pill (the log)
liftSTRONG Challenge
"If you do not find time to become and remain healthy, you will be obliged to find time to be ill." --George Hackenschmidt
"These Canadians lure you with their kindness and Eskimo stories and then WHAM...you're bent over an IHOP trash can, pants around your knees with nothing but your tears and the smell of blueberry syrup to comfort you." --gobbla
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 11:41 AM
|
#275 (permalink)
|
|
Hiro Protagonist
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 4,741
|
Exactly. Scientists think that the T-Rex was scaly and had no hair, but that was before they discovered the similarity between most dinosaur species and current bird species.
To settle the debate, I just asked K-Court and he remembered from his childhood that the neighborhood T-Rexes did indeed have hair.
__________________
Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
My New Log -- Saved by the Kettlebell
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 11:44 AM
|
#276 (permalink)
|
|
Ben. Just Ben.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: CLT
Posts: 6,838
|
It's a good thing I have supplemental back extension work scheduled for today. That is all.
__________________
Facebook
No Magic Pill (the blog)
No Magic Pill (the log)
liftSTRONG Challenge
"If you do not find time to become and remain healthy, you will be obliged to find time to be ill." --George Hackenschmidt
"These Canadians lure you with their kindness and Eskimo stories and then WHAM...you're bent over an IHOP trash can, pants around your knees with nothing but your tears and the smell of blueberry syrup to comfort you." --gobbla
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 11:46 AM
|
#277 (permalink)
|
|
Ben. Just Ben.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: CLT
Posts: 6,838
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RedLefty
Exactly. Scientists think that the T-Rex was scaly and had no hair, but that was before they discovered the similarity between most dinosaur species and current bird species.
To settle the debate, I just asked K-Court and he remembered from his childhood that the neighborhood T-Rexes did indeed have hair.
|
He seems like a guy in the know. Just look at him:
That just reeks of dino-smarts.
__________________
Facebook
No Magic Pill (the blog)
No Magic Pill (the log)
liftSTRONG Challenge
"If you do not find time to become and remain healthy, you will be obliged to find time to be ill." --George Hackenschmidt
"These Canadians lure you with their kindness and Eskimo stories and then WHAM...you're bent over an IHOP trash can, pants around your knees with nothing but your tears and the smell of blueberry syrup to comfort you." --gobbla
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 03:23 PM
|
#278 (permalink)
|
|
Ben. Just Ben.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: CLT
Posts: 6,838
|
Strength III, Workout A-3
Warm-up - CP1:
--forearm-to-instep lunge with rockback heel stretch, 5 reps each leg
--backward lunge with twist, 5 reps each leg
--calf stretch, 10 reps (2sec hold)
--forward inchworm, 5 reps
--inverted hamstring touches, 5 reps each leg
Work:
--squat (3/2/1/3/2/1, 201, 240RI) - 3 @ 230, 2 @ 240, 1 @ 250, 3 @ 235, 2 @ 245, 1 @ 260
--quarter-squat (2/2/2), 201, 180RI) - 2 @ 315, 2 @ 315, 2 @ 315
--squat (6/12, 201, 90RI) - 6 @ 205, 12 @ 135
--seated good morning (6-8/6-8, 211, 90RI) - 8 @ 65, 8 @ 75
--Swiss ball crunch w/ medicine ball throw (4/4/4/4, 10X, 90RI) - 8 @ 8, 8 @ 8
Notes:
--I dunno what happened. I walked in feeling iffy. The first set of squats felt very iffy. The third set was surprisingly easy. The last set pissed me off because, after I racked the bar, I felt like I could've easily gone up another 15-20lbs. It was lights out after that, including my first-ever back squat loading of three 45lb plates. Granted, it was just for quarter-squats, but I blew through those, too. Plateau? What plateau?
--I condensed the medicine ball throws today--four set of four reps at 90RI is just too long. Had the gym been a little less crowded, I would've supersetted those and the good mornings.
--The thing that sucks about a high turnover rate with trainers at a gym is that, with the steady stream of new faces, none of them knows who's already been approached by a trainer before, so of course, the girl is prime meat (I look perpetually pissed off, which I usually am to a degree, so I don't get bothered, even on days like today when I don't have on earphones). A n00b, who was obviously a n00b because he was shadowing, I kid you not, another n00b, sidles up to the girl during her step-ups today and says something like, "You sure are punishing those legs today. I saw you in the squat rack. Just make sure you go home and feed them right." Now, there's a possibility that he was being sincere, but the way my mind works, I instantly figured that was just one step away from "just make sure you go home and get someone to rub them out right." So goes my thought process. Basedow2 was around but too busy looking too important to even make himself visible to the girl (or maybe she just visually tuned him out--I know how he feels). Old Man George--he's been mentioned before as the elder trainer who seems to be the only one whose been there longer than I have--said hey as he's wont to do and told the girl, who was doing her Swiss ball knee tucks, "You make me want to join up and work harder." Opposite of my assumption about the n00b(s), I figure he was both kidding and somewhat mocking Tiny (same post as the above link).
__________________
Facebook
No Magic Pill (the blog)
No Magic Pill (the log)
liftSTRONG Challenge
"If you do not find time to become and remain healthy, you will be obliged to find time to be ill." --George Hackenschmidt
"These Canadians lure you with their kindness and Eskimo stories and then WHAM...you're bent over an IHOP trash can, pants around your knees with nothing but your tears and the smell of blueberry syrup to comfort you." --gobbla
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 03:31 PM
|
#279 (permalink)
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 16
|
I have come to the conclusion that its just not going to be a day at the gym unless i have somebody make a stupid comment to me. Hey whatever dude you are the one looking like a retard. On a positive note i kicked a$$ on my squats today. 
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 03:34 PM
|
#280 (permalink)
|
|
Ben. Just Ben.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: CLT
Posts: 6,838
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ClOVERGIRL
I have come to the conclusion that its just not going to be a day at the gym unless i have somebody make a stupid comment to me. Hey whatever dude you are the one looking like a retard. On a positive note i kicked a$$ on my squats today. 
|
True. First full set of squats I've seen without a knee flaring out. Now about that gas... we're going to have to work on your Valsalva maneuver, especially when I'm spotting you. Dear god...

__________________
Facebook
No Magic Pill (the blog)
No Magic Pill (the log)
liftSTRONG Challenge
"If you do not find time to become and remain healthy, you will be obliged to find time to be ill." --George Hackenschmidt
"These Canadians lure you with their kindness and Eskimo stories and then WHAM...you're bent over an IHOP trash can, pants around your knees with nothing but your tears and the smell of blueberry syrup to comfort you." --gobbla
|
|
|
05-12-2008, 03:43 PM
|
#281 (permalink)
|
|
Plaid Shorts Rule!
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 7,750
|
You both will pay dearly for that in LR, boys! 
__________________
"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right." - Henry Ford
"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw
|
|
|
05-13-2008, 06:48 PM
|
#282 (permalink)
|
|
Ben. Just Ben.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: CLT
Posts: 6,838
|
Strength III, Workout B-3
Warm-up - CP2:
--hip crossover, 5 reps each side
--scorpion twist, 5 reps each side
--lateral lunge, 5 reps each leg
--crossover lunge, 5 reps each leg
--sumo squat-to-stand, 5 reps
Work:
--BB bench press (3/2/1/3/2/1, 201, 240RI) - 3 @ 195, 2 @ 205, 1 @ 215, 3 @ 200, 2 @ 210, 1 @ 220**
SUPERSET (full rest)
--BB Pendlay row (4/4/8, 201, 60RI) - 4 @ 155, 4 @ 155, 8 @ 115
--BB push press (4/4/8, 201, 60RI) - 4 @ 165, 4 @ 165, 8 @ 135
--cable woodchoppers* (8/8/8, 10X, 90RI) - 8 @ 100, 8 @ 110, 8 @ 120
* denotes double-pulley cable setup
Notes:
--For the life of me, I can't remember the article I saw within the past couple days, but it was talking about some Westside variations including a bench press tweak where you grip with slightly rotated (outwardly) hands rather than parallel. This makes another associated tweak easier: in the top quarter of the full ROM, rotate your elbows out (keep them tucked through the rest of the ROM). Instant power increase near/at the lockout, just like the article mentioned. I'm guessing that's because you recruit your anterior deltoids more relative to when you keep hands parallel and tucked; at least, that's how it felt with me. I still technically failed the final 1RM attempt, but the girl got a crash course in spotting the bench press today, so she, um... well... helped me get it up.
--Pendlay rows continue to improve, mainly from familiarization. I still get a couple less-than-ideal reps in there, but I can tell a difference in the recruitment pattern in my back; I'm lifting comparable weight compared to standard bent-over BB rows and still have some room for significantly increased loading.
--No drama today, oddly enough. I guess the don't-f*ck-with-us memo made the rounds. The girl has been playing with hanging (from hands, not slings) leg raises the last few workouts, and those, her deadlifts, and her squats have all reached near-ideal form. I told her that I fully expect her to be deadlifting 135lbs by the end of NROL4W. She doesn't think it'll happen. It'll happen.
__________________
Facebook
No Magic Pill (the blog)
No Magic Pill (the log)
liftSTRONG Challenge
"If you do not find time to become and remain healthy, you will be obliged to find time to be ill." --George Hackenschmidt
"These Canadians lure you with their kindness and Eskimo stories and then WHAM...you're bent over an IHOP trash can, pants around your knees with nothing but your tears and the smell of blueberry syrup to comfort you." --gobbla
|
|
|
05-14-2008, 05:52 AM
|
#283 (permalink)
|
|
Resident Business/Marketing Guru
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Rounding Third
Posts: 5,759
|
Way to throw Rob under the bus!
__________________
Past performance is not indicative of future success.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
|
|
|
05-14-2008, 07:39 AM
|
#284 (permalink)
|
|
Payload Specialist
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Rancho Santa Margarita, California
Posts: 16,172
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phaedrus49er
--The thing that sucks about a high turnover rate with trainers at a gym is that, with the steady stream of new faces, none of them knows who's already been approached by a trainer before, so of course, the girl is prime meat (I look perpetually pissed off, which I usually am to a degree, so I don't get bothered, even on days like today when I don't have on earphones).
|
There's a shirt for you, too!
Quote:
Originally Posted by K-Court
You both will pay dearly for that in LR, boys! 
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deserve
Way to throw Rob under the bus!
|
I know! Bathhouse retribution is brutal and ugly. Don't he know?
|
|
|
05-14-2008, 07:42 AM
|
#285 (permalink)
|
|
Hiro Protagonist
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 4,741
|
Uh oh! If I see him get that glint in his eye while he drinks his Metamucil, I'll run away with my young legs.
I'm so dead.
__________________
Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
My New Log -- Saved by the Kettlebell
|
|
|
05-14-2008, 08:39 AM
|
#286 (permalink)
|
|
Ben. Just Ben.
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: CLT
Posts: 6,838
|
I'm kinda looking forward to Texas and North Carolina playing ping-pong with Canada in person. This is gonna be a hoot 
__________________
Facebook
No Magic Pill (the blog)
No Magic Pill (the log)
liftSTRONG Challenge
"If you do not find time to become and remain healthy, you will be obliged to find time to be ill." --George Hackenschmidt
"These Canadians lure you with their kindness and Eskimo stories and then WHAM...you're bent over an IHOP trash can, pants around your knees with nothing but your tears and the smell of blueberry syrup to comfort you." --gobbla
|
|
| |