Growth.

[Go Away]

Nice work today. If you use a high box for the box squats, you can usually go a bit heavier. Feel free next time if you feel like pushing it.

I will go up on the next speed day - I went with 60% of my max this time and it felt good. Definitely burned out by the last box squat set. Then those dreaded fronts were murder...

 

[PillarofBalance]

Look who's a VIP. Looks nice on you Brother. Well deserved

 

[Halo]

Great job brother and congrats on the VIP!!!

 

[Ramrod]

Nice to see you feeling better. Nice first day back. Many times when I feel like shit and force myself to hit the gym. I have some of my best workouts.

 

[Go Away]

Great job brother and congrats on the VIP!!!

Look who's a VIP. Looks nice on you Brother. Well deserved

Appreciate it guys. Such a nice thing to wake up with!

Nice to see you feeling better. Nice first day back. Many times when I feel like shit and force myself to hit the gym. I have some of my best workouts.

Thanks. And you're right about that... Something to be said about the guilt/adrenaline combo.

 

[Go Away]

Modified Westside Template
Tuesday - November 6, 2012
Week 5: Day 60

DE Bench

Warm-up w/ Fat Gripz
Bar x 15
Bar x 15
135 x 3
135 x 3

Bench Press w/ Fat Gripz
235 x 2
235 x 3
235 x 3
235 x 2
235 x 2
235 x 2
235 x 2
235 x 2

CGBP w/ Fat Gripz
205 x 5
205 x 5
205 x 5
205 x 5

Incline Bench Press
135 x 10
135 x 5
135 x 5
135 x 5

Straight-arm Pulldowns
70 x 12
70 x 12
70 x 12
70 x 12

Everything is fried. If it helped push weight, it's deep-fried. Even felt my legs' soreness while benching, thing means my leg drive was on point tonight.

Another one of those nights I had to force myself to the gym. Story time for my kids gets me so sleepy! I like speed bench days though, so that helped me get on the truck and on the road.

Wifey royally fucked our dinner up tonight - injecting moldy spaghetti sauce into the Italian meatloaf. Had to toss the whole thing out! Now I'm stuck in dinner limbo. Even went to grab something on the way out of the gym and realized my wallet is at home. What did I do to deserve this, Food Gods?!!

Work is slowing down so my progress with the weights shall be grand, but pockets will be lighter. Just in time for the holidays! Bleh...

Almost hit a pedestrian who came outta the woods onto the street. He was wearing stone-washed jeans... should've hit that dickface.
- Cynicism feed over.

 

[Like_a_Weed]

I know all about story time. I love to do it, but if I'm tired it's quite a challenge.

 

[Go Away]

Gonna try and pass 500 on my deads tonight... I'm super hype. Will post up while wiping my nosebleed!

 

[Rottenrogue]

You had better hurry up before I catch you

 

[Go Away]

I know all about story time. I love to do it, but if I'm tired it's quite a challenge.

I end up wanting to go to sleep my damn self. On max effort days I need to start having my better half handle the stories!

 

[Go Away]

You had better hurry up before I catch you

Went down in flames tonight RR...
So take a week off or something!


Modified Westside Template
Wednesday - November 7, 2012
Week 6: Day 61

ME Deads

Warmup
Pull-ups 4,3,2

Deadlifts
135 x 3
225 x 3
275 x 1
315 x 1
405 x 1
480 x 0
405 x 0
315 x 7
315 x 6
315 x 4

Seated Cable Rows
260 x 5
260 x 5
260 x 5

Hammer Curls
30 x 12
35 x 12
40 x 10

Was yawning on the way home from work, on the way to the gym, in the gym... Nightmare of a max effort day. Couldn't find my lifting straps so went at the deads without em and failed miserably. Couldn't keep my damn hands from being sweaty. No chalk allowed in my gay-ass gym either. I asked a fellow member beside me who was pulling 495 for reps and he told me that's why he has his straps... He asked management and they said no chalk. Fuck!

So 405 went up easy, 480 for a PR wouldn't get past three inches til my fingers slipped and I dropped the shit. I tried it more than once, then went down to 405 so I could rep that for a PR or something... And my hands slipped off that dumb shit as well.

The extra work at the end of my atrocious pulling session was just to punish myself for shitting the bed.

One good thing - I am really tired.
So who here wants to convince me this wasn't a terrible waste of time? Anyone? Bleh.

Gabapentin, The Walking Dead and sleep like a boss tonight. Couple days off from the iron and back at it on Saturday.

 

[PillarofBalance]

Rough go at it... There is some shit that you spray on your hands that works like chalk minus the chalk residue. Can't remember the name. Maybe someone else does. You need to ditch those straps.