The Jungle

[400Lb Gorilla]

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Did no more work this last week. Been way too busy trying to fix my truck and get it to where it can stop when we want it too

That and I rolled an ankle Friday morning and it has hurt to flex the ankle a lot.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Did some benchpress Monday. Did some squats and overhead press today. Will do some bodybuilding stuff on Friday. It has been a good training week but I have not really been pushing it too hard. This is a kind of deload week on the Mag/Ort program, no deads, so I backed off a little. It would not have counted as a deload on any routine I have ever followed lol.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Back to the grind. I decided that deads get their own damn day. It is, in part, to motivate me to put everything into the pulls and, in part, due to the ramping up in weight each week is going to be brutal.

Mag/Ort Week 5
Deads Day
Weight: 220 pounds

Deadlifts
135x10
225x5
275x5
315x5
365x3
420x4 vid
420x4
420x4 vid
420x4
485x2 vid
535x2 vid
420x9

This was a repeat of week 3 cause that is just how this works lol. Adding ten pounds to all sets and trying this again next week. The only difficult to complete set was the 420x9, it seems like it takes forever to get through it.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Today's festivities:

Mag/Ort DL Week 5
Bench Day
Weight: 218 pounds

Benchpress(Paused)
45x18
95x15
135x10
185x6
225x6
275x3 vid
315x3 vid
345x1 vid

(Touch and Go)
345x1
315x3
275x5
275x5
225x8


Close-grip Benchpress
135x15
185x10
225x8
225x8
225x7
225x7


BB Curls, BB Skullcrushers, and BW Dips followed.

Not bad. I will back off the heavier singles. I wanted to see what I could get a pause with. It was not really a strong pause so I will work this back up. I also need to concentrate on stopping at the top like I would while waiting for a rack command.

 

[Yomo]

damn strong pulling 4G...

 

[BrotherIron]

WOW... 345 paused is a PR isn't it?

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Thanks Yomo!
BI, I think it might be. 355 is my best bench but I cannot recall what the best paused rep has been so far. 345 might be a good call on that though lol.


Sorry I havent been round this weekend or mot of this last week. I did a lot of front squatting and goodmornings on Thursday, overhead presses, shoulder, and upper back work on Friday, and not much else this week. I have videos of some of the overhead work. Nothing new, just me doing a more of it!

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Alright, we are just gonna ignore everything in the last ten days. It was a few workouts not worth mentioning. I have been exhausted and weak as fuk and it showed. So I took the last 4 days off from work and working out lol. I have decided to drop the Ortmeyer routine. I cannot keep up right now.... hell without some kind of chemical assistance or sandbagging the working numbers, I do not think I would ever be able to keep up.

Also, Wednesday I went to the doctor about the knee thing. He poked, prodded, and squeezed.... and then he took a look at the knee lol seriously, after he did everything imaginable to my knee, he simply told me to take it easy on the knee for a while. He said it sounded like it was overused and under-recovered. He also suggested I drop about 20 pounds and get back under 200.... not sure about that but I am thinking I need to cut some extra flubber off.

17 APR 17
Benchpress and Stuff
Weight: 221 pounds
The colors are to show supersets

Benchpress
45x12
135x12
225x8
275x5
275x5
275x5
275x5

Chin-ups
BWx8, 8, 8, 7, 6, 5, 5

CGBP
275x5
225x7
225x7
225x7
225x8
185x8

DB Rows
125x10
125x8
125x8
125x8
125x8

OH DB Extensions
25x10
25x10
25x10
25x10

DB Curls
25x10
25x9
25x9
25x7

BB Curls
45x10
45x8
45x8
45x8

Hanging Leg Raises
BWx5, 5, 5, 5

I wanted to turn this into a cardio session.... I was still sweating an hour after this

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

18 APR 17- Deadlifts and Stuff
Weight: ???
Colors show supersets

Deadlift
135x10
225x10
315x8
365x6
405x5
405x5
405x7

Press
45x15
95x12
135x8
165x6
185x5
185x5
185x5

Pull-ups
BWx6, 5, 5, 5, 5

DB Lateral Raises
25x8
25x8
35x7
35x7
35x7

BB Shrugs
225x15
225x15
225x15
225x13

DB Front Raises
35x12
35x12
35x12
35x12

Not sure why I have started this but it gets the pump going, the heart rate is turned up, and I am having fun. I will probably not do this for too much longer, but for now this is a way to dig me out of the rut I have been in.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Did squat and goodmornings Friday. I cannot find my notebook right now, but I did not go above 315x5 on squats and I think my top set of GMs was 225x12

The rest of it was ab work like crunches and knee raises.