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| » K i T c H - the road to matromony (Go to post) | 21-06-2007 @ 09:17 | ||
Oh no not another journal - when will I get to do some work during the day!? Err I mean HELLO!  | |||
| » Iain's Training (Go to post) | 20-06-2007 @ 11:15 | ||
| Iain is a floor press what it sounds like? Just lying on the floor? How do you do it? I'm guessing you need spotters to help you? Is the benefit from doing this that you get to rest on your elbows in the lowest part? Sorry for the question in your journal but I am wondering what they are and how they benefit someone trying to raise their bench weight. | |||
| » Nobody steals our chicks... and lives! (Go to post) | 19-06-2007 @ 10:13 | ||
| Yeah you're right and I'm going to stick to that from now on. 1 run per week (10km) and that's it. I'm liking PL too much and if one has to go then it's running. However, I want to retain some of my CV fitness so once a week should do it and will probably even help my lifting to some extent in terms of overall fitness. One of my goals of 2007 was to do an under 50min 10km. That isn't going to happen now, no way. However, my PL goals are well on target | |||
| » Ed 's training journal (Go to post) | 18-06-2007 @ 23:02 | ||
Looked OK to me but then I'm no expert. You could consider doing what I do - but calling them something more manly if you prefer  | |||
| » The Legend of Toothpick (Go to post) | 18-06-2007 @ 09:33 | ||
| Yeah beach abs here we come | |||
| » Nobody steals our chicks... and lives! (Go to post) | 17-06-2007 @ 20:30 | ||
Originally posted by EDCLARKE... is "botty squats" prison slang ? LOL! Nope, tbench said it. As opposed to box squats where you can actually sit on the box and let it take the weight, these are made up of a 12" high set of palets that I simply touch the 'botty' on, hence botty squats rather than box squats. Blame boar for the rather gay terminology heh. Check out this video for a look at what I mean - last set of 121kg so they're a little ropey. I'm just trying to make sure that I go low enough each time. Thanks for the advice. I don't know what's going on with my running. It could simply be that after heavy (for me!) deads and squats I am just not able to perform running properly. Whatever it is it's not affecting my weights at all. I'm making progress week on week with that. I've got a 10km race next Sunday so I'm thinking of giving myself a break for one week. I haven't had a break for months, so I could probably do with one. As for supplements, I take glucosamine daily because I figure my joints could do with it. Apart from that nothing. I have got some creatine monohydrate, but tbh I haven't noticed any difference between that and simply eating like a horse. Perhaps I'll give it another go. I must have the best part of 3 months' worth in a bottle somewhere. Sunday 17th June Bench: 51 x 6, 71 x 5, 92 x 5 x 3. 4mins rest between. This is my extra weekly bench session and I'm pretty happy with that. I think I'm simply going to keep adding 1kg per week until I don't push out all 5 sets of 3. | |||
| » Nobody steals our chicks... and lives! (Go to post) | 16-06-2007 @ 12:08 | ||
| Saturday 16th June Another miserable 5km jog/hobble. I've decided to restrict my running to one 10km run per week to see if this helps. I just might be overdoing it by trying to run 3times/week along with the 4times/week weights routine. bo***cks. On the positive side, it'll give me more free time | |||
| » Ed 's training journal (Go to post) | 16-06-2007 @ 09:14 | ||
| I think so too. I saw the 170 x 4 and wondered why your PB was 185. 200 would have to be the next 1RM attempt surely. | |||
| » Nobody steals our chicks... and lives! (Go to post) | 15-06-2007 @ 16:31 | ||
| Friday 15th June 12" botty squats: 71 x 6, 91 x 5, 121 x 4 x 5. 4mins rest between. Leg curl: 50 x 3 x 8. 3mins rest between and supersetted with both below. Calf raises: 121 x 3 x 8. Hanging leg raises: 16 x 3 x 8. I was meant to go running today but it was raining so I pushed my squat day forward one. Despite my back still being a little tender I managed a reasonable 4 sets of 5 at 121kg. Body was upright and the botty touched the box each time. All good. | |||
| » Ed 's training journal (Go to post) | 15-06-2007 @ 10:14 | ||
| I agree, you're on! | |||
| » The Legend of Toothpick (Go to post) | 14-06-2007 @ 11:59 | ||
| Ah gotcha. So for me I'd need to buy some more rubberised ones. As you suggest I'm not likely to need more than 4 x 20kg for a good while. In fact I could probably get by with what I've got for a good while! I'll see what I can sort out in the barn floor wise. Cheers. | |||
| » The Legend of Toothpick (Go to post) | 14-06-2007 @ 11:24 | ||
| Oh right, so they are rubberised plates that have a larger diameter than the others? (sorry for the numpty questions yet again but I've never seen an olympic bar before!) I bought 2 20kg rubberised discs for my set but the bloody things don't stick out over my other 20kg weights, hence the big CLANG on my concrete floor each time. | |||
| » Ed 's training journal (Go to post) | 14-06-2007 @ 11:21 | ||
| Hiya Ed. Us oldy beginners have got to stick together! I'm 35 and only started getting into PL a couple of months ago. Let's see how we get on eh. I'll be keeping an eye on your journal. Good luck mate. | |||
| » Nobody steals our chicks... and lives! (Go to post) | 14-06-2007 @ 11:12 | ||
| Ah I see. Unfortunately I am still mostly human, being only 1/10 animal I'll stick with it and see how it goes but at the moment it's looking like PL is winning over running and if I had to drop one it would be the running. Hopefully won't have to though. Thursday 14th June Bench: 51 x 6, 61 x 5, 85 x 5 x 5. 4mins rest between. Dips: BW+9 x 3 x 8. 2mins rest between. DB oh press: 21 x 3 x 8. 3mins rest between. push downs: 26 x 3 x 8. 2mins rest between. Week on week I am making progress (and PBs!) on the bench. Just 2 or 3 weeks ago I put a video up of barely pushing out 3 x 85kg and now I am doing 5 x 5 and marking myself down for 86 next week. Pretty happy about it obviously. | |||
| » The Legend of Toothpick (Go to post) | 14-06-2007 @ 11:06 | ||
| I like the look of those and I'd really like to try some myself. Any idea what they've used on the floor there to enable you to throw down the weights without ending up in the cellar or with metal shards everywhere? Some kind of rubber matting? At the moment if I do a clean I have to rather carefully get it back down again which is obviously restricting progress a tad! | |||