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| EDCLARKE |  | ... | 10-12-2012 @ 18:50 |
 not particularly well educated Member 85, 11010 posts SQ 170, BP 130, DL 260560.0 kgs @ 90kgs UnEq | for such a tall guy , your pretty good at this bench thingy , 110k/115k by christmas? | ||
| nico | | ... | 12-12-2012 @ 15:38 |
 just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | EDCLARKE said:for such a tall guy , your pretty good at this bench thingy , 110k/115k by christmas? Yeah, I must be about as far from the stubby-armed, barrel-chested bencher as you can get! 110 will be a bit ambitious for christmas. Maybe 105 at a push by new year. I don't want to try for too much too soon really. If I can just keep benching for a few months at a time, the weight should creep up, but that's the difficulty really, isn't it? How long can I keep doing it without it hurting too much? currently the plan is to do one day (today) when I try for as many reps as possible at 100kg (but not going balls out either) and another day working up to a max (again, one I can get without it being a do-or-die) Today was this: Bench 100kg/2 chins (bw+5)/4,4,4,4,4,4,3 deads 70kg/14 -what a beast! | ||
| nico | | ... | 24-12-2012 @ 15:27 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | Forgot to update this last week. A solid 106kg single on the bench. With the benefit of a week or two of stuffing my face with pie over the Christmas period, 100kg might even be on the cards. | ||
| nico | | ... | 05-01-2013 @ 15:23 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | 100kg for a triple yesterday. | ||
| EDCLARKE | | ... | 05-01-2013 @ 15:36 |
not particularly well educated Member 85, 11010 posts SQ 170, BP 130, DL 260560.0 kgs @ 90kgs UnEq | Nice! Happy new year mate! | ||
| nico | | ... | 09-01-2013 @ 15:04 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | EDCLARKE said:Nice! Happy new year mate! Cheers Ed and to you. I forgot to add that I did a solid 108kg single on Sunday. I'll be heading out in an hour or two hopefully to do a bit more. | ||
| nico | | ... | 26-01-2013 @ 09:55 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | Keep forgetting to update this I am (usually) getting a couple of sessions in a week, something like this: Deads, db bench, inverted row Bench, db clean and press, chins I have just started doing 5/3/1 again for bench and deads because 1) it has worked pretty well for me in the past and 2) I'm a bit worried about killing myself doing max bench with a s**tty bar and stands all the time! This weekend (probably tomorrow), I'll be doing the bench session. | ||
| EDCLARKE | | ... | 27-01-2013 @ 09:21 |
not particularly well educated Member 85, 11010 posts SQ 170, BP 130, DL 260560.0 kgs @ 90kgs UnEq | so where is the bench at? that looks quite a nice little routine. | ||
| nico | | ... | 27-01-2013 @ 15:23 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | EDCLARKE said:so where is the bench at? that looks quite a nice little routine. Bench has dropped off after a few busy weeks, but should pick up again soon  The routine (or something similar should be doable for me and hopefully keep things moving (slowly) upwards. I keep thinking of brilliant ways to train, but as you know, 3kids and a wife don't always work well with 4-5 days a week in the gym! At the minute, I've got the house on the market, lots on at work, demanding kids and only about 110kgs of plates, so hopefully this should do the job until things calm down a bit. I'll keep plugging away for a couple of months before testing the bench. I would guess that it is105-110 now, which is rubbish really. Today was this: chins (bw+5)/8,5,5,5,5,3,3 bench 68/3 78/3 88/6 db clean and press 2*17kg/6,9,6,9 What a beast  | ||
| nico | | ... | 18-02-2013 @ 13:47 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | Keep forgetting to update Things are going ok, slowly but surely. Yesterday was: deads: 74/5 84/5 94/6 DB bench: 2*23.5/20 25 chins 50 pressups Bench next, hopefully on Wednesday. | ||
| EDCLARKE | | ... | 18-02-2013 @ 19:06 |
not particularly well educated Member 85, 11010 posts SQ 170, BP 130, DL 260560.0 kgs @ 90kgs UnEq | nice to see some deads. i thought you'd disappeared again. | ||
| nico | | ... | 25-02-2013 @ 18:20 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | EDCLARKE said:nice to see some deads. i thought you'd disappeared again. Still here I'm going very slowly on deads, but I really would like to build them up over the rest of the year. Yesterday was: bench: 65/5 75/5 85/5 db clean and press 2*17/8,7,6,7,6,6 25 chins 50 pressups. Deads are up next. I struggle like buggery to bench when I don't do it regularly. I might try benching everyday for a few weeks in the summer-it took me up to 130 in about three weeks last time. Unfortunately, even benching once a week is a bit tough at the minute | ||
| nico | | ... | 28-02-2013 @ 20:15 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | Deads 80/3 90/3 100/10 Now this doesn't look very good (and the reason for that is because it isn't ) but it was a comfy 10 with about half my best ever dead and I really could have gone balls out and done 15 or more (but that isn't in the plan) so I'm not displeased really.db bench 2*24kg/20 Again, far from anything to write home about, but it felt a lot better than recent weeks so I'm pretty happy with that too. 25 chins. Doing these between reps of other stuff seems to be a good idea. Ideally, I need to find a way of doing these at home and just do a load every day I reckon. I should make a place to do chins a necessity in my current house hunting ("nah, I don't care about the bedrooms, just tell me if I can do pull ups anywhere?" )Finished off with a bit of shoulders. Didn't do any pressups because they seems to irritate my shoulders for some reason. Bench up next. | ||
| nico | | ... | 03-03-2013 @ 13:58 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | Another steady little session today. Bench 70/3 80/3 90/4 Chins 25 Db clean and press 2*17/10,9,8,11,7 | ||
| nico | | ... | 03-03-2013 @ 13:58 |
just smoked Ed and Neil - EAT MY GOAL Member 120, 1583 posts | Another steady little session today. Bench 70/3 80/3 90/4 Chins 25 Db clean and press 2*17/10,9,8,11,7 | ||
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