johnathans road to recovery

cheers mate, yeah hope so lol

well done mate. keep working and youll get there!

keep at it young man and you see the gym work outs and the event sessions will link and you'll make progress keep it up and keep going you'll really enjoy it.

Good start today Jonathan. You're stronger than you think you are. I don't think it'll be long before you're pressing the log and loading the 105 stone. Good work.

sounds like you had fun, good stuff keep it up

cheers guys and cheers johnny,
going to do clean and press in the gym, help with the clean. carnt wait to get back to the dungeon now haha

Nice start mate. Keep at it and the progress will come thick and fast!

had week and half out die to back going, going back tnight. wont be heavy as back is still bad, but going to do some dreaded cardio, on bike then incline treadmill to help the knee out. but may do some iclk weight first, may do some overhead stuff, as sworn id do that 70k Overhead next time at the dungeon lol, and that will be week sat lol. poss a bit of chest but prob leave deads and squats,

monday-

squats 5x5- bar,40,60,70,80kx3, although had two weeks out. thought go 10 lighter to get form back and still didn feel comfortable. maybe another one in there just. not eaten alot as done this in mornign so maybe somat there

clean and press 5x5- 40,40,50,50,60x3 struggling on the press on second 50, may keep it lighter in warm up. was knackered doing these, took so much out of me. on 4th 60k, did the sort od deadlift section but there was nothing left to finnish clean. trank was empty.

rev. grip pull down- 4x6- up to 90k x5 nailed it PB.

10mins on bike. (heart beat read 136 when started!)

overall not a bad session. wasnt to happy with squats but keep them coming. maybe tryin to push the shoulders to fast. dont know. but there coming along. was absoulute f**ked during clean and press.

been ill for rest of week, least couple days of work for throwing up haha
back tnight as feel fine, just light deads i reckon

Sorry to hear you been ill mate. Keep up the hard work!!

its just doing my head in, since strongman with you guys, back went (belt on order woop woop), holiday and cudn make gym only a day, then throwing up this week. hope thats the end. i feel fine today so back to gym.

thursday-

deadlift 5x5- 60, 60, 80, 100, 130kx3, 120kx1. was gutted didn do more reps on 130k, hope next week as should be back in full swing.

75k seated cable row- 5x5 went up to about 75k and did it no problem. juust varying diffrent rows each week.

wide lat pull down- 4x6- u to 82.5 x5, good improvemnt shud nail 6 next week hopefully.

03/03/08-

squats 5x5- bar,40,40,60,80, felt good on 8o so improvemnt and went 90x2

clean and press 5x5- 40,40,45,50,60x1- terrible. dont knwo what happened, dropped to 50x4

dips- 3,3,2,

rev. grip pull down- 4x6- up to 97.5k x4 .
not bad but knee went again, wasnt wearing normal trainers had flat soles on may have contibuted

05/03/08

Deads
60 x 6
60 x 5
80 x 5
100 x 5
130 x 3
100 x 4

Seated Rows (weight in each hand)
40kg x 6
40kg x 5
60kg x 5
65kg x 4

next time will lower weights to get 5x5

Wide Grip Pulldown

37.5kg x 6
52.5kg x 6
67.5kg x 6
82.5kg x 4

5min bike
10min tradmill running and walking (physio is wanting me to get to run 2mile on my knee)

felt tired when i started so prob not best session.