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| » The overtraining bible: a complete guide (Go to post) | 06-12-2006 @ 22:17 | ||
| Bad day today - my hamstring pain got worse through the day and I also started getting twinges down both legs and in my lower back. I'm rapidly starting to think that it may be a dose of sciatica, so as you can imagine, deadlifting was a no go tonight - I did some warm-ups, but had to stop. Then did a bit on the cross-trainer, but even that was too much for my back and legs so finished the gym early. I won't be deadlifting, or squatting heavy, again until the pain has eased up. Intrestingly, it doesn't seem to be caused by deadlifting for once, because my back was fine after last wednesday....i'm wondering whether it was sunday's squats that started it, and yesterday's high kicks which finished it off. Will give it a couple of days of stretching and movement and then see where to go from there. | |||
| » The overtraining bible: a complete guide (Go to post) | 05-12-2006 @ 21:12 | ||
| Monday - rest Tuesday - res....ooops may have been thai boxing and bench formwork...I couldn't bring myself to miss tuesdays thai session Session was good(ish) - worked with the nice canadian girl - but she was struggling to take my low kicks (actually i'll correct that, I was sending her flying and it was obviously hurting her so i had to back off) which was frustrating because they wern't even full out hard anyway. Struggled with my left kicks, both body and high today, i think it was due to a slight tweak in my hamstring/glute from squatting which has been niggling since sunday. Tony made me demonstrate a right, left, body punch, right high kick, right knee, two left high kick combo....about 10 times to make sure the whole bloody class had seen me. Yuk - he knows I hate demonstrating to the advanced bit - the guys there are so good, and my high kicks are so awful! I'm really looking forward to thursdays class - I like working without pads alot now, because you are not dependant on the pad holder being able to keep up with the combo. Formwork on bench with 30 kg - must work on speed. Managed to keep elbows in, but they are never going to be proper close to my body. | |||
| » The Legend of Toothpick (Go to post) | 04-12-2006 @ 15:05 | ||
Originally posted by Rob... Nah my hamstring has been fine for ages now mate - it's just the adductor right next to it which keeps flaring up when I squat. Got an appointment with a physio tomorrow so hopefully will start getting to the bottom of it. If I could start squatting again properly after Christmas I would be quite happy. Not sure what the physio will say about deadlifting, all though it has seemed fine to date. When I had sciatica last year quite bad, my physio told me I should stop lifting such heavy weights because I may have the muscle mass, but the rest of my body isn't designed to deal with it  Physio's don't like deadlifting in my experience!Hope the appointment goes well though  | |||
| » Tuesday Night Training (Go to post) | 04-12-2006 @ 15:02 | ||
| Nope - resting (I really really want to though) | |||
| » The overtraining bible: a complete guide (Go to post) | 04-12-2006 @ 08:53 | ||
Originally posted by David... You must be good for a bench pb with 3x7 with 35kg? You would think so wouldn't you! LOL | |||
| » The overtraining bible: a complete guide (Go to post) | 03-12-2006 @ 21:50 | ||
Well, to be honest - I really don't care too much about the illusive 45 kg bench anymore. It's more an amusement than anything - especially as it will only add 1.5 kg to my total. I'm kind of building back up to heavier training at the moment anyway. Then i'm going for the "45 kg every f**king session till i get it or burn out my tendons" approach  Saturday - rest day - badly needed. The virus is still lingering and has been waking me up with coughing through the night Sunday - Squats and bench Today went well - really f**king well. Ok, so I only did what I planned and nothing more, but hell, I can't tell you how glad I am of that. I was feeling really rough (again) 30 mins before getting to the gym. To the point where I was almost going to miss a session. I hate missing sessions so that kind of tells you how bad I was feeling. The squats felt pretty good overall, espcially the warm-ups and first set of 55 kg. Bench was easy, as was push presses. The CV at the end was killer though. I'm going to be really strict with myself and make sure I take the next two days off as planned. Then see how deadlifting goes wednesday. 10 mins warm-up Squats 20 kg 5, 5, 30 kg 3 40 kg 3 50 kg 1 55 kg 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 - about 6 of the 10 reps were good/passable. The other four were truely awful. But its all a form thing, i'm just a bit out of the squatting groove at the moment. It will return Bench: 7, 7, 7 with 35kg (was supposed to be 3 x 6 with 36 kg but forgot my dinky plates!) Push press 20 kg: 3 25 kg: 3 30 kg: 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 20 mins CV on rower. Well, it was 20 mins rowing, but it probably took nearer 30 mins by the time I had stopped and started. Interval training - that's what they call it, right? | |||
| » What are your LONG term weightlifting goals? (Go to post) | 03-12-2006 @ 12:02 | ||
| Bodyweight bench 2 x bodyweight squat 3 x bodyweight deadlift | |||
| » The overtraining bible: a complete guide (Go to post) | 01-12-2006 @ 20:45 | ||
| Friday - today was a hard day! Feeling a bit more off-colour than yesterday, but that was as expected. I'm not going to worry about it, i'm just glad i can train again, even if it isn't full out. Thai boxing - f**king hard class CV-wise. Tony got pissed off with the total lack of basics of some of the people so all of us, even the advanced, were walked back through it again. Or should I say run/dragged/kicked back through it at high speed. 20 right body kicks, 20 left body kicks, 30 front kicks (you get the idea?). It was not what I was hoping for - the most intense CV class I have yet done with the G-Camp on a day I was still recovering. But I made it through with only a small amount of slacking. Felt that technically I had improved since, say, a month ago. I'm glad he did it though, there are some people in the class that can't hold the pads properly and shy away from getting kicked, so its good he told them to sort it out. Came out dripping wet and really knackard. Boards - warm-ups then 40 kg: 6 45 kg: 3 x 3 then went for a fouth set of triples, but died. It was really weird - total failure like I have never had before in my life. Even with the spotter i still couldn't get that bar back up. Scary stuff. Some back stuff, hyperextensions, few abs and lots of shrugs Feeling rough now, but in a strange way - like exhausted with a painful (but not sore) throat. Still I have tommorow off, then squat and bench day sunday, and then two whole days off til deadlifting, so i'll be back to normal by then | |||
| » The overtraining bible: a complete guide (Go to post) | 01-12-2006 @ 08:17 | ||
| Thursday class Really excellent class as always. Two hours did feel like a long time tonight, about half way through I was wondering whether I could keep going for another hour as i'm still not quite 100% (although I do feel pretty much back to normal on the whole). But it was excellent. The warm-up was two floor circuits, but they were all based around core moves (leg raises, cobra holds, plank, shadow boxing, sit ups with the guy bashing you abs with the pad, back extensions, obliques with a 5 litre bottle of water). Then we worked on our stance - changing, moving etc etc. I struggle to keep my hips facing forward, I always want to stand side on. Co-ordination was a big problem for me tonight, seems it goes from bad to worse if im a bit off colour. The rest of the class was based around knees of various sorts with some clinch work and sparring using a fixed routine. My knees need alot of work, although I did manage to suss some of them. Aim for the ribs, aim for the ribs...... | |||
| » SB xmas do! VIKING POWER dvd and copious amount of food! (Go to post) | 01-12-2006 @ 08:15 | ||
| Thanks for all the pies Great night Mr Colman, great night  | |||
| » The overtraining bible: a complete guide (Go to post) | 30-11-2006 @ 11:59 | ||
| Got sick sometime around friday and stayed sick all weekend. Damn I hate being sick at the weekends when I could be sick in the week instead of working! Nasty evil bug - I don't think I have felt as bad as I did on saturday night since I was a kid. Anyway, rested rested and rested some more until yesterday: Wednesday - First day back in training after being sick. I was still feeling pretty rough tuesday - but that was mainly because my head felt like it was about to explode. Going for a walk round town left me exhausted. But by wednesday everything had settled in my head and throat, so when wednesday was feeling not too bad, (just sniffly and sore throat) decided to pay a visit to the gym. It went pretty well considering Deadlifts 60 kg: 6, 3 felt good 80 kg: 2 90 kg: 1 100 kg: 1 105 kg: 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1 (by the forth set my head was spinning so thought i should just lift another two singles. But then on the fifth set the first rep flew so easy I did another and then thought i'd better do just one more rep to make the 10 i was planning) Leg press 106 kg: 3 x 5 Deads of plates formwork 80 kg: 5 x 2 Some rowing for CV - this is where I really noticed the bug, kept it really gentle for 9 mins, then did 1 min below 2/500m followed by a further 1 min. Left it at that as a sure way to get sick again is over do the CV. Stretched well for a while. Really noticed a massive difference in the suppleness of my left to my right. My right hamstring and back were so tight. No stiffness today. I will go to the technical thai boxing class tonight, hopefully i'll be ok for that one | |||
| » Sugden Barbell Goes 'Down Under' (Go to post) | 29-11-2006 @ 12:23 | ||
| LOL! Good answer | |||
| » What are your achievements of 2006? (Go to post) | 29-11-2006 @ 11:09 | ||
Jonathon - your pushpresses are really great, especially if you consider just how f**king far the bar has to travel to get above your head  | |||
| » Saturday Eat-o-thon (Go to post) | 29-11-2006 @ 11:08 | ||
| LOL!!!! | |||
| » Training after illness (Go to post) | 29-11-2006 @ 11:07 | ||
| That's fine - I shall come and give you all my diseases tonight then - when you lot are all missing sessions the fines total will soon mount up to pay for my lovely curry | |||