GIFt us your lifts! (or other achievements!)
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Between travel, and my trainer encouraging me to cut back, I was in the gym for the first time in a while today.
Tried a PB on leg press. Epic, embarrassing fail.
So what’s good about that?
I always have “omg can I still do it?” issues when I’ve been gone, whether it’s a week or three weeks. So I’m proud of coming back, and picking up where I left off. I’m always surprised I still can squat, headstand, bench, arm balance, swim.
And ya know what? That leg press? *kitten* it. I tried, had a good laugh, and plan to try again soon. That’s good enough for me.
I also had a moment of sheer joy during cardio weights this morning. Caught myself grinning like a monkey at nothing at all, and thinking “thank God I did something for myself and can move like this! Life is wonderful!!!!”
Carry on, y’all awesome peeps.3 -
Minion_training_program wrote: »Nice work Sandy 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Thanks Gus!
I miss deadlifts, but my rack pulls have been injury-free so I'll stick with them and live vicariously through you, lol.
Blizzard today, choosing not to brave it just to hit the gym for my second upper-body day this week, really wish I had a home gym setup on days like this. Hopefully roads will be cleared by tomorrow, and I'll just do my Thu-Fri workouts on Fri-Sat instead.
So far *knock on wood* I have been injury free on deads. That said, I do put it back down if I feel my form breaking and don't tend to go for 1RMs often. Sucks that you have a blizzard! Hopefully it passes (AND MELTS) quickly!That weight and volume is impressive - I never do more than 6 reps on DL - I get too gassed
Thank you! This week I was doing 4 sets of 7 at 75% of 1rm with the last two sets 7+ (as many as possible, but hopefully at least 7).
Since I'm targeting a 1rm of 315, I calculated that I would need to get 12 reps at 225 - so that was what I aimed for.
I really do not like anything past 7. The gif above showed my last 4 or 5 reps and I was huffing and puffing by then, too!
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springlering62 wrote: »Between travel, and my trainer encouraging me to cut back, I was in the gym for the first time in a while today.
Tried a PB on leg press. Epic, embarrassing fail.
So what’s good about that?
I always have “omg can I still do it?” issues when I’ve been gone, whether it’s a week or three weeks. So I’m proud of coming back, and picking up where I left off. I’m always surprised I still can squat, headstand, bench, arm balance, swim.
And ya know what? That leg press? *kitten* it. I tried, had a good laugh, and plan to try again soon. That’s good enough for me.
I also had a moment of sheer joy during cardio weights this morning. Caught myself grinning like a monkey at nothing at all, and thinking “thank God I did something for myself and can move like this! Life is wonderful!!!!”
Carry on, y’all awesome peeps.
Firstly... CONGRATS at being back in the gym! And "Tried" is way better than "didn't try at all"
You always impress me with what you can do, and I love hearing the joy in your writing. Life IS wonderful!1 -
KickassAmazon76 wrote: »]
Firstly... CONGRATS at being back in the gym! And "Tried" is way better than "didn't try at all"
Sandy, I am surprised at the visceral reaction I have nowadays to people who tell me “I can’t”.
I have to bite my tongue and turn the other cheek.
I have a favorite yoga teacher, ever since my first class with him, he has always said “you get as much benefit from trying as from accomplishing”.
That’s very true. And if you don’t do the one, fat chance of ever accomplishing the other.1 -
springlering62 wrote: »I was in the gym for the first time in a while today.
Tried a PB on leg press. Epic, embarrassing fail.
That's it, you're officially a TRUE lifter. The casual lifter, upon returning for the "first time in a while" would drop the weight significantly. Heck, after my ONE WEEK away I dropped 10% my first workout back. But you? You decide to try a PERSONAL BEST!?!?
Yep, you belong among us fools. Glad to have ya.3 -
springlering62 wrote: »Between travel, and my trainer encouraging me to cut back, I was in the gym for the first time in a while today.
Tried a PB on leg press. Epic, embarrassing fail.
So what’s good about that?
I always have “omg can I still do it?” issues when I’ve been gone, whether it’s a week or three weeks. So I’m proud of coming back, and picking up where I left off. I’m always surprised I still can squat, headstand, bench, arm balance, swim.
And ya know what? That leg press? *kitten* it. I tried, had a good laugh, and plan to try again soon. That’s good enough for me.
I also had a moment of sheer joy during cardio weights this morning. Caught myself grinning like a monkey at nothing at all, and thinking “thank God I did something for myself and can move like this! Life is wonderful!!!!”
Carry on, y’all awesome peeps.
Congrats on the effort of going for a PB on the leg press...so you failed, so what?
That is all part of the progress.
As the quadfather said:
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Spent the time shoveling my driveway and sidewalk, got in the car and headed to the gym...only to find it closed. Check the Facebook page for my gym, and they posted that for the safety of everybody, they were going to be closed Thu-Fri and reopen Sat.
Posting to Facebook is fine, but why can't we setup so they send a text or email when they close or adjust hours? Literally the ONLY time I check Facebook these days is for the sake of this gym...IF I remember to do so.
Oh, well. At least I got to break a sweat doing the shoveling. Not much weight on any given scoop (figure a max of 25lbs or so), but hundreds of reps will get you tuckered out anyway.2 -
FINALLY got into the gym today, banged out a full-body routine:
Squats 4x15
Incline Bench Press 4x8,8,8,12
BB Row 4x10
Seated BB OHP 3x10
Cable Crunch 3x10,10,153 -
Nice work Mike, that is one hell of a workout!1
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Today was one of those "accept the good with the bad" type of days.
First, the "bad": I finally have to admit that my waist has grown marginally during my bulk phase, just enough to need to loosen the belt one notch to be comfortable. This is more than offset by the increased size of arms, quads and chest, and something which everybody said to expect. Still a bit of a bummer, though, lol.
Next, the neutral: when I started my bulk I was 179, told myself if/when I hit 200 I would stop the bulk and begin a cut back to 190 or so. Well, I just hit that magic 200 mark, but I fear if I began a cut now I'd lose all my momentum towards reaching that 315 bench. I'm so close... Thinking I'll just keep the bulk going until I get hit that bench mark (pun intended), and then swap to a cut.
Finally, the good: set a new PR for bench reps. I remember vividly the first time I struggled to get a single rep at 225. Well, today was heavy power upper body day, and I was doing triples and doubles at 275. The gym was packed with the after-work crowd, and guys were lined up waiting to celebrate International Bench Press Day (aka every Monday, every week). Rather than wait 5 minutes for my fifth set at 275 for AMRAP, I took pity on the next guy in line and told him he could have my bench if he spotted me. I dropped the weight to 225 and the rest time to 2 minutes, and got ready for AMRAP there. Previous record was 10...today I banged out 13. According to calculators, that's good for a 319 1RM. As I said, I'm so close I can taste it, but the way I was struggling at 275 tells me I'm not ready to try. Yet.3 -
Today was one of those "accept the good with the bad" type of days.
First, the "bad": I finally have to admit that my waist has grown marginally during my bulk phase, just enough to need to loosen the belt one notch to be comfortable. This is more than offset by the increased size of arms, quads and chest, and something which everybody said to expect. Still a bit of a bummer, though, lol.
Next, the neutral: when I started my bulk I was 179, told myself if/when I hit 200 I would stop the bulk and begin a cut back to 190 or so. Well, I just hit that magic 200 mark, but I fear if I began a cut now I'd lose all my momentum towards reaching that 315 bench. I'm so close... Thinking I'll just keep the bulk going until I get hit that bench mark (pun intended), and then swap to a cut.
Finally, the good: set a new PR for bench reps. I remember vividly the first time I struggled to get a single rep at 225. Well, today was heavy power upper body day, and I was doing triples and doubles at 275. The gym was packed with the after-work crowd, and guys were lined up waiting to celebrate International Bench Press Day (aka every Monday, every week). Rather than wait 5 minutes for my fifth set at 275 for AMRAP, I took pity on the next guy in line and told him he could have my bench if he spotted me. I dropped the weight to 225 and the rest time to 2 minutes, and got ready for AMRAP there. Previous record was 10...today I banged out 13. According to calculators, that's good for a 319 1RM. As I said, I'm so close I can taste it, but the way I was struggling at 275 tells me I'm not ready to try. Yet.
All sounds fairly positive to me. Good luck on that lift of 315. GIF it when you get it. Only advice I’ll throw in here is when you do decide to cut don’t rush it. Nice and slow so you hold onto those new gains as best you can. Best of luck!1 -
Today was one of those "accept the good with the bad" type of days.
First, the "bad": I finally have to admit that my waist has grown marginally during my bulk phase, just enough to need to loosen the belt one notch to be comfortable. This is more than offset by the increased size of arms, quads and chest, and something which everybody said to expect. Still a bit of a bummer, though, lol.
Next, the neutral: when I started my bulk I was 179, told myself if/when I hit 200 I would stop the bulk and begin a cut back to 190 or so. Well, I just hit that magic 200 mark, but I fear if I began a cut now I'd lose all my momentum towards reaching that 315 bench. I'm so close... Thinking I'll just keep the bulk going until I get hit that bench mark (pun intended), and then swap to a cut.
Finally, the good: set a new PR for bench reps. I remember vividly the first time I struggled to get a single rep at 225. Well, today was heavy power upper body day, and I was doing triples and doubles at 275. The gym was packed with the after-work crowd, and guys were lined up waiting to celebrate International Bench Press Day (aka every Monday, every week). Rather than wait 5 minutes for my fifth set at 275 for AMRAP, I took pity on the next guy in line and told him he could have my bench if he spotted me. I dropped the weight to 225 and the rest time to 2 minutes, and got ready for AMRAP there. Previous record was 10...today I banged out 13. According to calculators, that's good for a 319 1RM. As I said, I'm so close I can taste it, but the way I was struggling at 275 tells me I'm not ready to try. Yet.
You sound so very close! Kinda wild that you are working your way to that weight on BENCH, while I'm fighting to get there for Deads. LOL
BEAST MODE MIKE.
You totally need to break the no film rule for your bench PR. I'm sure they'd be ok with it. It would be awesome to see (and for you to have) for posterity!
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Me update...
Still doing my bench experiment. Right now I'm playing around with form and have been doing half reps in the lower half to cement my form (working with a friend/former coach). We'll see how that goes, but it's not very exciting. I AM benching something almost daily though, so it'll be interesting to see if this gives me any breakthrough.
I'm doing my other workouts pretty consistently. Haven't been sharing them here because I've only been capturing my biggest set of my main lifts and then maybe one other, depending on how busy the gym is. I figure no-one wants or needs to see 15 GIFs of me either squatting or deadlifting. :-P
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Yesterday was heavy lower-body day, which included hip thrusts 5x5. Because the first four sets felt like I had more to give at 485, I decided what the heck and increased the last set to an even 500 (had to go searching for the fractional plates). Banged out three reps at 500, a new PR.2
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Feeling excited about this... I am working towards my goals al of a 315lb deadlift. I am so close, I can almost taste it! Last night I did amap reps at 225 and got 13 - and they all moved so nicely!
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »Feeling excited about this... I am working towards my goals al of a 315lb deadlift. I am so close, I can almost taste it! Last night I did amap reps at 225 and got 13 - and they all moved so nicely!
I’m sweating just watching this - 🙌👏2 -
Sandy, that's the same math I had on my bench earlier this week! 225x13 reps = 319 1RM. We both got this!1
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Made a seemingly minor switch to my lower-body hypertrophy workout, changing my squat sets from 4x15x365 to 5x10x405. Been years since I squatted 405, feels different on the shoulders when the bar starts to bend around you. Also takes a slightly different breathing pattern.
Don't know if I'm subconsciously preparing to try to increase my squat 1RM or simply didn't want to face sets of 15 today, lol. But calculators say today's work equates to a 1RM of 540, which obliterates my real-life tested 1RM of 485, so maybe.1 -
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Made a seemingly minor switch to my lower-body hypertrophy workout, changing my squat sets from 4x15x365 to 5x10x405. Been years since I squatted 405, feels different on the shoulders when the bar starts to bend around you. Also takes a slightly different breathing pattern.
Don't know if I'm subconsciously preparing to try to increase my squat 1RM or simply didn't want to face sets of 15 today, lol. But calculators say today's work equates to a 1RM of 540, which obliterates my real-life tested 1RM of 485, so maybe.
This is just epic! Well done and crazy 1RMs!
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Been largely MIA lately, but i found out that i have a torn supraspinatus. Kind of sucks, but started PT to see if i can correct/heal it. Otherwise, i will have a surgery in the next 8-10 weeks. I can essentially do legs and back/arm work. No push which sucks. But at least i am not fully out of the game4
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Been largely MIA lately, but i found out that i have a torn supraspinatus. Kind of sucks, but started PT to see if i can correct/heal it. Otherwise, i will have a surgery in the next 8-10 weeks. I can essentially do legs and back/arm work. No push which sucks. But at least i am not fully out of the game
Sorry to hear about this. I appreciate the mindset though. Wish you the best with it.1 -
kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Been largely MIA lately, but i found out that i have a torn supraspinatus. Kind of sucks, but started PT to see if i can correct/heal it. Otherwise, i will have a surgery in the next 8-10 weeks. I can essentially do legs and back/arm work. No push which sucks. But at least i am not fully out of the game
Sorry to hear about this. I appreciate the mindset though. Wish you the best with it.
Thanks man. It just means more leg days. Which ironically are my favorite.3 -
Is that ALL push denied, or only horizontal push (aka you can do shoulders)?0
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Been largely MIA lately, but i found out that i have a torn supraspinatus. Kind of sucks, but started PT to see if i can correct/heal it. Otherwise, i will have a surgery in the next 8-10 weeks. I can essentially do legs and back/arm work. No push which sucks. But at least i am not fully out of the game
I can imagine how painful this is. My shoulder has been acting up on me pretty regularly since I pissed it off doing dips. It's the same area and when it hurts, it's hard to think clearly.
Hope the pt helps! (and quickly!)0 -
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KickassAmazon76 wrote: »Been largely MIA lately, but i found out that i have a torn supraspinatus. Kind of sucks, but started PT to see if i can correct/heal it. Otherwise, i will have a surgery in the next 8-10 weeks. I can essentially do legs and back/arm work. No push which sucks. But at least i am not fully out of the game
I can imagine how painful this is. My shoulder has been acting up on me pretty regularly since I pissed it off doing dips. It's the same area and when it hurts, it's hard to think clearly.
Hope the pt helps! (and quickly!)
That is how mine started and just kept getting worse.1 -
Dips are the devil! I did them my first year of lifting, quickly stopped due to pain, though in my case it was pain on my triceps, not chest. Either way, haven't done them in 13+ years.2
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