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kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Minion_training_program wrote: »Back in the gym after 1 week off.
Took it easy, and no squats yet, so did upper body workouts.
Benchpress 5x5 @ 83%
Tried some new stuff i saw on IG from Nick Benekaris (bigbenchas...follow him if you do not already...Thanks for the tip @KickassAmazon76 )
By having a different setup for my grip, my wrist was not bending backwards on the way down, which normally happens on the heavier weights.
Tried this after set 1 and 2. And i can tell it makes a huge difference, my 3rd and 4th set were flying, actually did 6 reps on third set, because i lost count, but my garmin counted 6.
Some barbell row 3x10
Then tricep push down on cable station 3x10
Incline bench press 3x8 at the weight i was struggling with last time i did incline bench press and was not even able to do 3 sets fo 6 (had 6/5/5)
Now, only last set i was really struggling to complete my set.
And finished my workout with 2x150 rope jumps where i do not do 150 in a row, but when i break, i just restart and count further untill i hit my 150.
First time was almost 3 and a half minute to complete 150 reps
Second time i was below 3 minuts
Goal is to do 150 reps in a row, under 2 minuts
Here is my heartrate during my workout, you can definatly tell i suck at cardio, since my heartrate goes sky high when i started rope jumping
Total volume lifted today, 4840kg
Dude! That’s some serious heart rates there on those peaks. How do you like jumping rope for cardio?
Yeah, my working heartrate has always been high, been that ever since i started tracking it back in 2010 when i did cycling
I goes high fast, but also back to normal pretty fast
But during my rope jumping it went up to 177 peak which is almost as high as i used to have it on my spinning classes back in the day
Really like the rope jumping for cardio, it's a great cardio even if it's only 5-6 minuts. It feels like 201 -
Minion_training_program wrote: »kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Minion_training_program wrote: »Back in the gym after 1 week off.
Took it easy, and no squats yet, so did upper body workouts.
Benchpress 5x5 @ 83%
Tried some new stuff i saw on IG from Nick Benekaris (bigbenchas...follow him if you do not already...Thanks for the tip @KickassAmazon76 )
By having a different setup for my grip, my wrist was not bending backwards on the way down, which normally happens on the heavier weights.
Tried this after set 1 and 2. And i can tell it makes a huge difference, my 3rd and 4th set were flying, actually did 6 reps on third set, because i lost count, but my garmin counted 6.
Some barbell row 3x10
Then tricep push down on cable station 3x10
Incline bench press 3x8 at the weight i was struggling with last time i did incline bench press and was not even able to do 3 sets fo 6 (had 6/5/5)
Now, only last set i was really struggling to complete my set.
And finished my workout with 2x150 rope jumps where i do not do 150 in a row, but when i break, i just restart and count further untill i hit my 150.
First time was almost 3 and a half minute to complete 150 reps
Second time i was below 3 minuts
Goal is to do 150 reps in a row, under 2 minuts
Here is my heartrate during my workout, you can definatly tell i suck at cardio, since my heartrate goes sky high when i started rope jumping
Total volume lifted today, 4840kg
Dude! That’s some serious heart rates there on those peaks. How do you like jumping rope for cardio?
Yeah, my working heartrate has always been high, been that ever since i started tracking it back in 2010 when i did cycling
I goes high fast, but also back to normal pretty fast
But during my rope jumping it went up to 177 peak which is almost as high as i used to have it on my spinning classes back in the day
Really like the rope jumping for cardio, it's a great cardio even if it's only 5-6 minuts. It feels like 20
I need to give this a try. If it kills me Gus just know I still love ya. 😁1 -
Last time I tried jumping rope I had to face a corner due to certain wardrobe malfunctions. I'll be better prepared next timekinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Minion_training_program wrote: »kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Minion_training_program wrote: »Back in the gym after 1 week off.
Took it easy, and no squats yet, so did upper body workouts.
Benchpress 5x5 @ 83%
Tried some new stuff i saw on IG from Nick Benekaris (bigbenchas...follow him if you do not already...Thanks for the tip @KickassAmazon76 )
By having a different setup for my grip, my wrist was not bending backwards on the way down, which normally happens on the heavier weights.
Tried this after set 1 and 2. And i can tell it makes a huge difference, my 3rd and 4th set were flying, actually did 6 reps on third set, because i lost count, but my garmin counted 6.
Some barbell row 3x10
Then tricep push down on cable station 3x10
Incline bench press 3x8 at the weight i was struggling with last time i did incline bench press and was not even able to do 3 sets fo 6 (had 6/5/5)
Now, only last set i was really struggling to complete my set.
And finished my workout with 2x150 rope jumps where i do not do 150 in a row, but when i break, i just restart and count further untill i hit my 150.
First time was almost 3 and a half minute to complete 150 reps
Second time i was below 3 minuts
Goal is to do 150 reps in a row, under 2 minuts
Here is my heartrate during my workout, you can definatly tell i suck at cardio, since my heartrate goes sky high when i started rope jumping
Total volume lifted today, 4840kg
Dude! That’s some serious heart rates there on those peaks. How do you like jumping rope for cardio?
Yeah, my working heartrate has always been high, been that ever since i started tracking it back in 2010 when i did cycling
I goes high fast, but also back to normal pretty fast
But during my rope jumping it went up to 177 peak which is almost as high as i used to have it on my spinning classes back in the day
Really like the rope jumping for cardio, it's a great cardio even if it's only 5-6 minuts. It feels like 20
I need to give this a try. If it kills me Gus just know I still love ya. 😁
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Back in my military days, they were playing around with their annual physical fitness test. One year they tried a stationary bike with variable resistance and a heart rate monitor, somebody would change the resistance and watch the change in heart rate.
Short answer was I failed spectacularly, because my heart rate has a tendency to go from zero to sixty in nothing flat, even with light work, but never really spike high, just stay level. But the test scored on a sliding scale, and said I must be lousy fitness because I went high fast instead of staying low, despite the fact the pedaling remained easy for me.
I didn't feel bad about it, though. Nearly 90% of the military "failed" that test, including a dude in my unit who finished in the top 50 overall at the Boston Marathon. Yep, that guy must have lousy cardio...1 -
Last night I had a great workout. Squats went solidly and my 3rd set worked out to a calculated 1rm of just over 250, so yay! Depth was also pretty good.
I did some leg presses. Tried changing up the foot height and position to get better ROM. Some random on the interwebs said I was ego lifting the 5 plates and sacrificing form, so I did some research, changed my foot position and slowed the reps down. Still, even after that, my fourth set was 4 plates for 7 reps, so I really don't think it was much ego at all.
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Figured as well as my bench press test went yesterday, I could swap out my heavy leg day today for a squat test day. Bear in mind I haven't gone fewer than 10 reps in a set in years, although those sets are at a higher weight than I used to do sets of five at back in the day.
So I broke out my old knee wraps and weight belt out of storage and hit the rack, being extra careful to set the safety bar at the correct height in case I had to bail. Thorough warmup with ramping weight but de-ramping reps, until I started doing singles after my working weight of 405.
Added the wraps and belt after a couple heavy singles just as a precaution more than anything, and wow, I forgot how restrictive the wraps are, lol. But I kept adding 20# each time and the weight kept moving... 445, 465, 485 (matching previous lifetime PR).
Time for the big show, 5 plates, 495! (Threw on a couple micro-plates to make it an even 500, just for kicks and giggles.) Bar bending, spine feeling like an accordion getting compressed, feet barely shuffling into position an inch at a time. But the rep itself moved smoothly enough, and I had finished another PR!
That's the last time I do a squat PR, though. My knees and legs took it gamely enough, and arguably could have gone even higher, but my spine was letting me know in no uncertain terms that I was DONE.
Between yesterday's bench plus today's squat plus my last recorded deadlift (before I stopped them due to injury), I now qualify for the 1200# club at BW 200.3 -
itchmyTwitch wrote: »
Last time I tried jumping rope I had to face a corner due to certain wardrobe malfunctions. I'll be better prepared next timekinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Minion_training_program wrote: »kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Minion_training_program wrote: »Back in the gym after 1 week off.
Took it easy, and no squats yet, so did upper body workouts.
Benchpress 5x5 @ 83%
Tried some new stuff i saw on IG from Nick Benekaris (bigbenchas...follow him if you do not already...Thanks for the tip @KickassAmazon76 )
By having a different setup for my grip, my wrist was not bending backwards on the way down, which normally happens on the heavier weights.
Tried this after set 1 and 2. And i can tell it makes a huge difference, my 3rd and 4th set were flying, actually did 6 reps on third set, because i lost count, but my garmin counted 6.
Some barbell row 3x10
Then tricep push down on cable station 3x10
Incline bench press 3x8 at the weight i was struggling with last time i did incline bench press and was not even able to do 3 sets fo 6 (had 6/5/5)
Now, only last set i was really struggling to complete my set.
And finished my workout with 2x150 rope jumps where i do not do 150 in a row, but when i break, i just restart and count further untill i hit my 150.
First time was almost 3 and a half minute to complete 150 reps
Second time i was below 3 minuts
Goal is to do 150 reps in a row, under 2 minuts
Here is my heartrate during my workout, you can definatly tell i suck at cardio, since my heartrate goes sky high when i started rope jumping
Total volume lifted today, 4840kg
Dude! That’s some serious heart rates there on those peaks. How do you like jumping rope for cardio?
Yeah, my working heartrate has always been high, been that ever since i started tracking it back in 2010 when i did cycling
I goes high fast, but also back to normal pretty fast
But during my rope jumping it went up to 177 peak which is almost as high as i used to have it on my spinning classes back in the day
Really like the rope jumping for cardio, it's a great cardio even if it's only 5-6 minuts. It feels like 20
I need to give this a try. If it kills me Gus just know I still love ya. 😁
Should have gif’d it 😂3 -
kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »itchmyTwitch wrote: »
Last time I tried jumping rope I had to face a corner due to certain wardrobe malfunctions. I'll be better prepared next timekinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Minion_training_program wrote: »kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »Minion_training_program wrote: »Back in the gym after 1 week off.
Took it easy, and no squats yet, so did upper body workouts.
Benchpress 5x5 @ 83%
Tried some new stuff i saw on IG from Nick Benekaris (bigbenchas...follow him if you do not already...Thanks for the tip @KickassAmazon76 )
By having a different setup for my grip, my wrist was not bending backwards on the way down, which normally happens on the heavier weights.
Tried this after set 1 and 2. And i can tell it makes a huge difference, my 3rd and 4th set were flying, actually did 6 reps on third set, because i lost count, but my garmin counted 6.
Some barbell row 3x10
Then tricep push down on cable station 3x10
Incline bench press 3x8 at the weight i was struggling with last time i did incline bench press and was not even able to do 3 sets fo 6 (had 6/5/5)
Now, only last set i was really struggling to complete my set.
And finished my workout with 2x150 rope jumps where i do not do 150 in a row, but when i break, i just restart and count further untill i hit my 150.
First time was almost 3 and a half minute to complete 150 reps
Second time i was below 3 minuts
Goal is to do 150 reps in a row, under 2 minuts
Here is my heartrate during my workout, you can definatly tell i suck at cardio, since my heartrate goes sky high when i started rope jumping
Total volume lifted today, 4840kg
Dude! That’s some serious heart rates there on those peaks. How do you like jumping rope for cardio?
Yeah, my working heartrate has always been high, been that ever since i started tracking it back in 2010 when i did cycling
I goes high fast, but also back to normal pretty fast
But during my rope jumping it went up to 177 peak which is almost as high as i used to have it on my spinning classes back in the day
Really like the rope jumping for cardio, it's a great cardio even if it's only 5-6 minuts. It feels like 20
I need to give this a try. If it kills me Gus just know I still love ya. 😁
Should have gif’d it 😂
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Figured as well as my bench press test went yesterday, I could swap out my heavy leg day today for a squat test day. Bear in mind I haven't gone fewer than 10 reps in a set in years, although those sets are at a higher weight than I used to do sets of five at back in the day.
So I broke out my old knee wraps and weight belt out of storage and hit the rack, being extra careful to set the safety bar at the correct height in case I had to bail. Thorough warmup with ramping weight but de-ramping reps, until I started doing singles after my working weight of 405.
Added the wraps and belt after a couple heavy singles just as a precaution more than anything, and wow, I forgot how restrictive the wraps are, lol. But I kept adding 20# each time and the weight kept moving... 445, 465, 485 (matching previous lifetime PR).
Time for the big show, 5 plates, 495! (Threw on a couple micro-plates to make it an even 500, just for kicks and giggles.) Bar bending, spine feeling like an accordion getting compressed, feet barely shuffling into position an inch at a time. But the rep itself moved smoothly enough, and I had finished another PR!
That's the last time I do a squat PR, though. My knees and legs took it gamely enough, and arguably could have gone even higher, but my spine was letting me know in no uncertain terms that I was DONE.
Between yesterday's bench plus today's squat plus my last recorded deadlift (before I stopped them due to injury), I now qualify for the 1200# club at BW 200.
Epic!!! Absolutely epic!!0 -
Back in my military days, they were playing around with their annual physical fitness test. One year they tried a stationary bike with variable resistance and a heart rate monitor, somebody would change the resistance and watch the change in heart rate.
Short answer was I failed spectacularly, because my heart rate has a tendency to go from zero to sixty in nothing flat, even with light work, but never really spike high, just stay level. But the test scored on a sliding scale, and said I must be lousy fitness because I went high fast instead of staying low, despite the fact the pedaling remained easy for me.
I didn't feel bad about it, though. Nearly 90% of the military "failed" that test, including a dude in my unit who finished in the top 50 overall at the Boston Marathon. Yep, that guy must have lousy cardio...
That is a terrible test, because it say's absolutely nothing.
Low heartrate doesn't mean good cardio.
It's about having a pretty even cardio, and how fast it goes back to "normal" once the cardio is taken away0 -
Figured as well as my bench press test went yesterday, I could swap out my heavy leg day today for a squat test day. Bear in mind I haven't gone fewer than 10 reps in a set in years, although those sets are at a higher weight than I used to do sets of five at back in the day.
So I broke out my old knee wraps and weight belt out of storage and hit the rack, being extra careful to set the safety bar at the correct height in case I had to bail. Thorough warmup with ramping weight but de-ramping reps, until I started doing singles after my working weight of 405.
Added the wraps and belt after a couple heavy singles just as a precaution more than anything, and wow, I forgot how restrictive the wraps are, lol. But I kept adding 20# each time and the weight kept moving... 445, 465, 485 (matching previous lifetime PR).
Time for the big show, 5 plates, 495! (Threw on a couple micro-plates to make it an even 500, just for kicks and giggles.) Bar bending, spine feeling like an accordion getting compressed, feet barely shuffling into position an inch at a time. But the rep itself moved smoothly enough, and I had finished another PR!
That's the last time I do a squat PR, though. My knees and legs took it gamely enough, and arguably could have gone even higher, but my spine was letting me know in no uncertain terms that I was DONE.
Between yesterday's bench plus today's squat plus my last recorded deadlift (before I stopped them due to injury), I now qualify for the 1200# club at BW 200.
HOLY *kitten*! 5 plates...Man you are awesome!
My goal is 400lbs in next 2 years
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I hear ya. A few years back when I injured both shoulders benching, my PT told me that from then on, I was supposed to do 4 sets of back for every 3 sets of chest, partially to counter my typical male idiocy of focusing on only the chest when I started lifting, partially to offset a day job at a desk with a long commute. It's worked, too.
That is what my PT wants as well. Much more pull volume.1 -
Hockey w/ a broken mop and (unused) urinal cake..because..why not?
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Maybe because I can ice skate but not roller skate...0
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280lbs on incline bench.8 -
kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »
280lbs on incline bench.
Nice!!1 -
kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »
280lbs on incline bench.
Wow! Well done! 👏 👏1 -
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kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »
280lbs on incline bench.
Nice!!KickassAmazon76 wrote: »kinetixtrainer2 wrote: »
280lbs on incline bench.
Wow! Well done! 👏 👏
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Sheesh, @kinetixtrainer2! On an incline bench, no spotter, and you banged out a rep dang near my 1RM for flat squat, yet your rep had better range of motion, was smoother, and required a fraction the time to complete.
Where's the Wayne's World "we're not worthy!" emoji?1 -
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Sheesh, @kinetixtrainer2! On an incline bench, no spotter, and you banged out a rep dang near my 1RM for flat squat, yet your rep had better range of motion, was smoother, and required a fraction the time to complete.
Where's the Wayne's World "we're not worthy!" emoji?
Haha, thank you my friend. Truthfully I expected to get a bit more. I’ve been working incline presses as my primary compound movement for chest for a couple years now. Due to the reason you listed above I’ve always favored the smith machine. I also like that the smith allows me to focus a bit more on mind/muscle. For this 12 week program my incline presses have been a reverse pyramid of 5 sets, 1,2,3,4 and 5 reps. I reached 320 on the smith. This 12 week program finished today. I had decided to move my inclines to free weights for this next 12 week program. I truthfully feel like I can get a bit more once my secondary muscles adapt to the new lift. And I thank you for very kind words brother.1 -
See, it's videos like yours which are plenty reason to convince me to not try to sneak in a video of my own pitiful efforts, lol. I don't think I'd like the comparison, lol.0
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Thanks.
I decided to just stick with the routine I've been following, rather than change things up just to try for a 1RM on bench. As long as it works, don't fix what ain't broke, am I right? And it seems to still be working, as I banged out 5 sets of 3 reps at 275, where in the past at least one of those sets would be only a double.
I won't even think about trying another bench 1RM test day until I can get 5x5x275.2 -
Thanks.
I decided to just stick with the routine I've been following, rather than change things up just to try for a 1RM on bench. As long as it works, don't fix what ain't broke, am I right? And it seems to still be working, as I banged out 5 sets of 3 reps at 275, where in the past at least one of those sets would be only a double.
I won't even think about trying another bench 1RM test day until I can get 5x5x275.
Sounds like a solid plan to me. I do something similar and will just repeat the meso cycle.0 -
Thanks.
I decided to just stick with the routine I've been following, rather than change things up just to try for a 1RM on bench. As long as it works, don't fix what ain't broke, am I right? And it seems to still be working, as I banged out 5 sets of 3 reps at 275, where in the past at least one of those sets would be only a double.
I won't even think about trying another bench 1RM test day until I can get 5x5x275.
Absolutely correct. I’d get as much progress out of what you’re doing too. Impressive lifts too.0 -
These last few days have been really heavy emotionally (said goodbye to my kitty of 17years) and I did not want to go to the gym last night. I didn't think I'd be able to do my lifts and didn't even want to walk on the treadmill. But I went. I got on the treadmill already preparing myself for how I'd lower my squat weights when I found I'd have no oomph.
But the warm ups went ok and I got my working set. The squats in this vid are the last ones of the last set and 220x7 is roughly a 1rm of 264 (which is a fair bit higher than my actual 1rm of 245). All in all, I'm happy I went and I surprised myself, yet again.
Bench: 10x65lb, 5x95lb, 3x125lb
Squat: 10x95lb, 5x135lb, 3x165lb, 3x185lb, 6,6,7x220lb
OHP: 5,5,5,5,4x70lb
Wide grip pull down: 9,8,7x120lb
Seated Back row: 3x12x105lb
Face pull: 10x52.5lb, 12x42.5lb, 10x52.5lb
Tricep pushdown: 3x10x52.5lb
Tricep extension: 3x15x22.5lb
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