JK vs BigRed
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ah! with the seated one I use the rack that has the bar on sliders (for lack of a better explanation). Is that a smith machine? slide the seat into is and get stuck in. Not having to stabilise it makes a big difference - you can concentrate on the lift plus you can bail out easily! and safely lol
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SOunds like the smith machine - the barbell is basically guided and on a fixed plane. Its pretty shit for most things due to the path not being natural (ie for squats, bench etc) but not bad for doing shoulder press from what I hear. Might be a good way of upping the weight
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Very flat legs workout this morning. Just couldnt get in to it and struggled with some fair easy weights...<br />
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Warmup 5mins on the bike. Felt sufficent.<br />
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Squats - 10 x bar, 8 x 60kg, 5 x 82.5, 5 x 95 and 5 x 107.5kg -was supposed to be max reps on the last set there and 5 was all that was there <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':mad1:' /><br />
Leg press - 4 sets of 12 at 140, 160, 160, 160<br />
Hamstring curls - 4 sets of 10 at 48kg<br />
Standing calf raises - 3 sets of 15 at 102kg<br />
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Right day 2 of 3rd cycle of 5/3/1 and it was chest/tri day<br />
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Standard warmup of 1000m row and stretches.<br />
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Bench - 10 x bar, 5 x 50kg and then 5/3/1 sets of 5 x 57.5kg, 5 x 65kg and 5 x 72.5kg. Was supposed to go max reps on last set but kinda just forgot so did another set of 5. No extra volume on this cycle for flat bench.<br />
Assistance work - 4 sets of 10 reps close grip incline bench, 3 sets of DB flies, 4 sets of 10 one arm DB rows, 3 sets of dips (12reps, 12reps, 10reps...struggled on the last).<br />
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Day off tomorrow as gyms closed but gonna go for an early fish and then work in the garden in the arvo so a bit of light exercise anyway. -
Deadlift thursday....my favourite day of the week.<br />
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500m row this morning at light pace for warmup and then 3 sets of widegrip pullups 6, 8 and 8 reps.<br />
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Deadlifts - 10 x 70kg and then my 5/3/1 sets of 5 x 100kg, 5 x 115kg and 5 x 130kg. Did a couple of heavier lifts after at 3 x 150kg and 2 sets of 2 at 160kg. Felt good but not as good as last week did.<br />
Assistance work - 3 sets of leg raises, 4 sets (10reps) of lat pull downs, 3 sets of hyper extensions and 3 sets of upright rows. I used to do my upright rows on fridays (shoulders/arms/abs) day but they seem to fit better (as assistance work) on my deadlifts day. Also gives me more time on Friday mornings to increase the scope of my arms work from just biceps to also include some triceps work so I end up hitting them tris twice a week.<br />
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Still unsure how long I will continue with this 5/3/1 training. Getting good progress on deads and ok progress on OHP and bench but my squats are struggling. I've tried to changed things up a bit this cycle with cutting out alot of volume work on the core lifts. Maybe one more cycle after this and then return to some sort of 4 day split. Hmmm -
Maybe continue with it for the exercises it's working well for? and try something different for squats. I do a warm up super set (swiss ball hammie curls and weighted box step ups) then hit the squats. That means you are pretty fresh when you get stuck in. Do you have a day or two between DL's and squats? best to have a break in between. <br />
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I'm a fan of keeping at a workout/approach until your gains slow down or you get bored. Your 5/3/1 seems to have you cranking along, a tweak or two for squats and you'll be knocking out PBs all over the show! -
Might be a good idea Bart. My cycles are supposed to be 4 weeks with the last week being a deload but I find I dont need to deload every cycle - did one after 1st one as had done about 12weeks on without any decrease in intensity and done last two cycles with no deload and feeling fine. Might do this cycle low reps, next time higher and repeat.<br />
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Might try some of them lunges you were talking about last year too. Could be good for the old legs.<br />
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Paekakboyz - Yeah got a few days in between. Doing squats on Monday and dont hit deads til Thursdays which I think is big enough gap. -
Good high intensity session this morning. It just didnt stop.<br />
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500m row @ 1.38 straight off the bat. No mucking around.<br />
OHP - 10 x bar and then 5/3/1 sets of 5 x 32.5kg, 5 x 37.5kg and 8 x 42.5kg. Did another set of 8 at 37.5kg.<br />
Assistance work for the day<br />
Arnie DB press - 4 sets of 10 supersetted with sets of 10 pullups.<br />
Quick break for abs class. Smashed it and only broke a 3min prone hold at the end as was so keen to hit the arms.<br />
Seated bicep curls (heavy) - 3 sets of 8 super setted with overhead tricep extensions and again went as heavy as I could on these.<br />
Preacher curls - as mentioned in bicep thread it has been a while. 3 sets of 10 here super setted with tricep pushdowns.<br />
Then 2 sets of 20 rep lighter bicep curls and a nasty drop set of tricep pushdowns which seemed to go for ever to finish.<br />
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Gym was pretty busy this morning and seemed to be alot of people with the old Monday Chestday mindset. Meant all the bench press setups were being used and even two peeps had set up to do their press in the squat rack. Grrr<br />
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So 5mins warmup on the bike and still nada available. Went and did 2 sets fo 15reps on the leg extension thingy and still nothing available so headed to the leg press. Did 1 set at 180kg and a rack came free....joy!<br />
Squats - 10 x bar, 10 x 60kg and then 5/3/1 sets of 3 x 90kg, 3 x 100kg and 6 x 110kg. Felt pretty good.<br />
Back to the leg pressed and 3 more sets of 12 at 200kg.<br />
Assistance work for the remainder of the session was 4 sets of hammie curls, 3 sets of standing calf raises and a couple more sets of leg extensions.<br />
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At least if the gym is busy again tomorrow there shouldnt be heaps of dudes doing chest so the press benches [i]should[/i] be free.<br />
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Chest session today.<br />
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Warmup was 5mins on the rower - did about 1200m or so. Wasnt too focussed on it to be honest. Had a PT next to me with one of their trainees and they were pointing at me and I couldnt hear over my music but I think they were saying that my rowing technique was good and to try do as I was doing as the trainees was definately rubbish. Anyway, I am hoping thats what they were saying lol<br />
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Bench -10 x bar, 8 x 50kg and then 5/3/1 sets of 3 x 60kg, 3 x 70kg and 5 x 77.5kg.<br />
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Bit of cardio today.<br />
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Slept in til 6am and rolled in to the gym about 615am. Managed 10mins on the rower to warmup and then joined the stetching class for 10mins of crazy angles and good times. Did another 30mins cardio on the stepper after than and then a few mins working on the abs. -
Picked up some cheap inner armour protein today [url="http://www.sportsfuel.co.nz/inner-armour-whey-protein-5lb-p-479.html"]http://www.sportsfue...-5lb-p-479.html[/url]<br />
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Not as high protein % as my usual stuff but good value at only about $1 a serving for 25g of protein. Tastes semi decent too. -
Deadlift thursday....<br />
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500m row this morning at light pace for warmup and then 3 sets of widegrip pullups 6, 8 and 8 reps.<br />
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Deadlifts - 10 x 70kg and then my 5/3/1 sets of 3 x 105kg, 3 x120kg and 5 x 130kg. Did a couple of heavier lifts as per last week after at 3 x 140kg, 3 x150kg and 2 at 160kg. Felt a wee twinge in the back to stopped it there on the heavies and did another set of 8 at 110kg. Feels ok now.<br />
Assistance work - 3 sets of leg raises, 4 sets (10reps) of lat pull downs, 3 sets of hyper extensions and 3 sets of upright rows.<br />
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Nice!! a couple at 160 is excellent. Good idea to stop when you felt the back twinge... it's weird that sometimes you can feel something not quite right but it doesn't seem to affect your strength or form. Then other times you just feel something go and that's that!<br />
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No doubt you keep an eye on it but are you maintaining your form right through the heavier lifts? I go for single lifts when I'm pushing toward my 1RM so that I can just concentrate on a single, clean lift. Form can definintely slacken if you are doing multiple reps at a challenging weight. -
think my forms pretty good. Bobby and other PT's always keep an eye on things and watched my heavier lifts today without saying anything other than positives so am sure would have said if there were concerns.<br />
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I was gonna go for a bigger single after the 160s but thought better of it. Backs feeling pretty sweet now.<br />
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Offtopic but the lads have set up a curry club and tonight we have our inaugral monthly meeting. Will be interesting to see how it impacts on tomorrow mornings lifts. -
Well no significant issues from the curry this morning (so far) but I did restrict myself to a pretty hot korma and only 2 kingfishers plus so a pretty mild night.<br />
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No abs class this morning....just didnt happen. The beautiful indian girl (looks like straight out of bollywood) looked angry. She only ever does cardio and abs work and some random legs 'toning' exercises.<br />
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Anyway, did 5mins row as warmup and then straight in to my OHP 10 x bar and then 5/3/1 sets of 3 x 35kg, 3 x 40kg and 5 x 45kg. Did another set of 6 at 40kg.<br />
Assistance work was 5 sets of DB press at 20kg supersetted with pullups, 3 sets of each of lat raises and front raises (12 reps) using the cables, Bbell bicep curls - 4 heavy sets with the straight bar, 3 sets tricep extensions and then finished with 3 sets of cable curls - relatively light weight but narrow grip and very slow on the descent. Felt it good. Supersetted these with some heavy as tricep pushdowns.<br />
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Well weekend done and dusted with no workouts or overly strenuous exerice so a good couple of days recovery.<br />
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Today was legs day of week 3 of my latest 5/3/1 cycle. Did a good 10mins on the bike as was keen to make sure was well warmed up and was also trying to catch the sports news (nice one City!)<br />
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Squats - 10 x bar, 10 x 60kg, 8 x 80kg and then 5/3/1 sets of 5 x 100kg, 3 x 110kg and 2 x 120kg. Did another 2 x 120kg and then 8 more of 100kg.<br />
Assistance work was leg press (4 sets of 12 at 200kg), Hamstring curls (4 sets), seated leg extenion (3 sets), standing calf raises (3 sets).<br />
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Gonna shake things up abit from next week and think I will revert back to a 4 day split sort of training for a bit and alternate between heavy weight / high volume and see how that goes. Body needs a shock. Will still work it around the main lifts but unsure how I will schedule what days are which. May keep as is to try and avoid the Chest Mondays crew.
