Pushing Tin - Paekakboyz Training Log
-
<p>Managed a decent workout while we were away on holiday. Hotel actually had a power rack and nearly 140kg of plates. Only two 20 plates but that was ok. Knee rehab has been going ok, probably haven't been stretching enough but I have kept up by leg extensions and body weight lunges. No as 'clicky' anymore but still not 100%. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Did chest, triceps, legs and biceps while at the hotel - lots of sets till failure at 60-70% of max lift. Got a good pump and was still feeling it a day or two later. Got some building work to do tonight and over the long weekend. Gym on Sunday.... maybe 100 pull-ups again... hmm. Then my first session with my PT on Wed evening. Really looking forward to it - so much so I've been cleaning up my eating and slowly cutting down alcohol etc. It is summer still after all!</p> -
<p>First of 10 weekly PT sessions today. Got my ass kicked. Still a bit gun shy with my knee and shoulder but it was all go today. Heaps of bodyweight and core work. Plus a heap of focus on activating the glutes and core through transition movements.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>3 exercise supersets on a 15m or so track</p>
<p>1. Lunges with a pause and a back extension at the bottom of the lunge, arms above head and arching backwards. To really open up hips and keep the chest proud etc. </p>
<p>2. bodyweight squats swing arms up as you go deep in the squat - 12 reps</p>
<p>3. Reverse bear crawls - keeping hips low and body parallel to the floor. I thought these had more of an arch through the back... I was wrong. Doing it properly hurts more too!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Did that 3 times.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Then my PT took me through Turkish get ups. </p>
<p>Did 2 reps (up and down) each side then he got me to do three more sets of 2 reps each side using my shoe. I wasn't allowed to grip it, just have it sitting in my hand. I can see why having any weight at all would fark you up! </p>
<p> </p>
<p>2 exercise superset </p>
<p>Ring rows - pointing toes and digging heels in. Keeping glutes tight to keep my body rigid while doing the rows.</p>
<p>Waiters carries with 10kg KB for one set then with 12kg KB for the last two sets. Failed near the end of the last two sets on the KBs, weird to have lactic acid through my whole arm - from forearm, biceps and triceps! evil!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>2 exercise superset</p>
<p>Lying down close DB press (one arm at a time). Keeping elbow tucked in tight and focusing on abs and glutes to keep stable. 20kg for 8, 24kg for 8 then 26kg for 8. </p>
<p>1min plank keeping glutes tight - this was a bit of a change, I normally concentrated on bellybutton meeting the spine to keep the girdle around your lower waist really tight. Again doing it the PT's way hurt heaps more! failed on the last set, managed 45 sec or so. Legs were jelly!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Finished with 3 sets of 8 reps doing GHD's. First set was munted as I thought my hammies were going to cramp, but the last two sets were all good.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sweated like a demon and I'm knackered now. Good stuff! Wonder if I'll be able to walk tomorrow :think:</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="dK" data-cid="468939" data-time="1421838456">
<div>
<p>Love the Turkish Get ups, have done them with 20kg KB, regular weight is 16kg, but even a mm out of balance and down she comes. I use a HR monitor during my workouts and I will regularly hit 90-95% of max HR doing them. brutal.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p>Had to 100 of those at 16kg for one workout. Felt like I'd been run over by a truck.</p> -
-
<p>Back that truck up!!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>100? as in 10*10 = 100?? That is evil. Pure evil.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Had some soreness after that workout but nothing major. Mean buzz for the next few days too! Knee is feeling better too. Really looking forward to next session. </p> -
<p>ugh, that is nasty... but it would be super satisfying to finish.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Next session is tomorrow night, have been away in between so not much training. I've been making some better choices with my kai and drinking heaps of water. Although with this sort of heat you have too!</p> -
<p>It was 25-26 degrees by 9am in Wellington today. Brutal. Super hot in the gym and I was ruined about 2/3rds of the way through. Upgraded to a 10kg and then a 12kg KB for the turkish get-ups. PT sorted a form issue, when I was bringing my knee around I was trying to get lined up like a lunge. Once we figured out the correct position things got heaps easier. Still shaking my head at doing a hundy at 16kg. Kirwan, do you remember how long that took?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Turkish getups then bodyweight rows, push up variations, lunges and bodyweight squats. Pull ups and ring close grip type press ups too. Finished with GHDs, a shorter session but my PT could tell I was smashed, verging on too hot for me! Head spins etc.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>A bit gutted I didn't manage a better effort today but it's all about improving on the last workout. </p> -
<p>Much better session today. Short and sharp... and a wee bit heavy!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>DB flat bench</p>
<p>20kg10, 26kg10 to warm up.</p>
<p>30kg8, 40kg8, 40kg8, 30kg6</p>
<p> </p>
<p>DB flies</p>
<p>22kg8, 30kg6, 30kg8, 30kg9 - didn't get in the groove till later in the set.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Was pretty stoked even though we only hit two exercises. 40kg was heavy on the press but I reckon I'd manage 1-2 ugly reps round 50kg. I'll still be working on my shoulder and making sure I don't go full muppet in the pursuit of heavier lifts. The flies were good too - will be interesting to see how the DOMS are tomorrow.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Paekakboyz" data-cid="469731" data-time="1422432803">
<div>
<p>It was 25-26 degrees by 9am in Wellington today. Brutal. Super hot in the gym and I was ruined about 2/3rds of the way through. Upgraded to a 10kg and then a 12kg KB for the turkish get-ups. PT sorted a form issue, when I was bringing my knee around I was trying to get lined up like a lunge. Once we figured out the correct position things got heaps easier. Still shaking my head at doing a hundy at 16kg. Kirwan, do you remember how long that took?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Turkish getups then bodyweight rows, push up variations, lunges and bodyweight squats. Pull ups and ring close grip type press ups too. Finished with GHDs, a shorter session but my PT could tell I was smashed, verging on too hot for me! Head spins etc.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>A bit gutted I didn't manage a better effort today but it's all about improving on the last workout. </p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p>Ahh, the curse of old age memory. It was 100 at 12kg and took 25:51min. Still sucked.</p> -
<p>ugh that's like 15-16 seconds a rep! That is a cracking pace. I'm sure it hurt like a bastard at 12kg in any case!</p>
<p> </p>
<p> Have scrubbed up ok after the chest session yesterday. Right shoulder was a wee bit tender but more likely DOMS than anything else.</p> -
<p>I got mixed up with a workout with Toes to bar and Turkish-Get-Ups, that was at 16kg but was only three rounds and nowhere near that many reps.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Speaking of crazy, I got to play with Atlas Stones (42kg) the other day. 50 reps during the workout to get them to the shoulder, and then wall climbs straight after (so upside down). The closest I've come to puking in a long time. Fun playing with the strongman stuff.</p> -
<p>Cool!! Have you ever checked out Elliot Hulse on youtube? He started out with strongman training videos before he got into broader training approaches. Bit of a youtube success story. But he loves the atlas stones and he has guys and girls of all sizes having a crack at them. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Nothing like picking heavy stuff up aye!!! MN5 would endorse that message!</p> -
<p>Much better session with PT today. Not quite as hot but I was just as smashed afterwards. Legs and arms.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Rolled out and stretched for a good 30min before the session. A lot of work on my back and legs.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Legs was a bunch of 2-3 exercise supersets.</p>
<p>Swiss ball hammie curls</p>
<p>Bodyweight lunges</p>
<p>Bodyweight squats</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Went through sets of 15 reps, 20 reps, and then 25 reps.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Moved on to KB squats with pistol squats using a bench. 12kg KB's tucked up so that sat just over my delts - right over the heels rather than in a front squat rack.</p>
<p>Then pistol squats - throwing the arms out to keep balance. Managed to keep balance pretty well, and dicky knee was pretty good!</p>
<p>15 squats then 8 pistol squats each leg</p>
<p>20 squats then 12 pistols</p>
<p>25 squats then 16 pistols</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Feel the burn!! man I had some mean lactic acid. Quads were pumped.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Finished up with some biceps and triceps.</p>
<p>Diamond push ups - 2 sets of 12 reps</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tricep push downs superset with BB curls</p>
<p>7/12 setting for triceps and went through 22kg, 26kg and 30kg BB for the curls.</p>
<p>12 reps on triceps and 8 reps for biceps - 3 sets.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Walked pretty gingerly down the stairs on the way out. Feeling good now though! </p> -
<p>No gym session but finished off the garden box we'd been building for the mother in law. Shifted a cubic metre of compost/top soil mix and another cubic metre of mulch. Upgraded my wheelbarrow last year, new one can handle a bit of weight. Heavier loads but fewer overall. A bit of weeding and spreading that mulch to go.Then the weeds can fark right off for a while!</p>
-
<p>Mean session with PT on Friday night. Legs and arms. Nasty!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Warm up was two sets of lunges and bodyweight squats. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Hip thrusts and hammy curls for core exercises on the swiss ball - super setted those with a woodchop variations on the cables. 3 sets of increasing reps.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Then a swiss ball extension (leaning on it with your forearms and tilting forward a bit - burns the core... mine at least! That was superset with BB box squat. Just a touch on the box rather than a pause. 3 sets with the weight going 60kg, 80kg, 100kg. Clearing the knees and opening up the hips. Feeling goof.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Then it was an evil forward and reverse bear crawl with 5 tricep push ups every 10 hand movements. That was 2 sets of push ups each way. I was nailed on the forward part and struggled hard on the reverse. Your weight is loaded through your arms and my triceps were smashed. Just to make it fun that was super set with barbell curls. 35kg8 then 45kg8.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Pure evil. Loved it!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Had a session this morning. DB bench and flies.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>DB Bench </p>
<p>308, 408, 408, 408</p>
<p> </p>
<p>DB Flies</p>
<p>268, 308, 308, 308</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Shoulders felt good. Will have a nudge at 44 or 46 next time. Might try and work up to 10-12 reps at 40kg before that though. Not in any rush to get back to 50s, would much prefer avoiding further injuries.</p> -
<p>5th PT session. Things are going well. Got the round the bays walk in wellies on sunday. So I got legs out of the way today. Wanted to do front squats and deads but my lower back tightened up so we replaced deads.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Spent about 40min warming up and rolling out/stretching. Had a 5.40pm session so plenty of time to focus on that stuff beforehand.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Official warm up was three sets of 15m of lunges with arm extension overhead and 25 bodyweight squats.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Then it was hip raises and hammy curls on a swiss ball.</p>
<p>12 hip raises then 20 curls - 3 sets.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Front squats</p>
<p>40kg5, 60kg5, 655, 704, 753, 802, 85*1. They felt good, spreading my knees is really helping with my form. Still tracking over my feet but it opens your hips and no bother from my knee at all. Chur!!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Finished with three sets of backwards bear crawls and jack-knifes on a swiss ball. 15m bear crawl and 20 jack-knifes. Totally relaxed my lower back, it'd been on the verge of cramping partway through the session. Waaaay too long sitting today. My PT is a fucken magician... and an evil bastard but you gotta respect that!! </p>
