JK vs BigRed
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<p>true, true. Even with straps your grip strength would be improving, it's not like you ain't holding on when you use them aye!</p>
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<p>( shakes head and leaves the conversation in disgust......)</p> -
<p>Cardio and abs this morning</p>
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Cardio was 20mins on spin bike and then 20mins on cross trainer. Only changed as spin bike doesn't have headphone inputs etc and something came on the tv i was keen to watch.</p>
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<p>Abs was 3 sets each of weighted decline crunches, weighted side bends, hanging leg raises, cable chops (both low to high and high to low), mountain climbers and finished with a couple of 1 minute planks.</p> -
<p>SO had catch up with PT last night and did skin folds. Better than expected as dropped 2mm on bicep and triceps, 2mm on back and 8mm on tummy which i wear I tend to store all my fat. And only 1kg down in weight over the 3 weeks so sounds like bugger all muscle loss, potentially muscle gain. He said he would do the calcs and send it through along with some tweaks to eating plan. Mean as!</p>
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<p>So today was legs and only leg session for the week.</p>
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<p>Warmup was 5mins on the bike. Didnt have time to do a roll out as a squat rack came free so bolted in there straight away.</p>
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<p>Squats - 10xbar, 10x bar, 10x60kg, 10x60, 8x100kg, 10x100, 10x100, 8x110.</p>
<p>Leg press - 20x120kg, 15x160, 12x200, 12x240, 12x240, 12x240</p>
<p>Seated leg curls - 15x60kg, 12x78, 12x84, 12x84</p>
<p>Lunges - 3 sets of 30 unweighted</p>
<p>Seated calf press - 20x200kg, 12x300, 12x320, 12x320, 15x300</p>
<p>Leg extensions - 100reps at 54kg</p>
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<p>5mins on the bike to finish.</p> -
<p>Shoulders and arms today</p>
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<p>Warmup - well it wasnt much. Some pressups, stretches and overhead press with just a barbell.</p>
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<p>Seated DB press - 12x17.5kg/side, 12x17.5, 12x20, 12x20</p>
<p>Upight rows - 12x38kg, 15x38, 12x44, 12x44</p>
<p>Hammerstrength OHP - 10x35kg/side, 8x40, 8x40</p>
<p>Front plate raises - 15x10kg, 10x15kg, 12x15</p>
<p>Cable side raises - 12x11kg/side x 3 sets</p>
<p>Facepulls - 12x38kg x 3 sets</p>
<p>Close grip bench - 12x60kg, 10x65, 10x65, 12x65</p>
<p>BB curls - 12x32kg, 12x32, 12x32</p>
<p>Straight bar push downs - 15x54kg, 12x60, 12x60</p>
<p>Cable curls (isohold) - 8x48kg, 6x54, 6x54</p>
<p>Dips (unweighted) - 15, 20, 15 reps</p>
<p>Hammercurls - 12x15kg/side x 3 sets</p>
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<p>Friday workouts are always fun. No training planned for the weekend but may go run some stairs with the wife depending on the whether.</p> -
Back running these bastards again <br><br><img src="http://iforce.co.nz/i/h42qypad.byp.jpg" alt="h42qypad.byp.jpg"><br><br>
Took the wife today as she's keen on running the stairs too. We did 8 repeats of sprint up (she jogged) and then the jog back down. 280steps each way. Was a good blow out.<br><br>
I also did 50 box jumps to finish while wife coma'd on the grass -
5km run with the wife before dinner. Very gentle pace with a wee bit of walking on one of the hills as wife is pretty unfit. Actually did a lot better than she expected, just needs to learn to breath properly. Also surprised she pulled up so well from yesterday's stairs workout. Impressed.
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<p>Wow so farken flat and weak this morning. Putting it down to the daylight savings as the body just felt like it wasnt ready to lift. Struggled everywhere...</p>
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<p>Chest and triceps was the workout</p>
<p>Warmup was 500m row and some pressups</p>
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<p>Hammer strength incline - 15x20kg/side, 12x35, 12x37.5, 12x40</p>
<p>DB flat bench -10x27.5, 8x32.5, 6x35, 6x35 (these were a real struggle)</p>
<p>DB pullovers - 15x15kg, 12x17.5, 12x17.5</p>
<p>Hammer strength flat bench - 12x40kg/side superset with machine flies 15x60kg x 2 sets</p>
<p>Weighted dips - (+22kg) - 8, 6, 6 (yep major struggle) then unweighted 10, 10 reps</p>
<p>OH cable extensions - 15x32kg, 12x38, 12x38</p>
<p>Skullcrushers - 12x27kg, 12x27, 12x27</p>
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<p>All very meh! Tomorrow WILL be better.</p> -
<p>Back and biceps today and much better workout than yesterday</p>
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<p>Warmup was 1000m row</p>
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<p>Deadlifts - 10x70kg, 10x70, 6x110, 5x140, 5x140, 1x170, 1x180, 6x140, 8x140</p>
<p>Lat pulldowns - 12x54kg, 12x60, 1x60, 15x54</p>
<p>1 arm DB rows - 8x32.5kg, 10x32.5, 8x35, 8x35 dropset --> 10x25</p>
<p>Hyperextensions (+15kg) - 12, 12 then 15 unweighted</p>
<p>Close grip chins (+10kg) - 12, 12, 10</p>
<p>Preacher curls - 12x22.5kg, 12x24.5, 12x24.5, 12xx24.5</p> -
<p>Masssive workday yesterday plus a late night at starship due to my boy managing it knock himself out meant I hardly ate and wsnt in the right space to train this morning.</p>
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<p>Ended up going in mid morning and did legs. No real warmup, just walked there and light sets to start off.</p>
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<p>Squats - 10xbar, 15xbar, 10x50kg (stopped for a rollout), 10x50, 10x80, 5x110, 5x120, 5x120, 10x80, 15x80</p>
<p>Front squats - 12x50, 8x70, 8x70, 8x70</p>
<p>Lunges - 3 sets of 20</p>
<p>Leg press - 15x200kg, 12x240, 12x240, 30x120</p>
<p>Lying hamstring curls - 12x39kg, 12x42, 10x42 dropset --> 12x30</p>
<p>Standing calf raises - 15x150, 12x190, 12x190, 12x190</p>
<p>Seated calf raises - 12x60, 12x60, 12x60</p>
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<p>Short ride on the bike to finish.</p> -
<p>Shoulders and arms this morning feeling a bit dusty after last night.</p>
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<p>Workout was:</p>
<p>Seated DB press - 12x17.5kg/side, 12x20, 12x20, 12x20</p>
<p>Shrugs - 12x60kg/side, 15x60, 15x60, 15x60</p>
<p>Hammerstrength OHP - 10x40kg/side, 8x40 dropset --> 8x30 --> 12x15</p>
<p>Upright rows - 12x38kg, 12x44, 12x44</p>
<p>DB front and side raises - 10x10kg x 3 sets</p>
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<p>Seated DB curls - 10x17.5kg/side, 10x17.5, 8x20, 8x20</p>
<p>V-bar pushdowns - 15x56kg, 15x62, 12x68, 12x68</p>
<p>EZ Bar 21s - 3 sets at 24.5kg</p>
<p>Overhand and underhand 1 arms push downs - 10reps of each @ 20kg/side x 3 sets</p> -
<p>Pretty poor weekend eating wise. Ended up in a restaurant at a leaving lunch on friday arvo and didnt leave there til quite late. Saturday wasn't much better but did well yesterday and this week the diet will be right on point.</p>
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<p>No exercise over the weekend either...pretty slack.</p>
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<p>So this morning was Chest and Triceps.</p>
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Warmup - 500m row plus pressups</p>
<p>Incline DB bench - 12x25kg/side, 10x27.5, 8x30, 8x30</p>
<p>Flat BB bench - 10x60, 10x70, 8x80, 6x85, 5x85, 5x85</p>
<p>Decline DB flies - 15x10kg, 10x15, 12x15</p>
<p>Dips - 12 (unweighted), 10 (+18kg), 10 (+18kg), 10 (unweighted), 12 (unweighted)</p>
<p>Machine flies - 12x66kg, 15x66</p>
<p>Skullcrushers - 12x27kg, 12x27, 10x32, 12x32</p>
<p>Tricep kickbacks 12x5kg/side (4 sets superset with the skull crushers)</p> -
<p>Good old back and biceps today.</p>
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<p>Warmup was a 500m row</p>
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<p>Pullups - 10, 10, 10 reps</p>
<p>Deadlifts - 10x70kg, 6x110, 5x140, 3x160, 5x160, 5x140</p>
<p>Close grip pulldowns - 12x60kg, 12x66, 12x66</p>
<p>Wide grip seated rows - 12x54kg, 12x60, 12x60</p>
<p>Straight arm pulldowns - 15x38kg, 12x44, 12x50</p>
<p>T-bar rows - 8x65kg, 8x65 the a dropset 6x65 --> 6x55 --> 6x45 --> 6x35</p>
<p>BB curls - 10x37kg, 10x37, 10x37, 10x37</p>
<p>Rope curls - 12x32kg, 12x32, 12x32</p>
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<p>Pretty good day of eats yesterday - kept carbs to just over 100grams with double that in protein and fats almost at 100grams too.</p> -
<p>Golf yesterday. Got sun and wind burnt and generally played very poorly.</p>
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<p>Legs were actually feeling it a bit this morning and my left knee was clicking pretty loudly. Didnt hurt so presume its just gas build up in there but skipped a few exercises and kept the weights lighter than usual for this mornings legs session.</p>
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<p>Warmup - 5mins on bike, stretching and then a couple of sets of light leg press</p>
<p>Squats - 10x60kg, 10x60, 10x80, 10x80, 10,90, 10x90, 10x90, 15x90, 15x90.</p>
<p>Seated hamstring curls - 20x54kg, 15x72, 12x78, 12x78</p>
<p>Reverse hyper extensions - 20, 15, 15, 15 reps (superset with the hammie curls)</p>
<p>Seated calf press - 20x220, 12x300, 12x300, 12x300, 12x300</p>
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<p>10mins ride on the bike to finish.</p> -
<p>Shoulders and arms today</p>
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<p>Started with some overhead press and upright rows using just the barbell to warmup.</p>
<p>Arnie press - 12x17.5kg/side, 12x20, 10x20</p>
<p>Upright BB row - 12x32kg, 12x32, 12x32</p>
<p>Seated DB press - 10x22.5, 10x22.5, 10x22.5</p>
<p>Cable sides raises - 3 sets of 12 x 11kg/side</p>
<p>Rear delt flies (machine) - 15x36kg, 12x42, 12x42</p>
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<p>Seated DB curls (with iso holds) - 4 sets of 8 x15kg</p>
<p>Preacher curls (with iso holds) - 4 sets of 6 @ 27kg</p>
<p>Reverse barbell curls (close grip, full ROM) - 3 sets of 15 x 22kg</p>
<p>Triceps - rope pushdowns (continuous tension, no lockout) 4 sets of 20 @ 44kg</p>
<p>Skullcrushers (more iso hold) - 4 sets of 6 @27kg</p>
<p>Close grip pushups (to failure) - 12, 14, 14 reps</p>
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<p>Feeling like getting alot leaner this week. Eaten well too apart from last night where I had a kebab for dinner. Otherwise all good.</p> -
<p>Not on the list of priorities at the moment given time of training and that I am training fasted. Would need a mid arvo session for me to pull a weight like that.</p>
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<p>No training over the weekend but a few kms walk for golf on Friday evening and a 12km run on Sunday with a mate who's training for auckland marathon.<br><br>
Ate pretty decent all weekend but the odd beer in there, ok, some wine too.</p>
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<p>Today was chest and triceps</p>
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<p>Warmup - just a few sets of press-ups both incline and flat</p>
<p>Flat BB bench - 10x60, 10x70, 8x80, 5x85, 5x85, 5x85, 12x70, 15x70</p>
<p>Flat bench flies - 12x12.5kg, 12x15, 12x15</p>
<p>Dips - (+18kg) x 10, 8, 8 reps and then unweighted for 12, 12 reps</p>
<p>Incline DB bench - 12x25kg/side, 10x27.5, 10x27.5</p>
<p>Machine flies - 15x60kg, 12x66, 12x66</p>
<p>V-bar push downs - 15x56kg, 12x60, 12x60, 10x66</p>
<p>OH DB extensions - 20x20kg, 15x22.25, 15x22.5</p> -
<p>Back session this morning but no deads this week.</p>
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<p>Warmup was 1000m row.</p>
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<p>Pullups - 50 reps total and did them in sets of 10, 8, 7, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 reps</p>
<p>BB rows - 10x40kg, 10x50, 8x55, 8x55, 10x50</p>
<p>Hyperextensions - (+10kg) - 12, 12, 15 reps</p>
<p>Seated row - 12x60kg, 10x66, 10x66, 12x63</p>
<p>Straight arm pull downs - 12x44kg, 12x44, 12x50</p>
<p>Incline DB curls - 12x15kg/side, 8x20, 8x20, 8x20</p>
<p>Preacher curls - 12x24.5kg, 12x27, 12x27</p>
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<p>Pretty short workout really but felt good.</p> -
<p>Knee clicky as this morning so gave up on the cross trainer after 5mins and opted for cardio on the bike with the seat a bit lower than usual to limited my leg straightening. 30mins on the bike in the end.</p>
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<p>Also did 15mins of abs work - weighted decline crunches, medicine ball twists, weighted side bend - lots of each.</p>