Nitefly's 'Hearts on Fire' Log

Today was an ambitious gym session. It followed 4 nights of hard drinking and 3 hours of sleep. I am currently hanging out of my arse (/pilesception). But since therandom challenged me to a PB I had to bring on the pain. I changed into my strongman t-shirt and visualised myself as a sexual cobra ready to strike out.

Squats 95kg - 3,3,2,2,2
Rows 55kg - 5,5,5,5,5 (massive cheating)
Bench 62.5kg - 5,4,3,3,2

So yeah, nearly killed myself! Squats were actually dangerous. I have a history of looking strong and failing hastily from nowhere so I really had to be careful this time. A warning to fellow manlets, if you are going to fail, remember to fail safely! I didn't fail any reps but nearly stumbled over on my third set.... yikes.

Spine still in one piece... for now :D
 
After the 2 week carby mega-binge, it's back to the gym and CBL prep-phase. Starting from tomorrow. For now, bagels are just too good.
 
Ok, finally back to the gym last night. Squats are being avoiding until my hips stop being agonising.

OHP 40kg - 5,5,5,5,3
DL 115kg - 5,5,5,2,1 (100kg -5)
Chins - 5(attempted 6), 3,3,2,1

Not a bad return to things, chins a bit disappointing but oh well.

Edit - OHP was 40, not 42.5.
 
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An exciting update for all! Gym is still happening but it's hardly progress o'clock with no carbs. The good news is that I can now squat with a light weight, hooray, so I've been getting my gym buddy to check out my form and I'm keeping the stretches up.

I will start blogging again when I pass the prep-phase, if I can mentally survive! :eek:
 
Right, back in the game.

Squats 80kg -5,5,5,5,5
Bench 57.5kg - 5,5,5,4,3
BOR 50kg - 5,5,5,5,6
Decline Press 52.5kg - 5,5,5,7,6
Leg raises / reverse crunches

Life is so much easier with carbs, god DAMN! Back loading with 250g and, for the backloading, I'm getting the protein in with shakes as opposed to the fattier calorie heavy meats (sausages), which I think were tipping my backload day calories into the stratosphere.

Will hopefully be back to previous form in a couple of weeks. Stuck to strict 90s rests today, very pleased with squats, warmed up for a lot longer and it just 'felt' better. Sweat everywhere!
 
Back to battlestations once again following a biblical drinking session on Friday holy moly. Still felt rancid at the gym today, but was pumped and ready to go after going to the Euro strongest man qualifier.

Squats 70kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Bench 57.5kg - 5,5,5,5,4
BOR 52.5kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Decline press 52.5kg - 5,5,5,6,6
Reverse crunches / leg raises

Squats just hurt, oww! My whole hips feel gammy and whilst not hard in any way it was just painful and unpleasant, even with 6-8 warm up sets and lots of stretching. I gave myself minimum rest for the working weight to ensure I got a sweat on. Just going to have to roll about a lot and hope for a recovery.

Not displeased with bench, happy with rows and decline considering the swift rests.
 
Delvis - the weight drop is purely because something is rather unpleasant with my squats. I'm massaging the **** out of my legs, hips, knees etc in attempt to sort it out. It won't be many sessions before it's back up there, although I don't want to workout in agonising pain.

Squats 72.5kg - 5,5,5,8,8
OHP 35kg - 5,5,5,5,5
DL 100kg - 5,5,5,5,6
Pull ups -> negs to 5 - 2,1
Miserable Pull Downs 45kg - 5,5,6


Lots of haste on the squat and OHP working weights, I was determined to get a sweat on. Still experimenting with my feet positioning for squats trying to find out where I'm going wrong. Focussed on keeping my shoulders back and engaging lats on deadlift and avoiding the weird shoulder pains I was having previously.

Pull ups were particularly pants today -must get harder better faster stronger.
 
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icecold said:
So the shoulder thing worked?

Send me some videos of you squatting. In the nude, preferably.
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Seems like it, although I have dropped the weight down by 15kg, which isn't insignificant! I'll be able to tell for sure soon enough. Will try to suss some videos for you.

Edit - I realise I wrote avoiding rather than the intended avoided.
 
Did some barbell complexes today, 8 'sets' with a minute rest in-between. Almost blacked out, holy ****! That be some tough exercise!
 
Squats 75kg - 5,5,5,8,8
Bench 57.5kg - 5,5,5,3,4
Rows 55kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Decline 55kg 5 to negs - 5,3,3,3
Core bits

Squats felt much better today \o/

Going to increase my food intake before my workouts because I'm just not eating enough. Heavy backload session lined up. Pizza and apple pie!
 
Squats 77.5kg - 5,5,5,8,8
OHP 37.55kg - 5,4,3,3,3 (push press to complete)
DL 105kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Chin ups -> negs to 5 - 5,5,3,3
Pull Downs 55kg - 5
Core bumf.

Nothing to report. Keepin on truckin.
 
Going to hammer the coconut oil pre-gym today to see if I notice a boost. I've just been eating a chicken breast then hitting the gym at 6.30ish sans any coconut oil with no carbs for 48 hours... Anti-energy stations!

PBs incoming.
 
Squats 80kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Bench 57.5kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Rows 55kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Dips BW (+2 negs) - 4,3,2,2,1
Core bits

Bah, buscuits, scourging my lighter backload *shakes fist*. As I can eat practically indefinitely, I find it quite hard to limit my backloads to 250g and 300-350g is common. I suppose this means I'm adding more muscle, but delaying fat loss. I'm also not very heavy, so 300g is probably overdoing it anyway. Thoughts welcome!
 
Squats 82.5kg - 5,5,5,5,5
OHP 37.55kg - 5,5,5,5,5
DL 105kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Chin ups -> negs to 5 - 5,5,4,3,3
Core Stuff

Took longer rests today except squats. Felt better. Going to deload on bench though next time around, shoulders / pec are truly horrible!
 
Squats 85kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Bench 50kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Rows 57.55kg - 5,5,5,5,5
Incline Dumbell Bench 16kg - 8,8,8,8,8
Core bits

Have gone right down on bench for some recovery. Not sure what killed my shoulder/pecs but it's grim and even the bar wasn't painless. Form was allegedly fine, so just randomly tweaked it I suppose. Hopefully recovery will be swift.

Squats were hard but strong. Going to hover on each weight for 2 sessions for a more gradual increase of weight.

Feeling relative lean!
 
A truly miserable gym session for me today, had a face like an angry fiddle! Leg pain and elbow pain were the cause of my grief today and after a very long day at work that's not what you want. It did however mark my return to weights from Tuesday - I went on a bit of a drink binge from Wednesday to Saturday which I don't regret in the slightest, although holy crap, water retention :eek:

Squats - 85kg 3,4,4,4,4
Bench - 52.5kg 5,5,5,5,5
Rows - 57.5kg 5,5,5,5,5 awful form due to elbows
Core bits
 
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