Nitefly's 'Hearts on Fire' Log

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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You should have substituted something in for squats! Is this a prep phase mark II session?

You should also have let me caress your legs.

Soon.
 
Ice never offers to caress my legs, but if he did I would be all over that ****.

Just sayin.

Get dat der couch stretch happening dude.
 
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!
 
glad to see you back and training again. Whats wrong with having chichken, lean beef, pork, steak, or any other meat then sausages on your backload evenings??
 
Nitefly said:
Nothing except price :p
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£1.75 for 1kilo of frozen chicken portions. 400g (raw) is a massive portion and more then enough. Fattier then chicken brest. a lot less fatty then sausages, and cheaper by a fair distance!

£4 for a kilo of frozen chicken breast, 300g raw again is a decent portion, and hardly any fat to think of. weight comparison its cheaper then sausages. Or get down to farm foods and pick up 3kg for £10, bargin.
 
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.
 
Can I ask why you dropped squats by 10kg? :p Or was it purely due to the hip issue?

Going well though dude, keep it up.
 
Nitefly said:
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.
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Not really a PB though.

I got home and passed out.

Strong liver gains.
 
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.
 
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