Vanity Log: how much in a year?

mrthingyx · 4 Jul 2013 at 10:38

Rest day, today...

I had a quick session with one of the coaches here to run through my front squat and picked up some useful pointers... then it was on to my actual rest workout...

RING DIPS ss/w WGCU 4*5

BW, +5, +5, +5

That was hard. Ran out of time, so had to ditch the fifth set...

BIZEP CURLZ 6-8-10

18-12-10

Realised I had a bit more time, so cracked these out. No rest period. Horrid. :cool:

Djdom56 · 4 Jul 2013 at 16:08

I'm am looking forward to having active rest days in my routine but that will only happen when I can train properly to start with.

What are WGCU?

Deception · 4 Jul 2013 at 16:11

Djdom56 said:
I'm am looking forward to having active rest days in my routine but that will only happen when I can train properly to start with.

What are WGCU?

Wide Grip Chin Ups? That's all I can think of

Djdom56 · 4 Jul 2013 at 16:15

Ah that would make sense

mrthingyx · 4 Jul 2013 at 16:39

Deception said:
Wide Grip Chin Ups? That's all I can think of

Djdom56 said:
Ah that would make sense

Yes - sorry about that. It makes sense to me...

Just finished a tricep superset for the drive-home pump... I was bored.

3*8 tricep extensions ss/w rope pull-downs.

TE: 10-12-12
PD: setting 10...

mrthingyx · 5 Jul 2013 at 10:05

Decided against a 1RM session today, as I'm still kind of fried. :rolleyes:

So it was my first home workout session! BOOM! Grinning like a idiot for most of it, too!

SNATCH COMPLEX (lift from floor, catch and snatch from hip *2) 5 sets.

50-*

Oh, dear. A month off Olympic lifting and I have lost a lot of pretty much everything: grip is horrific, speed is non-existent and power was delayed at Muscleville city limits... Trap and back pump was immense, however.

I was wondering why the lifts were so hard, thinking I only had 40kg on the bar, too... :rolleyes:

CLEAN COMPLEX (clean from floor, catch and 2*hip clean) 5 sets.

50-60-70-80-80

Shirtless gains (or not)! Was too hot, and sweating like a r4pist. Grip was completely shot at these point, and I'm going to get blisters on my palms.

FRONT SQUATS (clean from floor, front squat *3) 3 sets (out of time...

).

80-90-90

Not particularly taxing, but nice to jack the clean up a notch.

Olympic lifting back with a damp squib! Yes! I'm going to be absolutely ruined tomorrow!

The platform appeared to hold up nicely, too, which is always comforting. No idea what will happen as the weight (hopefully) goes up.

All in all, not the most taxing session from a strength perspective, but highlights how cruel a mistress Olympic lifting is. Love it.

mrthingyx · 5 Jul 2013 at 10:58

TheCenturion said:
I love your passion for Olympic lifting

Would say that doing a lot of oly lifts has increased your proprioception, balance, coordination etc more so than powerlifting/bodybuilding type lifts?

Not consciously, no. However, it requires me to be more mobile, flexible and with bigger traps than powerlifters and bodybuilders.

From a theoretical standpoint, the emphasis on technique in Olympic lifting would mean that coordination, balance, proprioception would have to improve by default, as they are very tough to get right, but I can't say "Oh, yes - I can do x/y/z because I snatch and clean..." if that makes sense?

LiE · 5 Jul 2013 at 11:09

Dat oly lifting body

mrthingyx · 5 Jul 2013 at 11:11

LiE said:
Dat oly lifting body

No pex, gunz... or calves.

Djdom56 · 5 Jul 2013 at 18:11

Have you tried benching recently?

I am always astonished by how much good oly lifters can bench. It shows haw important good shoulders are.

For example:

This guy is such a ****

mrthingyx · 5 Jul 2013 at 23:11

Djdom56 said:
Have you tried benching recently?

I am always astonished by how much good oly lifters can bench. It shows haw important good shoulders are.

...

This guy is such a ****

First caveat: I am not a good Oly lifter.

Secondly, this is the reason I can going hell for leather with overhead pressing, because I am currently not great at it (managed 5 and 4 reps of 30kg single arm standing today, though)... :mad:

Finally, no, I haven't tried barbell benching for a while... Enjoying uber range Dumbell pumpz far too much. Even then, I might just be able to shift 90kg...

mrthingyx · 8 Jul 2013 at 10:08

First proper training day in the home gym. Rubber matting arrived on Friday, so was prepared for some fun...

SNATCH from floor 5*3

40-60-60-70(2f)-70-(1ff)

Bring on the PAIN! Yes, that felt good. Still pretty slow, but getting better. Give me a week and 80kg will be back up there. :cool:

POWERCLEAN from floor 5*2

70-90-100-100-100

Powerclean from the floor, you say? I'm not really squatting to catch these (I probably should), so they aren't full cleans. Speed is still an issue, but I now have my guesstimate 1RM (almost made 105kg before the last set), so I have a working range to practice in for the 85/80% work.

FRONT SQUAT (clean, then three squats) 3*3

90-90-100

That felt really heavy. 100kg was pretty tough, but after the 'big' reps on cleans, they were pretty hard. Overall, very happy.

KLOKOV TRAP TRAINING 2*5

40-60

For the lolz, just to see what this would do. For those that haven't seen his Profile Enhancing Videos For Make Benefit Klokov Bank Balance From US CrossFit Demos series of Youtube trolling, they're essentially an SLDL with a snatch pull. Sound weird? Felt even more strange... however, the trap and upper back burn is just epic.

GOOD MORNINGS 2*5

40-60

Seeing how these felt... I think I need to get a better movement for these as they're a bit meh at the moment...

Overall? Very happy. Loving the new gym and definitely very relieved to be able to drop the weights!

Much more speed is needed to bring my lifts up to a level I'm remotely happy with, but I'm glad to see my lift-specific strength is still within at least the same ballpark as it used to be.

Onwards and upwards!

LiE · 8 Jul 2013 at 10:10

Topless with music cranked up? In.

mrthingyx · 8 Jul 2013 at 10:11

LiE said:
Topless with music cranked up? In.

Ahem. Yes. :cool:

Bar was sliding all over the place for the front squats, mind - have a horrendous barbell rash just below my throat where it started slipping.

LiE · 8 Jul 2013 at 10:13

Lovely

Delvis · 8 Jul 2013 at 11:26

No vids of Teddies?

I'm out.

mrthingyx · 8 Jul 2013 at 11:35

Delvis said:
No vids of Teddies?

I'm out.

I have none.

Can do back/trap/quad teddies, but that's pretty much it.

Delvis · 8 Jul 2013 at 11:55

In.

Looks like the home gym is going to do you good matey, one day I may have one if we get our own place with some space

mrthingyx · 8 Jul 2013 at 12:00

Delvis said:
Looks like the home gym is going to do you good matey, one day I may have one if we get our own place with some space

You've never expressed these sentiments before... if only you'd asked.

It's funny - having my own gym is awesome from the "hmm... I fancy trying this out" perspective, but it's also dangerous because there isn't the "event" of going to the gym to workout. Because it's at home.

So summoning the motivation to lift big could be a problem. Not a the moment, because it's still too fricking awesome.

mrthingyx · 9 Jul 2013 at 10:37

Poverty session today: miss-timed my training so only had 45 minutes in the Boneyard...

CLEAN FIRST PULL DEADLIFT 5-5-5-5-3

70(WU)-140-140-140-140-150

Finding range again. First two working sets were HARD (better warm up required!

). Last three were comparatively easy... 150kg feels like a good starting place for these at 3 reps...

DUMBELL BENCH 6-6-6-4

37.5-40-40-40

Last set of 40kg killed me - couldn't shift the dumbells off my chest.

Will probably go back into the gym later this afternoon for my pull-ups, rows and roll-outs. I feel deprived.

Still, a nice 'active rest' day.