What training are you doing/have you done today? Vol.2

[didelydoo]

Had a wee gym deadlift comp today, got a 280kg PB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASO3Eot4IU

Happy, pain free and very surprised! Strength up, BF down. (dis 285kg after the comp- went up, but was hitched and ugly)

[Halb]

Did you win?

[didelydoo]

Halb said:

Did you win?

Joint second lift wise, top lift was 315kg by a 120kg bodybuilder (new gym record). BW was taken into account and I was knocked down to 4th. An 82kg guy pulled 270 (which was awesome!) and the other guy who pulled 280 was 93kg.

I'm just pleased I managed to pull off the floor pain free! Great fun day.

Won't be doing it again for quite a while.

[egor110]

When you go to the gym do you do any cardio as a warm up for weights?

Like 1000m on the rowing machine or do you just hit the weights straight away.

[TheBALDpuma]

Helping a friend with his maters degree dissertation yesterday. About 2 hours worth of snatches on a force plate (lots and lots of rest), wearing nothing but lifting shoes, skin tight shorts and lots of reflective balls for the motion anaylysis. Finished off with a but of core work.

[Regiment]

Halb said:

Ta. I've been considering making running a larger part of my training, which would mean I probably look towards lessening the weights, and look towards a circuit thing.

It depends on what you want to do with the running, it's great if you're training towards a particular race or distance but if it's health wise or to get body fat down, HIIT with hill sprints or something like that would be much better. The problem that i had before last November was that i was doing a power lifting 5,3,1 routine with running, struggling with the running and my strength was dropping so was pissing me off when i lifted, then in November i moved straight over to doing purely running with the cross training stuff, running has come on massively and weight and bodyfat has dropped, got a nice 6 pack coming along, but i'm nowhere near as strong as i was as even 100kg deadlifts felt heavier than i ever remember them being a few weeks back when i tried.


Yesterday should have been a nice 15 mile run at 9:00 pace per mile, felt comfortable so ran 17.2 miles instead and ended up being at 8:55 pace. Got the Lincoln 10km race coming up this Sunday so distance this week will drop a bit as i taper a little for the 10km but my goal for Sunday is to beat 45 minutes.

[gjf764]

Well after a torn meniscus and wobbly PCL I've now progressed to leg extension machine (one plate or whatever its called), step ups (no weight) and single legged deadlifts, oh joy!

[TheBALDpuma]

High pulls for speed
3 x 3 at 80kg

Squats
3 x 6 at 150kg

Bench Press
3 x 6 at 110kg

Bent over row
3 x 8 at 115kg

Chins
2 x 5 at 25kg
1 x 5 at 30kg

[didelydoo]

Got 27kg of steel, so i'll be testing out my revised 75kg kettlebell tonight, should be interesting.

[Johnny]

Still in a cast so not too much lately.

Mainly legs, some pull ups, and a little light cycling.

Tuesday:

21km on the Wattbike
3x20 Woodchops @ 7.5kg

Today:

Squats 6x10@40kg, 2x10@50kg, 2x10@55kg,
Leg Extensions 5x10@35kg
Leg Curls 5x10@40kg
Smith Calf Raises 3x20@20kg
Ab Crunch 3x20@35kg
Swissball Grab Leg Raises 3x10

Some stretching & power plate stuff.

Might get a bit of cycling in later too, if there's time.

[Halb]

didelydoo said:

Got 27kg of steel, so i'll be testing out my revised 75kg kettlebell tonight, should be interesting.

You have a hollow bell?

[didelydoo]

Halb said:

You have a hollow bell?

No- I've got lots of tape. The steel I've got will be put into a flexible tube (:cough: cut arm of an old jumper...) and taped to the KB.

[Halb]

I tried swings with two bells and a rope this week. 2x16, harder than the 32.
Tried to do constant swings for ten minutes with a 20 and the two 16s.

[Digger]

First time I finished of with four sets of elliptical intervals earlier. One each of 12, 9, 6, & 4 minutes. Which equates to time on & off, of 1min, 45, 30, & 20 seconds.

Surprisingly after ploughing through the first two, the 6 & 4 minutes were a relative breeze, even though I ramped up the Level.

Had my heart rate up to the maximum I've seen it since owning this monitor. Touched 97% !

I can't program the machine to set up a Tabata-style 20sec on, & 10 sec off, so I may as well start using one of the two Tabata apps I have on my phone!


ETA - Oh and did my first Circuits class today as well. I've missed doing them.

Edited by Digger on Thursday 3rd April 15:11

[deadmau5]

Halb said:

I tried swings with two bells and a rope this week. 2x16, harder than the 32.
Tried to do constant swings for ten minutes with a 20 and the two 16s.

'tried'

I tried to deadlift 600kg. So there

[TheJimi]

didelydoo said:

Halb said:

You have a hollow bell?

No- I've got lots of tape. The steel I've got will be put into a flexible tube (:cough: cut arm of an old jumper...) and taped to the KB.

Nutter.

[Halb]

deadmau5 said:

Halb said:

I tried swings with two bells and a rope this week. 2x16, harder than the 32.
Tried to do constant swings for ten minutes with a 20 and the two 16s.

'tried'

I tried to deadlift 600kg. So there

I was successful.
I alternated 'twixt the 20 and the 2x16.

[deadmau5]

Halb said:

deadmau5 said:

Halb said:

I tried swings with two bells and a rope this week. 2x16, harder than the 32.
Tried to do constant swings for ten minutes with a 20 and the two 16s.

'tried'

I tried to deadlift 600kg. So there

I was successful.
I alternated 'twixt the 20 and the 2x16.

So you did 20 mins in total? Did that nearly kill you?

[TheJimi]

Halb said:

deadmau5 said:

Halb said:

I tried swings with two bells and a rope this week. 2x16, harder than the 32.
Tried to do constant swings for ten minutes with a 20 and the two 16s.

'tried'

I tried to deadlift 600kg. So there

I was successful.
I alternated 'twixt the 20 and the 2x16.

Hang on, I'm confused!

Did you rope two 16's together? Or one 16 per hand?

[Halb]

deadmau5 said:

So you did 20 mins in total? Did that nearly kill you?

Just the ten mins, that was enough!

TheJimi said:

Hang on, I'm confused!
Did you rope two 16's together? Or one 16 per hand?

Slipped the triceps rope between the two bells. So the force was central.