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

[coopedup]

mcelliott said:

Just taking a quick break from my monster ride, 230km in and 6,000m of climbing done. Target must be 400km and 10,000m. Feeling really tired but optimistic. Started at 04h40, will probably go late into the evening, get a few hours kip and then finish it off early tomorrow morning.

Don't listen to him, in real life he is a fat and lazy git
Good luck mate

Edited by coopedup on Saturday 4th June 18:10

[mcelliott]

coopedup said:

mcelliott said:

Just taking a quick break from my monster ride, 230km in and 6,000m of climbing done. Target must be 400km and 10,000m. Feeling really tired but optimistic. Started at 04h40, will probably go late into the evening, get a few hours kip and then finish it off early tomorrow morning.

Don't listen to him, in real life he is a fat and lazy git
Good luck mate

Edited by coopedup on Saturday 4th June 18:10

Cheeky fker

Just finished the bulk of the ride, up to 320km with exactly 8,005m of climbing. So, some sleep tonight, early start tomorrow to find 80km and 2,000m of climbing. Sounds easy when you say it quickly!

[ViperPict]

Quick session today:

Seated dumbbell shoulder press: 8 x 45kg, 12 x 37.5kg

Squat: 15 x 160kg (gradually getting the weight back up there)

Some machine rows

Seated dumbbell bicep curls: 6 x 25kg, 8 x 22.5kg

Some tricep pushdowns

[Johnny]

Jesus MC!

That's some going. Good work mate.

[mcelliott]

Cheers Johnny

Finished off the rest of my ride this morning, 6am start so a bit of a lie in! So the final stats for the ride - 450km and 10,090m of elevation. Oh, and a 13,000+ calorie burn, so I can eat what I want for a week now!

[Kawasicki]

mcelliott said:

Just taking a quick break from my monster ride, 230km in and 6,000m of climbing done. Target must be 400km and 10,000m. Feeling really tired but optimistic. Started at 04h40, will probably go late into the evening, get a few hours kip and then finish it off early tomorrow morning.

respect

just back from a 3 hour medium angry road ride....

[Burwood]

mcelliott said:

Cheers Johnny

Finished off the rest of my ride this morning, 6am start so a bit of a lie in! So the final stats for the ride - 450km and 10,090m of elevation. Oh, and a 13,000+ calorie burn, so I can eat what I want for a week now!

Boggles the mind. I'd eat proper baked cheese cake, burgers and Eton mess.

[Animal]

Squats this morning
70kg x 3
87.5kg x 3
97.5kg x 9

Leg Press 5x15 up to 265lbs

Leg Curl 5x10 up to 130lbs

Calf Raise 5x10 up to 220 lbs

13km walk home this evening.

[chris watton]

No training for me for the next week at least - my back feels just as bad now as it did when I hurt it on Friday, dammit!

Will just have sit it out and oversee my step son do his 5x5 routine.

[Johnny]

Early morning curls with the 16s at home before I left for work, 5x10 or so. Hopefully some back when I finally make it home tonight...

Sorry to hear your back hasn't improved Chris

[Animal]

Bench Press
70kg x 3
80kg x 3
90kg x 4

Band Bench Press 3x30 (40kg)

Pec Deck 3x12

Pendlay Row 5x10

Machine Curl 5x10

[didelydoo]

Bench: 1x 100,120,130,140,150kg. 6x 125,125,125 10x100
DB floor press: 4x35kg to failure, like doing these.
DB FLY: 4 to failure
Incline smith: 4 to failure

done.

[BlackST]

Well and truly hit rockbottom this past week and haven't been the gym at all in a week or so.
I need to get there this afternoon.
Any motivational youtube clips that anyone would reccommend?

[chris watton]

BlackST said:

Well and truly hit rockbottom this past week and haven't been the gym at all in a week or so.
I need to get there this afternoon.
Any motivational youtube clips that anyone would reccommend?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9zCgPtsups

[TheJimi]

BlackST said:

Well and truly hit rockbottom this past week and haven't been the gym at all in a week or so.
I need to get there this afternoon.
Any motivational youtube clips that anyone would reccommend?

The Strength Wars series from Bodybuildingrev are great, in fact, anything from them are brilliant. Love this attitude towards stuff.

They'll get you going

[Johnny]

Went for a the same chest session as last time today:

Superset x8:
Bench@80kg / Kettlebell Push Ups to failure
Superset x 6:
Incline Bench @60kg/ DB Push Ups to failure
Superset x4
Seated Chest Press @80kg/ Flys @16kg DBs
Superset x5:
Incline DB Flys @16kg / Dips to failure

Once again Reps were in the 3-10 range per set depending on weight and fatigue for the main exercise of each superset, and generally to failure for the second...

[Kawasicki]

I don't have a clue what the scientific name is for the training session I just finished, or even whether there was much point in doing it....

Anyway...70 minute bike ride, average heart rate 177bpm....plenty of leg burn.

[chris watton]

Well, I haven't done any training this week, but my back/lumbar region is slowly getting better and I have been very strict with my maintenance diet (less exercise-less food) - plenty of protein though (160-200g per day) but just one main meal per day, usually 2 fillets of salmon, rice, tomatoes and cottage cheese. I am 71.8kg this morning. I figured if I can't do anything else, I can certainly try to reduce the last bit of stubborn fat around the waist area.

Am hoping I can train again next week, but no squats or deadlifts for a while, or at least, until I get my back checked out properly so I know what the culprit is.
If I want to continue to do legs for the interim, I feel I have no choice but to buy that leg press machine.

I cannot believe just how grumpy and frustrated I am in not being able to train!

[Animal]

chris watton said:

Well, I haven't done any training this week, but my back/lumbar region is slowly getting better and I have been very strict with my maintenance diet (less exercise-less food) - plenty of protein though (160-200g per day) but just one main meal per day, usually 2 fillets of salmon, rice, tomatoes and cottage cheese. I am 71.8kg this morning. I figured if I can't do anything else, I can certainly try to reduce the last bit of stubborn fat around the waist area.

Am hoping I can train again next week, but no squats or deadlifts for a while, or at least, until I get my back checked out properly so I know what the culprit is.
If I want to continue to do legs for the interim, I feel I have no choice but to buy that leg press machine.

I cannot believe just how grumpy and frustrated I am in not being able to train!

'Training' doesn't just have to be in the gym, have you been doing lots of stretching instead? Are you able to walk/run without pain? If so, keeping active will help you feel better. If you want to do some weird squat stuff without too much strain check out Ido Portal on YouTube. There's a little squat/stretching routine that's much harder than it looks - for me anyway!

[Johnny]

Managed to sneak a quick session in after my nightshift, and before we needed to pick the MiL up for the airport...

6x5 Pull Ups
Upper Back Row Machine 5x6@100kg
Lat Pull Down, Cable 5x10@80kg
Seated Cabled Row 5x10@45kg
Bent Over Row 5x10@60kg

Went hard and fast to get done quickly, got a real sweat on, only to find once i got out that she'd missed her flight.

Obviously.