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

[chris watton]

What a glorious morning for a drive to the gym!

Today:

Bench Press - 7x12-2 reps
Cable Crossovers - 5x12-8 reps
DB Cross-Bench Pullover - 4x12-8 reps
Machine Bench Press - 5x12-6 reps

Power Clean - 8x2
Clean and Press - 4x5 and 5x3-1 rep

BB BOR - 4x12-8 reps
Lat Pull Down - 5x12-8 reps (all pull up bars being used )
Seated Pulley Row - 4x12 reps

[Granfondo]

60km hilly cycle starting to feel stronger after the lurgy!

[mondeoman]

8 miles easy run, last long one before the London marathon.

[ALawson]

163km in the Surrey Hills, 2100m climbing. Completely knackered circa 3601tss, previous longest ride this yehar has been 60km!

Edited by ALawson on Sunday 9th April 21:33

Edited by ALawson on Monday 10th April 07:50

[didelydoo]

Today>

18" deads: 260kg x 8
Bench: 132.5kg x 10
Push press: 100kg x 10
Dips: +65kg x 12
Chins: +30kg x 8

stretching.

That was that. Nice to pull some decent weight from 18", doing them first was a good idea, but it did impact on the rest of the session.

[chris watton]

I watched you do those Deads on Instagram, Didely (annoyingly, I still can't post from PC), impressive as always.


Today was pure hypertrophy stuff, but still quite tough after yesterday's session too..

Back Extensions - 2x20

Squat - 5x12-8 reps (4x12 and 1x8) - no knee wraps for the first time ever and no belt, gotta stop being a poof...
Leg Press - 5x12-3 reps (3x12, 1x8 and 1x3) - I did wear knee wraps for these..

CG Bench Press - 5x20-8 reps
Weighted Dips - 5x12-9 reps

Wide Grip Pull Ups - 4x12-8 reps
T-Bar Row - 4x12-10 reps (Moved car out of the way so I could use 7' bar, much better than the 5')
Seated Pulley Rows (Reverse grip) - 4x12-8 reps

Face Pulls - 4x12-9 reps

Pulley Preacher Curls - 5x20-8 reps

Edited by chris watton on Monday 10th April 14:50

[didelydoo]

chris watton said:

I watched you do those Deads on Instagram, Didely (annoyingly, I still can't post from PC), impressive as always.

Thanks. I think insta only lets you post from phones, though may be wrong. I'm not that tech savvy!

The deads moved well today, and pain free too, which is always a plus. More to come, working back up to 300kg, maybe....

[chris watton]

didelydoo said:

Thanks. I think insta only lets you post from phones, though may be wrong. I'm not that tech savvy!

The deads moved well today, and pain free too, which is always a plus. More to come, working back up to 300kg, maybe....

yes, I think you're right - but I downloaded and installed the 'PC' version of Instagram, thinking it would allow me to upload pics and vids from my PC, but no such luck.

Deads for me is so frustrating, after I attempt a new PR, it takes absolutely ages for my lower back to fully recover, making heavy Deads few and far between, and I hate that!
I am sure that we could knock out lots of sets of upper and middle back stuff almost daily and have no real problems, but the lower back in contrast takes an age to recover! For me, anyway..

[Halb]

Elimination Circuit

Squat - Press Up - Power Clean - BB Push Press - Chin Up
Start on 5 reps, add a rep each round, 30 seconds rest 'twixt circuits, when you miss a rep, you drop that exercise and continue on.
193 total

also did some ankle drops, ball squeezes and vacuums.

[ORD]

Semi-deload this week but I still struggled! Drove to Newcastle & back from london this weekend, with a 2 year old, which might explain it!

Bench:
5 x 5 @ 80kg w 60 seconds rest.
Only had a couple of reps left each time, which sucks.

Supposed to be squatting but no chance of getting a rack so did:
3 reps each leg alternating forward & back lunges (same leg) x 5 with 24 kg dumbells.
Bloody killed my quads, so probably a good thing to throw into my workouts.

Chins; tricep stuff.
Did my first 24 chins in 3 sets and then tried to do the remaining 26 in 5 mins. Got 24. Pathetic given that I could do 32 in 5 mins a few months back. Must do more chins.

[mcelliott]

Yesterday 60km on the bike with 1300m of climbing, and today 79km with 1700m of climbing, plus a few press ups as well.

[Johnny]

Incline DB Press 3x10@30, 1x6@40, 1x6@30kg
Bench 5x8-10@60kg
Incline Bench 5x10@40kg
Single Arm Side-On Machine Chest Press 5x5/side@30kg
Decline Cables 5x10@12.5kg/side

Seemed to hurt my right shoulder (again!) pressing the 40s. Second set just wouldn't happen. Had to take it easy after that.

[Jamie VTS]

Lots today.

Lunchtime 5x3 power cleans 65kg.

8 rounds of 7 burpees, 7 box jumps and 7 power cleans at 60kg. Followed by a 3k (slow) run.

Testing lifts tonight managed to hit pbs across the board.

155 back squat, 180 deadlift and 80 bench for a 415 total @73kg body weight.

[Halb]

I wanna buy some Olympic collars, anyone have a brad to advocate?

[chris watton]

Halb said:

I wanna buy some Olympic collars, anyone have a brad to advocate?

I bought a couple of pairs of these, much quicker and easier to use between sets, even take a pair with me to the commercial gym..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Fitness-Collars/Pellor-...

[chris watton]

My 21 year old step daughter has recently started weight training, something that I never in my wildest dreams thought would happen. And she is really enjoying it! She loves the fact that she can add a little weight at each workout. She does Tuesday and Thursday at her local gym with a personal trainer, and at the weekends, she does a session here, a 5x5 routine. This was her first session taken by her PT:



So that's all of my immediate family doing some sort of weight training now!

[didelydoo]

chris watton said:

I bought a couple of pairs of these, much quicker and easier to use between sets, even take a pair with me to the commercial gym..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Fitness-Collars/Pellor-...

My gym bought a load of these- none of them work any more- all stretched out and don't grip.
They then got these - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aluminium-Olympic-Collar-... - which so far work great- good option.

For my money, i'd get the aluminium ones above, or these: http://www.sshealthfoods.com/product/1488/all/all/... Cheap, last forever, but a bit big

[chris watton]

didelydoo said:

My gym bought a load of these- none of them work any more- all stretched out and don't grip.
They then got these - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aluminium-Olympic-Collar-... - which so far work great- good option.

For my money, i'd get the aluminium ones above, or these: http://www.sshealthfoods.com/product/1488/all/all/... Cheap, last forever, but a bit big

Cheers, have ordered a pair from Amazon!

ETA - I only use them for barbells, as I have the 1" DB's with the awful spinlock collars, but the plates aren't changed as much as BB stuff...

Edited by chris watton on Tuesday 11th April 09:40

[ORD]

chris watton said:

My 21 year old step daughter has recently started weight training, something that I never in my wildest dreams thought would happen. And she is really enjoying it! She loves the fact that she can add a little weight at each workout. She does Tuesday and Thursday at her local gym with a personal trainer, and at the weekends, she does a session here, a 5x5 routine. This was her first session taken by her PT:



So that's all of my immediate family doing some sort of weight training now!

Great stuff. She'll learn a lot more from you than the PT, and she'll make some progress!

[ORD]

Jamie VTS said:

Testing lifts tonight managed to hit pbs across the board.

155 back squat, 180 deadlift and 80 bench for a 415 total @73kg body weight.

Well done, Jamie!

Squat and deadlift look much better than bench. Are you recovering from a shoulder injury?