What training are you doing/have you done today? (Vol.3)

[Burwood]

didelydoo said:

Crossfit is great! I'd do it if I didn't do what I do. It's a great combo of strength, power, agility and cardio/conditioning.

I'd bet putting someone on 1 year of cross fit versus a year of starting strength, the crossfitter will look better, be fitter and match the other in all respects.

Strongman is pretty much an extremely heavy version of crossfit- and you don't see folk berating it because its dangerous- and it is, more so than crossfit- limit lifting or max lifting against the clock, questionable technique- but the poundages and potential for damage at higher.

Anyway, for me this morning>

Pull day, pull stuff. It was good and hard, though uneventful exercise wise.

Forgot to mentioned I trained legs a bit at the weekend, first time in 5 weeks. DOMS is kicking my ass today- quads particularly

BTW, DD. Your comments about front lat spread. I think the camera angle is making the pose look less than what it is. down looking up. you can't see the delt tie in to the upper chest and the bicep thickness. Also flattens out the chest.

[didelydoo]

Burwood said:

BTW, DD. Your comments about front lat spread. I think the camera angle is making the pose look less than what it is. down looking up. you can't see the delt tie in to the upper chest and the bicep thickness. Also flattens out the chest.

thank you for the feedback- much appreciated

I'm pretty happy with my shape- lines look nice I think, almost classic- but TBH, I'm just not lean enough to look good yet. Got to remember that that's the angle it'll be seen from too- I guess I could lean forward a bit, but it makes it harder to flare the lats. The same pose in a few weeks time will look night an day. (hopefully )

[Burwood]

didelydoo said:

Burwood said:

BTW, DD. Your comments about front lat spread. I think the camera angle is making the pose look less than what it is. down looking up. you can't see the delt tie in to the upper chest and the bicep thickness. Also flattens out the chest.

thank you for the feedback- much appreciated

I'm pretty happy with my shape- lines look nice I think, almost classic- but TBH, I'm just not lean enough to look good yet. Got to remember that that's the angle it'll be seen from too- I guess I could lean forward a bit, but it makes it harder to flare the lats. The same pose in a few weeks time will look night an day. (hopefully )

Absolutely re leanness. Added, posing is a real art. You can have the mass but not hit the pose. Those pros must literally spend hours every week perfecting it. Im very right side biased. Im fine with weights and I'm balanced but I can't flex the left like i can the right.

Are you going to get ripped like a couple of years back. It will be interesting to see the changes. There is a lot more mass present for sure.

Edited by Burwood on Monday 29th January 13:55

[ORD]

[quote=Halb]Strongman could be called Death Crossfit.

interesting lil vid that popped up on my feed

Government-Approved Workouts? The Fight Against Fitness Licensing

https://youtu.be/1lFwAp8f5kU[/quote
Good video but a lot of hysteria, really. Nobody is going to mandate high squats. And it is pretty bonkers how little knowledge many PTs have.

[didelydoo]

Burwood said:

Absolutely re leanness. Added, posing is a real art. You can have the mass but not hit the pose. Those pros must literally spend hours every week perfecting it. Im very right sided bias. Im fine with weights and I'm balanced but I can't flex the left like i can the right.

Are you doing to get ripped like a couple of years back. It will be interesting to see the changes. There is a lot more mass present for sure.

I'm not great at posing, I can hit them all, but far from gracefully And not consistently the same either... I plan on getting fairly lean, not comp ready lean though, takes too much of a toll for no reason, and you feel like a bag of crap..... I've been cutting for 4 weeks now, I'll maybe push on for 8, or maybe 10 weeks, if I can be bothered- I'll see how I look. cuts in my legs, and some shoulder striations will be the stop point probably.

Whilst I find dieting dead easy, I do prefer to be eating and getting stronger. My approach to dieting is pretty simple, I'm not even counting calories for now, or doing cardio, and I've been dropping fat fairly consistently since I started.

[chris watton]

OK session this morning, before work.

Squats - 5xx12-5 reps
Clean and Press - 5x5-3 reps (up to 80kg)
Superset - Bench Press - 4x12-3 reps and Wide Grip Pull Ups - 4x12-9 reps
T-bar Rows - 4x12-9 reps
Seated Pulley Row (Wide grip) - 4x12-8 reps

My wife ordered me a commercial leg curl/leg extension bench for Xmas, and it arrived this weekend! I may start a split routine again, and have a leg specific day, so perhaps chest and back, shoulders and arms, and then legs.

[Animal]

didelydoo said:

I find dieting dead easy

I wish I did!

[Burwood]

Animal said:

didelydoo said:

I find dieting dead easy

I wish I did!

It's relatively easy for me for the first 3-4 week. Then I get irritable. I do realise if I did more cardio I could eat more and the fact that last time i slashed carbs to the bone from the off and had no where to go. DD has one advantage. When you start at 240lbs with his conditioning you can probably do nothing and burn over 3k cals

[didelydoo]

Burwood said:

Animal said:

didelydoo said:

I find dieting dead easy

I wish I did!

It's relatively easy for me for the first 3-4 week. Then I get irritable. I do realise if I did more cardio I could eat more and the fact that last time i slashed carbs to the bone from the off and had no where to go. DD has one advantage. When you start at 240lbs with his conditioning you can probably do nothing and burn over 3k cals

I am regimented, and don't eat like a normal person- to diet, I just reduce weights of things I already eat. Nothing changes, apart form a bit more protein. Once a week I'll have a high carb day, to compensate for generally low carbs during the week.

Super simple

[smiffy180]

115kg x6 clean and press each rep axle (up 2 reps)
102.5kg x10 clean and press away
92.5kg x13 clean and press away https://youtu.be/jn4B_2mk3Fg
Lung buster for me, something to work on!

36x10 seated dumbbell press (up by 2kg and 4 reps!)
32x 20 seated dumbbell press - was not expecting that at all.

38kg x8 Incline dumbbell bench (up 2kg)
36x10
32x12
30x20
Mind games are nearly gone! Really happy with the weight today!

Seems muscle memory is kicking in as progress has jumped massively this week, hoping it continues

[Animal]

First day back after proper flu, so decided to do just some aerobic work.

GPP circuit:
Burpee
Star Jump
Split Jump
Burpee
Star Jump
Mountain Climber
30 sec of each then 1 min rest. 5 rounds

After the 2nd round I was almost gassed out! How embarrassing...

Core work: Flags and side bends.

[mcelliott]

Animal said:

First day back after proper flu, so decided to do just some aerobic work.

GPP circuit:
Burpee
Star Jump
Split Jump
Burpee
Star Jump
Mountain Climber
30 sec of each then 1 min rest. 5 rounds

After the 2nd round I was almost gassed out! How embarrassing...

Core work: Flags and side bends.

Welcome back!

[Animal]

mcelliott said:

Welcome back!

Thx!

[Jamie VTS]

Olympic lifting tonight

4x2
Sng deadlift into hang snatch @ 75% (50kg)

4x2
Snatch @ 85% (60kg)

4x2
Clean and jerk @85% (85kg)

3x 2

1 1/2 squats @ 70% (110kg)

3x2

Squat @ 90% (140kg).


Legs hurt now!

[didelydoo]

Today:

Incline bench
1 arm smith bench
BHN Smith
DB Lat raise
DB rear delts
Rope push downs

Done. Reasonable. Also did light ham curls with my left leg, and good mornings with the bar- slowly getting strength and mobility back. Will probably do a little leg work each session, mostly with my left leg, to rehab it and add back on missing mass.

[Animal]

Today:
1x100 EZ bar curl
3x8-12 seated dumbbell curl
4x12 cable curl

Superset - wall ball throw x 8/side and supermans x 15
5 rounds

Skin the cat practice
500m row to finish.

[Smitters]

Just done the first of 12 (one a month) 2000m rows. 7.52 today, with an aim of doing intervals in the month between, then re-testing at the end of each month. I felt quite ill at the end.

How low can I go? 172cm and 74kg currently, though about 4-6kg of that is coming off this year. Could be interesting.

[mcelliott]

Smitters said:

Just done the first of 12 (one a month) 2000m rows. 7.52 today, with an aim of doing intervals in the month between, then re-testing at the end of each month. I felt quite ill at the end.

How low can I go? 172cm and 74kg currently, though about 4-6kg of that is coming off this year. Could be interesting.

The weight...why?

[Smitters]

mcelliott said:

The weight...why?

How do you mean? Why lose it? Or why is my weight relevant to the challenge?

[mcelliott]

Smitters said:

mcelliott said:

The weight...why?

How do you mean? Why lose it? Or why is my weight relevant to the challenge?

Why lose it