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

[Jamie VTS]

1rm testing yesterday at Olympic lifting.

70kg Snatch, 100kg clean and jerk and a 110kg clean.

Pretty pleased and good to have a baseline for the year!

[didelydoo]

Today>

Bench: 162.5kg x4, 140 x2 (10 sec eccentric), 105kg x 21's
DB Fly: lots
Cable fly: lots
Smith Shoulder press: 80kg RPF
Tri Pushdowns: lots
Band pull aparts

Decent. Every session will have a heavy load stress and metabolic stress element for the muscles I want to grow. Not too structured right now as I can't train legs, but I'm enjoying it. I'll start to be a bit more specific with exercise choice soon.

[Burwood]

Hey Ben, what was the outcome with your leg?

[didelydoo]

Burwood said:

Hey Ben, what was the outcome with your leg?

Rupture in the hamstring/Glute- either muscle, tendon or both, and likely ligament damage- nothing major that requires surgery though

I'd say my legs functioning at around 60% now- still limping, but pain is fairly mild. and seems more localised. I'm improving rapidly each day, and fully expect to be able to train it again in around 2 weeks.

Pretty amazing given the initial few days of intense pain and how debilitating it was- 2 days of no possible movement, a week of crutches, now I'm more or less back to normal! I thought I was doomed

Still no idea what made the snap

[smiffy180]

didelydoo said:

Still no idea what made the snap

Maybe whatever was causing your glute pain?
At least it's a quick recovery by sounds of it, compared to me anyway

[Burwood]

didelydoo said:

Burwood said:

Hey Ben, what was the outcome with your leg?

Rupture in the hamstring/Glute- either muscle, tendon or both, and likely ligament damage- nothing major that requires surgery though

I'd say my legs functioning at around 60% now- still limping, but pain is fairly mild. and seems more localised. I'm improving rapidly each day, and fully expect to be able to train it again in around 2 weeks.

Pretty amazing given the initial few days of intense pain and how debilitating it was- 2 days of no possible movement, a week of crutches, now I'm more or less back to normal! I thought I was doomed

Still no idea what made the snap

All things considered, sounds like the best possible prognosis. Could have been a whole lot worse. Does this qualify as snapping your st

[Halb]

Swings and roundabouts with not having surgery, my surgeon didn't wanna go in because I still had 25% of 25%. And could still get about, so they look as to your life, not to your lifting. He said that going in and trying to reconnect what had been lost might leave me off worse than I had ended up. Ultimately I chose not to. I suppose the option is still there.

[TheJimi]

I can't help wonder if the thing that snapped was the thing that was causing historical pain, and the *snap* has fixed it.

[smiffy180]

TheJimi said:

I can't help wonder if the thing that snapped was the thing that was causing historical pain, and the *snap* has fixed it.

My thoughts too.
Sometimes you have to take 1 step back to go 2 forward. Although I'd much prefer a sports massage to sort it if I'm honest

[Animal]

Quick lunchtime session today:

Bench 5x5 (100kg) Managed 3 sets at 5 reps, one at 3 and one at 4. I haven't benched in about a year so pretty pleased with this and already feels like I'm close to one of my 2018 goals.

Overhead Press 4x6-12
Overhead Rope Extension 3x30
Dumbbell Lat. Raise 3x25

[didelydoo]

smiffy180 said:

TheJimi said:

I can't help wonder if the thing that snapped was the thing that was causing historical pain, and the *snap* has fixed it.

My thoughts too.
Sometimes you have to take 1 step back to go 2 forward. Although I'd much prefer a sports massage to sort it if I'm honest

This is what I want to have happened- Some kind of fascia adhesion/knot that's just 'let go' under strain It was certainly in the correct place, and it'd be fantastic if it was!
I remain doubtful though, but time will tell- for such a loud noise, it seems to have mended it's self rapidly. If it was, it's certainly not a release technique I'd recommend....

[knk]

Still just doing 5/3/1 squats and deadlifts but rather than do both on M/W/F I am alternating and adding some accessory work so:
M:Sq 5 + Stiff leg DL 5x10,
W:DL 5 + Front squats 5x10,
F:Sq 3 + SLDL 5x10,
M:DL 3 + FSq 5x10
W:Sq 1 + SLDL 5x10
F:DL 1 - FSq 5x10
M: deload Sq
W: deload DL
F: start next cycle.

Front squats are hard.

[sc0tt]

I'm in. Properly this time.

Wedding in 37 weeks time. Virgin gym joined. 6 minute walk from work. 12 minute drive from home.

Wish me luck.

[chris watton]

Today:

Back Extensions - 2x30 reps

Leg Press - 5x12-6 reps
Superset - Bench Press - 5x12-3 reps - Wide Grip Pull Ups - 5x12-8 reps
BB Power Clean - 8x2 reps
High Pull - 4x10-5 reps
Deadlifts - 4x5 reps
BB BOR (Reverse Grip) - 4x12-8 reps
Seated Pulley Row - 4x12-8 reps

[Animal]

Conditioning session this morning

5 rounds, 30 sec each with 1 min rest between rounds
Burpee
Star Jump
Split Jump
Burpee
Star Jump
Mountain Climber

then core circuits:
Flag x 3
Side bend x 6/side
Superman x 15
Twist Wall Ball Throw x 8/side
3 rounds

[mcelliott]

Got a stty head cold at the moment so feeling a bit crap. Gym on Tuesday then one hour on the bike yesterday followed by 40 minutes of pull ups and press ups, feeling second hand now.

[smiffy180]

90kg clean and strict press each rep x6
85kg 4x6 strict press out of rack
32kg 4x6 seared dumbbell press - getting easier so time to move up
Some more shoulder stuff and tricep stuff.

Joints still really achey from I believe that aussie flu but battled on.
Still not confident I'm going to be ready for qualifiers but it's early doors still. Going to try push harder each session now as I'm getting back into it.

[ORD]

Well done, Big Ben.

Decent workout last night:
TB deadlifts: 5 x 110,130,150,170kg
3 x 180kg (maybe could get 5)

Pull ups: 8,8,8,8
S/S with landmine press: 8 x 40,45,50kg; 7 x 55kg

Pull throughs and curls to finish.

[didelydoo]

today>

Pull downs- lots wide, lots narrow
1 arm cable row: 5 sets failure
DB preacher: 20kg, 5 sets failure
Reverse BB curl: 4 set Failure

Good session. Turns out I can do the stack on the pull down machine, out weights me by about 30kg (ish)- it's my new favourite machine!

I'm cutting just now, decided to get ripped up over the next 8 or so weeks. Figured there's no point trying to get bigger if I've to much fat to start with- feeling pretty motivated TBH. Plan to cut down to 100kg and see where I'm at, hopefully pretty lean, as I don't fancy dropping below 100kg ever again

[smiffy180]

ORD said:

Well done, Big Ben.

Decent workout last night:
TB deadlifts: 5 x 110,130,150,170kg
3 x 180kg (maybe could get 5)

Pull ups: 8,8,8,8
S/S with landmine press: 8 x 40,45,50kg; 7 x 55kg

Pull throughs and curls to finish.

I feel like I'm doing girl weights still

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MUDHO test results came back and had a consultation on the phone about training, supps etc.
Really interesting how the test backs up what I know and gave me some insights into things I didn't know.
Apparently myself and Eddie Hall are almost identical, he has a higher endurance gene - the rep stuff whereas I'm leant to more strength but still have the endurance side of things.

The recommendation was that I do my heavy all out set(s) then do drop set amrap style 3-4 working up the rep range.
For example I may go:
3x3@90%
8@80%
12@70%
15-20@60%

Interesting what they thought and going to trial it, I have time currently so no harm!