I guess the thing to do would to be to reintroduce myself for any first timers who are clicking on this new log/blog.
Im 39 years old. Father of two boys 11,12 whom I rant about regularly. Im married to a wonderful wife who keeps me in line. I work full time and Im very active in are area Youth Football program.
I compete drug free ( not that it matters)and unequipped in the USAPL and NASA.I have been back at training for a little over 2 1/2 years after a very long layoff due to life issues,health problems and a damn shoulder injury. Ive been lifting on and off going on 20 years plus In that time Ive competed in BB, Low level Strongman and now power lifting .
Training program: At this point my program is in a state of evolution. Its a combination of different principles; 5/3/1 ,Westside along with a few others with my own twist added.
Goals: At this point just get stronger end of story.
I have to warn anyone new that your not going to find anything ground breaking in my training log. Every once in awhile ( alright, quite often) I’ll rant to vent over things that kinda bugs the hell out of me.Be it in regards to lifting or other life issues.
[quote]soldog wrote:
just sitting down waiting for something to happen in these parts…[/quote]
Check in Saturday afternoon. I should be posting some training numbers.It always good for a laugh or two. Luckily Im almost over my “bug”(thoughtful provided by my children). Im going to head to the local YMCA and try to do some pulling.
Front squats : 135 x 5/ 225 x 3 / 275 x 3/ 315 x 3
cleans: 135 x 5 / 185 x 3 / 205 x 3…slow with no power
rack pulls (below knees): not worth mentioning ,Lets just say that a warm up weight stopped me dead in my tracks
Pull throughs : 3 x20 x stack
Sit up : a few sets.
To my displeasure I found that I’m not recovered from my bought with the “bug”. I knew this going into the Y today but pride over ruled common sense. You know breakfast taste great after the second or third time. I hope another day of rest will help. Next week is supposed to be a heavy week for me.If today was a indication I’m going to be very disappointed in my performance.
Despite our best efforts, sometimes Mother Nature wins. Lots of time before next week. How is your appetite? I think that is a big reason that illness screws up performance…not enough fuel in the tank.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I think your avi should be that beautiful fence of yours.
Not.
Don’t borrow trouble by worrying about next week already. You’ll probably be feeling a lot more recovered by Monday.[/quote]
Hey !!! Don’t say mean things about my fence (sob)
Your right, I shouldn’t get worried about next weeks training. But it hard to do since last week ended up being a bust. Like I mention above ,the coming week is a heavy week with the intensity range in the 95% plus range. With the following week being a deload.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
Despite our best efforts, sometimes Mother Nature wins. Lots of time before next week. How is your appetite? I think that is a big reason that illness screws up performance…not enough fuel in the tank.[/quote]
I wish, Mother Nature would kiss my big hairy rear right now. My appetite is alright except for Wednesday when I was doing my best to keep from vomiting. Neither the wife nor myself are over this yet. Right now all I’m noticing is allot of fatigue and a dull ache all over.
I now realise as of late what I’m missing in my training, It isn’t a type of exercise or any type of program at this point. I realize Ive become too complacent. Ive become too cerebral in my training and less visceral. Im not bringing a “Im want to rip someones head off” mind set, when I train like I use to . It time for me to start getting more aggressive and just go to war against the bar.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
I now realise as of late what I’m missing in my training, It isn’t a type of exercise or any type of program at this point. I realize Ive become too complacent. Ive become too cerebral in my training and less visceral. Im not bringing a “Im want to rip someones head off” mind set, when I train like I use to . It time for me to start getting more aggressive and just go to war against the bar.[/quote]
This sums up perfectly what I feel I’m lacking too. I train hard and I’m very consistent, but I don’t train “fired up”.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to get that aggression I want. I’ve tried listening to harder music but it’s not working.
I guess as far as touchdown celebrations are concerned, I’m more Barry Sanders than Deion Sanders.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
I now realise as of late what I’m missing in my training, It isn’t a type of exercise or any type of program at this point. I realize Ive become too complacent. Ive become too cerebral in my training and less visceral. Im not bringing a “Im want to rip someones head off” mind set, when I train like I use to . It time for me to start getting more aggressive and just go to war against the bar.[/quote]
This sums up perfectly what I feel I’m lacking too. I train hard and I’m very consistent, but I don’t train “fired up”.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to get that aggression I want. I’ve tried listening to harder music but it’s not working.
I guess as far as touchdown celebrations are concerned, I’m more Barry Sanders than Deion Sanders.[/quote]
I guess that’s is a question you can only answer yourself. For me in the past it was easy when I was younger. I use to suffer from major anger issue in my younger days.
(sob)