No Promises This Time

Sorry to hear about your meet being cancelled. This pandemic is a PITA. Way to get after it in the meantime!

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Is this even possible? You canā€™t get no purdier. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Neglected my MA workouts in my prep for the aborted meet so put in some time today.
Kata - 1/2 hour, 3 step sparring - 1/2 hour, heavy bag - 1/2 hour, Spar w/owner. Good day, felt great after.

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Iā€™m blushing

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Squats - bar wu, 115 x 10, 135 x 10 x 3. Wedge under the bar. Felt the shoulders not the legs. Gotta figure out a plan for theses instead of just ā€œtry an get under the bar.ā€
Zerchers - 135 x 8, 185 x 6 x 2
leg press - 90 wu, 180 x 15, 270 x 12, 360 x 10, 450 x 8
DL - 135wu, 225 x 8, 315 x 6, 335, 345, 355 x 5
Shrugs - snatch grip, smith mac, 225 x 12, 275 x 8 x 3
Leg ext - 100, 110, 120, 130 x 10
leg curl - 40, 50, 60, 70 x 12
calve Raises - 110 x max x 3
First time hitting calves in a while. Weird machine, The seat is a sled on an incline from 2 places, high and low, you can put you feet. Stack goes to 240.

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Iā€™ve been using a band to stretch my shoulders out. Get it behind my head and resist/relax until the front delts and pecs ease up, then try to bring it further down my back. I donā€™t have your unique circumstance, but maybe it would be a start?

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I used to do overhead shrugs with a barbell a la Tony Gentilcore. Then I got the idea to do the same with a band and do the resist/relax/pulsing reps in the overhead shrugged position, all vectors, distal force.

Did this instead of the universally recommended facepulls; made some unexpected mobility progress in my bad shoulder. Bad just from overuse during youthful athletics of course, not shot by Kalashnikov bulletsā€¦!!!

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Didnā€™t know anyone here still rememberedour old bios. You and De Charming One probably only ones left from then. Guess they got rid of those a while back. My stetching now involves hanging from the power rack with the safety bars low in the sides and a bar across. I then push against the bar with my feet. Thought Iā€™d name the technique after myself but somehow the Love Stretch just doesnā€™t sound right.

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Iā€™ve got a 8 foot wood pole, meant for making a closet clothes rack, I use at home. Get it behind my head and then try to bring my hands in. Remember watching javelin throwers warming up taking the javelin from their front over their head to their butt.

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River over running itā€™s banks, didnā€™t feel like driving to town to the pool, gym time.
standing press - bar wu, 95 x 15, 115 x 12, 135 x 10, 155 x 8
Lat Raises - 20 x 15, 25 x 12, 30 x 10
rear lat machine - 70 x 15, 80 x 12, 90x 10
facepulls (rope) - 70 x 15, 80 x 12, 90 x 10
ez Curl - 70 x 12, 80 x 10, 90 x 8
hammer curls - 30 x 12, 35 x 10, 45 x 8
Forearm ez curl - 70 x 12, 80 x 10, 90 x 8

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I think I saw this in the Kama Sutraā€¦

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Had to go to the Natatorium to get my swimming in.
100m, 200m x 2, 500m x 2, 1.5 mi run

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Busy weekend
Yesterday morning - legs and deads
Evening - Got all prettied up and attended a political dinner with the brothers, wives, assorted nieces, nephews, cousins. Candidate is a long time friend of the family and my wife loves politics, is a member of several organizations and like many naturalized citizens believes itā€™s her duty to be involved. So went and pushed around over cooked rubber chicken cordon bleu, soggy veggies, stale rolls, and an unidentifible salad on my plate. Many speechs. Frequent head tilts from brothers 4&5, the trouble makers, towards the bar where we met up several times.
Most of today. My almost like new 2003 Mazda truck needed a new fuel pump installed. Lucky only had to remove the bed to get at it and not the fuel tank. Used up a good part of the day replacing it. Ended up heading to the gym around 700 PM. Havenā€™t been in that late in a while.
Bench - 135wu, 225 x 10, 235 x 8 x 4
Smith Incline - 110wu, 200 x 12 x 4
flyes -30, 35 x 12, 40 x 10
cgb - 135wu, 205 x 10 x 3
Tri pushdown machine - 110, 130 x 15, 140 x 12, 160 x 10
tri ext (rope) - 60, 70, 80 x 15, sng pulley
BB row - 135wu, 185 x 12 x 3
Chest supported row machine, sng arm - 80, 90 x 12, 100 x 10
Straight arm lat pulldowns (rope) - 60, 80, 90 x 15, sng pully machine

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A fuel pump replacement qualifies as a workout.

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Standing press - bar wu, 95 x 15, 115 x 12, 135 x 10, 155 x 8
Lat Raises - 20 x 15, 25, 30
rear lat machine - 70 x 15, 80 x 12, 90x 10
rear lat hitch up - 30, 40 x 15, 50 x 12 x 3 (donā€™t even know the name of these but they worked.)
Seated facepulls (bar) - 70 x 15, 80 x 12, 90 x 10
ez Curl - 70 x 12, 80 x 10, 90 x 8
hammer curls - 30 x 12, 35 x 10, 45 x 8
Forearm ez curl - 70 x 12, 80 x 10, 90 x 8
In my never ending quest to update my exercise knowledge base, at least once every 10 years or so, I discover what I call the rear delt hitch up. First time ever with a serious pump to the rear lat. Hold the db, get into a 1/4 squat with the dbs at your side, elbows up) Canā€™t find where I saw these on You Tube but if I do iā€™ll post the vid. Did the first set, could actually feel the effect so just kept doing more sets.

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I think you are going to have to make us a video of this lift. I canā€™t find it anywhere.

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Are you moving down into the 1/4 squat as your elbows come up ?

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This is close to it at 6:45 except I do them without leaning forward, just standing in a 1/4 squat, not moving up or down.6 Rear Delt Exercises For 3D SHOULDERS! - YouTube

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Got it, thanks

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Got to the river with the sun just coming up. Nice and calm. 500m out, 500m in. Repeat. Followed up with a 2 mile run. Hungry. Bacon, Sausage, 3 eggs over easy, lots of coffee.

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