Tough night tonight. All upper body exercises were hard for some reason, but presses particularly so. Hang cleans were going great; crisp, catching in good position and then I tweaked my left middle finger recatching the 195. Thought I snapped a tendon for a second and got a nice bruise in the joint. Shut it down and used straps on the rows, due to left hand and having torn a callus on the right hand.
I had a backstop DBA who took some operational stuff off my plate for a while, but then he got a better full-time contract. Then the other designer/developer notified us that heās moving to āgreener pasturesā as well, so now Iām the sole front end+backend developer/DBA virtualization/linux system administrator on a project with ambitious scope and an aggressive timeline, incorporating a platform change and data migration.
I think I need to have a talk with the project manager and let him know Iāll be at the gym if he needs me.
Actually, to be honest, Iāve found the programming to be more interesting than training so I canāt lay off lack of training to the amount of work. The work stimulates my brain and Iām choosing not to train, because Iām highly engaged. The contract Iām on actually specifies 8 hours per day, so the extra time is off the contract. Kinda stupid to do when I think about it. Plus Iām doing a private web project to track training which will generate charts and log entries for people to use on their favorite forums, which is becoming sort of ironic.
The brain needs to be worked as wellā¦lest it atrophy, like mine.
But you can always use some of those monstrous manuals to do āDBā presses or āDBā curls.
On another note, I find your avatar to be both mesmerizing and frightening, simultaneously.
CL
195,205,215x1
Power CL
185x3 (from hang,below knees)
SQ
225x3
245x3
265x3
285x2
305,325x1 (belt)
265x5
CGBP
185 3x3 (paused)
Various pullups
BTNPU w/ hold x 8
Pullup to chest x 5
Front lever row x 4
Good session. Surprised it went this well, actually, I thought the weights would be much lower on the exercises. Lots of rest between sets. Feeling much better mentally/emotionally - disposition takes a nosedive when I donāt get to the gym.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Feeling much better mentally/emotionally - disposition takes a nosedive when I donāt get to the gym.[/quote]
For most of us here, I suspect.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Feeling much better mentally/emotionally - disposition takes a nosedive when I donāt get to the gym.[/quote]
For most of us here, I suspect.
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I had no idea my actions (or lack of action) affected so manyā¦ Iāll be more responsible fro now on.
PP pretty good, right in the groove, solid setup AND I power cleaned it. FS not so good, but not unexpected for being at this stageā¦again. My legs seem to lose strength faster than my upper body. Iāll be tripling that FS max in a few weeks, though, Iām pretty sure.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
200 is a stout clean/pp combo. Nice work. [/quote]
Thanks Jack. I want to match my top weight for PP out of the rack, 225. Iāve gotten up to 220 in the past so I think itās do-able in a not-too-long timeframe.
Saw a young guy do his whole work out with chains. Chains on bench (half benching). Chains on deadlifts for triples and chains for shrugs in the smif majjine. The hell of it was that the weight he was using was so low and the way he had the chains on was so wrong that Iām pretty sure heād be getting more benefit just using straight weight. More than two thirds of the chain stayed on the floor throughout the exercises. Maybe thereās some secret sauce there for gettinā swoled up, but this old guy is just confused by that routine.
I mean, 185 and chains? For deadlift? For a guy who was my size? Not speed DLās eitherā¦ I kinda bugged him when I cleaned the weight he was DLing from mid thigh so I could do front squat WARMUPS, I think. There is something wrong with our youth. Though I did encounter a monster lad the other workout who was doing clean and press thruster style with 225. He wasnāt overly large but just one of those guys with a massive amount of movement-capable energy. I was impressed.
I liked the part where the lady did reverse leg curls on an exercise ball in yoga pants today. Thatās okay, yāsee. Thatās not a silly exercise at all, no sir.
Enough gossip. Back to minding my own business in the gym.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Okay until I got abut 2/3 of the way through I was thinking me might have been doing speed work. [/quote]
I watched him for an hour thinking that maybe that was the case myself, but I ended up thinking that the chains made him feel like a badass and that he just liked the sound they made when he lifted. He got more exercise just carrying them around to his stations than from the way he was using them, in my opinion.
I make it a point to do my top weights very quietly and very controlled when thereāre guys like this around. No grunting or āYeah, BUDDDY!ā, no clanking weights. I donāt know why, itās not like anyone notices or cares for that matter. My passive-aggressive way of trying to make a statement I guess.
My fervent hope/wish is that 24 Hour Fitness will awaken to the fact that the power cage is the most versatile and cost-effective piece of equipment a gym can have (aside from quality bars and and plates) and that they will rectify the paucity of said equipment in all their franchises in all locations.
And, as long as Iām at it, I wish I was 25 years old again.
