T-ransformation 2017: Benanything's Log

I like how every day is squat day for you. You have the right priorities. :wink:

The only way it can be improved is if you put something overhead everyday too.

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It’s easy to squat everyday when its one of the few things you can do haha.

All in time buddy. Once my wrists are good enough for me to perform upper body stuff properly, I’ll most likely move my squats into maintenance mode and focus on the bench/press more. I’m starting to notice quite a big difference in terms of development… No shit haha

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@Destrength thanks for inadvertently reminding me to upload my squat everyday compilation thing.

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I am sure. Also I was going to comment on you slowly becoming a t-rex, but then I remembered you are injured. How are the wrists, and how again did you injure them? Oly lifting? I feel like snapping wrists is one of the most common injuries in Weightlifting, aside from the inevitable quadricep tendonitis.

Strongman actually. Cleans for both of them. Right wrist, axle cleans. Left wrist, that botched log clean attempt haha. My right wrist is pretty much 90-95% healed. Left wrist should be entering the rehab stage in about 1-2 weeks so probably 70-75% there? Docs suspect there might be some genetic factor too since I tore(minor) the same ligament on both wrists. On the bright side, they were telling me how it probably would’ve been worse if I didn’t have “rather strong connective tissue”.

Yep, botched cleans are pretty rough, though strangely enough snatch grip stuff also seems to aggravate my wrists. It’s the part of the wrist that is medial to you when your arms are pronated. I’ve found wrist extensions and curls for blood flow works nicely for it.

Yup, I’ve been doing my fair share of wrist curls and they’re actually rather helpful. I plan to keep them even in the future after my wrists have recovered cause, there’s no harm in having stronger wrists (or anything) haha.

The only thing that stands out to me is that your shoulders are in front of the bar - and I know a lot of people prefer to pull that way, so it is far from necessarily an issue. The reason I DON’T pull like that is because 1) it makes it harder for me to keep the bar right on me and 2) it makes it much harder to keep my hips low enough to get leg drive. You might try sitting back a little more, scraping your shins from the get go and keeping your shoulders behind the bar and see what that does for you.

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How heavy is that for you?

I want to say that the bar is drifting away from you, but it didn’t matter because the weight is light-weight, but it’s always difficult to critique anything based off a video.

Currently I would say my conventional max is anywhere from 160kgs to 170kgs which would make this my 75%-ish.

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##16/3/2017
woke up at 74.7kgs


##FOOD

12:00PM - grilled chicken wtih rice
7:00PM - ikea, bunch of meat balls and chicken wings and all sorta junk
8:00PM - lemon vitamin drink
10:00PM - apple

1900-ish calories


##Training
entered 10:45AM

Squats
20kgs x3
60kgs x3
100kgs x1
120kgs x1
137.5kgs x1
130kgs x2x1

Barbell Rows
20kgs x10
60kgs x10
100kgs x10, ugliest shit ever
note to self, don’t do rows off the rack(or it’s safeties)

Rope Curl
supersetted
Tricep Rope Push Down*
80lbs drop set down to 10lbs, 20 reps each

Lat Pull Down
50kgs x3x20

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##17/3/2017
woke up at 74.4kgs


##FOOD
1:00PM - shit ton of chicken and half a bowl of rice
7:00PM - noodles
8:00PM - yakult
10:00PM - yakult

2000-ish calories


##Training
entered gym at 9:30AM

Squats
60kgs x3
100kgs x1
120kgs x1
140kgs x1
120kgs x6, failed 7th rep, mind wasn’t in the right place

Tricep Rope Push Down
50 reps with some light weight

Bicep Rope Curl
drop set of 20 reps from 70lbs to 10lbs with a partner, tried to be more strict

Tricep Rope Push Down
100lbs x3x10

Barbell Bicep Curl
7.5kgs x2x15
strangely didn’t bother my wrist too much

##18/3/2017
woke up at 74.1kgs


##FOOD
10:00AM - mcwrap and hashbrown
1:00PM - dominos, thin crust pepperoni pizza
2:00PM - yakult
5:30PM - movie bites, nuggets and nachos with sprite
9:40PM - 3 scoops of protein

3200-ish calories

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##19/3/2017


##FOOD
1:00PM - sushi, ate like 15 plates of them?
2:00PM - lime juice
7:00PM - noodles and 2 eggs

3250-ish calories


##Training
Tried canoeing, C1, for the first time in the morning. ‘Paddled’ from 7:30AM to 10:30AM, must’ve capsized at least a 100 times haha. Apparently, my progress is really good for a first timer. I was told, correct me if I’m wrong, that most people take 2-3 weeks to get themselves on the boat and balance without capsizing. I was able to do that within 3 hours or so. Oh and I might actually try to pick up canoeing, aka join the school’s canoe team. I can only manage 2 strokes or so before capsizing currently but then again, I haven’t had any formal coaching yet so that’s nice I guess?

entered at 8:00PM
Squats
20kgs x3
60kgs x3
100kgs x1
115kgs x1
125kgs x1
140kgs x1
130kgs x3
100kgs x7

Tricep Rope Push Down
50lbs x25+20+5
meant to be pre exhaustion of sorts

Bench
20kgs x10
30kgs x10
40kgs x10
50kgs x6x6

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I have to try canoeing sometime. I’ve been kayaking a few times, and loved it every time. Where did you go that you can canoe? I never pictured you as living in a coastal or wetlands area.

There is another enjoyable exercise besides wrist curls… :joy:

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See all that water in random areas inside the country? Yup, that’s basically it.

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##20/3/2017
woke up at 74kgs


##FOOD

12:00PM - KFC, famous bowl with 1 chicken drumstick and 7 up
6:00PM - rice with a bunch of veg and some meat
8:00PM - mala with no rice

2400-ish calories


##Training
entered at 9:35AM

Squats
40kgs x3
80kgs x2
115kgs x1
130kgs x1
140kgs x1

Deadlift
60kgs x3
100kgs x2
120kgs x1
130kgs x5x3

changed my set up quite a bit, following some of the advice from @MarkKO

advice please! the actual deadlift just feels different, can’t really tell if it’s different in a good way or a bad way

Press
20kgs x10
25kgs x10
32.5kgs x6x6

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##21/3/2017
woke up at 74.4kgs


##FOOD
12:00PM - half a bowl of rice in tofu soup
7:00PM - curry chicken, bowl of rice, 3 slices of bread
8:00PM - 4 fish balls + some chinese snack thingy

1500-ish calories somehow?


##Training

Squats
20kgs x3
60kgs x3
100kgs x1
115kgs x1
130kgs x1
140kgs x1
130kgs x0, just wasn’t feeling it

Incline Bench
20kgs x10
30kgs x10
40kgs x6x6, did 20 reps of 60lbs tricep rope push downs before every set

One Arm Cable Row
there’s some degree of body english cause I’m trying to work on my rotation too
100lbs x3x10

Pull Ups
7,5,5,5,5,5,5,2

I’m pretty much doing pull ups whenever I can now but I’ll not include pull ups done out of my gym sessions.

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Take off your shoes…and tell your Globo gym to let you pull from the floor :smiley:

I LOVE DEADLIFTS TOO!!!

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