Fitness Log

[miked8c]

Your body may be asking for a deload, I have been reading you past few entries and you have definitely been making markable progress. However bench is stubborn so don't be suprised if your gains halt shortly, its tough to bench this much and keep gaining. Not trying to be a downer, great progress man.

 

[Tblock1]

Your body may be asking for a deload, I have been reading you past few entries and you have definitely been making markable progress. However bench is stubborn so don't be suprised if your gains halt shortly, its tough to bench this much and keep gaining. Not trying to be a downer, great progress man.

Thanks man I might have to consider that! I think the problem is more my consistency though, I seem to miss a lot of workouts and such. I just want that beautiful 315 bench haha!

 

[miked8c]

6 Week Bench Press cure, that brought me from 280 to 315, using a very close grip. I know you've already seen it but bench responds really well when you mix it up as opposed to just flat benching consistently. You could really make some gains on this.

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T NATION | Dave Tate's Six-Week Bench Press Cure

 

[ramnares]

Nice read Mike, looks pretty damn good!

 

[Tblock1]

Well I just got back from my spring field training exercise that lasted from last thursday through last night. It was fun but intense, around 3 hours of sleep a night, 8 hours of almost straight land nav plus 12 hours of straight patrolling. I unfortunately managed to sprain both ankles lol! It's time to get back on my lifting though. I am going to start up tomorrow and follow that routine for bench that you suggested mike, we will see about the rest of my routine. Ft. Lewis is officially a fucking jungle btw. Unbelievable how thick that fucking place is. Plus there are 6 foot ant hills! WTF lol

 

[ramnares]

How do you manage to sprain BOTH ankles? You've got wicked skills T :/

 

[Tblock1]

How do you manage to sprain BOTH ankles? You've got wicked skills T :/

I know right unbelievable haha! The injury rate among us cadets was quite high....between sprained ankles and people falling off the obstacles I'd say 50% or more got injured.

Ok so with the ankles my right one for a long time has been prone to spraining. I was trail running once back home and sprained it fairly bad, and since then it sprains at the slightest notice. I think it never properly healed or healed in the stretched position. I sprained that first day during land nav. The left one I have never sprained in my memory and then my platoon got ambushed and so I had to run with 2 rucks on through the jungle and managed to sprain the left one with the 2 damn rucks on There goes that one being strong

 

[ramnares]

Yeah freshman year's a real killer when it comes to injuries. A lot of my buddies were on crutches for a part of freshman year. I didn't realize how bad it was until I was cadre my sophomore year and saw how many of our freshmen were getting hurt. Anyway, that really freaking blows that you're stuck with two banged up wheels now. It's the same with me, I messed up my left achilles tendon a while back (tendinitis) and with this half marathon training in full gear it's starting to act up again. Anyway, hang in there and keep lifting!

 

[Tblock1]

Thanks ramnares will do!

Wednesday 4.6.11

Bench
1x6x225
1x6x225
1x5x225

Squat
275x1
225x18 PR

Comments: A fantastic workout in my opinion. I took over a month off squatting, then only squatting 2x in the last month, so that is literally 2x over probably 2.5 months. It's also been 2 weeks since I benched.

 

[Tblock1]

Saturday 4.9.11

Weighted pull ups
45x3
55x3
65x3 PR
75x2 PR
85x1 PR
95x0

Dips
55x5
55x5

Weighted planks
225 x 45 seconds PR
180 x 1:00
45 x 1:30

Comments: Another fantastic workout. I think mike was right a while back about my body needing a little rest, and ghetto was right about strength increasing as my body matures. I literally havent done weighted pull ups in 5 weeks and smashed my old pr's. My old pr was 70x2. On planks my 2 friends do what they always do and added another plate haha so I had 5 plates on me for the first set. The amazing thing to me is my consistency on various lifts has been crap and my bodyweight is down to 180 yet my strength is literally up or almost the same on all lifts. Time to get consistent

BW 180


Also I looked up a post awhile back where gladiator suggested for dips to do: "bw x 8 reps, 25lb x 8 reps, then 45lb x 8 reps. Next week go up to 55lbs on your last set. Then 65lbs the next week. Keep going heavier"

So I'm going to be following that from now on for weighted planks. I'm also going to start the Dave Tate 6 Week bench press cure mike suggested