Here's my HST

[Jim Ouini]

Hey, bud! Just dropping in today. Have a great weekend.

You as well, thanks. Nice to have the extra day - gonna work on the home gym a little more.

Especially fun while deadlifting - - -

Hah! I was thinking that too after one rep where the right side tipped forward and the left side tipped back. It really sucked.

 

[blut wump]

I've often taken chunks out of my shins purely due to the bar shifting position slightly when it's deloaded. I can hardly imagine how it must be with those edged plates.

 

[Jim Ouini]

On one rep it twisted so bad I thought I was going to wrench my back. My 2nd set I did a couple reps touch 'n go but that felt weird. Who invented these things anyway

 

[Jim Ouini]

Workout 6/6 (2 x 10)

In honor of memorial day, all weights are in kg. Actually, I worked out at home today - first time I've used the new setup. Spent half the time doing math to get the poundages right.

Squat
120 x 10, 8

264 lbs, right? Well anyway, it was hard as evidenced by me stopping at 8 on my 2nd set. I had re-aggravated my back yesterday moving stuff around the garage so I was cautious about any GM action and to be honest I'm happy I was able to get what I could outta these.

Bench
100 x 10, 9 + 1

Slightly better than 215 on Friday. 1st set was pretty easy. 2nd set wasn't bad until 7 then I hit the wall and had to grind out 2 more on my own plus 1 extra with help from my brother.

BB row
90 x 10, 8

1st set was OK, 2nd set I started humping the bar so I quit at 8. Lower back fatigue started to set in.

GM
Skipped due to bad back.

OHP
50 x 10, 8

Easier than the same weight on Friday, probably because I skipped GM's. Still failed on my 2nd set, though.

Powershrug
140 x 2 x 10

Tired so minimal explosion.

Overall: I love my new weight set. I'm sure my workout wasn't worthy, but whatever, I'm glad to have completed all 6 workouts. Ready to move to 5's

 

[anotherbutters]

Great workout. I can finally relate. Who uses pounds anyway these days

 

[djeclipse]

Workout 6/6 (2 x 10)

In honor of memorial day, all weights are in kg. Actually, I worked out at home today - first time I've used the new setup. Spent half the time doing math to get the poundages right

I was looking at your lifts thinking, "I know he's doing 10's still but I could have swarn he was lifting way more weight then 100lbs for bench. Then I read the the part above.

Is your "home gym" in kilos, or do you just enjoy working your brain as well as your body... that's a true full body workout.

How do you feel after completing the 10's? Was it worth it so far?

 

[Jim Ouini]

Yeah my home gym is in kg. I don't like working out my brain when I workout - I'll leave that to the Brits

10's were OK. A big relief after running 15's, but doing full body workouts every other day at this intensity (75-80% 1RM?) I felt like I might be getting loaded, especially last Friday (workout 5/6).

When I start 3 x 5's I'm going to split my workouts up into A and B, I think it'll be better and also give me some time to rest between sets without turning the workouts into a 2hr affair.

 

[Cynical Simian]

A few questions...

Does the home gym entail the end of your "morons/manta rays at the gym" stories?

I guess this is just a more specific version of DJ's question, but have the 15/10s caused any noticeable changes in body composition? I know Guinness mentioned the high reps of HST and his aborted 20-rep squat program both had an impact on it.

And, of course, nice workout; it looks like you set the weights well.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Thanks CS. One of the things about the workout 6/6 is I don't mind too much if I miss a rep or two on my 2nd set.

As far a body comp, I haven't noticed that much difference. My cals have been about the same, and I'd say about 20% of my diet hasn't been that good i.e, the weekends. Going in to HST I hadn't made a committment to cutting, mostly joint health/conditioning as a prelude to another DF 5 x 5 esque training cycle. I was of the mindset that any hypertrophy would be a bonus, but I certainly wasn't looking for NO2EXPLODE-type pumps. In retrospect it probably would've been a good time to decide on a calorie deficit...

Anyway I still have the 5's to run for a couple weeks, so I'll wait to judge if this has been a successful program - I do know my joints and such were feeling much better, except for my back which was feeling great with nary a twinge until I did too much lifting in the garage yesterday.

Does the home gym entail the end of your "morons/manta rays at the gym" stories?

I'll probably lift at the gym twice a week, and at home once per week. So I'm sure I'll still be able to contribute to the Moron's thread

 

[blut wump]

Can I suggest a chart on the wall for weight conversion? Take all of your convenient numbers, divide by 2.2 and round to the nearest convenient value in Kilos. I expect you bought some collars that you can view as micro-weights. I think a pair of spring collars is .5Kg but you should weigh them to be sure.