My Training Journal

[ExtraMile]

Today -

was planning on benching but got there and just didnt feel 100%, probably because Im so used to training in the evenings. So I just did some calves and grip work because I didnt want to just go straight back home or have a shitty bench session. Bench will be tomorrow.

15mins cycling

Seated Calf Raise
80lbs x 10

110lbs x 12
-rest pause-
110lbs x 9
-rest pause-
110lbs x 7 PR

80lbs x 8 DC style, could have gotten more but couldnt stand the pain any longer

Static Grip Holds(double overhand no hook grip)
220 x 50 seconds
264 x 35 seconds
308 x 17 seconds
374 x 25 seconds mixed grip, could have gone for longer but started to feel some strain in my bicep...

Behind The Back BB Wrist Curl
empty 45lb oly bar x 50 PR

20mins cycling - hard to grip the handle bars after all that!


been so long since I did static grip holds that I dont remember my old PR's but all those sets were def more than I could do before, so I suppose they are all PR's...

tblock I bet it would be quite close if I hit 275 fresh but not sure I would beat your 45 secs...

 

[bblazer]

Today -

was planning on benching but got there and just didnt feel 100%, probably because Im so used to training in the evenings. So I just did some calves and grip work because I didnt want to just go straight back home or have a shitty bench session. Bench will be tomorrow.

Seriously?

I'm really trying to find constructive words for you, but it is really hard.

Do you think KK or Shaw or Bergmann, or Tate just throw in the towel because they don't feel "100%?" Christ, I don't think Tate has been 100% for 20 years!

Going to the gym and doing what you are supposed to do when you are not 100% is the difference between those who really want it, and those that sit around a few years later and talk about how much they used to bench in high school while they are downing beers at the local pub.

So far in the short time you have been on the 5/3/1 you have not successfully completed one week of prescribed training. In one way or another, you have put things off or altered the schedule. If you keep doing that, who's fault is it going to be that you have not reached your goals? Wendler, and his 5/3/1?

Its time to shit or get off the pot EM. Get to work. Make solutions, not excuses. Until you tear a pec, blow a bi, of have half the hardware in your back and neck as I do I don't want to hear about an injury, or how you are not 100%. I am beginning to thing that you are not comfortable being uncomfortable. You need to understand that what we do and what we come here to talk about doing, hurts, leaves us sore, injures us, and makes us feel less than 100% a lot of the time. But that's what makes us different from the rest of the world - we are willing and eager to endure that so that we are not like them; we are strong or ripped or whatever you want to call it.

What do you want to be?

B-

 

[miked8c]

Seriously?

I'm really trying to find constructive words for you, but it is really hard.

Do you think KK or Shaw or Bergmann, or Tate just throw in the towel because they don't feel "100%?" Christ, I don't think Tate has been 100% for 20 years!

Going to the gym and doing what you are supposed to do when you are not 100% is the difference between those who really want it, and those that sit around a few years later and talk about how much they used to bench in high school while they are downing beers at the local pub.

So far in the short time you have been on the 5/3/1 you have not successfully completed one week of prescribed training. In one way or another, you have put things off or altered the schedule. If you keep doing that, who's fault is it going to be that you have not reached your goals? Wendler, and his 5/3/1?

Its time to shit or get off the pot EM. Get to work. Make solutions, not excuses. Until you tear a pec, blow a bi, of have half the hardware in your back and neck as I do I don't want to hear about an injury, or how you are not 100%. I am beginning to thing that you are not comfortable being uncomfortable. You need to understand that what we do and what we come here to talk about doing, hurts, leaves us sore, injures us, and makes us feel less than 100% a lot of the time. But that's what makes us different from the rest of the world - we are willing and eager to endure that so that we are not like them; we are strong or ripped or whatever you want to call it.

What do you want to be?

B-

Words to live by.

 

[ExtraMile]

Seriously?

I'm really trying to find constructive words for you, but it is really hard.

Do you think KK or Shaw or Bergmann, or Tate just throw in the towel because they don't feel "100%?" Christ, I don't think Tate has been 100% for 20 years!

Going to the gym and doing what you are supposed to do when you are not 100% is the difference between those who really want it, and those that sit around a few years later and talk about how much they used to bench in high school while they are downing beers at the local pub.

So far in the short time you have been on the 5/3/1 you have not successfully completed one week of prescribed training. In one way or another, you have put things off or altered the schedule. If you keep doing that, who's fault is it going to be that you have not reached your goals? Wendler, and his 5/3/1?

Its time to shit or get off the pot EM. Get to work. Make solutions, not excuses. Until you tear a pec, blow a bi, of have half the hardware in your back and neck as I do I don't want to hear about an injury, or how you are not 100%. I am beginning to thing that you are not comfortable being uncomfortable. You need to understand that what we do and what we come here to talk about doing, hurts, leaves us sore, injures us, and makes us feel less than 100% a lot of the time. But that's what makes us different from the rest of the world - we are willing and eager to endure that so that we are not like them; we are strong or ripped or whatever you want to call it.

What do you want to be?

B-

so it would be better to get a sub par bench day today which is earlier than I had planned while still sore from previous workouts than to wait until tomorrow, do some stretching and cardio today and then have a better day tomorrow? What would be the point in rushing in to it if all that will happen is I come out dissapointed with what happened? Heck I had only had 1 meal before the workout where as usually I would have had 4.

Ontop of that the gym closes early today so I didnt have very long until it was time to be kicked out so I would have had to rush through the workout and wasnt sure if I would even finish it all.

But if you think its best, then I will just ignore things like that and go in and lift and see what happens.

 

[Andalite]

Seriously?

I'm really trying to find constructive words for you, but it is really hard.

Do you think KK or Shaw or Bergmann, or Tate just throw in the towel because they don't feel "100%?" Christ, I don't think Tate has been 100% for 20 years!

Going to the gym and doing what you are supposed to do when you are not 100% is the difference between those who really want it, and those that sit around a few years later and talk about how much they used to bench in high school while they are downing beers at the local pub.

So far in the short time you have been on the 5/3/1 you have not successfully completed one week of prescribed training. In one way or another, you have put things off or altered the schedule. If you keep doing that, who's fault is it going to be that you have not reached your goals? Wendler, and his 5/3/1?

Its time to shit or get off the pot EM. Get to work. Make solutions, not excuses. Until you tear a pec, blow a bi, of have half the hardware in your back and neck as I do I don't want to hear about an injury, or how you are not 100%. I am beginning to thing that you are not comfortable being uncomfortable. You need to understand that what we do and what we come here to talk about doing, hurts, leaves us sore, injures us, and makes us feel less than 100% a lot of the time. But that's what makes us different from the rest of the world - we are willing and eager to endure that so that we are not like them; we are strong or ripped or whatever you want to call it.

What do you want to be?

B-

Are you saying getting injured is ok?

 

[SouthernLord]

Are you saying getting injured is ok?

I think he's saying EM, knowing today was a training day and the gym closes early, should have went to bed a few hours earlier last night, woke up a few hours earlier this morning, ate a few more meals pre workout, and went into the gym ready to set some fucking PRs. At least this is what I got from bblazers post

 

[bblazer]

Are you saying getting injured is ok?

Yes that is exactly what I am saying.

I think everyone should be injured.

B-

 

[bblazer]

I think he's saying EM, knowing today was a training day and the gym closes early, should have went to bed a few hours earlier last night, woke up a few hours earlier this morning, ate a few more meals pre workout, and went into the gym ready to set some fucking PRs. At least this is what I got from bblazers post

This. +1000

B-

 

[ExtraMile]

I think he's saying EM, knowing today was a training day and the gym closes early, should have went to bed a few hours earlier last night, woke up a few hours earlier this morning, ate a few more meals pre workout, and went into the gym ready to set some fucking PRs. At least this is what I got from bblazers post

Ok I get what he meant but actually no today wasnt a training day, I never usually train on weekends but I have several times gone in the morning on one of the weekends and done some cardio and stretching. But I had the idea if I felt good on sunday then maybe I would just do Mondays workout on sunday morning. But as I got there I decided to leave it for monday like it was scheduled to be.

 

[b fold the truth]

Clint's Law: If you don't feel like training, don't.

That said, I haven't felt GREAT in years.

Everyone is different but Blazer has a good point if one can see it. It wasn't rude, just something to think about. He wouldn't have said it if he hadn't meant it to help. The first time he hears from one of the lifters he coaches that HIS program doesn't work and they didn't sleep/eat/recover enough on their own...well, you can imagine his fury. I work with guys that ignore what I say, do their own thing, and always have excuses. Put them in my Chucks for a week where they spend hours a day on the toilet and have severe arthritis in their hands and feet and shoulders and leave them wondering why I'm the ONE making progress after 16 years of training still.

I'm also the first one to blame myself when I don't do what I need to do to perform well.

Just keep working EM.