* Red² - T's Journey 2007 *

[treilin]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

DEC 26 2006
Mood = Tired and only 1 at work all day with a bunch of broken comps I needed to work on but they got fixed.
Weight ?
Soreness = Quads, Hams, and calves but glutes and ham tie in's are the worse!!!! Abs a bit, and shoulders from doing the front squats I'm sure. So far back is doing fine no issues... I have another deep massage scheduled for thursday so he'll definitely get some kinks out!!

It's so much easier having someone type up the weight routine because then all I have to do is go and copy it out of her log and paste it over here

This was monday's leg routine:

Front Squat (tempo 301) (6 x 135)(1 x 155)(6 x 145)(1 x 155)(10 x 115)(15 x 95)
Bulgarian Split Squat (SS)(tempo 311) (10 x 115)(9 x 120)(10 x 125)
Step Ups w/DB's (SS)(tempo 311) (10 x 50) x 3
Back extensions (tempo 222) (10 x 25) (10 x 35)
Seated calf raises (tempo 222)(8 x 100)(8 x 105)(8 x 110)(8 x 115)(10 X 115)(11 X 115)
Vacuums w/lats (3 x 2 min, 15 sec rest between each and holding front pose and standing relaxed poses in mirror adjusting)

First week I dropped the rest from 30 seconds to 15 seconds on vacuums and I was shaking like crazy trying to hold them.

Today was my day off.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!

 

[HiDnGoD]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

DEC 26 2006
Mood = Tired and only 1 at work all day with a bunch of broken comps I needed to work on but they got fixed.
Weight ?
Soreness = Quads, Hams, and calves but glutes and ham tie in's are the worse!!!! Abs a bit, and shoulders from doing the front squats I'm sure. So far back is doing fine no issues... I have another deep massage scheduled for thursday so he'll definitely get some kinks out!!

It's so much easier having someone type up the weight routine because then all I have to do is go and copy it out of her log and paste it over here

This was monday's leg routine:

Front Squat (tempo 301) (6 x 135)(1 x 155)(6 x 145)(1 x 155)(10 x 115)(15 x 95)
Bulgarian Split Squat (SS)(tempo 311) (10 x 115)(9 x 120)(10 x 125)
Step Ups w/DB's (SS)(tempo 311) (10 x 50) x 3
Back extensions (tempo 222) (10 x 25) (10 x 35)
Seated calf raises (tempo 222)(8 x 100)(8 x 105)(8 x 110)(8 x 115)(10 X 115)(11 X 115)
Vacuums w/lats (3 x 2 min, 15 sec rest between each and holding front pose and standing relaxed poses in mirror adjusting)

First week I dropped the rest from 30 seconds to 15 seconds on vacuums and I was shaking like crazy trying to hold them.

Today was my day off.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!

I had a great Christmas. I hope yours was great too. Today was a day off for me, too. However we went shopping, so fighting the crowds was a bit of a workout.

 

[sbt2082]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

It's so much easier having someone type up the weight routine because then all I have to do is go and copy it out of her log and paste it over here

Yeah, I try my best to be good for something

 

[treilin]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

I had a great Christmas. I hope yours was great too. Today was a day off for me, too. However we went shopping, so fighting the crowds was a bit of a workout.

Yeah I don't shop in crowds!! I like to get in and get out of stores.
Glad you had a great Christmas!

Yeah, I try my best to be good for something

Well we know better then that....

 

[jpt]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

hey tre....hope santa treated you well! i've missed about 10 pages in everyone's logs so i'm trying to catch up...

 

[treilin]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

DEC 28 2006

Mood = Calm
Weight = 162 (The most I ever weighed in my life)
Soresness = Calves, hams, glutes, shoulders, back, abs.. I'm just friggen sore from monday! Last 2 nights waking up with this soreness...

Tonight is upper body and abs... Waiting for SBT to type it all up so I can copy it in, LOL

Notes:
-PT this morning. It has been a week since I have been there. Lumbar was rotated to the right again. So had to do some manual stuff to move it back. I think it's probably been like that for years' because it likes to go back to it. I also noticed it in my posing pictures last year. PT was pressing around releasing knots in the sacrum and got to my Ham tie in and said "WOW does that hurt?" I started laughing and said,"Yeah but I did that to myself at the gym!"
-Appetite was ridiculous yesterday and this morning stomach was going nuts and I ate and it's still doing it's thing... Need to focus on water intake. The past week it has dwindled.....
-I'm kinda weighing options as to what I want my physical goals to be next year. Obviously the competition in May... but this past year I feel like the weight room has just tore my body up. Do I want to continue doing this?!? Every day I have some chronic, and acute pain... I mean I'm already going to gain some pain with age but I seriously feel like I shouldn't be in this much pain all the time. I had less pain when I ran marathon's.... Yeah 26.2 miles of hard running on dirt surfaces. Not the body I want and I already did that goal so definitely not going back. I think the best I ever felt was when I first joined EF 2 years' ago. I was doing different types of yoga and pilates 5 day's a week, and running 1 at the most maybe 2 days. I had a lot more flexibility, less pain, felt good, was eating o.k.... wasn't eating enough, and obviously did not have the 'athletic' looking body I wanted.
Then if I go to the gym and have no DOMS I feel like I wasted my time. So to just go and go through the motion does not excite me. Nor does this LSD cardio crap. Although it is easier on the joints and bones. I'm 27 and every time I move I crack, and pop. This just doesn't seem right.
I'm getting way more massage then I've ever had in my life and I still can't get a body part to stop... I actually felt less pain during my cut last year when my weights began to drop, and my strength began to dwindle, and I was doing my cardio sessions. Yeah I'm mentally about ready to cut again. I'm just not sure what I want to do after I cut this time around.
I miss my Tae Bo, step classes I use to do.... Playing softball and golf every spring summer and fall. All of this I gave up. My social life all I have to say... Is non-existant. I have lived, breathed, and dreamed about food, weight training, dieting, not getting enough muscle, posing some more then other's for the past 2 years'.
I have definitely got more muscle then I started... but I want to plateau already! I want to get the muscle attached to the leg and be able to maintain what I first was out to achieve = an athletic looking body.
So... with all of that.... I'm not sure what will be in store after my competition in May.
I may make this my last one, or maybe I'll do another. I'm just really tired of trying to add muscle on.

 

[jpt]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

you sound like me...so many injuries and pains and not really sure if it's worth it. i know for me personally if i didn't hit the gym and eat right etc i'd be bored to death...but then again it's also not my whole entire life....yes i think about it constantly....how can i do this different or what am i gonna eat later etc but i do not let it interfer in my social life. you only live once right?

maybe not be so hard on yourself in the gym...if you know heavy deadlifts are going to cause you pain and discomfort then maybe not train them as heavy...go more volume?? i think if you stopped training and just did yoga or jogged (i think the j is slient....yaaagging....anchorman quote )or some shit you would miss it big time....i can barely walk some days b/c of my back and knee but i get to the gym and do what i can b/c i love it...just my 2c

 

[treilin]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

you sound like me...so many injuries and pains and not really sure if it's worth it. i know for me personally if i didn't hit the gym and eat right etc i'd be bored to death...but then again it's also not my whole entire life....yes i think about it constantly....how can i do this different or what am i gonna eat later etc but i do not let it interfer in my social life. you only live once right?

maybe not be so hard on yourself in the gym...if you know heavy deadlifts are going to cause you pain and discomfort then maybe not train them as heavy...go more volume?? i think if you stopped training and just did yoga or jogged (i think the j is slient....yaaagging....anchorman quote )or some shit you would miss it big time....i can barely walk some days b/c of my back and knee but i get to the gym and do what i can b/c i love it...just my 2c

I know I have to get there and I have to do it. I think by dropping to 4 days a week of heavy training which was started this week may help some. After seeing what monday did to me.. I don't know
It helps a lot having SBT around since right now I'm mentally having issues getting food together and straightened out (not junk eating just sick of planning). She has pretty much taken that over for me and that has helped immensly!! If I could get some of the pain in control I think in a few weeks I could get my head off the ground.
You are right about the DL's and causing 'future' pain and issues. I'm not trying max strength this cycle. Focusing more on form, ROM, and mind to muscle connection. Playing in both the strength and hypertrophy ranges. I'm done with max anything this off season. Combining some new things I have read on and never done before which makes it interesting. We'll see how it plays out.
What happened to your log JPT? Do you plan on writing in one in 2007?!?

 

[Roonytunes]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

I'm 27 and every time I move I crack, and pop. This just doesn't seem right. I'm getting way more massage then I've ever had in my life and I still can't get a body part to stop... I actually felt less pain during my cut last year when my weights began to drop, and my strength began to dwindle, and I was doing my cardio sessions. Yeah I'm mentally about ready to cut again. I'm just not sure what I want to do after I cut this time around.
I miss my Tae Bo, step classes I use to do.... Playing softball and golf every spring summer and fall. All of this I gave up. My social life all I have to say... Is non-existant. I have lived, breathed, and dreamed about food, weight training, dieting, not getting enough muscle, posing some more then other's for the past 2 years'.
I have definitely got more muscle then I started... but I want to plateau already! I want to get the muscle attached to the leg and be able to maintain what I first was out to achieve = an athletic looking body.
So... with all of that.... I'm not sure what will be in store after my competition in May.
I may make this my last one, or maybe I'll do another. I'm just really tired of trying to add muscle on.

Wow, this is some powerful writing, Tre! But I think it's great that you're looking hard into yourself to see what you really want. And really, no one should be succumbed to aches and pains in their 20s!

I hope you find what you're looking for - I think we are all ultimately looking for "that place" but never sure where it is and then if it's a mere halt or a final destination

 

[jpt]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

I know I have to get there and I have to do it. I think by dropping to 4 days a week of heavy training which was started this week may help some. After seeing what monday did to me.. I don't know
It helps a lot having SBT around since right now I'm mentally having issues getting food together and straightened out (not junk eating just sick of planning). She has pretty much taken that over for me and that has helped immensly!! If I could get some of the pain in control I think in a few weeks I could get my head off the ground.
You are right about the DL's and causing 'future' pain and issues. I'm not trying max strength this cycle. Focusing more on form, ROM, and mind to muscle connection. Playing in both the strength and hypertrophy ranges. I'm done with max anything this off season. Combining some new things I have read on and never done before which makes it interesting. We'll see how it plays out.
What happened to your log JPT? Do you plan on writing in one in 2007?!?

everyone gets into a rut now and again....but if your in pain and your always aching (not the good kind) then you should re-evaluate what your doing. i think playing the mind muscle conncetion and rom is the way to go and then after your sick of that train heavy again. if the training bcomes painful again i would just call it quits. don't be so tough or your body...you don't want it giving out so you cant do anything!