Reply With Quotenice job at your meet skid!
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Strongly done, sir!
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nice job at your meet skid!
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Congrats on your great results! Nice PRs.
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Originally Posted by Tad_T
Thanks guys, I've been away from the forum for a week so hadn't seen you posts. Much appreciated!
I got home last Thursday and went to work Friday but could feel a cold coming on. By Saturday I was sitting in my easy chair and didn't move much for the next couple of days as I think I had Covid 2.0. Zero energy, felt like razor blades in my chest, dry coughing, head ache, nausea, diarhea, you name it.
I finally felt a bit better yesterday, and today well enough I went back to work after taking a couple of sick days earlier. I think my body was weakened after cutting, stress from competing, etc. If I compete again I will never cut again a couple days before the meet. Weakened me at the meet and afterwards.
It's been a week since I competed so figured to do something today so I don't get killer DOMS later. Still a bit sick and feeling weak but:
Did some shoulder warm ups, then:
Bench
Bar-10
155-5
220-5
240-5 - At 240 my L elbow reminded me it wasn't fully healed/recovered yet. The weight felt light but the next couple weeks are all about recovery. I stopped here.
DB curls
20's-10
25's for 12 - Super easy low stress stuff,
Legs - For the first time in a long time I didn't feel my knees climbing the stairs at work today. I'm not going to do any leg work unitl next Monday at the earliest, then see how everything feels then.
Based on my Nationals results, if I choose to I can be the Canadian rep for my age/weight class at IPF World's again in October. Unfortunately it's in South Africa again, but this time in Cape Town. Not sure if I will bother. Next year World's are in Reno, but by then I may have lost my Mojo as I'm not getting any younger. Decisions...
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Man, I'm way behind. Congratulations on a Strong Meet!
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everything is relative. as you get older, so does your competition. i think you will be competitive until the day you stop training
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I'm starting a new workout today. It's more of a general fitness workout vs powerlifting/heavy weight training. I'm still a bit sick even though it's been almost 10 days now since I caught this nasty cold. Nose is still running and I'm coughing up crap.
Warm up:
Cossack squats, sissy squats, and bulgarian split squats - all bodyweight stuff for 2 sets of 6-10 reps
Tempo paused squats (3/1/0)
265-5,5,5, - 1st squats since my competition - actually didn't feel too bad despite being almost 2 weeks since last squatting. Went light on these and will slowly add over the next few weeks
Hack squats - did a couple reps with just the sled but had some knee pain so decided to hold off on these. The movement went easy but I need my knees to fully heal.
Leg press - Substituted these for hack squats - 270-8,8,8, Went light and easy
Close grip bench - 265-4,4, - These felt heavy so I stopped at 4 leaving a few reps in the tank. Will slowly ramp these up too.
Calf raises - 155-10,10,
Spanish squats - BW-5,5,5, At this point my legs were tired and I didn't feel much like repping these out so stopped way early. Will do more in the weeks to come.
Planks - 3 x 30 seconds each - again, easy stuff but just breaking in to this new workout.
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Warm up
Dead hangs - 3 x 30 seconds
Supinated chinups - BW-5,5,5, - got to start somewhere
Cable wide grip row - 235-12,12,12,
Straight bar cable pullover - 80-8,8,8, super setted with
Hanging leg raises with straight legs - BW-15,15,
DB shrugs - 75's-15,15, supersetted with
EZ bar curls - 90-10,10, 3 second eccentric
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