Perpendicular to the Surface of the Earth

[ithryn]

Wednesday 1 November 2017

Squat 3x5
325 x 5 x 3

Rack Pulls first set do an all-out 5-7, second set drop 10-20% and do 8-10
405 x 7
- that was mostly all-out, but I almost felt like I could try heavier, so...455 x 0. Nope. Didn't really budge.)
365 x 10

My straps must be different lengths or something.

Anybody trick or treat?

[ithryn]

2 Nov 2017 - yesterday's workout cont'd

Rows - putting down each rep on the straps, strict form
205 x 10 x 6

GPP: 50 lunges each leg, 6 min

[Michael Tiemeyer]

I recently started reading your log, and I'm up to about May 2016. I don't know if either of these two jokes have been made since, but here we go:

Perpendicular to the Surface of the Earth

1) So, you're normal?

...Catholic...6 kids...hot wife...like to eat...humorous...

B) So, you're Jim Gaffigan's strong doppleganger?

Anybody trick or treat?

This is hilarious. For Halloween, I find it to be my duty to scare the living shit out of as many trick-or-treaters as I can. I mean, you think this candy is for free?? With the setup we had this year, I had several kids that wouldn't even approach the door and others that would start up the sidewalk and then go "Nope!" and turn around after I got the animatronics (sp?) going.

[ithryn]

I think Gaffigan has five. Maybe. But yeah, I'll take it lol. Thanks.

As for scaring kids, this guy down the street had a scarecrow in a chair in his front yard that he put a candy bowl in for Halloween. Except of course it was really him. He would let a whole bunch of kids take candy from the bowl before jumping at like the fifteenth party to come up. It was great.

Saturday 4 Nov 2017

Oh this was fun

Bench
Fahves:
215 x 5 x 3

8-10s:
190 x 8
187.5 x 9 (yeah so uh, I pulled a 2.5 lb plate off one end and forgot to remove the other one)
175 x 7

Curls 8x8 with 1 min rests:
85 x 8
75 x 8
70 x 8 x 6

65 x 20

Dips - max reps for five sets:
x 12
x 10 x 4

[Michael Tiemeyer]

I've caught up to the end. A few notes:

Sorry to hear about your FIL. I lost mine barely a year after getting married and before we had our first kid. My MIL is great, though.

I'm so jealous of your home gym--anyone's home gym really.

I forgot about homebirths in the joke above!!

I don't know much about Andy's program other than what I've seen in your log and some others; I do like reading his blog though. I'll enjoy reading how you progress with it and I'll probably pick your brain about it more later. Good luck!

[ithryn]

Tuesday 7 November 2017

Quadzilla work apparently:

Deficit deadlifts
320 x 5 x 3

Pin squats ascending sets
225 x 5 x 2
275 x 5 x 2
315 x 5

Supposed to do dumbbell-weighted step ups or something but I didn't have time.

Also I lost my wallet at work somehow (was in my pocket, then it wasn't), work is busy with lots of early mornings, and I've had a head cold all last week and it's still keeping me up at night. Good times.

[ithryn]

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Press 3x5
160 x 4, f - overshot
155 x 5 x 2

Floor Press 5x5
ascending sets with 160, 165, 170, 175, 180 as I feel these out. Felt a lot better than last time I did these.

Dumbbell lying press
45 x 10 x 3 - should've gone heavier

Dumbbell seated press
45 x 10, 45 x 10, 45 x 8

Dumbbell lying triceps extension ~15 reps for three sets with 45, 35, then 30 lbs. Wow that back-arm pump.

[ithryn]

Saturday 11 November 2017

Squat doubles
375 x 2
385 x 2
395 x 2 - I think that's a two rep PR!

Again doubles for sets across was prescribed but these felt fine. I did grit my teeth enough to hurt though.

Pulling 30% off the bar:

HBBS descending sets
275 x 10
250 x 10
225 x 10

NOT FUN

RDLs
315 x 10 x 3

Weighted hanging leg raises.... Haha, these were awful. I used a dumbbell held between my ankles and had to reduce it down to 12.5 lbs to be able to even get to parallel.

Dumbbell rows
65 lbs x 10 x 3

[BenM]

Nice work on the PR!

HBBS descending sets
275 x 10
250 x 10
225 x 10

NOT FUN

Awww come on.

[ithryn]

Monday 13 November 2017

Chest & bi's, bruv:

Bench press - 1RM single, then two doubles

250 x 1 PR!!!!
240 x 2
240 x 2

250! I'm halfway to Karl Schudt weights! With maybe a little left in the tank, or maybe a little more could've been on the bar, though the presses lie to you so who knows, lol. My elbows really hurt after that. They also hurt after the squats this past Saturday, I think because I let some of the weight sag onto my elbows doing the heavy doubles, and there was probably residual from that. Doing very light curls helped.

The 240's were real grinders. My left arm goes up fine; my right arm is a lot slower. I've heard that's normal, but it's still weird. (I'm right-handed.)

Then about 70% of that for five sets x 8-12:
175 x 10
175 x 8
170 x 8
165 x 7
155 x 11 until I couldn't do no more

Again with the right arm being very slow on the last reps.

Barbell curls - rest-pause sets of 20, where you do 15 and then rack the bar, wait 30 sec, then do the last 5:
95 x 20
85 x 20
75 x 20
70 x 20

I had to use two hands to get my protein shaker cup up to my lips after this..