Geoff's youngish-old-guy Intermediate Training Log, v1.0

[positronbomb]

Pivot Week Day 1: PRESS

Worked singles up. Previous PR: 190. Today:
195x1

200x1

205x1

210x1

A good day. Blew the rims off my old PR. Video of 205: YouTube Video of 210: YouTube

Awesome

[Geoff Bischoff]

Pivot Week Day 3: BENCH

Worked singles up. Previous PR: 300. Today:
305x1

310x1

A good day again. Can't find adequate space for a good bench video that shows my lower body in contact with the floor. This is somewhat irksome, since the videos of me benching that I have show me wobbling a lot, and I'd like to see my legs in the video to see what the hell I'm doing to cause that. Video of 305: YouTube Video of 310: YouTube

[Geoff Bischoff]

Pivot Week Day 4: DEADLIFT

Worked singles up. Previous PR: 435. Today:
440x1

445x1

A good day, and the final day of Pivot Week. I've got no complaints on form on these; just wish the grip strength wasn't so dodgy. Video of 440: YouTube Video of 445: YouTube

Got my weights dialed in for the beginning of 4-day TM Monday; let's go do this damned thing.

[Mike Longnecker]

Congrats on all your PRs!
Good luck with TM. Curious how long the workouts will take, how much volume you are programming.

[Geoff Bischoff]

Thanks Mike!

We shall see how long it takes; 4-day TM looks like it will actually be shorter *per day* than the 3day variants.

Day 1 I've got 5x5 on the bench, and then three fahves of Close Grip Bench. I'm going to try for 185 on the close grip, just as a wild guess, since I haven't done CG in a long time.

Total volume for day 1 then is 8 sets of 5, 40 working reps.

[Geoff Bischoff]

4-Day Texas Method: W1D1

Well, I did what I said I would.

Bench: 235x5x5

This was my volume work for bench. Set 1, I did touch-and-go. Sets 2 thru 5 I moved to dead-stop bench, just to get used to the feeling. The last rep of the last set, I held static at the bottom for a *long* time, a slow 5-Mississippi, then pushed up.

Close Grip Bench: 185x5x3

This was my "bench assist." I'm not sure if I'm doing this right: Was I supposed to have done longer sets? Or more? An example I saw in the source books showed volume similar to this, so I went with it. As for weight, I had no idea what a good weight would be. 185 was okay, but perhaps a bit light. Next Monday, if I'm on CG again, I'll do a 10lb jump to 195. I did dead-stop on all of these reps, again with the exaggerated pause on the final rep.

A good day: All prescribed reps and sets and weights complete.

[Geoff Bischoff]

4-Day Texas Method: W1D2

Volume squat.

Squat: 325x5x5

By the third set I was closer to the Lord than I've been in a month. By the fifth, I thought I might meet Him.

Rows (Pronated): 205x5x3

These came up, and then I went home and took in about 1000 calories of mostly fried chicken. And 75mg of Diclofenac.

All prescribed reps and sets and weights complete; a good day.

[carson]

I think the benches on the stall would kill me. I mean they would have crushed my chest, broken all of my ribs, and ruptured my lungs and hearts. Great work and I'm glad you survived.

[Geoff Bischoff]

Bench was easy by comparison. Squats near to murdered me. We've all got our strengths and... Lesser strengths? Heh.

Right now I'm feeling a lot better but wondering how much training I'm going to miss because of meet-peaking.

What's your pre-meet plan?

[Mike Longnecker]

Oh man, read your post to wolf and had to pop in. How many minutes did you rest between squat sets?