Let's Rock.. and a little bit of roll

brutusthebarber

Yesterday

Reverse Hyper x 12

Deadlift
70kg x 3
80kg x 3
100kg x 3
115kg x 3

130kg x 3 x 7:mad:
I was sucking the ghey yesterday! Didn't have time to finish the sets had to leg it back to work. Load of sh1t. I used a belt yesterday for the first time in months, I think I will have to use it on the work sets to get through this in one piece. Now to add 10kg to everything I did in the past two weeks.

brutusthebarber

Loosen out day.

Mobility Stuff

GluteHam raise
10 x 10

Small circuit.
5 pull ups/5 dips for rounds in 10 minutes.

I wanted to see how many rounds of this I could do before a rest was required, turns out to be 3. The dips are easy but the pull ups kick me in the rocks so 3 rounds was okayish. Maybe next time I'm at this I'll do 10 dips a round.

Bench in the moro.

Hanley

You should try CF's Cindy;
5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 squats - as many rounds in 20 minutes (or you can just scale it to 5, 10 or 15 mins)

I've done 10 rounds in under 10mins, 19 in 20. Might re-test it soon and see how I get on. The weight loss should have helped!!

Gonna reverse band bench upstairs tomorrow btw!

brutusthebarber

Hanley wrote: »

You should try CF's Cindy;
5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 squats - as many rounds in 20 minutes (or you can just scale it to 5, 10 or 15 mins)

I've done 10 rounds in under 10mins, 19 in 20. Might re-test it soon and see how I get on. The weight loss should have helped!!

Gonna reverse band bench upstairs tomorrow btw!

Hmmm yeah could be easily done upstairs in the club, could be one for tomorrow alright!

I'd say your good for more than 10 rounds now, anything you do tomorrow make sure you start the clock:pac:

Yeah cool I'll be up tomorrow and I'll try that out.

Reverse band would be so that the weight is lessened as you lower the weight right??

brutusthebarber

Reverse Band Bench

60kg x 5
100kg x 5
130kg x 5
135kg x 5

Bench
60kg x 5
80kg x 5
2 Board
100kg x 5
110kg x 4
Big Board
110kg x 5
100kg x 5 x 3

Row
Worked to 130 in sets of 10 then
140 x 5

Changed Grip
70 x 10
80 x 10
90 x 10
100 x 10

Tri Push Down and some face pulls.

Benching was tough today, got some very good tips so will put them to use next time!

Need to get my bench solider. Thats right!

Going to look into 5/3/1 again today, do some more reading.

BossArky

brutusthebarber wrote: »

Reverse Band Bench
60kg x 5
100kg x 5
130kg x 5
135kg x 5

Is that with bands helping on the way up to help with lock out?

brutusthebarber wrote: »

Going to look into 5/3/1 again today, do some more reading.

I'm finding 531 good. Here is a slightly revised version of my template in case it helps you. Just fill in the top rows (2 to 6) on the "graph" sheet. It will populate a 6 month plan for you. You'll have to rename the tabs to different months than my July to Dec.

I track my BBB and top sets in it.

e.g.
August: Boring but Big was 25kg in Week 1 (row 3). Top set reps were 9x48kg (row 4).

brutusthebarber

BossArky wrote: »

Is that with bands helping on the way up to help with lock out?



I'm finding 531 good. Here is a slightly revised version of my template in case it helps you. Just fill in the top rows (2 to 6) on the "graph" sheet. It will populate a 6 month plan for you. You'll have to rename the tabs to different months than my July to Dec.

I track my BBB and top sets in it.

e.g.
August: Boring but Big was 25kg in Week 1 (row 3). Top set reps were 9x48kg (row 4).

Yeah man check out Hanley's vid in his log to see how it was set up! Feels very weird going from that to the normal bench.

Cheers for that man, I'll put my maxes through it and have a look. I think I will jump on the 5/3/1 bandwagon. I'll run it alongside the Smolov, hopefully I can finish off the Smolov without affecting the 5/3/1.

brutusthebarber

5/3/1 Day 1 Wk 1 Cycle 1

Bench

Warmup
Bar x 10
40kg x 5
50kg x 5

Worksets
62.5 x 5
72.5 x 5
82.5 x 9... went for 10, spotter had to take it triceps just gave up!

Pull Ups
12,12,12,12
+5kg x 10

Row
60 x 10
70 x 10
80 x 10
90 x 10
Changed Grip
60 x 15

SP Machine
40 x 12
50 x 12
60 x 12
65 x 12

Probably not the best idea to start the 5/3/1 Bench after yesterday but I was benching with someone. It defo cost me the last rep but 82.5 x 9 is a PB for reps. I'm going to start logging the PBs too.

The pull ups were quite easy, getting up to 4 sets of 15 will be noice! I'm going to weight the last rep of each set. Dips will be assistance on MP day.

Maxes for 5/3/1
B:107
D:150
S:120
MP:60

I'm not sure whether to keep at Smolov either, my lower back is pretty focked today 3 days after deadlifting (not DOMS either). Pretty pointless pushing it too as it WILL lead to an injury. Booked into my physio for next week. I'll see how it is tomorrow, I'm going to squat anyway.

brutusthebarber

Today 5/3/1 Day 2 Week 1 Cycle 1

Squat
Warm Up
40kg x 5
50kg x 5
60kg x 5

Work Sets
70kg x 5
80kg x 5
92.5 x 14

60kg x 10 x 2

Ab Pull Downs
3 sets of 15.

Reverse Raise
20 reps

Very happy with the squats, there was one or two more left in the tank too.

Not much time today for assistance so just did the abs and the obligatory low back work. It felt okay today, foam rolling and stretching will help it along tonight.

brutusthebarber

5/3/1 Day 3 Week 1 Cycle 1

Band Pull Aparts
3 sets of 10

Military Press
Warm Up
Bar x 5
30kg x 5

35kg x 5
40kg x 5
45kg x 16

Face Pulls
20kg x 10
25kg x 12
30kg x 10

Dips
15,15,33

Pull Down
80kg x 8
85kg x 8
90kg x 8

Pushed the reps on the press today, a PB for reps anyway.

Dips were good, happy to be able to bust out 33 after two sets of 15. 50 is the target here.

Pull Downs are going well,just going to keep plugging away at these.

brutusthebarber

5/3/1 Day 4 Week 1 Cycle 1

Power Cleans
40kg x 3
50kg x 3
60kg x 3
65kg x 3
70kg x 1
72kg x 1.. Past 60kg on this is PB city

Deadlift
70kg x 5
80kg x 5

90kg x 5
100kg x 5
115kg x 9... reps PB

Boring but Big
70kg x 5 x 10

The BBB really shattered me, can defo see this helping.

Power Cleans were good too, 72kg is a nice PB for me. A body weight clean would be awesome!

Repping the deadlift is tough, fairly annoyed with 9 but I'm sticking with the idea of leaving something in the tank.

Probably do a serious session of foma rolling/yoga tonight and tomorrow. Back to the gym Sunday.

brutusthebarber

Also, I was given "The Powerlifting Manual" by John Lear today by one of the older lads in the gym. Manual is from 1982, excellent!

brutusthebarber

Today

Reverse Hyper
5kg x 10 x 5

Face Pulls
30kg x 10 x 2
35kg x 10

Seated Power Cleans
10kg x 10 x 3

Shoulder Raises
15kg x 12 x 3

Chins
10,10

One Arm Row Machine
25kg x 10 x 2

Shoulder Press Machine
65kg x 10 x 2
75kg x 10 x 2

Lat Pull Down
85kg x 10 x 3

Row
90 x 10 x 3

Handy session today, did some pad work yesterday and my back is fried from it. So just did some easy stuff today so I'm ready for the bench tomorrow.

Face Pulls are getting stronger which is nice. PB on the SP machine, not that important but as long as my pressing improves I'm happy.

As always, reverse hyper feels very good. Loving this exercise.

BossArky

brutusthebarber wrote: »

Deadlift

Boring but Big
70kg x 5 x 10

The BBB really shattered me, can defo see this helping.

After the first couple of weeks of Boring but Big you'll get used to the higher reps. First week or two nearly killed me too.

brutusthebarber

BossArky wrote: »

After the first couple of weeks of Boring but Big you'll get used to the higher reps. First week or two nearly killed me too.

Did you add 2.5 or 5 to each BBB per week?

Was going to ask you, how are you finding doing pull ups/chins on both your press days?

I'm going with the idea of splitting the pull ups to Bench day and dips to MP day.

BossArky

brutusthebarber wrote: »

Did you add 2.5 or 5 to each BBB per week?

I added 5kg to all until it got difficult and I was having to take a break before finishing off 10 reps. Military and Bench are near maxed out now. Probably a bit more to go on squat and deadlift. Just adding 1kg or so to each now.

My starting and current BBB were/are:

MP 25kg --> ~41kg
DL 60kg --> 86kg
BP 30kg --> ~61kg
SQ 45kg --> 71kg

Those early BBB days felt a lot harder than the more recent ones - not being used to the high reps after the main worksets.

brutusthebarber wrote: »

Was going to ask you, how are you finding doing pull ups/chins on both your press days?

I'm going with the idea of splitting the pull ups to Bench day and dips to MP day.

I used to have MP + MP BBB + Chins + Dips on the one day. However, after 11+ sets of pressing I wasn't able for the dips with good form so moved them recently to deadlift day.

I like "bench + pull ups" and then "military + chins". It seems to work ok and gives a bit of balance.

Good luck with 531. It takes a while to build up but you can keep yourself amused by tracking rep records and feeling utterly pumped with BBB!

brutusthebarber

BossArky wrote: »

I added 5kg to all until it got difficult and I was having to take a break before finishing off 10 reps. Military and Bench are near maxed out now. Probably a bit more to go on squat and deadlift. Just adding 1kg or so to each now.

My starting and current BBB were/are:

MP 25kg --> ~41kg
DL 60kg --> 86kg
BP 30kg --> ~61kg
SQ 45kg --> 71kg

Those early BBB days felt a lot harder than the more recent ones - not being used to the high reps after the main worksets.




I used to have MP + MP BBB + Chins + Dips on the one day. However, after 11+ sets of pressing I wasn't able for the dips with good form so moved them recently to deadlift day.

I like "bench + pull ups" and then "military + chins". It seems to work ok and gives a bit of balance.

Good luck with 531. It takes a while to build up but you can keep yourself amused by tracking rep records and feeling utterly pumped with BBB!

Yeah cool, I've set my bench and squat at 60kg, I'll add 2.5 to the bench and 5kg to the squat. Deadlift is 70 and MP is 30.

Of them all I find the MP the worst, 30kg x 10 x 5 is a killer!

I think I'd rather keep my upper body assistance to the MP and BP days, give my upper body some form of respite, however slight that is!

Thanks man, even though the weight is slowish to move up, the program is still very interesting. Lets hope it pays off.

brutusthebarber

5/3/1 Day 1 Wk 2 Cycle 1

Band pull aparts
10 x 2

Bench
Bar x 10
60kg x 3
65 kg x 3

70kg x 3
77.5kg x 3
87.5kg x 10 PB

Pull Ups
20, 8, 8

Rows
80 x 12
90 x 12
110 x 10
120 x 10

Tri Pushdowns
25kg x 15 x 2

Another rep PB, bench felt strong today, the last rep was tough. Tried to set up tighter and bring the bar further out over my chest while squeezing it as tight as possible. Made a difference so I'll keep working on it!

20 is a big Pull up PB, all strict of course!

Looking forward to repping the sh1t out of a 100kg squat tomorrow.

brutusthebarber

5/3/1 Day 2 Wk 2 Cycle 1

Squat
Bar x loads
60kg x 3
70kg x 3

77.5kg x 3
87.5kg x 3
100kg x 11 PB

60kg x 10 x 3

Ab Pull Downs

Happy with the squats, I've done 100 for 10 before but the reps were sh1t. This time each rep felt good and the 11 is a good marker to put down for the future cycles.

One rep max calculator puts the squat at 137:cool:

BBB was missing two sets but I still got the desired effect.

Day off tomorrow, then MP thursday.

brutusthebarber

Big thanks to Irish Lifting today..

The power rack and heavy duty bench arrived, along with two 15kg bumper plates and a solid belt too:D

Will defo use Mick again for any lifting stuff that I need, great service!!

Will post up some pictures later on.

cardio,shoot me

Jealous!!!

Edit: just realised, now you and hanley will both be copying my belt probably :P

brutusthebarber

Bleedin file uploads, the photo doesnt want to upload:mad:

Edit:Think I have it up!

brutusthebarber

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

Jealous!!!

Edit: just realised, now you and hanley will both be copying my belt probably :P

Ha you should be!

Used it tonight for rack pulls, partial presses and also floor presses. It has a deadly knurled pull up bar too!:D

The black belt one with the hooks? Very heavy duty belt!

BossArky

Your new rack looks good. That pallet truck on the left of the photo will come in handy when loading up the bar for deadlifts!

brutusthebarber

BossArky wrote: »

Your new rack looks good. That pallet truck on the left of the photo will come in handy when loading up the bar for deadlifts!

Hadn't thought of that at all! Will be very useful:D

cardio,shoot me

Ha that be my belt alright, hanley copied it aswell, couldnt get his own one :P. Sweet set up! the bumpers look awesome.

Hanley

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

Ha that be my belt alright, hanley copied it aswell, couldnt get his own one :P. Sweet set up! the bumpers look awesome.

What are you talking about now?

cardio,shoot me

nothing.....

brutusthebarber

Today
5/3/1 Day 3 WK 2 Cycle 1

Military Press
Bar x 3
30kg x 3

40kg x 3
45kg x 3
50kg x 12 PB

Face Pulls
25kg x 12 x 2

Dips
10
+20kg x 10
35

The MP today was good and strong, 50 x 12 is a nice PB. A few weeks ago I managed 9 so some small progress.

I think the dips is an all-time PB too. Flew throught them right up to 30 then the triceps just gave up on me. Still managed to fight through some reps.

Deadlift tomorrow.

cardio,shoot me

your tricep strength annoys me

brutusthebarber

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

Ha that be my belt alright, hanley copied it aswell, couldnt get his own one :P. Sweet set up! the bumpers look awesome.

Cheers dude it is a work in progress, getting some 10s in soon. Hopefully in the next week or two I'll get some rubber mats and start dropping them bad boys!!

Hmmm Hanley copying you??:pac:

cardio,shoot me

yea obviously, i mean whose been lifting longer than who here? i was wondering if you had rubber mats or not, wasnt sure if tehy where in frame. looks like a real hardcore set up, you just need to get some bands now! where abouts are you based by the way :P

brutusthebarber

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

your tricep strength annoys me

It's all relative really.

I've been at bw exercises a long time so I should be good at them, I should really be better at them than I am now considering the amount of time I've spent doing them.

Your only 16 man, your strength annoys me!:)

cardio,shoot me

my bw:strength ratio sucks, im 89kg i should be stronger!. I was looking at the national records though, and the deadlift in the 100 and 110kg for my age is actually really low like! i dont think ill be that far off come feb. I just really need to start piling on the pounds!. What you weighing in at now?

brutusthebarber

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

yea obviously, i mean whose been lifting longer than who here? i was wondering if you had rubber mats or not, wasnt sure if tehy where in frame. looks like a real hardcore set up, you just need to get some bands now! where abouts are you based by the way :P

I dont need no bands!!

Seriously though, the bands are deadly an all but probably not suited for the level I'm at now! I'll just stick to the ones in the club!

I have one huge mat, but I'm thinking of getting horsebox matting, apparently it is quite cheap and also good quality. Seen some UK sites that do them for about 25 blips for a six foot mat!

brutusthebarber

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

my bw:strength ratio sucks, im 89kg i should be stronger!. I was looking at the national records though, and the deadlift in the 100 and 110kg for my age is actually really low like! i dont think ill be that far off come feb. I just really need to start piling on the pounds!. What you weighing in at now?

Weighed in today at 85 on the nose! That was around 12 bells today, so not as much food as I would have liked in me.

As far as Feb goes, I'm just going to concentrate on putting myself in the best possible position to make a decent total. So I'm not going to worry about making a weight or a weight class or breaking any records (well PBs must be set).

Just going to keep training hard and eating large!

IMO if you start worrying about weight classes/records before you have ever set foot on a competition platform you are probably doing yourself a disservice.

I thought you were 90+??

cardio,shoot me

well i am 90+ and thats the 100kg weightclass, like the only weight changes ill make are if im within like 2-3kg of the weight class below me ill cut a tiny bit, but not enough to sacrifice strength

brutusthebarber

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

well i am 90+ and thats the 100kg weightclass, like the only weight changes ill make are if im within like 2-3kg of the weight class below me ill cut a tiny bit, but not enough to sacrifice strength

Yeah fair enough. I think my weight puts me in the 90kg class.

cardio,shoot me

think so , its like 82.5kg -90kg 90kg-100kg 100kg-110kg and 110+

brutusthebarber

5/3/1 Day 4 Wk 2 Cycle 1

Power Cleans
40kg x 2
50kg x 2
60kg x 2
70kg x 2
72.5 x 2 PB

Deadlift
70kg x 3
80kg x 3

90kg x 3
100kg x 3
125kg x 3

When I locked out the third rep at 125 my lower back went in to a spasm and just locked up! Could barely walk after it, serious pain.

Got a shot of Difene into the ass and have the pills. Will not be able to do anything for the next three days, maybe a swim on Sunday.

So next week is a complete write off. I will probably go into cycle 2 of 5/3/1 the following week but I will definitely set my deadlift lower. Maybe to 135. I also think that sumo will have to take a rest for a while and just use conv. The reason I'm going to drop back on weight is the top set of the past two weeks did just not feel good. If I continue with this weight I will hit a plateau in the first or second cycle which is just pointless.

Raging that this happened today, but I think it is time I took a proper week of rest!

BossArky

Wasn't your deadlift max 150kg? Did you loose a lot of strength or something?

Hope you get over it quickly.

brutusthebarber

BossArky wrote: »

Wasn't your deadlift max 150kg? Did you loose a lot of strength or something?

Hope you get over it quickly.

Thanks Boss.

I don't know what is going on with my deadlift tbh it just doesn't feel good. I think I just need a break from deadlifting and then hopefully back at it!

brutusthebarber

Today

Swim: 16 lengths.

Not breaking any records with the swim today but it felt really good on my back so I'll be back down tomorrow night. I really have to swim more often, at least once a week anyway from now on. Still not sure whether to renew the membership in Carlisle, 225 for one or two swims a week.

Back is slowly coming around, I'll try stay off the difene today and see how it goes. I think a good solid walk will loosen it out some more too.

I might try some light bench stuff on friday and then maybe some squats on Saturday.

brutusthebarber

Deload stuff

Bench Floor Press
50kg x 10 x 3
60kg x 10

Chins: 25

Ab Stuff
Hanging knee raises:eek:

Face Pulls with light bands.
Power cleans with bands (probably not the right description)

Felt good to be able to get into the gym again today. Nothing special again today, just keeping it extra light. Itching to get back to the club.

The face pulls with the band was good but a bit awkward, it is one of the bands from physiosupplies. I'm considering getting one proper band from pullum so I can do these properly.

Hanging leg raises, jaysus, could barely get my legs up at all. Even with the knees bent it was very hard. I think I've found my ab exercise.

Light squat stuff on Saturday if all goes well.

Pavel66

What you doin back in the gym homeboy, I thought you were restin? Hope you are ready for Monday?

Might start a log of my own, if only to show people what you are really doing!:D

Hoping to get 12 out of 95 on the bench on Monday!

brutusthebarber

Pavel66 wrote: »

What you doin back in the gym homeboy, I thought you were restin? Hope you are ready for Monday?

Might start a log of my own, if only to show people what you are really doing!:D

Hoping to get 12 out of 95 on the bench on Monday!

You'll only show me up!:)

I'll be there tomorrow with bells on!

85 for 10 if all goes well.

brutusthebarber

Yesterday

Pull Ups
8,8,18ish have a vid of these.

Chins
3 sets of 5.

Squats
50 x 5 x 2
60 x 5

Inverted Rows
10,10,10

More ab work.

Today
Swim.

Just easing back into the squats. They felt okay, I think I know why my lower back is so fried after squats. Going to address this on Tuesday.

Swim was tough today: 50m as many times as possible with 90 second rest in between. Did this for 30 minutes then a few slow ones to cool down.

brutusthebarber

5/3/1 Day 1 Wk 1 Cycle 2

Bench

Bar x 10
40kg x 5
60kg x 5

65kg x 5
75kg x 5
85kg x 11 PB

60kg x 10 x 3

Neutral Chins
10,10,10

Rows
90 x 12
100 x 15ish

Every weight on the bench felt heavy, could not get right at all. It was about 3 reps into the 85 that everything clicked and I got through the set fine. I think 12 was there but it'll be something the aim for the next time I'm at 85.

Chins and rows were good. I will most likely add weight to the chins in the next time I'm at them.

Squat tomorrow. 95 for reps. 10 will be nice!!

brutusthebarber

5/3/1 Day 2 Wk 1 Cycle 2

20 min warmup/back stuff

Squat

Bar kg x 10
40kg x 5
60kg x 5
70kg x 3

75kg x 5
85kg x 5
95kg x 12PB at weight

Some stretching...

As with the bench yesterday, the first two work sets felt terrible and the first few reps of the top set were tough. Once I got to 5 it clicked again and the set felt good, even 12 wasn't all all out!!

My abductor area is still seriously tight, so some serious stretching/foam rolling tonight.

brutusthebarber

Tonight: Swim

Going to keep this Tuesday swim up for a good while.

Carlisle is officially the busiest place in the world!