WHAT ABOUT MAH LEGS, CHARLIE MURPHY??!!

Edwardius

Gonna log here for abuse purposes as everywhere else is either dead or american. Currently chasing a 200kg weightlifting total at around 86kg but tryin' to work around some shoulder related niggles and being a big pansy-faced uterus.

Today:
Squatz...
singles at 110-115-120-125-130-130-130(f)-130
left it there. dumped the third 130 behind me. Damn quadz.

Snatch:
60x1, 65x1, 70x1, 75x2, 80x1

Think the double at 75 is a pb. Got a bit hairy at 80. second time I've snatched in about six weeks so gotta be fairly happy with that. Shoulder is still a little hot, did all sorts of band related nonsense but it didn't help a whole lot.

Edit: pressin' 55kg x10 x7 x5, no failin' +1kg next time

Gotta remember to do this too.

Headin to ironside tomorrow to get hyooooge!

columok

Whats your current C+J?

Edwardius

100 bills, and it's been wedged there for months!

Edwardius

Right,
Clean and jerked up to 85 for 5 singles. Jerk still a little ponderous.

Rolled out to Ironside then and did some circuit stuff with logs, yokes and farmers handles. Messed about with two man flips on the 900lb tyre and some log clean and presses. Also messed around with stones then and loaded up an 80kg. Couldn't lap the 100. Strange movement, I like it a lot though. Finished with some overhead yoke walks. Spent a good while rambling on about crap afterwards too! Great place.

Edwardius

weekend lacked any front page worthy shenanigans so the carcass was in reasonable nick today.
Squatz, fives:
100-110-115-120(pr)
Some of these suckers looked a little SPF.

chins: one set of 14. Was goin for 20 but got a dose of the malaise so called it there.

Snatch: think i did two or three singles at 70. These were absolute gash today, it was like tryin to fly a helicopter on buckfast. Shoulder was not happy either.

Rack jerk:
60-70-80-85-90-95-100-105(pr)
Dunno where that came from. Sat the bar a bit further into the heel of the palm and was aggressive out of the rack. locked it out before I could think about how heavy it was.

Press 56kg:
10-7-5

columok

It's PR week son!!!!

Edwardius

columok wrote: »

It's PR week son!!!!

****in right, I'm gonna go straight in and test my one rep max no-no-no weighted star jump tomorrow. Righteous.

Edwardius

right, snatched up to 78, not too bad, little sluggish though. Everything hurt during the warmup, wrists, knees elbows! Must've been teh inflammationz from that slice of bread I had last year.

Clean and jerked up to 90 for about 5 singles, cleans were easy but jerks went to hell, no pressouts but a little manky.

Squat: 125x3 and some singles and things at lower weights. Probably a limit set

Chins, max: hit 18. Gonna try once more for 20 on saturday and leave it for another while

Need to back off some things (and go to mcdonalds more)

columok

Dead Ed wrote: »

right, snatched up to 78, not too bad, little sluggish though. Everything hurt during the warmup, wrists, knees elbows!

Do some banded preacher curls off the monolift

Edwardius

columok wrote: »

Do some banded preacher curls off the monolift

I'm pretty sure I'd be murdered if I did that.

columok

Dead Ed wrote: »

I'm pretty sure I'd be murdered if I did that.

Murdered or praised as a visionary. Maybe everyone else wants to do banded preacher curls off the monolift. But need someone to lead the way. You can be their Jesus/Moses/Muad'dib!

Edwardius

Right, felt like a boiled ****e today. Was gonna work to openers for saturday (78/95) but got a bit carried away.

Snatch:
failed 78 about 5 times, made it in the end, upped it to 83 and succeeded on the 2nd attempt, failed 86 twice, close on the first but the left elbow bent a bit . Soft as hell off the floor, that has to be fixed pronto. Second attempt involved me pulling the thing, getting tired and sitting on the floor. Edit: forgot, Hang power snatch: 60x3, legs nearly straight on receipt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OYUk7jHJl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-k7DZDKqXA

Clean and jerked up to 95, brought the grip out wider, which made the jerks a lot easier. Cleaned 100 but blacked out before the jerk so left it there.

was gonna go for a heavy single on the squat but had some sense talked into me. Did a fairly unremarkable single at 125 and some more at 110.

Chins: 11

press 60x3 (killin' time)

Should probably make some sort of training plan for after the nationals. Have some ideas anyway.

columok

Comedy fails.

MOAR KURLOV

Edwardius

Right, lifted in the nationals yesterday. Was planning on competing at 85 but was 87 odd last monday, ditched creatine and carbs and loaded water until the night before, weighed in at 82.5, which is unacceptable!

Snatch:
warmed up early (again). Hit 75 in the warmup, dropped it down to 60 and worked back up. Missed the last warmup at 75 behind and had to get to the platform

78: good, 82: good, 86: missed behind, hadn't locked it out so it was basically too heavy.

No break between the snatch and the clean and jerk and only managed to warm up to 85 before getting called. Decided I was gonna power clean the attempts.

94 was easy so called for 98 which was a bastard of a power clean because I was knackered, jerk was ok though, called for 102 and had to squat clean it, pulled it high enough but was too slow under it and everything collapsed, the head wasn't in it at that stage anyway.

Totalled 180, which was 2kg below the last comp on december but I'm 8kg lighter now. The facilities in jordanstown are unbelievable, everything seemed to run smoothly and there were some serious lifts. The standard seems to be a lot higher this year too so I've a lot of work to do in order to hit what I deem to be a level of non-****ness (100/130 by the looks of things!). Need to push for 90/110 and gain some weight first though.

Edwardius

Takin' a recovery/arsing around week. Just messed about today...

8 reps:
press
bent row
front squat
good morning

rest a few mins

did 30-40-50kg, stuck with the press then...

57kg: 7-5-5

KURLZZZZZ
35kg 3x12

Funny thing, ordered some knee sleeves today and my patellar tendon started getting pissed off almost immediately. Stupid thing.

supposedly

Dead Ed wrote: »

Funny thing, ordered some knee sleeves today and my patellar tendon started getting pissed off almost immediately. Stupid thing.

Once you wash the sand out, I'm sure it'll be okay.

Edwardius

supposedly wrote: »

Once you wash the sand out, I'm sure it'll be okay.

Bah! Where's my dinner?!


Right, still messing aimlessly, little hungover today...

Press, 58kg, 8-7-5, pretty good, some grinding, no wrist wraps or belt (they don't seem to make a difference anymore)

pottered around for about 30km on the bike

Max reps handstand pushups:
7. Meh.

Bent over row, 60x10, 70x7.

KURLZ:
40kg, 3x8

Tryin to do what teh Rippletoadz suggested in PP to alleviate the wrist torque...doesn't work

Right, back to actual training on monday provided ****ers don't decide to evacuate the entire city on account of some aul one doing her shopping. It's bad enough I get ID'd going into work! rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble.
New program should be interesting, lots of volume, quality reps. need to do some core work too as the dreaded pelvic tilt is on the way back. Not gonna be happy unless I hit that 90kg snatch before the leinsters, been hanging around 85 since bloody october!

Edwardius

right, back to actual training.
snatch:
60x3
64x3
68 x6x2 easy

clean deadlift to knee +8s pause x3 110kg. easy

cleans:
65x3x4

Just some target practice here. Was trying to get under as quickly as possible. Think I did something to my knee on the last one, very sore gettin into even an unweighted squat afterwards. Moved it around a bit more and it stopped hurting

back squat:
90x3, 97x3, 105x2x6 grand

planks, 30s holds with 50kg then 60kg. Manageable enough.

knee still feels ok. Wonder if it will in the morning though

Edwardius

Clean and jerk:
Supposed to be doubles at 80 but the knee got pissed off on one of the cleans again. Wrapped it up but it made no difference

Paused snatch grip dead 8sx3x100kg

front squat:

5 doubles at 80, knee got pissed on the 5th set. Damn. Looks like this is hangin around. Gonna ice the bugger again and leave it a couple of days. Think it's a tendon.

Did some pulldowns then, 65x10, 75x10, 85x8. These don't seem to bother my elbows as much as pullups for some reason.

Edwardius

Right, still icing the knee, hasn't talked to me today but decided to avoid any knee-bendin' till next week. Anyway, pressed yesterday....

59kg
7-5-4

Edwardius

Couldn't get to the gym today due to Barak Obama. Also, think I tweaked my QL, for which I'm gonna blame him too. He then had the gall to drive past my office and gloat by waving.

Pressed at home...
60kg

5-4-4-5

Last set was in the groove. Stickin with 60 next time too. Rolled the hell out of the hips, tried to get into the QL but I'll need a pitchfork for that.

Edwardius

Obama's gone so I can train again.

Snatched 68 for 6 doubles
cleaned 65 for 4 triples, (target practice)
HSDLW8SPAK: 3x100kg
Deep knee bendin': 3 doubles at 105, knee got a little annoyed so stopped.
chinese rows: 3x15 a side with 40kg
wide grip pulldowns: 60-55-50x7. These are ****ed up.
KURLZ: ez bar+20kg 3x8
planks, +50kg 3x30s

Wore some light knee wraps. good move. Nothin remarkable apart from that. Gonna ice knee this evening and think of adding in some direct ham work at some point.

Edwardius

right.

Cleanx2+1 jerk: 80 for 6 doubles
power snatch 55 for 4 triples
HCDLW8SPAK: 3x110kg
Front squats: 6 doubles at 80
planks: 50kgx30s, 60kg 2x30s (up to 65 or 70 next time)
Pressed 60kg for a triple then missed the second of the next double. Bleh

bored and waiting then...

dumbbell bench:
20sx10, 25sx2x10
I like these

Close grip bench, 50x8, 60x2x5
Meh

Steak.

Edwardius

35 km cycle.

Rolled out to Howth hill and climbed the sutton side in 11.21 (on a MTB). Bit of a tailwind. Went up a second time because I'm an idiot, got passed by a whippet on a road bike like I was standing still :P, 12.09 on the second attempt. I'll try it sometime on a road bike and see if I can get sub-10.

token

Dead Ed wrote: »

35 km cycle.

Rolled out to Howth hill and climbed the sutton side in 11.21 (on a MTB). Bit of a tailwind. Went up a second time because I'm an idiot, got passed by a whippet on a road bike like I was standing still :P, 12.09 on the second attempt. I'll try it sometime on a road bike and see if I can get sub-10.

Endurance gay!

Edwardius

token wrote: »

Endurance gay!

Sorry, firebreather.

Edwardius

50km cycle around de nort-soide via swords-malahide etc. Took it fairly easy.

Catabolic, bro!

Edwardius

Snatch:
60x3
64x3
68x2
72x1
68x2x6
some misses but retook them immediately afterwards. didn't rest enough between sets. Nothin crazy in there though.

Cleans:
4 triples 65kg, actually went zach krych on one of these as I was tryin somethin different.

HCDLW8SPAK: 3x110kg Might put more weight on these, eyeballs remained in sockets

back squat
90x3
98x3
105x2
110x1
105x1+tweak.
Stopped there. Bugger, thought the knee was recovering faster than I could damage it. Gonna limit cycling to commuting for the next while. Bad Ed.

Planks, 60-65-65kg 30s holds.

Chinese rows: 40kg, 3x20. More weight next time, Vicious bastarding things!

wide grip pulldown:
50kg 3x10

KURLOV
30kg 3x10

supposedly

Hmmm.... I know it's not as much fun, but have you considered NOT going FR for
awhile to see how your training would go?

Edwardius

supposedly wrote: »

Hmmm.... I know it's not as much fun, but have you considered NOT going FR for
awhile to see how your training would go?

No. Never!

Might separate out the assistance and go a little lighter on it though.

howtomake

Just nosing around here.

Edwardius

howtomake wrote: »

Just nosing around here.

Be careful!

Edwardius

Clean and jerk (reps on clean)
60x3
70x3
75x3
80x2
85x1
80x6x2
No problemo, everything was reasonable


power snatch, 55kg
2x3 ->massive lat stretch-> 2x3

HSDLW8SPAK
100kgx3
more weight next time.

front squat:
60x3
70x3
75x3
80x2
85x1
80x6x2
Grand.

Didn't bother with anything else. Knee is still behaving. Strange that it's fine on front squats and cleans but flares up on back squats considering I hurt it doing a light clean . Will do some assistance later.

Edwardius

Managed to avoid the usual weekend cycling silliness. Pressed today...

60kg again
3-5-5-6
50kgx10
fairly reasonable, no failin'

Snatchin' tomorrow hopefully.

Edwardius

Snatched up to 76 for a single, did 5 doubles at 68. ****e, misses all over the place. No power from the floor, no pop from the hips and soft as a bag o warm ****e on the receipt. should've had some patience and left the presses till this evenin too.

cleans:
65x4x3

HCDLW8SPAK 115kgx3
easy, did the last hold just below the knee.

Planks:
65kgx3x30s
easy.

pendlays 70x5
easy, I like these.

Cannons:
KURLOV-40kgx3x7

Left out the back squats.

Edit: vid of some 68 lifts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqXTqBsqMuw

Edwardius

Knackered. Pulling teeth today!

clean and jerked up to 90, had to take it 4 times before I got the jerk. Kept going soft on the dip and just heaving the thing, which was actually embarrassing. Summoned a few demons on the last attempt and it went up ok. The usual 5 doubles at 80 followed.

Power snatch: same as last time. switchin these out for sn balances soon

HSDLW8SPAK: 105kgx3, ok, some eyeball bulging

front squats: same as C&J only without the failage. Knee is still ok, maxing next week and I'll try to up it to three days a week next cycle and see if it remains intact.

Edit: cycled 52km yesterday between commuting and other crap.

token

Dead Ed wrote: »

HSDLW8SPAK: 105kgx3, ok, some eyeball bulging

What witchery is this?

Edwardius

'Tis a paused deadlift around the knees. I can't write a four page large-word containing essay as to why I do them though, they seem to make me a bit stronger at takeoff. Also, they increase my modal domains by 3.4%

Also, Tommy told me to do them and he invented gravity.

Edwardius

snatched up to 80, missed 84 around ten times, tried 86, not even close, missed 84 twice again. So bloody close on it, just left it out front a tiny bit, got a bit psyched too.

back squat: wandered up to 110 for a single

token

Dead Ed wrote: »

snatched up to 80, missed 84 around ten times, tried 86, not even close, missed 84 twice again. So bloody close on it, just left it out front a tiny bit, got a bit psyched too.

I take it you don't believe in the 3-strike rule then?

Edwardius

token wrote: »

I take it you don't believe in the 3-strike rule then?

There was nobody to tell me to stop being silly. I took full advantage of the situation.

Edwardius

Caught AIDS or something during the week and I'm down to 83 odd kg (boo!) as a result. Woke up this morning feeling like at least fifteen dollars...

Clean and jerk:
got 95 on the second attempt, failed the first clean at 100 (left it out front and caved), smoked the second one but actually properly wussed out of the jerk. 95 flew up on the second attempt so I thought 100+ was on the cards. Need to arrange for someone to throw me a few slaps before maxing in future. Was told to leave it there anyway.

Front squat:
95-100-105(f)-105(pb)-108(f)

still ****e, although I can now FS more than I've cleaned :P.

More stuff later if I don't get lazy.

Need to start pushing very hard for PBs next cycle or that ginny little ****er will be overtaking me soon :P

token

Dead Ed wrote: »

Need to start pushing very hard for PBs next cycle or that ginny little ****er will be overtaking me soon :P

:pac:

Edwardius

token wrote: »

:pac:

If needs be, I'll spike your gin with water.

Edwardius

Back to 80%, today , 6 doubles on the snatch at 68kg, all ok but gettin a little ropey towards the end when I got tired. Might talk to the director of programming about the volume.

Jerk target practice: 70kg, 4 triples

HCDLW8SPAK: 3x115kg

Back squat: more testing of the water, lumbered up to 110 for a single. Think I can add this back in, not arsed running %ages for a while with the back squat as I've no idea where it is, thinkin of wingin' it (bye bye acl :P).

Did some damage in mcdonalds afterwards. Need to sort out some sugar or something before training, energy levels crash a bit towards the end of the snatches, might be rest periods either.

Edwardius

****in hell, warm today!
clean+2 jerks, 80kg, 6 sets

snatch balanced up to 65 for a couple doubles, then 70 for a single or two. very slow on these, need to get down faster.

front squatted 85kg for 6 doubles, just did a quick triple on the back squat at 100

HSDLW8SPAK 105kgx3

snatch dead, just a single at 130.

Edwardius

Cycled about 25km today, up howth hill again, did it in 12.59 sutton side but was carryin' about 10kg of shoppin' which is my excuse for being about 1.40 slower than the last time (also, there was a headwind, me legs were sore, I was hungover etc etc! :P). Hit 62km/h on the descent which seemed to cause a terrifying level of physics to occur (not to be trusted), didn't go faster as I wasn't down with the idea of being mopped up into a bucket if the **** hit the fan.

Edwardius

Snatched 72 for a single then 68 for 5 doubles
Took longer rests between sets, sorted out the fatigue issue. No misses here.

jerked 80 for 5 doubles then up to 100 for a single. Missed 105, chest caved and I properly wussed out. 100 was piss though. Had an eye on 110. Might try it next week before the volume sets.

back squat:
wandered up to 115 for a single then down to 105 for 5 doubles. Nothin crazy here.

Didn't bother with the pulls.

Edit: more stuff
did a couple sets of 8 single leg deads with 22kg,
TGU situps with same weight (I like these|) 1x5, 1x10
600g sirloin steak in one sitting

Edwardius

Right,
clean and jerked 85, 2cl+1j 80 for 5 doubles, jerk not so good but all legal.
snatch balanced 70 for 3 doubles. Good and secure here, took the grip in so index fingers are about 1cm from rings, gonna stay there too, much less sore on shoulders.
Front sq: 90 single, 85 5 doubles.
Hang power snatched 60 for a double (bored)

Edit: RDLs, 8s at 50-70-80-90-90

Tried some swiss ball leg curls but they're a bit fruity for my tastes.

howtomake

Dead Ed wrote: »

Tried some swiss ball leg curls but they're a bit fruity for my tastes.

Did you use one of those numerous pink ones in Hercs?:p

Edwardius

howtomake wrote: »

Did you use one of those numerous pink ones in Hercs?:p

No, used the pink one in me apartment!

Yesterday:
snatch:
60x3, 64x3, 68x2, 72x1, 76x1, 68x2x4, 1
Knee got pissed off on at the bottom of the 2nd last snatch, same thing I think, hurts in the same place with the same movements and flared up in the same position.

took 80kg for the first warmup back squat, did a single and racked it. Balls.

rack jerk, 5 doubles 80kg

RDL: up to 120x3.

FUUUUU!