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SAWCE wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:56 am My recovery time is finally starting to drop a bit which is nice. I was taking a full 3 minutes between my heavy sets on squats and deadlifts, and last night I felt good to go after just 2 minutes on the deadlifts.
2 seems like the sweet spot for me. Lactic acid is gone, heart rate is settled, I'm good to go. Shortening to 60-75 with higher reps is killer, but it should be good for hockey purposes.
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Been a pretty shitty time with lifting lately. I've certainly had motivation and went four times a week pretty much all of 2017. I got a bit fat in December and thus have given up sweets and dropped back down a bit. The first month of the year involved working 60ish hours a week and so I missed out on some sessions here and there. Now my back is hurting again like when I strained a muscle or something last year.

I'm so tired of these back problems. I'm going to set up my first physical in about 10 years and talk to the doc about maybe seeing some kind of specialist. In the interim I guess I will focus on cardio or something. It sucks as I love building strength lifting and don't really want to lose all of the progress.

I might try out some kind of different, less heavy weight training. Maybe something like the barbell program :sawce: mentioned for :therapist: a few posts back.
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D Griff wrote:Been a pretty shitty time with lifting lately. I've certainly had motivation and went four times a week pretty much all of 2017. I got a bit fat in December and thus have given up sweets and dropped back down a bit. The first month of the year involved working 60ish hours a week and so I missed out on some sessions here and there. Now my back is hurting again like when I strained a muscle or something last year.

I'm so tired of these back problems. I'm going to set up my first physical in about 10 years and talk to the doc about maybe seeing some kind of specialist. In the interim I guess I will focus on cardio or something. It sucks as I love building strength lifting and don't really want to lose all of the progress.

I might try out some kind of different, less heavy weight training. Maybe something like the barbell program :sawce: mentioned for :therapist: a few posts back.
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My wife and I went through our budget and sit aside some "gym equipment" money. Budgeting for $20/mo so I can keep improving my setup. That said, first purchase is a rower. It's due in right before our honeymoon trip, so that'll be a nice tease.

DEFINITELY going to put this to good use for warm ups to hopefully rid myself of stupid injuries and those mornings where I don't really want to do anything before work but should still work out for ~30 mins.
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Jaxper wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:23 pm My wife and I went through our budget and sit aside some "gym equipment" money. Budgeting for $20/mo so I can keep improving my setup. That said, first purchase is a rower. It's due in right before our honeymoon trip, so that'll be a nice tease.

DEFINITELY going to put this to good use for warm ups to hopefully rid myself of stupid injuries and those mornings where I don't really want to do anything before work but should still work out for ~30 mins.
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What rower are you getting? C2?
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290 X 2 deadlift to finish 531 cycle. Closing in on 315. Need a deaload week for sure, I'm stuck big time at 140 1RM OHP, will cut it back and try to climb the ladder again.
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Desertbreh wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:51 pm 290 X 2 deadlift to finish 531 cycle. Closing in on 315. Need a deaload week for sure, I'm stuck big time at 140 1RM OHP, will cut it back and try to climb the ladder again.
You got this man!

OHP was always where I stalled out first on 531.
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I’ve just been lifting babies for the past week.


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Calvinball wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:44 pm I’ve just been lifting babies for the past week.


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Apex wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:48 pm
Jaxper wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:23 pm My wife and I went through our budget and sit aside some "gym equipment" money. Budgeting for $20/mo so I can keep improving my setup. That said, first purchase is a rower. It's due in right before our honeymoon trip, so that'll be a nice tease.

DEFINITELY going to put this to good use for warm ups to hopefully rid myself of stupid injuries and those mornings where I don't really want to do anything before work but should still work out for ~30 mins.
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GetRXd Xebex Air Rower 2.0 with the add-ons. I opted for the Battle Rope for the first option and the EZ sled for the second.

After watching Garage Gym Reviews' review on it, I couldn't justify passing up the extras for the King, Concept2. With the limited differences, it's more than qualified for my home gym, since it's not a commercial setting.
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Jaxper wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:25 am
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What rower are you getting? C2?
GetRXd Xebex Air Rower 2.0 with the add-ons. I opted for the Battle Rope for the first option and the EZ sled for the second.

After watching Garage Gym Reviews' review on it, I couldn't justify passing up the extras for the King, Concept2. With the limited differences, it's more than qualified for my home gym, since it's not a commercial setting.
Nice, I am sure it will serve you well in your sweet home gym.
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Finally hit my 4x10 with 185 on incline bench last night. Moved up to 80lb dumbbells after that for flat bench and hit 9,9,9,5. Last set was :derp: just wasn’t feeling it.
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SAWCE wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:45 am Finally hit my 4x10 with 185 on incline bench last night. Moved up to 80lb dumbbells after that for flat bench and hit 9,9,9,5. Last set was :derp: just wasn’t feeling it.
Went up to 195, and got them all for incline bench last night. Felt good. Even took 30 seconds out of my rest between sets. Tried those 80lb dumbbells again after that, and just died on them. 10, 8, 5, 6.

Next week will be 205 on incline, and then I'm really gonna work to get better reps on the flat dumbbell press with those 80s.
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SAWCE wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:45 am Finally hit my 4x10 with 185 on incline bench last night. Moved up to 80lb dumbbells after that for flat bench and hit 9,9,9,5. Last set was :derp: just wasn’t feeling it.
Went up to 195, and got them all for incline bench last night. Felt good. Even took 30 seconds out of my rest between sets. Tried those 80lb dumbbells again after that, and just died on them. 10, 8, 5, 6.

Next week will be 205 on incline, and then I'm really gonna work to get better reps on the flat dumbbell press with those 80s.
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Back day last night. Working towards 4x10 with 325 on deadlifts. Two weeks ago was 9,6,6,6.. last night was 10,7,6,6.. so a bit better. I'll really push to add 3-4 more reps next time.
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SAWCE wrote:Back day last night. Working towards 4x10 with 325 on deadlifts. Two weeks ago was 9,6,6,6.. last night was 10,7,6,6.. so a bit better. I'll really push to add 3-4 more reps next time.
I did back yesterday, first time back since the little one was born and I am nice and sore today.


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Calvinball wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:52 pm
SAWCE wrote:Back day last night. Working towards 4x10 with 325 on deadlifts. Two weeks ago was 9,6,6,6.. last night was 10,7,6,6.. so a bit better. I'll really push to add 3-4 more reps next time.
I did back yesterday, first time back since the little one was born and I am nice and sore today.


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Nice man. The rest of my back isn't too sore, but I've been recovering pretty quick from all my workouts lately. Feels nice.
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Added another 10lbs to my incline press. Lost a few reps though, so I'll stay at that weight for a few weeks until I get all 4 sets of 10 again. Even with the added weight on that, my flat dumbbell press afterwards was way better than last week. 80x 10, 10, 8, 7.. last week was 80x 10, 8, 5, 6. Getting better at pushing through when I mentally want to stop and actually going to muscular failure instead of movement failure.

Pretty cool hitting 205 for solid reps on incline bench. Before this, the most I'd ever done was an attempted 3x5 with 225, and I wasn't even finishing that out.
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I got my three core routines in last week, got one in so far this week. Not bad given the family circumstances.


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Calvinball wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:42 pm I got my three core routines in last week, got one in so far this week. Not bad given the family circumstances.


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Nice man. Is 3/week the goal right now?
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Calvinball wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:42 pm I got my three core routines in last week, got one in so far this week. Not bad given the family circumstances.


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Nice man. Is 3/week the goal right now?
Well, I’ve got three workouts set up to be my minimum goal. With them I hit most of my body to stave off pain/injuries. I do need to up my running game cause I just landed a bib for Broad Street (10 miles).


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Started my workouts again today. Im tired of being fat and I have free and easy access to clean food for every meal.

Im sure there are better programs. But I am doing the stronglifts 5x5 to get me back into a routine.

95lbs 5x5 Squats
95lbs 5x5 Bench
65lbs 5x5 Rows

Bench and rows went fine. Im sure that I will be sore tomorrow. But I managed to do about 15 extra squats because I was feeling good and the weight seemed light. By the time I left the gym I was already sore.

Nothing seemed heavy or difficult. But three years since I last did a squat. And not working out the past year are going to kick my ass.
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Barnes93cb wrote:Started my workouts again today. Im tired of being fat and I have free and easy access to clean food for every meal.

Im sure there are better programs. But I am doing the stronglifts 5x5 to get me back into a routine.

95lbs 5x5 Squats
95lbs 5x5 Bench
65lbs 5x5 Rows

Bench and rows went fine. Im sure that I will be sore tomorrow. But I managed to do about 15 extra squats because I was feeling good and the weight seemed light. By the time I left the gym I was already sore.

Nothing seemed heavy or difficult. But three years since I last did a squat. And not working out the past year are going to kick my ass.
Definitely a good idea to ease into it, even though it felt easy you still gotta get your body used to it again before pushing limits.


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Calvinball wrote: Thu Mar 08, 2018 1:00 pm
Barnes93cb wrote:Started my workouts again today. Im tired of being fat and I have free and easy access to clean food for every meal.

Im sure there are better programs. But I am doing the stronglifts 5x5 to get me back into a routine.

95lbs 5x5 Squats
95lbs 5x5 Bench
65lbs 5x5 Rows

Bench and rows went fine. Im sure that I will be sore tomorrow. But I managed to do about 15 extra squats because I was feeling good and the weight seemed light. By the time I left the gym I was already sore.

Nothing seemed heavy or difficult. But three years since I last did a squat. And not working out the past year are going to kick my ass.
Definitely a good idea to ease into it, even though it felt easy you still gotta get your body used to it again before pushing limits.


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Starting strength 5x5 is a great program to start at. I'd skip doing the extra reps though and stick to the plan exactly. Hit it for the recommended three days a week and spend a few months on phase 1 before doing phase 2 then phase 3.
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Noted guise. My body quickly told me I fucked up.

Next workout isnt until this weekend. We shall see how things go from there. I have heard great things about the program. But I refused to start at the bar for my workouts like was suggested.

I think I will stick around where im at for a week or so to ease into things. And also stick to the program like mentioned both on the website and from yall.

I do feel odd only working out 3x a week and expecting results like he says you can achieve. But I dont know shit.
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