AB's 2007 log

[anotherbutters]

Today: 20 mins on the bike at a moderate level, then a fair amount of leg and hip stretching (a fair amount for me anyway).

My legs are fairly beat up after the leg press on Mon and Wed, but that's only because I haven't squatted for a week or two.

 

[anotherbutters]

Today:

Bodyweight: 188lb

Back Squat: slowly worked up to 100kg x 5
Bench: 72.5kg x 3x5
Row: 62.5kg x 3x5
Abs: weighted situps: 4kg x 15, 8kg x 15, 10kg x 13, 10kg x 8

I thought I'd try squatting today. My back's not completely right, but it's a lot better and I'm getting impatient. Today was just a test to see how I'd fare and how I'd feel the next day.

I was going to throw some cable wood chops in for abs today, but the cables were busy and I'd already spent a long time waiting for things today.

 

[blut wump]

Plat Butters???

I guess it's an anniversary of your joining.

 

[anotherbutters]

Yeah, it seems to come round once in a while. I don't really notice

 

[anotherbutters]

Today's workout:

Abs: Cable wood chops: 15 reps with 6 plates on the stack, then 7, then 8
30 mins cardio on the stationary bike, level 13 (easy)
Stretching.

I feel good. I think I'm nearly ready to come back again! My back feels no worse after yesterday's squatting. Again, I think the ab work and/or stretching is helping. I'll give it another week, because I have Thurs and Fri off work and Monday's a bank holiday, so I might not be able to get to a gym. Hopefully, next week will be a new week 1.

 

[anotherbutters]

Today's workout:

Front squats: worked up to 90kg x 5
Overhead press: 3 sets of 40kg x 5
Deads: worked up to 120kg x 5

My back feels about 90% fixed now, although heavy squats might just hurt it again. I think I'll start to ramp up the weights again from next week, following my original program. I'm also going to cut/maintain for a while, to cut down on bodyfat.

 

[anotherbutters]

Wow, I have DOMS in my abs after doing front squats yesterday. And that's after doing direct ab work on Mon and Tues. Front squats rock for abs

 

[anotherbutters]

Wow, a month since my last post and I'm still not completely fixed. It seems whenever I squat heavy, I hurt my back on one side or the other. I'm trying to figure out what's wrong so I can fix it, otherwise it's just going to happen again and again, but progress has been painfully slow.

One contributing factor might be one of my glutes, which knots up and causes some sciatica. That might cause me to twist to one side when squatting. To address that, I got my girlfriend to massage the area to loosen it up, which helped a lot, and I've been stretching my hamstrings and hips almost every day.

Another thing that might be contributing to it is weak abs, so I've been hitting my abs every workout, now switching to needsize 5x5 from a flat seat.

However, I started squatting a couple of weeks ago, got up to 115kg on Friday (my last PR was 135kgx5) and now my back's starting to hurt again.

*sigh*

There's a physio at the gym, so I've made an appointment with him for Friday. I'm sick of this.

 

[s8nlilhlpr2]

damn AB was hoping to hear you were back up to PR territory! Good luck with the rehab (again) back issues are the worst! they affect everything..

 

[al420]

One contributing factor might be one of my glutes, which knots up and causes some sciatica. That might cause me to twist to one side when squatting. To address that, I got my girlfriend to massage the area to loosen it up, which helped a lot, and I've been stretching my hamstrings and hips almost every day.

You need a foam roller bro - glutes are paramount for firing out of the hole, and if one is not firing as fast/hard then your erector on that side is taking more of a beating.