Body By Tweakle - a cutting journal.

[anotherbutters]

Bad-ass workout bro

 

[Illuminati]

It was 40+ outside today and the humidity was just killing me.. I hate summer in Ontario with a passion

Bench, 385 x 2 (couldn't dial it in), pause bench 315 x 5, 365 x 2 - working on explosion off the chest with a pause to deload.

Bent rows - reseting on each rep and trying to keep my torso parallel

225 x 10, 275 x 4,4, 225 x 6

my left glute was in exquisite agony on the last rep of each set.. the problem is I have literally no elastic in my glutes now so it's almost impossible to maintain a tight arch when bent at the waist - my body does whatever it can to take the tension off the glute which is a real pisser. Gotta suck up the pain and start stretching again I guess

Seated rack press, pause on pins, chin level 225 x 6, 275 x 1 (no pause, from top), 225 x 5

parallel grip pullups 17 r-p

so so workout, took waaay too long and was brutally hot. On the plus side there were lots of little shorts & skimpy tops in the gym which is always nice.

i have the same problem as you do when benching. I sometimes get these aweful cramps in both my glutes and quads when I am benching heavy. It really sucks, and makes it hard to keep my arch.

 

[Tweakle]

lol not benching, it's rowing that's the bitch

actually anything that involves bending more than 20 degrees at the waist causes crazy pain, which I could deal with but I lose nerve ennervation and the leg goes numb.. it's a fuckin pain in the ass (literally) and hard to diagnose.

I have a herniated disc which hasnt given me problems for almosy 3 years now , heavy deads and squats fixed it .. who'd have thought? Although mention the problem to a 'regular' doc and he obviously pounces on the disc. Dumbasses.

My ART chica and a couple other chiros agree its a evil case of piriformis syndrome, but I can't find anyone who's strong enough to break down the scar tissue while giving me ART. The only doc in this city is a woman and she doesn't put any effort at all into the sessions, my gf does a better job of tearing it up.

I dunno.. hopefully by next year it'll be gone, it's gradually clearing up but when it bites I can't do anything

Safety squat 855 x 3, 675 x 7 (I could have done 12-15 if it wasnt for the flare up.. my legs and hams didn't even feel the least bit worked.. but what can ya do)

rest of the workout was a fuck around

http://media.putfile.com/855x3

 

[Protobuilder]

Thanks for the inspiration in my journal. You're a good bro. LoL

Ever tried a foam roller? It allows you to put a lot of pressure on deep, specific tissue. It sounds gay but it seems to work pretty well. I just use a piece of 3" PVC. No foam. LoL Just lay on the pipe and roll back and forth, laying your ass I guess on the pipe. It works.

 

[mm107]

Yea, a foamroller, as gay as it sounds actually work.

Nice lifts Tweakle, amazing actually. Wish there was some bro's around here who train like you.

Most big guys on on some sort of gear at my gym so i dont give them respect because they are doing fluff work like tricep pushdowns still.

Even if u ever went on/were on, you still train like an animal and thats what i love about this thread.

Its crazy how many injuries you have and are still able to sqaut/dead/bench insane numbers.

Keep it up bro.

Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[superqt4u2nv]

Tweakle get the little lady to use the elbow when massaging it is very effective will press much harder and break things up even more.

 

[Tweakle]

I have a medicine ball I roll around on, its like a roller but a lot more painful. found another doc so hopefully he can do something for me next week

deads, sumo, touch n go 525 x 11 .. not even close to the 19 in the vid MM posted but it was fun making the floor shake in the ab-lounge

leg press, 13 pps x 3.

here's where the workout went bad, I was supposed to do 10 pps for 15-20 as my rep work but being a giant douche I decided to try smith machine squats to see if they'd let me 'squat' pain free. Worked up to 495 and then bang my glute went and I lost any desire to go back to the leg press

bb curls 90 x 10, 135 x 5,5 (for biggT)

that was it. I can't use the same leg press 2 x a week for rep work so I'll try the hack squat next time after deads.. hopefully it won't cause glute flareup

 

[BiggT]

lol, nice curlin'.

11 reps at 525 is ridiculously impressive regardless, especially since you weren't really training for a high-rep deadlift fest.

 

[Illuminati]

I have a medicine ball I roll around on, its like a roller but a lot more painful. found another doc so hopefully he can do something for me next week

deads, sumo, touch n go 525 x 11 .. not even close to the 19 in the vid MM posted but it was fun making the floor shake in the ab-lounge

leg press, 13 pps x 3.

here's where the workout went bad, I was supposed to do 10 pps for 15-20 as my rep work but being a giant douche I decided to try smith machine squats to see if they'd let me 'squat' pain free. Worked up to 495 and then bang my glute went and I lost any desire to go back to the leg press

bb curls 90 x 10, 135 x 5,5 (for biggT)

that was it. I can't use the same leg press 2 x a week for rep work so I'll try the hack squat next time after deads.. hopefully it won't cause glute flareup

you sumo'd 525 for 11? mad props. how much you pulling these days?

 

[Tweakle]

no idea bro, I've not really pulled anything for almost a month.. I think I'd be good for 600 sumo but I'm not going under 5's anytime soon

I'm finding that explosive tbar rows are a good deadlift subsitiute, they work pretty much the same muscles as sumo speed pulls, other than that I'm suprised that I can pull as much as I am.. no bent rows, no box squats, no pullthrus.