Body By Tweakle - a cutting journal.

[Tweakle]

I should have put up my curling vids!

You know, sometimes you can learn a lot from the most unexpected sources - yesterday I was taking a breather between sets when I noticed a little guy, middle aged and kinda weird-al looking in a mullet and stache way doing his workout. He does a sequence of the basic lifts, a couple of sets of each and didn't do any iso work.
The way it should be.

however he was about a buck 20 and looked like he'd never lifted in his life. Why? His enormous ego was keeping his body tiny. Every exercise he loaded on the macho minimum (a big plate a side) and struggled to perform a couple of awful partial reps

this got me thinking about the way I lift - I have no desire to impress the other gym users, hell I warm up with their maxes so it's not like it matter how many plates are on the bar after a certain point. Something to think on when I'm tempted to slap on a pair of 25's on an already heavy bar

Close grip 315 x 5, 335 x 3, 365 x 2 (touch on last, pisspoor spotting on all)

Chin + 70 2 x 5

Seated rack shoulder press, starting from below the chin, deadstop on all reps 185 x 8, 205 x 5, 225 x 3 (needs work)

Prone row (face down on a flat bench, elevated on reebok steps) 225 x 8, 10 (brutal, no hip drive is possible)

Flat db press 100's x 15

I really liked this routine, basic, hard and hit everything nicely. In terms of goals, I'd like to close grip 315 for 10, get my chins to over 100lbs, prone row 315 (which is going to be VERY hard) and press 275 for 5 from the chin.

 

[BiggT]

Nice close-gripping, 315x10 would be stout, but you're probably good for at least 8 right now, if not more if you doubled 365....and yeah, piss poor spotting can piss you off the rest of the day, and the day after too. Dumbell benching is strong, and impressive chins.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Prone row (face down on a flat bench, elevated on reebok steps) 225 x 8, 10 (brutal, no hip drive is possible)

I did this exact thing on Friday albeit with only 135, just messing around. I was inspired by some of the pics in the Chinese Weightlifters Pics thread.

I liked it but the bar kept banging on the bottom of the bench so the range of motion was a bit shorter than I preferred. But pretty hard nonetheless, like you say there's no dip and dive on these.

I have no desire to impress the other gym users, hell I warm up with their maxes so it's not like it matter how many plates are on the bar after a certain point

lol

 

[Tweakle]

Hah, thats the same picture that inspired me to try it.

I think getting up to 275-315 for reps on this would be an impressive feat given how damn hard it is to get the bar to hit the bottom of the bench (the benches in my gym are very thin so I can almost get a full contraction at the top, but I'm so used to hip driving for momentum that I could only pull 275 about half way up)

I liked the way it totally spared my lower back.

 

[Tweakle]

tonight I witnessed three grown men taking turns on the butt blaster, which was a surreal moment. And a hockey boy giving birth painfully on every rep of his ez curls, which was annoying. I need a new MP3 player.

Safety squat 815 x 3 (up a rep), 855 x 1 (same as last time but more explosive on the drive up), 905 x bombed

635 x 10 (my ass was screaming on every rep.. if I were pain free I think I'd have been good for another couple but what can ya do)

Ghetto GHR 12, 10

seated calf raise (cybex) 4 plates 5,5

seated db curls 50's 9,7

cable crunch, 100 x 17

home to sleep

 

[Protobuilder]

LoL What exactly is a butt blaster? At least they were blasting each other's asses at home.

Good to see the safety squat is up a rep, and more "pop" always feels good. Was your boy there to spot you on the 905 miss? LoL

 

[Jim Ouini]

LoL What exactly is a butt blaster?

 

[superqt4u2nv]

Don't knock the butt blaster not everyone was blessed with ghetto booty such as yourself.

 

[Tweakle]

Feelin sore and tired tonight, my body is telling me it's time for a couple of extra rest days and I need to listen before I hurt something else

Incline bench 295 x 5, 315 x 3+1 assisted, 225 x 15

the groove is still not there.. looking at vid taken from the side the bar does not move straight up and down, but rather arcs a little and my left hand leads slightly when I get fatigued. Maybe I should switch to DBs for a while as I think I'm overdoing the barbell pressing anyway? (but the DBs only go to 120 in my gym so it might not be much of a switch)

Was supposed to do Tbars but just felt too dead.

Prone rows, 315 x 5 (not full ROM.. I suck), 275 x 2 x 5 (not full ROM)

fustrating. I have a serious weakpoint fully contracting my back at the top of this move and working on that is going to mean under-loading my arms for a while, until the midback catches up.

Dips, bw x 20, +135 x 6, bw x 20

getting back into these, should be back to full strength in a couple of sessions.

Parallel grip pullups, wide grip. bw x 10, 7 (not full ROM, again weak at the top)

laterals 30's x 12 (was supposed to do seated DB press but too tired)

gonna take a long weekend and see if I'm ready to hit it again come Tuesday.

 

[Tweakle]

Sumo deads, dead stop on each rep.

545 x 5, 585 x 2 (tried a 3rd but didn't have the balls to lock it out)

sumo pulling is especially hard when it's done from a dead stop, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. I think I'm good for 565 x 5 for a max effort ... we shall see next time.

Cybex Squat Press,

11 plates/side x 10 reps (hands on knees to lock out the last one)

9 plates/side x 16 (BAD pain kicked in around the 13th rep so I had to cut the set short )

calf raises 595 2 x 6

decline situps, 120lb db on chest x 8

There were 3 soft looking fratboy types buzzing around me the whole time I was deadlifting, my own fault for comandeering the ab lounge area to pull in .. one of them kept playing jumpshots with an imaginary ball behind me and fuck me was it annoying