Feeling Undiminished, Blut Attempts Restoration

[blut wump]

plus you don't have the advantage of much arch or any leg drive... so it also hits the muscles harder.

You can still tuck and arch. The deweighting at the bottom as your upper arms hit the ground adds to the difficulty.

You also have the option of turning it into a decline press by bending your knees and forming a bridge.

 

[blut wump]

Squat 20s - W1 D2

The heat here is not ideal. The two triples at 85Kg and 95Kg felt hard and I was thinking that the 20-repper just wasn't going to happen. No problems, though. I took a longer pause today after 15 reps and a brief pause before the last rep. The last three reps didn't give me that feeling today that my legs might not cooperate in bringing me back up. I was gasping for air, though.

The MP was a lot harder than expected. I took a look in my log book and saw that I did 60x5x5 when I started tha last 5x5 so decided to do sets of 6 and finish on 60Kg. The last set was pretty tough.

I still couldn't decide what to do for a pull and settled on doing some power cleans practice from the hang position. Lots of sets of lots of reps with just the bar and then with a 10Kg weight on each end. I might give them another go this evening.

I think I mentioned elsewhere that I've never before tried to get under the bar for a clean. I've always just cleaned it straight to my shoulders. I think my best was 90Kg x 3 and I'd like to see how much further I can take it with a duck-under.


All weight in Kilos, +.5Kg unless just the bar.
Squats
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 85x3, 95x3, 70x20
Military Press
20x10, 40x6, 45x6, 50x6, 55x6, 60x6, 20x10

 

[blut wump]

I got my rubber mats down. After unloading ten of them from the van and then carrying three around to the stable I reckoned I'd done enough work to count as an evening workout. They're not especially heavy, I reckon around 60-70 pounds, but they are very unwieldy. They're also going to be smelly for weeks.

I might take a picture of the stable tomorrow. I just need to think about a power rack and bench now.

 

[anotherbutters]

I bought my mats about a year ago. I think it took a few months before the smell dissipated!

 

[Cynical Simian]

I just need to think about a power rack and bench now.

Indeed. You might want to dig up Guinness's old "help me design a home gym" thread if you haven't already.

 

[Jim Ouini]

I just need to think about a power rack and bench now.

You gonna do away with the squat rack after only a week?

 

[blut wump]

It's tough on the home-gym front. My initial intent was just to have some weights at home, mostly so that I could mess with them on off-days and practice some rare exercises such as snatches, cleans or overhead squats without using up gym-time. I reckoned they'd also be handy for occasional days when it's not convenient to go to the gym or even for days when I'm not planning to bench or squat. Getting the squat stand enabled squats and was fairly cheap so I grabbed one of those too.

It's cost me another £120 for the rubber mats and so the cost has grown to more than £400, about $780. I'm also finding it a lot more pleasant to work out at home rather than blow 40 minutes driving to the gym. It'll cost me about the same again to get the power-rack I've been fancying along with a bench.

It's just tempting is all. I'll then have all I need for complete home workouts if I grab some Oly DB handles too.

 

[anotherbutters]

It's the slippery slope to home gym greatness and one less person to contribute to the morons at the gym thread

 

[blut wump]

AB, sorry I couldn't be bothered fishing out your thread but here's an example of someone here using Smolov Jr.
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=456095


You've right on the morons thread. I'm not even able to complain about finding plates left on the bar.

 

[anotherbutters]

Got it, thanks. Now I've got 'kid in a sweetshop' paralysis