The fattening up for winter training log

[Tweakle]

Can't say I've ever suffered from a bleeding ass like that poor fella, but I don't do my 'jabs' in the mens locker room sauna.

While I was mopping up the blood from the gusher and chatting to my 330lb spotter about ronnie colemans alien baby belly & how much GH it would take to achieve that look, a chatty young fella came up to us, and I shit you not, started telling us about his intense workout. "Biceps and lunges, really takes it out of you", followed by an intense look and and a flex.

I looked at my spotter, he looked at me, we both cracked up. Gotta love gyms.

Tonight

Decline, 455 x 3, 405 x 7+1 majorly spotted forced rep

Pullups x I suck at these

Seated shoulder press, chin height, 225 x 9 no pause, 245 x 5 paused at the bottom.

Prone supported row, curl grip, 225 x 5, 275 x 12 (last couple were sloppy)

not a bad workout. The highlight was a couple of HIT weenies doing superslow, dropset triple strip benching with 110 (doing 1/2 reps for safety, natch) followed by a obnoxiously loud commentry to their girlfriend on the bad form the roid monkeys were using on their benching and how you didnt build muscle like that.

 

[Tweakle]

Oh, and in honor of BiggT I just polished off a large pizza with 5 toppings & a big bag of chicken strips. Bring on the box-bloat for wednesday

 

[Protobuilder]

LoL You'll never build muscle like that.

 

[al420]

yeah really - 455x3 on decline....don't you know you need to keep your reps to either 2 or 4 on that exercise?

 

[SgtSlaughter]

Lifting heavy weights is dangerous... didn't they tell you you get bigg by doing culllzzz?!

 

[Tweakle]

I had a bad session earlier this week, I was tired and my elbows hurt but rather than listening to my body I popped two EC's and took a handful of advil.. got to the gym, struggled through my box squats but decided that today was the day I went back over 600.

Bad idea.

My regular spotter wasn't there so I roped in a substitute. Another Bad idea. Went down nicely enough, the groove was good but about half way up I hit a sticking point and needed a little pull to keep me going.. instead of a pull I got a push from behind that shoved me forward into the rack, stumbled on one leg (the one with the injured glute, natch) and crashed back down onto the box hard enough to knock the wind out of me. Had to roll the bar off my back from a narrow grip position which tore up both my already aching elbows and staggered home covered in blood and chalk.

3 days later everything still hurts but I think I might be ok to go back light next monday. My chiro says I dodged a bullet and I (re) learned a valuable lesson.. if your regular guy isnt there do fronts or safety squats instead.

 

[SgtSlaughter]

dang bro.

Could a 45 plate be frisbied in your "replacement" spotters general direction next gym day?

 

[Tweakle]

Nah, he feels really bad about it and it really wasn't his fault. I've been doing this long enough to know that if you don't trust your spotter then you don't go for a max lift... and I'd never even asked him to spot me on anything other than 225 repouts on the bench so I had no idea if he was up for the job. I should have used the squat machine instead (which would have given my elbows a rest)

my bad

 

[SgtSlaughter]

how's your back, man?

 

[Tweakle]

Kinda twitchy still, I'm gonna try some light deadlifts on saturday and see if it holds up as it's been over a month since I pulled

today

declines, 455 x 1, 465 x 1, tried 475 but couldn't lock it out, 425 x 5+1, 425 x 3+1

Pullups, bw x 8, bw +45 x 2 x 8 (last few reps were short), bw x 10

incline 45 degree.. the power rack is BROKEN (go figure) so I couldnt do pause rack presses, so these had to do instead.

225 x 11, 275 x 5, both very hard and reminded me how much I suck at incline pressing

DB one arm row 120 x 15 right side, x 5 left side (back twinged and I had to stop)

gym closed before I could do anymore rows