PUMBA & Peanuts "Log of Pain"

[Taz]

How are you on the joints and injury side Peanut?

[PUMBA]

How are you on the joints and injury side Peanut?

He'll be hurting more if he don't reply to me lol.

[Taz]

I saw that

[Pistol Pete]

He'll be hurting more if he don't reply to me lol.

Now that's motivation!!

[Peanut!!]

Squat
107.5 x 5 x 3

Bench
80 x 5 x 3

Barbell Row
60 x 10
70 x 10
80 x 10
90 x 10
60 x 15

Sit Ups
3 x 15

Trained at 80%. Wanted to go 85% but half a protein bar I had this afternoon didn't agree with my stomach and didn't help training. Benching felt a little embarrasingly heavy.  Was wanting to hit a 90% day before I start my overtraining next week before a deload and try for some new max.

[Taz]

Decent rows there mate!

[Peanut!!]

Clean & Press
72.5 x 5 x 3

Deadlift
100 x 5
120 x 5
140 x 2 x 5

Hammer Curl
44 lbs x 8
50 lbs x 8
55 lbs x 8
39 lbs x 12

Tues 9/3/10
Trained cleans at 85%. They felt a little heavy but just think I was not being tight and focused enough to make it feel lighter. Deadlifts felt great despite being light. I have always used a belt from 3 plates and up but haven't in a quite a while yet still feel rather solid. Don't expect much out of it but will max on deads next time also.
Not much time for rear delt/calf/ab work, trained too close to peak hour than I liked.

[Peanut!!]

Squat
102.5 x 6 x 3

Bench
75 x 6 x 3

Chin
6,4,4,6

Close Grip Bench Press
70 x 8
75 x 8
80 x 8
60 x 10

Trained bench and squat at 75%.
Am not liking my squatting groove at the moment am finding it a little uncomfortable. Calves are coming too much into play and being a little sore. A bit of mental sabotage on my form not helping.
Thinking I should not be able to close grip 80% of my 1rm bench for 8 reps. 
Bit of a fun session tomorrow.

[Peanut!!]

What are your training goals for this year Peanut? Is the weight listed in kilos including the bar? What routine are you following? As a bodybuilder these olymipic/power lifting routines and percentages are hard for me to understand 

Hi buddy!
Guess my main goal this year is just to bring the bench up a bit as it is by far my worst lift. I plan on doing a bench cycle when I move home later this year as schedule is too up and down to know I can commit to it right now. The weight is always including the bar.
Routine right now I am following the guidelines of Prilephin's Table with some assistance work. I had a month cycle of it and lifts went up, will finish my second cycle shortly and hope for the same. It is not very structured but learning as I go along with it.

How are you on the joints and injury side Peanut?

My elbows have never agreed with any overhead extensions unless very warmed up and for higher reps but otherwise fine mate. Think it is probably more technique re the squat as to not feeling "right" but had 5 min on the bike today beforehand just to warm up the body a little better and will see over time if or not is makes any difference (thinking it should).

Decent rows there mate!

My mistake I think it was actually for 8 reps rather than the 10 I have put down. Done these with the barbell on the floor and oddly enough they felt 1000x better picking it off the ground and rowing than it did in front of a mirror and using power rack to hold the bar.  Pretty happy though as grip did not feel very weak!

[Peanut!!]

Clean & Press
67.5 x 5 x 3

Good Mornings
65 x 5
70 x 5
75 x 5

Push Press
60 x 2 x 3
60 x 5

Dumbell Curl
44 lbs x 8
50 lbs x 8
55 lbs x 6
33 lbs x 10-12

Calf Press
120 x 30
120 x 3 x 25

Trained cleans at 80%.
Feeling a bit slow/weak after doing things heavier this week. Hips feeling a bit beaten but will try and do some kind of work on them over the weekend. GM's worked the lower back very hard, and last set of push press worked well. Bit of Body English on curls but I don't care.
Over train this coming week and prepare for testing.

[Peanut!!]

15/3/10

Squat
85 x 5
85 x 7 x 3
85 x 4

Bench
60 x 10 x 3

Barbell Row
70 x 4 x 10

[Peanut!!]

Bench
60 x 5
70 x 5
80 x 5
90 x 5
90 x 3 - 60 x 10

Incline Bench
60 x 8
65 x 8
70 x 5

Rack Press
60 x 5
65 x 5
70 x 5
75 x 5

Dumbell Flye
28 lbs x 2 x 12

17/3/10
Despite the work the bench got on Monday I was surprised at how light as piss the 90 sets felt for me. All comes down to putting it in on a peak day as I am certain I have a greater max than 100.
Rack press felt pretty light would like to work on it a bit more and put up some more weight. Slight soreness this morning which has worn off over the day.

[Peanut!!]

Barbell Row
60 x 5
70 x 5
80 x 5
90 x 5
100 x 5
70 x 12

Chin
2 x 6

Hammer Grip Chin
2 x 6

Plate Load Unilateral Machine Row
3 x 10-12

Pulldown (different grip)
3 x 10

EZ Preacher
4 x 6-12

Hammer Curl
44 lbs x 6
50 lbs x 6
55 lbs x 6

Not much of a session. Rows are harder with a bowed barbell. No deads as lower back copped a flogging with the bench yesterday.

[Peanut!!]

Just some notes...

Before my training on Monday I realized for the previous 3 weeks I had been training according to weights of my Christmas max and not of the max not so long ago which was a bit demoralizing and also made me feel quite the idiot. These were only out by a few kilograms but still.
I did train Monday but missed Tuesday as I was completely exhausted like never before (quality of sleep has been poor) and to be honest just couldn't be bothered to get over for cleans I just wanted to bench. This is a little disappointing as I only had to get through this week and deload for a max next weekend.

The last few days have created a situation where the best chance for maxing will be in around about 2 weeks, so it will take place then. Meanwhile I hope to just enjoy what I am doing in the weigh room. Training one particular way will convince me I need to be doing something different which plays with the head a bit and find it hard to be fully into one routine when there are many other just as productive ones out there.

Good days weight is around 96 kg, feeding has been quite good but always trying to increase the volume of meat (don't eat enough protein per sitting), and trying to get body clock back to normal up at better hours and more chances for food.

[Myst]

Looking strong Peanut!

Must be putting on some lean mass also? 

[Peanut!!]

Push Press
60 x 5
65 x 5
70 x 5
75 x 5
80 x 5

Lying Dumbell Lateral
11lbs x 3 x 10

Unilateral Dumbell Lateral
13.5 lbs x 4 x 10

Dumbell Shrug
105 lbs x 10
72 lbs x 3 x 10

Pushdown
3 x 20-25

Unilateral Overhead Dumbell Extension
20 lbs x 3 x 10

Was a little impressed with the push-press. Put up a bit more weight next time now I know what I can handle. Lying laterals are done lying on my side on a flat bench raising dumbell up and is almost impossible to cheat and pump the crap out of posterior delts. Not "lying" 45 degrees like Dex Jackson and use heavy weight.
Side lats light as pis but very slow and controlled movements. Used lighter weight for shrugs but had 1-2 sec peak contractions.
Overhead tricep work still doesn't agree with my elbows despite the warm up they got for pushdowns. Possibly training legs tomorrow but doubt it.
Bit of shopping tonight and bought home bit over $60 in food so plan on eating as much of it as I can.

[Taz]

Always like reading your log mate as it's never boring. Are you intending moving back to Newcastle this year?

[Peanut!!]

Bench
60 x 5
75 x 5
90 x 3
80 x 3 x 5

Incline Bench
60 x 8
65 x 8
70 x 5

Calf Press
120 x 4 x 20-25

Rope Crunch
4 x 12-15

I unfortunately had a bad weekend food wise where the previous two days food intake normally wouldn't even be one days worth so tonight I was def not pushing much weight. Rather than go overboard with 20 unnecessary sets I just did a bit to get back on the horse and can make up for any volume/intensity later in the week if need be.
Contemplating some legs tomorrow.

[Peanut!!]

Always like reading your log mate as it's never boring. Are you intending moving back to Newcastle this year?

Thanks Tazman - I hope to have more interesting adventures training wise to report once I am training back with my brother and Pumbar, which, I am looking to happen in another few months. 

[Taz]

Just checked your rep counter and you had been smited 29 times I then checked the Blob and myself and it appears that someone has been busy I have fixed said smites and will be on the lookout for the smiters