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Ryan's Journal
- Thread starter Goldfish
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Decided to take Friday off and do fullbody today, with the intention of doing something Texish Methody during semester. Good spotter helped out today. Yelled the right things at me at the right time and challenged me to outdo his squats when he realised I was doing the same weight as his last squat workout. He had gotten 9 reps, so that's what I had to beat. Things went well.
Saturday
Squats 8+4x125kg -- I got 8 reps on my own, and he touched the bar so lightly on the following 4 reps that I didn't even know he was touching the bar. So that'd be 8 reps by competition rules, 12 reps by commonsense training standards.
Deadlift 6x140kg
Bench Press 6x85kg -- Again, really good spotting. He didn't end up touching the bar other than to lift off and rack. 5 reps was hard. 6th rep was grind city. All were touch'n'go.
Pull Ups 16xBW
Since I only did 1 work set per exercise, I was able to hit PB's and walk away feeling fresh. Nice feeling.
Saturday
Squats 8+4x125kg -- I got 8 reps on my own, and he touched the bar so lightly on the following 4 reps that I didn't even know he was touching the bar. So that'd be 8 reps by competition rules, 12 reps by commonsense training standards.
Deadlift 6x140kg
Bench Press 6x85kg -- Again, really good spotting. He didn't end up touching the bar other than to lift off and rack. 5 reps was hard. 6th rep was grind city. All were touch'n'go.
Pull Ups 16xBW
Since I only did 1 work set per exercise, I was able to hit PB's and walk away feeling fresh. Nice feeling.
Good spotters are like rocking horse manure, congrats on finding one.
I see good training coming your way if you stick together
I see good training coming your way if you stick together
Wednesday
Pause Squats 3x6x90kg
OHP 4/3/3x47.5kg, 6/5x40kg
Pull Ups 2x6x11.25kg
Cable Row 3x10x70kg, 2x12x52kg
Circuit: Kettlebell Swings/Banded Hip Abduction/Banded Glute Bridges 3x20x12kg/12/12 -- Epic porn star training.
Since the majority of my clients have been female, and I expect that trend to be the norm, I decided to go with the flow and start writing about glute specific training. 4,000 words later (less than 1% of which are seedy or creepy, somehow) I'm getting ready to start actually introducing some exercises. Roughly the first 1,500 words is an introduction showing that the "don't get too bulky" crew and the "squats cure cancer" crew both get their glute prescriptions wrong. Next 2,500 words is training principles, split about 60/40 between general hypertrophy principles and glute functional anatomy.
I didn't know I could say this much about glutes without being crass. Then again, I wrote 10,000 words about deadlifts a few years back, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.
Pause Squats 3x6x90kg
OHP 4/3/3x47.5kg, 6/5x40kg
Pull Ups 2x6x11.25kg
Cable Row 3x10x70kg, 2x12x52kg
Circuit: Kettlebell Swings/Banded Hip Abduction/Banded Glute Bridges 3x20x12kg/12/12 -- Epic porn star training.
Since the majority of my clients have been female, and I expect that trend to be the norm, I decided to go with the flow and start writing about glute specific training. 4,000 words later (less than 1% of which are seedy or creepy, somehow) I'm getting ready to start actually introducing some exercises. Roughly the first 1,500 words is an introduction showing that the "don't get too bulky" crew and the "squats cure cancer" crew both get their glute prescriptions wrong. Next 2,500 words is training principles, split about 60/40 between general hypertrophy principles and glute functional anatomy.
I didn't know I could say this much about glutes without being crass. Then again, I wrote 10,000 words about deadlifts a few years back, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.