Imma gonna be an Emo

token · 12-01-2018 1:50pm

Monday 8th January

Football
7v7 @ 60m

Thursday 11th January

Powerclean
2x3@50kg
3@60kg
3x3@65kg

Front Squat
5@50,60kg
3x5@65kg

Squat
3x10@65kg

Football
5v5@ 60m

Friday 12th January

Football
5v5 @ 60m

Pre christmas fitness levels coming back. Not that those levels were anything to shout about.

Will try get the frequency back up with the gym. I'm moving to near Santry in February and it should be easier to get into a solid routine then.

I was checking out Morton gym as a runner but looks like it only opens at 9am in the morning which counts it out for morning sessions which is probably a deal breaker. Would be nice though as I could throw in more sprinting.

token · 17-01-2018 5:29pm

Sunday 14th January

Deadlifts
5@60,80kg
3x5@100kg

Monday 15th January

S/S
Press 40,45,47.5,50kg + 8,8 @ 40kg
Pullup 3,3,3,3 + 6,6 Chinup

Football
7v7@ 60m

Drained from football thurs&friday so had bailed early on Sunday session and wasn't feeling too energetic on Monday session either

token · 19-01-2018 2:03pm

Thursday 18th January

Powerclean
2x3@50kg
2x3@60kg
3x2@70kg

Front Squat
5@50,60kg
3x5@67.5kg

Squat
3x10@67.5kg

Football
5v5@ 60m

Friday 12th January

Football
4v4 @ 60m

Starting to get shin splints from x3 football a week. I get them pretty easy unless I gradually ease in so the sudden bump from x1 to x3 will do it. The game on Monday is over for awhile though so should manage.

token · 24-01-2018 5:11pm

Monday 22nd January

Powerclean
2x3@50kg
2x3@60kg
3x3@70kg

Deadlift
5@90kg, 110kg

Bulgarian Split Squat
4x8@2x12kg

Tuesday 23rd January

S/S
Press 3x5@50kg + 8,6,6,6 @ 40kg
Chinup 10x5

token · 26-01-2018 3:28pm

Thursday 25th January

Football
5v5@ 60m

Football
5v5@ 60m

The game I have in work on Fridays has moved so two games in one day. I wore a new pair of astro boots for second game which cut up my ankles.

The first hit on youtube for "break in football boots" after I got home was a video with the same model I got describing them as a little 'tough'. So will try the stuff I saw in video.

token · 12-02-2018 9:19pm

Thursday 1st February

Football
60m

S/S
Chinups
Dips
5x(7-4'ish reps)

Thursday 8th February

Football
60m

Saturday 10th February

Press
5@30,40kg
3x5@50kg

S/S
Chinups
Dips rto first 2 sets
4x7

Sunday 11th February

Front Squat
5@40,50kg
3x5@60kg

Squat
4x10@60kg

In the middle of moving at the moment. Moved out last week but new place not ready until later this week. Could have still trained more but will get back into a routine once settled. There's a gym within stone throwing range* of me that looks reasonably decent so I'll go in and have a look at the weekend. Won't have many excuses for not getting the sessions in then :pac:

*almost literally

token · 21-02-2018 10:50pm

Thursday 15th February

Football
60m

Saturday 17th February

Bench
5@40,50,60kg
3x5@70kg

S/S
DB Row @ 30kg
CG Bench @ 50kg
4x8

Sunday 18th February

Hike
Maulin @ 3hrs

Wednesday 21st February

S/S
Press @ 50kg
Pullup C2B
3x5

+

8,8,8,8 Press @ 40kg
8,6,6,5 Chinup

Fully moved. Last two sessions in new gym. I have a 18km round trip commute on bike now so giving myself this week to acclimatise before starting lower sessions.

token · 23-02-2018 11:18am

Thursday 22nd February

Football
2x60m

I've been pushing most of the bike commutes this week for novelty reason of new routes and I also got a new bike. Legs were getting a bit wobbly in 2nd match.

token · 04-03-2018 3:23pm

Saturday 24th February

Press
5@30,40kg
3x5@50kg

S/S
Chinup
Ring Dip
4x7

Tuesday 27th February

Bench
5@40,50,60kg
3x5@70kg

S/S
DB Row @ 30kg
CG Bench @ 50kg
4x10

Thursday 1st March

G/S
8 SL Squat @ 12kg + 15kg
8 SL RDL @ 12kg
5 Ab Roll
x5

Saturday 3rd March

S/S
5 SA DB Press @ 21.5kg
10 DB Row @ 26.5kg

Sunday 4th March

Powercleans
2x3@50kg
3x3@60kg

Front Squat
5@50kg
3x5@60kg

Squat
4x10@60kg

Ab Roll
3x8

Gym back open today. I have a 12kg kettlebell & a adjustable dumbell in the house so used that on the snow days. I'd have two db's but i can't find one of the collars.

Can do powercleans in new gym aslong as I don't dump the weight. Theres bumper plates and rubber matting so nothing will break if I drop it but don't think it would go down too well. I rarely max them out anyway.

Anyway planning to get x4 frequency back in now with the gym a mere two minute walk away. I'll read 531 forever during the week and come up something to follow. With cycling & football and what not I'll do something fairly minimal. At least to start with anyway.

token · 07-03-2018 2:51pm

Tuesday 6th March

Bench
5@40,50,60kg
3x5@70kg

S/S
DB Row @ 35kg
CG Bench @ 55kg
4x8

Wednesday 7th March

Powercleans
2x3@50, 60kg
3x2@70kg

Clean Pulls
3x3@90kg

Deadlift
5@100, 110kg

token · 08-03-2018 3:34pm

Thursday 8th March

Football
60m

token · 11-10-2018 3:49pm

Tuesday 9th October

Bench
2x5@40kg
5@50kg
3x5@60kg

S/S
DB Row @ 30kg
CG Bench @ 40kg
3x8

Wednesday 11th October

Squat
10@40kg
8@50kg
6@60kg
5@65,75kg

RDL
3x8@50kg

Thursday 11th October

Football
60m

I'm not dead but haven't been training in the gym. Maybe 5 times since I was posting last. Some busy periods in work couple with then laziness. Then I sprained and re-sprained my wrist over the past 10 weeks or so also. Still need to work around it a bit currently. Kept the cycling to work and playing football so fitness levels are still decent at least.

Non logging highlights include a 3rd place finish in the Irish National Beer mile championship during the Summer with a 8:09 finish. I did two 5k park runs and 2 event practice sessions* in the lead up

Other notable inclusion was playing in the Football against Racism tournament a few weeks back in the Phoenix park. Made it through the group sessions before being knocked out by the Limerick Black Mambas in the Quarters (lower tier)

I'm going snowboarding end of this year/start of next year so I'll just try to get the strength levels up before then and try aim for something again in the New Year.

*drinking cans and running in Phoenix park on a Tuesday evening among bewildered legitimate runners

token · 17-10-2018 11:22am

Saturday 13th October

Deadlift
2x5@60,70kg
3x5@80kg

S/S
Press @ 40kg
Chinup
4x5

Tuesday 16th October

Bench
2x5@40,50,60,65kg

S/S
DB Row @ 30kg
CG Bench @ 45kg
4x8

token · 18-10-2018 8:13pm

Wednesday 18th October

Deadlift
2x5@60,70,80kg
5@85,90kg

Bulgarian Split Squat
3x8@BW

token · 20-10-2018 3:35pm

Saturday 20th October

Press
5@30,40kg
4x5@42.5kg

Chinup
5x5

token · 22-10-2018 11:32pm

Monday 22nd October

Squat
8@50kg
6@60kg
3x5@70kg
5@80kg

RDL
8@50kg
3x8@70kg

token · 24-10-2018 10:13pm

Tuesday 23rd October

Football
60m

Wednesday 24th October

Bench
2x5@40kg
5@50,60kg
3x5@65kg

S/S
DB Row@30kg
CG Bench@47.5kg
4x8

token · 01-11-2018 3:55pm

Saturday 27th October

Deadlift
2x5@60kg
5@80kg
3x5@90kg

Bulgarian Split Squat
4x8@10kg db's

Sunday 28th October

S/S
Press@45kg
Chinup
5x5

Thursday 1st November

Bench
2x5@40kg
5@60kg
3x5@67.5kg

S/S
DB Row@30kg
CG Bench@47.5kg
4x8

Football
60m

token · 06-11-2018 1:28pm

Monday 5th November

Squat
5@60kg
3x5@75kg

RDL
8@50kg
3x8@75kg

Tuesday 6th November

S/S
Press@47.5kg
Pullup
3x5
+
5 Press@40kg
6 Chinup
x2

token · 12-11-2018 2:42pm

Saturday 10th November

Deadlift
2x5@60,80kg
5@90,95,100,105kg

Bulgarian Split Squat
4x6@12.5kg db's

Sunday 11th November

Bench
2x5@40kg
2x5@60kg
3x5@70kg

S/S
6 DB Row@35kg
8 CG Bench@50kg
x4

token · 13-11-2018 11:59am

Tuesday 13th November

Squat
2x5@60,70kg
3x5@80kg

Morning session and didn't get up on time

token · 15-11-2018 4:49pm

Wednesday 14th November

S/S
50kg Press
Pullup
3x5
+
8 Press @ 40kg
2x5 Chinup

Thursday 15th November

Football
60m

token · 26-11-2018 1:16am

Thursday 21st November

Football
60m

Sunday 24th November

Box Jump
5x3@32"

Squat
5@40kg
2x5@60kg
5x5@80kg

Bench
8@40kg
5@60kg
3x5@70kg

DB Row
15@35kg

In another busy period at work which will continue up to Christmas break so will be a bit sporadic again.

token · 24-09-2019 12:54pm

Saturday 21st September

7th Annual Irish Beer Mile
3rd @ 8:08

Thought this was worth a resurrection post. 3rd same as last year. A Whole Second faster. I actually trained for this one the past two months and was targeting 7:30 but I had a beer mishap on the day after I got a lift last minute versus two long buses and forgot to take my beer out of the fridge. More of my improvement this year was on the beer end but trying to chug cold beer had me back to last year's speed

Training consisted of 1x5k parkrun a week and 1x 4x400m intervals a week. Best parkrun time was 20:37. Hard a target there of sub 20 but will probably leave that until next year now. Forgot how tough intervals are haven't done them in years. Did 2 trial events and also did a few beer only chug sessions in the run up which is where I saw the biggest gainz.

I have a video of most of my last lap here. With the beer mishap I had plenty of running energy for the last lap and got back up to 3rd position here with a push for 2nd but it was too much ground to make up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb9AF-MKpvM

2nd video better quality but missed the 4th to 3rd passing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObRtUnAN6o8

Gym frequency is about the same as it was the last time I was positing. Very sporadic. Maintaining a low base but at least haven't completely fallen off a cliff. Trying to get some consistency going again so I might start logging again.

Few other notables from year:
St James Wicklow 100km (1.7k elev): 4hrs
Hell & Back
1 week cycling holiday in Belgium & Germany
2 week's ski & snowboard back to back start of year

Imma gonna be an Emo

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