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Big scary training log

  • 05-03-2015 11:57am
    #1
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've avoided doing one of these until now, but feck it, what better way to track my progress I suppose.

    My background is a bit messy. I was big time into sports when I was a kid. I played basketball and hockey, and I did Kenpo. I was really fit. Then a knee injury and boys happened and my fitness rapidly declined.

    I started with a PT in Westwood a number of years ago, I was extremely overweight and hoped he would fix everything. Of course, he didn't, or I should say - I didn't. What he did make me realise was that I loved lifting weights! When he left westwood and started his own gym I went with him and did his morning "bootcamp" classes three times a week. Bootcamp was very much lifting focussed with some work on a spinning bike, but very little. I loved it. However, his overly strict approach was just too much for me to handle at the time. He expected 100% at all times, food wise, a single rice cake was a cheat meal. It wasn't achievable.

    So fast forward a little and I joined crossfit, again, I absolutely loved it from the get go. Unfortunately for me though, my diet was in absolute tatters and so I was getting bigger and hating it so much. Once someone commented on "the size of my arms". I left.

    So I've finally got my sh*t together. Lost 15kg. Taken up Running. And gone back to crossfit.

    My running has now taken a major step back because of injury, so I'm in recovery mode. I was supposed to be doing the Edinburgh Marathon at the end of May but was officially told last night that I won't be doing it. I'm a bit upset but determined to continue to get fitter and stronger.

    And here I am!

    (I didn't mean for that post to be so long, apologies!).


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  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wednesday 4th March 2015

    Deadlifts:
    5 x 60kg
    5 x 65kg
    5 x 70kg
    5 x 75kg
    5 x 80kg

    Ring rows; body weight
    3 x 8

    Metcon, 5 rounds for time;
    11 x pullups (with band)
    7 x 5kg wall balls
    20 x air squats

    Time: 9:08

    Run: 20 minutes very easy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,737 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Good to see a new log.

    Keep up the good work...onwards and upwards!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thursday 5th March

    Nice and easy.

    Barbell Complex; 3 rounds of the following without putting the bar down. 20kg bar.

    3 x deadlift
    3 x hang clean
    3 x front squat
    3 x push press
    3 x back squat
    3 x hinges
    3 x push press from back

    Power clean (cannot get my form right so my weight is shyte)

    3 x 20kg
    2 x 30kg
    4 x 2 x 35kg

    Metcon;

    Every minute on the minute

    Odd minutes;
    5 x 20kg front squat
    5 x push ups

    Even minutes;
    5 x burpees over the bar
    5 x sit ups


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    Fair play Whoops! Look forward to reading the progress


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Friday 6th March

    Barbell complex. 3 rounds of each. 20kg bar.

    3 x Deadlift
    3 x Hang Clean
    3 x Split Jerk
    3 x Back Squat
    3 x Hinge
    3 x Push press from back

    Workout was;

    15 x Hanging knee raises
    10 x 25kg Deadlift
    5 x 25kg Power Clean

    As many reps as possible in 9 minutes.

    Then straight into 6 minutes to get your max clean and jerk.

    1 x 20kg
    1 x 25kg
    1 x 30kg
    1 x 35kg
    1 x 37.5kg

    Failed on 40. I was weak this morning. Hanging knee raises slowed me down so I only got 4 rounds in and only a 37.5 clean and jerk. Only 15 minutes of work but flippin nora I felt it!

    My shoulders ache.

    I can't wait til Sunday for a rest!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,502 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    I did a version of your workout at the weekend except with clean and push presses (both during the first 9 minutes and the second portion). Found my grip was tested throughout and - yes - my shoulders were smoked after. Good workout though, enjoyed it.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You probably RX'd loyd? I have not perfected my toe to bar yet! I would have been still on my first round by the end of 9 minutes. My hands are in bits!

    Edit: I missed your ninja edit earlier! Yeh it was a good workout. Tough though. My shoulders have worked hard this week.

    There's a crossfit community even in Bray tomorrow, you might be doing it? Up to the top of Bray head, metcon at the top, back down, 100 kettlebell swings, and then into the sea! Then to the Martello for a hot whiskey :D Should be good craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,502 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    There's a crossfit community even in Bray tomorrow, you might be doing it? Up to the top of Bray head, metcon at the top, back down, 100 kettlebell swings, and then into the sea! Then to the Martello for a hot whiskey :D Should be good craic.

    No, but it sounds awesome!! Enjoy it! :)


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Saturday 7th March

    Bray head climb.

    Stations along the way were;
    - 1 burpee
    - 10 Air squats
    - 20 lunges

    TABATA squats at top of hill

    Run down to sea front

    100 kettlebell swings

    Dip in sea

    I'm awake for sure!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Monday 9th March

    Bodyweight Complex x 3 Rounds;

    10 x Pull-ups (with band)
    10 x Push ups
    10 x Sit ups
    10 x Overhead squats

    Strict Press

    3 x 6 x 15kg
    1 x 17 x 15kg

    Metcon; 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 for time.

    40kg Deadlift
    20" Box Jump

    3:39

    30 minute very easy run


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  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tuesday 10th March

    Bodyweight Complex x 3 rounds
    10 x Pull-ups (with band)
    10 x Push-ups
    10 x Sit-ups
    10 x OH Squats

    Deadlifts
    8 x 40kg
    8 x 65kg
    8 x 65kg
    8 x 65kg
    8 x 65kg

    Metcon
    5 rounds for time

    200 metre run
    10 x 25kg Thrusters
    60 skips

    5 rounds in 14:49


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wednesday 11th March

    Front squats

    8 x 15kg
    8 x 20kg
    8 x 25kg
    8 x 30kg
    8 x 30kg
    8 x 30kg
    8 x 30kg

    Metcon; 3 Rounds for time

    7 x Wall Balls 5kg Med Ball
    14 x Lunges 5 kg Med Ball overhead
    21 x Sit-ups 5 kg Med Ball overhead

    Time: 4:28

    30 minutes easy run

    Starting to feel a bit stronger with my running, I might be ready to increase a bit.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jesus this was a disaster of a weekend.

    Zero exercise since Thursday. I've eaten rubbish and drank an awful lot of Guinness and Whiskey.

    I was supposed to be doing the Cara Bundoran 10 mile of Saturday, and going for a little few pints after that, but as I am "injured" I just went to the pub instead. I won't be drinking again for another month and am en route back to dublin now. I'll be weak in the gym this evening but it'll get done.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    As expected bad food and booze took its toll.

    Backsquats were weak and my hip felt right so I had to stick at 50kg.

    Box jumps were pathetic.

    Backsquats

    2 x 20kg
    2 x 30kg
    2 x 40kg
    2 x 50kg
    2 x 50kg
    2 x 50kg
    2 x 50kg
    2 x 50kg
    2 x 50kg

    Box Jumps

    10 x 20 inch
    10 x 22 inch
    10 x 24 inch

    Metcon - extremely easy workout

    7 rounds
    7 hanging knee raises
    7 push-ups
    7 air squats

    4:38

    Meh. Tomorrow will be better.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    New mobility programme is hard on the aul knees :/

    Spent a bit time working on double unders. Still cannot do one. Not one. Grrrrrr.

    Push press
    5 x 20kg warmup
    2 x 25kg
    2 x 30kg
    6 x 2 x 32.5kg

    I have way more in me than that.

    Metcon
    500 skips
    50 box jumps
    500 skips

    Time: 14:30


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,502 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    What's in the mobility program? I can't imagine any mobility program is designed to be hard on a joint. Is there a possibility that something else in your training is irritating your knees? Speaking from experience of having a bad case of knee tendonitis for the first half of 2013, pay attention to this one.

    Every workout logged here so far has had some sort of squatting or jumping / landing component in it for example...


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh no, it's superficial, bruising on the inner knee from the movement. My joints are all good. It's a thing called six point rock, which I've tried to find a video of online but none of them are quite right.

    It's basically going from being on all fours, knees wide apart sitting back onto your heels, and rocking forward so your chest touches the floor. 10 times for three rounds. It hurts! It does open out the hips though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,502 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Oh no, it's superficial, bruising on the inner knee from the movement. My joints are all good. It's a thing called six point rock, which I've tried to find a video of online but none of them are quite right.

    It's basically going from being on all fours, knees wide apart sitting back onto your heels, and rocking forward so your chest touches the floor. 10 times for three rounds. It hurts! It does open out the hips though.

    Ah! Is there any mats at the gym you can throw down while doing it? But yes, carry on I just tend to be on high alert when people mention knee irritation! :)


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think my coach was cranky on Monday so he said suck it up and get use to it :pac:

    So no, no mats :P

    I've signed up for yoga! I've never done yoga before. I'm not sure how I feel about it but it's supposed to be good for....things. I'll be running more and more now again and building my tibialis so I guess yoga can't do me any harm. Good for the mind and all that jazz :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,737 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Any particular kind of yoga?

    I did a few hot yoga classes (different to Bikram) and found them really good for my hips.

    My mind was unaffected :)


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  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Janelle Large Timber


    I like yoga
    The ones that aren't aimed as just being exercise i mean


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just....yoga? :o

    I know nothing about yoga. I do know it's going to focus on sports strength and mobility though. It's in my gym. So she knows the kind of stuff we try and get our bodies to do.

    Might be nice sure!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    New knee ouchie mobility.

    Front squats

    5 x 20kg
    2 x 30kg
    2 x 40kg
    2 x 40kg
    2 x 40kg
    2 x 40kg
    2 x 40kg

    Metcon
    21 x pull-ups
    21 x 5kg wall balls
    15 x pull-ups
    15 x 5kg wall balls
    9 x pull-ups
    9 x 5kg wall balls

    Time: 6:28

    1 hour of yoga. Flippin nora, it's really really bloody hard!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deadlifts

    5 x 20kg
    2 x 40kg
    2 x 60kg
    2 x 80kg

    6 x 2 x 85kg

    Metcon; 5 rounds for time.

    60 skips
    6 x 30kg Power Clean
    3 x 30kg Front Squat
    1 x 30kg Push Press

    5 rounds in 9:28

    Happy enough.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm so bloody sick. I should have stayed in bed this morning but having done nothing (bar walk the dog) over the weekend. I didn't want to start the week out badly. Stupidity 101.

    Strict Press

    1 x 3 x 15kg
    1 x 3 x 20kg
    1 x 3 x 22.5kg
    3 x 3 x 24kg

    20 Minute AMRAP (as many rounds/reps as possible)

    5 x Pull ups
    10 x Push ups
    15 x Air Squats

    I did 12 rounds + 34 reps. And I nearly cried my chest was in so much pain :(

    Stubbornness isn't always a great trait.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Didn't even make Yoga.

    No exercise in almost a week. I need to get better before I lose the plot.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Janelle Large Timber


    I'm the same- mind yourself and get better


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Back in the gym this morning and I just about got through it.

    I'm weak. Really weak. I haven't eaten much in over a week and between that, and me still being sick, this morning was really hard.

    So.

    Pull ups 4 x 8 - purple resistance band, on the brightside, I managed these fairly OK so I think I'll be good for less resistance when I'm better.

    Metcon

    10 x 25kg Thrusters
    200 metre run
    10 x 25kg Power Snatch

    5 rounds in 17:46

    That workout took everything I had.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wednesday 1st April

    Feeling a bit stronger today. I'd say I'll be 100% by the weekend \o/

    Mobility is getting easier on the knees!

    Barbell complex - 20kg

    3 x deadlift
    3 x hang clean
    3 x front squat
    3 x push press
    3 x forward hinge
    3 x back squat
    3 x push press from back

    Repeat for 3 rounds without putting the bar down.

    *******

    5 x 12kg + resistance goblet squat
    10 x 12kg + resistance chest high kettlebell swings

    Repeat for 3 rounds

    *******

    Metcon 3 rounds for time

    400metre run
    21 x 20kg overhead kettlebell swings
    12 pull-ups [with band]

    3 rounds in 15:46 - struggled

    *******

    5 x 1 minute push up plank. 45 second rest.

    *******
    5km easy run


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  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm actually off my face with buzziness.

    Wooohoooo. I'm back \o/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    Guess who's back....Whoops is back...

    :D


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Super easy tonight

    Hang snatch.

    2 x 15kg
    2 x 20kg
    2 x 22.5kg
    5 x 2 x 25kg

    Had a little niggle in my shoulder so left it at 25.

    Metcon:
    1,000 skips for time
    5 burpees every minute

    Time 8:51 so 40 burpees >.<

    1 hour of yoga

    Yoga was the hardest!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    10 minutes to get max thruster. That niggle in my shoulder meant I struggled locking out my left arm. So 40kg Max only.

    3 x 3 x 20kg
    1 x 25kg
    1 x 30kg
    1 x 35kg
    1 x 37.5kg
    1 x 40kg
    Failed on 42.5

    Metcon
    5 x 30kg Power Hang Clean
    90 skips

    5 rounds in 7:01

    Too easy. Should have gone heavier on the cleans.

    5km run commencing in 5...4...3...2...


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    60 minute metcon which I couldn't complete because my poxy back started to spasm :mad: :(

    15 sit-ups on the minute every minute for 10 minutes
    10 x 35kg deadlifts on the minute every minute for 10 minutes
    10 x 35kg backsquats on the minute every minute for 10 minutes
    On my 9th set my back went. Stretched out for 2 minutes. Went into next workout 1 minute late.
    6 x burpee box jumps every minute on the minute for 10 minutes
    20 x 20kg kettlebell swings every minute on the minute for 10 minutes
    Got to 4th round and back gave in. So that was me done. Never got to last workout. Raging.

    So total of:
    150 sit-ups
    100 x 35kg deadlifts
    54 x burpee box jumps
    87 x 35kg back squats
    70 x 20kg kb swings

    In 47 minutes.


    Alright I suppose. Just pissed I didn't finish. On the brightside I now have a stretch named after me in the gym.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    90 minutes of hillwalking/climbing with the mutt means that run I planned for later may not happen. My poor quads!


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  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh god. My poor abandoned training log.

    I've done NOTHING bar walk the dog and yoga until this morning :o (unless you count a whole lot of dancing!!)

    I was on a hen in Galway and there was an awful lot of alcohol involved so a small amount of cardio this morning would have been just lovely. But no. No. There were sprints and burpees. Sprints and fcuking burpees :( I actually puked on the last round :o

    Also I have never done Bulgarian Split Squats before. They're good craic aren't they? >.>

    Bulgarian Split Squats

    8 x BW
    8 x 10kg
    8 x 12kg
    8 x 16kg
    8 x 16kg

    Could definitely go a hell of a lot heavier there but was more about form than weight.

    Metcon

    10 burpees
    200 metre sprint (heh, the last few were more like light jogs)

    10 rounds.

    So 100 burpees and 2km took me 19 minutes and something :pac:

    OOOOOOPS.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    Bulgarian Split Squats

    So 100 burpees and 2km took me 19 minutes and something :pac:

    OOOOOOPS.

    BSS are satanic. Hate hate hate them - even prefer burpees!

    I think 100 burpees and 2k in 19 mins is good going - would take me longer for deffo I'd say.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh no. Noooooooo. How can anyone prefer burpees to anything?!

    My timing was actually alright by the end of the day, I was last in the 6am class but throughout the day it became a fairly ok time and I had a heaviest female spilt squat of the day (along with a couple of others) so not so bad I guess :)

    I wanted to run last night but bit of a disaster in work meant I ended up there til all hours and left starving. Really disappointed. I'll run today but I expect my ass and hamstrings to be pretty ouchies later and they're already fairly tender!

    Onwards and upwards.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    Is it competitive? Would people be constantly trying to pass each other out?
    I think I'd like that :p


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    libelula wrote: »
    Is it competitive? Would people be constantly trying to pass each other out?
    I think I'd like that :p

    I would be more competitive in crossfit than I would in running, but I think that's because I know I'm much more capable at crossfit than I am at running.

    It's hard to explain, it's not competitive in the traditional sense, and it's not meant to be and I know I'm not as fit as most people there. It's like I'm not trying to beat the people on my level. I'm trying to catch the people who are fitter, faster, and stronger than me.

    Does that make any sense?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    Yes. And you will catch them, it's only a matter of when :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,737 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    I had a heaviest female split squat of the day...

    I wanted to run last night but bit of a disaster in work meant I ended up there til all hours and left starving. Really disappointed. I'll run today but I expect my ass and hamstrings to be pretty ouchies later and they're already fairly tender!

    Like night follows day :)


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's sick that I like it, isn't it :P


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    5 easy sunshiney kilometres. My legs were tight and I was slow but my god I missed running on an evening like this :)


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I just realised I have holidays in SEVEN weeks. Flippin Nora.

    That's not very long at all at all. Two weddings during those holidays. Time to get serious.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    It sounds to me like you're already pretty serious ;)


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy :D

    Push Press

    1 x 6 x 20kg
    1 x 6 x 25kg
    1 x 6 x 30kg
    7 x 6 x 32kg

    Metcon

    Box Jumps & Skips (should be double unders but I'm yet to do ONE of though :mad:)

    So what should have been a 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 workout ended up as;

    10 box jumps 50 skips
    9 box jumps 45 skips
    8 box jumps 40 skips
    7 box jumps 35 skips
    6 box jumps 30 skips
    5 box jumps 25 skips
    4 box jumps 20 skips
    3 box jumps 15 skips
    2 box jumps 10 skips
    1 box jump 5 skips.

    In 6:41

    Screw you double unders.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    I hate box jumps. Skipping is deadly though. You are doing real well Whoopsy!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I like box jumps. I like skipping.

    I don't like not being able to do double unders.

    I bought a speed rope, I'm going to rip the shins off myself until I learn to do double bloody unders.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    I had no idea what double unders were all along and have just now googled it. Big lightbulb moment :D


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