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Another ok training day upper/lower warm up Power cleans + presses: 65x5, 95x5, 125x3, 145x3, 165x3,3,3 (one set of presses) Axle deads: double overhand 215x5, 255x5, mixed grip (missed double overhand) 305x3, 345x2-way heavy feeling, 395x1, 415x2+f lost my grip after a sloppy half rep stall out Axle press: 125x3,3 145x3, 155x1, 160x5,5,5 vids of presses (flab is useful for continental cleans  ) 1st set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIPkgaAzWo 2nd set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT34TtLQOKQ 3rd set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYDioTAjSwU You'll notice I gear whored it up from the 2nd set on with my efs heavy elbow sleeves. And don't be hatin' on my lucky strongman headband. Did about 6 or 7 sets of 5 multiple grip chins/pullups throughout this mess. Conditioning: 5 bulgarian bags from 15-60lb, pick up each, step up onto tire, put over pullup bar, then 10 heavy sledge swings per side, then battling ropes + prowler pull mash up, then push prowler back to start. 1st round: 1:22, 2nd 1:19, then no tire so I had to jump/toss bags over the bar for the 3rd: 1:23. Good stuff
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Fun strongman day! I didn't sleep enough last night but I overate to try and make up for it. I did ok. sled pull/keg load/tire flip medley -found out the hand over hand pull for the comp is standing and I'd been practicing by sitting in a tire, so we'll be doing it right from now on... sled: 200, 250, 300 keg: 160, 160, 160 tire: 5,5,5 then I puked up my burritos I'd eaten an hr earlier  circus db each side: 55x3, 65x3, 75x3, 85x1, 95x1, 105x1, 115xfail a million times on the left hand, then finally got it axle clean and push press: 140x3, 170x3, 180x2, 190x2, 200x1, 210x1, 220xf,1 dats comp weight  farmers 50': 125/side, 175/side, 225/side, 275/side -lol no I miscounted bc I am retarded, I thought it was 255 and the one before that 205, but oh well. Felt like i gave myself a hernia, but I just pinched some fat/hair or something. vidya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x3N1MRUYPU Paulie fucked around with this message at Dec 12, 2010 around 03:06 |
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Zercher and axle mil press day Warm up upper and lower stuff Power snatch: 65x5,5, 95x3,3, 115x3,3, 135x4 Zercher squat: 75x10, 125x5, 165x5, 205x3, 235x5 -oops gotta go pick up the GF from the dentist early...back 10 min later: 185x5, 215x3, 245x5,5,5 -whew  Axle press: 75x10, 105x5, 135x3, 145x3, 155x3, 165x5(UGLY last rep), 4+f(last rep was sloppy and I got stuck and gave up), 5+f(all reps in the groove, tried to make up for missing a rep on the 2nd set, but eh) Did one set of 5 pullups and 4 sets of 5 chins between those Conditioning  push prowler +50 down and back, empty prowler down and back, and then a 45lb plate down and back (bout 40-50' each way) 1st round: ~1:30 god jesus my quads 2nd round: ~2:00 sweet LUCIFER my QUUUAAAAADSSS 3rd round: ~2:30 really? gleutes and hams and calves stop working too? 4th round: ~2:15 dark prince of the UNDERWORLD don't let my tendons fail me now no pukey  That was the most brutal thing--of course you can't really breathe the whole time, but to add to it your legs completely stop working and I was just putting one leg in front of the other, and extending my knee. Never stopped on the way from one end to the other, but it got reeeeeallly sloowwwww. Glad it's over.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2010 23:01 |
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log incline/deadlift day Power cleans up to 205 or something around there. Decided that everytime I go into the gym I'm going to power clean at least 200, to get used to the feel of the weight. Log incline: 105x5, 135x4, 155x3, 165x2, 175x1, 185x5,5 195x5 decided that since it's about to be a deload week, I'd see if I could hit this, and it was a solid set. Thor has video which will hopefully make it's way to me... Did pendlay rows mixed in there: 155x8,8,8 Axle deadlift: 165x5, 215x4, 255x3, 305x2 (failed the double overhand but at least got it up to my knee before grip gave out) 345x1, 375x1,1, 405x1, 425x1, 450x1 woop! If the axle at Brute Strength has knurling on it, I'm good for a few more lbs. side note: I found that I really hate my SPUD INC deadlift belt for deadlifts--love it for everything else tho. It just digs in really bad since the nylon/velcro part is like 1.5" wide and in the middle of 4-5" one ply nothing material. I bet the thicker DL belt would be better. But it rocks for oly lifts and stuff like that. ABZ: 5 rounds of 6 ab wheel rollouts super set w/ 10 standing average band crunches Conditioning: 3 rounds of: Flip the baby tire 12 times, get heavy bulgarian bag and swing/snatch it 8 times, then swing it all the way around my body (overhead) 8 times each way. Hard to describe, but pretty painful. ------- My weight is stagnant and I blame it on my girlfriend and also lack of will and quitting smoking (again!) Also training like a son of a bitch gives me a major appetite. But this upcoming deload week will be all low carb except any family meals, in which case I'll just have that one meal and maybe some shakes to get all my protein in. After that I have to bump up my volume of low intensity cardio and really dial in my eating. Also, a sad time indeed as I will refrain from drinking more than a couple beers a week  I'm really starting to consider the reality that I may need to enter the Novice division. The updated press medley numbers for LW have a 115 circus db, 220 axle, 240 log, and 200 keg. All of those are pretty much at or slightly above my maxes, and doing one after the other as fast as possible...I dunno if it's doable. But, we'll see how things go. I'm going to a local strongman's garage to train on Sunday. Gonna do some real fuckin' stones! 
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Babysnakes! posted:
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| # ? Dec 17, 2010 05:00 |
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poor life choice posted:ATLAS STONES!!!! Luckily I did a little warm up mobility and stretching before I got there. It was cold and the only warm up was a few quick sumo pulls of 135 and then: Stone to 48-50" platform: 240x1,1 270x1,2 300x1 330xlap 300 took a few tries to finally get, and I must have attempted 330 a dozen times. Lapped it a few times but just couldn't get it past about halfway up from there. Tacky helped a lot with the 300 and 330 picks. Then pulled the prowler about 100' or something like that--mailbox to mailbox +90 forward and backwards +90 forward and backwards +90 backwards both ways (FFFFFFFFuck my quads) Wish I could have been doing stones every week or so from the start. That 330 is gonna be my bitch next time. Ready for my deload now. Light weights and cardio and nary a carb this week (e-except for family holiday meals) ps- ripped a good lb of arm hair out from the duct tape 
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| # ? Dec 19, 2010 22:17 |
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deload day 1 Press and zercher Warm up: power snatch up to 125x3, power clean up to 205 Axle press: work up to 145x5 5 sets of 3 chins Zercher squat: work up to 215x5 Conditioning: super tabata 3 rounds: 50lb? Bulgarian bag carry, kb swing (don't remember weight), light tire flip, light sledge strikes, prowler Yarp.
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| # ? Dec 22, 2010 05:11 |
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rest day pre 1st meal mini workout: 20min walk 35lb db curls/skullcrushers: 1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1 -------------- Sent in my entry form for the comp, decided that I'm going novice. Which means instead of being dominated by experienced, stronger, fitter guys, I'll get dominated by inexperienced, stronger, fitter, younger, lighter guys But, I'm still going to kick my own rear end, so I'm cool with it.
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| # ? Dec 22, 2010 19:58 |
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Paulie posted:Sent in my entry form for the comp, decided that I'm going novice. Which means instead of being dominated by experienced, stronger, fitter guys, I'll get dominated by inexperienced, stronger, fitter, younger, lighter guys AWEZOMEZ!!@!!!!!
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| # ? Dec 22, 2010 22:43 |
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Deload day 2 Power clean: up to 205x1 -nice and easy Incline axle press: up to 155x5 -not super easy, but fine Superset w/ pendlay rows: 125x5,5,5 -easy Axle deads: 165x5, 255x5, 255x3, 305x1, 345x1, 405x1 -nice and easy Conditioning With a partner: one does a lap with the prowler, while the other does kb swings (18kg) for 3 rounds -evil but fun ----------------- Ate about 2200 cals yesterday, minimal carbz. Today, I ate a carb though, b/c how can I resist going to eat sushi with my friend's 3 year old??? You wanna tell her Uncle Paul isn't coming to lunch because he is trying to make weight next month??? That's what I thought. Anyway, I rigged her chopsticks up with rubber bands and stuff so she could eat like the grownups  Plus we got to draw sharks and fishes and whatnot on some new light up florescent crayola thing she got.I'm not worried about a little ol carb, since it was a training day and everything. I'm ready for some post-xmas heavy sessions.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2010 01:18 |
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 MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLKS
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| # ? Dec 24, 2010 22:17 |
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Every time I read your log title it sounds like you're becoming a strong man with the help of a man with the last name of Strongman. Except its read quickly, like a Jewish name. Herschel Strongman.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2010 22:21 |
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Back into the mid-240s after Christmas  Should be able to drop 10 of those lbs in short order, though.Did a little mini cardio workout at home since the gym is closed due to weather: shoulder warm up ave band good mornings x25 ave band standing crunches x25 push ups x25 35lb db power snatch x25/side (5 at a time with no rest until I hit 25 ea) The plan for the next little while is train hard the next two weeks, and then take the week of the contest mostly off. I'm not feeling quite as stressed since I decided to go novice, as the weights will be more manageable. Only tough part will be next week when I take a little mini vacay with the lady next Wed-Sun. I'm going to try and get 5 big training days in before then, then train the Monday before the contest, and try not to bloat too much while I'm gone (to keep the water cut easier). ninjaaa: just got a message that the gym will be open at 4. Sweet.
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| # ? Dec 27, 2010 20:28 |
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Real training session: Mobility stuff, then: Power snatch up to 135x3 Power clean up to 215x1 Decided to start running through the events, so today was the Press medley and Carry medley 115lb fat db (both sides), 180lb axle, 200lb log, 150lb keg: 1st round 1:55, 2nd round 1:03 -time limit is :60 so I still have some work to do 50' farmers 155/side, 50' 400lb yoke, tire x3: 1st round :33, 2nd round :29 -I think I can still shave off more time pretty easily And that's that. Thor has some video, so if he posts it, I'll post it here.
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| # ? Dec 28, 2010 01:53 |
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Video dump: 195 log: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV7dkYHiRCU Press medley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqPM8G7q_9E Carry/tire medley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7J_UjYgIGQ Sled pull/sandbag/deads medley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw1YJ8Z_dCM Today I just did the last medley with sled pull and whatnot. Here's how it went: *Preface: last night for no reason I ended up drinking like 10 Spaten's after eating really clean and well  *I wanted to get in and out quick bc there was football to watch. My garbage warm up was this: couple lunges, some curls, tri extensions, face pulls, a dozen 135lb sumo deads power cleans: 135x3, 185x3, 205x1 medley: 1st round: 1:03? something like that, had the sandbag load too high, couldn't get it worth a poo poo. Felt like I might puke but it wouldn't happen. 2nd round: 1:19, more trouble with the sandbag, definitely gonna puke now. :puke: 3rd round: added belt and did it in under or just over a minute (as seen in ye above video)  And to top it all off, the Pirates are getting their rear end handed to them in DC. e: looks like someone broke youtube...
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| # ? Dec 29, 2010 22:04 |
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Noice work! Have you tried keeping log and keg tighter to you off the floor? Think of it as a bent over row to the knees, where you row it up, pulling it tight against your body with your lats and sitting straight down with it, then rolling it over the top of your chest. Like the dude demonstrates in this video here at about 1:26. I like this variation since it keeps the log very close on my chest and it makes the width a bit easier to deal with (though you're bigger than me so it's probably not as much of an issue for you), and it can also be faster if you're aggressive about rowing the log up straight to your knees.
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| # ? Dec 29, 2010 22:48 |
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Ugh strongman seems so cool. Why does everything involving lifting weights have to be so interesting? Back in the day I just wanted to 1)lose weight 2)get strong as f**k. Now I also want to do 3)do a raw powerlifting meet 4)do strongman thing 5)have biceps 6)overhead press a bus 7)try DC training 8)??? TFLC keeping me busy.
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| # ? Dec 29, 2010 22:58 |
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Schroedinger posted:Noice work! I figured this out by trial and error a few weeks back, but I still have trouble with it when I'm fatigued. Another cue to remember. Also, my sweaty underarmor shirt didn't help. Gotta remember to wear a shirt with a graphic on it. Maybe a dragon or skull or olde english type or something. plc, I know the feeling. The good part of that is that the bug has bitten you hard enough that you'll always keep training since you'll always have something new to try.
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| # ? Dec 29, 2010 23:26 |
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I liked your strongman vids!
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| # ? Dec 29, 2010 23:33 |
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Paulie posted:I figured this out by trial and error a few weeks back, but I still have trouble with it when I'm fatigued. Another cue to remember. Also, my sweaty underarmor shirt didn't help. Gotta remember to wear a shirt with a graphic on it. Maybe a dragon or skull or olde english type or something. Just get something from EliteFTS. Every serious strength competitor is required to have a piece of EliteFTS apparel. If you don't all of your training will come to nothing. Barring that, get something from Bulky Boy, cut to under 200lbs, and watch other bearers of the apparel go apoplectic!
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| # ? Dec 30, 2010 04:55 |
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LOL I actually own way too many elitefts t shirts Today I got a text that the bros were doing stones again, so I hauled rear end and met up with them. warm up: sumo deads 135x12, rdl 135x12, hang cleans 135x10, couple lunge stretches stones: 240x2,2 270x1 run: 270, 240 270x2 300x1 run: 300, 270, 240 330x1 run: 240, 270, 300 then tried for 300 for another rep immediately but there was no tack left to my tacky  I forgot to ever put on my belt but who gives a gently caress, I got the 330!!! Gonna go eat a thing now. I'm gonna fail my toxx since it's 2 weeks out and my weight is going nowhere and there's no way I'm gonna try and cut 15lb of water. I'm just going to kick rear end and not give a poo poo. I'll do a serious cut when I'm not training for a strongman contest. Sorry twink lovers, no six packs abs this year. But for all of you who want to pack on some size and strength, SM training is the way to go. So, throw me some suggestions for a good charity.
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 00:06 |
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Congrats on the stone PR! Woo! What height do you guys train towards?
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 03:48 |
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hi paulie
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 04:57 |
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Donate it to wounded warrior fund. Also congrats on the stone PR. 330 stone sounds heavy as poo poo. gently caress doing a losing weight toxx, just do a strength toxx and be fat forever!!
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 05:06 |
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Schroedinger posted:Congrats on the stone PR! Woo! What height do you guys train towards? I think it was at 50", which is higher than I'll need to load the 300 at the competition. Only thing I'm worried about on game day is having enough gas and tack by the time I get the last one. a egg posted:hi paulie hi a egg Deathy McDeath posted:Donate it to wounded warrior fund. Sounds good to me, on both points.
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 17:25 |
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Holy poo poo dude. 330lb stone is no joke. Do you use any sort of forearm protection when training with stones? Those drat things always tear the hell out of my skin.
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 17:29 |
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Paulie posted:I think it was at 50", which is higher than I'll need to load the 300 at the competition. Only thing I'm worried about on game day is having enough gas and tack by the time I get the last one. Snort ammonia and cover your arms with duct tape before applying the tacky!
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 18:33 |
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Yep, good ol' duct tape. Makes having body hair suck just a little. I think at the contest I'm gonna stick some extra tacky on the back of my forearms and just reapply when I get to the 300, depending on how dusty the stones are. If I'm not using tacky and just practicing with one of the light stones at the gym I'll pull my elbow sleeves over my forearms. My next goal will be to get the 360 stone, but that one might take a while.
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 18:42 |
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Strongman sounds complicated.
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 18:51 |
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Yeah it definitely can be. But the basics are pretty much "Move these heavy rear end weights from there to there as fast as you can," or "Hold this heavy rear end weight as long as possible."
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| # ? Dec 31, 2010 19:07 |
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Not a great training day I'm trying to get another training day in tomorrow eve, as I'm going out of town for a few days and won't be able to train like normal. Gonna shoot for one more training day when I get back before deloading. Holiday debauchery caught up with me I guess. Warm up: upper/lower stuff Power snatch: 45x5, 95x5,3, 115x3, 135x4 -ugly Power clean: 135x5, 165x3, 185x2, 205x2 -ugly and heavy too press medley DB/Axle/Log/Keg 55x2/75x2/105x2/150xclean 75/125/155/150 95/155/175/150 115/195/215xF (tried to go heavier than comp weight-stupid) 115xF 115xF 115xF 115/195xF (going back to comp weight) 115/180/200x no clamps weights fall off one side grinding out the press/gently caress this gay earth I yelled and threw my belt around and poo poo like a big gay baby conditioning: gather all the bumpers and iron and implements and put them away Maybe tomorrow will be better.
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| # ? Jan 3, 2011 19:32 |
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Paulie posted:no clamps weights fall off one side grinding out the press this is an excellent reason to be a big gay baby, gently caress the hobnob hobo clamp setups necessary to get any clamps on strongman equipment
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| # ? Jan 4, 2011 06:08 |
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Paulie posted:gently caress this gay earth
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| # ? Jan 4, 2011 06:29 |
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You yell and throw around your belt and poo poo? Such a poor life choice....
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| # ? Jan 4, 2011 06:38 |
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Over-reaching... Warm up bleh blah blah Log cleans: 105x3,3,3, 155x3,3 185x3, 195x3, 205x1, 215x1, 225x1, 245x1 -had more in the tank but just was using it to warm up for zerchers. Zercher squats: 75x8, 125x5, 165x5, 195x3, 215x3, 235x3, 255x1, 275x3,3,3 -holy gently caress Cardio: medley farmers 50'/yoke 50'/tire x3 105 ea/350/550 155 ea/400/550 205 ea/500/550 -40 sec, probably coulda been faster but I took off too fast w/ both the farmers and the yoke and dragged the front edges. Also the tire is a pain in the rear end without a piece of pvc under it. All those flips began with only my fingertips under the edge. I'm gonna get sub 30 sec at the contest w/ 300/400/500 fo sho. Now I'm drinking some brotein and icing my poor loving knees.
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| # ? Jan 5, 2011 00:56 |
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hotel training: cable pull thrus: ascending weights 5x10 ss w/ db split squats: 30x5, 35x5, 40x5, 45x5, 50x5 (per leg) db bench: 10x 30's, 35's, 40's, 45's, 50's ss w/ db bent over row: same overhead db tri ext: 10x 30,35,40,45,50 db curl: 10x 20,25,30,25,20 shrugs: 50's x25 swole x infinity
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| # ? Jan 7, 2011 00:10 |
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here's my fat rear end as of now: steady diet of beer and whisky does a body good! I somehow picked a hotel that has atlas stones outside, so after breakfast of course I had to embarrass MY FIANCEE and do this:  Training today will consist of lots of walking, and maybe another hotel training session (doubtful).
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The beard! The traps!
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