booneman77
Legend
Love walking to the gym, especially on leg day! It's a perfect warmup... The walk home however... Yikes
Love walking to the gym, especially on leg day! It's a perfect warmup... The walk home however... Yikes
I'm not going to log this week. I'm tracking macros and my lifting, but it is nothing fun since I'm just deloading.
I do have one thing worth mentioning and I am looking for some help. I deadlited with shorts today. I was able to pinpoint the problem with the new bars, the center knurling is catching whatever type of bottoms I am wearing which makes it almost impossible for the bar to slide up. I did discover one old bar, with no center knurling, that my gym brought over from the old location. It was in the personal trainer only section, but it has made its way to the main weight lifting area.
If it is in the personal trainers cage, I can ask for it to see if they will let me use it. If it is out, I can be a dbag, take it where I warm up and basically claim it for 10 minutes until I am reading t use it. Another option I have is to go to another location, but that location is a little out of the way. That will actually not be an issue for the rest of the school year since we only have two weeks left so spending a little extra time commuting won't be too big of an issue.
However, I obviously would like to just go to my local location. I am thinking of two things. One, ask the owner if I can purchase a barbell and keep it there, in the personal training cage so no one else can use it. Two, I was thinking I could tape paper towels over the center knurling. Does anyone thing that would work or are there other suggestions to take that center knurling out of play?
Do you really think the bar knurling is impacting you that much? that seems like a pretty trivial thing to be worried about...
If you really do thought, what about wearing compression shorts instead to prevent catching? or take a roll of masking/painters tape and wrop the bar for your lifts. cheap, and will stay much better than a paper towel
It may be more mental than anything. The tape is a good idea, I don't think the gym would like for me to tape up their new shiny bars though.
just take it off after... they wont even know. plus painters tape barely sticks. its meant for non damaging stickiness
Pressing is my worst too. Hardly ever any progress while all the other major moves jump by leaps and bounds
This has ALWAYS been the case for me, no matter what program.
A lot of times with a pop like that, especially in an area with an old injury, it can just be just some excess scar tissue breaking up or sometimes things just get "twanged" funny (no injury, just kinda popping into place) after a new movement
This log has been going on for exactly one year now. Here are the key takeaways.
In the 52 weeks/12 months, I am up 15.2 pounds. I'm pretty happy with that. Fat gain has not been too high. Obviously some occurred, it always will.
Here are the 1 reps maxes from my first test to my previous test 3 weeks ago.
Deadlift
Start - 365
Now 425
Squat
Start - 275
Now - 330
Bench
Start - 195(flat)
Now - 205{incline}
Bench is a little hard to compare since I started maxing out on flat, but now I switched to incline. But squats went up 45 pounds in the year and deadlifts went up by 60. Pretty good progress for a 15 pound weight gain I think.
This log has been going on for exactly one year now. Here are the key takeaways.
In the 52 weeks/12 months, I am up 15.2 pounds. I'm pretty happy with that. Fat gain has not been too high. Obviously some occurred, it always will.
Here are the 1 reps maxes from my first test to my previous test 3 weeks ago.
Deadlift
Start - 365
Now 425
Squat
Start - 275
Now - 330
Bench
Start - 195(flat)
Now - 205{incline}
Bench is a little hard to compare since I started maxing out on flat, but now I switched to incline. But squats went up 45 pounds in the year and deadlifts went up by 60. Pretty good progress for a 15 pound weight gain I think.
I haven't been around much, but I'm glad to come back to see this summary! Amazing progress good sir.