Keeping Up With The Yates': A Couple's Training Log

Yeah man!!!!!
Congrats to you both!!!!!!
 
Congratulations!! I have some friends that got married on there son's 13 birthday!!
 
Congrats you two! Awesome stuff!
 
Oh man! At first I thought you two were having another baby! Congratulations!
 
YatesWifey04 said:
Soooo, I've been in here (obviously) but haven't been logging my work-outs as much. Don't worry, I'm still hitting the gym like normal. I just haven't been logging as much, because I've been a bit distracted. Although yates84 & I have been together for almost 12 years & consider ourselves married (clearly) we have never actually made it official....for various reasons. Well, most of the variables keeping us from it are no longer in play & yates84 recently asked me to marry him again. So, we've decided to make it officially official (ha!) & have a ceremony in October. My brain has gone into planning overdrive. So, if I seem less active, at times, that is why. I will do my best to keep things up to date though. It does give me a bit more motivation though...gotta look good in that wedding dress!!
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Congrats!
 
Sooo, the "YatesWifey04" moniker was a little bit premature? Pressure... :wink1:
 
HardB0iled said:
I guess it depends if they live in a common law marriage state. Congrats by the way!
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All in jest. No need to rush the best things in life, happiness knows no timely bounds.
 
yates84 said:
Here's my credit card, tell me when and where to show up :)
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Haha, like she doesn't already have it! :p

It's going to be absolutely beautiful! I can already picture you in a simple flowy gown. Background will be like your holiday family pics. :)
 
My wife and my wedding Us 2 the 2 kids + Preacher = 5 I like it!
 
puccah8808 said:
Haha, like she doesn't already have it! :p

It's going to be absolutely beautiful! I can already picture you in a simple flowy gown. Background will be like your holiday family pics. :)
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You're close. I definitely have a vision & I'm hoping to be able fulfill it.

Rocket3015 said:
My wife and my wedding Us 2 the 2 kids + Preacher = 5 I like it!
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Our guest list is about 14 right now....max will probably be about 20.
 
YatesWifey04 said:
You're close. I definitely have a vision & I'm hoping to be able fulfill it.



Our guest list is about 14 right now....max will probably be about 20.
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This was how ours was, I think we ended up with a total of 20 people and that included the "Wedding Party" IE a Maid of Honor, a Best Man and the 2 boys both as ring bearers, hers gave her the ring and mine gave me my ring.
 
YatesWifey04 said:
Our guest list is about 14 right now....max will probably be about 20.
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Nice. My wife and I got married in Bermuda with 20 guests. Immediate family and close friends only. We all partied for 3 days together before we got married barefoot on the beach. Everyone flew out the next morning after breakfast and we stayed for another week. Best memories ever!

I've been to too many weddings with hundreds of people. The bride and groom barely even say hi to half the people. Wtf is the point?!
 
MrKleen73 said:
This was how ours was, I think we ended up with a total of 20 people and that included the "Wedding Party" IE a Maid of Honor, a Best Man and the 2 boys both as ring bearers, hers gave her the ring and mine gave me my ring.
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Lol. 20 seems to be the magic number!
 
HardB0iled said:
Nice. My wife and I got married in Bermuda with 20 guests. Immediate family and close friends only. We all partied for 3 days together before we got married barefoot on the beach. Everyone flew out the next morning after breakfast and we stayed for another week. Best memories ever!

I've been to too many weddings with hundreds of people. The bride and groom barely even say hi to half the people. Wtf is the point?!
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That sounds like a blast!!!

Exactly! Trying to plan for & feed that many guests seems so stressful & expensive. Our reception is going to be a BBQ too. We plan to cook a pig & just enjoy everyone's company!!
 
YatesWifey04 said:
That sounds like a blast!!!

Exactly! Trying to plan for & feed that many guests seems so stressful & expensive. Our reception is going to be a BBQ too. We plan to cook a pig & just enjoy everyone's company!!
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I will eat half a pig by myself, better get some food for everyone else!
 
Ok, I suck at updates this week. Hitting this new gym hard and trying to get my routine nailed down here. Will start updating regularly again on Saturday, should give me enough time to get things together. Honestly, I was hoping I was gonna win the powerball last night and disappear off the face of the earth. Oh well, maybe next time.
 
yates84 said:
Ok, I suck at updates this week. Hitting this new gym hard and trying to get my routine nailed down here. Will start updating regularly again on Saturday, should give me enough time to get things together. Honestly, I was hoping I was gonna win the powerball last night and disappear off the face of the earth. Oh well, maybe next time.
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We both suck at workout updates lately!! It's ok though!! As long as we keep it entertaining, in one way or another, in here it's all good!!
 
YatesWifey04 said:
We both suck at wirkout updates lately!! It's ok though!! As long as we keep it entertaining...in one way or another in here it's all good!!
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You are always entertaining so I don't see that being a problem :)
 
Saturday upper body power

Clean and press
10 @ 95
10 @ 115
10 @ 135

Bench press
20 @ 135
10 @ 185
7 @ 225
1 @ 255
1 @ 265

Incline DB press
4×10 @ 75's

Hammer iso chest press
4×10 @ 4 plates

High cable flyes superset w/ dips
12 @ 40
15 @ bodyweight

Bent over rows
4×10 @ 205

Db rows
4×10 @ 85

Had to make myself leave the gym at this point. Going to keep this log going strong, need some extra motivation to get my totals up! Started touching some heavier weight on the bench today, I need my bench at 300 or better to make this happen. My last pr was 285 :( I gotta tighten up
 
Sunday lower body power

Squats
2×20 @ 135
2×10 @ 225
1 @ 275
1 @ 315
1 @ 365

Hack squats
3×10 @ 6 plates

Deadlifts
2×10 @ 225
2×10 @ 275
7 @ 315
3 @ 365
1 @ 385

Leg extensions
4×10 @ 150

Leg press
4×7 @ 12 plates

Seated leg curls
3×10 @ 120

Lying leg curls
3×10 @ 100

Smith machine calf raises
4×15 @ 6 plates

Seated calf raises
3×12 @ 3 plates

Threw in some curls at the end while waiting on YatesWifey04 to finish up. Yes, she is still lifting with me but has been super distracted lately. Maybe she will rejoin us one day. Raining and cold here so I'm going to sit on my fat ass and watch football. Let's go panthers!
 
yates84 said:
Threw in some curls at the end while waiting on YatesWifey04 to finish up. Yes, she is still lifting with me but has been super distracted lately. Maybe she will rejoin us one day. Raining and cold here so I'm going to sit on my fat ass and watch football. Let's go panthers!
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Wedding brain man...wedding brain!!

I guess I could update on workouts though too huh? Fine!!

Sunday lower body...

Squats
45x10x2
65x8x3
85x6x3

Deadlifts
95x8x2
115x5x2
135x3x2

Exploding leg press (the thing that yates84 calls the crazy hybrid leg press)
90x10x4

Leg extensions
30x10x4

Lying leg curls
40x10x4

Standing calf raise machine
10x4 @ 4 plates (not sure the weight as they are only numbered 1,2,3,4....)

Multi hip standinh leg raises
35x8x3

I'm still getting used to our new gym & especially the machines. So, if my weights look different that's why...everything feels heavier at this gym. I'm loving it though!!!
 
Toren said:
Oh hey, look, it's the Yates'. Still going strong. Congrats on the nuptials!!!



Go Cowboys!!
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So....what time do the Cowboys play their next playoff game? Oh, wait...
 
yates84 said:
So....what time do the Cowboys play their next playoff game? Oh, wait...
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Just waiting for Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Jay Novacek, Alvin Harper, Emmit Smith, Charles Haley and Moose Johnston to come back from Injury and then we will be good to go. They've been out for a while now. Lol.

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Hitting 265 on bench after high rep explosive movements like clean & press is actually better than you think. Explosive movements take a toll on your CNS big time. Add to that how much 3 sets of 10 on them would wear the muscle down. Remember with explosive lifting it is the fact that each rep requires 100% effort regardless of resistance used that makes them take a lot out of you. Try some heavy benching without all of the explosive volume and see where you end up. Unless just working to burn energy, I would lower your reps down to about 5 on the explosive lifts, and lower if going over 3 sets. You could crush 135 for speed at 5 reps and really get a lot out of it without ever slowing the reps down. You want to stop before your reps begin to slow when doing explosive movements or you begin to negate the purpose of lifting explosively.
 
MrKleen73 said:
Hitting 265 on bench after high rep explosive movements like clean & press is actually better than you think. Explosive movements take a toll on your CNS big time. Add to that how much 3 sets of 10 on them would wear the muscle down. Remember with explosive lifting it is the fact that each rep requires 100% effort regardless of resistance used that makes them take a lot out of you. Try some heavy benching without all of the explosive volume and see where you end up. Unless just working to burn energy, I would lower your reps down to about 5 on the explosive lifts, and lower if going over 3 sets. You could crush 135 for speed at 5 reps and really get a lot out of it without ever slowing the reps down. You want to stop before your reps begin to slow when doing explosive movements or you begin to negate the purpose of lifting explosively.
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I wasn't really factoring that in, good point. Might try and rework my program a little to hit bench first and see where I'm at.
 
Tuesday back and shoulder hypertrophy

Bent over row superset w/ military press
4×10 @ 205
2×12 @ 135, 2×10 @ 135

Weighted pull ups
4×10 @ 35

Seated cable rows
4×15 @ 100

Smith machine shrugs
3×15 @ 4 plates

Db rows
3×8 @ 90

Db shoulder press
4×12 @ 60's

Smith machine upright rows
4×8 @ 2 plates

Db lateral raise
4×15 @ 20's

Decided to hit it hard from the jump this morning with a massive superset. Looking to switch a few things up to increase intensity a little bit. Eating to recomp and hopefully gain a little strength. Gotta chase this dragon...
 
packers6211 said:
Good grief wicked workout!!! Smh I can't wait til this hand heals I miss lifting!!
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Ugghhh, I know that's gotta be tough. Really can't do much of any kind of lifting I bet.
 
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