Thursday 31 March 2011

Taking the world by storm

First of many training log entries.

The headphones went in and the game was on... Well no, I brought the wrong shorts with me, so anyone behind my rack saw my ass tonight.

Started with a good warm up, always key. Got loose and went to grab the new, shiny, olympic bar. I'd been itching to give it a go since I saw it a week ago.

Power clean and jerks
Bar x 8
95 x 5
135 x 3,3
155 x 2,2
175 x 1,1

Got the work in. My cleans blew hard, but the overhead was nice and quick. The new bar has the fancy collars too, so all those weights may actually be 10 pounds heavier.

Switched bars and moved to deads

135 x 8 double over hand stop at the bottom
225 x 5 same as before
265 x 3 same
315 x 1 switched to a mixed grip
330 x 12 touch and go with a mixed grip, thought I was done and went back on one last one double over hand, so ended with 13.

Not bad. I am working on my endurance on deads so this felt easy but gassed me.

Front squats
135 x 5
185 x 5
205 x 5
225 x 5

Getting better as I used to do 225 with a belt on, not today.

Zercher harness zerchers

135 x 8
Lowered the safety bars
225 x 8
275 x 8,8
All reps came up quickly, I was going for speed on these.

Shrugs

275 x 15, 15 nothing special

Side bends

70 lbs dumbbells for 15 reps on each side x 2

Event: 18" deadlifts
405 x 1
455 x 1
495 x 1
545 x 1
585 x 1 (PR)
605 x fail

Reverse Hyper
50 lbs x 15,15

Stretched out my lower body and back real good. Headed home.

Holy shit! I have a blog...

Damn right I do. For those who don't know me, I am Michael Majik, and I am an asshole. More over, I am one who prefers to shout about the bullshit in the fitness/health world and provide stripped down ideas and methods to make you succeed in your goals and not hate life trying to get there.  Here I'll be posting my training log, supplements I try (and whether I like them or not), training ideas for athletes (not just strength or weight loss), and things that I see or hear that just need to be talked about because well, it made me rant.

As a Toronto, Ontario local, there will probably be restaurant reviews, food ideas, and small "interviews" with others that share a similar or different kind of ideals. I'll probably swear, I know I'll rant, and I'll make remarks that are down right brutal... but I promise to keep the selling bullshit to a minimum as well, I think it takes hard work and smart thinking to hit those highs and not fill my wallet.

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