Approved Log My Training Log - First Cycle Log

[hubbles]

Managed to talk myself into not avoiding squats again, that makes 3 consecutive weeks.

Keep hitting those squats brother, they’re the king for legs, core and overall strength. 3 weeks in a row is solid momentum... keep it rolling!

 

[SpoonT]

Keep hitting those squats brother, they’re the king for legs, core and overall strength. 3 weeks in a row is solid momentum... keep it rolling!

That's the plan!

 

[hubbles]

Pullups are starting to struggle to progress but I'm just still happy that I'm working with weighted ones.
Arms are largely in the same boat, but the cable machine snapped when I tried to do triceps so my bad for using almost the full stack? Lol had to switch he reverse curls out too, just too heavy for my grip. Any suggestions for forearms/grip?
But I'm mostly happy as long as I'm staying consistent and pushing to failure.

With the pullups plateau... slow negatives, pause at the top or hit high rep burnouts. Arms too heavy... swap it out brother, no drama. Forearms/grip... try farmer carries, plate pinches, wrist curls and thick bar holds. Need to keep smashing it to failure and need to be staying consistent.

 

[SpoonT]

With the pullups plateau... slow negatives, pause at the top or hit high rep burnouts. Arms too heavy... swap it out brother, no drama. Forearms/grip... try farmer carries, plate pinches, wrist curls and thick bar holds. Need to keep smashing it to failure and need to be staying consistent.

Farmer carries are a good idea, that fits a similar feel with what I've been aiming for.

 

[SpoonT]

With the pullups plateau... slow negatives, pause at the top or hit high rep burnouts. Arms too heavy... swap it out brother, no drama. Forearms/grip... try farmer carries, plate pinches, wrist curls and thick bar holds. Need to keep smashing it to failure and need to be staying consistent.

also slow negatives and lengthed partials have been the focus of the last couple of reps of the pullups.

 

[SpoonT]

Shoulder niggle is back again, it's weird, is pretty rough on the first working set, it's mostly ok during any warmups, but eases off for set 2 and then more so for 3. Might need to do a proper 20% deload for a couple of weeks for it or something.
Confused about the leg extension machine, at a different gym today and this leg extension goes all the way up to 200kg, where at the usual gym it caps out at 143kg and I have a slap a kingpin in with a 25kg plate to get a decent working weight, so I was like easy no plate needed slapped on 180kg, but it moved so easy. Are the roids kicking in or am I going insane? Or missing something? Last week I was just squeezing out 164kg for 11, today I smashed 180kg for 12 easy.
I don't if my positioning is bad or what but I think I'm gonna switch my leg curls from seated back to lying.
Calves cannot be stopped...

 

[SpoonT]

Glad it's time for rest days, absolutely wrecked this week.
Barely pushed through today's, couldn't even hit a 3rd weighted set of dips so the least set was unweighted to failure.

 

[SpoonT]

Diet break is going ok, weight is increasing, but not hugely so, feeling a lot better, test increase still going great, no noticeable sides, hopefully lots of under the hood improvements.

 

[hubbles]

Shoulder niggle is back again, it's weird, is pretty rough on the first working set, it's mostly ok during any warmups, but eases off for set 2 and then more so for 3. Might need to do a proper 20% deload for a couple of weeks for it or something.
Confused about the leg extension machine, at a different gym today and this leg extension goes all the way up to 200kg, where at the usual gym it caps out at 143kg and I have a slap a kingpin in with a 25kg plate to get a decent working weight, so I was like easy no plate needed slapped on 180kg, but it moved so easy. Are the roids kicking in or am I going insane? Or missing something? Last week I was just squeezing out 164kg for 11, today I smashed 180kg for 12 easy.
I don't if my positioning is bad or what but I think I'm gonna switch my leg curls from seated back to lying.
Calves cannot be stopped...

That shoulder feels classic... first heavy set sting is just inflamed joints waking up. 20% deload for a couple of weeks makes sense.

Leg extension jump is probably the machine difference and seat/ROM changes not the gear . Switching to lying leg curls is smart for hamstring balance

 

[SpoonT]

That shoulder feels classic... first heavy set sting is just inflamed joints waking up. 20% deload for a couple of weeks makes sense.

Leg extension jump is probably the machine difference and seat/ROM changes not the gear . Switching to lying leg curls is smart for hamstring balance

Need to make sure I have a look at both leg extension machines, I bet it's something stupid like an extra pulley or something.

 

[SpoonT]

Everything felt really good today, felt like I wasn't going to progress bench but managed an extra rep so very happy. Definitely don't feel like I'm seeing any significant fat gains in progress photos which feels good.

 

[ironguru]

Need to make sure I have a look at both leg extension machines, I bet it's something stupid like an extra pulley or something.

It's frustrating and does happen. I've experienced this a few times at different gyms.

 

[SpoonT]

It's frustrating and does happen. I've experienced this a few times at different gyms.

It's pretty annoying when it's the same franchise just different locations.

 

[SpoonT]

Good workout today, feeling better in my squats. Added 5kg and still felt good, will probably start slowly dialing it up again keeping an eye on form.

 

[ironguru]

It's pretty annoying when it's the same franchise just different locations.

Yeah I have a membership with AF and also a local one that I sometimes go to and have different weights that I need to remember for both

 

[SpoonT]

That was close, almost forgot to post my workout. Don't worry. I don't skip without a good reason.
Dropped the weight from pullups today and just did amrap. Didn't get as many as I did last set last week? Straight bad harder than the slightly angled grips on the cable machine or tired? Dunno

 

[SpoonT]

Shoulders and legs, stupid shoulder getting deloaded, still a bit of pain but not too much, will just work at this weight for a couple weeks at least.
Dialing in the machine at the other gym for the extension, leg curls feeling good in the lying curl machine.
Stupid calves needing more and more weight, I don't know how much more I can fit on this king pin. Might need to figure out to go back to slow single legs or something.

 

[ChasetheCase]

Really wish my gym had that machine