I know long time no info so here goes.
Monday was squats day and things on this are slowly going well. A few weeks ago I went right back to the start, and have started working my way back up to some numbers again. A long way to go so that is why the weights are not huge at the moment. Also I am on some drugs for my condition (read a blog from a few posts ago) that one of the side effects could be weight gain. Guess who got the weight gain, pick me therefore I am a lot bigger than I should be so I am having to work around some things. I am working on picking a weight for the week and then doing working backwards to 90% for 4 individual reps. So on Monday it was 197.5, 207.5, 215 and 220kg. This is for the 220kg ( 220kg x 1 Buffalo Bar ). Felt pretty good doing these however my feet could have been out a bit wider and I could of sat back a touch more. The reason for the 3 mats is because the Dexamethasone has put on a lot of weight around my tummy and I am finding it hard to get to depth. As soon as I get off the stuff my weight should come back a bit and that will allow me to get down easier and I will take another mat out. Hopefully this will happen around September.
Tuesday is for Benching and ummmm yeah. I Should have been doing 150kg for a single and then on to 155, 162.5 and 165kg which should have been real easy as I work back up to where I want to be, However on my first set it did not go as planned so I had to start thinking why not and I have come to the conclusion that for some reason my back is not firing properly when I am right down on the chest. This is very frustrating as my back is big enough to be able to get me back to where I was before everything happened and probably more. Here is my first rep. At the moment this says that my triceps and shoulders can do a 150kg benchpress but I want my back to help out. If I can get it to work then I should be able to do 180 - 200 raw and who knows in a shirt. When we put a 3" board in the way I can get it done although by now I was a little off and had other things on my mind so that is why I am thinking it is something to do with a nerve shutting off something in the bottom part of the rep. I didn't notice it before as I was not getting close to the limit of what my triceps could do but I am now and it is showing up now. This is what the 3" board looked like
Thursday is for Deadlifts. Because of my size I am having to do these in the sumo style. I AM NOT a sumo deadlifter have never claimed to be will never claim to be but it is getting it done somehow. As above when the drugs come off and the weight comes back I will go back to my normal style. The way I have the bands set up here it gives me 60kg of tension at the top so this is 160 for 3 reps. This is what it looked like
Friday I went in and did some GPP to try and help bring back my weight but to also just get generally overall fitter. So tonight I did some Prowler pushes combined with Yoke walks. The distance to the end is 20 meters and 20 meters back. the weight on the Prowler is 40kg and the yoke weighs 85kg. Did this for 1 hour with a 2 min rest between turns. As I get fitter I want that time to come down to 30 seconds so still have a lot of work to do.
GPP Combo
This is only part of what I do each week however I will try to put up different things as we go though this process. I hope I can work out what is happening with my benchpress as I don't really want to be leaving 110kg - 150kg on the floor because my back won't fire.
