Moar gym logs

Mmmm numbers!

• Deadlift: 5×5 75KG
• Military Press: 5×5 25KG
• Pullups: 5×5 reps Bodyweight

Even More Post-exam Gymming

More numbers over here.

• Deadlift: 5×5 75KG
• Military Press: 5×5 22.5KG
• Pullups: 12 reps over entire session
• Back Squat: 5×5 50KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 45KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 42.5KG

Managed to do a pistol this week – was pretty happy with myself, although I still can’t control my balance when I go down. However, learning the pistol has definitely helped me to get my back squat up 10KG, which is pretty impressive, even if I say so myself. I mostly did one-legged squats on a chair while holding onto my pullup bar to provide assistance with my arm. (Pretty weird setup, I know!) GTG’ed these assistance pistols for the better part of the week. So for those who can’t do a pistol yet – assisted GTG pistols is the key!

More Post-exam Gymming

Too tired to post on tuesday – here’s yet another log.

• Deadlift: 5×5 70KG
• Military Press: 5×5 22.5KG
• Pullups: 12 reps over entire session
• Back Squat: 5×5 40KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 45KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 42.5KG

I’ll need to work on my barbell row – had to go into bad form for the last 2 reps.

Post-exam Gymming

Okay, another summary post over here. Back to the gym after my common test. Going light this week as I’ve not hit the iron for more than 3 weeks now.

• Deadlift: 5×5 65KG
• Military Press: 5×5 20KG
• Pullups: 12 reps over entire session
• Back Squat: 5×5 35KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 40KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 40KG

Rock Climbing Again!

Woo, went climbing today at Climb Adventure again. It was pretty fun – went with the usual gang. The time was sent mostly attempting a particularly hard roof that I wasn’t able to conquer. (Gah!) I need to work on my one arm grip strength, especially the grip strength with less than 4 fingers gripping my support. The roof required me to grip on a hold which only had space for 2 fingers at most – bad news. Also tried several other easier walls. The worst part of climbing is when all the sweat gets on your hands and it becomes extremely difficult to maintain your grip – this is especially problematic when you’re paused on a point in the wall and trying to figure out the best way to get to the next handhold.

It was great fun though – can’t wait to do it again.

Gym Stuff XX

More gym stuff… I’ve been a bit tired lately so just updating my latest progress. Deloaded this week.

• Deadlift: 5×5 65KG
• Military Press: 5×5 20KG
• Pullups: 15 reps over entire session
• Back Squat: 5×5 35KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 40KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 40KG

More gym progress

Okay, back to gym after last tuesday’s absence, for a skin checkup. Numbers to crunch:

• Deadlift: 5×5 75KG (Woot! Above BW! )
• Bench Press: 4×5 45KG, 1×5 42.5KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 37.5KG (Miscounted the plates. -_-)

A condensed log

A delayed update due to KOL, which I started playing again. Note to self: Never try 2 simultaneous ascensions. Here are the numbers for the week.

Tuesday:

• Back Squat: 5×5 42.5KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 42.5KG
• Bent-over Barbell Row: 5×5 40KG
• Single-leg Calf Raise: 5×5 22KG

Thursday:

• Forward Lunge: 5×5 25KG
• Deadlift: 5×5 72.5KG
• Military Press: 5×5 22.5KG

A quick rant on clowns.

Today was more interesting than most gym days – for some reason, there was a huge influx of people and the gym was extremely crowded. And everyone was using the free weights, leaving only the machines free (Much to my chagrin.) Anyway, a quick rant:

The first thing I saw when I entered the gym were some clowns doing bicep curls on the squat rack. I guess the law of averages finally caught up with me because it was the first time ever since I started lifting that I saw a dude using the “curl rack”. However, the law of averages must have caught up with me several times because it was a group of clowns who decided to curl in that rack, and not one clown only. I wouldn’t mind so much if it was only one clown, but a group of clowns effectively ensures that no one else gets to use the damn rack for what it’s built for. My only consolation was that another person appeared to be in the same boat as me – he eventually ended up doing light barbell back squats without any support.

Anyway, I also did an incline bench because all the normal benches were being used by groups of other people. (Not clowns.) I reasoned that I wouldn’t manage to get my benches done in time if I waited for them, so I quickly went and choped the incline bench when I saw that the dude previously on it was finally done. (Yes, every single bench was used up!) As expected, I couldn’t comfortably lift 40KG with an incline bench, so I dropped the weight.

I ended the session by doing my calf raises. Without a power rack in the gym itself, (And the squat rack, which I noticed was still occupied by the same clown / group of clowns.) I was left unable to do a proper calf raise unless I used the smith machine – The dumbbells don’t go high enough in clubfitt for me to do my 5×5, and I’ll be damned if I do a free standing barbell calf raise without any kind of support. (Considering that I calf raise more than I squat, which by the way, is ringing huge alarm bells in my head right now because of the imbalance.)

I initially thought that a smith machine wasn’t that bad of an idea because I’d still have a relatively free range-of-motion in my lower body, because I’ll be doing the raises on a block. If anything felt off, I’ll still be able to move my knees and hips to adjust accordingly.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

After my first 2 sets, I started experiencing major wrist pains whenever I loaded the bar on my back. Turns out that in a smith machine, I would end up supporting the weight with my wrist instead of my back – the smith machine has this contraption where you turn the bar away from you when you want to use it; the act of turning away turns a metal hook attached to the bar away from protruding metal bits on the machine itself, which act as supports for the bar when it’s not being used. Of course, by turning the damn bar away, I ended up pronating my wrists more than normal and some of the bar ended up on my palms instead of on my back.

The result? Massive wrist pain as in my position, most of the weight seemed to be shifted to my tendons instead of the wrist muscle itself.

Lesson learnt: Never touch the bloody smith machine.

In any case, the numbers:

• Incline Bench Press: 5×5 35KG
• Split Squats: 5×5 22KG
• Calf Raises: 2×5 50KG, 3×5 60KG

Oh yeah, my frog stand increased to 30s today. Another further 30 seconds of suspending myself on my arms before I reach my target!

PS. Yeah, this must be the longest post I have ever made. It must be the feelings of frustration fueling my creative juices. Not that I’m complaining.

Number Crunching

Yep, lifting stats for today:

• Split Squats: 20KG 5×5
• Bench Press: 40KG 5×5
• Deadlifts: 70KG 5×5