LtL's Training Log

[LtL]

Thanks Tim. She was happier today.

EXTRA

Rolling upper body
Supple leopard mobility work for lower body

Single arm tricep extensions with short super mini
3 sets of 20 per side

Long super mini pull apart
3 sets of 15

Bed

LtL

[ravimolasaria]

How is little angel doing ... ? Hope she is well now ...

[LtL]

Was up for about 1.5hours last night. She's ok. She just doesn't deal with colds well.

LtL

[big_swede]

Good extra work Al. One off our twins are the same, slightest cold or discomfort he is up all night :-)

[LtL]

Glad we're not the only ones Swedish. Mini is great but she is RUBBISH at sleeping. Any deviation in place, time or noise and she is up. Definitely doesn't take after her Dad; I had a nap on the playmat on the lounge floor yesterday afternoon

LtL

[BendtheBar]

Originally Posted by LtL

Glad we're not the only ones Swedish. Mini is great but she is RUBBISH at sleeping. Any deviation in place, time or noise and she is up. Definitely doesn't take after her Dad; I had a nap on the playmat on the lounge floor yesterday afternoon

LtL

My second was a horrible sleeper. I tell my wife often, as soon as they want to, I'm letting them sleep in until noon every day. I;m not going to be the parent that gripes about junior sleeping in.

[LtL]

MAX EFFORT SQUAT/DL

Deep heat to lower back and light stretching

Squats with cambered bar
Bar for 2 sets
60kgs for 2 sets of 5
Add suit, straps down
100kgs x 3
140kgs x 3
Straps up and add belt
180kgs x 1
200kgs x 1
Knee wraps
220kgs x 1
240kgs x 1
Tighter knee wraps
252.5kgs x 1 PB
260kgs x 1 PB a little high but much better than last time's 250

FIN

So last night I slept from 11:30-3:15 and then was up with a sick Mini until 5:00, sleeping again until 07:30. As well as being tired, I have been coming down with Mini's cold today. I thought about postponing the session until tomorrow but you know you're serious about lifting when your thought process goes:

"If I wait until tomorrow, I might be too sick to train so I'd better train today."



So I dosed up on phenylephrine, paracetamol and more caffeine and went in. Warm-ups were tough but took my time and eventually found a rhythm. I asked Hazzard to cue me to sit back and that really helped me to hit depth today. 220kgs was easy. 240 was smooth as well. 252.5 was a bit of a struggle but comfortable enough for me to go up to the big 6pps. I was tiring at this point but really wanted the lift so pushed on. Wrapping myself was taking ages and after that I was putting straps up on the suit, putting wrist wraps on, belt on, chalk and smelling salts. By this time I had lost some of the feeling in my calves and feet. I need to get this quicker. As I walked out 260 I clipped the rack again, took my time and got set-up well. Starting the squat but was sitting down. I literally stopped at 1/4 squat height and thought about coming up and racking it there but I decided to sit back and push on through. I thought I cut the squat very high but the video doesn't look too bad. I need more hip and lower back strength to sit back more but what strikes me most is my back arch or lack thereof. The cambered bar will have rounded me over a bit but I fold pretty badly at the bottom of the heaviest reps. Something to work on for sure. Got to put myself in a good position in the hole to be able to use my strength. Strength begets strength.

No time for assistance after all that so I went home to eat Mrs LtL's awesome chilli with sweet potato and an email to confirm that I will soon be a rep for an awesome supplement company. All in all, a pretty good night Now if I can just get some sleep...

Video rendering now.

LtL

[Fazc]

Good and let's see the video before I comment further on the 260.

But... do your assistance tomorrow!!!

[Hazzard]

Good work tonight man, you worked hard and didn't have to deal with any abuse from me.

Your sitting back was a hell of a lot better than last time and you didn't concertina over this time. Bust out some back extensions and reverse hypers with the non-existent reverse hyper machine and you'll get your arch sorted in no time.

[BendtheBar]

So I dosed up on phenylephrine, paracetamol and more caffeine and went in.

I have no idea what the first two are, but they gave me testicular fortitude just reading about them.

High squats, crazy squats, whatever. You moved forward.