Hedlesky's Mental Collapse to The Arnold

[HamburgerTrain]

The pulls was probably just a bad day. Are you doing any meets soon?

Oh, and I contacted James Smith to do my programming for me. In the process I've also sold my car and almost everything I own to pay for it, haha,

Good, you didn't need any of that $hit anyways. haha. That is awesome, man.

My next meet is the Arnold in March.

[HamburgerTrain]

Well, the combination of heavy rack pulls/heavy backwards sled dragging over the last 2 days made me wake up with new muscles in my back. I seriously think I got 10 inches thicker in my sleep last night. If this is rhabdo, my training is going to shift gears to focusing on only getting rhabdo all the time because this is awesome. Any way:

Tuesday-12/4/12- ME Upper- ACC. Wave 1

Tri Smash
Tri Opener
Int. Rot. Traction
Hum. Set
Other Stuff I forgot about

Bench- Very Close Grip- Fat Bar- Shoulder feels like I am pressing through mint jelly off my chest. A little pain going on in there I don't think it is anything serious but I may lay off heavy benching for until after my planned delaod in 2 weeks just to not **** it up.

75x10
165x5
215x3
255x3
305x3
345x3
365x3
395x2<~~~~ didn't fail but a thrid one would have been real ugly.

2 board-medium grip- 255x25, 12, 12= 49- 3min rest between sets

DH pull-ups- widex5, closex5<~~~~ fatty gonna fat.

V-Grip Bent Lat Pulls- Blue Bandx4x25/Tri Push Downs- Blue Band-4x25


Had to shut it down. In a rush this morning. Going to be on TV for the 5th time this year.




Wednesday-Extra- 12/5/12-

100 face pulls w/40lbs
50 straight arm lateral raises w/30lbs
50 bent arm
25 Standing ab pull downs w/50lbs
25 w/70lbs
25 w/85lbs<~~~~ whole stack brahhhhhhhh!!!!!

100 hamstring curls with 50lbs/3 different foot positions.

[arian11]

So is this a crossfit log or something?

[HamburgerTrain]

So is this a crossfit log or something?

Totally, bro. It makes everyone better at everything regardless of what you are doing? Powerlifting? Rock Climbing? Glory Hole drilling for time? Crossfit answers all questions.

[HamburgerTrain]

Real Life has been very $hitty lately. $hittier than usual. Training got put on the back burner.

12 weeks out:


Sunday-12/9/12- AM- ACC. Block Wave 2:

Hip Ext Rot. Stretchx5mins

Tabata Calorie Row- 76

Walked 10 minutes on 12 incline @ 2.5mph



Working till 1 today, watching the Skins hopefully beat the turd ass ravens, then doing my DE Lower stuff a little later.

[arian11]

Can I handle you at the Arnolds? And I'm not talking about gear...

[HamburgerTrain]

Can I handle you at the Arnolds? And I'm not talking about gear...

Absolutely. You can help me test my new tandum deadlift suit. All these 2 man deadlifts are done so inefficiently. My suit straps 2 dudes together face to face. This is how you get the best leverages. One sumo, one conventional... we can work that out later. And there is no room for clothes.

[CROMAGS1985]

You better be on fire after that OT win!

[HamburgerTrain]

You better be on fire after that OT win!

Hell yes. I couldn't care less about the actual Baltimore Ravens. The city of Baltimore is such a $hit hole. This was a victory for all of mankind.

[HamburgerTrain]

Monday-am-12/10/12- DE Lower

Tons of mobility stuff

Kneeling Jump to broad jump- Longest one was just over 7 feet.

Front Box Squats- 255+200 in bands x12x2 in 7:10... full minute faster than last week.
Sumo Pulls- 440x10x1 <~~~~ didn't keep track of time, reps started slowing too much around set 7

RDL-405x6<~~~ felt terrible.

Dimel Deadsx225x4x25

BS Fallouts/seated KB GMs-
4x12/50lbsx4x12





PM- Prowler- 90lbsx40 yards x 10 reps in 8:30

[HamburgerTrain]

Tuesday-12/11/12- ME Upper

Int. Rot. Distraction
Tri Opener
Hum/Bench set

Seated OH Pin Press (at chin)- Fat Bar- 75x10,
125x5
145x3
165x3
185x3
205x3
215x3
225x3

JM Presses- Fat Bar- 75x10
125x10
145x10
165x10
185x10
205x10
225x10

... yes, I can do tricep extensions with more weight than I can overhead press.


DH Pull-Upsx10
Kippingx2x10

Uneven KB pronated curls- 35lbs/25lbs- 12 reps/switch/12 reps x 2 sets
Even with 25lbs x 20

[arian11]

Hell yes. I couldn't care less about the actual Baltimore Ravens. The city of Baltimore is such a $hit hole. This was a victory for all of mankind.

And Washington is supposed to a nice place?

[HamburgerTrain]

And Washington is supposed to a nice place?

The only saving grace of Washington is people from Baltimore don't live there.

[HamburgerTrain]

Wednesday-12/12/12<~~~~ whoa. Weird.... Extra Stuff


Today is 100% recovery. No conditioning of any kind. My hands are fried which means something is out of whack somewhere.

1 Minute on each- Each loaded with 50lbs:

Hamstring Curl Machine
Back Ext. Machine x 2
Weighted Crunch Machine
Tri Extension Machine... yes, the fitness center has a machine just for tricep extensions. It probably costs about 2 grand from the looks of it and you can only do one little 150 degree range of motion exercise on it.
Seated Horizontal Chest Press Machine
Rear Delt Machine

Treadmill @ 12 incline @ 2.7 mph. Kept HR right around 110-130 for 10 minutes.

[HamburgerTrain]

Saturday-12/15/12- DE Lower

Rolled everything for 20mins
Ext Rot. Stretch

Front Box Squats- +200 in bands
A billion warm up sets... front squats in vibrams suck.

275x5x2
295x1
335x1
355x1
375x1
400x1

Smoked all of these. Bar started slipping with 400 so I stopped there.

Sumo DLs- 475x6x1

Didn't keep track of time today. Just wanted to move some heavier stuff fast before my deload next week.


Part 2 of my 2-a-day in a couple hours.

[HamburgerTrain]

Saturday-12/15/12- DE Upper... part 2...

Lots of stretchy stuff

Bench-Medium Grip- 135x6x3, 185x6x3

Triceps Hell- I video'd this but it ended up looking more like a nuff film than a bench press:

275 on the bar:
4 board x 5
3 board x 5
2 board x 5
1 board x 5
chest x 5
1 board x 5
2 board x 4

Cry x 20 minutes

One Arm Stnading Band Row- Average x2x50 on each arm
BB Curls-45x10, 65x10, 65x5x10/10s rest

Had more planned but I would rather go eat myself into a coma. At least my arms are pumped for the club tonight.

[HamburgerTrain]

Sunday AM WEIGHT SMASHHHHHH RAW Beast Mode Engaged to the MAXIMUM...- 12/16/12

Rear Delt Machine/Tri Rope Facepulls
Kept moving up in weight until it got hard. Started with 30lbs, ended with 120x10/30lbsx?x15, 60lbsx15

Weighted Crunch Machine/Pallof Presses
3x20/3x15s holds w/25lbs

Back Extension Machine-
Did the whole stack of plates for 50 reps and didn't feel anything. If I use this thing again, I do some kind of interval training. Like 6 hours on/10 seconds off for 100 f*cking sets.

Rower-Calorie Tabata
Only got 70. My upper back and arms are completely smoked from this morning and yesterday.

[WannaBeATank]

Swole front squats, and don't you have to get invited to lift at the Arnold? That'd be awesome. I'm hoping to go in a few years.

By the way, countdown starts today. The programming is starting in 1-2 weeks... I'm like a little school girl right. I'm giggling non-stop.

[HamburgerTrain]

Swole front squats, and don't you have to get invited to lift at the Arnold? That'd be awesome. I'm hoping to go in a few years.

By the way, countdown starts today. The programming is starting in 1-2 weeks... I'm like a little school girl right. I'm giggling non-stop.

Yea, the pro deadlift is invite only. I honestly have no idea how I got invited the first year.

[HamburgerTrain]

Wednesday- ME Upper- 12/19/12

Long day today, didn't eat, didn't drink any water, just generally feel like $hit because I think I'm getting sick, and both of my QL's feel about as lit up as a christmas tree. FINALLY seeing an ortho about this tomorrow. Hopefully, I can get this stuff straightened out and still get in some decent training for the arnold.

Warmed up-

VCG 2 board Bench- 135x10x3, 225x3x3
275x3
315x3
365x3
385x3<~~~ just stopped. No where near a max.

Feet Elevated Push ups-
50, 31, 41= 122 total. 3min rest (more like 2 to 2:30 because I didn't feel like waiting).

Rower- 500 in 1:30. Went as hard as I could on this and was still 4s over my best time. Something is definitely off.


I am seriously going to eat 10,000 calories for dinner.

[HamburgerTrain]

Thursday- 12/20/12-

Tried to front squat, loaded 225 on the bar, back spasmed so hard that I fell on the floor. Called it a day.






Saturday- 12/22/12-

Benched 405 and it felt like $hit.
JM presses- 135x5x15
4inch Cambered bar row- 135x10, 225x6, 275x6, 315x6, 365x6<~~~ Pretty sure this gave me cancer.

[CROMAGS1985]

HT, can you post the YouTube vid again of Lou correcting your form on those weird triceps close grip/extension things please.

I tried them today and they felt awesome but I wanna make sure I'm doing them right.

Sorry your Arnold prep has been kinda up and down. Hang in there...

[HamburgerTrain]

HT, can you post the YouTube vid again of Lou correcting your form on those weird triceps close grip/extension things please.

I tried them today and they felt awesome but I wanna make sure I'm doing them right.

Sorry your Arnold prep has been kinda up and down. Hang in there...

Yea, training has been a mess. Whatever is going on in my back is now so far beyound f*cked up, I'm not sure if I should even attempt the Arnold this year.

Here's the vid:

[CROMAGS1985]

Have you been getting Chiro or ART or anything? Do you know what the actual problem is?

Thanks for the vid. I messed up the throat part and my elbows weren't high enough.

[HamburgerTrain]

Have you been getting Chiro or ART or anything? Do you know what the actual problem is?

Thanks for the vid. I messed up the throat part and my elbows weren't high enough.

I've been seeing a chiro and it has gotten much, much worse. I have an appointment with an ortho in the beginning of january. Hopefully, he can just give me some scripts for PT and that will take care of it.

[HamburgerTrain]

Gave myself the CUBE method book for christmas. Read the whole thing in one sitting and it pissed me off more than I could possibly describe because it was exactly how I had my training set up when I first started training for meets. Since my back is totally trashed and it looks like I'm going to have some time off for a while, I am going to mess around with this for a little while. Especially for a raw lifter, this is a great weekly training plan that is still easily adaptable to a bulgarian/conjugate style periodization plan.

Monday-12/24/12

Rolled everything

Did a bunch of empty bar complex's

Snatch Grip DLs- Hands touching the collars
135x10
225x6x2/concnetric only kneeling jumpsx6x2
315x6
405x6
500x6
610x1<~~~~ everything kinda falied all at once here. Head wasn't in it, my grip sucked, and everything felt weak. The most I've done on these (with a different hand position) is 605x6. So, this was still a weight PR.

SLDL-315x5x10

Blast Strap Fall Outs-5x12
Pallofs- Green Band-4x15 count

Stretched.

Merry Christmas!

[HamburgerTrain]

Wednesday-12/26/12- Bench ME

2 board close grip fat bar- 415x3
JM Presses- Fat Bar- 225x6

Been up since 1am yesterday. Think I hit the wall going to bed at 430 in the afternoon

[HamburgerTrain]

Thursday-12/27/12- Squattin' Fer speed

Immediately when I woke up- Foam Rolled everything


BB Rolled Hammies
Ankle Extension Distraction- x10 with anterior then posterior distraction
Hip Opener Distraction- Strong band- 1min then 10 lunges
10 OH Squats
Shoulder disloactions
Shoulder Pinch and press

Squats- 315x10x2 in 11:00. No belt no box

Squat GMs- 135x5x10

Back was too lit up to unrack the bar. More tomorrow.

[HamburgerTrain]

Friday-12/28/12- AM Stuff

Woke up with a fever, sore throat, and what I'm pretty sure is a bad case of AIDS. Got to work early, stretched my hips for about 10 minutes, and still rowed a grand in 3:32. Now I have more AIDS.

[scottyk31]

Friday-12/28/12- AM Stuff

Woke up with a fever, sore throat, and what I'm pretty sure is a bad case of AIDS. Got to work early, stretched my hips for about 10 minutes, and still rowed a grand in 3:32. Now I have more AIDS.

should your new nickname be Magic? or is that too soon