Isaku's Training Log

[isaku900]

Good luck at your upcoming meet. There better be a vid or NEGS ...

there's always vids.

[isaku900]

yes bitches I still trained today.

deload ME bench

10@45
8@135
5@185 -decided to do a pseudo-raw max
3@225
3@275
1@315
1@345
1@365 (PR)
1@385 (PR)
called it a day despite having plenty left in the tank, after all its deload
if i were to train raw for a couple weeks over 400 would be pretty easy i think...but then again, why would i ever train raw for that long?


seated row
2x8@140
2x8@180

panora press
4x8@50

face pulls
monster minis 3x8

doneski

[SFGiantsPBA]

Good Job bro!

I need to get some bands to mix up speedwork better.

[isaku900]

Good Job bro!

I need to get some bands to mix up speedwork better.

come train with us.

[SFGiantsPBA]

come train with us.

I train in the afternoon when my kids are in school.

[cupcakekid]

glad to see you held off a little bit on bench. I decided to go a little heavy on DE day. missed a dropset, that was dissapointing, but i have 5 days til ME.

whens the next meet?

[SFGiantsPBA]

Plus you kids don't want a old fart breaking his back in front of you LOL.

[isaku900]

I train in the afternoon when my kids are in school.

come on a weekend, 9:30am.

but not this saturday, we're going on a field trip to super training.

Plus you kids don't want a old fart breaking his back in front of you LOL.

we've already got two masters lifters, a 40 y.o. and a 46 y.o.
you don't got **** on them.

glad to see you held off a little bit on bench. I decided to go a little heavy on DE day. missed a dropset, that was dissapointing, but i have 5 days til ME.

whens the next meet?

january 24, fat expo...err fit expo

[Jason2459]

Awesome PR's especially if you're deloading. But then again with the size of those breasts you may as well be using a 5 board.

[isaku900]

Awesome PR's especially if you're deloading. But then again with the size of those breasts you may as well be using a 5 board.

haha, one of our guys says I look like i have a built in three board b/c of my stomach.

[jmt92]

good deload day, nice PR.

[muscle_g]

Nice work!!

[isaku900]

Field Trip
DE squats
SSB low box vs. green bands.
5@60
5@150
add suit bottoms
3@240
3x2@330
2@380
2x2@420

speedish pulls
3x3@325
2x2@415
2@505

ghr
3x8@bwt

seated box junps
lots to varyng heights.

1@245 clean and jerk - just to prove that i still can.

[cupcakekid]

nice work, those bands are serious business.


i need to start doing some box jumps. time to go to commercial gym where they have those.

was dynamike there?

[isaku900]

nice work, those bands are serious business.


i need to start doing some box jumps. time to go to commercial gym where they have those.

was dynamike there?

nope...the pansy didn't show up.

[gbree300]

I guess some background is in order.

I started lifting weights when I started throwing discus in High School.
My first barbell exercise ever was a Power Snatch.
I played football for three years in high school, I threw discus for four. When I went to college my school did not have a football team, so I played Rugby.
I also had three relatively minor knee surgeries, amongst a number of other injuries.
After my third I could no longer effectively run with the team and had to put away my rugby boots, seemingly for good.

I could still lift though, so I focused on that. I entered a bench press competition at my school my last semester of college and with awful technique I hit a 350lb bench press that would have been three red lights if there was actually judging at this "event".

I started researching sports I could do w/o needing to run. I came across powerlifting in September of 2007 and started training for my first meet which I had set for December 2007.

On December 8, 2007 I competed unequipped with a sportmart belt and knee wraps and totaled 1267.65 in the 242 junior class. I was instantly hooked.

The USPF is very strong in California due to the diligent work of Steve Denison, who manages to put on about a meet a month all over the state, so I focused on lifting single ply.

I trained on a variety of different programs, Madcows 5x5 though I had trouble keeping up with linear progression, followed by a stint at Sheiko foolishly I started with the CMS program and ended up with an overuse injury that stalled my bench for months.

I ran Smolov for squats and then I ran a hybrid bastardized Westside-esque program that was mixed with Sheiko-type high volume. This ran me into the ground pretty quick and I was looking for something new when my job schedule changed and I was able to start training with a team of powerlifters with lots more experience than I.

This log will cover my training in 2009 with the same group. We utilize a modified Westside Barbell training method that is very similar to how Team Super Training in Sacramento train. Jim McDonald referred to our group as the "San Jose chapter of Super Training" at my last meet, which is flattering.

That said, my current best lifts in competition are
Squat: 705
Bench: 518
Deadlift: 617
@275lbs

all in Single Ply, Titan gear. I am not sponsored.
My next planned meet is the USPF American Cup at the LA Fit Expo on January 24, 2009. I hope to total 1900lbs or more there.

Feel free to ask questions, make comments, critiques and the like.


PS: This week is deload so its probably gonna start boring, sorry!

PPS: just a couple of semantics issues:
I train Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, so updates will only happen on those days, or maybe the morning after

I list the exercise as a heading, all my warmups for my main movement
and notate as Sets X Reps @ Weight. e.g. 4x8@90 = 4 sets of 8 reps at 90lbs.
dumbbells are notated as 40lbs per, meaning a 40lb DB in each hand.

hey im new to powerlifting, ive always done bodybuilding and you seem like to right person to ask!
considering your lifts

could you send me your workout?!?
it would be greatly appreciated

thanks!

[isaku900]

hey im new to powerlifting, ive always done bodybuilding and you seem like to right person to ask!
considering your lifts

could you send me your workout?!?
it would be greatly appreciated

thanks!

just pay attention to the log. i don't have a set routine.

we have a program thats fairly chaotic. works better that way.

if you were bodybuilding, you will need to change your mindset away from routines (routines in my opinion promote stagnation) away from bodyparts and towards programming your goals and lifts.

[benbriz]

that is great advice.

[gbree300]

just pay attention to the log. i don't have a set routine.

we have a program thats fairly chaotic. works better that way.

if you were bodybuilding, you will need to change your mindset away from routines (routines in my opinion promote stagnation) away from bodyparts and towards programming your goals and lifts.

ok well where do i start?

[isaku900]

ok well where do i start?

start by coming up with your goals...then you'll actually have a starting and ending point around which to build a training program.

[isaku900]

DE bench against monster mini (~50lbs tension)
8@95-no bands
5@135
5x3@155
no work up

Panora presses:
8@50
3x8@60

T-bar row supersetted with JM press
10@135
10@180
8@225

JM Press supersetted with T-Bar row
3x8@65

today was interesting b/c I woke up ass early, welded 6" extensions onto a SSB with my dad and then drove with the top down on my convertible (so the damn bar would fit in the car) the 25 miles from my parents house to Wild Iron in temperatures ranging from 34 degrees to 45 degrees @ 90mph.

[Jason2459]

Triceps must be fried.

[isaku900]

Triceps must be fried.

ehh...it was all pretty conservative, I'm going all out on thursday for ME bench so I wanted to keep the volume fairly low (for me, I tend to be a volume whore i.e. 60,000lbs per week is cakewalk territory)

but yeah, they're kinda toasty. I want to hit 530+ off a 1 board on thursday though, that should fry me.

[cjdelaney]

oh hai.

nice log.

I never thought you would stoop to keeping a log on BB.com.







you just lost so much of your hardcore PL cred.

[isaku900]

oh hai.

nice log.

I never thought you would stoop to keeping a log on BB.com.







you just lost so much of your hardcore PL cred.

i'm doing it for the "good of the community" *******.

[devinn]

Subbed. Goodluck at the fit expo!

[jmt92]

good luck thursday bro

[rosko234]

keep it up brah

[isaku900]

hey guys, thanks for your support and everything.

just a personal request.

don't call me bro, or brah or any of that...

thanks.

[SFGiantsPBA]

Good luck!