A Weak Squatter's Road To Redemption

[GinjaNinja85]

TOUGH MUDDER PREP WEEK 2/11

EASY/RECOVERY JOG

TIME
30.00

DISTANCE
2.70 miles

PACE
11.06 min/mile

COMMENTS
2 and a bit laps of Hove Park. Easy for the lungs but legs ached after.

[pyaarawala]

Might've missed it but, are you still cutting? You plan to strength train and train for a marathon on a cut??

[GinjaNinja85]

Might've missed it but, are you still cutting? You plan to strength train and train for a marathon on a cut??

Exactly that By the time Aug 24 comes around though I should be eating back at just above maintenance. My cut should be over by early Aug. What are you doing? Your weights been up and down lately IIRC.

[GinjaNinja85]

LP #4

color code:
blue = pr and completed all reps
red = fail

ARMZ
EZ Curls - 2x10x20kg, 10x25
SS w/
EZ Triz - 2x10x20kg, 10x25

SQUAT
5 x 40kg
3 x 55
5 x 75
5 x 75
5 x 75

BENCH PRESS
5 x 42.5kg
5 x 65
5 x 62.5
5 x 62.5

PENDLAY ROW
5 x 40kg
5 x 62.5
5 x 62.5
5 x 62.5

COMMENTS
Disgustingly hungover. Left my squat shoes. Trained at LA Fitness. Triple awful.

TIME
No idea

[Woody-5]

Hungover sessions suck balls
Nice work getting through it

[GinjaNinja85]

Hungover sessions suck balls
Nice work getting through it

Cheers Woody. I nearly vomited a few times.

[LiftingObjects]

Yo man! how's it going?? Just been skimming through your journal, tis a shame work had you missing 2 months training! you were hitting some good weights. The tough mudder event looks cool. I checked there website/videos etc, definitely looks pretty brutal but probably a lot of fun 2. I imagine you'll need a lot of endurance for it.. I'd be crap at that, my lungs are complete garbage!! Anyways good to see you've been keeping @ it!! I'll be logging again now, got a new journal here: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=154804793 Be good to have you on-board again brah!

[GinjaNinja85]

Yo man! how's it going?? Just been skimming through your journal, tis a shame work had you missing 2 months training! you were hitting some good weights. The tough mudder event looks cool. I checked there website/videos etc, definitely looks pretty brutal but probably a lot of fun 2. I imagine you'll need a lot of endurance for it.. I'd be crap at that, my lungs are complete garbage!! Anyways good to see you've been keeping @ it!! I'll be logging again now, got a new journal here: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=154804793 Be good to have you on-board again brah!

LO in the house! Good to have you back bro. The journal is a bit quieter these days. Yeah, training is back with a vengeance. Really looking forward to gettin my lifts back up and doing tough mudder. You were putting in some miles after SS, you'd probably be good in 10-12 weeks. You could always enter the one in Scotland

[GinjaNinja85]

TOUGH MUDDER PREP WEEK 2/11

SPRINTS - flat to slight decline

6:00 jog
0:15 sprint
0:45 jog/walk
x5
7:00 jog/walk

TIME
18.00

COMMENTS
1st sprint session for 4 months or so. I usually don't start off this hard. I normally start with 1 min rest between 4 sprints so this had me blowing a bit. My left quad started to cramp up and almost pull so I walked half the way back. Gave it a good stretch after and it felt fine. I'll probably repeat this next week. Need to control the enthusiasm!

[Sen8or]

Those tough mudders are meant to be brutal, good luck with it and the training needed.

Rather you than me

[GinjaNinja85]

Those tough mudders are meant to be brutal, good luck with it and the training needed.

Rather you than me

Haha. With the training plan laid out I'm actually quite optimistic of doing it in good time! Probably should be scared though

[GinjaNinja85]

Last week, early evening weight: 83kg

This morning's fasted dry weight: 81kg

Equates to about a 1kg less I'd guess. I'm doing keto so some of this may be water, but I had a nice big ribeye steak last night which always sits heavy the following morning. Anyway, definite weight loss

[pyaarawala]

Exactly that By the time Aug 24 comes around though I should be eating back at just above maintenance. My cut should be over by early Aug. What are you doing? Your weights been up and down lately IIRC.

Yeah I haven't been properly tracking calories these days. I'm just so bored of the usual foods I cook at home and I keep eating food from outside. I've gone through this phase before, all I need is a couple weekly weigh-ins of either excessive weight gain or no weight gain to get me back on track. I'm not worrying too much since my strength gains are still coming.

Get shredded soon for that marathon!

[LiftingObjects]

LO in the house! Good to have you back bro. The journal is a bit quieter these days. Yeah, training is back with a vengeance. Really looking forward to gettin my lifts back up and doing tough mudder. You were putting in some miles after SS, you'd probably be good in 10-12 weeks. You could always enter the one in Scotland

Nah man, that would kill me for sure. I run out of breath too easily (asthma related I think) and maybe from years of smoking.

Hopefully the cut/TM training won't hold your weight progression back too much, GL with it all!!

[GinjaNinja85]

I'm very tired. I'm going away to Spain for the weekend so there's a rush on a load of my jobs this week plus every night has had work booked in (on top of my day job) since early last week. Basically, I need a restful evening and a good 8 hours sleep.

The work appeared to be quitening down and now BOOM, since I started training it's gone crazy again. Maybe I'll lift tomorrow.

[pyaarawala]

Some words of wisdom...

"Lift!"

[GinjaNinja85]

Some words of wisdom...

"Lift!"

Ummm, that's one word

I couldn't. I was shattered and would have got only 6 hours sleep if I'd lifted. It's no fun walking round like a zombie all day just because I wanted to lift