[RJ43]

Muay Thai:
4 rounds of a combo including about 8 kicks. I'm guessing I got about 200 kicks in during the workout. My cardio is actually feeling great and my muscle endurance has improved over the past two weeks.

After the pad work, we did a circuit cardio workout for 15 min. 5 sets of:

Upright Rows/20 punches with dumbells in hand/ 10 med ball presses/10 jumps over a box/ 15 pushups/15 situps/ 10 kicks each leg on the heavy bag/ 20 knees.

By this time I was pretty fatigued, but I had a spotter for bench so I took full advantage.

Barbell Bench Press:
135x6
185x5
185x5
195x5
205x5
205x4 (4th rep was a forced rep)

I felt pretty fatigued going into the pressing. 185 felt a lot heavier to me than usual, but I still managed to increse the weight this week on my set of 205 where I hit all 5 reps with good form. That set basically sapped all of my energy and I failed on the 4th rep of the final set.

I plan on switching to close grip barbell bench for the next few weeks. I want to be able to do atleast 3 sets of 205 for the full 5 reps when I return to flat barbell bench.

Tate Press:
40x10
40x10
40x8
40x8

Felt pretty good, increased the reps this week so I'm happy. I'm going to switch to skull crushers next week for a few weeks and hope to come back to tate press with 45lbs for 10 reps.

Seated DB presses (no back support)
40x10
40x10
40x10
40x7

Felt good until the last set when my body told me I've had enough. Next week I'm moving on to push presses for a few weeks so I hope to return to db shoulder press with atlest 45 lbs for 8-10 reps.

Overall I was happy with my gains this week and look forward to mixing it up next week.

[Barut]

Who's Eddy?

[RJ43]

Originally Posted by Barut

Who's Eddy?

It's Ed Corney. Back in Arnold's "Pumping Iron" doc, there is a scene where Ed Corney and Arnold are doing squats. Ed is pounding out reps with 315 and is on the verge of collapsing (which he does after the set I thnk) and Arnold just planley says "let's get serious."

My friends and I always got a laugh out of that and used to say it to eachother when one of us was slacking or being lazy.

YouTube - Ed Corney Squatting
It's at the 1:00 mark

[RJ43]

Long weekend for this guy. Flew to LA on friday so I didn't train. Sat/Sun were just completely lazy days of eating 1 poor meal a day and literally laying around for 89% of the day. Monday was a slightly better diet but no training.

Oh, I'd also like to add I got about 4 hours a sleep a night, if that.

Tonight was BJJ/Sub Wrestling and we worked on single leg takedowns. One of the takedowns involved me spearing the guy in the chest to shoot the leg out and take down. Well I jammed it pretty bad going in crooked and now my inner shoulder blade hurts.

Also, this is the most fatigued I've ever felt after a workout of any kind. I'm moving like a snail, and I can't stop shivering while it's a beautiful warm day here.

Needless to say I couldn't hit the weights so I'm really hoping after about 9 hrs of sleep I feel better and can hit the gym tomorrow. Incredibly beat though, it's a task just to write this.