Kangaroo Boxing - 「Foz' Strength and Power Log」

[Ian Coe]

Originally Posted by Fozzy

sexytime.

I would actually like to train with kettleballs, never been able to find any gyms with them locally, and I don't have too much interest in buying them at this stage.

~Foz

decent bike lock and some plates



Enjoy

[oyaji poi]

I didn't know you had a new log.

On your squat video it looks like you're shifting your weight to your toes at the bottom of the squat. Maybe try asking The Nerd King or another advanced squatter for tips on this.

[Fozzy]

Originally Posted by Ian Coe

decent bike lock and some plates



Enjoy

we don't have bike locks in Australia, they aren't stolen every second like in England ;p

Originally Posted by oyaji poi

I didn't know you had a new log.

On your squat video it looks like you're shifting your weight to your toes at the bottom of the squat. Maybe try asking The Nerd King or another advanced squatter for tips on this.

only just started lifting again. I made a thread about it in main S&P forum and got alot of advice. I will have to videotape a session next week when I have a week off University.

日本はどう～？　しごとは？

~Foz

[Fozzy]

Wednesday September 24th

Had the most fucked nights sleep last night, kept thinking about a girl, and just random shit and couldn't get to sleep till 2am. Fucking girls ruining my workouts. /waves fist in anger.

Squat
2*5*Bar
3*47.5kg
3*77.5kg

5*97.5kg
5*97.5kg
4*97.5kg
4*97.5kg
1*97.5kg

My form felt 'meh', I tried sitting back into it more but I have trouble getting out of the hole. Don't know. I need to record this. The last set I just felt drained and couldn't mentally get it up, just dropped it off my back on the second rep up. *sigh*

Also had ALOT of stress on my left elbow, I guess it is the way I am supporting the bar on my back and how my hands are positioned. Did NOT like this pain.

Bench (building back up after a deload)

2*5*Bar
3*42.5kg

5*5*62.5kg, worked on my hand placement again. I find a wide wide grip hurts my shoulder (I threw my right one out boxing several times) so I tend to go alot shorter than most people, but I'm finding a happy medium. I find when it is shorter I can drive it up faster, although the length is further, it feels easier.

Barbell Row

5*85kg
5*85kg
5*85kg
4*85kg
3*85kg

first time I've failed on BOR. Dissapointing but it was bound to happen at some stage. I am trying to work on my form alot more too. Some reps sucked.

Dips

1x11
1x10
1x5

GRIP

LEFT Hand
Trainerx1
CoC1x1

5*1*CoC1.5

RIGHT Hand
CoC1x1
CoC1.5x1

5*1*CoC2

Worked on holding it after the singles and just crushing it until it opened. Hopefully I can make some gains and get them closed. Cheers to Sonny for the new scheme.

May do some wrist roller later today, I feel pretty drained so maybe not. Amongst feeling weak from flu/infections, I am gonna add another cup of milk to my diet just to get some more calories and see if this helps me recover.

~Foz

[Fozzy]

Friday - 26th September

Felt like crap this morning, nose was runny and stuff. How i can still have the flu after 2-3 weeks of not working out, boggles me. My body hates me lol. Shouldn't of gone to the gym.

Anyways.

Squat

2*5*Bar
3*47.5kg
3*77.5kg

5*5*97.5kg

Notes: EXTREMELY f__KING bad form on the 4th rep of sets 3, 4 and 5. I was very unhappy with this. Bad rounding, bad bad bad, I am gonna hurt myself if this continues. I will keep working at this weight until my form improves.

Still got the elbow pain, which seems to be on the way up from the bottom, I tend to put alot of pressure on it and its stressing it ALOT. I tried a few different widths but couldn't find anything comfortable. It was still sore from wednesday too. I will ice it, and see how it feels monday, otherwise I will not workout. Do not want to tear it, as it is pain in the elbow then upto my bicep.

Strict OHP

Bar*2*5
3*35kg

4*52.5kg
3*52.5kg
3*52.5kg
3*52.5kg
3*52.5kg

Was not happy with my form. Nailed it easy at 50kg, needs work. I am rushing it, and not getting under the bar. I don't know what went wrong today.

Deadlifts - skipped as I didn't want to hurt my arm.

Pullups

1x7
1x5
1x3

arm definetely is hurting. especially the bicep. Gonna go ice it now.

~Foz

[Fozzy]

not training related, but got my copy of Starting Strength 2nd Edition yesterday. Loving it. Need a day off from Uni just to sit and read it.

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and thank f__king god it arrived. I described the pain in my arm as like it hurts in my bicep and elbow. Just got to the part on gripping the bar in Starting Strength:

"...people who do this will have sore elbows, a horrible, headache like soreness inside of the elbow that makes them think the injury occurred doing bicep curls. If the elbows are underneathh the weight, and force of the weight is straight down, the wrist and elbows will intercept some of the weight'

Ripptoe is the man. I didn't realise i was gripping the bar the wrong way (both my width was bad, well not bad but I should adjust it / and my thumb was always wrapped around the bar).

Hopefully this pain resides after next week. I may have to take the week off and just let it calm down, aggravating it in 2 workouts was not smart.

~Foz

~Foz

[Fozzy]

Sunday October 5th

Went for a light run, about 15 minutes of actual running, 20 minutes of huffing and puffing like an out of shape bum. It was quite hot too, didn't expect it to hit me that bad being from Darwin.

~Foz

[Fozzy]

Monday October 6th

Jogged down to the oval 3 minutes, then did 5 minutes of 10 second sprint/20 second rest. Rested for 3 minutes, then repeated for 7 minutes. Walked home.

Elbow is still massively sore, hurts when I just do isometric contractions (like just flexing your bicep, that hurts). I made an appointment next week to see my sport doctor, go from there. I don't think it's torn, but it might be a bad sprain. Serves me right for having shit form on my Squats.

Will keep running in the mean time. I want to get back to the point where I was doing 20 second sprint/10 second rest intervals for 15 minutes straight on an exercise bicycle. Damn that was almost a year ago now >.>

~Foz

[Fozzy]

Tuesday October 7th

Went for a similiar sprint session as yesterday, legs fatigued a bit, not used to running everyday and the last few weeks of sporadic lifting hasn't helped.

Intend to just keep doing the sprints, I prefer them to LSD, it's fast, I get it done. Which is good with the demands of University. Hopefully I can get my cardio to a good level before January where I'll be training BJJ again 4 times week.

~Foz

[oxcart]

Are you taking anything at the moment for your arm? I've had problems in the past with elbows (though not from squatting). It's the reason why I include a little bit of direct arm work once a week.