Tim's Journeyman Log

[Big_Guns_Lance]

Nice workout there Tim

And great progression you have made with your measurements, arms and thighs are big, any pics coming up Tim

 

[The_KM]

Solid workout bro, I love when you say "thingy", you use such complex vocab. it's funny haha. Blood pressure doesn't look bad, it can fluctuate. Nice measurements also

 

[tim290280]

Big_guns_lance: the missus is terrible at action shots while I'm lifting and she doesn't like me posing much (calls it being trapped by the mirror). I'll see if I can't get some taken in a few weeks.

KM: Yeh I'd say my systolic was high due to a few things that should be lower on other days. My resting heart rate was high too. You wouldn't believe that I have an impressive vernacular and edit a publication for work, but it is hard to describe the rope exercise.

It was beautiful weather this afternoon. Pulling on the singlet and knee wraps and going to lift was great. Then of course reality hit and I was down about 10-15% and I may have strained my forearm on the hang snatches.

Lower - done barefoot

Hang snatch x3
60kg
70kg
70kg
70kg

SLDL x5
125kg
125kg
125kg
125kg
125kg

Donkey calf raise x10
51kg
51kg
51kg
51kg
51kg

Squat
125kg x8
125kg x6
125kg x6

Standing calf raise
125kg x5 toes in
125kg x5 toes out
125kg x6 toes out
125kg x6 toes in

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[Lionheart]

Nice measurements tim.You got big arms and thighs.
Strong sessions also.Heavy DB rows,i dont know why you think they sucked thought

 

[tim290280]

^^ because they were meant to be three sets of 8.

Actually I'm really pleased with my arm size yet I don't see them as big. Probably because I've got my proportions about right and I've got that shitty bicep belly that can disappear a bit.

 

[tkD]

nice stats tim, i read what you told me about the belt, i use one only for squats sometimes, i feel the lower back safer lol ...and i used to say i don't use them
keep up the good work man





don't let that waist grow again jk

 

[tim290280]

Belts do help with back stability, but only really on max effort lifts. Since I don't go in for max lifts anymore I don't see the point. Plus if I get asked to lift something I don't want to have to say "I'll just go and get my belt, my knee wraps, my straps......"

Yeh the waist thing does suck. That's why I think I've added about 1% bodyfat. But it is winter here so going to lean down a bit for summer anyway.

 

[tkD]

^^ dieeeeeet

 

[Rageking]

90.1kg (86kg) I believe this to be 3-3.5kg of muscle.

Waist: 87.5cm (86cm)

you sure


good work on the lifts big sldl

 

[tim290280]

^^ Reasonably sure

I've put on some muscle mass where you take the waist measure for this. It is taken rather high, just above the belly button, and I would normally take it lower (where I'm narrower by1.5-2cm). The higher measure takes in some of my lower lats and errectors.

I definitely am fatter though as I seem to retain more water from time to time and look shithouse. While I have retained water in the past I've never looked flabby.

The SLDL's I should have been getting them for 8. I've been feeling really flat of late. Actually thinking I'll switch to single leg SLDL's next week.

 

[tim290280]

Got a couple of sessions to write up since I last posted. I'll actually write up everything I do in a session to give people an idea of what goes on in the filler of a workout at my place.

Upper

Skipping/jump rope 3mins

Scarecrows (Tunen )
BB row
Incline pushup
Static pullup
Band tricep ext
Band L-fly

Incline bench x2
60kg
80kg
Arm swings
Chest swings
105kg
105kg
105kg
105kg
105kg

Chinup x3
BW
Lower trap contraction/wall slide
40kg
40kg
40kg
40kg
40kg

Handstand pushup
4
3 (dog trying to lick my face so missed 1-2 reps)
3 (had started doing laterals already)

Lateral raises (50-60 degrees scapular plane)
17kg x8
17kg x8

BB bicep curl
52.5kg x6
52.5kg x6

OH DB tricep ext
17kg x12
17kg x12

Didn't include general pacing and conversations with the missus.

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[tim290280]

And last nights leg session.

Lower

Skipping with butt kicks and knee raises 3mins

With bar:
Cuban presses
Good mornings
Overhead squats
Long stride lunge
SLDL
Leg swings
knee swings
Knee to chest

Hang C&J x2
Carry loaded bar 10m
60kg
static high pull (low arms)
80kg
85kg
85kg
85kg
Carry loaded bar 10m

Deadlifts
140kg
175kg
200kg
200kg
175kg

Split squat x7
Power clean loaded bar to shoulder and move into rack
90kg
90kg

DB single leg calf raise x8
53kg
53kg

Hammy curl x5
25kg
25kg

Standing calf raise (half toes in half toes out)
90kg x20
90kg x24

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[philosopher]

Strong deadlifting Tim . I find it one of the hardest exercises to master. I dunno why but my deadlifting sucks.

 

[tim290280]

Philo: I've taken the deadlift from a double bodyweight to a 2.25-2.27 by adding in more hammy work. I think my weightlifting has helped as well. I think one of things is to not try and squat the weight but actually deadlift it. Either way I think we should be asking Tunen or Braaq.

Last night I had the motivation of a terminally ill pizza crust. Third day or training in a row, but will be the last chance I'll get for another 3-4 days. So I did upper body but really only did half the workout.

Upper

Bench
60kg x5
80kg x5
100kg x5
110kg x8
110kg x6
110kg x6
90kg x12

Thick bar DB row
42kg x5
61kg x8
61kg x6
61kg x6
50kg x10

Soundtrack:

Tunen, Skeptic and Mygeeto: I've been listening to a few new death and black artists and have to say that I'm not exactly loving it. For example; Opeth is fine; Amon Amarth is good and I don't mind the vocals; Dimmu Borgir I can listen to one or two tracks at a time, any more and I start wanting to kill the singer. So I can still only handle this style of vocal in small doses, how small that dose is depends on the rest of the music.

 

[PistolPete]

You've had some serious progress with the weights moving up man way to go! Any chance of seeing some progress pictures?

 

[tim290280]

^^ Clothed or unclothed?

 

[Lionheart]

Strong deads timmy.How much reps did you do?
Good benching and rowing also

 

[tim290280]

^^ Any of the warmups are doubles, the work sets are singles. I don't like pulling more than a triple or quadruple on deads, defeats the purpose of the lift. That's why I aim to do multisets of singles with the work sets. The 200kg should have been 4-5 sets but on the third I couldn't hold my form so I dropped it. So my max is somewhere between 200 and 210kg at the moment but it felt like it was closer to 202.5 or 205kg

I think that next week that I will start with rack pulls with 110% and work down in height. I'll do snatch grip deads as a warmup to get some strength off the floor to compliment.

As for pics guys, I've got one from just before winter that is just me standing relaxed between sets and I'll see if I can't get one or two over the next few days to post.

 

[El Freako]

Great deads and bench work Timbo, and one other thing...






















NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS!

 

[tim290280]

^^ Hmmm don't know about that. Can't have people getting penis envy.


Don't know how much weight I'll be lifting tomorrow, been drinking since lunch time. AFL grand final today and friends birthday party. We had alcoholic slushies and beer