271.8
Bad day eating yesterday but i still lost some weight. I considered it bad because my wife broke her foot and my daughter cooked. And she used way too much butter when she made us grilled cheese. I need to learn how to cook, or my wife needs to heal up really fast.
I have decided to take a break form all working out! Not my first choice but i need to heal myself. My right palm still feels like it is a deep bruise, my fingers on my right hand still feel numb every so often. And my right heel feels like it is bruised now too. I donlt know what i did to hurt my heel but i am limping around and it will not seems to go away. So my heel stops me from running or Dead Lifts, my palm stops me from kettlebell presses, horse shoes, grippers, DO bending. Basically every kind of exercise is affected. And after hearing from Ben & Tim on Grip Board (2 of the top benders) both suggested i just rest and heel up. And they have both experienced something similiar so i am not alone. Whick makes me feel better.
So now i really need to watch what i eat so i do not baloon up again. I really need to keep loosing this damn weight. It is getting on my nerves.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
273.4 (271 last friday)
I have been VERY busy lately but i think i will be okay for a while now. Bruce and i decided to take this week off from our normal workout but we layed out how we are going to proceed in the future. His body just needs some rest, that all. My right hand needs rest too but thats too bad. i can rest on vacation (maybe)
My weight has still been doing okay. I took 2 weeks off recently and i only gained 2.4 lbs. And then the first week back on track i lost that plus 3 lbs more. So now i am thinking this week i can finally be in the 260's. That will really make me feel like i did something.
Since my last post i have added some items to my grip workouts. I now have a fbbc pinch block, FBBC 2" V-bar and an Iron Mind 2" loading pin and Rolling thunder.
I pulled approx 178 on the V-bar in my first workout and 156 on the Rolling Thunder. But now i need to train for a while and try PR maybe every other month or at most every month.
We decided that there will be 3 main grip exercises, so 1 per workout, and that will be 2 times per week until the weather gets cold again. We will still do the KB presses and follow my schedule of slow by steady progression. Inbetween the sets of presses we will do sets of grip, and also the sets of pull ups. The grip will be as followes: 2 HP, 2" V-bar & RT. We will start at a given weight (approx 75% of our max) and we will do 5 sets of 1. Then the next time we use that implement we will go for 5 sets of 2, and finally 5 sets of 3. In a perfect world we will increase the reps each work out, and after 5 sets of 3 we will increase the weight the following workout and go back to 5 sets of 1. How much we increase the weight will be a guess at that time, but i think maybe 10 lbs. I will know more after the first weight increase.
I am also starting up the KTA gripper program again. I am half way into my first week of Phase 1. I am using different grippers for each hand because i am going for the #3 with my right and #2.5 with my left. It worked really good the first time so i think i need 2 more times completely through to be able to finally close the #3. maybe a 3rd time to do it as a CCS (credit card set) which i need to get certified as a COC on Irom Minds web site
And this is my first week of my Dead lift program. I got the idea from someone on Grip Board. It is from the Dragon Door Website. I like the concept because it is only 3 times per week and i do not have to change the weight every workout. actually the first 3 weeks i use the same weight the whole time. I joined a race to DL 550 lbs. Everyone else can already pull 500 so i am way behind at 475 but atleast it has me motivated to start DL again. I need to training for the TSC anyway.
I am also training for the Steel Slayers Showdown (SSS) in Texas this October. It has 4 events: 1) 7" DO 2) 6" Reverse 3) Horshoes 4) 8" Braced. The catch is that the wraps can only be 1-14" DIA when rolled up without any steel. This is going to be really tough. I have never done Reverse, and i am still new at horseshoes plus the wraps are so thin i can not do anything better that a red nail. It is my kink i need to work on.
So instead of always writing a novel, i will use this to post my workouts and written updates on Fridays, the day i weigh in.
I have been VERY busy lately but i think i will be okay for a while now. Bruce and i decided to take this week off from our normal workout but we layed out how we are going to proceed in the future. His body just needs some rest, that all. My right hand needs rest too but thats too bad. i can rest on vacation (maybe)
My weight has still been doing okay. I took 2 weeks off recently and i only gained 2.4 lbs. And then the first week back on track i lost that plus 3 lbs more. So now i am thinking this week i can finally be in the 260's. That will really make me feel like i did something.
Since my last post i have added some items to my grip workouts. I now have a fbbc pinch block, FBBC 2" V-bar and an Iron Mind 2" loading pin and Rolling thunder.
I pulled approx 178 on the V-bar in my first workout and 156 on the Rolling Thunder. But now i need to train for a while and try PR maybe every other month or at most every month.
We decided that there will be 3 main grip exercises, so 1 per workout, and that will be 2 times per week until the weather gets cold again. We will still do the KB presses and follow my schedule of slow by steady progression. Inbetween the sets of presses we will do sets of grip, and also the sets of pull ups. The grip will be as followes: 2 HP, 2" V-bar & RT. We will start at a given weight (approx 75% of our max) and we will do 5 sets of 1. Then the next time we use that implement we will go for 5 sets of 2, and finally 5 sets of 3. In a perfect world we will increase the reps each work out, and after 5 sets of 3 we will increase the weight the following workout and go back to 5 sets of 1. How much we increase the weight will be a guess at that time, but i think maybe 10 lbs. I will know more after the first weight increase.
I am also starting up the KTA gripper program again. I am half way into my first week of Phase 1. I am using different grippers for each hand because i am going for the #3 with my right and #2.5 with my left. It worked really good the first time so i think i need 2 more times completely through to be able to finally close the #3. maybe a 3rd time to do it as a CCS (credit card set) which i need to get certified as a COC on Irom Minds web site
And this is my first week of my Dead lift program. I got the idea from someone on Grip Board. It is from the Dragon Door Website. I like the concept because it is only 3 times per week and i do not have to change the weight every workout. actually the first 3 weeks i use the same weight the whole time. I joined a race to DL 550 lbs. Everyone else can already pull 500 so i am way behind at 475 but atleast it has me motivated to start DL again. I need to training for the TSC anyway.
I am also training for the Steel Slayers Showdown (SSS) in Texas this October. It has 4 events: 1) 7" DO 2) 6" Reverse 3) Horshoes 4) 8" Braced. The catch is that the wraps can only be 1-14" DIA when rolled up without any steel. This is going to be really tough. I have never done Reverse, and i am still new at horseshoes plus the wraps are so thin i can not do anything better that a red nail. It is my kink i need to work on.
So instead of always writing a novel, i will use this to post my workouts and written updates on Fridays, the day i weigh in.
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