Ccr 2.0

I think the sled is good if you actually use it right. Too many guys do 1/4 free weight squats and use even less motion on the sled.

The other day this guy squatted 315, but nowhere near 90.
 
I've had a really bad training week :(

On Wednesday and today I had to stay at home until late to get my girlfriend and Daughter up, and fed so I missed another morning session and yesterday I had an assesment day for this job I'm going for (I got through to the next stage) so I haven't trained since Tuesday!!

I'm going in at lunch time to get as much done as possible but I'm going to have to try and do something over the weekend

Any ideas Tony?

I was wondering, is a single leg iso squat a good idea or would is stress the knee joint too much?
 
Another 30 minute lunch session? Just hit some compounds deadlift, mil press, rows.

What brought about the idea of an iso squat? Never even thought about that. I would probably actually use the leg extension or sled for that. Hmm...Ill get back to you.
 
Yeah, I haven't deadlifted in a while now, I also need to work on those puny lats of mine. I'll just have to make sure my intensity is super high today :)

The Iso single leg squat just came from me imagining that it'd be really hard, I do that a lot

I also had another idea! Due to me doing all that work in my kitchen last week I now have a piece of kitchen worktop about 3 foot long in my back garden; I was thinking I might try and do OH squats using that this weekend

And just to top it off, here's a question I just posed to Goergen, do you have any ideas on this?

CCR said:
Hey G, how come you aren't posting much these days?

I have a question for you. I've found that when I squat heavy or use that leg sled thing I use my stomach to help provide the initial push to get the weight back up. Is that normal or bad form? I imagine it would be OK for competition but in training does it just take some of the demand for explosive power away from your legs and therefore hinder their development?
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I ended up doing Friday's schedule as normal, I performed the first 4 parts of the routine with shorter breaks than usual to fit them all in within 30 minutes

BB Row
4x5@ 176

This was done with an EZ bar as I think my gym must have thrown out the spare BB which has really pi**ed me off as It's gonna be harder for anyone to deadlift now. I allowed 10kg for the bar but it was a lot bigger than the other EZ bars so it might have been 15kg

Single arm cable rows
2x15@ 132
2x15@ 121

This killed my arm

Bench press (no benches left to do DB press and short on time)
3x12 @154

Pull Up Iso holds
2x15-20 seconds (this needs work :()

Pull down Iso hold
152lbs @ 30sec

I've lost weight again which was very unplanned, I'm back on over 4k Kcals a day but yesterday must have hit me hard as I was unable to eat due to nerves of my assessment day
 
I managed to fit in those OH Squats with the worktop in my garden at the weekend, I definately found them harder than regular squats, I probably did about 50 reps in all along with some lateral raises and OH pressing inbetween squat sets.

And Tony, it was in the rain, real men don't need Umbrellas ;)
 
Yep, 8 weeks from now I'll have no source of income :eek:

I am going for another job anyway so hopefully I'll get that but being made redundant puts a hell of a lot more pressure on
 
There's a 4 week 'consultation period' where other options for employment within the company are considered and then if after that there's still no position for me then I'll be paid in lieu of notice and get my redundancy
 
Don't worry, CCR. I'm sure it will all turn out OK! It might get hard for a while, but you are just going to have to work hard to work it out!

Good luck to you!
 
I suppose I ought to post something about my training

I think I've got the DB snatch form right now. I moved up 38.5 lbs this week which is just over 10lbs heavier than I was using before and I think with practice I can move that up again pretty fast

I did the leg sled again as the shortage of BB's at my gym meant the squat rack was empty yesterday. I lifted 330 lbs for reps of 8,10&12

Cable rows- 3x10@ 185

I did some other stuff too but I forget now

On Monday a did the chin up iso holds Tony suggested for my arms day and I think they're going to help me a lot

On a bad note- I'm still losing weight! I've taken to eating cakes, sweets and fatty snacks at home to try and stop this from happening but I must be down to 220lbs now. My girlfriend said my arms looked a lot bigger yesterday, I had to tell her it was just because the muscle didn't have such a big layer of fat round it anymore

Oh yeah, I seem to have constant DOMS at the moment, I'm training less than before so why could this be? I'm hurting all over
 
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I had a telephone interview today which went very well but the next stage of recruitment is at the end of April which is a bit of a bummer

I have an interview with a financial training organisation at 12 and then another telephone interview at 3

I never thought I'd see the day when I'd be dreading a 4 day weekend but I could really do without losing any working days right now

Oh, and I might be going for an interview with a tax and accounting company and their offices have finger print entry!! How cool, it'd be like working at CTU :D
 
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