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crazycal1

198.5kgx20 not including collars(strange how the collar weight is suddenly of interest lol)
bit slower today as i had someone round training and it put me off-18 mins ish
shrugs 3x15 with 20kg plate in each hand
calf raises 4x10 with 10 toes pushes for a fifth set.(lol only 45kg at the mo)excuse is their really slow and on a steep angle
3x10x20kg lol bicep curls
grip work (thick handled DB holds followed by 2x10 on the gripper)

so knacked after deads i couldnt face any big upper body compounds.
really want to dead again next workout,but i know ive got to do some upper body work at some point as ive skipped it for a couple of sesh`s.

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crazycal1

at last its an oly trap bar!

i`ve had my plates drilled out too altho typically they fit my trap bar(scaffold pole was used)but there holes are 2mm too small to fit the standard oly bar...biatch!
not a prob tho as ive more than enuff weight for it in rubber plates.
nearly 7ft long now and weighing in at 24kg.
next thing is to add 0.5kg to each end inside the scaffold pole and round it up nicely.
each end is approx imately 6" longer so ive plenty of room for extra weight

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Tall

You could try doing Upper Body first (i.e. Chest/Shoulders/Arms), and then deads last - but you would need to back off on deads a bit I suspect.

crazycal1

that is a thought that occured bud,but that aint gonna happen.
i love doing those deads and getting that increment.
i reckon long as they keep progressing and i maintain on upper bod everythings gonna keep going in the right direction.
i`ll be having a rethink post op.
pre op i`ll be having one workout where i see whats what and what i can really lift for a single.
might even try one from the normal height altho i`m not to bothered about knowing what that poundage would be.

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crazycal1

well i have had an upper body workout since my last post,but i got to try out my trap bar today
turns out with oly plates it sits maybe 10-15mm higher than with standard plates,which is a bit of a p1sser,but i`m planning on getting some board to stand on to make up the difference(hopefully after my op i can add a piece of board each week and slowly getting to lifting from ground height.still not sure how i feel about that when i could simply use more weight as a partial)
anyhoo its the same height now as when i was lifting from blocks(when i had no raised handles on the bar) and before the grooves in the block had appeared.
really noticed how i get further under the bar so from 198kg i did 204kg for the 20 singles,(probly better to call them singles cos i abuse the term rest pause too much)
they felt pretty easy tbh,that might`ve been cos i hadnt done deads for 10 days,but i had thought initially that i`d have lost touch with the weight.
after doing the 20 i thought i`d see how much i could add to the bar comfortably.
going up in 5kg jumps i got 224kg.i think i couldve got alil bit more but was fecking knacked and didnt want to bugger my back up.
i reckon if hadnt done the 20 singles and i`d added weight kilo but kilo after that point i couldve gone on for another 10 or so kg.
i did beat i think or equal my pb on deads but it did feel like cheating abit i spose cos of the height difference,but was happy lifting another 20kg on top of that!.
maybe if hit 250 one day it`ll equal a genuine 200kg one,never been to sure how to allow for the difference.(anybody?)

after that did 3x10 shrugs,
calf raises 3x10
bicep curls ez bar 3x10
3 thick bar holds and 2x10 on the grippers(lol arms were so pumped i couldnt do complete reps with the 100kg ones,can do 20 odd reps on their own)

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crazycal1

ooh yeah just worked out that i was only a few pounds under hitting 500lbs and that i lifted 3x my BW

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crazycal1

trap bar deads again today and upped the weight 5kg to 209kg x 20.
felt like i went thru them pretty quick which was coolio.
certainly didnt have it in me to see how much i could lift for a single this week lol.
in fact after doing a backdown set of 159kgx10 and a set or 50 BW squats after i`d scraped myself off the floor i called it a day.
just wasnt in the mood.
just as i was about to train i bumped into a neighbour who`d just qualified as an osteopath and got chatting.
he read thru what the specialist had said and was highly dubious about my need for an op..
heard that before tho.got myself a free sesh on tuesday and see what he thinks...
he was very unimpressed by my still training legs.
thing is they`ve strengthened my back rather than aggravate it(due to the partial rest pause nature of them)if i dont do them my back gets no better and if i dont stretch i seize up totally...
tbh him telling me i shouldnt have the op has done my head in abit cos it seems i`ve exhausted all the alternatives..

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SX Dave

hope the session on tuesday sheds a bit of light in the right direction mate, and hats off to ya on the lifting, training well mate

crazycal1

lol thanks mate,but ive spent well over a grand on osteos/chiros and physio`s over the years..so i dont hold out much hope

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FAT BOY

you have done well to keep training m8 .
anybody in the medical field will tell you to stop training if you are injured they just dont understand our mentality lol