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Did lower body/core today:

5 minutes on a bike, 3 sets of skaters and stretching to warm up.

Box jumps from seated, 36" box, 3 sets of ten

Hanging straight leg lifts, 3 sets, hold at top, slow negative motion to vertical, 2 sets knees to chest, slow negative motion

Side planks with cable pull, 3 sets, slow negative motion.

Glute machine, 3 sets, slow negative motion

Lateral sliders with stretch band, 3 sets of 50 each way.

Hamstring curls, 3 sets

Back extensions and oblique extensions, 3 sets each

One-legged dumbell flies on a BOSU ball, 3 sets

One-legged ankle rotations on a BOSU ball, 3 sets

Squat machine, 3 sets super-setted with body-weight squats on the BOSU ball.

Bench - 1 min rest between sets
Weighted dips - circuit 1...1 min rest between rounds
Lats - circuit 1
DB Incline - circuit 2...1 min rest between rounds
DB Rows - circuit 2
Neck - 30 seconds rest between sets

I hit calves or more accurately one calve and it almost brought tears to my eyes. The therapist said it has to do with the blood flow and swelling from the pressure. I also squeezed in rear delts and back. Man I am weak these days lol.

Calves:
stair raises up on two down on one with bodyweight ( 210 )3 sets of 15
seated calf raises 3 sets of 150x10
Smith raises 90 3 sets of 10
The a limp for a while to walk it off. Not very strong but considering the leg is still shattered and a Ti rod is holding it together not terrible.

Back:
Upright rows
Wide Grip Chins
Mid Row
Two Handed Pulldown
Rear Shrug to 90 degrees

Not a great workout but for only a few weeks in not terrible. I think I am not going to spring back that fast this time though.

Yesterday:
Strength/Skill:
One legged squat/pistol progressions

Workout:
6 rounds for time:
200m Sprint
10 one legged squats (alternating legs)

8:27

Yesterday:
30 minutes of elliptical
3 sets of 10 for the following
bench press
lat rows
shoulder press
lat pulls
flies

BUT it isn't all just fun and games in the gym, the dogs and I roll out at 5:00 every morning and take a walk above town. These guys have been around since early spring but I think they may have finally headed up higher.

I trained Quads today or better put my bad quad and obliques. Wanted to hit bis and tris but I was shot afterward. Went t Durham to see a longtime friend and he had to have a home ground burger for lunch so I broke my own rules and had one to. Not a lot of healthy options there and we only get lunch once a year or so. Plan to buckle down this weekend and cook all my meals and start tracking again now that I think I am ok to train all the time.

Stomatador, I didn't know they had elk in Mayberry??

Did upper body today, warmup/stretching followed by:

Wide angle pull-ups, 3 sets

Chest press with cable machine, standing, toward floor, 3 sets

Shoulder rotations with cable machine, internal and external, 3 sets each

Cauldrons and Russians, 3 sets each

chest press with cable machine, seated, at shoulder level, 3 sets

Seated row machine, 3 sets

overhead press machine, 3 sets

curls, 3 sets


Gonna try to get in a few miles with the pack on this evening.

Seems like a lot of the workouts folks here are doing follow the same routine as BBs. Anyone ever do a 30 -40 minute nonstop workout finished off with a century set? Basically say your training chest, you superset and do let's say sets of twenty each of Incline press with flies and then after three or four sets go right into dumbbell press with and cables, followed by dips and then pec deck, followed by hammer strength for a set of 100. If you get to a spot in the hundred where you can't finish you do partials. When you are to weak to do partials drop ten pounds and keep going. I had a gym nut do this with me once a week for a month rotating the muscle group so the group had a month in between with regular workouts on other parts if that makes sense. I was always taught it would make you lean out more and loose strength. Well I gained weight and got stronger. I attribute it to my body being used to a standard routine. It seems if training for endurance and conditioning this would be a good one as would taking a barbell with say 135 on it and doing a set of 15 military presses in between sets through your whole workout. I haven't tried this but have read of some advanced trainers going to tears trying it. On the earlier workout I mentioned I have to say by the second group of lifts I was looking for the door and I have prided myself on loving to lift and the harder the better. By the end I was pressing something like 45 pounds partially and had nothing left. Same principal as the Dog crap training that was popular or the idea of training heavier than you can lift with a spotter helping when you fail. Going beyond failure is the general idea.

Talked to my brother today and he is doing the WCB training. He said it is making him faster and stronger. I looked at it and I see another powerlifting routine. Maybe I am missing something anyone try it? It looks similar to how I was training with the FB team. He is encouraging me to do box squats again but I am hesitant until I build my core/back and leg more.

Don't know about any of that. But I do know that this evening I did the best workout there is for carrying a loaded pack cross-country, up and down hills.

I carried a loaded pack cross-country, up and down hills.

Today's workout was:
Strength:
Thrusters
15-12-9
95#-105#-115#

Workout:
95# Thrusters
Burpees
21-15-9

12:00

Yesterday:
Thai/Boxing

Today:
Snatches..1 min between sets
Deadlifts...1 min between sets
Hang Cleans...circuit 1...1 min between rounds
High bar squats...circuit 1
Hanging leg raises...circuit 1

Did cardio today. I could tell that my legs hadn't recovered from carrying the pack up and down yesterday evening. Kind of similar to hunting season.

Complete the following for time:

10 Box Jumps 24″
20 Ring Push Ups
30 Pull ups
40 Sit ups
30 Pull ups
20 Ring Push Ups
10 Box Jumps 24″


8:10

Smokepole, we have almost everything here in Mayberry. An awesome cafe (a big part of why I have to workout) and a glass house across the street. Shoot, we even have our own stoplight on the highway.

Spent yesterday deploying trail cams, hiking some of the roughest, steepest country around here. A few miles and a couple thousand feet.

Archery season will start before I'm ready.

Nice, good luck. I wish I lived close enough to my hunting grounds to go up there a lot in the off-season, but I guess that's another advantage of living in Mayberry.

Say hey to Floyd and the boys at the barber shop for me.

2 mile interval run this morning after coming off a cold earlier in the week. Good swim tonight. Only missed 3 planned workouts this week and the ones I did were some of my best to date.

Did "corrective exercises" at the gym, mostly core but also some stretch band exercises for the shoulder and hips.

Prone cobra, leg lifts, diamond leg hold, crossover crunches, back extensions on a Swiss ball, half-vees, and one or two others.

In the evening I carried a 45-lb pack a few miles, then up and down a steep grade right at the end. Felt good carrying the pack, the Paradox fits me very well.

Climbed 1400 feet off trail today to put out a trail cam. Was wishing it could just beam me photos, but it is a cheap model. Will check it in a few weeks and see if the band of brothers has walked by it. Felt kind of tired but climbing deadfalls and loose scree will work on an older guy. Kids and lab puppy experienced no issues.