Reflection and ramble time
Of late... So many of my blog entries start like that. Fuck it, why broke something that aint fixed? Something like that anyway.
So its officially slow season and boy am I enjoying it. At this time of year I can go to the gym / workout every damn day. Thats right. Gains ville, time to reach my previous max in a month and then make gains on a new max for the 2 months after that.
I am again following a version of Hepburn method, I say version because I am blasting through the cycle to reach my previous training maxes, also my shoulder seems to be good so I am benching again. So at the moment I am planning this for the next 3 months,
Squats, I will squat triples until I dont have anything left in the tank each round of a cycle to reach 120Kg, after that I will raise each cycle by 5Kg and do 2 triples per round for a cycle.
Deadlifts, repeat above except until I reach 150Kg as that was my previous max.
Standing shoulder press will be a fresh cycle of standard, 3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2 each round turning a double to a triple progression. Current shoulder press is 40Kg for 5,5,4 that translates to 14 total reps so if I stat on 40Kg then the initial round will make 17 total reps so thats fine by me 3 reps over load.
Bench will be as above for shoulder press. I have started bench on the working weight of 75Kg and it seems to be going well, although last night my chest was pretty tight, I was happy as it was only 48 hours since the chest session before it.
In other news, Gov. departments are fucking gay. No more to say than that.
In the gym last night I had to wait around for a rack, there has been a dramatic increase in the no. of people squatting and using the racks for shrugs and standing shoulder press.
While I was waiting I warmed up doing some groin and hip stretches as normal, lunge stretch, squat stretch, butterfly stretch, barn doors ( a new addition) toe touches, cant remember after that.
So while I was warming up the rack opened but I wanted to finish my stretches because I feared a groin injury the other night but all seems to be well, must have just been a strain. Anyways this guy steals the rack before I have a chance to hop on.
He had been using one of the leg presses and is actually just using the rack for some type of row or deadlift, lets call him Bob for the following story.
Bob had been on the leg press where your back is against a padded board that doesnt move and his legs are the moving parts of the press, he was just pushing about 120Kg but his form was not fantastic, however I was warming up and wasnt paying full attention, I was also unaware that he was supposed to be supervised by a trainer who was actually leaning over the lying ham string curl machine just staring in the opposite direction, I think he had just taken a shot of juice before coming to work, he had that look about him. Bob was growing more and more frustrated and was demonstrating this by increasing the volume of his grunts, when he was maxing out but there was still not attention from his trainer he finally put his weights on hold and shouted at the guy, “I am here not over there!” the trainer looked around for a brief second but went back to gazing immediately after that. The disregard was so funny. Funny because the guy was trying but his form sucked and I felt that the trainer just wasnt interested in correcting the guy again. This was confirmed his mixed look of pity and apathy.
Bobs next challenge was to do some rows, despite a very good demonstration from the trainer emphasizing form, technique, breathing and keeping a straight back... Bob just went for what looked like the opposite, the trainer took up his gaze into the distance after a few seconds.
The scene should have been straight out of a comedy, on par with some of Richard Pryors best!
I was struggling to come to terms with the fact that the guy just wanted knowledge off the trainer but seemed to blatantly ignore it when given and just do his own thing, the trainer then ignored him. It was childish sure but it was so fucking funny that I actually burst out a little each time I saw it and I was watching diligently after Bob shouted the first time :)