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My legs session didn't happen today, absolutely no chance of that. I didn't wake until midday and have been shattered ever since. Partly to do with yesterday's inhuman gym effort, plus a boozy night out too when I didn't get in until 1 a.m.
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Sorry I haven't posted recently, but Virginmedia has had weeks of problems in my area. I've had no internet connection since early on yesterday. I don't have much mobile data, either, not usually needing it. Back ASAP.
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Yay, Internet back on... for now! No gym today (Monday) as I had to go to hospital yesterday because my right knee has swollen again. It was just too painful to get out today. I'll try a trip there tomorrow, although no leg work will be on the agenda, sadly.

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Sorry I haven't posted recently, but Virginmedia has had weeks of problems in my area. I've had no internet connection since early on yesterday. I don't have much mobile data, either, not usually needing it. Back ASAP.
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Yay, Internet back on... for now! No gym today (Monday) as I had to go to hospital yesterday because my right knee has swollen again. It was just too painful to get out today. I'll try a trip there tomorrow, although no leg work will be on the agenda, sadly.

Floydy, you naughty stop-out you!
Tachyon, firstly don't worry about not showing up. We get in here when we can and I'm sure your posts are met with enjoyment from all of us. I for one am very pleased to see somebody else who does some gym training along similar lines as myself.

I hate to say this bud, but I did warn you about overdoing the knees. They need rest, especially following even basic surgery. I'd be booking another appointment with your GP if I were you just to make sure what you can actually do training-wise. In fact, a sports physio would be even better.
Take care bud, perhaps you can do some upper body work instead?

However, I can talk! I haven't actually been slacking in the knee department myself today.....
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Catching up with my legs session and what a corker this way today. Discarding the majority of my manic high reps training in favour of some slow, controlled sets with paused reps instead, this saw me power up the quads until they were almost on fire, burning from within lol.


Monday 13/8/18

Incline press:
25x100, 15x150, 15x200
15x250, 15x250, 15x250, 15x250, 15x250, 15x250 (=6 sets with a 5 sec held pause at top of movement in between sets)
12x300
*The paused sets were a killer and I nearly stopped after four searching for some extra breaths. It’s been a while since I went for 300kgs too on the final set and it didn’t feel at all difficult.

Seated ham curls:
25x40, 10x60, 8x70, 6x75

Horizontal ‘sled’ press:
25x140, 15x160, 15x180
10x200, 10x200, 10x200 (=3 sets with a 3 second pause between sets, held at top of plate)
50x120 fast reps

Extensions:
10x50, 10x50, 10x50 (=3 sets with a 2 second pause, held at extended leg position then carrying on).
20x60, 15x80, 12x100 full stack
25x40 slow
* On a sudden whim, I tentatively brought back leg extensions into my routine. I’ve refrained from doing them for the past six months due to the knee “arthritis” (or whatever it was/is? As the leg curls really used to aggravate my inner bone tissue. However, now that I’ve built up my knee muscle inner quads quite substantially, I thought I’d give it a whirl today. Those tentative light weights didn’t stay that way for long, throwing caution to the wind…and that full stack lift at the end was a doddle. The final set of 25 at 40 reps were done really slowly to see if I could strengthen my inner quads near the knee joint with this exercise. I’ll know later on if all this paid off.


50 mins.


Super happy with this. Going heavy again after all this time doing rather pointless high reps felt really good and I was pleased how I handled it – like I’d never been away to be honest!

My upper body is still in recovery from Saturday’s beasting, but all that hard work has definitely been paying off. I’m feeling and looking stronger, more muscled but what’s more important – fitter. Can’t be a bad thing.


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I hate to say this bud, but I did warn you about overdoing the knees. They need rest, especially following even basic surgery. I'd be booking another appointment with your GP if I were you just to make sure what you can actually do training-wise. In fact, a sports physio would be even better.
Take care bud, perhaps you can do some upper body work instead?
I took it very easy regards leg work last week, but it was the (possible) internal knee infection that caused the swelling yet again. Yes, no leg work for me tomorrow though!

Love reading about your workouts, as always.
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I took it very easy regards leg work last week, but it was the (possible) internal knee infection that caused the swelling yet again. Yes, no leg work for me tomorrow though!

Love reading about your workouts, as always.
Okay mate, hope your knee repairs itself soon. I'm sure it will

Thanks Tachyon I switch from so many different exercise routines like the change in the weather, I suppose it keeps me motivated not to keep doing the same exercises week in week out. My new lease of life with the return to bodybuilding is doing me some good though and I think I'll stick with it for a while.
Obviously I'm over 50 now so I don't expect to see any lasting gains as regards size, but I think of natural muscle wastage as we age and I know keeping some of the heavier work in my programme should cancel that out for some years to come. Plus, I enjoy the bit of vanity that goes with it!
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Really tired today which is probably my body telling me I need more rest. I don’t think it’s anything to do with training too hard (my last upper body session was Saturday), it’s the night shifts grinding me down, so a short workout was called for. 2-3 sets of random exercises at middling weights to tide me over until Friday’s big session.

Wednesday 15/8/18

Lat pulldown, wide grip:
20x40 warm-up

Shoulder press:
10x60, 6x70, 6x80, 3x90

Cables, downward pull:
10x30, 6x40

Smith shoulder press:
6x40, 6x50

Smith press, 15°:
6x50, 6x60

Fly delt dec:
15x80, 15x80

Tricep extensions:
12x40, 12x50, 12x60

Decline bench, close grip:
10x40, 10x50

Machine curl, both arms:
20x20

Ab crunch:
50x30, 50x30

45 mins.

Nothing too strenuous, hit the spot nicely. Plenty of stretching in between sets too which is something I’m rather neglectful of usually.


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Went to "little gym" yesterday and today, totalling 4 hours of continuous workout. I'm away the rest of this week and all next week so that's my last until I get back. I'll just have to do whatever walking I can do and pack my stretch bands for a bit of exercise.
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Went to "little gym" yesterday and today, totalling 4 hours of continuous workout. I'm away the rest of this week and all next week so that's my last until I get back. I'll just have to do whatever walking I can do and pack my stretch bands for a bit of exercise.
Well done mate. Four hours is awesome. Did your knee hold up okay today?
Have a nice break away
 
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