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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« Last post by Kingfish on June 02, 2025, 10:45:53 am »
Jun 1-7 , 2025

Full Squats - Paused - Maintenance
455 #275+ | 465 #5 | 470 #1| 475 #85 | 495#100+ | 505#2 | 545#1
Page 75 - Day 1 of 455. Feb 11, 2013
Page 140 - Day 1 of 495. 2Oct 25, 2020
Cardio Calories - Inclined walking at 3mph pace per 5 mins | 6% [47kcal], 9% [57kcal], 12%[67kcal], 15%[77kcal]

June Week 1 of 4 BW 206-210

Sun May Jun 1

6:00 am
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

3:00 pm
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

Mon Jun 2

6:00 am
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

* was able to get 2 singles of 455 last week. it was a routine rep and could have fought for a 475 but not even close to get back to 495. i'm getting back to my routine slowly. i was not even 455 strong at one point in the past weeks, and even worst i was also able to get 405 because the right side of the body is strong enough to push some of the weight off from the left side (left glute tenderness) so this is still good progress. no more pain or tenderness or any shifting of the weight to one side of the body because of muscle imbalance/fatigue. i'm just not strong enough yet. i'm not broken anymore. just weak.

7:00 pm
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

Tue Jun 3

6:00 am
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

7:00 pm
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

Wed Jun 4

6:00 am
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

7:00 pm
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

Thur Jun 5

6:00 am
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

7:00 pm
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

Fri Jun 6

6:00 am
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

7:00 pm
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

Sat Jun 7

6:00 am
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5

3:00 pm
Paused Squats 315-315-315,405
Iso Hammer Strength Inclined Press Machine ~135 80-105-115 x5
One Arm Cable Reverse Fly - High/Mid Pull 15-20-25-30 x5
Seated Bicep Curl Machine - One Arm 50-60-70 x5
Standing Tricep Cable Pulldown - One Arm 40-45-50 x5
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Last post by LBSS on June 01, 2025, 06:23:50 pm »
yep, definitely user error with the watch. lol, whoops.

- run 1:27:33, 16.18 km
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Last post by LBSS on June 01, 2025, 09:38:46 am »
yesterday

- tempo run x 54:42, 11.13 km
-- warm up
-- 20 min @ HR 150-158 (avg pace 4:31)
-- cool down
got rained on during the warm up and cool down, middle part was dry. felt too easy, although HR was bumping up against the top of the target range. probably user error, i.e., me misunderstanding what my watch is telling me. need to switch the different range going forward.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« Last post by Joe on June 01, 2025, 06:29:43 am »
01-06-25

Run -- 12.37k, 12:20:46

Lift --

1A Chin
+30x9 +15x8 +BWx6, 6

1B Dip
+30x5 +15x6 +BWx6, 5

RDL
150 x 5, 3

Zercher
100 x 7, 6

2A Wide-Grip Barbell Row
80 x 8, 6

2B Deficit Decline Pushup
BW x 15, 11

Lateral Raise
20 x 12+8+6+5

Notes

Not as sore as I expected today. And pace/hr combo was solid on the run. Exactly 70% max HR, so on point for proper easy effort, and 6:30 instead of my usual 6:50.

Redcued leg lifting volume to hopefully avoid that cooked feeling from last week.

Exactly 1 minute more running that last week, but 1.7k more (and ~10% higher "load" according to intervals.icu)

Remain baffled by how I ran that 19:16 back in 2018. I can look at the training through intervals.icu and it was just way less. Like 3 or 4 days most weeks. I guess I was doing the easy runs at a harder effort. Probably some portion is explain by it being at 12:30, on an easier course and with less traffic than this last one, but still, don't think I could hit that in perfect conditions right now despite way more training under my belt (and having modern zoom fly 6 now vs zoom fly knits then). I refuse to accept age as an explanation, before anyone proffers that. Anyway, I reckon I can go sub 19 before too long if I keep training like this.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« Last post by Joe on May 31, 2025, 06:54:25 am »
31-05-25

Parkrun 5k -- 20:06 [3:53, 3:58, 4:07, 4:10, 3:55] according to watch, 20:03 according to Parkrun officially.

Ran to and from the race as well (4.5, about 28 mins each), so 14k total and ~75 mins running, not bad. Will still do an easy 80 mins tomorrow probably.

Notes

Felt good. Tried my hardest not to go out too hard, and knew I was aiming for 20 or so given training and such, and felt good on the day. So hard to find that pace when you don't train it. Was 5 laps of a small park and 600+ people, so I think Ks 3+4 being slow is also partly explained by being bad at dealing with weaving through a big crowd.

Quite a funny course, you run up a like 5% grade hill for 500m, then gain back all that altitue with a 250m downhill, then flat for 250m, then repeat 5x. Makes pacing weird. (GAP/Coros effort pace both give me "3:57 pace" fwiw)

Anyway, was super fun, and really nice to do it with buddies. Turns out I over-estimated the fitness of the others so I actually was the first finisher.

Not used to racing so I think effort wise I definitely left something on the table. That'll come with practice. Everyone had fun and the others do Parkruns pretty regularly, so hopefully I'll improve the mental game with more reps with the boys.

Vindication that my training paces are on point, though, had worried the reason I was feeling cooked this week was that I'd been using too fast paces.

Max HR was 190 (from chest strap), seems plausible given it was ~195 7 years ago. Will adjust some stuff based on that (more w/r/t expectations, don't really use it for pacing).

Eta: same training pace calculator says my easy pace shd be 5:55 to 6:15...lol I just never have it in me to do that in the morning. Plus adjustment for zoom fly 6 vs easy shoe
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Last post by LBSS on May 30, 2025, 06:34:03 pm »
- run 49:38, 5.16 km
warm but not hot, pretty humid. did one of my most common loops but backwards and it felt strangely much easier than usual: like 20s/km faster than usual with HR averaging 131. not sure why that would be, the overall elevation gain is obviously the same in both directions.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« Last post by Joe on May 30, 2025, 03:32:20 pm »
30-05-25

Run -- 5.88k, 40:21

Notes

Avg HR 119 lmao. Legs just feeling dead despite what HR metrics saying. Hamstrings still kinda sore. Maybe the 8k extra steps per day from commuting are taking more of a toll than expected, b/c training load this week has ben pretty light.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« Last post by Joe on May 29, 2025, 03:49:17 pm »
29-05-25

Run--
w/u
2 x (11' on / 90" off) [4:33, 4:30]
c/d

Total -- 7.6k, 40:30

+ Chins and dips afterwards

Notes

Legs _still_ sore from Monday, kinda crazy. Less volume here in hopes I can actually be recovered for Saturday.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« Last post by Joe on May 28, 2025, 05:13:32 pm »
28-05-25

Run -- 6k, 40:18

Notes

Legs still like 7.5/10 sore, wow. Lesson learned w/r/t doing Q-L-Q + leg lifting, lmao. Will try for a session tmrw.

which running backpack did you get?

Osprey Duro 15. Love my normal Osprey bag and this one is kitted to the gills. Basically was the smallest one still big enough to fit work clothes + a light jacket in. It is basically borderline between a backpack and a vest.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« Last post by Raptor on May 28, 2025, 08:42:54 am »
Gym work 24:

Bench press:

20x6
40x6
60x6
60x6
60x4


Hip thrust:

60x8
100x8
100x8


Deadlift:

20x5
70x5
100x3
120x3
120x1


Landmine one-arm push press:

15x10
15x10 (explosive)

Landmine one-leg deadlifts:

15x10

Ab machine crunches:

4 pins x10
6 pins x10
8 pins x10

Bodyweight: 90.5 kg (-0.3 kg)
Exhaustion level: 9/10

Comments:

Bench was good, surprisingly enough. Hip thrust hurt my pelvis. Deadlifts were difficult (but they came after hip thrusts).
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