Goobs log, Now with video!!!

[Goob]

4/5/2012
Bench
1x10@ bar
1x5@ 75 lbs
1x3@ 110 lbs
1x3@ 125 lbs
1x6@ 140 lbs +1 with some help off the chest
5x10@ 65 lbs

Dumbbell Rows
1x10@ 35 lbs
1x8@ 45 lbs
2x20@ 50 lbs

1 pull up

also spent ~5 hours shoveling gravel this morning, so that counts toward something, right?

[Lordmuppet]

4/5/2012
Bench
1x10@ bar
1x5@ 75 lbs
1x3@ 110 lbs
1x3@ 125 lbs
1x6@ 140 lbs +1 with some help off the chest
5x10@ 65 lbs

Dumbbell Rows
1x10@ 35 lbs
1x8@ 45 lbs
2x20@ 50 lbs

1 pull up

also spent ~5 hours shoveling gravel this morning, so that counts toward something, right?

hell yes it counts! GPP

[Goob]

4/5/2012
Bench
1x10@ bar
1x5@ 75 lbs
1x3@ 110 lbs
1x3@ 125 lbs
1x6@ 140 lbs +1 with some help off the chest
5x10@ 65 lbs

Dumbbell Rows
1x10@ 35 lbs
1x8@ 45 lbs
2x20@ 50 lbs

1 pull up

also spent ~5 hours shoveling gravel this morning, so that counts toward something, right?

hell yes it counts! GPP

Well, lots more gpp the past few days then.

Been really busy so behind on posting.

4/6/2012
Deadlift
1x10@ 135 lbs
1x3@ 195 lbs
1x3@ 225 lbs
1x6@ 250 lbs

started to do front squats, but had a wonky bar and couldn't get it set right so did some ab stuff and leg curls

4/9/2012
Overhead Press
1x10@ bar
1x5@ 65 lbs
1x5@ 80 lbs
1x3@ 90 lbs
1x4@ 100 lbs - very surprised with this, was expecting only 1 or 2
5x10@ 55 lbs

Pull ups superset with 5x10 press
5x3

Pull Up Machine
8,7,7 w/ 50 lbs assistance

I didn't sleep last night, didn't go to the gym today and haven't been eating because of intense tooth pain. My mouth is all fucked up because my wisdom teeth should have been pulled years ago, now several teeth are cracked and one is completely shattered. It sucks and when it starts hurting nothing can stop the pain or even lessen it for more than a few minutes.

Because I'm american and not a child, it's going to be crazy expensive and I can't afford to have them fixed. It will be a lot cheaper to have my teeth yanked out, but I don't want to do that, because I need teeth for eating and it will be a lot more expensive to have some kind of fake teeth put in later. I hate this country so much...

[baldy]

Healing vibes for your teeth, sounds like something that is not going to get fixed by itself.
Will also mess up your race to 140kg bodyweight, get it sorted.

[Goob]

Healing vibes for your teeth, sounds like something that is not going to get fixed by itself.
Will also mess up your race to 140kg bodyweight, get it sorted.

Thanks for the healing vibes. It would be nice if it fixed itself, but I'm sure it's going to be a huge hassle for several weeks. Why do teeth even need nerves? I should have went to the dentist several days(years to be honest) ago, but I had a lot of work that needed to be done this week and I can't afford to not do it. The plan now is to see a dentist monday, which is a pretty terrible plan I know, but I need to make some extra money to pay for this shit without fucking up the rest of my finances, so I have to work friday and all the dentists are closed on the weekend.

4/12/2012
Bench
1x10@ bar
1x5@ 95 lbs
1x5@ 115 lbs
1x3@ 130 lbs
1x3@ 145 lbs
5x10@ 65 lbs

Dumbbell Rows
1x10@ 30 lbs
1x10@ 40 lbs
2x20@ 50 lbs

went really well despite not having slept the past 2 days. skipped conditioning, just exhausted, maybe will get some in tomorrow.

[Lordmuppet]

Healing vibes for your teeth, sounds like something that is not going to get fixed by itself.
Will also mess up your race to 140kg bodyweight, get it sorted.

Thanks for the healing vibes. It would be nice if it fixed itself, but I'm sure it's going to be a huge hassle for several weeks. Why do teeth even need nerves? I should have went to the dentist several days(years to be honest) ago, but I had a lot of work that needed to be done this week and I can't afford to not do it. The plan now is to see a dentist monday, which is a pretty terrible plan I know, but I need to make some extra money to pay for this shit without fucking up the rest of my finances, so I have to work friday and all the dentists are closed on the weekend.

4/12/2012
Bench
1x10@ bar
1x5@ 95 lbs
1x5@ 115 lbs
1x3@ 130 lbs
1x3@ 145 lbs
5x10@ 65 lbs

Dumbbell Rows
1x10@ 30 lbs
1x10@ 40 lbs
2x20@ 50 lbs

went really well despite not having slept the past 2 days. skipped conditioning, just exhausted, maybe will get some in tomorrow.

best of luck with the dentist! USA healthcare sucks Is this any cheaper for you under Obamacare now or no?

[Goob]

Healing vibes for your teeth, sounds like something that is not going to get fixed by itself.
Will also mess up your race to 140kg bodyweight, get it sorted.

Thanks for the healing vibes. It would be nice if it fixed itself, but I'm sure it's going to be a huge hassle for several weeks. Why do teeth even need nerves? I should have went to the dentist several days(years to be honest) ago, but I had a lot of work that needed to be done this week and I can't afford to not do it. The plan now is to see a dentist monday, which is a pretty terrible plan I know, but I need to make some extra money to pay for this shit without fucking up the rest of my finances, so I have to work friday and all the dentists are closed on the weekend.

4/12/2012
Bench
1x10@ bar
1x5@ 95 lbs
1x5@ 115 lbs
1x3@ 130 lbs
1x3@ 145 lbs
5x10@ 65 lbs

Dumbbell Rows
1x10@ 30 lbs
1x10@ 40 lbs
2x20@ 50 lbs

went really well despite not having slept the past 2 days. skipped conditioning, just exhausted, maybe will get some in tomorrow.

best of luck with the dentist! USA healthcare sucks Is this any cheaper for you under Obamacare now or no?

Nope, nothing has changed. The Obama plan wasn't healthcare reform, it was health insurance reform.

The way the system used to work was you payed several hundred dollars to an insurance company every month, then when you got cancer, they would refuse to pay for most treatments then drop your policy for going over your lifetime expenditure limit. Then if you were lucky you died, because if you made it through you'd lose everything and dept collectors would call you 4 or 5 times a day for the rest of your life.

Right now, it's mainly helped middle class families in situations where someone, especially a child, has a lifelong disease, because the preexisting condition plans are expensive, just not as expensive as paying for all the treatments outright.

For people like me, nothing has changed because the insurance plans I can afford cost more than I will spend on medical bills in an average year, while not covering those average expenses. So, I'd still have to put off non life-threatening issues for financial reasons.

It's essentially a way to move the country toward socialized medicine, where the healthy people offset the cost of the sick people, but with the insurance companies in the middle skimming a huge chunk off the top, so the healthy people don't actually get covered with the affordable plans.

[Goob]

Some good news with my teeth, only one needs to be pulled. It's stopped hurting also, so I've decided to save up a bit more money before I have anything done, that way I can have everything fixed together instead of in a few different sessions.

I skipped the gym on friday and monday because I've been exhausted. Not sleeping for 3 days completely wrecked me, but i'm feeling a lot better now after having slept like 16 hours on monday.

4/17/2012

Bodyweight this morning was at 182 lbs (82.6 kg) feeling very skinny, and my buzz belt fits 2 notches tighter. Strength seems to be holding up okay for now though.

Deload week

Squat had to use the fat bar, i think I am starting to like it for squats, but it is heavier so my weights are always going to be a bit off
1x8@ bar
1x8@ 95 lbs
1x3@ 150 lbs
1x3@ 170 lbs
1x3@ 195 lbs - was pretty heavy, i think 5 or 6 reps would have been all out

Overhead Press
1xsome@ bar
1x3@ 70 lbs
1x3@ 80 lbs
1x3@ 90 lbs

Pullups
5,4,4,2,2

Standing Cable Crunches
2x20@ 100 lbs

10 minutes on stationary bike resistance 4 @ 100 rpms

[Lordmuppet]

good teeth news! Deload weeks are a good thing too

[Goob]

good teeth news! Deload weeks are a good thing too

Yeah, probably good, but boring as hell. Next week will be fun though Looks like pretty close to actual 5 RMs for the 5+ rep sets on all lifts, maybe a bit more than 5 RM for overhead actually.

4/19/2012
Bench
1x10@ bar
1x3@ 95 lbs
1x3@ 115 lbs
1x3@ 130 lbs

Hammer Grip Pullups
3,3,3

Chest Supported T bar Rows
1x15@ machine +45 lbs
1x10@ +80 lbs
1x10@ +100 lbs

did a set of 5 dips, but on the second set my shoulder was really tight, so stopped there. Did some dislocations and some stretching and went home. Maybe a bit more stretching later as well

[Konstantin]

I'm going to stop moaning about our NHS.

[Goob]

I'm going to stop moaning about our NHS.

How un-british! There is much worse healthcare around the world, and unless I get cancer, I'm probably not going to dye because of the shittyness of the american system.


4/20/2012
Deadlift fat bar
1xsome@ bar - pretty useless i think, buy was a bit sore so decided to do it anyway
1x10@ 135 lbs
1x3@ 190 lbs
1x3@ 215 lbs
1x3@ 245 lbs

Front Squat
1x10@ bar
1x10@ 95 lbs
1x5@ 115 lbs
1x3@ 135 lbs
1x3@ 155 lbs
1x1 @ 170 lbs(~77 kg) PB

Pretty happy with that. Was planning to just stop at 155 lbs because this is deload week, but was feeling strong so went ahead with it. Don't think I've maxed out on front squat yet, so that seems a good start. Not very much left in there though, upper back not strong enough.

Leg Curl Machine
3x10@ 100 lbs

Hanging Leg Raise
2x15, only a couple cheating a bit on the last set

There was another bench/deadlift contest at my gym this weekend which I didn't even want to enter, but lots of people were trying to get me to do it. Almost promised to enter the one october 6th though, so have like 6 months to get some reasonable numbers or excuses on bench and deadlift.

[knackers]

Good effort on the frontie PB, have a crack at the comp!
Comps are good for motivation.
Nothing like a bit of healthy competition..

[Goob]

Good effort on the frontie PB, have a crack at the comp!
Comps are good for motivation.
Nothing like a bit of healthy competition..

Thanks, I'm still quite shit at front squats, but at the start I could only get like 95 lbs(~43 kg) with okay form, so massive improvements for me these past couple months.

Didn't go to the comp because I had to work. Don't remember exact results but one guy benched 500 lbs (227 kg) and another guy got a 635 lbs (288 kg) deadlift I think. Maybe he got 585 lbs and missed 635, will have to check on that tomorrow.


4/23/2012
Squat fat bar
1x10@ bar
1x8@ 95 lbs
1x5@ 150 lbs
1x5@ 175 lbs
1x5@ 200 lbs - stopped at 5 because of bad form, upper back not strong enough
5x10@ 115 lbs

drained after that, so did some abs and left

[Goob]

So, I checked and none of the numbers I said from the comp were right One guy benched in the mid 400 lbs and best deadlift was around 500 lbs, also everybody won. Well, except for 198 lbs class, it was highly contested so one guy got second. Also, found out the comps are to raise money for the american cancer society, so I'm not going to do any of them.

Overhead Press
1x5@ bar
1z5@ 70 lbs
1x5@ 80 lbs
1x5@ 95 lbs
5x10@ 55 lbs

Pull ups
4x4
1x3

Assisted Pull up Machine
3x10@ 50 lbs assistance

Edit: Am thinking about giving up on this fat loss nonsense. I still have a bit of a gut going on, but somebody said "oh, so thats how you stay so thin" the other day in response to my veganism. I HATE when people say that. That comment is one of the main reasons I started lifting to begin with, because I don't want to hear it again. But, I'm 30 lbs heavier than when I started and people still say it.