Chewy's Strength Log

[thestoatyone]

Pressing helped my bench quite a bit, and 2xbw is a sweet squat goal. Nice stuff...

[chewybaws]

Tue 27th December 2011

Front squat
3x20x20kg


Wed 29th December 2011

Deadlift (belt)
1x2x195kg
3x3x160kg (for speed)

Power shrugs
3x5x120kg

RDLs
3x5x100kg

Rows (standing, close underhand grip - it's normally pendlay rows i do)
1x5x50kg
1x5x55kg
1x5x60kg

Close grip underhand lat pulldowns
3x5x60kg

Good Mornings
3x5x70kg

Club's closed over holidays so had to workout in the garage for the most part. Can't dump the bar in there like I can in the club so all the deadlifts had to be controlled gently to the floor lol. Had no problems with the heavy weights, 195kg felt easy.

[chewybaws]

Fri 30th December 2011

Front squat (no belt)
5x5x82.5kg

Bench
5x5x69kg (made up the weight with collars)

OHP
5x5x42.5kg

Wednesday - Saturday I'd been getting stomach aches after most times I was eating. Last night (saturday) it started to feel better. But anyway, this workout was a pain in the arse. It didn't really affect anything during the sets but I was drained before, during and after workout so didn't bother with assistance exercises. Done some cable and BB curls Saturday night.

Weighed in at 83.3kg this morning for my new year weight (183lbs). 13st 1lb

2012 goals;

190kg squat
100kg bench (touch & go)
250kg deadlift
70kg ohp (strict)
BW Push Press

[chewybaws]

Mon 2nd January 2012
Bodyweight = 83.4kg

Squats (with belt)
2x4x142.5kg

Bench
5x5x70kg

Push press
5x5x55kg

Weighted pushups
3x5 +10kg
15 BW

Ab roller (on knees)
10 BW then
2x10 +10kg



Squats felt really heavy. Bench was actually alright, will try 71 or 72kg on friday. No problems with anything else really, just hard.

[chewybaws]

Tue 3rd January 2012

Front squats (for speed, no belt, 60s between sets)
8x3x65kg

Followed my some hamstring stretching.

[chewybaws]

Wed 4th January 2012
Bodyweight = 84.3kg

Deadlift (with belt)
1x2x190kg
1x2x207.5kg
3x3x172.5kg (for speed...although wasn't very fast haha)

Power shrugs
1x5x120kg
2x5x130kg

Stiff legged deads
1x5x100kg
2x5x110kg

Barbell rows
2x5x67.5kg

Close grip underhand lat pulldowns
2x5x72.5kg

Good Mornings
2x5x75kg

[Mellos]

Lol, that "stand up now" almost sounds like Plattdeutsch.
Like "steh op nu" or so (no I don´t speak Plattdeutsch at all, just sounds like it).

[baldy]

Lol, that "stand up now" almost sounds like Plattdeutsch.

I think it translates to "straight up now" into english from glaswegian
Doubles over 200kg is strong!

[Mellos]

Lol, that "stand up now" almost sounds like Plattdeutsch.

I think it translates to "straight up now" into english from glaswegian
Doubles over 200kg is strong!

Reminds me of that Mark Clegg atlas stone video.
"Hoist up that cunt"... sounded like icelandic or so

[chewybaws]

Fri 6th January 2012
Bodyweight = 84.7kg

Front squat (no belt)
5x5x85kg

Bench
3x5x71kg

OHP
5x5x43kg

Dips
10 BW

Real fast workout, was in a rush. Was planning on doing 5x5 on bench but I really struggled with the 3 sets.

[chewybaws]

Sun 8th January 2012
30 mins on stationary bike

Mon 9th January 2012
Bodyweight = 83.5kg

Lunchtime - 30 mins on stationary bike

PM...

Squats (with belt)
1x2x135kg
1x4x145kg
1x4x150kg

Bench
2x4x72.5kg
1x4x75kg
1x5x75kg

Push Press
5x5x57.5kg

Weighted dips
5,5,3 +20kg

Plank
2 mins

Today was one of those workouts I just had no energy before I started. I didn't even wake up properly till after squatting. My last rep at 150kg was a disaster. My left hip flexor was tight as fuck from a static squat hold yesterday, when i hit the bottom of the squat i kinda leaned to one side and too far forward, struggled but got it up. Someone said it rolled on my back a bit as well but I didn't feel it. Real real happy with the numbers though.

Bench felt 10x better than friday. Push press I struggled with the last rep on 3rd set, didn't hit the leg drive properly. Dips I'll need to deload a bit and build back upto this. I'll get it in a few weeks, was just down to barely doing them over xmas.

[chewybaws]

Forgot to mention closed the #1 Captains of Crush gripper with both hands easily in the middle of workout, someone had it in. They'd had it a couple of years though so it'd have been easy compared to a new one.

[chewybaws]

Tue 10th January 2012

Front squats (for speed, no belt)
8x3x67.5kg

then 30 mins on stationary bike

[chewybaws]

Wed 11th January 2012

Deadlift (with belt)
1x2x190kg
1x1x202.5kg
1x1x217.5kg
3x3x160kg

Standing Kroc rows
2x10 each hand with 40kg dumbbell

Chins
8, 6, then 3 wide grip pullups

Close grip lat pulldowns
8,6 x60kg, 13 x45kg

Totally fell short of what I wanted to deadlift this cycle but fuck it, still decent.



My lockout needs a shit tonne of work. This coming cycle I'm actually going to do something about it. Speed work at 160kg was fucking rapid pulling.

[baldy]

nice new haircut?