Growths Journal

[Growth]

great squatting man. ur legpressing compared to your squat is way out of proportion. i expect huge gains on that squat man!!!! :grin:

In that my leg pressing is much higher comparitively than squats right? Its always been like that for me mate, at the moment my back is the major sticking point for squats, ive already got a nigely lower back issue and its giving out pretty quickly when performing squats, thats why you may have noticed no deadlifting for a while...i should be doing some though, even if its extrememly light, it tends to actually help my lower back as long as im not going for pbs. Thanks.

[deegee]

Good leg work out there, jonos getting to you with those leg workouts.

My biggest fear of doing a journal. Jono will see my slack leg workouts

[Growth]

Good leg work out there, jonos getting to you with those leg workouts.

lol yeah, jono is my insiration for my leg workouts, sometimes i write down what he done and i take that to the gym with me too :pfft:

My biggest fear of doing a journal. Jono will see my slack leg workouts

haha, all jokes aside though mate i would love to see a journal from you, i get the feeling we are at at pretty similar level.

[Pseudonym]

hehehe... Perhaps you and I should set up journals in our own private forum, deegee!

[jono]

great squatting man. ur legpressing compared to your squat is way out of proportion. i expect huge gains on that squat man!!!! :grin:

In that my leg pressing is much higher comparitively than squats right? Its always been like that for me mate, at the moment my back is the major sticking point for squats, ive already got a nigely lower back issue and its giving out pretty quickly when performing squats, thats why you may have noticed no deadlifting for a while...i should be doing some though, even if its extrememly light, it tends to actually help my lower back as long as im not going for pbs. Thanks.

damn low back injury is no fun

[jono]

Good leg work out there, jonos getting to you with those leg workouts.

My biggest fear of doing a journal. Jono will see my slack leg workouts

if you KNOW your leg workouts are slack, why dont you do something about it ?

training legs properly sets the men apart from the boys. :grin: :grin:

unless ur joking of course. :grin:

[jono]

hehehe... Perhaps you and I should set up journals in our own private forum, deegee!

you can only compete against yourself. everyone is different. i dont understand why people are so insecure. :? :?

[Ash]

ive already got a nigely lower back issue and its giving out pretty quickly when performing squats

Have you seen anyone about your back injury? I've really had my eyes opened about what's going on in my back since I started seeing a new physio.

[Varven]

add in rack deads and finaly finish of with db rows in the 10 - 15 rep range. They really pump your lats up.

Perform them while lying face down on an inclined bench . About 30deg incline works for me cause i get a full arm stretch AND I can pick th e dbs off the floor.

Your bench has 2 cushion parts right, one bigger than the other, the main part will be inclined, like when you do incline chest presses. Let the othe other smaller cushion part stay flat. Your kness should be on this .

Therefore you remove any assisting muscles and 'balance' on the inclined bench. Now Row both DBs at the same time, focussing entirely on contracting lats, Bring them to peak position and squueze hard for one second. Lower in controlled fashion.

Hopefully the strict and controlled form with relatively high reps will force a good workout.

If not a ISO lat leg press can be a great rowing machine, I dunno if your gym has one, if it does let me know and ill describe how to row on that

mmmm, your gonna have to draw me a pic i think , lol, i cant really imagine it, so both of your knees are on the small part of the bench, and your pick up both dbs and row them, how do you lean forward? Im not following at all lol. Show me a pic of the leg press machine too, my gym may have one, cheers.

pic is wrongly labelled its meant to read db incline rows

[Growth]

Have you seen anyone about your back injury? I've really had my eyes opened about what's going on in my back since I started seeing a new physio.

Nah mate its not an injury like that, its just the tendon issues i am having, i used to only get them in my chest-arm, bicep-elbow, tricep-elbow, now my latest one is some kind of lowerback muscle-hip, i need to bite the bullet and buy some joint formula, last time it cleared up all my tendon issues in about a month.

[Growth]

pic is wrongly labelled its meant to read db incline rows

Ah i see what you mean now, intersting, i havent seen this exercise before, i must say at first glance it looks a little akward, ill see how it goes next week anyway, if i find regular db rows to be too easy ill give it a shot, cheers mate.

[Ash]

Nah mate its not an injury like that, its just the tendon issues i am having, i used to only get them in my chest-arm, bicep-elbow, tricep-elbow, now my latest one is some kind of lowerback muscle-hip, i need to bite the bullet and buy some joint formula, last time it cleared up all my tendon issues in about a month.

That's good news....well sort of. Tendon problems are a bitch but as you know, they can be sorted. It's a strange place to get them though.

[deegee]

Good leg work out there, jonos getting to you with those leg workouts.

My biggest fear of doing a journal. Jono will see my slack leg workouts

if you KNOW your leg workouts are slack, why dont you do something about it ?

training legs properly sets the men apart from the boys. :grin: :grin:

unless ur joking of course. :grin:

compared to yours mine are slack, I am trying to work on it , really :pfft:

[Growth]

That's good news....well sort of. Tendon problems are a bitch but as you know, they can be sorted. It's a strange place to get them though.

Yeah i agree its an odd place to get them, i figue it was from the heavy deads i used to do 200+ and mor recently the heavy rows, its hard to keep the back flat and low when i go heavy, but like you say, easy to fix.

[Growth]

Todays Workout

Seated Military Press

60 x 10

80 x 8

80 x 8

90 x 5

100 x 2 DS 80 x 6

Upright Rows

80 x 8

80 x 8

80 x 8

Front Raises

30 x 8

31 x 8

33 x 8

BB Shrugs SS Lateral Raises

120 x 20 SS 21 x 10

160 x 16 SS 21 x 10

200 x 8 SS 21 x 10

An alright workout today, Military press is on the way up, probably due to the fact that i have dropped arnold presses to concentrate on them, hit 100 for the first time, only two reps but it gave me a feel of the weight (and it was damn heavy). I kept upright rows at even higher reps than last week just for a mix up. Added another set to front raises because the first felt pretty light, got a couple more reps from the 33s. I was pressed for time so i didnt go up and down the weight this time just up, still supersetted with lateral raises, i was pretty spent by the end of the workout but it felt like i had done a good job.

[Ash]

Great work getting 100kg in for military press. Doing front raises with 33kg is very impressive! :clap:

[Growth]

Doing front raises with 33kg is very impressive! :clap:

lol thats what the pt working out beside me said :pfft:

[Varven]

wohoo congrats bro 2pps shoulder press.. cannonball delts !!!

[Simo]

Yeh thats some good progress there. Big respect for the huge Mil Press

[jono]

lol :grin:

your crazy man 33 kg front raises, 10kgMP, very impressive

[Growth]

wohoo congrats bro 2pps shoulder press.. cannonball delts !!!

Thanks mate, yeah thats what im hoping for, long way to go yet.

Yeh thats some good progress there. Big respect for the huge Mil Press

Thanks.

[Growth]

lol :grin:

your crazy man 33 kg front raises, 10kgMP, very impressive

Thanks mate, my form is really good too, not spot on 100% strict but im not exactly doing front raises / hyperextensions :wink:

[jono]

lol :grin:

your crazy man 33 kg front raises, 10kgMP, very impressive

Thanks mate, my form is really good too, not spot on 100% strict but im not exactly doing front raises / hyperextensions :wink:

good to hear the form is good man.

[deegee]

That weight and with good form is just incredible. I know you dont like pics, cant blame you there. But how about getting the tape measure out and giving us a few stats?

[Growth]

That weight and with good form is just incredible. I know you dont like pics, cant blame you there. But how about getting the tape measure out and giving us a few stats?

The problem with measurements is they dont really mean much without knowing BF levels, i can only estimate that im around 20+%