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Just grand! Two days into my course I injure my lower back, not while lifting a heavy weight,oh no!, but while filing by hand{lightly} a piece of aluminium. The vise was too low.....and one is always constantly bending while working on the metal. Grand......

So today I bung 84kgs(185lbs) of platelets onto the bar for the squat and one rep tells me enough.......The slight 'shot of pain' in the lower back.....Were that to become a heavy duty jolt of pain , not only would one bugger the back up for time eternal, but one would also lose control of the bar........ And I train on the 1st floor ( a nice solid steel reinforced concrete floor......) and I don't want to test out it's limitations........Especially as the house is not mine......

So I drop the weight for the squat to 40kgs, even then there a few twinges of back, but the situation is more under control. Didn't do calves , as I usually strap a fair bit of weight round my waist, and putting on that belt with the attached weight, just wouldn't be a good idea at the minute.

What a bloody awful lower back I have.

b_reed23

take it easy on that back and let it ease up before you do anymore lifting!

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Back much better yesterday Billy!!

Thrown the creatine into the rubbish bin, there was a 1/3 of 500g left, that is called wanton waste.......disgraceful behaviour. But then I'm quite good at behaving badly..... I'm not against creatine, I just don't like the thought that I'm going to have to take it for ever, to keep up 'inflated' look, and the inflated look in the face is not nice.... As I also refuse to stop drinking, I think laying off the creatine ---which dehydrates is a good idea, a double whammy of alcohol+creatine dehydration is not good news.I drink a lot of water but there are limits to the amount one can drink...........

Strange argument the above Oh well........

And yes, if I had any sense and a real passion for weight-training I'd lay off the wine and beer.... But there seems to be a blind spot in me with regards to that.
Stupid as hell really....

16th April SHoulders+Back

Did calves at end of workout, which I should have done yesterday. But as I hang some of the weight used from a belt I was frightened for my back Saturday. Yesterday the back was much better--- the weights have helped cure it, I'm sure of that!

Easter Sunday in the mountains. I look like a pig.(no offence to pigs meant)Taken at a height of 1709 metres / 5607 feet,Spanish frontier just behind those mountains in photo, but the pass over to Spain was blocked by snow.Most annoying as I wanted some Spanish wine.....

b_reed23

what is so bad about this pic...you look great!

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Bit of a swollen face I have there Billy , and it ain't the creatine.......

Friday 21stAPril

Followed by about half of the leg workout.
Squat--------81kgs x8,x6,x2
Leg extension-64kgs x9,x10,x8
Need to do all 4 workouts in 2 1/2 days. Total chaos all round, don't have time to rewrite/reschedule everything.Lack of creatine becoming evident, I'm weaker.........

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22-04-06 Shoulders and back.
Ate very little yesterday and hardly anything this morning --- my weight has dipped!Had a gruelling (errr... masochistic) horse riding lesson this morning before my workout,where we were made to ride in the jump position(out of the saddle at the canter and trot),which BURNS the thighs and which has re-ignited my lower back {I found out afterwards.....}

I was as hungry as hell when I started training, back was nagging, ideal conditions for a really good workout. Have also never tried this routine a day after the chest routine, chest is still sore. Not good, not good at all.

Meant to do leg curl and calves afterwards , but didn't.

b_reed23

hang in there bud!!! How have you been lately?

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Feeling shitty, it must be creatine withdrawal symptoms....... The course I'm doing is really knackering too....Just go back to the hotel, and sit there like a zombie.

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It's 15 minutes to seven (PM) and I've got to get up at 4:30am and leave at 5am. SO as usual NO TIME........

I'm sort of de-sensitised in my vital bits (I mean hands and feet) after sitting on an ancient sit on mower (American!!!!) for two hours helping out a lady whose husband has just died (and he was a real character retired helicopter pilot major for the RAF, the whole thing was very sudden). The mower wasn't bad actually even though it was from the dinosaur age, the terrain was too rough for it (in my opinion), better to have had a tractor with a grass cutting attachment.

Before my heroic effort I did my arms in........

followed by half a leg workout (???)

I then did one set of bent leg deadlifts at 61kgs for 7reps in a desperate attempt to make up for what I had missed in the Saturday "shoulders" workout!


I hate driving early in the morning in the dark around here , one gets deer, wild boar and stupid (blue)rabbits on the road.

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I find it to be quite an adventure

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Indeed! Not the thought of hitting an animal dazzled by the headlights who then is swept through the windscreen to decapitate the driver -I hope!

One solution to that= slow down!

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b_reed23

um......okay....????????

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I'm killing this thread Billy, that photo above was my weird way of saying it!

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I'm un-killing this lousy thread , and am going to go on churning out boring JPG's

No workout for about 2 weeks because my back snapped. No legs+arms for nearly three weeks. Drilling holes in aluminium has been my only exercise.



The above calender says it all.........

Today a very light chesty session.

b_reed23

c'mon Nick....you were doing SOOOO good, get with it now that your back is better

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I've been doing this damned course since the 10th April Billy! So not been near my lumps of metal!!!!!!! Except on weekends and Bank holidays. There's 4 more weeks to go, then 'work experience' (for 5 weeks)which should be nearer home so I can get back each evening..............

I've just got a shitty lower back (let's face it)It was bloody twinging today while bench pressing with my miniscule amounts of weight...

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26th May :Legses........



Not done the legs for three weeks (because of back). They were rather jelly like when walking down the stairs afterwards..... Despite having not really tried too hard doing the workout.

Attaching plates to myself is becoming a problem for the calf raise(total weight presently at 52kgs/114lbs).I hold a 35kg(77lb) dumbell in the hand, and attach the rest of the weight onto an old Weider belt with another belt). I'm wondering what the limits of this can be.It's not comfortable, and if something breaks and those plates tumble to the floor.....How do people attach plates to themselves I wonder.

b_reed23

glad to see you back Nick

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Back where?

fufu

What kind of routine are you doing?

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4 different ones' 1)Legs 2)arms 3)chest 4)shoulders and back. I scrawled them down on the back of matchbox, and they became my routines...... Just hashed them together.

I don't do 'em often enough either,
A few posts ago is a jpg thumbnail : "Legs", that is the legs routine.......

fufu

Alrighty. That's a neat little chart you got there.

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Yea but a chunky download if one is not on broadband.......

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25th May 2006 Before(no training for 2/3weeks) and after training. I seem to have changed colour......(But that's about it...).

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Sunday late morning 28th May 2006 Shoulders and Back 1st time in 2 weeks...........


Sunday late afternoon 28th May 2006 Arms Havn't trained arms for 3 weeks.


Two workouts in one day , crazy maybe, but there won't be anything else till Friday late afternoon.