Thread: Rights Of Passage

TWISTED POWER

Week 2
Tuesday, 27 DEC 2011Squats

ALL SQUATS ARE RAW!!

Box Squat:
135 x 12
2 x 225 x 12
405 x 5
605 x 1 (miss)
605 x 1 (miss)
2 x 405+160lb chains x 10 (565 ish at top)

I had plenty of strength for the 605 squat but I just couldn't get my mind right!
So, i dropped to 405 with chains and did that for 2 sets.

Target Stretch:
Legs still needed to be stretched out regardless.

Time/ Comments:
Train with Mary!!!!
Mary killed it on her RAW box squats tonight!
She's mostly into fitness and toning but she let's me throw in some strength training for
her a lot of times cos she knows the benefits of it.
She may not be as strong in her squats as some of the powerlifting women (that's not her goal)
but she did a triple with her old pr and after that did a new 20 pr single on her squat!!!!
You want numbers then you need to ask her.
I am soooo proud of Mary!!!! She's killing it!!!
Fighting through the pain and showing no fear!!!!

My training didn't go as planned tonight, but I still salvaged something out of it.
Mary kept me positive and helped me focus through it!
Overall my training was ok and my motivation was around 6.

Great post WidowMaker! I like the fact your lady is hanging with you at the gym and doing some training herself. Strength training for women is really great and promotes a healthy lifestyle.

Originally Posted by Reaper

Great post WidowMaker! I like the fact your lady is hanging with you at the gym and doing some training herself. Strength training for women is really great and promotes a healthy lifestyle.

Yep. So do I she loves to train. She really busts her ass in the gym and it's paying off for her one day at a time.

TWISTED POWER

Week 3
Thursday, 29 DEC 2011
Bench/ Triceps

Close-grip Bench Press:
(touch and go-no bouncing)
2 x bar x 12
2 x 135 x 12
225 x 8
315 x 5
325 x 3
365 x 3

Elbows were acting up but still did 365.

Reverse-grip Bench Press:
1 x 135 x 20

Just checking this for my elbows. Didn't bother them so I will switch up to this for a few weeks.

Flat bench Dumbbell Flyes:
30 x 12
60 x 12
70 x 12
80 x 12
2 x 50 x 20 (30 sec bottom hold on last set rep)

Flyes were really good tonight. Elbow really held up for these.

45 Degree Incline Skull Crushers:
(not counting bar weight)
80 x 20
90 x 20
100 x 20

Triceps are really screaming right now.

Rock 'n' Rolls:
3 x 40 x 20

That's it tri's are done.

Lumber Jacks:
2 x 110 x 15 (each)

Abs were good but I need more sets on these.

Target Stretch:
Overall stretching was good as my tri's really needed it.

Time Comments:
Train w/ Mary!!!!!
Wow!
Mary is killing it tonight in the gym on her bench press in the rack!
Only 2 months ago she couldn't do the bar 1x.
Now, after having her do different triceps work and chest/shoulder exercises she did the bar tonight for 3 x 10!
Soon she will be throwing around some plates on her benching!
She also did a great job of killing off the rest of her chest, tri's and ab work.
Mary--you are coming along nicely.
I am so proud of you!

My training wasn't too bad tonight.
Gonna change up to reverse grip benching and prolly throw in some floor presses also.
Overall it was great none-the-less.
As my motivation was around 10.

Sounds like you guys are tearing it up. Keep up the hard work.

Originally Posted by animal87

Sounds like you guys are tearing it up. Keep up the hard work.

Thanks animal87!
She's got killer attitude in the gym!
She talks trash, spots excellent!
When she walks around you would think a female terminator is looking to kill some iron or something up in here, lol.

Originally Posted by WidowMaker

Thanks animal87!
She's got killer attitude in the gym!
She talks trash, spots excellent!
When she walks around you would think a female terminator is looking to kill some iron or something up in here, lol.

I'd love to have somebody to work out with ...

Originally Posted by milleniumgirl

I'd love to have somebody to work out with ...

You'l find you a great training partner one day MG.
Just hang in there.
If you lived closer I'm sure Mary and I could find you a great stand up guy to train with you.

TWISTED POWER

Week 3

Friday, 6 JAN 2012
Squats

Box Squats:
ALL RAW!!!
135 x 12
2 x 225 x 12
405 x 5
405+black bands x miss
585(no bands) x miss

Not sure what's wrong here.
My strength was not here at all. I'm always playing around anywhere between the high 500's and the low 700's with or without chains and bands.

Time/Comments:
Train with Mary!!!
She killed it tonight on her squats!!!!
I gave her a little treat for her hard work and let her squat tonight with green bands on here working sets.
It took her a minute to catch on to how the bands felt then she took off, lol!!!
She took down 235 with green bands for a single on a parallel box!
Then she took the bands off and wanted to do some crazy stuff.
So we loaded the the bar at 55lbs (no bands) and added 80 lbs in chains with the parallel box and she killed that with 10 strong reps!!!
She wasn't even done there--so she took off the chains (kept the parallel box) and rep'd out her 1st burnout sets with that for 30 reps!!!
She said 30 seconds later,"I'm taking that down again!"
So, she slaughtered that for 19 reps!!!! She went to failure half way up on her 20th rep!
She is sooooo awesome!!! She's making great progress!!

OK, My training sucked ass tonight!!!!
I'm not sure if it's the gear or what!
My food intake and sleep is all dialed in as it should be,
my supplement intake is on track also.
Could be wrong here but I'm thinking me gear is for shit!!!!
I hear everyone talk about "so and so's" gear is this and that, but I've been on test E and EQ for over 9 weeks and haven't seen nothing worth bragging about!
I even added in deca 2 weeks ago and still nothing to WOW me about it!
Not really sure what's wrong here but I need to find out what's going wrong here cos I'm planning on going to the nationals to win my weight class to go to the worlds this fall and it happening like this!!!!
If anyone has any advice, answers or positive criticism it will take it into much consideration cos I'm about ready to say fuck it; cut my losses and go into PCT.
I did much, much better on the short cycle of drol/ M1T!
That's all for my rant!!!!

TWISTED POWER


Week 3
Saturday, 31 DEC 2011
Deads/ Traps

LAST DANCE OF 2011!!!!

Still-leg Deadlift:
(knees slightly unlocked cos I don't like the grinding feeling in my knees)
2 x 135 x 12
225 x 8
315 x 3
405 x 3
Could've pulled off 8 reps here but I need to build my deads up in a methodical manner and not kill my training cycle.

Romanian Deadlift:
(un-rack and walk out)
225 x 10
2 x 315 x 10
Walk-out is the bomb over pinning it.

Seated Dumbbell Shrugs:
(3.3.3 tempo)
4 x 80 x 20
Traps wasn't sure what to do here but cuss at me, lol.

Leg Curls:
(lying/ 3.1.3 tempo/lower using one leg each rep--total of 4 negatives each leg per set)
40 x 8
3 x 70 x 8
10 sec hold on last rep of 3rd set.
2 x 40 x 20
30 sec hold on last rep of 1st burnout set and 14 sec hold on last rep of 2nd burnout set.

Hams are shot here but I decided to throw in one more exercise for them.

Ham Killers:
1 x myself x failure (19)
OK, Now my hams are not happy at all with my decision to kill it off, lol.

Jack-knife Crunch:
(1.1.3 tempo/alternating left and right)
4 x red mini band x 12 (each side)
no rest from last rep of last set
1 x myself x 32 sec
(held this in the standard jack-knife crunch position)
Abs aren't happy here with me either, lol.

Target Stretch:
Extra attention to hamstring stretching tonight.

Time/Comments:
Train with Mary!!!
She killed it on her deficit deadlifts tonight.
Even give herself more punishment on the stiff-leg deads.
Then she wanted to try her turn at the Romanian deads.
It's getting really scary up in here.
She finished off the rest of her training in her usual manner of killing it!

As for my training. It was very good tonight. I'm happy with it cos I got more in store for the next one!
Motivation was 10+ tonight.