Friday 24th August 2012
Nothing much to report! got my frequency sets done, managed to get 2 chin-up ladders so 40 in total today – Still feels a bit weird walking over to the park to do a ladder on the kiddies monkey bars! Wonder what the locals think? Forcing myself to do it anyway as I really want to keep it up to increase my chins. The overall volume is also good for mass, think of a mechanics forearms or a postman’s calves..
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Thursday 23rd August 2012
I finally found a decent gym! Good old word of mouth, one of the guys at CF Dynamic gave me the number of his mate who referred me to the butcher who owns a gym! – £20 a month and you get a key so you can train whenever you want!
Does it get better? It’s a proper spit and sawdust place with absolutely everything you can think of jammed in!
Had a great session down there:
Bench 117.5kg x5x5x5
Seated Alt. Db Curl 15kg x13x13
Seated machine row 80kg x13x11x8x8
Squat 145kg x5x5x6 – followed up with a speed 20 rep finisher on 45 degree leg press at 120kg (just because I could!)
Oh yeah, and just to top it off, here’s the ‘cardio’ area!
It’s nice to see their priorities are right! ha ha!
Also got my frequency sets in to include 3 chin-up ladders so 60 reps total. A darn good days training 🙂
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Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Got my frequency sets done as planned, managed to squeeze in 2 chin-up ladders up to 4 (instead of forcing out 5 on the first one!), so that’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1 twice for a total of 40 chins – going to aim to increase this to 4 sets if I can so I’m doing 80 a day. My wife thinks I’m a little strange disappearing off to the park a couple of times a day to do my chin-ups, but I’m really trying to stick to it!
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Thursday 16th August 2012
Sat in traffic for over half an hour without moving due to the County Show, so missed the normal met-con class – Grr! Gave up and turned around once I knew I’d missed the start of it. I suppose on the plus side it means I can now go to the open gym tomorrow and Saturday so can get in two strength sessions this week 🙂
Got my frequency press-ups done and managed to get down the park in-between rain showers and do a couple of chin-up ladders: 1/2/3/4/5, 1/2/3, 1/2, 1 – then did the same again after a couple of hours to total 50 chins – I know it’s not strictly ladders as failed to get round 4 (will probably just go to 4 next time as forced rep 5 out which kind of defeats the point of the frequency method). But I’m happy to get them done at all, and as it worked out was the only thing I ended up doing today anyway!
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Wednesday 15th August 2012
Gale force winds and heavy rain meant I didn’t get out there for some ladder chin-ups! got my planned frequency sets both yesterday and today. So now up to 6 sets of 23 press-ups, will keep these up for rest of week and shoot for 7 sets starting Monday.
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Monday 13th August 2012
Been getting some great feedback regarding ‘Hench’ eBook, got a few pointers to address and still need to get those illustrations done! But hoping to have it out there by the end of the month. (Figure if I give myself a date I’m going to push harder to get it finished!)
I got my planned 8 sets of 20 frequency press-ups in today, going to shoot for 6 sets of 23 starting tomorrow. The whole point is to stay as fresh as possible so as not to effect strength training, so I’ll see how they feel. There’s a chapter in my book dedicated to this if your wondering what I’m on about!
There’s a local park just around the corner so I’m thinking about maybe throwing a few ‘ladder’ chin-up sets. Is it inappropriate for a big bald guy to be banging out chin-ups in a kiddies park? (If no-ones around of course!)
BE HENCH 