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Quote from: fast does lie on September 09, 2017, 01:16:08 am

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this is the simplest way i tell people why anabolic steroids for accelerated muscle growth is a very big health risk- your heart is a muscle. your heart will grow. there is not a lot of space inside your chest cavity for an overgrown heart. you will have a big heart with little chamber volume because its collapsing to itself. your heart will be under a lot of stress. the heart has no rest days. you will die sooner.

Very well said and a great way of looking at it.

Now that i think about it this way, a new question comes to mind: if unnatural growth hormones can cause the heart muscles to grow, what about natural increase in growth hormone from resistance training; will that cause the heart to grow abnormally as well?

Probably not: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8213586

And a more general point -- the increase in hormones like HGH and testosterone from training is so marginal as to have basically no effect on anything.

I always giggled at this photo of Ben Johnson and Charlie Francis.

07-09-17

Morning BW: N/A

Workout

Jog to track - .96mi in 11:30 - Avg HR - 147 [lol, so high for such a lazy pace]

Sprint repeats - 2 x 10 x 100m @ 22 seconds for 100m
Rest until end of minute between reps (so ~38s) and until xx:30 between the sets. So basically an EMOM workout.

Max HR - 186 [this was hit after the final repeat, which I ran in 20.5, oops]
Avg HR - ~166 [not sure how to get average HR between two points in time that aren't the beginning and end of the workout, the Garmin connect thing is confusing. Does Strava do this?] Edit: calculated this using excel and it was 167, close enough

Walk home

Notes

Easy fun workout. Looking forward to getting into actual sprinting shape.

Traps extremely sore.

Looking forward to starting 5/3/1 tmrw.

06-09-17

Morning BW: 78.3kg [that's more like it]

Workout

Deadlift [reps after + means number of shrugs done after last deadlift rep]
70 x 5, 5
100 x 3
120 x 5
135 x 3
152.5 x 1 [+2.5kg, -1 rep]
145 x 3 + 3
135 x 3 + 3
127.5 x 3 + 5
120 x 3 + 6
112.5 x 3 + 9
105 x 10 + 10

Chins
BW x 10, 10, 7, 6, 6
[Biceps totally dead from yesterday made this tough]

Barbell Row
50 x 10, 10, 10
[Same as last time, but I think those shrugs made a huge difference]

Diverging Pulldown
50 x 11
35 x 16, 15

45* Back Extension
BW x 20
+20 x 10, 10
[Loaded with a barbell on the floor. I like this load angle a lot, felt great]

Decline Situps
BW x 8
[Just to check how they feel. This was already pretty tough, but my hip flexors are pretty blitzed from Monday's sprints still. Will include these regularly in future]

Treadmill - 4mph
8 mins @ 5%, 10 mins @ 4%, 7 mins @ 3%
Avg HR - 149 BPM
Max HR - 158 BPM

Notes

Fun workout. Fucking love back training, as I often say. I want the thickest back, including nice traps [sorry KF, haha].

The watch is nice. Also handy not having to use the treadmill to check HR, though I did that a couple of times to see if the one I used and the watch agreed -- they did. What I noticed, though, is that my HR drops ~2-4 when measuring it with hand holds vs when just walking with arms at my side. This makes sense, since not matter how hard you try not to load your arms to save your legs, you will be doing that a little bit. Noticing this meant realising my Avg HR for the treadmill stuff is probs ~3 BPM higher than what I've actually recorded. As such I lowered the incline, these walks should be pretty easy and done <155 I reckon, maybe even in the 130s? Thoughts? I guess I usually only treadmill walk for 20-30 mins so being in "zone 3" rather than "zone 2" is probably fine. Idk.

Avg HR during the lifting portion of workout was 119 BPM, with Max HR of 165.

Some jumping then tempo sprints tomorrow, maybe 4x3x150m (50m walk b/w reps, 100m walk between sets) at an easy pace.

So getting a bit frustrated w/ the lifting programme at the moment, so am going to make a shift. Had a skim through one of Wendler's 5/3/1 books and liked the look of one with the typically dumb name of "Full Body (1000% Awesome)". It's 3 days/week. All %s based of 85% of estimated 1RM.

A
Squat 5s Progression (week 1 - 5 reps @ 65,75,85%; week 2 - 5 reps @ 70,80,90%; week 3 - 5 reps @ 75,85,95%)
Bench 5x5 @ 80-85%
Assistance (1 exercise pushing, 1-2 exercises pulling [double volume to assistance pushing], 1 exercise each for legs and core work)

B
Deadlift 5s Progression (same as above)
OHP 5x5 @ 80-85%
Assistance (1 exercise pushing, 1-2 exercises pulling [double volume to assistance pushing], 1 exercise each for legs and core work)

C
Squat 5x5 @ 80-85%
Bench 5s Progression
Assistance (1 exercise pushing, 1-2 exercises pulling [double volume to assistance pushing], 1 exercise each for legs and core work)

This leaves space for 2-4/weekly track sessions, mixing up jumping, sprinting and tempo work.

Being me, I will probably work in a heavy chinup session somewhere. Will probably add bicep stuff to assistance.

I'll do tomorrow's back+deadlift session as planned, then probably shift over on Friday depending what recovery feels like.

Est maxes (85% TM):
Squat - 130kg (110kg)
Deadlift - 165kg (140kg)
Bench - 95kg (80kg)
OHP - 60kg (50kg)

So it should start pretty light, which is nice. Drop back the intensity to give me space to recover to the new stimulus from jumping/sprinting, but keep enough volume to not be losing muscle. Run this for two cycles, switch to a heavier programme (he's got a more intense 3xWeek full body programme he advises, so probably that) for a cycle. That's 9 weeks. By that time cut should be done and I'll have a good solid base in various modalities.

Edit: I stuck to the same programme since the 31st of March! That's over 5 full months. Lifetime 

My first nSuns workout did 50kg x 3 x 4 on bench and could barely manage sets of 5 on bodyweight chins. Progress is legit.

Quote from: Joe on September 04, 2017, 04:17:20 pm

04-09-17

Morning BW: N/A

Workout

Jog to track ~.85mi

Warmup sprints
1 x ~10m
1 x ~15m
1 x ~20m

Jumping
~10 SVJs and ~5 RVJs [LR plant] at hoop. Able to get about full wrist to the backboard with an RJV and to bottom of fingers on SJV

Sprints
4 x ~60m with walk back recovery [don't know my track markings well enough to measure this, but it was like 80 normal steps]

Jog home ~.85mi

Notes

Over-ate on this trip, but ate nice stuff so i feel fine about it. Rather, I ate more like I ate pre-cutting, which feels like so much food now, crumbs. Ate more moderately today, but had a heavy meal about 2 hours pre-track, so I could really feel that sitting my stomach while moving.

This felt really nice. Jumping and sprinting is fun. Will be fun to have progress here as I just get better at the movements and get lighter/leaner.

Should probably keep sprints maybe to 40m, not sure I've the endurance or max speed to make 60m necessary, the last bit already feels like it is being spent slowing down.

I think my hip adductors and flexors may be sore tomorrow.

awesome!

IMHO, just in case: don't go 100% max V on short sprints .. maybe toy with that once in a while after a few months of training, but for now just keep it in the <= 90% range. As you already mentioned to me, you're probably sore af already. Ease into it nice and slow. my 2 cents!

peace!

Makes sense! I was probably running 90-95%. I don't think I've got the technical capacity for a true full out sprint yet. I'll pull that perceived intensity on sprints back to 85-90, though!

Soreness not yet so bad. Gonna go lift soon.

Want to add some sprinting/jumping to my routine. Want to start feeling lighter on my feet. Obviously leanness is a big part of that, but, like, so is being good at movement.

Any suggestions on this front? I've retained way less of my sprinting/jump training knowledge than lifting knowledge. I guess just going to the track and making sure to do a bit of each on a 1-2xWeekly basis is all there is to it.

30-08-17

Morning BW: 77.8kg [errrrrr, wut]

Workout

Bench
Bar x 10
40 x 6
60 x 8
70 x 6
77.5 x 4, 4, 4
75 x 5
70 x 6
65 x 7
60 x 9

Chins
BW x 5 [this felt weirdly hard]
+20 x 5, 5, 4, 4, 4
BW x 8

OHP
40 x 8, 8, 7, 6

EZ Bar Reverse Curl (myo reps)
20 x 17+6+5+5+3+3

Reverse Pec Dec
40 x 25
54 x 15, 12

Neutral+Narrow Cable Row
47 x 12, 12, 10

Notes

Well there's a lot going on here.

I ended up walking an extra 5ish miles yesterday in the evening. Was aware that weight have been dropping a bit fast so tried to eat a lot, but, err, guess I still undershot it. Was over 2000kcal and 130g protein.

Legs hella sore/weak feeling today. Gonna take it easy cardio/walking-wise (hence no post-lifting cardiowalk).

Back felt under-recovered, too. I guess those 7 extra sets of chins on the last bench day, done the day after DLing, hit recovery hard when food is already light.

Got a weekend trip coming up, so no training Fri-Sun. Should still be decently active, what with touring and the like. That should be an opportunity to reset from this rapid drop, I reckon.