Augeleven’s log

[Clearwater47]

Yep, agreed. That's for sure more difficult than if you had touched. I see no reason to disqualify it because it came a fraction away from touching the floor.

I can see why you don't look forward to the day of the deadlift. That's a difficult session. I've never been able to sustain 2 deadlift variants on the same day for more than a couple of sessions before rethinking it. Good stuff!

[DCR]

+10000000 to the prior responses.

Sweet soundtrack too.

[augeleven]

213.0/211.1

Diet is back on starting updates from here
Last weeks avg calories 3620
Current TDEE - 3257

GGBB 2.2.1
Band Pullaparts
Red x25X3
Green x15
— ss w/—
Bench warm-ups

Bench
205X6@9 ignoring the decrease in strength here
225x3x4 paused
— ss w/—
TB row
150x8x6

NGBP-w
155x13,x9x3
—ss w/—
facepull
50x12x4

Triceps push down
40x20,12
35x12,12
—ss w/—
DB flye
25s x10,10,12,8

cable curl
35 x15,13
30x12
—ss w/—
Lateral raise
15s x15,12,8

Time 62 minutes

[EricK]

I would think stopping just shy of the floor is even more taxing than fully touching down. Your body is doing 100% of the work of stopping the bar and moving it in the opposite direction.

It counts.

Agreed. I try to soft touch most of my reps, mostly to avoid waking the boys, but 405x7 is legit strronk.

[alek]

I'm just here to pile on that your seventh rep counts. Strong work, dude!

[KarlM]

I'm just here to pile on that your seventh rep counts. Strong work, dude!

That was a bad ass set of library deadlifts. Dude, your dead is strong. You’re gonna have to deal with that lol.

[augeleven]

Thanks for the deadlift comments, gents
Log is messed. Life stress is a lot, so I’ve cut back on things

Tuesday skipped my run and slept - off day

Yesterday - GGBB 2.2.2
Squat 275x5@dissapointing, x3,3,2,2
Superset with dips
BWx10,+10x10, +chains x10x3,x8 BW x10

BARNC GX9,Ox10,10
Superset with
Chins BW x10x3


Today
Treadmill
1.5 miles in 18 minutes
When I run outside I start hating the treadmill. I might just have to move runs to 5am. Probably help my diet, because it would incentivize me to go to sleep earlier

Diet is going better. Weekly avg calories is 2600, but I gotta get through the weekend and I’ll be in the city a bunch.

[EricK]

Weekends are rough for dieting...

[DCR]

Weekends are rough for dieting...

Especially when one mentally considers Thursday night to be a part of it fml.

[augeleven]

Log update:

After a late night rehearsal Friday night, I did

GGBB 2.2.3
Press 2 min rests
120x5@.5
x3,3,2,2

incline db bench
50s x10,12,10,10,8

Chin-ups
bw x11,x8x4

Saturday I didn't move much at all.
Sunday I tried deadlifting, but canned it after the first warmup set.

I'm not sure what's going on but I am constantly short of breath and have achy joints, specifically my left knee and right shoulder. I assume I have some kind of long covid thing going on? I just went to the Dr last week and got a clean bill of health. I'm not sure if the knee thing is linked to feeling generally crummy, or if I'm developing some new kind of niggle. Either way, I'm going to put lifting on fluff time: do what I want when I want to. I'm calling it a pivot block, and I'll resume GZCL when I feel up to it.

That means benching, probably HVLF stuff. back work, machine work. Probably should do more ab stuff, since I tend to skip it. Gonna take the week off running. might do some walking, but I might not. Probably should practice more.

[augeleven]

Weekly diet update
Week 1
Today's weight trend: 211.1
Avg. trend difference: 0.00 change (whoops)
Avg calories 2860
Expenditure - 3284

Should have seen more bodyweight drop. I assume I'll see some this week if I stick to eating around 2500.

[EricK]

Sorry to hear you're feeling crummy. Sometimes just doing stuff to keep doing stuff is the best program for the moment. Hope your pivot block is a raging success, punctuated by a sudden, rapid weight loss, shedding all the water weight that malevolently masked your real weight. Get a bucket and soap ready to clean your shirt on those new washboard abs!

[DCR]

I'm not sure what's going on but I am constantly short of breath and have achy joints, specifically my left knee and right shoulder. I assume I have some kind of long covid thing going on?

I've had this since 2021. I sometimes wonder if covid related, but I had it for a much briefer period in 2018 or so, so much more likely anxiety.

[augeleven]

Thanks @DCR and @EricK

Washboard abs aren’t on the table, just would like to a bit less fat.

Pivot block day 1

American cambered bench - wide, 2 min rest
150x10x5

Lat pull-down, 1 min rest
100x12
120x12
140x10,7
120x10x3

Lateral raise, 2 minutes rest
20s x12,10,10
15s12,10

Cable ab crunch, 1 min rest
70x12x3

[augeleven]

212.5/211.3

Pivot block day 2 at the Y

Started warming up the squat
135 I felt the tendons grinding in my left knee. Squatting is out

Press out of the rack
115x3
125x3x3
— ss w/—
NGPU
bw x12,8,x6x5

Wide grip paused bench
185x5x4 could have gone lighter here

lateral raise machine
60x15 too light
70x12,11,9
60x10

Pec deck
140x15,10,8

DB RDL
100s x8x2 no knee issues here. Basically a grip exercise.
Including carrying these to a different part of the gym away from the weirdo teenage flex-bros

[augeleven]

its been an awful week.
Body still feels broken. Wife is in the hospital - maybe she gets out today. Stressful concerts and work stuff

I spent the week just trying to heal and live. Knee is still weirdly weak at times. Foot still hurts. Shoulder seems better

Yesterday I took both of the girls to their Y activities, so I had two 45 minute gym sessions. The goal was to see what hurt and what didn't.

First block

dumbbell incline bench
50s x10
60s x10,10,9
50s x10

dumbbell incline flyes
30s x6
20s x8,8

Pullups
bw x11,1 wow these dropped off quickly...

Lat pulldown, narrow chin-up grip
70x10,10

Triceps Pushdown
42.5x16,12

Lateral raise machine
70x10
80x10
90x8,7
70x10

Rear delt row machine
70x10
110x10
130x8,6

treadmill
2 minutes @5mph no foot pain but I was exhausted.

2nd block

Smith machine squat
90x10
140x5,5
160x5
These were harder than I would have thought, but the smith machine lets gets AtG and put a lot of stress on the legs

Squat, beltless in running shoes
135x7
185x5
225x3x3
Feeling very weak here, BUT - no weird knee pain doing the movement.

Seated leg curl
130x12,10,16 - this was probably too heavy

Leg extension
140x10
130x12,8

Cable curl
42.5x15,10
35x10,8

Preacher curl
30x18,15

Back extension
+45 x18


Not sure what the plan will be going forward. I have lost so much fitness that these workouts are leaving me winded.

I'm leaning towards doing a simpler 3 day setup

Something like
Monday - at the Y
Squat and Bench sticking with a weight and trying to add reps
Chest, back and biceps

Wednesday
Press for volume
Deadlift to a top set
Back, Shoulders and tris

Friday
SSB squat and NG bench
Whatever else I want to do

Tues,Thurs,Sat - cardio (hopefully jogging)

[EricK]

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Hope your wife is ok and recovers quickly. I think your simple setup looks good. Whenever it comes to pain, I think intensity is the first thing to crank way down, so your plan to add reps rather than weight seems reasonable, too. Hope you start feeling better as well.

[DCR]

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Hope your wife is ok and recovers quickly. I think your simple setup looks good. Whenever it comes to pain, I think intensity is the first thing to crank way down, so your plan to add reps rather than weight seems reasonable, too. Hope you start feeling better as well.

Seconded.

[augeleven]

Wife is officially out of hospital - have a game plan for continued treatments, so the fingers are crossed and we are optimistic.

Got in a late morning something

Cambered NG bench, wide grip
160x10x4,x6

SSB squat, beltless
150x4,8,10 I might have done a 4th set of 12, but I can’t remember

[KarlM]

Sorry to hear about you wife man. Hope things turn around for you and your family soon.