Wednesday 9th May 2012 workout

Wednesday
Seated Press in Jones
bar x 8 reps, 50-kilos x 8 reps, 65-kilos x 8 reps, 90-kilos x 2 x 4 hard reps (s)

s/s

Alt standing dumbbell curl
10-kilos @ x 8 reps, 20-kilois @ x 8 reps, 25-kilos @ x 6 reps d/s 15-kilos @ x 8 reps

1 Arm TPD reverse grip
20-kilos x 8 reps, 35-kilos x 8 reps, 55-kilos x 6 reps d/s 30-kilos x 15 reps then over grip x 8 reps

Dumbbell holds with fat gripz
47.5-kilos x 3 x 25 seconds

Protein scandal doc is meant to be getting edited down. Instead it's 4500+ words and 11 pages long!

Monday 30th April workout + job interview

Sunday
Enjoyed a nice walk out Chatham and back with a few beers and lunch in between with my brother David, Back to Chatham again today (Mon) for a job interview and again Wednesday... I should move there ha ha. Did ok at the interview. I made sure to mention the upcoming work and move to Wales and, from the interviewers reply, I (and may still be) was good to go. Not bad for my first interview since 2005.

Monday
Leg Press
to 500kg x 12 reps

Leg ext
to stack x 15 r/p reps

s/s

Leg Curls
to 70kg x 12 r/p reps

R/W/Curls
to 20kg x 8 and then 5 reps @ + 5kg x 12 reps d/s

Monday 16th April w/out

Monday
Sooo washed our during and after training. This snotty nose thing must be viral. I'm getting better but does it take something out of me or what?

Leg Press
usual then 120kg x 12 reps, 240kg x 12 reps, 360kg x 12 reps, 500kg x 10 reps

Leg Ext
35kg x 15 reps, 80kg x 15 reps, 120kg x 13 reps r/p

Leg Curl
35kg x 12 rep, 45kg x 12 rep, 70kg x 11 d/d reps

RT

B/H: 60kg x 8 reps, 80kg x 3 reps, 100kg x 1 rep,

L/H: 115kg x 3 x 1 reps, 117.5kg x 1, 1, 2 reps

R/H:   117.5kg x 3 x 1 reps, 122.5kg x 3 x 1 reps, 125kg x 1 and then a bomb. Was done in.

Was HARD work with virus. Sufficient to say the gyms music and my wanting to do well at the NEC got me through... just.

Motivation - thy name is Kyle Maynard

I posted a pic on facebook the other day - one someone else had put up and I liked it so I shared it. Here it is:

Now I have absolutely no idea who this guy is, why he's missing limbs (he may have been a nutter, done drugs, been attacked, be a war hero, whatever) and to be honest it doesn't matter. It might add a little weight to anything we feel but truthfully it's often what we bring to the table, our personal sentiments, that add weight and depth to our emotional response.

Now for me and I hope more than a few of you it's a powerful image which evokes a 'can do' attitude. It's fairly obvious that the guy is limited in what he can do in the gym. even with artificial limbs there wont be a lot of leg work, or curls and the like. Yet there he is, on a bench, flying or benching (not sure which)with a half decent weight.

Now think about what excuses most people bring to the fore when you ask them why they can't do something. For us, with this blogs focus and our share passion for the gym, it's blatantly going to be why they can't get to the gym. I'll add he's not on his f'kin mobile phone, eye-balling babes or wearing the latest designer label but only cos I hate that shit ha ha (+ it's real hard for obvious reasons d'uh). 

But most of all it's a can do attitude. With or without help he's got onto the bench. With either adapted equipment or, more likely, ankle straps. He got slated something chronic for daring to think he could take part in an MMA match. His name is Kyle Maynard. I'd LOVE him as a training partner.