Showing posts with label Monthly Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monthly Review. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2011

What I did in October

Well I felt like crap due to a cold for a couple of weeks and had a bit of personal stuff going on that threw my workouts off a bit. The point that stands out with this month is my reverse bending PR's and my pull volume (on the days that I pulled that is). I was also pleasantly surprised when I did my first bout of squats in a month, month and a half and they remained relatively strong.

October

  • Reverse Bend
    • 5/16" x 7" HRS in a single IM pad to ~30' First time trying
    • 375# x 7" 0-1 in 1" Singles Cert
    • 405# x 7" 0-1 in 1" Singles Cert
    • 500# x 6" 0-1 in 1" Singles Cert (Not yet approved but bent to 53')
    • FBBC 6" x 1/4" Square Cert
    • FBBC 5.5" x 1/4" Square Cert
  • Bent another 28" x 5/8" HRS within the time limit easy
  • Did some sort of pull 7 times this month and moved 73,550#
  • Closed my grippers 179 times. Mainly the right as my left arm's bugging me a bit
  • Pinched 286 times. A lot with just the right as well
  • Moved 165,666#'s in 326 minutes = 508#/min average

Saturday, October 1, 2011

What September Brought Me

I figured I may as well start writing at the end of every month just a quick summary level of what happened with me as far as my fitness/strength goals for that month.

Well the first thing is that this month I signed up for Adam Glass' Smarter Strength online coaching. I'm very pleased with the amount of information floating around between his many hours of video's that have been issued every week plus the many hours of conference calls and the occasional guest speaker. Adam has focus and an agenda which keeps things clipping along at a good pace and leaving enough time for Q&A at the end of each session. Fitness, strength, sport, nutrition, body composition and many other aspects are instructed. This course is well worth the money.

Here's the month bulleted:

  • As far as workouts I hit the basement 21 out of 30 days.
  • 390,392 pounds moved in 815 minutes = 479#/min average
  • Deadlifted 141 reps in 7 days
  • Squatted 212 reps in 6 days
  • Benched 164 reps in 6 days
  • Reverse bent in singles a 5-1/2" grade 8 bolt
  • Tore in 3 strips a ~1,100 page phonebook
  • Ripped in half a mini deck of cards
  • Strict pressed 200# with my log bar
  • Started deadlifting with a frog stance
  • Started Jefferson deadlifting