Veteran Log Mobsters Training Diary

[Mobster]

I'm also on a bench press group on FB. There's a LOT of back and forth about equipped vs raw. There is a handful there who can bench 4 plates a side or more with nothing. No sleeves, wrist wraps, nothing. The rest use something. Usually sleeves and wrist wraps (like me).

I'll start by saying I still want (on this current cycle) the 205kg/451lbs sleeves bench. That should mean 235kg/517lbs with my slingshot. I suspect a single ply is about the same. It's a LOT easier to put on and use double ply or even triple ply slingshots vs putting on a shirt.

 

[Mobster]

Monday
@ Powerhouse Gym. Will be training bench with Kirk Friday. Proper hard leg day today
Hatfield Squat
w/up, 140kg/308lbs x 8, 220kg/484lbs x 6 reps, 340kg/748lbs x 4 reps (I think this is a rep PB at this weight)

Leg Press
200kg/440lbs x 18 reps, 400kg/880lbs x 18 and then kinda bombed (probs cos of hitting the weight on squats) 690kg/1518lbs x 11 reps

Lying Leg Curls
10p x 8 reps, 17p x 7 r/p reps

Leg Extensions
stack x 12 reps, 3/4 stack x 7 reps per leg (alternating reps)

Bwt: 150kg/330lbs

 

[Mobster]

Septembers mega touchdown from Purity Source Labs and EuroPharmacies

 

[Masonic Bodybuilder]

Wow, that is insane! Your strength never ceases to amaze me.

 

[Tiger Salman Khan]

Septembers mega touchdown from Purity Source Labs and EuroPharmaciesView attachment 52474

@Mobster Legit stuff....high quality.......

 

[Mobster]

Tuesday
Seated Press
Warm up, bar x 8 rseps, 60kg/132lbs x 8 reps, 125kg/275lbs x 4 reps

Wrist Roller
87.5kg x 2 x 1 and 100kg/220lbs x 1 reps (video)

 

[ballin2504]

That’s awesome Mobster!!!

 

[RoySimpson]

Such a beast!

 

[25homes]

Killed it

 

[RoidRageWife]

I'm also on a bench press group on FB. There's a LOT of back and forth about equipped vs raw. There is a handful there who can bench 4 plates a side or more with nothing. No sleeves, wrist wraps, nothing. The rest use something. Usually sleeves and wrist wraps (like me).

I'll start by saying I still want (on this current cycle) the 205kg/451lbs sleeves bench. That should mean 235kg/517lbs with my slingshot. I suspect a single ply is about the same. It's a LOT easier to put on and use double ply or even triple ply slingshots vs putting on a shirt.

Putting onThose shirts or any compression suits for equipped lifting is a workout in itself. Getting the right suits and shirts is tough too. Never tried the slingshots. Some of the peeps on our powerlifting team that lift equipped, they like them as a tool. They take a bit to get used to. Not sure I would like them. We tend to use bands or chains on barbell movements too. I use in comp a belt and wrist wraps all that’s allowed in raw.

 

[RoidRageWife]

Monday
@ Powerhouse Gym. Will be training bench with Kirk Friday. Proper hard leg day today
Hatfield Squat
w/up, 140kg/308lbs x 8, 220kg/484lbs x 6 reps, 340kg/748lbs x 4 reps (I think this is a rep PB at this weight)

Leg Press
200kg/440lbs x 18 reps, 400kg/880lbs x 18 and then kinda bombed (probs cos of hitting the weight on squats) 690kg/1518lbs x 11 reps

Lying Leg Curls
10p x 8 reps, 17p x 7 r/p reps

Leg Extensions
stack x 12 reps, 3/4 stack x 7 reps per leg (alternating reps)

Bwt: 150kg/330lbs

Nice job on squats. PR on reps for the win! Yes I agree That’s volume prob why presses were hard.

 

[Mobster]

Thursday
Heavier arms day. Hard but great workout
Hammer Dumbbell Curls
10kg/22lbs x 20 warm up, 30kg x 10, 60kg x 10 and 90kg/198lbs x 10

s/s

Skull Crushers
bar x 20, 29kg x 12, 49kg x 10 and 104kg/228.8lbs (2 jumps up in weight and it might be a rep PB) x 6

Standing BB Wrist Curls - Extensors
bar x 20, 40kg x 8, 80kg/176lbs (jumped again) x 6 - d/s to 30kg x 20 reps (did a few reps with the broomstick too

 

[Mobster]

Friday
Me bitching about how it could have gone better while at the same time doing stuff I've never done before = ironic. Trained with / spotted Kirk on Decline bench to 155kg (first time he'd benched in months)

Close Grip Bench Press
to 180kg x 1 with a pause using a slingshot. Then onto 225kg/495lbs (plan was 2 x 1) x 1 rep and 1 fail (s/s came off elbow and Kirk had to spot me big time). Decided no to go to an upper max single of 235kg. Dropped to 140kg/308lbs x 16 reps with the s/s on (vid)

Low Iso Lever Row
45kg x 8 reps, 90kg x 6 reps and 140kg/308lbs 1 arm at a time per side x 4 reps (more there)

Cable Face Pulls
Used long rope handles to 16.25kg x 12 reps

 

[Mobster]

Sat/Sun
I thought I very nearly had 'that' call yesterday. My remaining brother rang to say my now elderly Mum had fallen at 4am Saturday and apparently wasn't found until a neighbor (who has been super helpful in the past) checked in on her some hours later (at least close to lunch time). My brother, his wife and a niece arrived and mum was taken to hospital with a broken hi[p. Never a good thing and more so at 79.

I managed to speak to a sup[er helpful nurse on her ward today and it's looking like a hip replacement. I bent mum's ear again about not using never mind carrying a mobile phone (one is sitting in a kitchen drawer gathering dust)

 

[RoidRageWife]

Sat/Sun
I thought I very nearly had 'that' call yesterday. My remaining brother rang to say my now elderly Mum had fallen at 4am Saturday and apparently wasn't found until a neighbor (who has been super helpful in the past) checked in on her some hours later (at least close to lunch time). My brother, his wife and a niece arrived and mum was taken to hospital with a broken hi[p. Never a good thing and more so at 79.

I managed to speak to a sup[er helpful nurse on her ward today and it's looking like a hip replacement. I bent mum's ear again about not using never mind carrying a mobile phone (one is sitting in a kitchen drawer gathering dust)

sorry to hear about your mom. That’s a scary moment. I’ll pray for her strength and recovery @Mobster if she’s anything like you then she’s a strong lady. U get that from somewhere! God Bless

 

[Npcclassicphysique champ]

Sat/Sun
I thought I very nearly had 'that' call yesterday. My remaining brother rang to say my now elderly Mum had fallen at 4am Saturday and apparently wasn't found until a neighbor (who has been super helpful in the past) checked in on her some hours later (at least close to lunch time). My brother, his wife and a niece arrived and mum was taken to hospital with a broken hi[p. Never a good thing and more so at 79.

I managed to speak to a sup[er helpful nurse on her ward today and it's looking like a hip replacement. I bent mum's ear again about not using never mind carrying a mobile phone (one is sitting in a kitchen drawer gathering dust)

@Mobster I hope she recovers and all goes well, God bless her. If you can, get her some bone broth when he's at home as soup

 

[Mobster]

@Mobster I hope she recovers and all goes well, God bless her. If you can, get her some bone broth when he's at home as soup

We gotta work on her being stubborn as a mule. I'm 300 miles away

 

[Mobster]

Monday
Sometimes, when your head is up your butt and stressing, the gym takes a different kind of distracting focus
Hatfield Squat
Warm up, 140kg/308lbs x 8 reps, 220kg/484lbs x 6 reps, 350kg/770lbs x 4 (rep PB) reps

Leg Press
200kg/440lbs x 18 reps, 400kg/880lbs x 18 reps, 690kg/1518lbs x 13 reps

Lying Leg Curls
10p x 8 reps, 18p x 4 r/p reps (PB weight)

Leg Extension
stack x 12 reps 2 legs, 3/4 stack x 8 reps 1 leg

 

[Mobster]

Mum update: had a chat earlier (post recording 3 podcasts today with Stevesmi) and they've put the op back a day., Nagged her (again) about having a mobile phone handy, post op after care (maybe getting a carer in for a bit) and moving (if need be) to a ground floor place). Stuff that you do and when, as happens when you age, in terms of the parent child dynamic (you turn into the parent).

 

[Mobster]

Tuesday
My head was a good half mile up my butt to begin with. But, as per, going to the gym helps. Changed the set up today as I tweaked my left shoulder very mildly on Friday. So I ended up using an Iso Lateral Press machine facing into it. Took my time before getting to work weights

Iso Lateral Press
1 arm at a time. Lifting arm x 20 reps, 5kg x 20, 10kg x 20, 20kg x 8, 30kg x 8, 40kg/88lbs x 4 and thenb 60kg/132lb x 4

3-Inch Wrist Roller
85kg x 1, 95kg x 1 and 105kg/231lbs x 1
Brutal doesn't sum this up. My hands were shaking a little after