Back Day Silliness

Today at the Grotto (No joke, the name of the school gym is the Gritty Grotto), it was back day as per the usual Saturday routine. 

However, I was not loaded up with my usual Friday night pizza, fortunately I was feeling my oats again so I thought I would get a little reckless with my chin-ups today.

Warmed up with 6 long full reps of wide grip chins, followed by a working set of 55 lbs for 7 reps.  Feeling somewhat invincible I attempted one rep with a 100 lbs dumbbell! Unfortunately,  I wouldn't call it a full rep, but it was quite close...maybe next time. 

After that silliness, it was time for 3 more real sets {55 lbs x 4; 30 lbs x 12 and 12 reps with my body weight}

Next was Deadlifts for 3 sets {135 lbs x 12; 225 lbs x 12; 315 lbs x12}

Underhand grip  barbell Rows {135 lbs x 12; 185 lbs x 10l 185 lbs x 11}

Dumbbell Rows for 2 sets {85 lbs x 12; 85 lbs x 15}

Finished up with some machine rows and cable rows and a little stretching.

The rest of the day shall be spent eating, hooray!

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Squats, you make me weak in the knees

So leg day rolled around again today, as it seems to every Tuesday. Things started off slowly, as it was the end of a long day.

The squats weren't as good as would have liked them to have been.

Nonetheless, I pressed on and found myself pouring buckets of sweat with a great leg pump that I'm sure will be the cause of much soreness on the morrow.

Exercise order of the day:

Warmed-up with a 400m run

Back Squats: Sets {135 lbs x 15; 225 lbs x 12; 265 lbs x 6; 225 lbs x 8}

Wide Stance Squats: 1 Set of 135 lbs for 12

Front Squats: 135 lbs for 12 reps, also only one set

Stiff-Legged Deadlifts: 4 sets {135 lbs x 12; 225 lbs x 12; 275 lbs x 12; 315 lbs x 6}

Barbell Lunges: 2 Sets {135 lbs x 8}

Leg Press: 3 Sets {320 lbs x 30; 410 lbs x 25; 500 lbs x 25}

Lying Leg Curls: 3 Sets of 12 reps with 90 lbs or so (Not really sure with those machines)

Some standing calf raises and then some light stretching.

Phew!

Quite a bit of volume, but I am eating a tonne right now so hopefully I'll be able to recover well enough.

Perhaps I'll get a massage from Mrs. Oddbody (hopefully she is reading this)

Off to bed!

Random Sushi Night in Winnipeg

This Sunday, Mrs. Wife decided she wanted to make an ultra cute bento box lunch that involved a bunch of sticky rice.

Being true Vancouverites, you know what that means...

Time for some home-made sushi!

Unfortunately, I was a little too gung-ho and when I decided to start the sushi construction I realized I had very little fixings for filling up the rolls!

So I looked through the pantry and grabbed a tin of pink salmon and loaded up the first roll.

Amazingly, I actually rolled these up properly

And I didn't even destroy them when I sliced them up!

I ate these tasty little pieces for a snack and then made another salmon roll along with a very basic carrot roll

Like I said...very low supplies

Although I did have seaweed handy.

Strange.

The last two rolls shall be my lunch tomorrow, hopefully they taste just as good tomorrow.

Bonito Appetito!

Watch out for the obesity bug!

Researchers have identified a virus (AD-36), that when caught by humans can turn stem cells into fat cells! 

Apparently it can also potentially turn someone who was once thin to become overweight.

The symptoms someone exhibits when they catch this virus are also quite similar to those of the common cold.

So this begs the question...

Do you feed a fever or starve a cold?

watch out for this fat cell found here

The Friday Pizza Tradition Continues

Because I love making some za' every week.

Here are a few tasty pictures of last weeks endeavours.

The preparation of the onions and mushrooms.

The Spreading of the dough

The addition of the tomato sauce and some oregano

The pre-cheese toppings

A little too much broiling..but still good.

Another successful Friday feast.

Saturday Morning Back Day

These Saturday morning workouts are becoming some of my best of the week! 

Maybe it's because I don't usually have anything else to do besides picking up a few groceries

Perhaps it is the massive amounts of home-made pizza I ate the night before that fuels my workouts.

Or, it's because it's the only day of the week that I have a training partner.

Either way they have been something to look forward to and the workouts never disappoint (myself at least)

This week I started out with a few minutes of stretching while I waited for my training partner to arrive.

First exercise was some wide-grip chin ups as per the usual.  Warmed-up with one set of a few long explosive feel reps

Now it was time for the tough stuff: 3 weighted sets {50 lbs x 8; 50 lbs x 7; 50 lbs x 4} and then one all out set of 14 reps with just my body weight.

Did deadlifts second today. 4 sets {135 lbs x 12; 225 lbs x 12; 315 lbs x 10; 365 lbs x 5}

Good and warmed-up now. Rolled right into some underhand grip barbells rows for three more sets {135 lbs x 12; 185 lbs x 12; 185 lbs x 10}

I'm really trying to work on back thickness right now so I finished up with 2 sets of dumbbell rows {105 lbs x 12; 105 lbs x 10} and then three sets of T-bar Rows {90 lbs x 12-15}

That's all she wrote!

Anything in particular that makes your workouts out of the ordinary?