Mehdi's Training Log [2009]

[Mehdi]

Oh Press + clean
3x60kg nice
0x66,5kg used 2 chains to get 1,5kg increase. I almost got it, just stuck halfway.
0x65kg of course
4x1 60kg easy, focussing on speed + technique

Paused bench pin 6
4x87,5kg
4x87,5kg
4x87,5kg

Inverted Rows
3x8

PUll-ups 3x20kg, 1x30kg

[Mehdi]

Box Squat
8x2 75kg + light band

Speed deadlift (feet elevated)
8x102,5kg + light band

GHR 3X8

Ab rollouts
prone bridges

[Mehdi]

Speed bench: 8x3 47,5kg + chains
2DB oh press + clean: 5x26kg
2db push press + clean: 1/0/1 x 31kg
Pull-ups: 3x20kg, 1x30kg

[Mehdi]

Box Squat
3x120kg
1x140kg PR there you go, and it went easy.
5x1x132,5kg

Snatch grip Deadlift
4x5 140kg (straps on) sort of volume pr here

GHR 3x5
side bridges

Best training in a while.

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Still waking up at 6am every monday to friday. In bed around midnight/1am. Even when I go out on thursday night, I'll wake up at 6am, although I tend not to make it later than 2 am anymore on thursday's. Saturday/sunday I don't put an alarm, usually wake up between 11am/1pm. # sleep hours per week is drastically lower than it was before I started doing this (so before februari) and I feel better overal. Much better quality of sleep, almost never trouble getting a sleep with a few exceptions here & there, and days are just longer. Highly recommend it. also: I never was a "morning person". Although I often wake up very tired because I only had 4hour sleep. It only tends to affect motivation, not really strenght. The fact that I know I can nap a few hours later makes it easier mentally.

Build a lot of new habits during the last 2-3 months:
* wake up at 6am - napping isn't consistent though, need to listen more to body
* go out 3x/week
* daily affirmations - also do visualization but not as consistently
* etc

2 more training then 1 week off skiing. Probably crappy food all week, low sleep with all the apres-ski and what else, probably will go out every night 7 days in a row. Will do go me good to get away from all the routines/habits for a while. They're effective, but boring over time.

[JorickDD]

@marcovirtual
Many reasons. One is that I like nice clothes, and it gets hard getting the right clothes when you're small and body-weight gets too high.

No offence.... But you think it's hard to find clothes at a BW of 75kg....?? That's ridiculous. I have many friends weighing over 90kg various lengths and practically ALL clothes are available in their sizes.

Would you be willing to lose strength in order to reach that goal? (Don't you like a nice body over nice clothes btw )

[americanadian]

@marcovirtual
Many reasons. One is that I like nice clothes, and it gets hard getting the right clothes when you're small and body-weight gets too high.

No offence.... But you think it's hard to find clothes at a BW of 75kg....?? That's ridiculous. I have many friends weighing over 90kg various lengths and practically ALL clothes are available in their sizes.

Would you be willing to lose strength in order to reach that goal? (Don't you like a nice body over nice clothes btw )

Don't worry Mehdi, I know exactly what you mean. But I still wouldn't trade my stature for being an easy off the rack.

I gotta admit that my boxers choking around my thighs can be pretty annoying at times. Or the oversized jacket I have to get tailored because I'm to broad for the one with the right arm length.

[guru]

1x140kg PR there you go, and it went easy.

Congrats Mehdi, you're closing on 2xBW, which also is your 2009 goal. Looks like you'll achieve it in the first quarter itself.

All the best for that & your other goals.

Mehdi wrote:
@marcovirtual
Many reasons. One is that I like nice clothes, and it gets hard getting the right clothes when you're small and body-weight gets too high.



No offence.... But you think it's hard to find clothes at a BW of 75kg....?? That's ridiculous. I have many friends weighing over 90kg various lengths and practically ALL clothes are available in their sizes.

It's the other way round for me. I am way smaller than even Mehdi (160 cm / 5'3") and till SL the smallest commonly available trousers (30") fit loose around the waist & hips. Same with the 39 size shirts - they would be baggy around the shoulders & chest. Thanks to SL that's changing now.

[marcovirtual]

@marcovirtual
Many reasons. One is that I like nice clothes, and it gets hard getting the right clothes when you're small and body-weight gets too high.

Ahhh, now I understand you. I have a friend who's in the same situation. He's 179cm and can do anything with his body. Ten years ago he used to weigh 96kg and looked like a professional bodybuilder. Then he wanted to run a marathon and went to 69kg. Afterwards, went to a "normal" weight: 84kg. Now he weighs 74kg and wants to get even lighter.

The reason?

He told me he's cheap and wants to go back using clothing from the time he was running marathons.

[Mehdi]

Didn't nap tuesday, was very tired, ended up in bed at 8pm. Forgot to put alarm or it didn't ring, I don't know what it was. Woke up at 8am instead of 6, messed my day a bit.

Bench Press
0x102,5kg so close, always that right arm, I had it left. argh.
0x102,5kg 5min rest or something in between, this went nowhere
0x97,5kg argh
0x95kg yeah well what do you expect

OH press + clean
4x55kg
4x52,5kg
5/5x50kg

Inverted rows
Pull-ups

This was the last training. Not training friday since I got too much stuff to do before I leave. Training will resume teh 16th with the sheiko routine.

[Mehdi]

Back from Bulgary.
* Lots of fun ski-ing, great clubs in the capital, great people, etc. The best part was the nature.
* Twisted my right thumb past Monday. Felt on ice patch, slided down on my side for 50m, thumb ended under ski. Thumb was black for 2 days. Doc said not broken. Today it's still swollen and hurts when flexing thumb. I'm training tomorrow, deadlifts could be a problems though.

Tomorrow sheiko day 1 intro week. We'll see how the thumb goes.

[natew]

Hi Mehdi,

Can you post the template of your program or a link to it? I found many different variations of the Sheiko routine so I'm not exactly sure what you're doing.

Tnx!

[rere]

Welcome back Mehdi

[Davek]

great to have you back Mehdi. good luck on tomorrows lift.

[Mehdi]

Sheiko here, read everything: http://www.elitefts.com/sheiko/default.asp

Trained today. Harder than I thought and it was intro week. Will post log later. Thumb is still swollen, doesn't seem to improve. Getting an x-ray tomorrow.

[natew]

you're still working out at home, right?

how are you going to do 'flies', etc.?