R & R

So just as I thought I was turning a corner and getting ready to train again I hit another wall. I went to see my doc for a follow up visit to see how my wound was healing. I let her know that I was still feeling a decent amount of pain down there and there is some heavy drainage. Sorry if that was too much info for some.
Anyway, she took a look and I apparently have an infection and she basically said that I should not work for about another week and obviously no training. So, I have to start up antibiotics and pain meds and stay at home and be pretty stationary.

Unfortunately, if this does not help it I am looking at another potential surgery so I am keeping my fingers crossed. I just got my Oly Shoes in and I ordered some bumper plates to. Well, when I am ready to train again at least I will have everything I need. I know this time around I will be losing strength, but at least I can always get that back. Hopefully, I will start posting logs again in the near future.

Hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving and eats plenty of food. 

-Coach P

Post Surgery Training First Day

11/21/09

So trying to get back in the swing of things again. It has been about 2 weeks!! since I have been able to train and wow it sucks. I did not think a fistulotomy could knock you down so hard, but it is pretty brutal. I am feeling much better finally and I refuse to be defeated by this. Throughout all of this I actually started working on some bodyfat loss goals of my own right before the surgery and it is going well. When I started I was 187 at about 20-22% BF and now I am down to 176 not sure of BF%.
20-22% felt a bit much and personally I do realize that I would like to get to about 10%.
I have employed a fellow colleague and friend here in the forum I am sure most of you know him Justin Negrete. He is my nutritionist right now and things are paying off for me. I still have the desire to get big however I realize I spent over a year in a bulking cycle and probably gained more fat than muscle. I know I made some mistakes with the nutrition and not enough conditioning work.
Another realization is because of all this it may or may not be a correlation with my current health situation, but I am not willing to take that chance.


As for my training it will still be a couple of weeks before I can do any lower body work meaning I do not want my wound to split open again. Which is a bummer because that means about a month off of squats and deads so no Oly Lifting
However, I can still do some upper work so I can work on muscle snatches, cleans and OH pressing. Anyway, trained for the first time today and here is how it went.

 1a Bench
barx10
95x10
135x8x2
135x6

1b Wide Lat Pulldown
50x10
70x10
80x8
80x6x2

2a Narrow Grip Bench
115x10
115x8x2

2b DB Rows
35x8 L, R
50x10 L, R
50x8 L, R

3a DB Incline Flyes
20x15
20x12

3b DB Posterior Flyes
10x15
10x12

4a Twist Crunches on Ball
20repsx2

4b Back Ext
20repsx2

I focused on slow eccentric and fast cocentric on all the lifts and obviously this was more of a Bodybuilder style session, but that's okay. I still feel it will be good for my joints and blood flow of course.

Post meet and surgery

Well it has been a couple of weeks since Lift for Hope and it was a great time.  My first attempt was a 315 lbs Deadlift and I got it.  Then I went for 350 lbs which I was able to get all the way up, but it did not count because I hitched at the knee too much.  Oh well you win some you lose some. I do have some video footage and I will post it here soon. 

Anyway, after I came back to Abq, I got hooked up with an Oly Lifting Coach and a team here.  I have been wanting to do Oly Style Weightlifting for quite a while now.  I just did not have the resources at the time so I will be changing gears and focusing in on Weightlifting and with my new coach I will definitely be competing in the near future.

In other news, unfortunately I had to have surgery on very nagging problem so I am okay, but it will be a couple of weeks before I can resume any serious training. 

Deadlift PR 1 week before meet working on opener

10/9/09

Deadlift (Just working on opener for Lift for Hope)
135x5
135x2x3sets
225x2
275x1
315x1
335x1 10lbs PR! (Went up pretty easy)
345x1 20lbs PR! (Pretty hard, but felt like there was definitely more in me)

Here's the vid. Forgot to film the 335x1, but got the 345x1 with a warrior cry and all.....


Not bad for first thing in the morning and just a pre training shake. Also I am down about 2 lbs at 186 since I stopped drinking 5 gallons of whole milk per week, stomach just couldn't handle that anymore. I will see what I can do on a weeks rest, massage, and plenty of food.

Squat 10/6/09

10/6/09

Squats:
barx10
95x5
140x3x2sets
175x3
215x3x5sets
245x1
265x1 PR!!

Zercher Box Squats
125x5
130x5
135x5

DB Step Ups
55x1 (sloppy and shaky legs felt like jello
52.5x1x4sets (much better)

Reverse trunk twist on ball
18, L, R

5, 30 yard Sprints all out
1 min rests

Solid session for me with a Squat PR to boot.

Deadlift PR Day