11 Jun Tucker: Leg day naps and benching in slippers
An interesting week of training indeed! This was my last week in Oregon, so we drove up another couple times to see Noel and train at Foster Fitness.
Leg day
I pretty much knew the leg routine he was going to put me through, but that didn’t make it suck any less. I’ve been put through killer leg workouts before where the pace was crazy and every set was to failure, but I haven’t trained like that in forever. Day in day out training like that will only beat you up, but every once in a while a little bit of crazy helps mix things up and keep you sharp.
We started with squats and added around 50 lbs to the bar each set until I got to 365 for around 10 reps. The leg workout before that one I had topped out at 315 for sets of 10 so it’s nice to see my strength coming back each week after taking that time off.
As per usual the rest periods were super short, and usually just enough to catch my breath, throw another 25 on each side and get to it. We moved over to the squat machine and then leg press after that. I kept my feet around hip width and pretty low on the platform so that I could isolate the quad, specifically the medial quad and overall lower portion of the thigh. I wasn’t pushing much weight because I was focused on isolating, so Noel gave me some shit when he increased he weight for the final set –
“Oh good, you’re finally lifting more weight than girls in here…”
Thanks boss.
Once quads were done we moved onto lying leg curls and seated curls. My quads were so friggin pumped that the most painful part of the lying curls was the pad cutting into my swollen and sore legs.
After those were all finished up I laid on the ground for a while and my hamstrings were buzzing like crazy. It felt like a cross between a vibration and pins and needles. I tried putting my feet up, bending my knees, lying flat etc. it just took a while for the blood to go away so they would feel normal. I pulled up a bench and closed my eyes for a while and actually drifted out for a minute or two a couple times.
The recovery process took just as long as the workout – 1pm warm up and start working out, done by 135-140, lie on ground until 150, then lie on bench until 215. I was toast afterwards and ate slow and hung out until almost 3 by the time I was ready to leave.
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Chest day
This was another quick paced day and more or less the same as last time. The biggest difference was that I had worked chest only a couple days prior, and a couple days before that. My chest was tired and sore, but I felt like this would be the best time to train with Noel because when your muscle is sore and you work it again, you can feel it in a whole new way. You might not stimulate a whole lot of growth because it isn’t recovered yet, but you can definitely feel it which will carry over to the next workout when you’ll be able to feel even better again.
Foster fitness is a pretty chill environment so we brought the dog up and I was wearing slippers while shuffling around from bench to incline smith to hammer strength machines, and then two biceps machines and DB curls.
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