My training History: I trained less than one year before competing in my first powerlifting meet as a teenager back in 1983. Before leaving the sport partially due to injuries in 2005 I achieved my elitefts status in the 198,220,242,275 & 308 weight class. Throughout these years I did have a 3 year run in the bodybuilding world. I have  degenerative joint disease, have had two shoulder surgeries (right shoulder now needs replaced), one full hip replacement, knee surgery, and herniation's in all three regions of my spine, Bone spurs (all joints). I can't even begin to list the number of muscle tears I have had, surgical and non surgical.  I am "The Mashed Up Meathead" and this is my story. 

You can find my training log archives HERE and my most current training log posts HERE. 

My best lifts are behind be but my best training is yet to come. 

* Unless otherwise noted the tempo of the work sets is about 1/2 of what most would consider normal. In most cases, if I did the set with normal temp what I fail at with 8-10 reps in training I could do for 20 reps with a normal tempo. This is to keep the joint stress down while increase the stress on the muscle. I have found this to work best for me provided the conditions listed in my training history above.

 

 

Tuesday, leg training.

 

Today's leg training session was a scheduled session, where I was planning on working up and doing some type of challenge set. When I first got to the gym, I was the only one there, and I wasn't too sure anybody else was going to show up. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do. I was planning on using a pin chart or hack squat strip sets. About five minutes after I got in, Matt Smith rolled up, and Joe  rolled up, and I knew what I was going to do, because what I was planning on doing about five weeks ago, was a strip set with the SS Yoke Bar on  box squats. I talked him into training legs, doing the same thing.

 

High Ass SS Yoke Bar Box Squats
We worked up to a top set of 5-1/2 plates per sign, for five, and then repeated for 5, and then pulled a plate quarter for 10, and another plate for t10, and then just about passed out and died. I did get a video of it. Hopefully I'll be able to post the video with the training log. It's uploading now, so see how that goes.

 

The next exercise was leg extensions. One warmup set of 20, then 8 sets of20, with 60 seconds rest between sets. The next exercise was hip adduction, 6 sets, 15 reps, 60 seconds between sets.

 

We started the whole session with seating leg curls. Five warm up sets of 10 to 15 reps, and then 4 work sets, progressively working up to heavier weights for 4 sets of 10. Once we got to the heavy weight, 2 sets of 15 for what I call, super work sets, where in my case, I pick up the tempo a little bit, and I use more force than using a controlled tempo, like I do on most of my work sets.

 

That was it for legs, because after that challenge set, I was fucked up.

 

Here is a video of Matt's top set - Matt is 8 months off a double hip replacement.

 

 

Here is my High Ass Set