The Bat Cave

[KnightTemplar]

Stair Climber:

9 Floors @ Level 7

 

[Rigg9]

Week 25/Day 77*

Trap Bar Deadlifts:

3 X 67kg

3 X 75kg

3 X 80kg

3 X 92kg(PR)*

One-Arm Pulldowns:

3 X 10 X 30kg

Chest Supported Dumbbell Rows:

4 X 6 X 16kg

Smith Machine JM Press:

4 X 6 X 31kg

*First time since I returned to training that I've pulled over 200lbs from the floor.

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GReat job brother! Squat n dead pr only 2 days apart!

 

[KnightTemplar]

GReat job brother! Squat n dead pr only 2 days apart!

Yeah, it's been a good week's training. Thanks for the positive words, bro!

 

[MilkManUK]

Happy to see some PRs in here! Good work KT!

 

[KnightTemplar]

Happy to see some PRs in here! Good work KT!

Thanks, man!

This next one's just for you.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Week 25/Day 78

Swiss Bar Bench Press:

4 X 7 X 35kg(Rep PR)*

Football Bar Rows:

3 X 8 X 37.5kg

Machine Rows:

3 X 8 X 48kg

* @MilkManUK

 

[KnightTemplar]

Week 25/Day 79

Smith Machine Close Grip Bench:

3 X 21kg

3 X 26kg

3 X 34kg

3 X 44kg

Rope Pushdowns:

4 X 6 X 17.5kg

Low Machine Rows:

4 X 6 X 60kg

Seated Rows:

4 X 6 X 40kg

End of Week 26

 

[KnightTemplar]

 

[KnightTemplar]

Week 26/Day 80

Smith Machine Close Grip Bench:

3 X 24kg

3 X 34kg

3 X 39kg

3 X 44kg

Rope Pushdowns:

3 X 8 X 17.5kg

Low Machine Rows:

3 X 8 X 60kg

Seated Rows:

3 X 8 X 40kg

 

[KnightTemplar]

Stair Climber:

10 Floors @ Level 7

 

[KnightTemplar]

Week 26/Day 81

Smith Machine JM Press:

4 X 4 X 34kg

One-Arm Pulldowns:

4 X 6 X 32kg

Chest Supported Dumbbell Rows:

3 X 8 X 16kg

 

[KnightTemplar]

Week 26/Day 82

Trap Bar Deadlifts:

3 X 40kg

3 X 60kg

3 X 80kg

3 X 92.5kg

Swiss Bar Bench:

3 X 4 X 37.5kg

Swiss Bar Rows:

3 X 10 X 37.5kg

 

[Fahcough]

Smith Machine Close Grip Bench might be my only option for the next month or so. I'm a member of two gyms. The one with the SM is fairly easy to get to by public transport. The one with the Swiss Bar is literally on the other side of the city from where I live. Since I only train there once a week, I usually just get a taxi due to the distance.

Unfortunately, the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe starts at the end of July. Roughly 4 Million tourists will visit the city within 6 weeks or so. To put that into perspective, the native population is only about 500,000. So travelling any significant distance is a fucking nightmare due to congestion and road closures. And taxis become as easy to find as rocking horse shit.

So I'll have to confine my training to the gym within easy reach, which means replacing Swiss Bar Bench with Smith Machine CGB.

Not a perfect situation, but one plays the cards one is dealt.

Brought it here for your logs & timestamping. Having city population boom like that for tourist sounds absolutely miserable. They come, spend money, trash it and vanish.

Any work done is still moving forward. Smith Machine gonna keep you in shape until you get your hands back on the Swiss.

 

[Rigg9]

Week 25/Day 78

Football Bar Bench Press:

4 X 7 X 35kg(Rep PR)*

Football Bar Rows:

3 X 8 X 37.5kg

Machine Rows:

3 X 8 X 48kg

* @MilkManUK

Is a football bar n swiss bar the same?

 

[rikwebb]

Is a football bar n swiss bar the same?

Yeah i'm pretty sure they are

 

[KnightTemplar]

Is a football bar n swiss bar the same?

Yeah, just two names for the same bar.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Yeah i'm pretty sure they are

You're right. The names are used interchangeably.

Football Bar just sounds a bit cooler, that's all.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Brought it here for your logs & timestamping. Having city population boom like that for tourist sounds absolutely miserable. They come, spend money, trash it and vanish.

Any work done is still moving forward. Smith Machine gonna keep you in shape until you get your hands back on the Swiss.

It's great for Edinburgh's hospitality industry. Hotels, bars etc make ridiculous amounts of money. So do shops selling tourist goods. Most of the performers are just there for the love of it, but a few will be discovered in the Festival or Fringe and turn pro.

But for everyone else, it's a fucking nightmare. Some of the more wealthy residents just go on holiday somewhere else for a month or so rather than deal with the invasion. Unfortunately, that's not an option for me.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Week 26/Day 83

Smith Machine Close Grip Bench:

3 X 34kg

3 X 36kg

3 X 41kg

3 X 46kg

Rope Pushdowns:

3 X 10 X 17.5kg

Seated Rows:

3 X 10 X 40kg

Low Machine Rows:

3 X 10 X 60kg

 

[KnightTemplar]

"Bob" Standing Punch Bag:

3 X 3 Minute Rounds.

Closest I've got to training Martial Arts in nearly two years. Feels good, even though I'm ring rusty AF.