PR ALERT! Worked up to a top set on squats today of 285 lbs. Programming called for 1-2 reps, but I ended up taking 3 and I had at least 1 more in the tank. So very excited. Here is a video if you guys don't mind giving me a form check. My elbows are a bit more flared out than I thought they were. The weight felt really good, and it looks to move pretty well in my eyes. Also worked up to 285 lbs for a set of 6 (at least I thought... I actually pulled 7) on sumo pulls. Programming called for 300 lbs for 3, but I'm still working on form, so I dropped the weight and went with a bit higher volume. Video probably isn't the best angle for form check, but thoughts welcome. I used a double overhand hook grip on this, and on the last rep I thought I was going to lose my right thumb. I've been trying various foot widths... this one was a bit narrower. From the looks of it, I need to pull my hips through quicker. Weighed in at 161 pounds today, which is a good 2 lbs less than where I have been. Can't really complain though with strength going up. I've been rather lazy with my food tracking the past couple weeks. Would still like to get up to 165 lbs. Cheers, gents.
Dear Diary, I pulled something in my left bicep because I'm a dumbass who knew not to use offset grip when deadlifting and thought I could get away with it.
squat form is good. i have no idea what you are doing on your pulls. double overhand sumo style? don't think i've ever seen it.
On double overhand sumo, Really? It's rather common from what I have seen. https://instagram.com/p/5c2ob3KCfW/?taken-by=joshhancott https://instagram.com/p/3eH8KnIf3m/?taken-by=kristospapanotis
I refuse to do anything heavy overhead. My shoulders are shot to shit so I'm not risking it. I'll do the Hammer strength plate loaded one and some dumb bells that I can do for 10-15 reps, but I'm not trying to military press 225 or anything.
Good stuff hensleya I shot some videos last night so I'll join you today. Felt good with the early deadlifting sets so I decided to try and go heavy since I haven't in a while. See the motherfucker in the blue tank top always just standing there? He drives a bunch of us absolutely crazy in my gym. He comes in and goes straight to a squat rack and does about 30-40 minutes of warm up sets before he does his "working" sets, but in these he loads up too much weight and does quarter squats. I'm disappointed my videos never caught one of these. 365x3 385x2. Don't like the second rep here 405x1. This is either the first time or one of only a few times that I've pulled 405 without a belt. Felt really solid, especially with being on a screwed up lifting schedule for a while now and not doing as much deadlifting as I'd like. Also there's a special appearance at the end by a girl in orange shorts that I'm very fond of
Before I clicked play on your video tjosu I thought that you were gonna be the guy with the gut in the background and I was like "well that's unfortunate"
Nice work, dude. Looking forward to hopefully pulling that much one of these days soon. Similarly to your blue-shirted guy, I had to wait on this guy this morning doing hip thrusts on the platform... as if there wasn't any other space to do it. smdh.
People doing exercises completely wrong is both comical and rage inducing, depending on where in the gym it is taking place.
Thinking about getting an Inzer Lever belt. How accurate are the measurements and how much should I expect to pay?
You should expect to pay around $104 including taxes & shipping. The measurements are accurate, IMO, but if you are on the high end of the range, consider going up a size.
That is actually my goal (also my bodyweight), but I am progressing much slower on that than the other lifts.
Am I a dick if I do Pendlay rows from the platform? There's really no other floor space and the power rack bars are too high
I got a single prong rather than the lever and haven't regretted it for a second fwiw. Levers are definitely cool but from one workout to the next I've found myself settling on two different notches. Maybe that's just me. Also, I look more like blue tank top guy than tjosu so no comment.
Going to do leg day now and hoping saturday was an aberration. Ready for the jailhouse walk tomorrow with sore quads
Anyone struggle with cramps? My neck and the arches of my feet get them fairly regularly. I eat a couple of bananas a day and if I drink any more water I'm gonna have to invest in some adult diapers.
Roll the fuck out of your feet with a lacrosse ball. You can also perform some self myofascial release on the scalenes like in this video. He doesn't clearly explain when to tension down, but you do that before you side bend. As you return to the starting spot, you release the tension, inhale, tension down again, and repeat.
Nice sumo instructional video was posted on Youtube Yesterday by John Cauchi, who is the junior deadlift world record holder in the IPF 66kg and 74kg class. He is another example of a double overhand hook grip sumo puller Dudley Dawson2
This was a down week for me anyway but I've lifted once and will probably only get in tomorrow to do some light, pump type shit. We had some flooding last week so I've been ripping up carpet, padding and nail strips so I could put down some shitty (nice looking, at least) laminate floors. My knees fucking hate me.
Bringing this in from the SEC thread..Cap are you doing any of this single leg isolation stuff? I wanna say maybe hensleya mentioned doing single leg deads or something to that effect. I feel like this may be something I should look into to get out of the rut I've found with squats.
I do some split squats as an accessory because I want my glutes to be big and beautiful. I haven't used them enough to see an increase in performance, but I like them.
After. I'm running the Texas Method right now for squats with my weight lifting. So after I do my cleans/snatches/etc. I'll do volume back squats on Tuesday, light front squats on Thursday, and intensity back squats on Saturday. I'll throw some leg accessory on Saturday of split squats and RDLs after all my major lifts and squats so I have a couple days to recover.
In the past I was doing single-leg SLDLs with dumbbells/kettlebells, but I haven't done them in a while. I will do some Bulgarian split squats as an accessory after my main lifts on occasion. I primarily stick with my main movements now with hip thrusts, glute bridges, glute ham raises, etc... as accessories.
Increases strength at a greater rate in terms of what? Strength in single leg movements? Strength in bilateral movements? Unilateral stuff is great and, imo, every athlete should be doing it in some fashion but strength is pretty specific. I doubt you'll see a whole lot of carry over from unilateral stuff to bilateral max effort stuff. I still include it for hypertrophy reasons but I do that full knowing that it's still going to take a little time to see gains in size translate to gains in strength.
I think I worded it poorly. Adding unilateral work aids in strength gains in bilateral work. I'll have to go back and re read the study, but I'm almost positive this is the conclusion they came to
Pretty sure I'm about to die. That back side injury thing? QL muscle. Injury symptoms match. Was healing great....until my 4th rep on my 5th set of 340. Nice fucking pop. Racked weight and left gym. Can barely move. Think it is worse than before. Was excited to hit 350 this week. Nope.
I'm in Seattle next week, was hoping to make it until Monday then rest.....probably going to take 2 weeks off. Fuck.
Why do you stubborn fucks not just listen to those in here that are still recovering from shit like this? T's and P's brother..smdh
Did back yesterday and per usual, felt fine leaving the gym all the way up til about 2am. Im stiff as a board right now and wiping my ass later will be a challenge