No torn ligaments or cysts, just a nasty infection in my leg. Some pain meds and antibiotics have me back on the road to leg day. Hopefully I'll be squatting next week. #2bLeSsEd
I'm late to this party but the way I see it you can feel like a bitch for a week and build strength back the right way, or you can try to load up the bar to your ego's liking and feel like a bitch walking out of there injured again. I take the deload 10/10 in that case. You can't make it back for the next lift if you're broken.
Just spent 3 days in Myrtle Beach for a bachelor party. Today is going to be miserable. High rep squats. I might die. I also leave Friday for Atlantic City for another bachelor party and then move in for school sept 4 or something like that. Stupid busy. To add to all of that good stress, my grandfather is being transferred to a hospital in Richmond with a subdural hematoma so prayers up to Odin. emergency surgery coming up
I intentionally picked accessory lifts including pull ups and Dumbbells since I've been doing barbell work for a year. I'm getting soreness in some new places so I must be doing something different which is a plus. The workouts are a lot faster and I don't feel so gutted afterwards. I can also easily do 2-3 minute breaks rather than longer ones. Overall it seems easier but I guess I'm finally testing the "you don't have to push yourself to exhaustion every day to grow" theory. I just hope I'm not losing much on this program, especially on bench where this program seems to lack for most people.
You shouldn't lose much at all on squats deads... don't be surprised if it goes up. Bench for me is going up, but that's because I started from the cellar there. Generally, it just depends how your body responds to the programming. For some, their lifts will go up, others may stay, and some may go down. Only one way to find out though...
I think I'll probably give this two full rotations before I make any adjustments. 6 weeks is nothing in the grand scheme so a full 12 weeks should be a true test. I want to squat 405 before next summer. In January I may do smolov or something to try to accelerate that process but this one is much more taxing than I thought it would be on paper. I gotta stop reading these success stories on the strong lifts site though. These people who took 4 months to get to where I am after a year just depress me. I wasn't fucking around either. I'm just slow.
Stud. USAW needs to make him the face of weightlifting. It'll never be as big here as it is in other countries because we have huge team sport markets but he may be able to make it a lot more popular by having Olympic success IF the media will actually spotlight him, if and hopefully when he has some success. Crossfit has done a lot to make things a little more mainstream but the US needs someone to have large scale success to get things moving, me thinks.
I've been experimenting with high rep benching, did 107 reps of 155 today in 8 minutes. Goal is to see how high I can get my work capacity and then when I feel maxed out to peak for a new one rep max.
First day with the adipowers so I made it a deadlift day as well. Squats are going to take some getting used to, but dat depth deadlifting will also take quite a bit of getting used to. I could really tell when I was back on my heels properly though, felt really good in both lifts when the form was perfect
Came today. Gonna have to bring a screwdriver to the gym tomorrow as I'm not sure if I attached it tight enough. Also need to buy a real gymbag now as it does not fit into my backpack.
For whatever reason if I hit a PR on a Friday I do it again on Monday..felt good today. time for a new one Wednesday.
I do the same thing Josh. Especially when getting up to my PR on squats aintnobodygottime to be going up 15lbs a week. go up in weight once a week and if i can go up 20lbs on squat in a month I'm more than happy with that progress
You can just use a coin so you don't have to fuck with the screwdriver. Just keep one in your gym bag.
It seems harder for me to add weight at the beginning of the week than it does at the end of the week, for whatever reason.. Seems like fresh legs would do better but with squats I always seem to hit my PRs on a Friday.
hensleya 2 questions First, on day 5 (last day of week 1) my sheet says "185 x MR". Am I only doing one set today or did my excel cut off some instructions. Second, after week one none of my deadlift cells have a weight calculated. Is my sheet fubared or did I miss some instructions in the long text?
It depends on if he'll make the age cutoff to compete in Rio. I think it's 16, which until now, was a ridiculously young age for a world class lifter. He's changing the rule book all by himself. And for the love of all that is holy, I hope no one is giving drugs to a 15 year old kid.
1.) Correct, you will only do 1 working set of bench that day of 185. Warm-up however you wish, but only 1 work set. 2.) Your sheet is correct... those are deadlift variations days, which won't suggest a weight since it can be anything from stiff legged deads to deficit deads, to snatch grip deads, etc... You will need to determine the appropriate weight on variation days depending on the specific lift.
Good point. I was thinking about the age stuff this morning. He's awesome either way and I hope he keeps at it. As for your second point **cough** Lilliebridge **cough** (I have no proof but I suspect papa was gassing up young Eric early)
So my company is doing a Biggest Loser competition at work. One of the guys suggested that a few of us that lift do a Biggest Gainer competition. So starting Oct 1, we'll be competing to see who can gain the most weight and add the most to their squat, bench, and deadlift. Should be a pretty fun 4 months.
It's going probably be a Dennis Reynolds long con type of deal. She's just now really getting into working out and loves going to her bootcamp with her friend. So, I'm going to keep planting little hints, or seeds if you will, about how much better crossfit would be for her and how she's doing good at the bootcamp, but she might wanna think about stepping up and really pushing her limits and trying crossfit. She's reluctant because I trash the shit outta crossfit, but I've already been planting seeds because I always add in "for men" or "for me" when ragging on it. Long con.
Tell them it's blatant discrimination to not let you deadlift. Tell them to give you your money back or you'll call Al Sharpton and sue for swole discrimination.
Got redemption on the platform today. Super high volume day. Squats: Programming called for 265 1x10 and then 10x3 at 255 for a back-off series. Got the bar into a much better position today. First set was pretty damn hard for me. Got to the 8th rep and wasn't sure I was going to make it. Ended up getting 10, but had to grind for a second on the 10th. Programming also called for 1 minute rest between sets, which was fucking tough. I was drenched at the end. Deads: Worked on super-fast speed sumo pulls. I modified this a bit. Worked up to 1x8 and then 6x3 instead of 3x8 total. It was pretty easy. Feels good, gents. Need to work on my wrist flexibility more with me moving the bar lower down my back. I probably waited too long to throw my wrist wraps on for squats today.
It was on the beach but I can't remember the name. It was in between two places that have lazy rivers around 28th, I believe. I loved the place. We had a 15th floor balcony looking over the beach. It was tough to come back to Baltimore.
Just had a dreadful workout yesterday..a little sick and haven't been sleeping well..and it was crowded as fuck so I had to wait to even get in there. Plenty of places to find excuses..really need to crush it Friday to make up for it.
I was born in Myrtle but grew up in Pawleys Island a bit south of there. Worked every summer for my dad at Broadway at the Beach. He used to own a bunch of stores there and Barefoot Landing.
I'm finishing up Candito this week, so far my bench went from 200 to 215 and my squat went from 255 to 280. Gotta check my deadlift max this weekend but I'm expecting it to be close to the 330 I started at.
Early morning for me since I have to go to a funeral this evening. It's been over a year since I did the early AM workout but it went quite well. I wasn't foam rolling back then and lower mobility in the morning was my biggest complaint. I might do this more often. Did a similar set to you today. 290 x 10 was keeping me awake last night. After the first rep the morning I knew it was for nothing. I got 10 no problem and probably had 3 more in the tank. Stepped to 295 and did my 5 sets of 3. Those hurt by the end...mostly felt like my head would explode. I only did 185 for three sets of eight on snatch grip but that's the first time I've ever tried those so I took it a little easy. For the wrist mobility I might suggest (foolishly) moving your hands closer to your shoulders? That helped me eliminate all pain during my squats and actually keeps my shoulders very tight. I'm probably two inches inside the rings and I'm pretty broad in general.
Yeah we went to Broadway the one night. May have the second but I honestly couldn't tell you. It was a great time. People are friendly, the weather was awesome, saw some sharks, and there were pretty girls everywhere. I couldn't complain
Any good articles/resources on how to squat in a belt? I tried my new inzer out for the second time and I actually feel weaker with the belt than without. For some reason when I have the belt on I have a harder time opening up my hips and I do not feel powerful coming out of the hole. I am wearing the belt so that the bottom is at my belly-button.