TMB Weightlifting Thread: Learn to Swim

Add 5 pounds to your max.

 

One of these days I'm going to train Conjugate. Just don't know when I'll actually try

 

I did it when I trained at Big Iron Gym in Omaha. Highly recommend it.

 

This monster along with a bunch of other savages lift near me. I'm pretty the old gym was an xfit establishment. It's about $400 a year and I pay that quarterly for Life Time. Hmmmm.

 

I've followed that dude for a long time
He's a hard worker for sure.

 

He and Wheels are monsters. Not completely on their own if you know what I mean*

*having Black Tom Cruise as a hype man isn't fair to normal humans

 

Wheels is 22 and yuuuuge. But yeah. No one natural could achieve that. Not that I care because it doesn't matter

 

That feel after calf day

 

Creatine strikes again.

 

Just squatted

245x4
265x2
275x2

Fired the fuck up.

 

Ate pizza and ice cream last night. Weighed in 2lbs under my weight class. DM me about pricing for my water cutting protocol.

 

I decided to go with Papa John's tonight

I haven't worked out since Wednesday :/

 

Prayers be with brother Capstone 88 in his pending day of lifts.

 

Pete Rubish set my rack heights. The anabolic gods are shining down on me

 

He studies hammy's the way I study brunettes.

 

I hope y'all never have to go to Knoxville, but if you do drive over to Oak Ridge and train at Maxed Out gym. Mono, power racks, belt Squat, deadlift bars, squat bars, football bar, etc.

 

So you worked out in hensleya's garage?

 

Grit House in Morristown is cool too.
Armor Gym (the old Arsenal) and the new Arsenal Gym (now private) are rad as fuck as well. Those last two are more BB than powerlifter oriented.

You competing in Knoxville today? Shoulda let me know I could've come down to heckle you. In a denim miniskirt.

 

Related: anyone got a preferred football bar?

 

Grit House is solid. A lot of strong folks over there.

The denim miniskirt was exactly why I didn't tell you. Can't squat with a hard on

 

Sidenote: I like Knoxville

Anyways, deload week on 531, did my squat workout today. Decided to run a bit after, I've run maybe two or three times since starting cf beginning of June (other than when the workout has 400m or 200m runs programmed in).

Ran 5k in 23:55 (treadmill), was around 27-28 back then. First mile 8 minutes, second 7:40, third I bumped the speed to 7:00, then 630 then 6:00 over the last mile and change. #biggerstrongerfaster

 

What and idiot mine was only 140

 

Double-unders took me an absurdly long time to learn

 

What's the benefit of double unders? Just that you're jumping higher?

 

Instagram followers

 

Bench press is dumb and you should feel dumb if you like it.

 

Team push-up

Thanks. Was having a hard time believing flicking a wrist twice added some biometric advantage I was unaware.

 

I own the Edge Fitness Slim Football Bar. It's awesome.

 

That slim combo is pretty slick

 

Yeah. A little bulky. I've read where people who bought it wish they could go back and just buy the football slim.

Rick is a great guy to work with. I talked to him on be phone a couple of times. He used to build for EliteFTS. He designed their original SSB

 

Someone speak to me on the perks of owning a football bar. Never used one.

 

I'm so out of the loop I thought people were talking about a bar to watch soccer

 

haha wow idiot

 

They're much harder than singles cardio-wise also increased coordination.

 

Multiple grips to hit different areas of your bench. Also, the handles are angled or straight so your shoulders are usually happier

 

So is bench pretty much all it's used for? I'm all about anything that keeps pain out of my shoulders but wasn't sure if it had other functions as well.

 

Was pretty annoyed even looking at what a double under is.

 

I'm sure you could hit some triceps, curls, and rows with it as well

 

Love this account

 

Also for those looking for a horiztotal press that's easy on the shoulders, I strongly recommend hex press

 

Sold

 

So here is my meet write up:

Squat - this was the highlight of my day. 3/3 9 white lights with a 490 3rd. 25lb PR with much better technique than my last meet. I wanted 500, but it wasn't my day. 490 was the perfect call.

Bench - warmups felt great. Opener was decent, not as fast as I'd hoped, but not awful. 2nd took forfuckingever. My buddy advised me to scratch my third and save it for deadlifts, I agreed. 2/2 10 lb pr @ a very childish 264lbs

Deadlift - warmups moved well, but I was tired as hell. Opener moved better than in the gym. 2nd was my 3rd at my meet in Jan and it moved well. Called 529 to get an ok PR. It was a grinder but I locked it out. I was setting it back down and fucking let go right below my knees. Fucking what? You dumb motherfucker, no lift.

TL;DR went 7/8 with a scratched 3rd bench. 25lb squat PR, 10lb bench PR, 35lb total PR.

 

To me you PR'd your deadlift to me.

 

My friend cut the video, but when I dropped it I went "why the fuuuuuuuck"

 

Capstone 88 what do you weigh?

 

230

 

When you realize someone is in the 1000 lb club just using 2 of the 3 lifts

 

It's all about perspective. I'm chasing guys that are 220 squatting 800+, benching 500+ pulling 7-800