crazy numbers in here!!
7-13-11 squat day
safety bar box(warmup lower box like past weeks)-bar, 170, 260, 350x1
add plate on box
440x1 added belt
530x1
600x1 added inzer wraps
640x1
680x1
800x1 reverse band, added ace suit straps down, .5 in higher box
900x0 lol.
thatās all. felt like doing some suit work today, the 900 was real close, just drifted a little to forward, but this is also the lowest iāve ever squated in a suit, next time iāll just increase the box height a little and iām sure itāll go. 680 didnāt go all that well either haha. i can tell itās time for a deload again. iām prolly gonna suit up and try to pull 700 on sunday when i deadlift. iām about halfway through my cycle so i just wanna do some stuff to see where iām at and to have some fun. thatās the biggest part, making things fun. just did some extra rolling after squatting, didnāt feel like doin anything else so i just called it good.
[quote]Adam-F wrote:
crazy numbers in here!![/quote]
thanks. hopefully they will keep going up!
I canāt even imagine having 900 on my back lol. Great squatting though, what do you feel has helped your squat the most?
900? get the fuck out of here. . .u werent playin when u said u were goin after 1K
7-15-11 bench day
warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x1
225x1
275x1 .5 board
325x1 .5 board
340x1 .5 board
355x1 .5 board
375x1 .5 board added pms
415x1 2 board, pms
205x14x2
curls- 25lb per side x30
tricep pushdown- 140lb x30
band pull aparts- x30
thatās all, had to get going to drive to the out of town powerlifting meet for the weekend. things went well, had the gf giving me a lift off, went pretty well actually, thankfully we have a competition bench with a lift off platform though!
7-17-11 dead day
block 2- warmup- 135, 225, 315
405x1
495x1 added belt
585x1
615x1
655x1
745x1 added reverse bands and king sumo deadlifter
805x1
655x0 suited from floor
sooo i wanted to do some suited work and pull from the floor to attempt 700, so i put my suit on for my reverse band sets to get it seated and try it out, went well. put 655 on the bar from the floor and man i could hardly get down to the bar, was in horrible position and tried to pull, got it off the floor and called it good, position was way to bad. next time if i do this, iām gonna have real loose straps instead of tight and possibly just pull straps down.
anywhoo. congrats to everyone at the meet. little kyle pulled over 500 in his first meet. gorilla strength squatted 611, hawkcapt had a good day and our little hobbit freind had a pretty decent day, not what he wanted but he moved down a weightclass and increased his comp bench by 30lbs. eric lilliebridge finally hit his 2100 raw total, jake prazak benched 920 in the 242 class and it was great to see jeremy frey back on the platform!
[quote]elmore18 wrote:
I canāt even imagine having 900 on my back lol. Great squatting though, what do you feel has helped your squat the most?[/quote]
ummm, i donāt think i can narrow it down to one thing. doing more upper back work, hamstring work, safety bar, squatting multiple times a week, and messing around with gear i think have all helped out my squatting. well honestly it didnāt feel that bad, canāt wait to mess around with my squat suit even more.
[quote]odiE321 wrote:
900? get the fuck out of here. . .u werent playin when u said u were goin after 1K[/quote]
i never play, 1000 gonna happen sometime soon!
[quote]2-SCOOPS wrote:
[quote]elmore18 wrote:
I canāt even imagine having 900 on my back lol. Great squatting though, what do you feel has helped your squat the most?[/quote]
ummm, i donāt think i can narrow it down to one thing. doing more upper back work, hamstring work, safety bar, squatting multiple times a week, and messing around with gear i think have all helped out my squatting. well honestly it didnāt feel that bad, canāt wait to mess around with my squat suit even more.[/quote]
Iāll play!
7-21-11 deload
wellā¦i got in the gym late and forgot that they close at 10pm. so all i had time for was just partially warming up on squats and some stretching.
squat bar, free squat- bar, 135, 225, 315x1
so thatās all, i wanted to do my squatting and dead deloading tonight but that didnāt work out, so this is all iām gonna do for my deload week lol.
7-27-11 squat day
ssb, different box height, lower, just used acutal squat box-warmup- bar, 170, 260
350x1
440x1 belt
540x3 inzer wraps
580x3 metal wraps
620x3 metal wraps
690x3 added reverse bands
ssb gmās- 220x12
so thatās all, squatting went well. hot as hell in gym again, didnāt feel all that good so i did just one set of reverse band and one set of gmās and called it good and got the fuck outta there! and iāll address the 3 rep situation. iām going to sturgis in two weeks and iām not gonna be able to lift that week, that was gonna be my one rep week so instead of skipping that week i decided to skip my 5 rep week. but this is gonna mess up my ākind of scheduleā soooo iām just gonna take it one week at a time for a little bit and do what i do bestā¦improvising! my training buddy hit a pretty easy 435 raw bench today, heās on track for 450 or 450 at the meet. everyone is kicking names and taking ass, should be a good meet for everyone.
want to say thanks to people staying and spotting. i needz to buy a round next time we go out!
7-29-11 bench day
warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x1
225x1
275x1 .5 board
300x3 .5 board
320x3 .5 board
340x3 .5 board
365x3 .5 board, pms
385x3 2 board, pms
405x3 2 board, pms
fat bar floor press- 2 plates/side and added 1 chain/side (290 at top)x3, 2 chain/side (330 at top)x3x2
tricep pushdown- 160lb x25
straight bar curl- 70lb x25, 90lb x20
band pullaparts- x25x2
benching went well, i forgot to do my high rep sets but things felt pretty good. well, deadlift day tomorrow, dropping my block height by half tomorrow and will be using my weights from beginning of cycle.
7-30-11 deadlift day
block pulls- 5(half the hieght of block 2)- warmup- 135, 225
315x1
405x1
495x1 belt
545x3
585x3
625x1 to much sweat, couldnāt grip anymore
625x3 added straps for grip
265x12x2 straps, conventional
cable row, med wide- 187x12, 200x12
so thatās all. soooo much sweating it was hard to grip the bar. soo i decided just to pick up where i left off instead of going back to my starting weights. it went ok, besides the grip issue.
What conventional dropsets? Howād they feel?
Do you use chalk? If not that might help with the grip problem due to sweating.
[quote]jakerz96 wrote:
What conventional dropsets? Howād they feel?[/quote]
they felt okay, i like the way conventional feels from the knee up but still didnāt feel like my position off the floor was good.
[quote]parsley wrote:
Do you use chalk? If not that might help with the grip problem due to sweating. [/quote]
hahaha yea i use chalk. this is beyond sweating, people donāt really understand what its like where we lift. some guy in the gym on sat morning thought i just got out of the sauna. when you mix that much sweat and chalk it becomes even more slick and even with towels i just canāt dry off enough. i may bring in a small fan just so i can air out my hands next time.
[quote]2-SCOOPS wrote:
[quote]parsley wrote:
Do you use chalk? If not that might help with the grip problem due to sweating. [/quote]
hahaha yea i use chalk. this is beyond sweating, people donāt really understand what its like where we lift. some guy in the gym on sat morning thought i just got out of the sauna. when you mix that much sweat and chalk it becomes even more slick and even with towels i just canāt dry off enough. i may bring in a small fan just so i can air out my hands next time.[/quote]
Damn thats crazy stuff man hhaah
8-3-11 squat day
squat bar-warmup(plate lower box height)- bar, 145, 235, 325
415x1 added belt
505x1
add plate on box
555x1 added inzer wraps
615x1 inzer wraps
665x1 metal wraps
715x1 metal wraps
775x1 metal wraps, added reverse bands
ghrās- bw x25
so thatās all. wanted to do some straight bar work to get a feel for the bar. went really well. all weights went well and pretty easy including the 715 and 775. it actually cooled off a little today so the gym wasnāt as hot as it has been. got running late on time so i didnāt do much for acc stuff, but i did end with some band assisted stretching and traction work.
8-5-11 bench day
warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x1
225x1
275x1 .5 board
325x1 .5 board
345x1 .5 board
365x1 .5 board
385x1 .5 board, pms
405x1 2 board, pms
425x1 2 board, pms
215x14x2
fat bar floor- 250 40lbs chains x1, 250 80lbs x1, 250 120lbs x1, bar 120lbs x20
shoulder press on leg press- plate and 10 side x14, x13
curl bar- bar 10lb side x25x2
thatās all. things went pretty well. the 405 was weird and i messed that up, the 425 went a lot better. surprised today went pretty well. my elbows and shit are messed up from straight bar squatting on wed, and iāve been slightly distracted and down. ended up breaking up with the gf.
so iām starting a bouncing job tonight, should be interesting, i have the ok to tackle people haha