[quote]jakerz96 wrote:
2-SCOOPS,
I am looking to learn something about powerlifting. Where do you train? Awesome squatting by the way.[/quote]
i train mostly in ames, if you are interested pm me. and thanks, just need a bigger bench now lol
8-18-10 start up bench day
warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x3
225x5
235x5x2
275x3 crazy reverse band setup, wasnāt benchin in normal place
incline log press- log(90lbs) x10, 140x10x2
shoulder press on leg press- 45lb per side x6, 25lb per side x10
curl bar curls- 25lb per side x12x2, 25lb per side x10
band pullaparts- x25, x20
thatās all, my pressing strength has really really gone to shit and i feel so much like a bitch right now. bw still at 181-182, i feel a lot better actually bein in the gym again, just hoping that my strength really rebounds and quick, iāve taken a major step back and i hate it.
to those that actually look and read my log, thanks, and iām always hesitant to write a lot of this extra stuff since it isnāt directly related to my lifting, and iām not entirely sure itās to appropriate(as of lately) or what not but i think itās a little more personal and you just get a better feel for my training and what itās like, and personally i think itās just boring to look solely at numbers and i always like reading a little into whatās goin on in other lifters lives since it seems a lot of serious lifters have quite a bit in common personality wise.
8-20-10 startup deadlift day
rack pull-at bottom of knee cap- warmup- 135, 225
315x3
405x1
495x1 added belt
515x5
545x5
585x5
ghr- bw x15x2
machine t-bar- 2 plates x10, 2 plates and 25 x10, 3 plates x10
pec work on cable crossover(starting low and raising up)- 40lb per side x10, x12
i think thatās it. actually felt real well today, bw is up a couple pounds. had someone new come in tonight to kinda check things out and work on some form stuff for his bench, squat and dead. hopefully heāll become a regular so weāll have more powerlifters around.
Glad youāre not dead!
[quote]2-SCOOPS wrote:
to those that actually look and read my log, thanks, and iām always hesitant to write a lot of this extra stuff since it isnāt directly related to my lifting, and iām not entirely sure itās to appropriate(as of lately) or what not but i think itās a little more personal and you just get a better feel for my training and what itās like, and personally i think itās just boring to look solely at numbers and i always like reading a little into whatās goin on in other lifters lives since it seems a lot of serious lifters have quite a bit in common personality wise.
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Itās appropriate to share, for sure. Makes the logs more interesting. Weāre not just slabs of meat with no personalityā¦ why pretend we are in the logs?
8-23-10 squat day
safety bar, box height same as what i ended on last week-warmup- bar, 170, 260
350x3
440x1 added belt
440x3
460x3
480x3
500x3 added reverse bands
530x3
safety bar gm- 170x12x3
ghr- bw x25, bw x20x2
band pullaparts- x25, x20
thatās it, squatting went much better than last week which is what i kinda expected and good that it is actually happening. my back was still a lil tight and sore from friday still, and my right hip hurt from friday also. didnāt weigh myself but hopefully still up a couple pounds, donāt think iām up any more than that though.
right now we have several people that we are helping out and itās making things a lil more hectect. itās not a bad thing, i just donāt get to sit around as much lol. my roommateās brother just started goin to school here and a couple of his friends are comin in, and then just helpin a couple others as well, i like doin it so thatās good but just makes me a lil busier in the weight room than normal.
[quote]grettiron wrote:
Glad youāre not dead!
[quote]2-SCOOPS wrote:
to those that actually look and read my log, thanks, and iām always hesitant to write a lot of this extra stuff since it isnāt directly related to my lifting, and iām not entirely sure itās to appropriate(as of lately) or what not but i think itās a little more personal and you just get a better feel for my training and what itās like, and personally i think itās just boring to look solely at numbers and i always like reading a little into whatās goin on in other lifters lives since it seems a lot of serious lifters have quite a bit in common personality wise.
[/quote]
Itās appropriate to share, for sure. Makes the logs more interesting. Weāre not just slabs of meat with no personalityā¦ why pretend we are in the logs?[/quote]
hey thanks for the reassurance, not sure what else to say so thanks again. lol
8-25-10 bench day
warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x1
225x1
235x3
245x3
265x3
315x3 added reverse bands
355x3
365x3 added 2 board
shoulder press on leg press- 1 plate per side x12, x11, x8
incline db press- 90lb x6, 80lb x8
21ās(did 10 reps on full curl part)- 65lb x3 cycles
band pullaparts- x25x25x20
thatās it, benching went better, my first reverse band set immediately went well, i did what i use to do and what i havenāt been doing lately. i push back and arch up a lil harder and try to push my head into the pad, pretty simple thing but makes a big difference, i feel like with any reverse band iām able to work on my form without having to worry about the weight, might just be me but i like my reverse band stuff.
sooo, apparently the college rec where most people lift is closed for a while so we are getting all the people that lift there where i lift. itās been horrible, itās been real crowded and i hate every one of them, they all look the same and they do the same retarded shit. they all want to do their retarded acc bullshit expecting results but they arenāt strong enough to get results from what they are doing, and they start benching with 135, big pet peeve of mine, and this one group came in and the first thing they did was curls. i canāt wait til these people leave and go back the rec where nobody cares.
but itās all good cuz iām hangin out with kristen!!! 
lol
8-27-10 bench acc day?
standing log press- log x10, 110x10, 130x10x3
cable fly(straight arm from my side to my front)- 50lb x10x3
cable fly- 80lb x20x3
seated row(med wide grip)- 187lb x10, 200lb x10, 212 x10
curl bar curl- 25 and 10 per side x10x3
pec dec- 150lb x10 per side x2
dips- bw x12, x15
21ās- 50lb bar x1 cycle, 15 reps on full curl
band pullaparts- x25, x25, x20
i should have written this down last night, so i think thatās everything. had a decent pump, just want to try to get some size back and trying to work on a bigger chest. i can def tell my strength is down, but more importantly my strength conditioning has taken a decent hit, fortunately it feels like everything is coming back pretty quick.
I donāt mean to monopolize your log comments or anything, but have you turned to bodybuilding or something??? NTTAWWT.
Kidding. I canāt bench worth shit due to being a pussy.
8-30-10 squat day
my right hip was still kinda sore from rack pulling the other friday and then squating again on mon so i warmed up like usual then threw on some gear to ease the pressure on my hip even though itās gonna throw all my numbers off lol.
safety bar-same box height- warmup- bar, 170
260x4
350x1
440x1 added belt
530x1 added viking briefs
580x1 took vikings off and put on ace suit, add 1" to box height
620x1
670x1
710x1 added reverse bands
760x0 shoulda stopped and not tried this lol
ghr- bw x25
well thatās pretty much it, my hip was kinda sore so i decided to use some gear, i def got some overload work done, this still shouldnāt be heavy but it kinda was, have to get use to some heavier weight again, my gear is also fitting a lot looser than it was since iāve lost some size. i switched to my ace because the right leg on my viking briefs is about to split up the seam and iād rather not have that happen when iām in the hole so i put on my suit.
[quote]grettiron wrote:
I donāt mean to monopolize your log comments or anything, but have you turned to bodybuilding or something??? NTTAWWT.
ha, donāt worry about the comments, have i turned to bodybuilding? boy you must be out yo god damn mind! haha. i just want to get back to where i was size wise and if i can get my chest a little bigger then i can cut down my range of motion which will immediately add weight to my bench for me so thatās where iām comin from lol.
9-1-10 bench day
warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x1
225x1
255x1
275x1
295x1 pretty much lol
345x1 reverse band
365x1
405x1 added 2 board
reverse band bench(normal grip, open grip, normal grip)- 245x15x3
incline log press- 140x10, 160x10, 180x8
hammer curls- 75lb db x8 per arm x2 sets
thatās it, got in late so i could bench in the monolift cuz my buddy was using it to squat. things didnāt go to bad, i need to work right around the 2 board level for my sticking point, did some higher rep bench to hopefully get back a lil strength endurance also. the incline log went much better and easier than last time, used a different bench so it was a little more inclined than last week. just need to work on a few things form wise on bench but things are coming around.
i hate pretty much everyone thatās been lifting in our gym lately. non of them do any ārealā work, everyone is a fucking curl master and just does some acc bullshit. i would say 98 percent of the people that have been in have been mostly doing arm work, itās ridiculous, and you know how many people have squatted? just a couple, nobody has deadlifted, and the people squatting and benching have some of the worst form iāve seen. one guy tonight was front squatting and i kinda wanted to tell him he should just not be doing that because honestly it really wasnāt worth his time doing that exercise, he could have gotten a lot more out of something else because his form was sooooo badā¦but itās ok, he had a fo-hawk bandana around his head and a cut off shirt brah. fucking brah people.
9-03-10 deadlift day
rack pull(same height as last time)-warmup- 135, 225
315x1
405x1
495x1 added belt
545x3
585x3
635x3
straight leg deads- 245x10, 295x10, 315x10?
bb shoulder press to top of head- warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x10, 195x10, 225x6
random pullups- bw x12
bb 21ās- 75lbs x 3cycles, 65lbs x 1cycle
db tricep extension laying on bench- 40lbs x10x2
9-10-10 whatever day
front squat-warmup- bar, 135
225x3
225x20x2
leg press- 6 plates side x10, 7 plates x10, 8 plates x10
incline db press- 85lb x12x2, 85lb x10
dips- bw x20x2, bw x25
bb curls- 95lb x10, 105x10x2
pec deck- 150lb x15 per side x3
decided to take this week as a down week, just wanted to get in and do some stuff, some upper body stuff and really wanted to do some high rep squat work being as i found out my legs are down 1-1.5 inches in size.
i really like the people in the weight room that kinda lift in our little group, but as for the other peopleā¦i really dislike them. some guy was doing 1/8 rep bench presses, some other shennanigans and a bunch of foreign people kept just assuming i wasnāt using what i was clearly using. oh well.
9-14-10 bench day
warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x1
225x1
235x5
245x5
255x5
315x5 added reverse bands
335(actually 350)x3 ummm accidentally misloaded one side so i stopped, wondering why the right side felt heavy lol
365x5 added 2 board
shoulder press on leg press- plate per side x10x2, plate and 5 per side x10
one db row- 110lb x10 per arm, 145lb x10 per arm(no straps)
i actually think that is it, i hated everyone in there and i felt demotivated just being around them and watching what they were doing. i hope that the college rec center opens fucking fast. i donāt know if there wasnāt a moment where i wasnāt shaking my head or wondering what the fuck they were doing.
also forgot, iām goin on a motorcycle trip to arkansas on wed through sunday so i wonāt be able to lift. shitty part is i took a down week last week and this week woulda been perfect, but i think this will work out better anyway.
9-22-10 squat day
safety bar-touching box(same height as last time)-warmup- bar, 170
260x4
350x1
440x1 added belt
460x5
480x5
500x5
550x5 added reverse bands
600x5
safety bar gm- 190x10x3
leg press- 7 plates per side x10, 8 plates x10, 9 plates x10
band pull aparts- x40
well looks like my strength is finally coming back nicely. i would have done ghr but had so much low back pump from the gmās that i decided to do leg press instead especially since my leg size is still down. and my weight is almost back to where it was, bw 190lbs today.
so i think the rec here is finally open again, there wasnāt very many people in the weight room, so itās back to the way it should be. but there were some guys in there that kinda just kept looking at me, they werenāt big or strong or anything and then they were talking some olā protein bs and the one of the guys commented to the other that he had big arms and itās not about how strong you are itās how you look on the streetā¦well the guy that said that couldnāt deadlift 315ā¦i know cuz he said so in conversation with his buddies. they also didnāt do anything real when they were there and the guy that had ābig armsā was lat pulling 100lbs with so much body english i donāt think he could have done one semi strict rep. also keep in mind the big arm guy was prolly round 230lbs, the guy that commented on the arms was prolly over 200lbs and couldnāt dead 315, thatās prolly why he makes an excuse about not caring about strength, that way he can justify being bigger but weak as hell. and i saw some random guy doing prolly the worst squatting iāve ever seen. it made me cringe.
again i feel like i hate to much but it wouldnāt have bothered so much if they wouldnāt have kept mean muggin me, and i think people under estimate strength to much. whatev, iām just glad that my strength is just about backā¦on squatting atleast lol.
Glad youāre back in the gym, and YES the rec is open again.
9-24-10 bench day
warmup- bar, 95, 135
185x1
225x1
245x5
255x5
265x5
325x5 added reverse bands
345x5
375x4 added 2 board
shoulder press to top of head- (warmup- bar, 135x6), 185x10, 205x10
bb curls- 95lbs x10x2, 95lbs x12
dips- bw x20x2, bw x15
thatās all, was going to do some incline log press but got talking and decided to skip it. the curls and dips were supersetted and done with little rest in between. my bench is finally increasing again, the last set of 265 went better than the 255 and i still have more weight to put on the bar so thatās good. and jakerz is right, the rec is open and there havenāt been many people in our little weight room so iāve been much happier lol. think thatās it, things are finally getting closer to where they were soooo baller.
9-29-10 squat day
safety bar box(same height as past couple times)- warmup- bar, 170
260x3
350x1
440x1 added belt
500x3
520x3
540x3
600x3 added reverse bands(quite a bit less tension then last week)
630x3
ghr- bw x25x3
thatās all, pretty sure i got my band tension back to where it originally was, bands pretty much hanging off the bar at top so the weight is true at the top. things went ok, just ok, didnāt feel that easy but didnāt feel that hard, i still have more weight to put on the bar so all is good.
so people completely fucked up our stereo in the gym so we had to use this little shockbox thing. it has like two one inch speakers and we hooked up an ipod to itā¦but then it died about halfway through my squatwork i think, so that was nice to squat heavy without any music lol.