[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
That’s great news on the biopsy. You must be very relieved.
That’s a lot of benching the other day. Do you really think you should be throwing face palms in at the end?[/quote]
You would be suprised at just how often I have to face palm.
Joe- great news on the biopsy!!! yeehaw! Time to lift heavy shit!
Day 1-Sero in World numbers
Paused bench
5x135
8x185
1x225
1x245
1x255* glacialy slow and my ass was jsut barely brushing the bench.
1x245
1x225
1x185
CGB
8x135
8x165
6x185
V-bar pulldowns
12x180
12x200
8x220
BB Shrugs
12x135
12x255
12x255
12x255
T-bars
15x90
15x135
8x160
Standing EZ Curls
12x70
10x80
7x90
Was going to start videoing but it was so crowded from incoming students that I wasn’t able to do so.
Nice progress on the benching, 3 wheels coming up.
Fantastic news on the biopsy!
You’re doing well. What do you think of your progress so far?
james
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
Fantastic news on the biopsy!
You’re doing well. What do you think of your progress so far?
james[/quote]
I think I should have progressed farther. My DL progress got slowed down by the switch to sumo and I’m only now just about back to my maxes before I switched. My bench has been inching upward but very slowly and I need that to change. I’m sort of hopefully I’ve figured my squat out. This next meet will shed a little more light on where I’m at and what I need to be doing to get things moving.
Deads
5x135
5x185
5x225
3x275
3x275
2x315
1x355
1x385
0x410
0x410
Squats to 12" box
8x135
8x185
8x225
5x245
I got annoyed right at the start of the day and training went down hill from there. I really thought I was going to hit 410 today but it barely broke off the floor. Too mcuh abck and not enough everything else in the lifts.
1x355
1x385
butt too high in the air, you were nearly stiff legged sumo…
How’s your diet? I ask because I definitely find that there is a correlation between my diet and how much I can lift.
james
[quote]PeteS wrote:
butt too high in the air, you were nearly stiff legged sumo…[/quote]
Let me ask a question Pete. I keep hearing you don’t want to squat the weight up or that you do. How much lower, in your opinion, should I drop my hips?
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
butt too high in the air, you were nearly stiff legged sumo…[/quote]
Let me ask a question Pete. I keep hearing you don’t want to squat the weight up or that you do. How much lower, in your opinion, should I drop my hips?[/quote]
I’d like to hear this as well. I have a higher set up because I have longer arms but when I’m tired and lack focus, I lean over the bar and it’s all back. For me, that’s the leading reason I can’t pull.
Tate says to drop your ‘sack’ to the bar.
I guess that means the older we get, the higher you can be?
EDIT: And I got this from:
http://www.T-Nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/iron_evolution_phase_5&cr=
“As for sumo, a perfect sumo deadlift should look like a leg press. The upper body shouldn’t move very much. Position the shins against the bar, push the knees out, and drop the nutsack down against the bar. Get tight and keep the back arched, stomach tight. Flex the abs and pull up.”
Reading Tates Vault he stated squatting the DL leaves your hips too far from the bar. I always thought that you should be in a squatting position, I am thoroughly confused…as usual.
[quote]ddot76 wrote:
Tate says to drop your ‘sack’ to the bar.
I guess that means the older we get, the higher you can be?
EDIT: And I got this from:
http://www.T-Nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/iron_evolution_phase_5&cr=
“As for sumo, a perfect sumo deadlift should look like a leg press. The upper body shouldn’t move very much. Position the shins against the bar, push the knees out, and drop the nutsack down against the bar. Get tight and keep the back arched, stomach tight. Flex the abs and pull up.”[/quote]
Did you watch the video? I get what he’s saying but he didn’t drop his hips at all.
Regardless I’m going to drop lower and see how that works out. Can’t hurt can it?
I think the “nutsack on the bar” line is being taken out of context. It’s not so much drop them “on” the bar, but rather the knees flex outwards and you keep upright so that you are dropping straight down so that your center of gravity doesn’t get behind the bar and then you need to lift with your back.
Joe, if you can get your stance a bit wider, turn your feet out, spread your knees so they track along the bar, drop down, chest high and pull (actually, push with your legs)…I think you will be in good shape.
Great work going on here. You’re going to be ready for worlds. nice pr on the skwatties too!
why does lifting have to be so complicated?
Great work in here!!
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
why does lifting have to be so complicated?
Great work in here!![/quote]
Thanks, It would be nice if form wasn’t such a pain in the ass.
Well I’m going to take my feet out a bit wider and turn my feet out a hair more and drop a bit lower and see what happens.
Hopefully I won’t go ass over tea kettle.
I was distracted on your first video by the guy behind doing actual pull ups. Nice gym.
[quote]username42 wrote:
I was distracted on your first video by the guy behind doing actual pull ups. Nice gym.[/quote]
Don’t be too impressed. I had to yell at him because he wanted to do them in the rack I was using.
While I was using it.