Wife is continually pissed at the time I spend training, the time I talk about training, the money I spend in relation to training, etc. Unfortunately I am going to keep pushing the envelope, especially over the next few months. I always explain to her that I could take up hunting and fishing, like most males in this area, and spend more money, and be gone for whole weekends.
Regarding reunions, I was kind of an asshole in high school. And didn’t hang out with people there much. Oddly, I never received invites for the 10 year or the 20 year.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Re-org number eleventy-eight in progress - to be completed mid December.
We still have jobs - we’re just not sure who, exactly, we’ll be working for or what, exactly, we’ll be working on…[/quote]
Tony, do you do contract work?
Have a couple of friends that do contract work at Tinker. Same company for a couple of years and then the contract changes hands. They keep their jobs, but the name on the paycheck changes…as can the amount.
[quote]soldog wrote:
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Re-org number eleventy-eight in progress - to be completed mid December.
We still have jobs - we’re just not sure who, exactly, we’ll be working for or what, exactly, we’ll be working on…
Sorry to hear of the added stress. Hope they communicate as proactively as possible…[/quote]
No worries. We do a re-org every 6 months to a year. We do slough off employees of companies we’ve acquired but our group, being IT and understaffed, remains untouched for the most part. It’s an ever-changing parade of middle-middle-middle management that occurs. I’ve experienced about 12-15 of these in my 10 year sojourn at this company.
Your Zercher ability leaves me dumbfounded. My best Zercher is about 50lbs. shy of my best backsquat. I think my lower back and core is my weak link, and the Zercher exposes it.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Your Zercher ability leaves me dumbfounded. My best Zercher is about 50lbs. shy of my best backsquat. I think my lower back and core is my weak link, and the Zercher exposes it. [/quote]
Do 'em from a half squat height and really pile on the weight - that’ll fix it. Squats feel easy after that.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
jjackkrash wrote:
Your Zercher ability leaves me dumbfounded. My best Zercher is about 50lbs. shy of my best backsquat. I think my lower back and core is my weak link, and the Zercher exposes it.
Do 'em from a half squat height and really pile on the weight - that’ll fix it. Squats feel easy after that.[/quote]
Damn… that makes so much sense… I’m always seeing the forest for the trees…
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
The Pale One is King of the Zercher!!! [/quote]
Um…I think that would be you, actually.
Thanks guys - hopefully it’ll translate into a better squat and DL. I want my pull to be over 500 as a regular thing and I still haven’t broken a 400 squat.
Deadlift meet coming up in Feb and I want a 525 at least.
I need to be rockin’ the front squats, hack squats and leg press to get some speed off the floor so I can make it past my knees. I also need to bring my upper volume down a bit so I can put more energy into lower body training. That or isometrics at the knees pulled from the floor.
edit:
I got to thinking about it, and the limiting factor is my back. It has no stamina to get through a heavy full lift. Think I’m going to do light-ish deadlifts to the knees for reps and hold the last one for time along with iso pulls to the knee on another day.
Criminy! It’s taking me the better part of the day to get to and through everybody’s threads. I sure wish there was a way to get paid for doing this because I surely prefer it to my job.
Don’t get me wrong: I have a good job - I just enjoy this weight lifting crap more.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I need to be rockin’ the front squats, hack squats and leg press to get some speed off the floor so I can make it past my knees. I also need to bring my upper volume down a bit so I can put more energy into lower body training. That or isometrics at the knees pulled from the floor.
edit:
I got to thinking about it, and the limiting factor is my back. It has no stamina to get through a heavy full lift. Think I’m going to do light-ish deadlifts to the knees for reps and hold the last one for time along with iso pulls to the knee on another day.[/quote]
How about deficit deads as well to help with the speed off the floor?
I like the “light-ish deadlifts to the knees for reps” idea…