[quote]sincityiron wrote:
Hi guys sorry I didn’t know this thread got resurrected from the dead, someone emailed me on youtube to let me know. I want to say thanks and appreciate all the positive feedback, I have been experimenting with a few theory’s trying to get stronger and I think they are working pretty good. So any questions you guys have I will be more than happy to answer. [/quote]
1.Will you write an article about something and post it here? Pretty sure you could help a lot of out.
Do you plan on competing? Your lifts are insane.
Great job man. Most impressive videos I’ve ever seen posted on this site.
I use to love doing illegal wides but I would never go above 405 with them, but they seem to be irritating my rotator cuff so I haven’t been doing them as much. Close grip is very important the added range of motion plus the increase stress on the triceps is great. I would advise against going to narrow it just injury waiting to happen, around shoulder width maybe some people can get away with a little narrower but that’s it. The main thing is to really focus on keeping those elbows tucked. If your close grip triple goes up you best believe your 1rm standard grip will go up too. One point on close grip is I cant go all the way down to my chest without my shoulders rolling forward so I stop maybe 3 or so inches from chest so its better to not go down all the way then put your shoulder in a compromising position. I haven’t maxed in a while or even done a double I have been doing sets of 3-5 on heavy days but I try to not go to failure I usually have at least one rep left in tank just to prevent chance of injury. Its the risk to reward benefit, squeezing out that last rep at or after failure are responsible for those little shoulder tweaks that set you back a month or two so I rather to some extra work sets to make up for it then increase the chance for an injury. So I really dont know what I could hit I will test it out within the next couple weeks based on my triples I would say 675-700.
[quote]sincityiron wrote:
I use to love doing illegal wides but I would never go above 405 with them, but they seem to be irritating my rotator cuff so I haven’t been doing them as much. Close grip is very important the added range of motion plus the increase stress on the triceps is great. I would advise against going to narrow it just injury waiting to happen, around shoulder width maybe some people can get away with a little narrower but that’s it. The main thing is to really focus on keeping those elbows tucked. If your close grip triple goes up you best believe your 1rm standard grip will go up too. One point on close grip is I cant go all the way down to my chest without my shoulders rolling forward so I stop maybe 3 or so inches from chest so its better to not go down all the way then put your shoulder in a compromising position. I haven’t maxed in a while or even done a double I have been doing sets of 3-5 on heavy days but I try to not go to failure I usually have at least one rep left in tank just to prevent chance of injury. Its the risk to reward benefit, squeezing out that last rep at or after failure are responsible for those little shoulder tweaks that set you back a month or two so I rather to some extra work sets to make up for it then increase the chance for an injury. So I really dont know what I could hit I will test it out within the next couple weeks based on my triples I would say 675-700.
Not very fast, increase in strength and PR’s usually come in spurts. I will stay the same for a couple workouts then feel really strong one day and hit some PR’s.
On your heavy days do you generally try for PR’s or do you just hit some heavy weights for the day and not really worry about beating PR’s?
Most people think PR’s are just about triples or singles but I don’t really don’t equate PR’s with heavy weight I have Pr’s for everything for 315, 405, 495, 585, 635 so some of them are heavy but 315 my PR is 62 so so If I hit a 63 new PR. When I do reps over 6 I usually only do the bottom half to bottom 3/4 of the lift the only reason I locked the 405 reps out was cause I was seeing how many I can do like that. One reason to not lock out high reps is there is no need to put the wear and tear on elbows plus I also like the constant tension on your chest. Whats weird is your triple one day might feel like a ton and there is no way you think you can get a PR with it but you drop the weight back and hit a PR reps wise with a lighter weight. As long as your reps go up your strength does too.
Do you bench once a week or more often?
I do heavy bench Monday and I have adjusted my split a little from last time I talked on the forum. I do more of a lighter type speed/rep day on Thursday.
[quote]sincityiron wrote:
How fast is progression typically at your level?
Not very fast, increase in strength and PR’s usually come in spurts. I will stay the same for a couple workouts then feel really strong one day and hit some PR’s.
On your heavy days do you generally try for PR’s or do you just hit some heavy weights for the day and not really worry about beating PR’s?
Most people think PR’s are just about triples or singles but I don’t really don’t equate PR’s with heavy weight I have Pr’s for everything for 315, 405, 495, 585, 635 so some of them are heavy but 315 my PR is 62 so so If I hit a 63 new PR. When I do reps over 6 I usually only do the bottom half to bottom 3/4 of the lift the only reason I locked the 405 reps out was cause I was seeing how many I can do like that. One reason to not lock out high reps is there is no need to put the wear and tear on elbows plus I also like the constant tension on your chest. Whats weird is your triple one day might feel like a ton and there is no way you think you can get a PR with it but you drop the weight back and hit a PR reps wise with a lighter weight. As long as your reps go up your strength does too.
Do you bench once a week or more often?
I do heavy bench Monday and I have adjusted my split a little from last time I talked on the forum. I do more of a lighter type speed/rep day on Thursday.[/quote]
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
It’s insane that a member of this very board has hit (and filmed) inhuman feats of strength like this but only has 3 pages of views while a non-existent fatshit vampire with 3 pics in “bad lighting” has several threads devoted to him.[/quote]
Q F T [/quote]
To be fair, if you stick only to the Powerlifting and Training log forums you miss a lot of the chaff. But yeah, this seems to be typical of T-Nation. See the gifted (aka Brandon Curry) thread.[/quote]
Not to derail this thread, but Curry was plain making shit up like a 4.1 40 yd dash and 3 plate military at 170lbs and was cocky as shit from the jump. This dude has been humble and helpful and never claimed anything that he couldn’t back up.
[quote]sincityiron wrote:
I am in the low 700’s on both but I try to do only triples. I use a safety Squat bar because if I use a conventional bar my shoulder feels likes its going to tear. Scot Mendelson told me he has the same problem and I remember reading somewhere that Bill Kazmaier hurt his shoulder the same way. I really don’t know if I can use a regular bar for squats maybe if I did some intense stretching for a couple months. To bad cant use one of those bars in competition[/quote]
Even with a high bar position and a thumbless wide grip? Just curious.
scroll down a bit and you will see the entry forms, 635 is the most somebody has done in that division I think and they usually get some damn good benchers competing, everybody is raw.
Just a thought, you need to get on the platform and make those lifts legal and more importantly immortalized, last thing you want is to get hurt and then the most you are ‘officially’ credited with (not taking away from the awesome vids) is a big fat 0 in something. Set the mark now and then work to improve it later.
[quote]sincityiron wrote:
315 my PR is 62 so so If I hit a 63 new PR.[/quote]
lol wut?? that’s just crazy
[quote]sincityiron wrote:
…So I really dont know what I could hit I will test it out within the next couple weeks based on my triples I would say 675-700.
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I bet you probably will already but please, please, please film this and upload somewhere when you do it!!
Even with a high bar position and a thumbless wide grip? I have tried a couple of times, its just not worth it to me, It feels like my shoulder is gonna rip every time.
whats a typical leg day session then??? curious to deadlift numbers to I don’t do to much for legs a Squat movement if I don’t have access to SS Bar then I use a Squat Hammer type lever machine. When my lower back is healthy deadlifts with trap bar then some seated leg curls. For calves I prefer standing calf raises. Even when I didn’t have ankle and lower back problems I was never a great deadlifter I see 18 year old’s deadlifting 800 that’s crazy.