[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
This is my second set of 185 x 5. It looks as fucked up as it felt. The 4th rep is high and the 5th rep looks like a half squat. If you watch the top of my back as the set progresses, it looks like my shoulders are hunching forward more and more forcing me to fold in half. This is caused by the pain I’ve been getting in my back on the right side. The heavier the weight, the more intense the pain.
I’m trying to retract my shoulder blades and stay tight but at the same time, I’m leaning forward and hunching to relieve the pain in that one spot. It’s difficult to explain but the more I lean back into the bar, the worse it is. By the final rep, I was struggling to breathe because it felt like I was being stabbed when I breathed in deeply.
I’d better get that lat sorted out. The first set was tough and a bit painful but not so bad.[/quote]
your knees are DEFINITELY buckling in… the more you focus on driving your knees out the less you’ll feel the urge to fold over.
although, squatmornings could become the latest and greatest exercise.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
This is my second set of 185 x 5. It looks as fucked up as it felt. The 4th rep is high and the 5th rep looks like a half squat. If you watch the top of my back as the set progresses, it looks like my shoulders are hunching forward more and more forcing me to fold in half. This is caused by the pain I’ve been getting in my back on the right side. The heavier the weight, the more intense the pain.
I’m trying to retract my shoulder blades and stay tight but at the same time, I’m leaning forward and hunching to relieve the pain in that one spot. It’s difficult to explain but the more I lean back into the bar, the worse it is. By the final rep, I was struggling to breathe because it felt like I was being stabbed when I breathed in deeply.
I’d better get that lat sorted out. The first set was tough and a bit painful but not so bad.
your knees are DEFINITELY buckling in… the more you focus on driving your knees out the less you’ll feel the urge to fold over.
although, squatmornings could become the latest and greatest exercise. [/quote]
Who knows. It could be the big new thing. The funny thing is that I’m a hairs breadth of the national record with my awkward form. Just think what’ll happen when I clean it up to whatever degree that I can.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Who knows. It could be the big new thing. The funny thing is that I’m a hairs breadth of the national record with my awkward form. Just think what’ll happen when I clean it up to whatever degree that I can.[/quote]
not funny at all. you’re freakishly strong, in addition to being TINY, and I mean that as a compliment.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Who knows. It could be the big new thing. The funny thing is that I’m a hairs breadth of the national record with my awkward form. Just think what’ll happen when I clean it up to whatever degree that I can.
not funny at all. you’re freakishly strong, in addition to being TINY, and I mean that as a compliment. [/quote]
Thanks. I appreciate that. I’m actually the good morning queen and find them easier than squats.
I’m posting another video shortly of some squat form stuff I did. I’m trying wider stance with my feet pointed much farther out to pull more hamstring into it. I had a buddy point to my foot stance when I was doing rack pulls and said “feet like that”. We’ll see
Earlier today RL dropped by to give me a bag of pills. He generously offered me his left over HOT-ROX Extreme. Included in the bag was some Spike and a bottle of Caffeine Free Spike. My daughter now thinks he’s my dealer.
btw Rugger, the caffeine free ones gave me a definite boost.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Earlier today RL dropped by to give me a bag of pills. He generously offered me his left over HRX. Included in the bag was some spike and a bottle of caffeine free spike. My daughter now thinks he’s my dealer.[/quote]
She wouldn’t be the first. You should see the looks I get on the GO train when I take this small plastic bag out with white powder in it and mix it with my water. I purposely try to hide it from sight just to make it look more suspicious.
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btw Rugger, the caffeine free ones gave me a definite boost.[/quote]
Good to hear. They didn’t do anything for me, mind you I’m usually so far out of it when I take anything that I really need something strong.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Before I link to my loooong video on squat form, I thought I’d let you all see my daughter and her first attempts at squat and bench.[/quote]
[quote]Ruggerlife wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Before I link to my loooong video on squat form, I thought I’d let you all see my daughter and her first attempts at squat and bench.
AWESOME!!![/quote]
She has no problem with depth on her squat but she may need to tighten things up a bit. Also, I’m not sure you’re allowed to sing during bench at IPF meets. Maybe you could test that on Saturday.
Here’s the link to my form check. It’s long. It starts with the bar and goes through multiple sets. I wanted to see how much increasing weight and fatigue affected my form, in particular how much I lean forward. It doesn’t look too bad. I think I’ll always have a forward lean.
I widened by stance and turned my feet out further. I think that helped with hips rising too fast. I also focused on sitting back more.
I still look like a squatting stork but I think the foot position is helping.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Before I link to my loooong video on squat form, I thought I’d let you all see my daughter and her first attempts at squat and bench.[/quote]
priceless! Thanks for sharing - that made my otherwise shitty week end on a high point.
[quote]soldog wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Before I link to my loooong video on squat form, I thought I’d let you all see my daughter and her first attempts at squat and bench.
priceless! Thanks for sharing - that made my otherwise shitty week end on a high point.[/quote]
You’re quite welcome. Glad I could help. She is a complete mommy’s girl and wants to everything with me.
[quote]TNT-CDN wrote:
Where are the plywood bumper plates??? Load 'em up. They weigh about 2.5 lb each.
TNT[/quote]
TNT, we actually tried them but she’s not strong enough to pull the bar with wooden plates. I don’t want her to peak early. Mind you, it isn’t much less than her body weight.
Make some new 18" diameter plywood discs with a 1 1/8" hole in the center. Get a 7’ lenght of 3/4" I.D.water or gas pipe. The O.D. is 1.0625" or 27mm. For collars, get 4 - pipe couplings for 1" pipe and 4 -5/16" eye bolts. Drill and tap the couplings to accept the eye bolts. The pipe, collars and 2 plywood discs weigh about 15 lb. and puts the bar the right height off the ground for DLs, cleans, snatch, etc. Use the plates from your DBs for additional weight. It’s what I use for my youth weightlifting program. Cheap and simple.The pipe starts to bend after about 200 lb.
Deadlift
135x5
155x3
185x5x5
I dropped the weight this week and really focused on speed and bar humping. Will my aggressive bar love, I managed to claw the top of my right thigh and draw blood. Its a good thing I have a towel in my bag. I suppose like any really good fucking, there are bound to be scratch marks.
Neutral grip low row
80x5
90x5
100x5
90x7
90x7
DB push press
30x5 - too light
40x5 - too heavy. Almost smashed my head in
35x5 - just right
30x2x7
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Before I link to my loooong video on squat form, I thought I’d let you all see my daughter and her first attempts at squat and bench.[/quote]
