[quote]Jimmy T wrote:
Don’t see you getting fat Skid but had to peep your thread.Nice training and I know those rack pulls had to rock you.That soreness is the part we all like as it lets us know we pushed hard and validates the training.Keep hammering away great work![/quote]
Gettin’ fat is a goal and one I’m not succeeding at very well.
Thanks for the kind words and the statement of truth.
I most certainly will keep at it.
Nice to have you back, Jimmy T.
You’ve been having some killer workouts. Guess I’m going to have to steal some of your training. I’ve never really incorporated “partial” movements to work on sticking points in my workouts and always done the full lift. If I don’t make a deadlift it’s right at the start. If I get it past the first couple of inches it’s going up. What would you recommend? Deads standing on something?
[quote]hel320 wrote:
You’ve been having some killer workouts. Guess I’m going to have to steal some of your training. I’ve never really incorporated “partial” movements to work on sticking points in my workouts and always done the full lift. If I don’t make a deadlift it’s right at the start. If I get it past the first couple of inches it’s going up. What would you recommend? Deads standing on something? [/quote]
Thanks, Hel. The weight gain has helped - even if it is pretty small.
That’s a good one. Deads standing on a block,snatch grip deads and snatch grip deads standing a block helped me get past 400. Any lift that gets your behind close to the floor seems to help - squats, zerchers, front squats and the like. Good mornings don’t hurt either. Box squats and pause squats are the most effective in my opinion since you have to get the weight moving from a dead stop, just like a deadlift, and without the leverage advantage of a deadlift.
It’s only in the last few months that I’ve been able to pull a weight off the floor that I haven’t been able to lock out, which is why I’m working the rack pulls. My weak spot is now getting around my knees so I’m pulling from just below them. It’s the area of worst leverage for me.
Paul Anderson used to work high rep partials and then increase the range of motion while dropping the reps. That worked for him, but I find it doesn’t for me, just ends up burning me out. But working partials plus full range (not necessarily in the same session) seems to have helped my squat bench dead and overhead press. I’m doing low reps on the partials and higher reps and sometimes sets on the full range work.
In the bench, the board work has been working my back more than my chest, as I try to stabilize against the weight. My lats and traps get sore from board work, which only helps when it comes to full range bench. That also makes my overhead stronger along with getting more serious about ab work. The overhead partials have been really good for the delts, but it’s mostly a tricep exercise if you start too high, which is why I like to keep the bar starting point around the upper part of my face. The partials have been training my CNS to not throw the cutoff switch too soon.
Hope that’s helpful.
As strong as you are, I wouldn’t worry about getting fat 
[quote]Elaikases wrote:
As strong as you are, I wouldn’t worry about getting fat
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Not worrying about it: TRYING to get fat. 
12-18-2008
Bench Day
1.5 Board-height pin press
135x10
205x5
245x3
280x3,2,1
Right side pec and triceps just die out on these. If my right side was at the same level as my left, I’d be at 300 on a 1 board right now.
255x4,4 (same story)
Dips
BW+55 2x15
Close grip Bench (high on chest)
185x8,5
Right triceps work
various x various
That’s it. Nothing sexy today, but I think I’ve figured out what more to do with the right side.
well, your still benching more than me, and I’m 100 lbs fatter than you!
ol
12-19-2008
Lower (doing this a day early cuz I won’t have time tomorrow)
Zercher lift from pins
135x3
225x3
275x3
315x3
335x3 (PR weight +20)
355x1 (PR weight +40)
Speed Sumo DL
365 5x3
Felt draggy and slow today. Not just because it’s the day after bench, but in general. Need to take a light cycle of rep work (except overhead press, did that already) Kept it short today.
The PR’s above are suspect. I couldn’t remember what size plates I put under my feet to make the height right and I may have been a few inches higher than I ought. I’ll do these with 100’s underneath next time and see how that goes. Used 45’s today and I’m pretty sure I was above parallel at start.
It’s still the most weight I’ve held in the crook of my arm though. Seeing that youtube video of a 184 lb guy doing a WR 440 lb zercher from the floor was pretty inspiring.
Had this for dinner last night:
2 pot stickers, a 16 oz prime rib, cup of rice and cup of broccoli with a 32 oz root beer. Followed immediately by a 32 oz vanilla milkshake.
2000 calories or so, all told, in the space of an hour.
Today? Feel spunky, not sore, despite maxing out yesterday. Marked difference from how I felt yesterday.
Food makes the difference.
The drug industry can make appetite suppressants, can’t they make an appetite excitatory? I sure could use one so I can keep eating like the above…
Oh to have that problem… good training and good eating!
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
well, your still benching more than me, and I’m 100 lbs fatter than you!
ol[/quote]
Which means that your natural potential is much greater than mine.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Oh to have that problem… good training and good eating![/quote]
You’re getting there. It’s an iterative process, I think, finding out what works for you…and discovering what you really want.
Wild you tube flick.Your training looks great.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Had this for dinner last night:
2 pot stickers, a 16 oz prime rib, cup of rice and cup of broccoli with a 32 oz root beer. Followed immediately by a 32 oz vanilla milkshake.
2000 calories or so, all told, in the space of an hour.
Today? Feel spunky, not sore, despite maxing out yesterday. Marked difference from how I felt yesterday.
Food makes the difference.
The drug industry can make appetite suppressants, can’t they make an appetite excitatory? I sure could use one so I can keep eating like the above…[/quote]
OK, I’ll bite… what is a “pot sticker”? Is that like a dumpling?
Good training by the way!
Hey Skidmark. My computer is being retarded today. So please don’t mind me as I make a mess of your Log.
Hey Skidmark. Another year under the belt. A good strong year, lots of hard work and good times. I hope you reached all your goals and then some. With the new year coming on strong there is much to think about.
Right now I’m thinking of you and yours. I wish you all the very best. May your best day last year be your worst day this year. Stay strong and take some time to enjoy what you already have.
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to you and yours.
Streamline, aka Carl.
Double post (stupid computer), sorry only one greeting per T-Man.
P.S. You Rock Dude!
12-21-2008
Assistance Day
Standing Overhead Press
Full range w/u
barx15
95x5
115x5
135x5
(From nose tip)
155x3
185 3x3 (PR reps +2, sets +2)
DB seated press
50’s x 26,15 (-2 reps)
Seated cable rows
160x5
210x5
250x5,5 (Cheating too much)
210x6
220x5
Curls
95x12
115x8
135x0
120x5
Stiff legged cleans
95 3x10
Curls are in the toilet. Good thing I’m not doing a curl competition…
Happy with the OHP, though. Learning to keep the press close to midline. If it gets out front even an inch or two, it’s a bunch harder. Might be a good weakness to work on, actually.
May put rows to the front on assistance day so aI have more energy for them.
Good session.
[quote]streamline wrote:
Hey Skidmark. Another year under the belt. A good strong year, lots of hard work and good times. I hope you reached all your goals and then some. With the new year coming on strong there is much to think about.
Right now I’m thinking of you and yours. I wish you all the very best. May your best day last year be your worst day this year. Stay strong and take some time to enjoy what you already have.
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to you and yours.
Streamline, aka Carl.[/quote]
Thanks streamline aka Carl. Same back at you. Merry Christmas? I was sure you were a pagan? It’d fit well with the berserker training you do Happy Winter Solstice!
Didn’t reach all my goals this year, but I did get one - the 500+ DL. I’m hoping to get the 2-3-4 on overhead press, bench press and squat respectively before February end.
Skidmark aka Tony.
Tony, hope you and your family have a merry Christmas. Thanks for all the advice and motivation.
eco aka Steve