Olympic lifters use a hip clean sometimes vs a standard clean. Looks like they are bumping the bar at the hips for momentum. But I guess they are truly not it just looks that way but its still diff. Than reg. Clean
You make me laugh with these short vauge posts, the complete oposite from me, with my long endless posts, that repeat the same thing over and over. Anyway I basicaly keep my back arched and let the bar drop down to exactly my knee’s, then explode to my shoulder’s, keeping the bar as close to my body as possible, so it’s a shrug, then hip drive, and then a catch at the end.
I actually feel high pulls more in the muscle’s I’m after, but I like exercises that have a top, and a bottom to them, a start and a finish. There’s no top or finish to a high pull, just get the bar past your nipple’s and let it drop. I don’t know
Anyway I went to look at this building I really want for the gym, it’s big, really big, but the price has come down from 1.7 mill, to 850 thousand, and it’s big enough I could have an indoor track around the outside of the weightlifting equipment. I’ve been aproved by the bank, I get there it’s basicaly our last meeting, then I find out the property taxes are 67 thousand a year.
Are you fucking kidding me thats like 5 grand a month. I don’t understand this fucking goverment, just killing buisness. I would have sold my buisness last month but I found out I’d have to pay 60 thousand dollars to the goverment, out of my profits as capital gains tax, and now I want to buy a building and increase the size of my buisness, and I find out, on top of the 100 thousand plus dollars a year I pay in taxes now, I’ll have to pay another 67 in land tax.
People wonder why the economy is in the toilet, the taxes you pay as a small buisness owner, are fucking ridiculous. Lat year, I paid exactly 4$ in tax, for every 1$ I got to keep. The gym cleared 40 grand, and I payed 120 thousand in buisness taxes, not to mention anything I bought for the gym was taxed.
It just boggles the mind, greedy fucks, just so they can create more stupid social programs, and prtect us from our selves. Rant over Later
Ouch.
This talk of 6 and 7 digit numbers stresses me out…and it’s not even my money lol
While those number’s don’t mean I have any money, just that I have some credit. It’s a great system I put in all the hard work, and I take the big risks, expanding into new markets and what not, and the goverment makes all the money, fucking wounderfull.
Normaly when I’m not on house arrest I have other sorces of income, with side jobs, and training, all being tax free income, but i’m stuck at home right now, so it’s just income from memberships, and my wife working at the Post office keeping us afloat.
Thats the other reason I’m holding off doing a cycle, my wife’s not against me doing juice, and even though were not hurting for money really. When I’m not really bringing any money into the house hold, other than the gym, which she’s running right now, it’s hard for me to justify a grand or more a month out of our joint account, just so I can get a little bigger and stronger 
I have a great wife but thats asking alot, until I get back into my gym, and start making some money of my own. Plus whan I’m at the gym, I usually can get juiice for free, or atleast at a big discount, so I’ll stay the coarse until I get my leagl shit cleaned up in April.
I don’t know how I went from ranting about the goverment, to talking about holding off on a cycle, but such is life. I need to learn how to do these simple one line posts like Barbwire has mastered, like this ‘’’ I’m mad at the gov., I’m thinking April to do juice, later’’ Love your posts Wire, gotta master that shit, and save space in my log, LOL Later
Happy wife. Happy life.
^^^ See, 4 words,. I can’t even keep my posts to 40 words. Anyway, just got a new set of PLing bands, I’m opening my horizons LOL, and I’m woundering if anyone has expierance with these bands, if there ok to leave out in the garage, just woundering if the drastic tempature will fuck with them, tension wise, or even just logevity wise.
I got full set of bands 4 pairs of varying resistance, from my treadmill guy,he’s trying to kiss my ass for selling me two shit treadmills, anyway I brought a set home, medium ones, can’t believe how strong they are. I’ve been in gyms where they were hooked up in the racks, but I don’t remember them being so strong. I’ve been wanting a set for my garage, so free’s good. later
Friday Feb 7 bench 531 – Based on 380 max, I’m lazy and just use Black iron beast for 531 calculations
bench--------playing with new bands for back and shoulder supersets
135x20
225x10
255x5
275x5
295x6 - 3 - 3 - rest pause, only needed 10 to move on, but I’ll take 12 ( 30sec rest)
DB high incline ( netrural grip )—more band stuff
65x10
90x11 ( lost my rythem, usually get more)
65x15
Thats it thas all, these small volume workouts feel short and unproductive to me, but I can’t remember 295 feeling so light before, so life is good. I’ll keep the workouts short as long as I keep feeling strong and fresh. My idea was to run 531 on my bench and incline ( two different workouts) I’m running the incline with a light max, so higher reps, but with the bench i’m running my 531 max, closer to my real max. With the idea of getting 10 reps each week, using rest pause. This will make week 3, the 1s week pretty fucking hard, getting 10 rest pause reps with pretty much my 1RM, but I’m not doing alot of other volume, so we’ll see, this week felt easy.
Bands, I have this thing against bands, mainly because I have a buddy that swears by them, and we used to train togeather, so he used to make me do banded squats, and I fucking hated them, they fuck up my form, so when I opened my own gym I never set up for bands. Kids would bug me, but I’d tell them they’re not needed to get strong. I still don’t like using them for the main lifts, but I will confess that in a garage gym like mine they come in real handy for asistance stuff. I had alot of fun today pumping up my upper back, shoulder’s and arms, and so they’ll be used from this point on as a tool for asistance work. Anyway good workout Later
Just do 10 singles. W. 1 minute rests.
ya for rest pause I just do as many as I can, then take 20 deep breaths, about 30 sec, than go again, and keep going until I hit my desired reps, 10 on this cycle, the point is without increasing volume really, the workouts will increase in intensity from 5 - 3 - 1 getting hopfully 10 reps each workout.
I had fun this morning, me and Jess ( wife) had to go resign the morgage, so it was a young guy, and I could tell when I sat down that he worked out. he was wearing a snug shirt and tie, with a men’s physique type buid, beiberish. Anyway he starts going off about how big I was, I was wearing a loose polo shirt, trying to look my best for banking bullshit. The guys like holy shit you must spend all day working out, do you compete, how much do you weigh, all this shit. I’m used to people in this town treating me like a celebirty, I’m the gangster that sued the cops, and everyone thinks I’m controling the under world of this two horse town but this was different, this guy was going off like he’d never seen anyone as big as me before.
It’s funny, because atleast in my case, I don’t feel big, I think it’s a body image thing when you lift. I’m always thinking about how small my arms and shoulder’s are. How I have to pack some size on these area’s, so it catches me off gaurd when this happen’s. I think I’ve always had a small man complex anyway. When your a fighter it helps to go into every fight, thinking the other guy is bigger and tougher, and your the under dog. I’m loud around the kids I train, but I’ve done enough time to know there’s always someone bigger, so you act small and passive. Anyway it was a nice ego boost, and the kids going to help get my morgare straightened out. I have a private morgage, and I want to re-fianace through the bank, so I can free up the money from my house, to use to buy a building for the gym. I am getting close to 270 now, so I guess thats probably 100lbs bigger than this kid. I just don’t think about it much, nice for the ego though. later
HuLk.
Saturday, this is my full day off from lifting, for a few reasons, so last time I ran smolov, I got about 2-3 weeks into it, then just started calling it Russian squatting, because I’d changed it so much, it wasn’t fair to keep calling it smolov, but I got great results from my altered template. Well funny story, I’m 2-3 weeks into smolov again, and well I’m going to start calling it Russian squatting again. LOL, because once again I’m making some minor changes here and there to suit me, and I’m at a point where it wouldn’t be fair to keep calling it smolov.
The first change I made this time was switching to front squats on first day of the week, second change is/was that I don’t like lifting on Sat, and I don’t like ( hard on my knee) squatting 2 days in a row, so some parts of smolov calll for squatting 4 times a week, and I’m staying with 3 x a week. The other thing is that they don’t recomends deadlifting while running smolov, and I don’t want to go 12 weeks without deadlifting, so I’m dropping Sat squating, and then when I squat on Sun ( heavy day) I’m following those squats with deads. I think thats all the changes.
The poiont is, I’m back to a place where I’m really loving training again, after a couple months there, where I’d lost all direction and drive, things are back where I like them. I’m getting stronger week to week, and I can feel my arms, shoulder’s, and upper back growing. These are right in line with my goals. The great thing about running a log, is you can look back and see what worked and what didn’t, so for a couple months Dec-Jan things sucked ass, and I can lok back, and get back on track, so Life’s good. Later
I was board today and did some snooping around on different logs on Tnation, I’m not sure how I ended up following the logs I do, but it seems I follow the best ones. I mean there’s some really strong guys out there to be sure, but they’re either really dry and clinical, or they really come off like dicks.
There’s alot this talk about’’ skinney kids taking up space in the rack, the nerve, I had to shoot them a dirty look’’ kind of talk in alot of the logs. It seems like alot of guys get to a 315 bench, and suddenly think they’re the badest guys on the planet, and everyone else in the gym are in they’re way. I don’t get this, if I see a couple kids struggling in the rack, or where ever, I’ll stop what I’m doing, and give them a hand, proper form or what not.
This thing we do is a long journey, and if I end up with a long, or light workout because I had to stop and take the time to help some kids, so be it, I’ll live to fight another day.
Anyway I follow about 6 logs, mostly guys that come here, then I end up returning the favour, but it seems to me after snooping around here, that I ended up with a good bunch. It dosen’t matter to me how much someone lifts, it’s more about how hard they try, and how willing they are to help other’s and share what they’ve learned. I don’t have time for dicks, a 315 bench, or a 500 deadlift are great, but they don’t make you any better than anyone else. You can tear a muscle any day of the week, and then your right back lifting little weights, like the guys your making fun of. Graditude’s the key to life, you need to always be greatfull for what you have, greatfull, just to be able to train, you don’t realize what a gift it is until it’s gone. I’ve been there, so thanks for all the suport I get, from a great bunch of guys. Graditude - not - Additude
Gratitude, Good sir.
Feels like im speaking on an episode of SpartaCus. Lol
Buy yeah I get it and while those ppl exist. Good people as stated do so as well.
Board, and venting, and the spirtual side comes out I guess LOL.
I have one day a week off from lifting, and that drives me nuts, I was actually trying to convince myself to lift today, coming up with idea’s why it would be OK, like an internal arguement, it’s almost as bad as when I first got sober, and I’d have internal arguements about having just one drink. haha, Today I’m like, just a little workout, it won’t hurt anything, couple light sets of squats. My addictive personality I supose. I have to fight with myself not to workout 7 days a week, but it’s dinner time, so I guess I made it through the day with out lifting anything, mabey a couple push-ups after dinner Good times
Sunday’s my biggest day of the week anyway, so it gives me somthing to look forward to, a reward for suffering through a day without lifting, and to think there’s people out there that don’t workout at all, i can’t picture it. I haven’t always done PLing, I’ve spent years BBing, or years doing athletic type conditioning, for one sport or another, but I’ve always work’d out in some form.
I think last Sat. I babled back and forth with you on these logs, it’s a boring day for me in the winter, staying in the house all day with my daugther, while my wife works. i’ve been colouring with crayons off and on alll day, playing dress up, and hide and seek. Long way away from the hooker’s and blow days, and even then I worked out, haha. thanks for the ear. later
Since I was squatting daily, heavy, this week … I had a hard time with today, my “ramp to 80% and stop” day. I really wanted to do more squatting after that point, work sets, or ramp higher. It’s really hard to not do anything more.
And then tomorrow is no lifting whatsoever. Which will probably be even harder. I have a feeling I’m going to go into the office and work, just to stay away from the temptation.
Atleast I know I’m not the only one addicted to squat !
Fuck always the way, I didn’t lift yesterday, and then I fell asleep on the couch last night, woke up this morning feeling like I got run over by a truck last night. My backs all twisted up, and is fucking killing me, and I feel half asleep, even after 3 strong black coffeee’s. What ever, off to squat, and set a huge fucking PR — FTW, turn a bad day into a great day with a PR Later
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
Fuck always the way, I didn’t lift yesterday, and then I fell asleep on the couch last night, woke up this morning feeling like I got run over by a truck last night. My backs all twisted up, and is fucking killing me, and I feel half asleep, even after 3 strong black coffeee’s. What ever, off to squat, and set a huge fucking PR — FTW, turn a bad day into a great day with a PR Later[/quote]
You know, after two days off, I’m feeling pretty good. I haven’t made it into the office yet, so that gym’s still tempting me. (Of course, youtube isn’t helping.)
I was feeling pretty bad my 3rd day in though.
I just saw this. Figured I’d drop it here for some motivation 
400 lb front squat at 176 lbs, 18yo
Box squat-- My wifes comment, I brought her in the video, half way through my workout, I got 450 for 1 haha, i was hoping for 5, anyway i’ll see if I can get it working, full workout below. The BEEP you keep hereing in my vids is my carbon monoxide detector, it needs a battery, thought I’d save you looking around your house for the beep all day