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This ain’t necessarily advice. Just a war story.

When I simplified my squat and DL workouts that’s when they first went over 500 and over 600 respectively.

Before that I did all the assistance work I could handle because everyone did assistance work.

Then I found an article on (doesn’t really matter workout method) which utilized a 5 week cycle.

I started doing nothing for squats except for a bunch of squats, no more than 3 per set, once a week. I concentrated on explosiveness and form. Squat workout took about 15 minutes total on Monday.

Friday similarly for the deadlift. A shit ton of explosive, “perfect” form deadlifts for about 15 minutes.

My theory, if you train with “perfect form”, that is choose a form which isn’t stupid and stick with it, the weight you lift will be limited by your weak points. The weak points will have to get stronger if you stick to a form.

I’m new(ish) to this gym, and I compete at this meet and this guy, local gym deadlift hero in my weight class is there. He’s got him a posse and all that. Well, I kill him in the deadlift, by maybe 50 pounds or something.

One of his posse comes up to me after the meet and says “You should do leg presses to help your pull from the floor, (guy you just crushed) does leg presses to help his pull from the floor.” I answered “I do deadlifts to help my pull from the floor.”

Just a story.

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haha, ya I went off on a couple rants yesterday, but back when I was strong, I just trained 5x5, and when I couldn’t add weight for 3-4 weeks, I’d knock 50lbs off, and start back adding 5lbs a week, thats it, I didn’t complicate it, because I didn’t know anything else.

I’m begining to realize thats the beauty of simplicity, you only know one thing, you believe in it, and you do it, until you get strong. All this horse shit floating around, too many option’s, pulled in too many directions, until your really going no where. I’m back to 3 simple workouts a week, 5x5, and a test day on Sun, thats what worked before, and fuck everything else :slight_smile:

I’ve spent too much time on this fucking computer this past year, learning shit I don’t need to know. I got myself, and handfulls of kids strong, knowing nothing but the basic’s. later

Thanks Lorez, and funny-old-fucker, I’m good at giving advice, just not following my own, it seems !

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Clearly getting fucking -SWOLE

I think this heading and pic, somes it up, found it at Chaos and pain :slight_smile:

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This goes with the above, I’m off to work out. ROM deadlifts :slight_smile: Later

To kick this motherfucker off, I might as well address the elephant in the room, which will come off as rather hypocritical given my internet fame, but the internet is fucking ruining powerlifting. Gone are the days when a kid would just decide he wanted to be big and strong and start lifting, with no conception of what might be the best method of doing so and generally no more knowledge about the lifts he should perform than a person might glean from looking at the side of a machine to see what muscles are worked. That guy, the go-getter, just rolled out of bed one day and said, “fuck it, it’s time to get fucking brutal”, threw on some shorts and a tshirt and headed into the fucking gym. After a few weeks of aping the biggest guys in the gym with the idea that they know what they’re doing (and they often do), the kid would start doing a little research in bodybuilding magazines and the like for a bit more information. He might pick the brain of a lifter or two, and he might discuss lifting with his friends a bit. All in all, that kid might spend a grand total of 5% of his “lifting” time talking, and the other 95% of it ACTUALLY LIFTING WEIGHTS. Not foam rolling, not prehabbing and rehabbing injuries that only exist in the empty mind of the Chucks and Elite FTS clad morons waltzing around the gym like they know what the fuck is up, but actually lifting weights.

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--------------------------Fuck YA----------------

Sunday Feb 23---------ROM Deads and Font Squats----------

Deficit deads 2 inch--------leg raises ( sets of 10)
135x10
225x5
315x5
switched to 7 inch blocks ( added belt)
315x5
365x5
*** 405x10, pretty happy about this, one set, no rest pause ( video to follow) :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Front squats-----------DB curls
135x10
225x5---------------30x20
225x5----------------30x20
225x5----------------30x20
225x5----------------30x20
225x5----------------30x20

Awesome workout ! I feel back on track, Now I started with deads, rather than front squats, and I’m glad I did this, because I blew my load on those deads. The only down side was there was no chance of trying to get 275x5 front squat, so Chobbs gets a free week. i’m going to keep this set-up on Sundays just like this----ROM deads followed by 5x5 front squats. On the ROm deads, it remeinded me of doing 20 rep squats, there was alot of internal dialog in my brain, every rep after 5, was me arguing with myself to get one more rep. The first rep was tough, for some reason I find block pulls tough, I’m better at deficit deads, I can get more explosiveness off the floor, and with block pulls, I don’t get this. Anyway I’m happy with 10 :), now I just drop an inch a week, and try and fight to keep the reps at 10, We shall see.

As for the front squats, I just went with 225 for 5x5, and that was tough, I was trying to talk myself out of these by the third set as well, but I stuck it out. I think 225 is about 80% for me, and considering only a few weeks ago, when I started front squating 225x5 was near impossible, today was a sucess. As far as my challange with Chobbs----275x5 front squat, I’m going to hit those hard I guess on Wed, I’ll warm up, do one all out set ot 275 with front squat, then switch over and get my 5x5 on back squat. I don’t want to mess with this Sunday workout, because it was awesome. Peace out bitches :slight_smile:

Remember----Everyone talks to themselves, but not everyone keeps it positive ----Believe it, and then achieve it !

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ROM Deadlifts

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YES, I’m manic depressive, and yes I’m on handfulls of antidepressents–antipsychotics, and it must be hard to follow me week to week, as my moods swing. One of my ex-wives said being with me was like being on a fucking rollercoaster. So thanks for taking the ride, and encouraging me. later :slight_smile: "0 :frowning: this has been a good week !

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try again

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I don’t know why I’m so bad at uploading vid’s, lets hope the third times a charm, before this ruins my mood :slight_smile:

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I’ve now spent more time on this vid, than my workout

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this is it, if this dosen’t work, you don’t get to see me ROm dead 405, just have to imagine it

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Time to get the wife involved. I wanna see this…

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There’s nothing really to see, other than me with a barbell about 3’’ below my knee, then I bust my ass, and get through 10 reps, honestly, right when I pulled the first rep, the thought went through my head, to stp there, and begin the cycle with 385. Pwnisher had said to try and get 12 reps, so that as you get lower to the floor, if you loose a few repos at a certain height, youy’ll still be putting in work, so I had 12 reps in my head, and when the first one was so hard, I almost threw in the towel, and restarted with a lighter weight.

It’s funny, but there’s another gear in training, another level you can get to, everyone thinks there training as hard as they can, but there’s another level you can hit, where you can dig down, and pull out some dirty shit. if you’ve ever done a 20rep breathing squats, with your suposed 10 RM, you’ll know what I mean. Anyway I was there today, it’s not somthing to brag about, because it makes you feel like you haven’t been working hard enough before this. I think in the last year, or what ever it’s been that I’ve been back trianing I’ve hit this ‘‘gear’’ abot 3 times counting today, but it’s the key to moving big weights, and progressing. Hopfully I can keep getting there on Sundays doing this deadlift workout

As far as the vid, the first atempt today was my wife, sending it straight from her phone to T nation, that usually works, the other 5 or 6 trys were me, as I down loaded it onto my computer ( and watched it) then tried a bunch of times and different ways, I don’t fuckin get it, somtimes it works for me, and then other times it won’t. here’s what I do, I hit the ‘‘browse’’ button, then I find the clip, either on my ‘‘desk top’’, or ‘‘documents’’ ( I’ve tried both today) when I see the clip listed in the space next to browse, I type a few words and send, it taks a few minutes to upload, I figure it must be working, and then nothing.

My wife does computer’s for her job, I’m sure she’ll be able to figure it out, but she’s in a bad mood ( like usual ) and she gets agrivated when she has to do somthing more than once, or even once :), so I’ll wait until she’s feeling better. I will get it up. mabey I’ll try my daughter’s laptop, right now. later

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ROM Deadlifts

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[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
It’s funny, but there’s another gear in training, another level you can get to, everyone thinks there training as hard as they can, but there’s another level you can hit, where you can dig down, and pull out some dirty shit. if you’ve ever done a 20rep breathing squats, with your supposed 10 RM, you’ll know what I mean. Anyway I was there today, it’s not something to brag about, because it makes you feel like you haven’t been working hard enough before this.[/quote]

I know exactly what you mean. Glad you got back there.

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I don’t know if it’s somthing you’d want to do every workout, if it’s even possible, but if I can tap into it once a week for one lift, it may filter down through the rst of my training. I know you’ve done alot of 20 rep breathing squats, and you’ve likely been to that place where your debating with yopurself if you can go on, talking to your higher power,m looking for a little help haha, I don’t know about all of that today, but I ground out a few more reps than usual, only doing one all out set, brings that out in ya.

When I finished smolov the first time, and got 405x8 in the squat, I don’t know where that came from, and 6mths later, I don’t think I could match it, but it would be nice to figure out how to tap into that more often Oh Ya !

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Lucky this time maybe

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From how you are describing it, it sounds like you hit the deads just right. 10 is a great number to be at for a ROM progression cycle. I started my very first one with 5 reps, and once that died out, I started again at 10, then at 12, and now at 14, so it can progress in many different ways, especially as you get stronger at just doing ROM progression deads.

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Fuck I’m soooooooore today, wow, I know strapped up touch and go deadlifts ( especialy from the knee) don’t do anything, but don’t tell my hams, ass, erector’s, and traps that, because they think they did somthing yesterday, I’m fucking crippled.

I’m glad I switched things around, because I would be doing incline and rows today, and that just seems funny to think about, I’ve swung things around so that my bench workout, is either Tues, or Wed, then I’ll have my squat workout, on either Thurs, or Fri. The point is to do enough work, so that I’m sore enough to need that much rest, so far so good.

So ya, I’ve cut back workout days, 3 days a week, ''Never have more work days than rest days in a week" Taking my own advice. I wrote the rules, I’ve seen them work over the years, then when it comes to myself, I do somthing completely different, makes ya wonder. Anyway I am becomming more active, so I am going to be doing more moving around, walking, running heavy bag, skipping, and mabey things like dips, chins, pushups, jumps, throughout the week. All and all, just get back to where I was, last time I was moving half decent weights, stop trying to re-invent the wheel, and do what I know works. Seems simple enough, but with so much time on my hands, I get carried away, when in doubt, back to basic’s. fuck I’m sooooooore, fuck, it’s been along time :slight_smile: later