Keep it simple. Bench squat dead . Each lift has its own day. To get a second press day I added incline to dead day. Still 3 days. Still .eets the rule . 
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
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 something completely different, makes ya wonder.[/quote]
I’m on a quest to prove that wrong, or at least that there’s another way.
You might be right after all. I want to find out though.
I started my own you tube channel, fuck it, I can’t believe, a computer idiot like me, had an easier time starting a you tube channel, than uploading a video to T nation. Anyway, when I watch the video on the iphone, afterwards it gives you the option to upload said video to you tube, so I got to thinking, why don’t I just do that, so I wasted an hour of my life stting up a you tube page, just so people can hate on me for doing block pulls with straps, touch and go, and all the other nonsense people worry aboput nowdays, so they don’t have to look in the mirror at they’re own shitty lives.
Anyways, if that link dosn’t work, I put ‘’ ROM Deadlifting’’ as the tag, another day spent learning a bunch more shit I don’t need to know
Lorez, With me it will be easy to see, becasue I track my workouts, and I do updates every 3mths, so in 3mths, we’ll see if cutting back, and sticking to 3 days a week, with 5x5 training works better, or wqorse than all the other crap I’ve been doing.
For guyts that follow my log, the workout part may be a little boring for awhile, as one day a week I’ll bench 275x5x5, and another day I’ll squat 275x5x5, this plus my ROM deads on Sunday’s is all I’m going to do. Then at the end of 7 weeks when the ROM cycle is over, I’ll set-up a mock meet on a Sunday, and test my 1RM, for all 3 lifts, before I start the whole process over for another 7 weeks, can’t get more simple than that
bUMP i’M JUST GLAD IT’S UP, HOWEVER IT HAPPEND, fucking cap locks :0
Ya I wouldnt worry bout negative comments. They are everywhere. Its more for the ppl involved in your log and seek progress. The first comment after my 365 bench was a negative one about my form. Dont care, either.
You made that look light!
I think I may be your first subscriber lol
i’m not worried about T naition, these are people I can reply to, I was talking about starting a you tube channel, and all the hater’s i see on the Tube’s, ya, haha, I’m not too worried about responces I get here, for the most part they’ve been good, other than the jail guard I had to chase off, even - ‘’ infinite_shore ‘’ left a positive comment on my log, and I think thats a first for him, so not to worry bro, just opening a you tube channel was a first for me, wasn’t sure about opening myself up to that big a market, but I did it. ‘’ Jake Wildmen ‘’, thats what I put, it caught me off gaurd, because I couldn’t use anytimejake, they wanted two names, so I had typed jake, then I realized not to put my real last name, so wildmen jake or farmer jake, those have been nick names over the years.
Anyway I’ve been having fun with it, everyone knows I’m home all day board, so I video’d the kids playin with the dog today, and up-loaded that to my new you tube channel, haha, atleast now I know I won’t have a problem getting video’s here, because I just send them to you tube, then put the link here, round about way, but it works, and I can replicate it, every time, no frustrations. Later
Sandbagger!
You had 2 more reps in you easy
My new reverse bench set-up, the one’s against the walls were getting too easy ( even Lorez can do them) so I flipped them up to the ceiling, and put the strap with my handle’s on the end, throug a couple straps I already had atatched to the raffter’s for abs and chins, posted a vid to youtube as well. later
here’s the vid, just to see ifr I really can post vids now easy as I think
Soon I’ll be completely horizontal, I thought I was until I watched the vid, anyway alot harder than what I was doing
Tuesday Feb 25---------------bench day-------------------------
bench-------------Reverse bench
135x20-------------mex10
225x10-------------mex10
275x5--------------mex10
275x5---------------mex10
275x5----------------mex10
275x5-----------------mex10
275x5-----------------mex10
DB high incline ( 75-80’) neutral grip--------------upright rows (clean grip)
65x10---------------------95x10
90x11----------------------115x10
90x9------------------------135x10
65x14-----------------------95x20 ( 65x14 was an awesome set, cooked front delts
And out the door I went, this was a perfect workout, 275 was just a guess, to kick off new template, but it was perfect weight for what I was looking for, heavy enough to be a challange, but light enough that I didn’t have to be thinking about moving the weight, I could be thinking about different form cue’s, and making small adjustments while I benched, also blew me up.
The new rows are awesome as well, I’m just learning them, but I’m pulling the handle’s apart, as well as pulling myself up, i’ll keep at this set-up untill I can do 20 reps, with my elbow’s flared to shoulder height, thats where I was at with the last set-up against the wall
Finished with high incline presses, the military’s have been bothering my shoulder, so I switched to DB, and I set my adjustable bench up as high as it would go, around 75 or 80 degree’s, kept my grip neutral, and fried my front delts. I didn’t ramp up as high in weight as usual, but I think I handled a bigger workload today, like in the old days where we would add up total tonnage at the end of the workout, reps x weight, and see what you handled, I think todays total tonnage was more tha I have been handling, even though my top set was lighter. later
sup man, just thought I’d post to say I’ve been religiously following this log/your posts on here and honestly would describe a lot of what you and a couple been posting as being the reason I’ve been continuing to visit the forums.
Recently stopped boxing and no longer was required to be bound by weight categories and a boxing coach fundamentally opposed to weightlifting and employed what I understood to be an upper/lower split you spoke about on here to drive up my squat and run my other lifts on your version of 5/3/1, managed to take my squat from 235 → 315 and bodyweight 165 → 175 in roughly 8 weeks using the principles you’ve been advocating in this log and have actually enjoyed training at the gym rather than just seeing it as necessary to a couple of times a week look good nekkid.
Thanks a lot man I really appreciate all the knowledge you share in this thread. Would have PM’d you this but don’t understand the system here, haha.
Good stuff bro, the first real weight pit I saw, and used was in the back of the boxing club I joined, at I think 13, and we had an old german boxing coach ( think I’ve mentioned him before) but he was pretty set in his ways with weight lifting. Squats, dips, chins, done twice a week, and we were never aloowed to go for less than 20 reps per set. No arm training, ever, that made your punches slow.
I followed this routine religiously, from 13 to around 20 ( left at 18 for a year to go up north ) but as much as I remember hating the program, I followed it. Also pretty much the same program I used to train my Jr hockey team, where I was eventualy hired as strength trainer. The older I get, the more I see the wisdom in his program, we tracked the best lifts in the gym, based on BW, so there was an old chaulk board with people’s names written on it, for ----squat—Dip—Chins ( how much weight above BW you got 20 reps with posted beside your name)
Also on the board was the top 3 mile time, so when I started training hockey player’s years latter, I set up the same board. Only real recently, have I let my 3 mile time, go above 20min
As far as the 531 program ( our version ) that we’ve used at my gym the last few years, my sons doing it right now with great results, I wish I could be using it right now, but it’s a program where you really need a partner to do it effectively. I only mentioned it here briefly, but what we do, is start off with 1s week, and ramp up in 1s until we fail, or hit our max, and then record that number to base the next month off, we then take 10lbs off the bar, and go for 5-10 single’s.
So the following week, on 5s, we work up to one set of 5 with 85% of your real max, then drop 10lbs off the bar, and get 3-5 sets of 5------on the 3s week, same thing, but we get a set of 3 with 90% of max, then drop 10lbs and get 3-5 more sets of 3. Then deload week, where we usually aim for 3-5 sets of 10 with 65% of max, but some guys like to do different aproaches here, have a BBing week or whatever. the following week we reset our max.
I’ve been using this spin on 531 with my young athlete’s for about 3yrs, before I got put on house arrest, with really good results, guys get really strong on this. When I get back to the gym, as long as my old body will take it, i’ll probably use this as well.
Thanks for dropping by, it’s been awhile since I thought about that program, and 18mths since I’ve coached anyone on it ( can’t wait to get back ) I’ve been going through a liitle self doubt myself, as far as lifting is concerned, it’s happened to me a few times over the years, when lifts stall, you tend to doubt what your doing, taking a few steps back, and making things a little simpler and lighter, gets things back on track.
So don’t be affraid to join in, with your thoughts or questions. I’m not to great at training myself, got no paitance, but I’ve done pretty good over the years at getting other’s strong, and I’m going to need the practice, since i’m back in the gym in April, thrown back in the lions den
As far as the weight constraints, I always boxed heavy, because I was the only teen we had that could make 90 kilo class most of high school, the coach wanted someone in that class, so I had to eat like a motherfucker, most of the time, and when I was boxing and playing hockey it was hard to stay that heavy in high school. my body would settle at around 185, and I’d have to bulk up to 198, but because of weightlifting I was lean compared to other fatty’s in that weight. Anyway I’m babbling about the old days now, and I wasn’t very good, bull headed, and flat footed later
Lol. You got awfully enthusiastic about that.
Chobbs was talking about a program of Paul Carter’s, and I was just quoting Paul’s thoughts off his site. But yeah, 100 reps with minimal rest is 100 reps, no matter how you split it up. I seriously think I’ll be doing that for my shoulders every few days. They feel better today than they’ve felt in a long time.
100 burpees though… that’s not happening, lol.
Anytime I have somthing different to do during the day, I get enthusiastic about it, haha, and I told Jim in my question, that I was going to make you wear pink ribbons in your hair while doing 100 burpee’s, anyway the question’s been answered, as well as someone posting a video of Jim and Paul doing 100 curls. Jim answered about how I thought, with 4 words LOL
100 burpee’s, so your allowed to rest, as long as you don’t sit down, i guess that’s what we figured out. goodluck !
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
My new reverse bench set-up, the one’s against the walls were getting too easy ( even Lorez can do them) so I flipped them up to the ceiling, and put the strap with my handle’s on the end, throug a couple straps I already had atatched to the raffter’s for abs and chins, posted a vid to youtube as well. later[/quote]
Ha.
Well, I managed to break my bedroom door tonight doing these. I had a good old knot and I closed the door on that, and just used that as my anchor point. But, apparently the door itself broke up top. It still closes, but it doesn’t quite fit right. Whoops.
Time to come up with another setup, like actually running an eyebolt into a stud. It’s really convenient to be able to do these in my bedroom without having to go out to the garage. I can certainly hook this over my rack, it’s just I’d rather not.
And that ceiling setup? Definitely impressed. I’m nowhere near that angle when I do these.
Saw your ROM DL video from the 24th. (You have a looooooong log, it’s taking me forever to get through) Never did those. Looks like a great way to get an upper back/trap pump. Looks like you could have kept going, very smooth. You have short arms. Do you DL conventional or sumo? You look to be built like a sumo. Anyhow good video, great set.
BTW, I’m going to make one of those reverse bench strap things like you did. Brilliant.
Just waking up, rough life I have, Anyway emskee, On the ROM deads, the idea is to drop an inch a week, and try to maintain the reps, if you go to the thread ‘’ Pwnisher Q and A’’ it describe’s this template, I think it’s an interesting concept, and mabey a good way to wake up my deadlift.
Back when I was first introduced to Pling, ( I think around 95 ) I never knew about sumo deadlifts or front squats, I trained with a couple Pler’s and just did what they did. On the sumo’s, I’ve done a few recently, and seem to be pretty good at doing them for high reps, but my strength drops off when I go for low rep max, it’s somthing i’ll work on when I have the time.
In the mean time, I’ve had my conventional deadlift in the high 500s in the past, with very little direct work, and I’m hoping to get back there first, before I look around for other options.
My plan right now is to get my training swung around, so I’m doing the same program I was back in the 90s, when I was first introduced to Pling. What I was doing then was
Mon. back day, based around bent rows 5x5, plus asistance
Wed. squats 5x5, plus asistance
Fri. bench 5x5, plus asitance
Sun. mock meet, with all 3 lifts, ramped up to a max 5–3–or 2, depending on how we felt
I did really well on this, I went from twice a week 20 rep squat routine, to the above program, and with in 3yrs of training this way, I got my 1480, so I came back this past year ( 13yrs latter ), and tried all these new and improved programs, and I’m no futher ahead. I think I would have made better progress this past year, on the same un-informed program I used as a kid.
I’m first going to do a trial run of ROM deads ( 7 weeks ), and finish up my front squat challange with Chobbs. By then I should have everything in order, and ready to slip into my old template.
As far as the Reverse bench, I’ve been doing them againt the wall, leaning back, and placing my feet against the bottom of the wall, but those were getting to easy, and I was also looking for a back rowing movement, that wouldn’t stress my low back, so these fill both bill’s, and to be honest, this morning, all across my upper back is sore, shoulder bladeds, lats and rear delts, I can really focus on sqeezing my shoulder blades togeather during these rows, and it will be awhile before I can complete 20 of these with my elbows fully flared. Anyway good times, off to have a coffee. later
Lorez, if you buy one of those red bycicle hooks from the dollar store, they have a screw end, that just screws into the wall, and you can just put it somwhere handy, but out of the way, and during the day hang clothes on it or somthing. When your done, or moving, and un-screw it from the wall, it leaves a small hole hardly noticable, or easily filled with a dab or drywall mud, thats my sugestion. the red hooks, are rubber coated, and come in all sorts of sizes and shapes, and they’re self contained unit, that just thread in, I’ll see if I can get a pic. Goodluk later