[quote]Alpha wrote:
I’m excited to see what you total man, Keep us posted![/quote]
Not sure what’s going to happen. I haven’t eaten since 7pm yesterday, have been puking, and on toilet all day with a fever. Praying it is just a stomach bug and will pass bit honestly feels like the flu. Which is really making this cut stupid hard. I’ll be under that bar if I have to arrive on stretcher just a matter of what’s going to happen.
For any one following…
My fever broke finally about 3am last night and finally got a few hours of sleep. However, I am having a very hard time keeping any food down. Since Sunday I have managed to keep about 4 spoonfuls of peanut butter down and I was able to eat a few eggs last night. I am kicking my water intake up in order to hopefully 1 stay hydrated and 2 continue on with the water cut. I was 231 on Sunday and am 222 this morning. I am hoping I can manage to eat something tonight or at the very least by tomorrow considering on thursday for the final push I will be pretty much not able to eat anything. I am flirting very close with just weighing in at 220 rather than pushing on into 198 as the water cut usually affects my strength very little if at all normally. But, this time I have not been able to eat and the lack of carbs and sodium I can have is making balancing my electrolytes back to normal extremely hard to do. I am having a a lot of lat and hamstring cramps and I just don’t know if 24 hours will be enough to bring everything back into balance before the meet.
I will be competing one or the other but I am not expecting to have a amazing showing.
Sorry to hear that man, but a lot can happen in a week. It isn’t much consoling, but signing up for a meet and following through with your circumstances it a victory in itself. Win or learn man, there won’t be any “losing”
Very long week running into this meet on Saturday. I weighed in at 230 on Sunday night. However from there I was sick till Tuesday and literally ate nothing but peanut butter and few eggs those 3 days while continuing to water load aggressively. This was miserable as you would imagine.
Either way come Wednesday I was feeling better still not 100% by any means so I pretty much just continued on with the same diet and pushed fluid to 3 gallons. Thursday I had woke up at 220 pounds and poped 10mg of lasix every 4 hours up until 10pm. At 10 pm I re weighed in at 211 pounds. I didnt have access to sauna so I turned my bathroom at my hotel into a steam sauna.
Sit in a sauna suit and began the sweat process 20 in 20 out. At 2am I was 204 and was having some of the most insanely painful cramps and nausea. Which was horrible as I began to dry heave my entire body would lock up to the point I just laid in the floor until I could move. I was about to call it at this point as I just could not see the extra weight coming off. I sat in bed with ice all over me head, neck, upper back, and abdomen for about a hour and half. so at 4am I got back up and continued forward.
At 8am I had finally hit 198.5 pounds. At 9am I had to strip completely and just cover my nuts and weighed in at 198 exactly. Immediately began rehydration and by 9pm I was 222lbs and woke up the morning of the meet at 219lbs.
Squat 3/3 Was feeling very physically strained and really felt I was going to have a terrible meet. But the second I got the weight on my back I couldn’t believe how light everything felt. I called my Squat opener at 560 smoked it was a joke, 580 same and then 600 was my best squat of the day and had a easy 10-20lbs left on the platform. My best Squat at 220 is 585 on the platform so this is a Meet PR of 15lbs at a weight class lower. Also my first EVER 3x BW Squat. Next goal is 660 at 220.
Bench 3/3: Felt good I tweaked my lower back at some point so made setting up a bit harder but none the less 320 easy, 340 was stupid hard not sure why, 350 was slow but very easy. Thats a 10lbs PR at any BW on or off the platform. Actually 5lbs more than my best training TNG.
Deadlift 2/3: I wanted to set my elite in stone (1471 for 198) so I took a very easy 530 pull and killed it, went 570 next was very easy, and then decided to be greedy and go for 600 pull and sure enough just couldnt push my hips through at the top was very close even closer than before but should have went 585 and tied my all time meet PR at 242.
So considering what the week before had in store and being two weight classes lower than my unsanctioned meet 2 months ago I am very happy with this. I broke 2 big prs and barely missed tying my 220 pull by 5 lbs.
Alrighty just now really getting back into the swing of training and getting back under the bar. Focusing on a few things in the off season for march.
Reopening my hips and refinding my flexibility to hit a depth I am much more used to. Bring feet back in to kinda help, lots of foam rolling, and soft tissue work on glutes and hams and calves. Also seeing a chiro to try and realign my hip. When I knocked it out of place about 6 months ago never really fixed it. Either way my hip bone is tilted in the Xray my left side is sitting literally at a slant and is a about 3/4 of an inch lower than the right. This has caused a lot back pain when squatting to much passed parallel.
My Bench still sucks. I was picked up by the ALPHA Project and Adrian Larsen is helping me closely with my bench and programming for it. So hopefully with his guidance I can see numbers come up there.
Still cant lock out my damn deadlifts 
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Cleaning up eating and dropping down to 215-220 so I can just walk on no cut for 220 or make a relatively easy cut to 198.
Either way training from this week so far.
Deadlift and Back Day 12/10/14
Sumo Speed Pull: 405 for 3 sets of 3
Stiff Leg Deadlift: 455 for 2 sets of 2. 1 set of 2 almost 3.
Barbell Row: 225 for 3x8. Strap in 315 for 10 body language.
Pull Ups: 7x7
Band Leg Curls: 3 sets of 15.
Squat 12/13/14
415 for 3 x 6 reps really trying to bury the squat at least for me. Belt Only
415 for very easy 10 in wraps. Just a type of overload instead of reverse bands.
Pause Squats:225 for 3 sets of 9
Lunges: 3 sets of 30 per leg
GHR: 3 sets of 15 with BW
Light Bench: 12/14/14
270 for 2 sets of 3 last rep long pause. 1 set of 8 last rep long pause.
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Standing OHP: 2 sets of 8 with 185. 1 set of 9 with 185, 1 single with 225.
Band Side Lateral: 3 sets of 15 per arm
Triceps Pressdown: 25 reps/20 reps/16 reps with 70lbs plate Loaded.
Band Curls: 3 sets of 15.
I know I have practically been dead with keeping up my log on here but, I have been around but, took about a 4 month lay off strictly powerlifting and finally put my health and reducing BF% to a much healthier and better place to be at. I was 240lbs last time I was on here average and am currently sitting at 200-205lbs and lifts are finally returning and even starting to break some old fat deadlift PRs.
Also I have changed up my training a bit and gotten away from relying on wraps alot and am focusing on hitting a 600lbs unwrapped squat at 198 before I get back in them. Also training has been evolved to involve more BBing type of training and techniques. Gonna post up a few of my recent training videos and hopefully keep the log going.
Meet Video from 3 months ago.
Last Friday Squat and Block Pull Session
2 weeks ago last heavy bench session.
Just a pic or two of my new self
Monday 6/8 - Speed Bench and Accesories. Rest between sets were 30 seconds
Bench Press: 225 for 8x3, 275 for 3 3x2
Guillotine Press: 185 for 15,12,6
Pull Ups:15,10,7
OHP: 115 for 15/15/13
Cable Row: 150 for 15/15/15
Floor Barbell Triceps Extensions: 85 for 12/12/9
Barbell Curl: 65 for 15/15/15
Looking forward to a 3x BW unwrapped squat - where abouts are you now and what made you want to get away from wraps?
A few reasons.
I have noticed I have gained a lot more quad size since getting away from them fully.
My hips feel a lot better.
I am tired of carrying around the wraps and having to wrap my self lol.
My girl friend is the best wrapper I have ever had and she is competing at the same meet I am so I dont want her tiring her self wrapping me.
I can already tell it is going to be MUCH easier mentally not having to worry about timing the wraps or this or that just focus on the bar.
The wraps destroy my upper back and I always feel like my CNS is gone almost immediately after a max effort wrapped squat and I just feel sleepy the rest of the meet. I am hoping I can save my energy a bit and be able to put it into the bench and deadlift.
As for how close I am I really do not know. I have not been over 415 for 18 reps in over 3 months since I lost all this weight. With that being said I would imagine 540 as strong as I have been feeling.
6-10-2015 Volume Squat Day.
Front Squat: 320 for 2x5, 1x8 2 rep volume PR. My front squats are feeling stupid strong right now in my legs. My upper back for some reason not so much. I feel like I have 4-5 more reps in me if I could just hold the bar up.
Leg Press: 6 plates 3x15
Cable Row: 180x15, 200x15, 220x15
Leg Extension: 2x15 with 80
Leg Curl: 2x15 with 80
Standing Calve Raise: 4x8 very hard squeeze at top
really great progress man!
[quote]Alpha wrote:
really great progress man![/quote]
Thanks Alpha you are still killing every thing as usual your self.
Bench feeling strong. Ass was every where but weight felt light in my hands Elbows were hurting so I do have sleeves on my elbows but they really weren’t helping a ton. Even took them off in the later part of the session and they looked just as strong.
Bench Press
315 x 1
335 x 1
365 x 1 slightly assisted
315 for 2x3, 1x4.5
Incline DB Press
65s for 15
80s for 15 and 11
Weird Pull Up Things We Do: 15,13,8
Overhead Barbell Extension:
95 for 15
115 for 2x15
Upright Row:
115 for 15,15,13
Bis and tris.
6-15-15 Speed Squat and Block Pulls. First time using commentary but, had a lot of people ask if I could so here ya go.
Squat 325 for 5x5
Block Pull: worked up to 635 for 5 with very controlled negative reps.
Asst Pull ups: 5x15
Ab Rollouts:3x20
Hip Bridges:3x15
I feel you on those sumo block pulls. I’ve never seen anything work so good for getting your floor pulls stronger. Can’t quite say the same for conventional, but maybe you disagree. Killing it Dustin.
I agree fully man. They really build confidence and teach perfect positioning plus allow you to really over load the lock out which has always been my issue. With conventional if the problem is the lock out I think they work very well and have seen them work for some just as well but, I think it really depends on the persons own personal weaknesses.
Amit Sapir all this body building stuff is really paying off for my pressing. My best Incline when I was fat was 225 for 1 set of 2. First time I have ever Inclined over my BW lol. Rest times were pretty low 3 training partners and Myself all got through the session in just under an 90 mins.
Incline Bench: 205 for 8, 225 2 sets of 8 (HUGE PR)
Incline Wide Spoto Press: 185 for 8, 205 for 2 sets of 8
Asst Pull Ups: 3 sets of 15
OHP: 135 for 15,9,6
Upright Row: 135 for 3 sets of 12
Triceps Extensions Touch The Floor: 95 for 2x13, 1x9
Bar Curl: 65 for 3 sets of 15
