Reed: Can you give us the top 5 things you did/changed that got you tot his point?
[quote]Alpha wrote:
Reed: Can you give us the top 5 things you did/changed that got you tot his point?[/quote]
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Without a single doubt in my mind is nutrition. I stopped eating like a powerlifter and started eating like a strength athlete who wants to perform. My recovery time drastically increased, had more stamina, and not to mention I looked better so therefore felt better and had better confidence.
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Stopped going heavy for the sake of going heavy.
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Picked my accesories to mimic my squat and focused on hitting my weak areas a lot more often and with more volume. Was doing GHRs, Inverse Curls and for the first time training core hard and heavy atleast 2x week.
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Stopped getting psyched out of my mind. I started focusing on being perfect every rep whether 135 or 700. I started setting up and bracing EXACTLY like I would for a max attempt from lift to lift. No more screaming, punching shit, and slamming my head into a wall or barbell.
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Moved my frequency of theaon lifts from twice a week too 1 every 5 days. The added recovery really let me go into every single session feeling 100% recovered, refreshed and ready to go.
Decent Bench Day on Monday just now getting to postinf… Elbow and Biceps were flared up really horribly from back squatting on Friday. But still managed a pretty solid PR. Best ever was 365 paused. This is 370 for a double first rep paused and a tng and then 370 for longer pause press.
[quote]Reed wrote:
[quote]Alpha wrote:
Reed: Can you give us the top 5 things you did/changed that got you tot his point?[/quote]
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Without a single doubt in my mind is nutrition. I stopped eating like a powerlifter and started eating like a strength athlete who wants to perform. My recovery time drastically increased, had more stamina, and not to mention I looked better so therefore felt better and had better confidence.
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Stopped going heavy for the sake of going heavy.
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Picked my accesories to mimic my squat and focused on hitting my weak areas a lot more often and with more volume. Was doing GHRs, Inverse Curls and for the first time training core hard and heavy atleast 2x week.
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Stopped getting psyched out of my mind. I started focusing on being perfect every rep whether 135 or 700. I started setting up and bracing EXACTLY like I would for a max attempt from lift to lift. No more screaming, punching shit, and slamming my head into a wall or barbell.
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Moved my frequency of theaon lifts from twice a week too 1 every 5 days. The added recovery really let me go into every single session feeling 100% recovered, refreshed and ready to go.
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I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my question so throughly man, there is a lot in there I can learn From!
[quote]Alpha wrote:
[quote]Reed wrote:
[quote]Alpha wrote:
Reed: Can you give us the top 5 things you did/changed that got you tot his point?[/quote]
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Without a single doubt in my mind is nutrition. I stopped eating like a powerlifter and started eating like a strength athlete who wants to perform. My recovery time drastically increased, had more stamina, and not to mention I looked better so therefore felt better and had better confidence.
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Stopped going heavy for the sake of going heavy.
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Picked my accesories to mimic my squat and focused on hitting my weak areas a lot more often and with more volume. Was doing GHRs, Inverse Curls and for the first time training core hard and heavy atleast 2x week.
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Stopped getting psyched out of my mind. I started focusing on being perfect every rep whether 135 or 700. I started setting up and bracing EXACTLY like I would for a max attempt from lift to lift. No more screaming, punching shit, and slamming my head into a wall or barbell.
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Moved my frequency of theaon lifts from twice a week too 1 every 5 days. The added recovery really let me go into every single session feeling 100% recovered, refreshed and ready to go.
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I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my question so throughly man, there is a lot in there I can learn From![/quote]
Least I can do man. You have been nothing but supportive of me for a few years now and it means a lot.
Decent deadlift day for not really feeling like doing anything. Taking off till next Wednesday maybe even Friday. Ready for this meet 21 days out. Either way…
500x1
550x1
600x3 3Rep PR
Your log is pretty awesome, about 25% you being strong and 75% you helping other people get strong. At least that’s what a brief peruse shows me.
Squatted wrapped again today, tried to go tight as possible and see how my depth was affected. I got eight revolutions out of my Slingshot wraps, I think that’s the most I can get. With someone else wrapping, I reckon 10.
Anyway, depth wasn’t affected at all. If anything I went deeper. I think that’s because I feel like they stop me hitting depth so I force myself to go deeper almost subconsciously. Went well though, last set 429x5
[quote]MarkKO wrote:
Your log is pretty awesome, about 25% you being strong and 75% you helping other people get strong. At least that’s what a brief peruse shows me.
Squatted wrapped again today, tried to go tight as possible and see how my depth was affected. I got eight revolutions out of my Slingshot wraps, I think that’s the most I can get. With someone else wrapping, I reckon 10.
Anyway, depth wasn’t affected at all. If anything I went deeper. I think that’s because I feel like they stop me hitting depth so I force myself to go deeper almost subconsciously. Went well though, last set 429x5 [/quote]
I try to help where I can man. I know I come off extremely harsh at times but, it is honestly atleast in the beginning a serious attempt to help. 429 for 5 with self wrapped wraps means you are def good for 500 very very soon. I don’t doubt it for a second.
So meet is tomorrow went and weighed in @ 195.8 cut from roughly 208 and am now back up to 208 already hope to wake up 210-212. Feeling good and ready. Had a injury to my hip 3 weeks ago hence why I haven’t trained so I will essentially being going into the meet with almost a month of no squatting or pulling. Hopefully the rest pays off more than hurts me.
This was not the meet I really wanted but, hip popped out of place on my second squat and dumped the bar over my head. Took 665 again and you can see my shift my weight back and just barely push through the hip. Had a very hard time getting set in the bench because of that and was also forced to either pull conventional or drop out of the meet… Which obviously I wouldn’t have done with any chance.
Squat:
625 good
665 miss hip out
665 good 15lbs all time meet PR 65 lbs meet PR @ 198
Bench:
335 good
360 miss
360 miss
Deadlift: my hip was out of place so bad I could not pull sumo was forced to pull conventional or drop out.
560 miss
560 good
580 good insane nose bleed PR.
This was no where near the meet I wanted and yes I took a small injury but at the end of the day I was just not strong enough.
[quote]Reed wrote:
This was not the meet I really wanted but, hip popped out of place on my second squat and dumped the bar over my head. Took 665 again and you can see my shift my weight back and just barely push through the hip. Had a very hard time getting set in the bench because of that and was also forced to either pull conventional or drop out of the meet… Which obviously I wouldn’t have done with any chance.
Squat:
625 good
665 miss hip out
665 good 15lbs all time meet PR 65 lbs meet PR @ 198
Bench:
335 good
360 miss
360 miss
Deadlift: my hip was out of place so bad I could not pull sumo was forced to pull conventional or drop out.
560 miss
560 good
580 good insane nose bleed PR.
This was no where near the meet I wanted and yes I took a small injury but at the end of the day I was just not strong enough.
Freak! Gonna be insane to see what you hit soon when the bar doesn’t win next time around. Looking forward to it man.
Have been laying low recently not training much down to 2-3 sessions a week. Focusing mostly on some volume and bbing type of stuff for the past 2 and half months. But, decided to do a PL meet a few days ago for sure. So I am rushing the peak if you can really call it that. First session back in wraps and am feeling pretty good actually.
580 for 3 reps pretty easy had another 2-3 reps for sure.
2 weeks out one more semi heavy session before this meet. This is 560 and 605 self wrapped on the 560 and Brittany helped on the 605. Feeling strong and better in the wraps after last week. Thanks Samantha, Kyle, Brit and Justin for the spots. This not peaking stuff works.
Fast reps brother!
635 for easy single last heavyish session before the meet. This is probably my opener should move even faster with a nice deload and a Sam Byrd wrap on. Depth on first was shit and I know this.
Right on dude smoke show 