Miss Wolverine???
WTF
It hurts that you’d even joke about that.
Betty- I can’t offer rainbows or puppy dogs, but this little guy is just so stinkin’ cute. Does that count?
BWG- Thanks lady! I’m chasing those numbers of yours, you know. At a snail’s pace, but I’m chasing them, dammit!
Training:
bench
45x10x2
95x5
115x2
125x1x3
125+chains x1x2
super set
hs csr- 180x10x3
db curl- 25x10x3
push downs
30x20x2
Got a video of my last set of bench.
The chains were little. They added about 10 pounds at the top. I paused on my straight weight but not so much with the chains. My first set with the added chain was ugly. I got out of my groove a little and the bar stopped about 3 inches off the chest, SH went to grab it I yelled “nuh uh” and then pressed it easy. Weird.
On the set I got on video, I had trouble setting up (way too much wiggling) because my right lat and/or erector was threatening to cramp up on me. Came up ok though.
Someone say cute?
Strong pressing BG. Way to blast that shit out. Did you bring the chains with you or does your gym have them there?
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Someone say cute?
Strong pressing BG. Way to blast that shit out. Did you bring the chains with you or does your gym have them there?[/quote]
Ok ordinarily I can ignore the absolutely cute animal pics but i cant ignore this one…is that lil hippo real??? where did you get that pic?? (sorry BG for the hijack…)
[quote]BlackWidowGirl wrote:
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Someone say cute?
Strong pressing BG. Way to blast that shit out. Did you bring the chains with you or does your gym have them there?[/quote]
Ok ordinarily I can ignore the absolutely cute animal pics but i cant ignore this one…is that lil hippo real??? where did you get that pic?? (sorry BG for the hijack…)[/quote]
No problem BWG. I don’t know where he got that pic, but dailysquee.com is full of stuff like that, and the pics that I posted.
Ink- Thanks. The chains were ours. An old gym SH trained at had the big chains but no feeder chains to hang them from the bar. SH bought those and had them lying around so we decided to use them because they gave me just enough of an overload.
Heading to the PL gym this afternoon for squats, but right now, a little story.
My family is visiting through the weekend and last night we took my sister out for a few drinks at one of the local bars. We’re sitting around, making fun of the old women wearing clothes made for girls 15 years younger and 50 pounds lighter, when a guy comes up and says he recognizes me from the gym.
I’m not entirely sure what all the dude said because it was loud and he was drunk but the main idea was that I’m stronger than him and he was in awe of that. He was going to offer to buy me a drink but acknowledged that would be kind of weird since I was there with SH. Saved me the trouble of turning him down because 1. I didn’t want a drink from random gym dude and 2. I was drinking diet coke.
People generally mind their own business at the gym so the fact that drunk dude noticed and felt compelled to say anything outside of the gym was just funny to me.
squat
55x10x2
105x5
145x5
185x3
205x1
225x1x3
*add chains, knee wraps
225+1 chain x1x2
super set bw x10x3
GHR
hanging leg raise
I got videos of a few of my squats. Waiting on youtube for everything to get uploaded and ready to go. Will post them momentarily.
A few thoughts about today’s training:
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I was stressing all morning about squatting today. 225 is not that heavy. I need to get out of my fucking head.
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I hate knee wraps. I think I want better ones, longer ones, or for Mr. B to wrap my knees. Something about them today didn’t feel nearly as good as the last time.
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My squats with chains appeared to be SKY FUCKING HIGH. I think they looked pretty good, but they should considering I never actually got in the hole. FUCK.
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I screwed up the chain weight. Should have added about 20lbs total. Turns out that the chains each weighed about 18, about 4 links were on the ground (so not much) and then there were the little feeder chains. So, I probably added 30-35. Next time we use less chain.
Set 2 with 225:
And the two sets with chains. Don’t get a nosebleed watching these.
These videos are a constant reminder of my inferior calves. 
My nose is bleeding.
We all have ish days, see my last bench day. fuuuuu
Good day,
I was just browsing the log site and your title drew me in…Good title. Do you think the 20 total reps contributed to what you deemed as a subpar performance on squat day? My legs will blow up if I did anything past five which will kill the rest of my training session for heavier sets.
Anyway, I think we all have that mental number in our heads that just messes with the mental aspect of the lifting for the day…Oh well, good log and good to see more women strap on the wraps, belt, chalk up and lift.
Keep grinding!!!
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
These videos are a constant reminder of my inferior calves. :([/quote]
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
My nose is bleeding.
We all have ish days, see my last bench day. fuuuuu [/quote]
Shirted benching is always awful in Buckeyeland. I hate those things. ugh.
[quote]SergeantQ wrote:
Good day,
I was just browsing the log site and your title drew me in…Good title. Do you think the 20 total reps contributed to what you deemed as a subpar performance on squat day? My legs will blow up if I did anything past five which will kill the rest of my training session for heavier sets.
Anyway, I think we all have that mental number in our heads that just messes with the mental aspect of the lifting for the day…Oh well, good log and good to see more women strap on the wraps, belt, chalk up and lift.
Keep grinding!!![/quote]
Thanks for stopping by.
RE 20 total reps: I don’t quite understand what you are asking here.
If you’re talking about the two sets of 10 with the bar, no I don’t feel that contributed to a sub-par performance. I feel that it, along with the foam rolling and activation exercises I do before I squat, contributes to me 1. not tearing an adductor and 2. reaching depth.
If you’re referring to the 20 or so total reps I did with weight on the bar, again I’m going to say no. The sets leading up to my work sets with 225 were not particularly taxing and even the singles with straight weight felt good. My training leading up to this point was pretty high volume and I feel like that has prepared me well enough that a few singles around 90% won’t kill me.
I attribute my sub-par squat performance to being a little bitch. I didn’t feel confident in the knee wraps, the weight felt heavy, so I cut my squats high. It also probably didn’t help that I had about twice as much chain weight as I should have.
The mental aspect of lifting is huge and I think you can definitely mindfuck yourself out of succeeding. There are a couple of stories about that that come to mind. Maybe I’ll post some up for everyone’s reading pleasure.
While we’re on the subject of mental toughness, this is one of my all-time favorite PL stories. I’m sure a lot of people have already heard it (pretty sure it was originally an EFS article Dave wrote), I think its worth being repeated.
[quote]NOV 2002
This was the second year that EliteFTS had hosted the IPA Nationals. While it’s always nice to give back to the lifting community, it’s also a huge task full of months of hard work preparing for the event. Knowing that everything was in order, my wife and I decided to take a vacation a couple weeks before the event. This would allow us time to unwind and get ready to put on the best competition that we could for the lifers.
Right before we left for vacation, a friend of mine and fellow teammate, Chuck Vogelpohl, had the misfortune of rolling his car into a ditch. This happened one week before we left for vacation, and the only way that I knew about this was because he had had the police officer bring him into the gym so that he could train his squat. Chuck was training for the Nationals and didn’t want to miss a single session regardless of the numerous scrapes and bruises he had just received. Not to mention, he still had to find a way home. None of this ever dawned on him. All he knew was that he had to do what he had to do.
We returned from vacation, and a couple days later, I was back in the gym. As I walked into the gym, one of my other teammates came over and asked me, ‘Did you hear about Chuck?’ I figured this was kind of old news at this point so I said, “Yea, he rolled his car before I left.”
“No, no, no, Dave. He rolled the rental car three days ago,” he told me with this “I can’t believe this happened” look on his face.
You’re kidding me, I thought to myself. How in the world can you roll two cars within ten days especially when those ten days also happen to fall within the last two weeks before the nationals? Minutes later Chuck walked in carrying his gym bag and began getting ready to embark on his last bench press session before the meet. Not only was he carrying his bag, but he also had new scrapes, cuts, and bruises to go with the old ones from the week before. I asked him how he felt, and he said, “Real good. Only one week to go.” We then went onto our training for the day. Not one word was ever said about the second accident.
It never dawned on him to talk about the second accident. All he knew was that he had to do what he had to do.
Six days later, we were at the meet and things were running perfectly. Everything was set up, the lifters were happy, and the women and light weight lifters were getting ready to start. At that moment, Chuck limped in holding a gallon jug of water. He had been there to weigh in and would be lifting the following day. I asked him how the weigh in had went, and he told me that he had made weight and was ready to go. I asked him about the limp, and he told me that he had pulled a glute but that it was no big deal. He should have a good day tomorrow.
I remember thinking to my self, this guy has been in two car accidents in the past two weeks and shows up to the meet with bruises all down his right leg and then somehow manages to pull a glute two days before the meet. Seriously, what the hell is he even doing at the meet?
This of course never dawned on him. All he knew was that he had to do what he had to do.
The next day, I was sitting in the head judge’s chair. Part of my job for the day was to judge as well as run the meet. The only break I would get from judging is when my teammates or friends would lift. At this point, I would step out to allow someone else to judge. I did, however, get to judge all other lifters. As I was sitting in the chair, I glanced up to the lifting order and noticed that Chuck’s opening squat attempt was 900 lbs. Confused, I flagged down Louie Simmons to ask him what the hell Chuck was doing. His best squat to date was 860 lbs, and he was opening with a 40 lb personal record. Louie just looked at me and said, “Yea, well you tell him.” I have known Chuck for many years, and I can say that there was no way I was going to tell him because he wouldn’t listen.
Regardless of what I would have said, it wouldn’t have mattered. He had to do what he had to do.
Chuck screamed out for his opening attempt, and I mean SCREAMED. He’s known as one of the most intense lifters to ever step on the platform, and while he may not be loud, his intensity is contagious. When he lifts, he has “something” that I’ve only seen in a couple other lifters. He’s also a huge crowd favorite, so as he approaches, the crowd stands to their feet. His range and intensity can be felt by everyone in the room.
Chuck got set under the bar and began to descend and descend. But he never got back up. He just got, as we in the game like to call it, “stapled.” Needless to say, he missed the weight. I felt bad for him. After all he had been through to get to this point, to have it end like this sucked. But I figured that he would probably learn from this and pick his openers better next time. As I headed back to the judge’s chair, I heard Louie call Chuck for a repeat. In a meet, you have three attempts. If you miss one, you can keep the weight the same or go up. But you can?t lower the weight. Chuck decided to give it another shot.
After getting “stapled” with a 40 lb personal record, most would have pulled out, but Chuck just did what he had to do.
As I sat judging the rest of the lifters, I kept an eye on the lifting order board to see what was going on. It was then that I noticed Chuck had increased his second attempt to 950 lbs. This would be the second highest squat of all time and a world record for this federation for his weight class. I was amazed at the call, but he was also a friend and teammate so I was also concerned. Once again, I called Louie over and asked him what the hell was going on. Once again, he told me, “You go tell him.” At this point, I was about to lose my mind. I told Louie that I wasn’t able to go tell Chuck because I had to stay and judge. I told Louie that he had to tell him.
I reminded Louie that Chuck had been in two car accidents within two weeks, pulled his glute, and opened with a 40 lb PR that he just got SMASHED with. Once again Louis told me, “You tell him.” So I got my ass up and walked into the warm-up room. As I made my way through all the Gatorade bottles, gym bags, squat suits, plates, and platforms, I saw Chuck with his helpers in the corner. As I approached, they were rubbing out his quads and his eyes were focused on the ground. A few steps later, he looked up and caught my eye.
The look in his eye told me that it didn’t matter what I said. He was going to do what he had to do.
Moments later, the crowd was on their feet again, and the music was cranked. Out came Chuck as intense as I have ever seen him. For a moment there, I actually thought he might have a chance. The crowd grew louder, and he grabbed the bar and set his hands. Next, he set his right foot and then the left. Finally, he ducked under the bar to get ready to unrack the world record weight. He set the weight up and pulled his chest and torso with all the air he could. With one slight hip adjustment, he pulled his head up and began to sit back. As he lowered the weight, I felt a deep pit in my stomach. I just wished that he wouldn’t get hurt. Then he hit parallel and BLASTED the weight back up like it was an empty bar. Literally, this was one of the most impressive and easiest lifts I have ever witnessed.
Chuck went on to call for 970 lbs on his third attempt, which would make the highest squat for his weight class of all time. He later changed it to 1000 pounds! This would make him the lightest man ever to do it. Did he do it? What do you think from the man who just had to do what he had to do? So what do I mean by saying he had to do what he had to do?
This is what I feel is the number one weakness that everyone has. This ranges from the weekend athletes to the professional athletes. The only difference between the two is that the professional athletes do the right things more frequently than the weekend warrior does. Every golfer will tell you about great hits they have made, but the pros do it more often.
Why is this? What separates the two? Like Chuck, the most successful people live in the present. It’s very easy to write out and plan goals. It’s easy to find a diet to follow or a training program to do. It’s also very easy to sit back and ride the glory of the past. But it’s totally different to LIVE it all right now.
The decisions that most athletes focus on are what they’ve done in the past or what will affect their future. However, in all reality, the past in nothing more than a bunch of presents that have already happened, and the future are the presents yet to happen. In other words, you can’t change the past or predict the future, but you do have control over what you do right now.
Are you on a diet? Well, is it time now to eat again? Are you eating the right stuff? When you trained last, did you do what you needed to do or what you wanted to do? You future is made up of all these ?present? decisions.
This is doing what you have to do.[/quote]
deadlift
135x5
185x3
215x1
240x1x2
240+mini x1
super set
back xt 50x12x3
leg raise 12x3
kb twist 12x12x3
Everything felt good. Deadlift is coming along.
That looked stupid easy. Great job.
bar went up quick and smoothly - you def have more in the tank 
Thanks guys. If you factor in the band it’s around 265 at the top and that’s what I’d like to hit at the meet.
bench (paused)
45x10x2
95x5
115x1
135x1x4
TRX fat man row 10x4
(superset with band dislocates x10x4)
db curls
20x12x3
tri pushdown
30x20x2
db rear delt
5x20x2
Last rep with 135 looked the best. I didn’t pause on the third. Oops.
I prob missed it, pardon the retarded question, when is your meet?
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
I prob missed it, pardon the retarded question, when is your meet?[/quote]
Hopefully sometime after she learns to stay tight when she benches