Bench looked real good bro. Big improvement.
LWI!
Congrats on the PR bro. That is awesome. Sometimes the stars align and working out just doesn’t get any better.
Damn dude, you got the arch of a woman before climax. Nice work.
Video looks good, bench form looking much improved. Bench war is on! I will have to grow some facial hair to close the gap - that mustache is intense brudda.
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I will have to grow some facial hair to close the gap - that mustache is intense brudda.[/quote]
You think Greg asked the spotter if he wanted a moustache ride after his set?
WhitFlash- thanks homie
Kalle- appreciate it Kalle, it felt good. The new technique really helps I think.
Phlegms- thanks bud… I was a little nervous before lol
Matty- hahaha I know right? I probably did 7 or 8 “warm up sets” before those working sets. I was already sweating and out of breath just from benching the bar and 95lbs lololol
MiM- I’m pretty sure I’m allowed to be on my toes? Just as long as they don’t move around once I start lifting.
Oregand- I’m really excited for it too. It’s gonna a lot of fun and hopefully I can throw together a good video of it when it’s all done.
Ink- thanks brah. I’ve been working my technique big time. Seems like it’s working?
DJS- stars aligning… I like it! Yeah felt like everything was coming together yesterday. Set up felt solid and the weight was feeling light. I guess I’m over that cold now hahahahaha. plus BW was back down to 211 so that’s good.
Scj- lololz! That arch was seriously so uncomfortable and hard to get into/stay in. Definitely helps though.
Bug- consider the war officially declared!!! You’re gonna need some sort of ridiculous facial hair if you wanna truly compete. The ball is in your court (no homo)
Ink 2.0- hahaha you shoulda seen me looking for a spotter. I looked around for probably 2 minutes and that guy was the only one who I thought was straight lol… No lie. I woulda felt more comfortable having my fiancé spot me than any of the other “guys” that were around lololol.
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement everyone. It really means a lot. Gonna get my squat on this afternoon with the last set being 360x3+… my low back is feeling pretty tight/sore right now but I’ll belt up and power through.
Funny story:
So I’m working at the Fire Museum today. I get there early and open up the office. I grab the gate key out and go outside to open the side gate to the parking lot. I come back to find that the front door has blown closed, no big deal cause I unlocked it to get inside in the first place right? WRONG! my ass is locked out with the rest of the keys sitting inside on the desk. ROOKIE BIOTCH! So I went all around he building looking for an opening, climbed on the roof, checked the sky lights (lololol was gonna rappel down inside if I could get it open haha) but couldn’t.
I had to call the museum director and have him send someone to let me in. What a loser lol
Doesn’t Dave Tate say something about how uncomfortable you should be when benching? you’re doing it right man. And ROOKIE BITCH FTW!! Sucks you got locked out, I HATE when that happens. Good luck on the squats man, tear that shit UP!
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Kalle- appreciate it Kalle, it felt good. The new technique really helps I think.
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THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!!!
Dude, I’m not sure anyone else catches 'em, but your random movie quotes are solid gold.
Bench is looking strong as hell and very “powerlifter” indeed. Since your gonna compete this seems ideal, your stable as hell and look to be able to move maximum weight this way… that’s the goal right!
Ink- Yeah he does say that and he was/is right. My back was/is so friggin sore from that setup. “The Lockout” wasnt that bad. I felt like a total dork but whatevs. Wasnt the first and definitely wont be the last time I look dumb in life haha
scj- lol
WhiteFlash- Appreciate that man. you just get me.
Jake- Thanks buddy. Definitely not how I’ll be benching post comp but it’s gonna help me with the meet so I’m trying to dial it in now.
Todays workout was kinda lame. I was rushed to get into the gym cause I’m going to a concert tonight and I didnt realize till I was halfway through my warm up sets that I had forgotten my knee sleeves at home. I decided to just finish out squats instead of going home to get them. My knee started bothering me a little bit… bad idea.
warm up blah blah blah
531 Squats
280 x 3
320 x 3
365 x 3+ = 7. I was supposed to do 360 but I didnt wanna hassle with all the little 5, 10’s and 2.5s. Didnt feel very good on these but 7 is ok I guess. I was getting a little bit of knee cave and had pain below my right patella. Sucky. Thats what I get for forgetting my knee sleeves.
Hyper Extensions:
4 x 10
Skipped my leg press cause the lack of sleeves
4 x 10 Planks. 30 seconds left side, 30 seconds right side, 30 seconds middle. Rest was 100 jumps with speed rope.
Felt like a lazy turd for not doing leg press so I did some conditioning to finish off.
Hurdle Burpees:
(^^last set)
saw this little hurdle thing and got the idea. I did 3 sets of 7 over and backs with 60 seconds rest in between… I’d never done these before, I just saw the hurdle and figured “Why not?” I need to work on being more fluid out of the bottom position.
Not that great of a day but oh well. Better luck next time.
That’s solid for being an off session man. Those burpee hurdles look awesome, I’d just low crawl through that shit from a pushups position since I don’t think I food clear it. Then again…I can’t dunk either, Mr Abzael Jordan
Thats what you call an off session?! Gawd I’m weak!
Really nice benching Greg!
The hurdle thing reminds me of having to do this conditioning thing where you leapfrog over a partner and then have to turn around and crawl/slid between their legs then pop up again and repeat until you die. Ugh.
Sub’d because I like your goals. Throw down a dunk for all of us white dudes out there.
Solid work going on here. I like the weights at your gym lolz.
Not posting in your log anymore
Too many new weirdo creepers
You’ve gone pop greg…became a powerlifter…completely fucked up this band
Speaking of sleeves I generally only use them as well, are you gonna start using wraps? Im trying to get my hands on a monolift as thats what they are using at my meet, dont wanna use the monolift for the first time at the meet…
Ink- hahaha there was a few times that I thought “hell, i should just probably crawl under the hurdle this time… oh damn! The camera is on!” hahah
phlegms- lol, yeah man it wasnt just an off day.
Charlie- thanks! Seems like the ladies love the headband but the dudes are hating… what gives?
Dominic- Whats up man? Thanks for checking out my log. I havent jumped in a while but after this PL meet I’ll see whats up. Look forward to hearing from ya.
Achilles- thanks brotha, yeah the weights at my gym are kinda whack. I cant lift with mis matched plates and the ones with the holes are the most abundant lol… weight lifting ADD i guess
Ct Rock- Im back big man, dont frett. Just a crazy busy weekend so havent been able to get an update in.I’m still here and the band is rocking like always
Matty- I’m not gonna Eff around with wraps. Just gonna go sleeves for now. The meet will be my first run in with the mono lift… I’m not sure how its gonna go. I might try and walk the weight out like a rack? We’ll see. maybe in the warm up area I’ll be able to practice with it?
Sorry for the delayed response. Busy weekend doing lots of wedding stuff. Went to the Bon Iver concert Friday night down at Spreckles theater… it was AMAZING! Bon Iver was incredible. If you havent heard them yet you should check it out.
My best buddy had surgery a couple days ago so I was over there today with my boo and we hung out with him/brought him food and stuff to keep him occupied. Went today and tried on some Tux’s. Really excited about buying my own tux. Every man should own a tailored black tux… you never know when you are gonna need to james bond out lol.
Busy compact week coming up. Got a lot of stuff to do. My buddies band is playing in SD wednesday night and i’ll be there, I have two buddies coming into town thursday night that will be staying with me and then friday morning we’re all making our way out to Lake Havasu for my bachelor party weekend. its gonna be awesome.
Going to hammer out some hard workouts this week. I’ll catch up on all the logs this tomorrow. Thanks for the thoughts and support. Appreciate it! <3 you guys and gals
Have fun buddy!!