Nice work Math…
Fine pulling.
and yeah I need to catch up.
kmc
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Crap! you’re catching up to me. I better get on the ball with those rack pulls.
Nice job big fella.[/quote]
I doubt I’ll be catching you anytime soon. Kind of makes me think of toying with a cat. Put something on the end of a piece of string and drag it along slowly. The poor kitty goes into stalk mode and eventually lunges for it. And right before it gets there, you jerk the string and it is once again out of reach.
It’s not nice to toy with your forum mates!
Hope you had a great trip…
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Nice work Math…
Fine pulling.
and yeah I need to catch up.
kmc[/quote]
I’ll make sure to forward this to Mathineer…lol.
You are NOT allowed to use the wall to help lock out your military presses, sir!
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
You are NOT allowed to use the wall to help lock out your military presses, sir![/quote]
Yeah…maybe that pint of JD, just before lifting, wasn’t such a good idea.
Bench Day -
dislocatesx10x2
Bench
barx25x2
95x15
135x10
185x5
225x5
275x2
290x3
295x3
300x2 … didn’t even try for the 3rd rep
Military Press
barx15
135x10
185x3
205x1
215x1
225x1 - Matches lifetime PR - even with the stumble…see DCA’s post (2 up)
Ballistic Reverse Flies
40sx10x3
Pushdowns
140x10x2 - elbows out
110x8 - elbows in
Shoulder felt much better. Can’t say I had any issues with it. Of course, the eternal tweak was in my left, and my favoring it can be seen in the military video.
Didn’t seem to have any stamina for multi-rep sets on the military. So, I just did singles. I’m really happy, even though I stumbled and really favored the left shoulder, to get that much up for the 1st time in a decade.
Nice pressin’ LS! I feel for you on the MP stumble, it seems like I always do that on at least one set when I do MPs - even at my light weights much less 225!
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Bench Day -
dislocatesx10x2
Bench
barx25x2
95x15
135x10
185x5
225x5
275x2
290x3
295x3
300x2 … didn’t even try for the 3rd rep
Military Press
barx15
135x10
185x3
205x1
215x1
225x1 - Matches lifetime PR - even with the stumble…see DCA’s post (2 up)
Ballistic Reverse Flies
40sx10x3
Pushdowns
140x10x2 - elbows out
110x8 - elbows in
Shoulder felt much better. Can’t say I had any issues with it. Of course, the eternal tweak was in my left, and my favoring it can be seen in the military video.
Didn’t seem to have any stamina for multi-rep sets on the military. So, I just did singles. I’m really happy, even though I stumbled and really favored the left shoulder, to get that much up for the 1st time in a decade.[/quote]
You’da had 3@300 if you’da skipped one of those 290+ sets.
MP are a full body lift like deads. Core stability is what counts there. Lose that and the set goes to heck (D’ya like how I’m not cussing or using scatalogical anatomical references?). Very neurally demanding lift in my estimation.
you a stong man.
[quote]soldog wrote:
Nice pressin’ LS! I feel for you on the MP stumble, it seems like I always do that on at least one set when I do MPs - even at my light weights much less 225![/quote]
Thanks, soldog. As a rule, I don’t stumble. I think I just forgot about everything except the pushing with the delts and tris. Really shouldn’t do that when standing up with weights at shoulder level or higher.
Light weights? I guess it is a matter of perspective. Compared to some, we are all lifting light weights. I will gladly put your presses up against any of the folks I work around everyday, though. Heck, you are pressing at or above what our UPS’s weigh (120-125#). My co-worker can’t pick it up off the floor to rack it…just 4 inches off the ground.
On a side…I really enjoy keeping up with your log and watching your numbers go up.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
You’da had 3@300 if you’da skipped one of those 290+ sets.
MP are a full body lift like deads. Core stability is what counts there. Lose that and the set goes to heck (D’ya like how I’m not cussing or using scatalogical anatomical references?). Very neurally demanding lift in my estimation.
you a stong man.[/quote]
You know, I really want to do a 3x3 @ 300#. I felt like it was a little ambitious, though. So, I started at 290#, since I had done that for a set of 3 before. Hopefully, in the next few weeks, I will get it. Considering that all 3 sets were between 91% and 94% of my 1RM, I can live with it.
I agree completely. Military is a very demanding exercise, which is one of the reasons I love it. I just wish my left shoulder would either correct itself, or go numb, so I could do military without thinking about it.
I did notice the extremely sanitary verbiage. Reflecting back, I really don’t recall you getting too colorful in your posts. Of course, I might be repressing the incidents to protect my fragile psyche.
Just out of curiosity, how long did it take you to get your MP up that high? I struggle with 130-140, and it seems to be one of my slowest-progressing lifts.
LS you are an animal!
nice work, that is some serious pressing.
kmc
[quote]mcl wrote:
Just out of curiosity, how long did it take you to get your MP up that high? I struggle with 130-140, and it seems to be one of my slowest-progressing lifts.[/quote]
kmc - thanks. I just watched the video again and man was that an ugly rep. Oh well…it went up, so I’ll take it!
mcl,
I really had to think about this, because the progression is so spread out (like over 2+ decades). I hit 200# just before turning 18. I didn’t lift for strength again until I was 30. When I started back, then, I was pressing about 175# and worked up to 225#. When I started back last April, I was pressing 190#…and just got back to 225#.
I don’t think the current progression can really be attributed to anything but lifting again and getting back to where I was. My getting to 200#, at 17, I think was because we used to do a lot of push press (football team), as it is a great exercise for explosiveness and teaching the upper and lower body to work in tandem.
We never, as a team, did strict military. But, I did it 3 times a week at home, as I knew that push press could never replace military for developing the strength. I think the push press helped because it served the role of partial rep exercise. I was using more weight than I could military, so I became accustomed to wielding heavier weights at the bottom of the rep, locking it out, controlling it at the top and on the descent…much like pin presses and board presses.
When I hit 225# the first time (10 years ago), I no longer did push presses. I did heavy military (2-6 reps), seated DB OH presses (5-8 reps)and had become a lateral junkie (cables and machine). I gave myself a bit of leeway on the form with the militaries, so I could push slightly higher weights, but nothing near a push press. I was pretty strict on the DB OH presses and laterals. On the triceps side, I did heavy (6-10 rep) pushdowns and 2-arm, 1 DB tricep ext.
That being said, heck, I might be able to push more had I taken a different route. If I had it to do over again, I would probably add some close grip bench into the mix. It really pounds my anterior delts.
Sorry I couldn’t be more specific…
Thanks! That actually helps a great deal. knowing you’ve been working on it on and off for 20 years, and hit big numbers while in your teens, makes me – someone who first touched iron a year ago – feel slightly better about the whole thing. 
[quote]mcl wrote:
Thanks! That actually helps a great deal. knowing you’ve been working on it on and off for 20 years, and hit big numbers while in your teens, makes me – someone who first touched iron a year ago – feel slightly better about the whole thing. :)[/quote]
Good deal. Military is an interesting animal. I think it might be one of the hardest of the core lifts, if not the hardest, simply because it requires so much effort to remain stable. Form and technique are bears with all the major lifts, but once it starts going over your head…stability becomes the biggest issue.
I am always amazed at folks (myself included) perception of weight being moved. When you step back and think about it, 130-140# is a lot of weight to press above ones head. Sure, MM can press 300# or more, but he is an animal…lol. If I came in to work tomorrow and they told us we had to military that much or be terminated, I would think it safe to say that 33 of the 35 in our department would be unemployed.
Good luck! I’m very interested to see your progress!
Jesus LS thats one hell of an MP.
That’s some damn good pressing LS… I hope I can grow up to be like you!
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Jesus LS thats one hell of an MP.[/quote]
Thanks. Now, if I can do it without stumbling, while bringing both arms up together, I’ll be set…lol.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
That’s some damn good pressing LS… I hope I can grow up to be like you![/quote]
Lol…that shouldn’t take more than a week. Not to mention, I was dumb enough to move someplace where they don’t understand “supper.” Not someone to mimic…
Legs (kind of)/Back -
I was torn between seeing if I could pull 450# on DL and just sticking with my squats then rack pulls. In the end, it was decided for me. I opted to be conservative and do the latter, but the pain I developed, right across my left knee cap, emerged while squatting with the bar. So, I went to DLs. Guess what, it was there too. As you will see, I ended up starting with rack pulls. I suppose the depth was shallow enough that it didn’t aggravate the knee…
Stretching and mobility
Squats
barx10x2
knee flaked
Deadlifts
135x5
knee flaked
Rack Pulls
225x5
315x5
385x5
435x3
490x2 - PR +15# - This was strong, could have pulled 500#, but 490# is all I have.
435x5
Shrugs - all overhand grip
225x12
275x10
285x10 - 1st time I have reached 10 reps at 275# or more with an overhand grip
Wide Grip Pulldowns
160x12x3
Face Pulls
100x10x3
Kroc Rows - using redneck 85# DB
85x12x2 - each arm
I was thrilled with the 490# rack pull…and even more that I pulled it twice.
No leg workout until Tuesday. Hopefully the knee will sort itself out by then.
No vids…wife was busy…