Arnold Curl with Fat Gripz x 12ish
Neutral Grip Band Pushdown x 15ish
4 pairs
Incline Zottman Curl x 15
Close Grip 1.5 Pushups x 12ish
4 pairs
COC Gripper, Trainer x 6 reps with slow open
Reverse DB Wrist Curls x 15
4 pairs
Pinching x COC Sport x 12 x 3 sets
I drilled holes in a couple pieces of 2x4 and slid them over the handles of a gripper so I could do some pinching. I stole the idea from German guy COC #3 closer, Robert Baraban (who the hell is Baraban Robert?). Shout Out!
I started pretty easy to make sure my thumbs don’t fall off or anything.
I’ve been doing incline DB bench on a narrow board leaning on a cinder block. Last week I decided that sucked and found a slightly wider board to use. Pressing felt less shitty immediately.
Later, I saw Simo DB benching on a big-ass (Thompson?) Fat Pad. The bench was so big it made dude look kinda small.
That was enough to make me wonder what the hell I was doing, laying on the floor, balancing on a plank like the victim of pirates.
I’m pretty pleased. I didn’t want to spend any money until I saw how it came together, so there is no fancy hardware or padding yet. And I probably make a tweak ot two after using it. But it’s totally sturdy and legit, not too heavy and the bench is 14 inches wide vs the 6 inch board I was using last week.
The feet aren’t wide enough and the whole thing will tip over? The bench is 17 inches tall, the feet are 14.5 inches wide. Should they go out farther? Or be beefier?
Or that the wide bench surface will teeter off the narrow legs? I tried to do some basic joinery shit so everything fits together, nothing (except the feet) is connected on just one surface.
1 arm bench! That’s a good idea, way better than the nonsense stuff i was thinking about rigging up. Also, timely, 1 arm incline is my main pressing move this next 4 weeks.
And taking the feet off and attaching them sideways is probably how this will end up. The bench is already pretty tall and losing an inch and a half would probably help.
Those boxes look legit! I made a similar pair, only shorter, less sturdy, without the rubber surface and no anti-rollers. Now they seem like junk in need of an upgrade.
If my craftsmanship were better they would be a bit less wobbly when you set a heavy block pull back down.
Probably would remove the top 2x4’s and instead put a 3/4” piece of ply wood on the bottom to ensure it’s a flat surface. Boxes would be a bit lower in height then and be about perfect for block pulls below the knee. They aren’t bad now but a little lower would have been better.
The other week I was walking the dogs with little daughter when a couple kids from down the street rode up on their bikes. Kiddo got all excited and wanted to run home to get her bike.
We had a Balance Bike (no pedals) from her 2nd birthday which she had outgrown. With the low low bike and her long legs she didn’t have enough room to kick off and push. She had to stoop to reach the handle bars and they kept turning sideways. It was a mess.
Then we went back to get her tricycle. It all plastic with a big handle coming out the back so I can push it around. When I removed the handle and she tried to pedal or turn the handle bars they weren’t “attached.” The pedals spun and the handles turned but they wheel didn’t move and she didn’t go anywhere.
My sweet daughter completely let down by my BS equipment and poor planning. I felt really bad. It was weird. Little bikes aren’t expensive or hard to get, so no big deal. But if that’s the case, I’m a bad dad for not having one. Not a good feeling.
I’ve been doing floor presses and DB incline presses on a board so narrow it limited my ROM. Jumping on the bench for the first time Greatly increased the amount of elbow bending I had to do for DB benching. Fuckin’ A! My biceps got sore as shit in just a couple hours. The next day my elbows felt all hot and swollen. Yesterday’s arm workout was just some band stuff with slow eccentrics to calm that down.
Non alcoholic beers are widely accepted now and getting more popular all the time. My woman has a meeting with one of the local breweries to see if they want to brew an exclusive NA beer for the bar where she works.
A Governor from the news graduated from my high school way back when.
