[quote]punnyguy wrote:
So my BW #s:
Bench 1.28
Squat 1.50
Dead 2.21[/quote]
So is this the result of my little breakdown the other day?
Nice DL!
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
So my BW #s:
Bench 1.28
Squat 1.50
Dead 2.21[/quote]
So is this the result of my little breakdown the other day? [/quote]
“Good fences make good neighbors.” 
Thanks, “But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep.” It’s my Frostian bargain.
And from the Fasttimes-at-Ridgmont-High-side of my Gemini personality (via the Paul Carter Lift-Run-Bang blog, which everyone should read and support), a line from his review of the movie Salt:
…“Angelina Jolie was also so skinny I kept trying to rub a cheeseburger on the TV screen to see if she would take a bite”
“Failing to train daily leads to more injuries, due to the inconsistent recovery rates amongst different tissues. Daily training is training under fatigued muscles. If you take days off, the muscles recover faster than other soft-tissues, which increases the likelihood of injury.”
I read this in the Broz article today, and it actually affirmed my own logic for slowing down my attempted rate of progress (opposite of Broz’ point, funny) in my own lifting. I look at it from the perspective that muscles adapt faster, so even though one can up weight based on muscular strength, one should wait the extra 2-4 weeks it might take for tendon/ligament strength to catch up. In practical terms, it means once I up the weight in an exercise, I will spend 4-6 weeks at that weight before adding more weight; plus I hardly ever try to max, and I don’t work with max-effort singles anymore, only triples (Hepburn style, which fits my time frame perfectly).
“Lunges suck and are very dangerous.”
Another line from the Broz article today…and I just added barbell reverse lunges to my routine in my last workout, and finished them thinking “barbell reverse lunges cure cancer!”. lol
I have to agree with Broz’ perspective -if you are training in a fatigued state, there are so many things that can go wrong during a lunge. But as an accessory, bodybuilding-type exercise, I thought it was awesome, especially for people who are starting to develop asymmetry in their legs from squatting. With the lunge, you can control the emphasis with a shorter lunge to hit the quads more, or a longer lunge to hit the hamstrings/glutes more. I was sore in the exact ham/glute tie-in that I’ve been trying to work on for the longest time -awesome. But I did note how I had to focus more than with the squat on making sure my knee was tracking the ankle, and that my lower back did not round “suddenly” (which happened to me once). And I definitely would not do the forward lunge personally, especially in a fatigued state -too hard to control.
And as an aside, Cressey had a mailing a couple days after I did my lunges, where he said that if he had to choose one and only one exercise, it would be the lunge; I was thinking “great”, then I read this Broz article. Good thing I’m old and wise…hah. Is it any wonder there are a gazillion people out there running from program to program every other week?
Someone just posted this on the Broz article livespill:
“from an interview for Charles Poliquin: KG: Is it true you are not fond of lunges? JB: I consider the lunge the worst exercise ever invented. KG: Why is that? JB: Because it?s not a natural movement. You never see a child lunge to pick something up ? they squat. What happens with this movement is that you often end up using a weight that is too heavy and you end up twisting your knee and becoming injured, especially with women because of the angle of the knee joint. I told my old girlfriend and one day she sneaked into the women?s only section of the gym and did them heavy as I just described. She ended up tearing a meniscus and was in a leg brace for seven months, and she had problems with that knee for the next five years. You can get the same or better benefits from doing a squat, and it?s much, much safer”
Mike Boyle’s story, of course, is that in his young days, he powerlifted and hurt his back, thus setting him down the path of “the squat is a back exercise, not a leg exercise”.
As an avid observer of human nature, I love this shit.
YES , I didnt know you had log bro! Whatever you do with it please keep it up I have enjoyed reading the passages.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
YES , I didnt know you had log bro! Whatever you do with it please keep it up I have enjoyed reading the passages. [/quote]
The guy is funny and can haz teh insitezzes. I too wish he would post more.
Can ya feel me bro?
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
YES , I didnt know you had log bro! Whatever you do with it please keep it up I have enjoyed reading the passages. [/quote]
The guy is funny and can haz teh insitezzes. I too wish he would post more.
Can ya feel me bro?[/quote]
Yo Pale rider you have been pretty quite lately also.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
YES , I didnt know you had log bro! Whatever you do with it please keep it up I have enjoyed reading the passages. [/quote]
The guy is funny and can haz teh insitezzes. I too wish he would post more.
Can ya feel me bro?[/quote]
Yo Pale rider you have been pretty quite lately also. [/quote]
Yeah. been regauging for the new job. I have to revamp my training so that I can still work on think-boxes effectively and I haven’t quite figured what I will do yet. I also simply haven’t felt like working out at all. At All. The desire is coming back, but I need to make a more comprehensive plan before I launch into lifting again.
How did I miss your new log? Hi, Punnyguy.
Holy cow, from the back, you and I look exactly the same. From the neck up, I mean. Your back is more etched than mine. And I’d have to do a LOT of Photoshopping to make my abs look that sharp.
Nice arm . . . but it’s all bicep. Hit those benches, get those tris up.
EDIT: didn’t even notice you had a second page. I am so out of it.
Are you going to start logging your lifting now? or will you just be posting your “thoughts of the day”?
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
Are you going to start logging your lifting now? or will you just be posting your “thoughts of the day”?[/quote]
I really only logged for a bit so that people would know that the snarky dude who chimes in all the time with unsolicited comments actually lifts. My goals are (were) 405 DL (done), 315 Sq, whatever it takes on bench to hit 1000 total; also a BW OH; no aids of any kind.
And I don’t have that many thoughts, so will be strictly random.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
How did I miss your new log? Hi, Punnyguy.
Holy cow, from the back, you and I look exactly the same. From the neck up, I mean. Your back is more etched than mine. And I’d have to do a LOT of Photoshopping to make my abs look that sharp.
Nice arm . . . but it’s all bicep. Hit those benches, get those tris up.
EDIT: didn’t even notice you had a second page. I am so out of it.[/quote]
I actually have decent tris…ouch, the ego is pounding on me now, I feel a pic coming shortly…
The inimitable StormTheBeach has some awesome posts in this thread (on biomechanics of squatting):
http://tnation.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_training_performance_bodybuilding_strength/critique_please_21
I finally think I have my squat form to a point where I don’t hate it.
I took an all-day OL class at CalStrength yesterday; broke my cherry on the OL lifts. I am humbled.
Glenn Pendlay is a great, great coach. The CalStrength folks are super nice guys.
Aside from OL, their philosophy for athletes is that if you snatch, clean & jerk, and (back) squat, you’ve covered 80% of your physical needs with 20% of your efforts/movements. I can’t say I disagree with this, at all. Just a thought for all the dads/moms that are in this forum.
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
I took an all-day OL class at CalStrength yesterday; broke my cherry on the OL lifts. I am humbled.
Glenn Pendlay is a great, great coach. The CalStrength folks are super nice guys.
Aside from OL, their philosophy for athletes is that if you snatch, clean & jerk, and (back) squat, you’ve covered 80% of your physical needs with 20% of your efforts/movements. I can’t say I disagree with this, at all. Just a thought for all the dads that are in this forum.[/quote]
Oh my post just disappeared, so I’ll write it again.
How did you cope with the flexibility side of things? the toughest bit IMO.
Did they think you had potential?
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
I took an all-day OL class at CalStrength yesterday; broke my cherry on the OL lifts. I am humbled.
Glenn Pendlay is a great, great coach. The CalStrength folks are super nice guys.
Aside from OL, their philosophy for athletes is that if you snatch, clean & jerk, and (back) squat, you’ve covered 80% of your physical needs with 20% of your efforts/movements. I can’t say I disagree with this, at all. Just a thought for all the dads that are in this forum.[/quote]
Oh my post just disappeared, so I’ll write it again.
How did you cope with the flexibility side of things? the toughest bit IMO.
Did they think you had potential?[/quote]
My lower body flexibility was actually sufficient. Pendlay put some gnarly stretch move on me, and it wasn’t that bad at all. If I had the heeled lifting shoes, I think I would’ve been fine. Wrist & shoulder flexibility for the clean was definitely deficient though.
My biggest difficulty was not arm pulling. Dropping under the bar was nowhere near as difficult as I thought it would be after watching you and DCA.
I was 1 of 2 beginners in a class of 20+, which included “coaches”, and crossfit box owners. I didn’t exactly stand out.
Where exactly is CalStrength? Is that the CalState campus?
Inspired by Snap.
Other one.