A 5/3/1 variant:
5# ribs
3 loaves of bread
1 gallon of ice cream.
I like it.
2010-6-22
BTN Push Press
125x5
145 5x2 sets
Neck thingie is stinging less and less.
There’s a virtual meet in August. I can take top spot for deadlift and total if I keep my weight where it is and hit the numbers I want; numbers I don’t think I’m too far off from.
I sure feel better with a little more weight on, though.
I did the ice cream thing before - a pint a night, back during the SV boom when I was doing database consulting and could splurge a lot for doofy things. It was before picking up the weights again. I got up to 190 and was very floppy in the middle. It would slap against itself and itch after jogging - which I was also guilty of back then.
We all have things in our past, White One. For some it’s jogging, for me it’s…well, most people have things in their past.
fine. no ice cream, double ribs! and rye whiskey
[quote]sfp wrote:
A 5/3/1 variant:
5# ribs
3 loaves of bread
1 gallon of ice cream.
I like it.[/quote]
This.Is.Beautiful
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
fine. no ice cream, double ribs! and rye whiskey[/quote]
Don’t misunderstand me - it’s a fine diet. I’m all for it nowadays.
MJ, are you encouraging a deviation from the 5/3/1 doctrine? Heresy!
‘what works for you’
seems to fit this thread well,
that and what is wrong with being a skinny guy???
Have you only been lifting for three years? Compared to you (at two years in) I am a huge slacker.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Have you only been lifting for three years? Compared to you (at two years in) I am a huge slacker.[/quote]
About 5-6 years now. In which case I am developmentally retarded as I should have at least 1 spectacular lift to my credit by now.
Define spectacular.
2010-6-23
BW=186
Mood: Excited
Floor press
165x8
215x5
245x3
275x1,1,1,1
Cheat Rows (clean width grip)
275 1x4 sets
Squats
225x5 deep,paused
275x5 deep, paused
315x2 (below prallel, belt on)
355 1x4 at least parallel
BB curls
140 1x4 sets
Ab wheel (from knees)
10x4 sets
Notes: Couldn’t wait to train today even though I knew floor press would suck. I was looking forward to squats. 355 has never been so easy. I was holding them in the bottom for a bit and getting back up was no problem.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Define spectacular. [/quote]
Meat, Pete, Hel, Bunny, Fischer or Ecogenx-like.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
2010-6-23
BW=186
Mood: Excited
Floor press
165x8
215x5
245x3
275x1,1,1,1
Cheat Rows (clean width grip)
275 1x4 sets
Squats
225x5 deep,paused
275x5 deep, paused
315x2 (below prallel, belt on)
355 1x4 at least parallel
BB curls
140 1x4 sets
Ab wheel (from knees)
10x4 sets
Notes: Couldn’t wait to train today even though I knew floor press would suck. I was looking forward to squats. 355 has never been so easy. I was holding them in the bottom for a bit and getting back up was no problem.[/quote]
Great work, Tony. The floor presses are still pushing higher. And the squats look great.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Have you only been lifting for three years? Compared to you (at two years in) I am a huge slacker.[/quote]
About 5-6 years now. In which case I am developmentally retarded as I should have at least 1 spectacular lift to my credit by now.[/quote]
I agree. A 550# DL is nowhere near spectacular. 560, maybe.
Wait…did you hit 560?
[quote]sfp wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Have you only been lifting for three years? Compared to you (at two years in) I am a huge slacker.[/quote]
About 5-6 years now. In which case I am developmentally retarded as I should have at least 1 spectacular lift to my credit by now.[/quote]
I agree. A 550# DL is nowhere near spectacular. 560, maybe.
Wait…did you hit 560?[/quote]
The most I’ve deadlifted is 515. I have done a 550 rack pull from just below the knee though. and 585 just above it.
Oh, so it was only 515 at a body weight of 180? Yeah, that’s just 2.86x BW.
i’m with sfp. i think your pull is spectacular.
in response to kmac’s question about why he can’t be skinny?
“because we can’t be, so we don’t want anyone to be. Frankly, k, we’re not too happy with you being skinny either. This is peer pressure at its best. we are working on both of you and your desire to be accepted by the group” or something.
eat.
now.
preferably an endurance athlete
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
2010-6-23
BW=186
Mood: Excited
Floor press
165x8
215x5
245x3
275x1,1,1,1
Cheat Rows (clean width grip)
275 1x4 sets
Squats
225x5 deep,paused
275x5 deep, paused
315x2 (below prallel, belt on)
355 1x4 at least parallel
BB curls
140 1x4 sets
Ab wheel (from knees)
10x4 sets
Notes: Couldn’t wait to train today even though I knew floor press would suck. I was looking forward to squats. 355 has never been so easy. I was holding them in the bottom for a bit and getting back up was no problem.[/quote]
Great work, Tony. The floor presses are still pushing higher. And the squats look great.[/quote]
Thanks Skip. I’m expecting the floor presses will be easier next session, what with volume being cut in half and knocking off most of the extra “off-day” work.