Death Incoming

11/25/13

190.8 BW

2w6d out

at golds

bench w4

-Bench (paused)
45x15
95x8
135x5
155x3
185x1
205x1
215x5 -+wraps i hate bench

-Spoto Press
185x11/9 -+wraps

-Dips
+30x13/12/12/10/10

-Wide Lat Pulldowns
165x17/16/15/14/13

-Rope Pushdowns
3x40/38/38/37/37

-DB Preachers
30x28/25/24

decided i need to change my assistance volume for upper… after evaluating more, the differences between my squat/dead and bench training have been i train a squat/dead 2x a week and only do 5 sets total for assistance parts whereas for bench ive been doing once and 10 sets total for assistance… so lets see if doing 2x a week and 5 sets total helps me better

11/27/13

193.2 bw

2w4d out

at golds

Squat w4

-Squat
45x12
135x8
185x5
225x3
275x1
315x1
345x8 -+belt +wraps +10lb pr again

-Deficit Deadlift
365x12 -+belt +straps 15 minutes after squats still hadnt caught my breath so was forced to start doing pulls even though was still fucked up. not happy with this

-Leg Press
+125x35/33/32/31/30

-Leg Curls (diff machine)
8x25/23/22/21/21

-Power Abs
80x25/24/24/22

-Facepulls
6x28/27/26/25

dreams and nightmares

If you’re having trouble with your bench, then try paused close-grip bench. Shit will do wonders for power off the chest. Worked awesome when I was training with Eddie.

CS

[quote]CSEagles1694 wrote:
If you’re having trouble with your bench, then try paused close-grip bench. Shit will do wonders for power off the chest. Worked awesome when I was training with Eddie.

CS[/quote]

Ive done those before and have been doing them, not helping. I dont fail off the chest like most raw benchers I fail at a 2-3 board height. The only real reason to fail off the chest is you werent tight enough or it legitimately is just too heavy. I think i need to push partial movements like spotos and cg bench still (just for triceps mostly). Also after talking to george he wasnt really suprised my bench is tanking because of my retardedly good squat and dead progress

11/28/13

194.2 BW

2W3D out

at golds

Bench 2 w4

-CG Bench
45x12
95x8
135x5
155x3
185x11 -+wraps had probably 1 more but no spotter didnt go for it…7am sesh again too so def stronger next one

-DB Flat Bench
85x11/10/9

-Seated OHP
105x29/23 - my ohp goes straight retard progresss sometimes. +5lbs and +7 reps in a week wtf

-Yates Rows
155x30/26/26/25

-DB Lat Raise
40x23/21/20

-EZ Pushdowns
12x17/15/12 - did a set of 8x50 before thinking that would be my work weight so deff more next time

-Barbell Curls
90x22/20/18

OK today. not great. OK

11/30/13

195.0 bw

2w1d out

at golds

deadlift w4 ( preface this with saying was up all last night puking my brains out sick)

-Deadlift (touch n go )
435x7 -+belt +straps eh. i was so sick last night is ok probably had 9 if i had gotten some decent rest

-Deadlift stance box squats
295x8 -+belt bleh again

-CSR
+75x18/16 - ok

-Facepulls
6x29/28/26/25

-Power abs
80x26/25/25/24

eh just eh. bench monday hopefully get some good rest next two nights

also last week of training coming up… gonna bench dead bench2 squat and arms this week and then basically rest my ass off until the meet and probably tear someones head off during my rest week

12/1/13

194.0 bw

2w0d out

at universal

bench w5

-Bench (paused)
45x12
95x8
135x5
155x3
185x1
205x1
220x5/4/4/3/3/3 - finally breaking out of this bench rut, 5 lb pr on first set from last week. 22 total reps today

-Dips
+35x13/11 -5lb pr again i am getting so much better at these its awesome

-DUmbell Incline
75x9/8/7/7/5

-Cable flyes (high cables)
70x18/17/16/16/15

next day will be deads on tuesday

for anyone interested in what my next cycle of training will look like…

DAY 1 (BENCH)
-Bench paused start at 185 add +5 per workout
-Dips starting at 25x20 add +5pw (per workout)
-Dumbell Incline 3 sets
-Cable flyes 3 sets
-Underhand Pulldowns 3 sets

DAY 2 (DEAD)
-Deadlift start at 385 (tng) add +10pw
-Dead stance box squats start at 275 add +10pw
-Yates Rows start at 185 add +10pw
-6 sets leg curls
-5 sets power abs
-5 sets facepulls

DAY 3 (BENCH 2)
-CG Bench start at 175 add +5pw
-Seated OHP start at 115 add +5pw
-DUmbell overhead 3 sets
-Dumbell Lat raise 3 sets
-Dumbell Rows 3 sets

DAY 4 (SQUAT)
-Squat start at 295 add +10pw
-Deficit Deadlift start at 335 add +10pw
-RDL start at 245 add +10pw
-6 sets leg press
-5 sets power abs
-5 face db rev flyes

DAY 5 (ARMS LIGHTWEIGHT BBY)
-BB Curls start at 95 add +5pw
-BB Skulls start at 75 add +5pw
-DUmbell hammers 3 sets
-pushdowns 3 sets
-Cable curls 3 sets
-OH cable extensions 3 sets

This gives me 6 exercises to push numbers on for bench and 6 for dead/squat (both improve together, basically lower). These exercises are

Bench - bench, dips, cg bench, seated ohp, curls, and bb skullcrushers
squat/dead - deadlift, dead stance box squats, yates rows, squat, deficit pulls, and rdls

all of these directly affect my strength in the big 3 IMO and over time if i found better exercises ill switch them out but I know that these work. Also For those 3 sets things those exercises are “assistance” you do 3 sets to failure, ramping up over the weeks. Never less than 5 reps on the last set. my weekly assistance totals are:

-6 sets chest
-6 sets shoulders
-10 sets rear delts
-6 sets lats
-6 sets bis
-6 sets tris
-10 sets abs
-6 sets quads
-6 sets hams

These will make me bigger and help me get better at the main numbers im trying to push.

There you go anyone looking for a program I basically just handed you a solid one just adjust numbers accordingly.

Looks real solid, I’m interested to see how you’ll do at your meet!

[quote]chobbs wrote:
Looks real solid, I’m interested to see how you’ll do at your meet![/quote]

Feeling a mid 4 squat, 255 bench (hope), and 520ish pull. Those arent ridiculous.

if i hit 435, 250, 520 thatll land me my 1200 (1205 actually) total which is what I was aiming for at this meet.

My goals after this are to basically bulk and cross to the dark side (soon. very soon. youll hear something before it happens though). Hopefully get to around 240-250 and at minimum squat 500 bench 315 pull 600 and compete to hit 1400. Ideally once I start using itd be sick this bulk if i was able to squat 600, bench 365, and pull 700 (not unreasonable with the weight gain and dark side cheater gear) which would put me at 1665. From there I’ll continue reevalulating and probably change usage to lower dosages and just back off to around 220 or so see if i can hold onto any gains.

Then back to real dosages and get to around 275 and squat 700, bench 405 and pull 800 to put me at 1900. Then pull back a little bit again and then from there see if i can get to 300, and squat 800, bench 455, pull 850 which will give me 2000+.

Then from there onwards to my lifetime goal of 900/500/900 making me one of the best powerlifters of all time.

Funny how i can see it all happening and planned in my head ahead of time. guess thats how we know itll happen cause I can already vision it.

You’re already well on track just with your goals being planned out. If you don’t mind me asking how old are you?

[quote]chobbs wrote:
You’re already well on track just with your goals being planned out. If you don’t mind me asking how old are you?[/quote]

I’m 18, still very young. Lucky to have found my goals/dreams at a young age with this sport.

squatted 405x1

pulled 455x1

Also might do dc training after my meet for a little before i do more strength work… bigger is better always so.

12/5/13

193.2 bw

10 days out

universal

Bench 2 w5

-Bench (paused)
45x12
95x8
135x5
155x3
185x1
205x1
225x1
225x3 - ok
240x1 - ok again not awful.

probably going to open 225 and hit 245-250

-Seated OHP
115x20 - very easy lots of room to progress here

-Dumbell Overhead
50x20/20/18

-BTH OH Press (seated)
65x16/16/16 - got better at these as the sets went on

-Dumbell rows
100x30/28/26 - wow thick tight solid. lol. i was happy with this

12/7/13

194.2 BW

8 days out

at universal

FIANL SQUAT/DEAD

-Squat
45x12
135x8
185x5
225x3
275x1
315x1
365x1 -+belt +wraps
410x1 -+belt +wraps

-Deadlift
135x1
225x1
315x1
405x1-+belt
455x1 -+belt

-Yates Rows
185x20

OK so thats it just rest now. Gonna kill this meet for sure however in retrospect think some lesson to learn from this prep:

-A month out shouldve dropped assistance lifts mostly and just pushed for 3, 2, and 1 rep maxes on main lifts to get used to heavy weightws again.
-I can get stronger doing reps, but i NEEEED time to practice heavy again cause I have the stregnth but its so awkward maxing

Don’t fuck this up…

Jk lol you’ll do well, man.

[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Jk lol you’ll do well, man.[/quote]

Thanks man. Literally I think im good for 420/250/500 but Ive got a week ahead to rest so might be better than I think plus intensity of a crowd… big meet its capped out at 75 lifters… bloat the night before… we’ll see. Think best I can do realistically is 440/255/510 which gives me my 12 so that might be cool. Just gotta play the recovery game for now, Ive done the work and taken a decent amount of heavies so should be aight.

for anyone interested this is what im doing this week:

-foam rolling 5x per day (srs)
-Contrast showering (basically ice shower here at school jesus christ its cold) 3x a day
-sleeping 10+ hours a night
-Plowing down food

on top of this im doing nothing but just relaxing and playing cod pretty much and watching lifting videos. so no outside stressors at all.

12/16/12

167.4 BW

Low Day

At Home

Beginning notes: -I was NOT recovered from this tournament yesterday it was rough as hell and like 12 hours long so take all this with that knowledge in mind

GYM MEET
-Squat
45x8
95x8
135x5
185x3
225x1
—attempts—
260x1 -+belt easy
295x0 -+belt was just so heavy in the damn hole ugh
275x1 -+belt. my best all time is 285 but at a 192-195 BW so whatever I’ll take it.
-Bench (thumbs out grip)
45x8
95x5
135x3
160x1
—attempts—
185x1
205x0 -wow
195x1 -so my best all time is 195x2 @176.8 BW. This is where obviously I was affected by the tournament the day before and deffinetely shouldve gotten 200+
-Deadlifts
135x5
225x3
275x1
315x1
—attempts—
345x1 -+belt
365x1- +belt. This was OK I stopped here cause I knew I wouldnt get more. Best is 365x2 @180.0 BW so whatever I guess. Wouldve had more if I hadnt wrestled yesterday

So I end up getting:
275/195/365 for a 835 total

Your supposed to start with 95% of your 1rms and because of how wrestled impacted my performance, Im counting these as 95%.

goals for cube after 10 weeks:
-Squat 320
-Bench 225
-Deadlift 405
-Total 950

Onward and upwards


THIS is an old post from nearly a year ago to the date of my meet coming up. I will hit at LEAST a 200 lb total pr in under a year… certainly puts things in perspective when you get frustrated how far you really have come and makes me want to push it even further. Im going to be the one of the bset to have ever lived… i promise.