^^^^^No offense to the smaller folks who can outlift me by a mile. Please don’t kill me!!!^^^^
[quote]soldog wrote:
[quote]sfp wrote:
1600 calories? What are you eating? You’ll waste away![/quote]
I need to waste my belly away…[/quote]
No!!! That is a launching pad for deadlies. Oh, wait…you do sumo, don’t you? Nevermind…
Now, now, guys - I don’t mind the weight, it’s the double handful of flab that I can grab that bothers me.
If I had started in on the weights a few years before I did, I might be at 220 or more with minimal flab. As it is, I was 250 at one point with virtually no muscle looking like a beached whale.
The M&Ms are for the really long rides when I really run out of gas, you just much a handful every 15 minutes or so and the fat + sugar keeps you going. Plus they are dark chocolate for an extra bonus.
6/9/10
Bike trainer 5 min
Deadlies 135x5, 185x5, 205x5
Work sets: 240x5, 275x5, 315x5, 365x1, 385x1 PR +10lbs
I didn’t start out today to go for a max deadlift. My legs were drained and I’ve been lethargic all day, so I was just going to do the minimum. But then I decided to try my opener and when that felt easy, I decided to try 385 and it went up fairly easily. Then I took the belt off satisfied, walked around talking to my son, put the belt back on and came really, really close to trying 405. Thought better of it and left that for another day. The 385 PR was in-and-of-itself a great confidence builder.
Great PR, soldog! And your description is spot on. You made that look like a walk in the park. 405# would have gone…I feel it in my aching back!
Nice work, Sol. You know, that’s a character from one of my fav movies. ‘It’s a fuckin anti-aircraft gun Vincent’
that 385 looked breezy. Great PR soldog. looks like you weren’t too fried from the bikeride afterall.
Wow, great PR!
Yeah, great stuff!
Do you know what day/time you’re competing? I’d sure like to watch. Damn my relatives!
Nice pr. I’d say you had (have) 405 in you easily. That 385 went up nice and fast.
Congrats George, now who’s the big deadlifter here?
Thanks skip, rug, nlmain, jack, snapper, scott & joe
snapper - the only schedule I saw on the web site had the 220 class and up lifting on Sunday. I don’t know if they will group everybody or run separate flights. Probably depends on how many they have in each class.
Joe - didn’t I see you do 380x3 a couple of weeks ago?
[quote]soldog wrote:
6/9/10
Bike trainer 5 min
Deadlies 135x5, 185x5, 205x5
Work sets: 240x5, 275x5, 315x5, 365x1, 385x1 PR +10lbs
I didn’t start out today to go for a max deadlift. My legs were drained and I’ve been lethargic all day, so I was just going to do the minimum. But then I decided to try my opener and when that felt easy, I decided to try 385 and it went up fairly easily. Then I took the belt off satisfied, walked around talking to my son, put the belt back on and came really, really close to trying 405. Thought better of it and left that for another day. The 385 PR was in-and-of-itself a great confidence builder.
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Damn good job !!!Made it look easy.400 plus in no time!!
That was a stupid-easy looking 385 even if you were tired.
[quote]soldog wrote:
If I had started in on the weights a few years before I did, I might be at 220 or more with minimal flab. As it is, I was 250 at one point with virtually no muscle looking like a beached whale.[/quote]
I didn’t realize you were doing a body re-comp and a cut at the same time as making all these strength gains. That is super impressive.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
[quote]soldog wrote:
If I had started in on the weights a few years before I did, I might be at 220 or more with minimal flab. As it is, I was 250 at one point with virtually no muscle looking like a beached whale.[/quote]
I didn’t realize you were doing a body re-comp and a cut at the same time as making all these strength gains. That is super impressive.[/quote]
The 250 was a few years before I started weights. I’m pretty much the same weight now as when I started October 2007 but in the intrim I got down to 178 in August 2008. So most of my strength gains have come on the way back to 210.
here’s who greeted me as I left for work this morning.
He’s giving you the,‘are you looking at me?’,stare. Huge animals. Very cool.
Great/easy Deadlift, great view from the house.
6/29/10 stationary bike 5 min
Shldr Rehab warm-up
MP Training max = 125#
W/U barx10, 65x5, 75x5
Work: 85x5, 95x5, 105x14
95x5, 85x20 PR
A1: BBB 65x10x5 sets
A2: Dead hang Pull-ups 7 (PR),6,5,4
I decided to try the ramp-down sets with a second rep-out and drop the BBB weight closer to 50% of training max. Worked pretty well and 20 reps at 85 is be a PR over my very first month of the 5-3-1 last May. The money set at 110 is still a rep shy of my max in the fall.