My upper body isn’t back to where it was prior to my vacation. The 180x3 was heavy but I though I could get 200x1, but nooooo. Form comments on the failed rep are welcome. BB rows are feeling good and the dips continue to feel good. I could probably go a bit lower on the dips but don’t want to force the shoulder right now.
glad your head’s not too big soldog. I don’t have any formal training but the one thing I would say is the bar looked slow going down and back up. I would work and speed and explosiveness (try saying that with a plucky duck voice.lol). On the other hand you hold a nice arch.
nice rows by the way! they make you look all grrrr. ready to kinda rip something up.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
glad your head’s not too big soldog. I don’t have any formal training but the one thing I would say is the bar looked slow going down and back up. I would work and speed and explosiveness (try saying that with a plucky duck voice.lol). On the other hand you hold a nice arch.
nice rows by the way! they make you look all grrrr. ready to kinda rip something up. ;)[/quote]
I was ready to rip something up! Pissed at missing that lift…
lol at “head too big”, missing that lift cured any swelled head/puffed up ego I may have had.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
George you are hammering away. I think you could have gotten that rep if you tried again. You were right about to break that sticking point.[/quote]
[quote]nlmain wrote:
I don’t have any formal training but the one thing I would say is the bar looked slow going down and back up.
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A slow descent in the bench is normal for competitive powerlifters when doing singles to keep the tightness and prepare for the requisite pause on the chest. Really enjoy your vids, George.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
I don’t have any formal training but the one thing I would say is the bar looked slow going down and back up.
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A slow descent in the bench is normal for competitive powerlifters when doing singles to keep the tightness and prepare for the requisite pause on the chest. Really enjoy your vids, George.
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Thanks snapper - I just wish that 200 had gone up instead of down. I think it went bad from the start. I hit the lip of the holder unracking and generally got spooked. Looking at the vid, it appears that I let my elbows flare out early and the bar started towards my head to soon.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
I don’t have any formal training but the one thing I would say is the bar looked slow going down and back up.
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A slow descent in the bench is normal for competitive powerlifters when doing singles to keep the tightness and prepare for the requisite pause on the chest. Really enjoy your vids, George.
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Thanks snapper - I just wish that 200 had gone up instead of down. I think it went bad from the start. I hit the lip of the holder unracking and generally got spooked. Looking at the vid, it appears that I let my elbows flare out early and the bar started towards my head to soon.[/quote]
Well, anytime you have to do your own liftoff in bench you’re using energy that could be conserved for the press. You could’ve gotten that weight in a meet with spotters, I believe.
ab rollouts from knees with standard bar plus 10s x3.5
I’m trying to decide between conventional and sumo deads. Maybe because I did the sumos following the conventional deads they were more difficult but that set at 345 caused my legs to shake during the sumo set so I didn’t even try 375. The 375 conventional set went very well for a relatively easy PR.
I think I’m sticking with conventional deads. My left calf cramped on the first set of Nat. GHRs. After that I was able to relax my lower legs and feet and avoid the cramping. I’ll start reducing the band assist on these. The ab rollouts just weren’t happening tonight.
I was ready to rip something up! Pissed at missing that lift…
lol at “head too big”, missing that lift cured any swelled head/puffed up ego I may have had.[/quote]
Where has our analytical lifter of the days of yore gone? What emotional lifter is this? Go animal on that bar!
Great lifting, good pr in the deads. Looking good on the dips, too.
I have the exact opposite reaction to conventional deadlifts as you. I can lift WAY less weight conv. before leg shake and bad stuff starts to happen. My hypothesis is that every body is set up differently, and one or the other stance will likely work much better for some of us, whereas other folks are equally adept at both.
Thanks all - I’m giving myself an extra day off. Those deads and NGHRs hit my entire body and I’m still feeling it today. It doesn’t help that I’m mildly restricting my food intake either.
