Thanks Maschy - your new avi is too funny. Evertime I look at it I hear you say “Bam!” as you bust those guns. lol. Remeber that I totally destroy myself ONLY 3 days a week. I stretch, foam roll and eat like a horse the rest of the time. I bet most people would be suprised at their progress if they understood that rest is a major part of the equation.
Hey Demo Man - thanks for the thumbs up and dropping by To be honest I’m not much of a party person at the moment. The intense gym sessions and my usual work load just drains me. I’m curled up with my cat and sleeping on the sofa by 10pm.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
Thanks Maschy - your new avi is too funny. Evertime I look at it I hear you say “Bam!” as you bust those guns. lol. Remeber that I totally destroy myself ONLY 3 days a week. I stretch, foam roll and eat like a horse the rest of the time. I bet most people would be suprised at their progress if they understood that rest is a major part of the equation.
Hey Demo Man - thanks for the thumbs up and dropping by To be honest I’m not much of a party person at the moment. The intense gym sessions and my usual work load just drains me. I’m curled up with my cat and sleeping on the sofa by 10pm. [/quote]
Anytime you got a loaded bar resting across your traps and your gasping for air in between reps is my kind of party!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the lists and the advice, that is hugely, HUGELY helpful. I’ll have to experiment with energy stuff. I’ve used green tea extract in the past but I have a 50/50 chance of getting nauseous with it, so I’m not sure if I even want to mess with it.
2.5 hours is INSANE. As are those dead lifts. 230 paused at the knee?! Does this hurt your back at all, or just absolutely force you to maintain form?
Hallowed - at the risk of proving my super geekiness what’s sav? I googled and came up with a few meanings including as per wiki: “a colloquial name for a saveloy, a pork sausage” lolz.
Lula: honestly expirement with the supps before you hit the meet. I’d rather see you go without (I did the frist time) than ruin your day.
as for the deads, they def toast your lower back. It wasn’t so bad during but yesterday I worked on it, and I’ll be stretching and rolling some more today. The pause itself weren’t so bad, the issue is that they smoke my posterior chain and doing the full rom heavy deads after is just brutal. It makes the 245lbs feel much much heavier.
WOW awesome squat vid!! I think we have almost the exact same belt too, where did you get yours from??
Also, way to pummel through that last workout, holy hell. I think I would be so anxious having to do deadlifts again after my benching I wouldn’t be able to focus on my benching, ha-ha.
30 minutes of stretching and rolling today - almost made me cry. This is the first program where I need to roll my chest and triceps due to the benching.
Joe - not sure what you mean, if you meant how I chose the amount of weight: it’s a percentage of your max written in the program. If you mean my setup: it’s exactly the same as my regular deads except that I stop at the knees for a quick count.
Spock: one of my supps and fitness customers in Sherbrooke.
MT - in retrospect I meant knee cave and wiggling. Pushing your knees out is a basic squating cue.
Git - You just tell em passion in your pants is how babies are born. end discussion. lol
What I was asking was how you figured out you’re max pause DL to figure out the percentage from. I read the program and it says you have to use a lower weight than your normal DL max but I couldn’t figure out how to find the weight to use for the pause DL’s.
Joe - I must have a big sprinkle of the meathead genes, I just used the max of my regular deads. If I find I can’t keep up I’ll drop 10lbs. but the 245 4x4 is 80% of my max sumo 305.
Hallowed - Savage, lovz it and yes my gym plays crap music that’s why my earphones are stapled to my ears.
Busy - thanks, the meets can be stressfull enough, having a check list makes it manageable.
Ok nlmain, I get ya. At first I thought I was doing something wrong, I’m getting very protective of my knees. I think most gyms just play crappy music, but it makes me worried because someone must enjoy??
Just wanted to let you know, week 3 is effing horrible, haha. Day 1 is 5 triples @ 80% squats, followed by 5 triples @ 80% bench…and back up to 5x5 @ 70% squats!
glad you’re sticking with the program so far, recovery doing ok? You know I’m Westside gal at heart, but someday I’d like the challenge to try this.
Paused DL,
are you finishing them to lockout as Ink suggested? paused for how long, below the knee, at the knee?
thinking of trying them for an accessory sometime.
are you doing them conventional or sumo? Does it matter?
To be honest I’m not much of a party person at the moment. The intense gym sessions and my usual work load just drains me. I’m curled up with my cat and sleeping on the sofa by 10pm.
and yes my gym plays crap music that’s why my earphones are stapled to my ears.