I’m jealous you have a trap bar!
Kimba what if you imagined you had somebody’s head that you liked very much down there between your knees, maybe you would concentrate on keeping those apart more?? 
of course I’m teasing. Your dedication despite your issues is inspiring. Do you bike as much in the winter?
hips n glutes!
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Inclines are harder for me too, but I told someone that I found bench easier than inclines and he was like “You think so?”
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I’ve never met anyone who can incline press more than flat bench press. Anyone?[/quote]
No. The only way I could see it is if there was an imbalance/injury or they only trained OHP and incline and never trained flat bench–even then I doubt it. Flat bench should be stronger than incline bench by a significant margin. [/quote]
Wow…mine are about the same, but I haven’t been progressing how I should have on flat bench, been staying between 70-75, just trying to get more reps. I did do 1 x 85 the other day though which is a 1RM for me.[/quote]
How steep is your incline? The more pronounced the incline the more difference there should be. Also, I have very little experience training bench with females, maybe there is a gender difference, although I don’t know why there would be. Bobbi’s experience seems to be the same as mine. My overheard press is almost always 100 lbs. behind my bench, and my incline bench 50 lbs. behind my flat bench.
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I would say roughly 45 degrees?
Kimba, I can’t wait to see the vids. Why the new gym?
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Kimba what if you imagined you had somebody’s head that you liked very much down there between your knees, maybe you would concentrate on keeping those apart more??
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Strange. In my experience women have uncontrollable knee cave under these conditions.
Add me to the jealous of the trap bar list! AWESOME.
Bobbi and Hallowed (welcome!) don’t be jealous. I’m on a road trip and this gym down the street from my hotel has a trap bar and a power cage, but my wimpy-assed gym at home has NONE OF THESE. sonofabitch.
Greeney, the new gym is because this hotel doesn’t have a workout room and provides gym passes to guests. Total score, since hotel gyms usually suck ass which you know from your professional experience, I’m sure.
N., have I mentioned that I like the way you think?
Giterdone, if that is your experience then clearly you are doing something very, very right.
Betty, I know. Luckily I really don’t hate working on hips n’ glutes. Its just that I am a long-term rehab project!
I’m trying to upload the trap bar video, but Youtube is being such a little bitch that I had to create a new account just to do this.
The trap bar deadlift knee cave video, as promised. I’m going back to this gym for Sunday AM training in the power rack.
I think you have the knee cave on the trap bar deads like your squat because they use more quad than a sumo dead. Sumo is more hips, glutes and hamstrings. Trap bar more quads. I think you cave on your squats because you recruit your quads when the weight gets heavier.
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I think you have the knee cave on the trap bar deads like your squat because they use more quad than a sumo dead. Sumo is more hips, glutes and hamstrings. Trap bar more quads. I think you cave on your squats because you recruit your quads when the weight gets heavier.[/quote]
Didn’t I say that a few pages ago…in my creepy albino way?
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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I think you have the knee cave on the trap bar deads like your squat because they use more quad than a sumo dead. Sumo is more hips, glutes and hamstrings. Trap bar more quads. I think you cave on your squats because you recruit your quads when the weight gets heavier.[/quote]
Didn’t I say that a few pages ago…in my creepy albino way?[/quote]
I must have missed it. Anyway, it sounds much more profound in the voice in my head.
O and DCA, I think you guys are right. I’m beginning to be able to feel myself doing the switch to quad thing in my squats, since now I am paying careful attention to the form instead of focusing on more weight.
Sunday AM training in the on-the-road gym:
Squats (3 risers/step)
Bar 1 x 5
65# 1 x 10 knees good
75# 1 x 5 knees good
80# 1 x 5 knees good
85# 1 x 5 knees good
90# 1 x 5 knees good
95# 1 x 5 knees good
100# 1 x 5 knee wiggle on last two reps
All in all, a good squat rehab day. I never get away from commentary in the gym, especially when I whip out my camera and start taping my sets. One of the “trainers” came over and asked in a friendly way WTF I was doing with the camera. So I told him, and he said he would watch my form on my next set. His comment was “wow, you go so low”. Alrighty then. I go to legal PLing depth, is all.
Bench Press deload
45# 1 x 5
55# 1 x 5
65# 1 x 5
Decline bench
45# 1 x 5
55# 1 x 5
65# 1 x 5
Decline bench is fun! First time I’ve had access to this, so I definitely wanted to try it. It seemed easier than flat bench, as youse guys had predicted.
Strange 90 degree hyper bench thingy
25 lb. plate behind head 1 x 10
Then ran out of time. It is SO FUN to train in new places.
nice workout! you killed it!
nice workout! you killed it!
Nice that you found a on-the-road gym that you can squat in, good job.
Where are you?
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A picture to get things started.[/quote]
great physique!!
Next time tell the trainer you are tying to get “upskirt” shots of underage girls for the internet to help you pay for the gym membership and some training sessions. That should get you a nice, conflicted reaction.
Thanks everyone for stopping in.
I’m back from the road trip and chained to my desk. Near me is my pullup bar:
Chinups
7/5/5/5
I had a fancy, schmancy dinner on Saturday night. Foie gras, warm spinach salad with beets and bacon, chicken breast in a delicious sauce, then a medley of shared desserts: pumpkin bread pudding, warm apple tart, goat’s milk cheesecake and chocolate cake. Then the next day I ate a kiddie size of the best butter pecan ice cream EVER (my favorite flavor, rarely done right).
Today its back to the normal food. None of the above is included in normal food.