[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Your pulling looks very strong. And your form has improved substantially from only a few months ago. What is your next deadlift milestone? Have you ever pulled 200 off the floor? If not, you are getting very close to a 200 pull right now. [/quote]
Jack, thanks so much for the form check. That helps alot.
I am thinking small. Above 170 lbs. my form in the past has been terrible. I’d like to pull 185 lb. with good form sometime in the next few months. If I hit 200 lbs. by the end of the year I’d be so happy, but somewhat surprised.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Your pulling looks very strong. And your form has improved substantially from only a few months ago. What is your next deadlift milestone? Have you ever pulled 200 off the floor? If not, you are getting very close to a 200 pull right now. [/quote]
Jack, thanks so much for the form check. That helps alot.
I am thinking small. Above 170 lbs. my form in the past has been terrible. I’d like to pull 185 lb. with good form sometime in the next few months. If I hit 200 lbs. by the end of the year I’d be so happy, but somewhat surprised.[/quote]
I think that’s a good, realistic goal. I think you could pull 185 right now, with a little conditioning for pulling singles. Once you get used to the weight, 185 is gonna fly up for you.
Good training, lady! Like O said, I always forget how tiny you are until I see a vid and then I almost always say “Man, she is little!” I hope I get as strong as you, squatting and deadlifting so much! Your back was awesome in those RDLs! So perfectly straight!
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
I think that’s a good, realistic goal. I think you could pull 185 right now, with a little conditioning for pulling singles. Once you get used to the weight, 185 is gonna fly up for you. [/quote]
Jack, what conditioning for pulling singles would that be?
Betty, a pool party is definitely better with sangria.
Greeney, I anticipate you pulling and squatting and benching more than me very soon.
Thanks Joe.
Cal, I’d admit that I’m pretty darn happy with my shoulders. Before lifting, I was the shoulderless wonder.
Deb, those quads are courtesy of all the bicycle riding I do. That was one thing I had going into this lifting thing.
Pulling singles. Pick a heavy weight that is less than your target max and pull a few singles, like 3 to 6 of them. The next week, try for your target max.
Jack, what conditioning for pulling singles would that be?
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Now this cracked me up. Conditioning for pulling singles involves pulling singles! Do your warm ups and then start at a weight that you can pull for, say, a triple. Take looonnnggg rests, like five or six minutes between each “set” to let your nervous system calm down. Then add 10 lb. (or whatever increment seems to work for you) and pull another single. Rest, add weight, pull another single. Proceed until you hit failure. I seriously love this exercise with squat and DL.
Jack, what conditioning for pulling singles would that be?
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Now this cracked me up. Conditioning for pulling singles involves pulling singles! Do your warm ups and then start at a weight that you can pull for, say, a triple. Take looonnnggg rests, like five or six minutes between each “set” to let your nervous system calm down. Then add 10 lb. (or whatever increment seems to work for you) and pull another single. Rest, add weight, pull another single. Proceed until you hit failure. I seriously love this exercise with squat and DL.
Good luck![/quote]
Now that sounds like a lot of fun.
Nice box squats Kimba. I’ll resist the tasteless urge to make a comment about another snatch video. If that’s what you were after I think you’re doing it wrong
I don’t wear polish on my hands either, I find it loud and it chips too fast. I’ve wearing Opi’s Russian Navy on my feet these past weeks as a bit of a grungy look. Saw a neat jade green that I might risk during my vacation…
Despite a miserable night’s sleep and the news that I’ll be spending this weekend in California at a memorial service for a good friend’s mom (if cross-country stand-by doesn’t screw me), I decided to go ahead with the original plan of pulling heavy singles. Why not, I asked? What else could go wrong?
Sumo Deadlift
BW = 109 lbs. (seriously, I’m trying to eat up but I’m still low)
From steps:
85# 1 x 5
105# 1 x 3
From floor:
135# 1 x 3
Belt on:
165# 1 x 1
175# 1 x 1
180# 1 x 1 ← PR +5 lbs.
185# 1 x 1 ← PR +10 lbs.
190# 1 x 0 <–fail. couldn’t break it off the floor
185# was somewhat ugly, but I got it up. I was happy with this.
Decline sits
10# plate behind head 1 x 10
Despite wrapping a towel around the plate, this still gave me a long red bruise down my neck-spine. Plus, at that moment the high school football team came into the weight room and I utterly lost the will to be there.
So I went home.
My normal Friday training is fucked due to travel. Maybe I can train at my mom’s gym on Sunday.
