Looks like my log topped out. Here is the start of another. I will start off doing my objectives for 2010:
(same as I posted on the whiteboard at one of the places I train)
1: Get a Job (recently laid off)
2: Bench 700 (I am getting into this gearwhore groove)
3: DL 705
And I will add these:
4: Be less fat
5: Elite total
Need to be less fat simply because at 38, with a new kid on the way, I want to feel like I can be more active, bend down more, etc. I am a 275lb lifter, recently getting my ass back in gear in powerlifting. Anyhoo, first post on new thread. I will bore the shit of all of you with my cardio stuff too, and my ramblings.
I was going to say on your old thread that your way of doing GMs is the way I (try) to do them too. With similar, albeit substantially diminutive (as compared to your poundages) results. But my squat and deadlift both go up from them.
It is wild how much mobility you can lose by gaining 15-20 lbs., even of your strength is going up. My sweet spot is about 205-215, after that I start to really feel it.
I am still chuckling at Agnostic Runt. “Minor Threat” might be good as a double or triple entandre.
Yeah, I have discovered that the hard way. Once I get too fat squatting in particular just doesn’t feel right. I have really shut down the calories quite a bit the last two weeks, dropped a few pounds, and suddenly squats are feeling natural again. Go figure. And at my general weight 10-20 lbs shouldn’t make that much of difference percentage wise, but it doesn.
Have to carve my eyes out with a buck knife. In the locker room there was one fat dude getting dressed. He put on a thong and a fishnet shirt. On top of which he put jean, denim shirt, and work boots. Bear sighting I guess? I made sure my kid kept eye contact with me at all times, didn’t want him traumatized. WTF?
On the way home hit up a Wendy’s drive thru and successfully left with a salad.
Have to carve my eyes out with a buck knife. In the locker room there was one fat dude getting dressed. He put on a thong and a fishnet shirt. On top of which he put jean, denim shirt, and work boots. Bear sighting I guess? I made sure my kid kept eye contact with me at all times, didn’t want him traumatized. WTF?
On the way home hit up a Wendy’s drive thru and successfully left with a salad.
Big benching tomorrow. [/quote]
i was really hoping you wouldn’t recognize me. i like the way the thong hangs out of the top of my jeans.
you went through drive through and only got a salad!!! wtf??? - man rule # 43 - “no man shall enter a drive through (while he is driving) without leaving without at least something fried, something made out of a part of a cow and something with the main ingredient of high fructose corn syrup.”
Wanna know something funny Meat? He was about 5’9", late thirties, dark hair, dark goatee…
Sorry about the salad incident. I then came home and did all the dishes wearing pink rubber gloves so the house was clean for when the wifey came home. True story.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
Wanna know something funny Meat? He was about 5’9", late thirties, dark hair, dark goatee…
Sorry about the salad incident. I then came home and did all the dishes wearing pink rubber gloves so the house was clean for when the wifey came home. True story. [/quote]
sounds like a very handsome man…
i never understood the rubber gloves thing. one of my jobs around the house is the dishes (also a true story) i’ve never worn gloves. maybe i should… pink ones at that.
or… is it that you are a gear whore even when it comes to doing the dish.?? the depths of whoredom have no limits.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
Have to carve my eyes out with a buck knife. In the locker room there was one fat dude getting dressed. He put on a thong and a fishnet shirt. On top of which he put jean, denim shirt, and work boots. Bear sighting I guess? I made sure my kid kept eye contact with me at all times, didn’t want him traumatized. WTF?
On the way home hit up a Wendy’s drive thru and successfully left with a salad.
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Did you HAVE to tell that story? I mean a SALAD fer cripes sakes? Geez, Louise!
[quote]PeteS wrote:
Wanna know something funny Meat? He was about 5’9", late thirties, dark hair, dark goatee…
Sorry about the salad incident. I then came home and did all the dishes wearing pink rubber gloves so the house was clean for when the wifey came home. True story. [/quote]
sounds like a very handsome man…
i never understood the rubber gloves thing. one of my jobs around the house is the dishes (also a true story) i’ve never worn gloves. maybe i should… pink ones at that.
or… is it that you are a gear whore even when it comes to doing the dish.?? the depths of whoredom have no limits. [/quote]
Rule number one: if you can wear some sort of garment that will enhance your performance, wear it.
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
No guys he said LEFT with a salad -I say he ate a triple or something while parked there getting his kids meal ready.
Or a salad topped with 2 cheeseburgers, some fries and a frosty. LOL.
GRAPE APE![/quote]
You were in the car behind me weren’t you? LOL I did the Southwestern with an extra small chili to make sure I got adequate protein. I LOVE Wendy’s burgers, I plan on one tomorrow if I hit the desired numbers benching. w/fries and a beautiful coca cola. followed by a nap.
Bench day: felt like absolute shit waking up, sinus drainage issues. steamy shower, finally choked down a breakfast and went and did this:
warm ups 140 x 20, 190 x 15, 230 x 10, 320 x 5, 3 board 410 x 3
shirt on 3 board 550 x 3, 2 board 620 x 2, 640 x 1, 660 x 1
floor press 315 x 11, 370 x 6
laterals 3 x 15 w/50s
Thought I had grabbed an energy drink from my refrigerator and thrown it in my gym bag, turned out it was a can of Guiness, lol. midway through shirtwork I was missing the cafeine.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
Bench day: felt like absolute shit waking up, sinus drainage issues. steamy shower, finally choked down a breakfast and went and did this:
warm ups 140 x 20, 190 x 15, 230 x 10, 320 x 5, 3 board 410 x 3
shirt on 3 board 550 x 3, 2 board 620 x 2, 640 x 1, 660 x 1
floor press 315 x 11, 370 x 6
laterals 3 x 15 w/50s
Thought I had grabbed an energy drink from my refrigerator and thrown it in my gym bag, turned out it was a can of Guiness, lol. midway through shirtwork I was missing the cafeine. [/quote]
that’s a lot of weight to hold in your hands. i figure with the shirt stuff the hardest part is holding all that weight. i was watching Bill Gillespie bench at the meet i did and he was tucking so hard and bringing the bar so far down to his gut that i was suprised his forearms didn’t snap. crazy stuff.
Yeah, the weight is effen heavy. My forewarms just ache like crazy after each session. I feel in a sense I am holding back a little each session in large part because I think both my CNS and my bones need to adjust. And I get a little scared.
I will be doing video soon, of the meet at the very least.
One of the guys I trained with doubled 800 off the three board today, made me feel week and insignificant.
Couple more notes on today. Due to my lack of a septum breathing between reps was not working today, hence the singles. Finally I was getting air at the end, and was going to try and double the 660, but at lock out I heard a stitch pop on my shirt. Scared the shit out of me. So I racked it. It was insignificant (and at the time I hoped it was just the shirt) but I think both the 640 and 660 were the most weight I have taken off the two board anyway, and the 315 x 11 and 370 x 6 were both good prs. At least after doing all that shirt work. So I won’t complain anymore:)