Steve, why am I not surprised? Yeah, I was laying on the couch the other day when, much to his amusement, the three year old discovered he could fart on desire.
Skipped cardio this a.m. Spent the half hour working on job seaking stuff, saved up the energy for this:
GMs: 135 x 10, 225 x 10, 275 x 10, 315 x 10, 365 x 8, got pissed, cranked up some Social Distortion on my ipod: 435 x 10. PR?
Leg press worked up to 26 plates for 12, then 18 plates for 50
Speed pulls 6 x 1 w/385. Set up and speed now where it needs to be.
shrugs 315 x 20, 405 x 15, 495 x 15, 585 x 10, added straps 675 x 6, x 6
Jack, my mother has 7 grandsons, no granddaughters. I would be most sane with another son, would love a daughter beyond belief. So either is fine, but my mom is rooting to get lucky (she is 71, about five feet tall, 95 lbs. and really sweet. When I told her the wife is pregnant she was quiet for a moment, then said slowly “so there is still a chance there I might have a granddaughter???”).
Meat, I appreciate the comment…
Also, check out powerlifting.com, one of my new training partners is on there. Front page right now, regarding second place he took as SHW at RUM. Kid is mega strong, only 23 years old…
25 minutes treadmill, 25 minutes bike, then since I forgot to do them yesterday standing calve 230 x 100 r/p (up 20 from last week) and seated calve, r/p 100 w/70.
Mr. NYC Neckless Midget (I have 1/2 dozed friends at least I can address that way): Thanks. We had a really shitty doctor today though, after the nurse did all the work this little shit burst in talking about risks of mothers at 39. Got us kinda worked up. Not our regular doctor or clinic even. We did some research, and called our Dr. after, and it is very, very obvious this asshole has his own agenda. Oh well. BTW, great training going on in your thread. I am super lame at comments on others threads right now. I read them, then go back to job searching…
Side note, retrying benching tomorrow, it will go much better than last week.
Pete-- Thought of you last night. A couple young guys came over and asked me to critique their deadlift form (this is happening more lately). One of them was having trouble setting up without rounding his back. I told him to think of a gorilla-- they walk around with their backs arched.
Naturally, when I think of weight-lifting gorillas, I think of you.
w/us 140 x 15, 190 x 10, 230 x 8, 280 x 5, 320 x 5, 3 board 410 x 3
shirt on 3 board 550 x 3, 2 board 590 x 2, 1 board 590 x 0, couldn’t get it to touch, which ruined my thoughs of a 590 opener, 1 board 610 x 1, x 1, both easy, controlled, fast bar speed up.
band pressdowns 6 x 15-20
front db raise 6 x 8-12
next week will be opener, figured a lot on techinique today.
Congrats on the boy child. One of these days I’m gonna get a bunch of guys to help me unrack 600 on the bench just so I can feel what it’s like under that much weight. Great lifting. Question. I’ve noticed before on your assisitance work you tend to do reps in the high range, e.g, today’s band pressdowns @ 6 x 15-20. Any reason why?
Harry, a few reasons. The biggest being I think the contrast helps a) with recovery (gets blood in there) b) prevents over training (kinda the same thing, but after doing low reps on a primary exercise, low reps on a secondary/assistance movement seems foolish) c) promotes a little more hypertrophy and d) I think a slightly higher rep range is good a lot of the time for those with a long training history.
