[quote]SSC wrote:
Lol @ birthday night. Sounds about right though, man. And hey, sex happened! That’s always a big plus.
Man your volume is getting pretty illy, I’m fairly jealous. Wish I had a healthy back. :([/quote]
ugh she caught whatever I got but worse. not too happy about that.
pshhhh naa braaahhh shuttup you makin me blush wit yo jelly (no homo???)
[quote]PlainPat wrote:
Lol that beginner to intermediate thread reminded me to come check in here again.
Sounds like the best birthday ever.[/quote]
lol you’re not missing much, I don’t post much personal stuff in here
and I’M NEVER DRINKING AGAIN.
… until we go to AC in two weeks to celebrate my bday again.
You’ve made some ridiculous progress in here old fella. Props.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
You’ve made some ridiculous progress in here old fella. Props.[/quote]
thanks my man. I’m hoping to keep it up during this recomp.
FATTY PICS and bod pod measures incoming!!!
I FINALLY got a reply from St. Luke’s Obesity Research Center and I scheduled a session on 1/17. I’m keeping my UnderArmour tight biker shorts ready.
if anyone needs the contact info lmk. it took me forever to find it.
if I measure over 25% BF, I’m going on a crash diet doing HIIT 4x/week, 4 hours SSC and FMC on maintenance cals for a month.
jkkkk I’ll just suffer quietly and hope my recomp adjustments work:
if I’m dropping weight too fast (1 lb a week?) I’ll re-evaluate. I’ll try to stay over 200 lb BW.
so, gf was sick, she caught the same bug I did and called out of work today. I was the good bf and brought her bfast, and I got bfast from the same place. I had a Taylor ham (pork roll to you non-Jerseyan heathens)/double egg/bacon/sausage on a whole wheat bagel, and drank 80% of my 1/2 cup/1 apple/50g Carnivor shake. apparently, a man near death can rise to the occasion, but a PMSing woman will not.
was in a rush (ofc…) to meet up with friends for lunch, so I just hit my top set of squats and 531 dead before I left.
SKWATTTTTT
video’d 2 reps at 225, didn’t like what I saw:
depth looks kinda ok on the 2nd rep but I just wasn’t satisfied. I went back down to 205 to hammer this issue out. the good news is that squatting shoeless feels pretty good.
205x8
5/3/1 conventional deadlift
cycle 2 working max 355
week 1: 235x5, 265x5, 300x5+(8)
some guy from the front desk told me to stop slamming the weights on the floor. being that I was winded I just apologized but spoke to the manager later on about getting ONE pair of bumper plates for the gym (his lackey didn’t know what bumper plates were). he said that “well, we have to go through a particular distributor and they don’t carry those”. okkk so i said, what if i DONATE a pair of bumper plates?? “well, corporate doesn’t let us do that because if one LAF has something, they all need to have it.”
FUAAAA so they ended by saying that I can dead off of yoga mats np. I’ll try that next sesh and see how much of a fail it is.
Squats look strong but just a tad high, I’m sure you coulda done that going a bit lower, didn’t seem to give you any trouble
had maybe 8 oz of beef/pork/chicken and 1 cup white rice at Picnic Garden Korean BBQ in Fort Lee. pretty cool, instead of getting food at the buffet table, you get raw meat and grill it at your table. shit was juicy and bangin. ELL OH ELL at the Kpop blaring on their speakers.
chilled with the gf a couple hours until I went back to finish legs. drank a 50/40/10 p/c/bcaa shake during.
SKWATTTTTT
185x10
165x12
GOOD MORNIN
145x7
135x8
125x7
LEG EXTENSION QUAD DESTRUCTION
165x14 x10 x10
150x10
135x10
-----superset with------
SEATED LEG CURLS FOR GIRLS
210x15 x10 x9
195x10
180x10
STANDING GASTROC RAISES ON MAH PINKY TOE
180x10 x8 x8
165x8
150x8
SEATED SOLEUS RAISES ON MAH BIG TOE
115x15 x10 x10
90x12
90x11, RP x1 with a squeeze.
post-meal was a plain grilled chicken sandwich from BK, a cup of white rice and 4-6 oz of chicken burrreast.
[quote]XArena wrote:
Squats look strong but just a tad high, I’m sure you coulda done that going a bit lower, didn’t seem to give you any trouble [/quote]
squat never ceases to piss me off dude. I usually squat in that rack, and I JUST noticed today that those little 2.5 lb plates actually get in the way if I’m squatting shoeless to parallel. like, the 45 plates hit them and I go back up thinking I went low enough.
fuaaaaa squat pisses me off. I suck at front squats too, can’t keep the bar from rolling forward,I just don’t care enough to fix it any further, and i get a funny feeling on top of my kneecap when i do em. might just swap them out for work on the leg press.
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]XArena wrote:
Squats look strong but just a tad high, I’m sure you coulda done that going a bit lower, didn’t seem to give you any trouble [/quote]
squat never ceases to piss me off dude. I usually squat in that rack, and I JUST noticed today that those little 2.5 lb plates actually get in the way if I’m squatting shoeless to parallel. like, the 45 plates hit them and I go back up thinking I went low enough.
fuaaaaa squat pisses me off. I suck at front squats too, can’t keep the bar from rolling forward,I just don’t care enough to fix it any further, and i get a funny feeling on top of my kneecap when i do em. might just swap them out for work on the leg press.[/quote]
If front squats hurt yer knee, replace em with leg press, but definitely don’t get rid of back squats, you’ll learn to love them… I have a love/hate relationship with em… Love em when I’m breaking PR’s, hate em when i’m not…
def keeping back squats. I may double the volume of the lighter sets along with more quad-focused work on the leg press. after all, the only way to get better at squatting is by squatting.
on second thought, I will probably still bring that shake to work, but only half of it so I can still have something to eat on the drive home and not have to spend another half hour eating when I get home. had to grab something from KFC last night on the way home, I was so hungry…
Man, that squats didn’t look like, TERRIBLE or anything at all, or really that bad. I’m not the best person to critique form, though. Maybe the head needs to tilt up some… work on shooting the ass out a little more? Mobility is always crucial too, but blah blah you already know. Did kinda look to me like you had more in the tank, though… am I wrong?
But whatever man, we’re all dealt with different cards, stay patient with the squats. Do some variations… hacks… Smith, whatever. The best squat progress I ever made in my life was the year I took off from any kind of free squatting whatsoever.
oh yea I had plenty in the tank, I’ve done these for a set of 8 and I could likely grind out a set of 10 (poor conditioning). those two reps were actually still part of my warmup. I just didn’t like the depth on the first rep. I think I need to work on just letting myself “fall” the extra inch or whatever until I hit parallel instead of stopping my descent at where I think parallel is (1st rep). it’s like I spend so much energy and doubt trying to figure out where parallel is that it’s messing me up.
squat scares me the most out of all the lifts. I think I need to do some controlled fails just to erase my fear of failing a squat.
I also think I’m thinking too much…
I definitely think you’re thinking too much. But squats can be scary, especially with injuries in the past. I wish I could offer advice but like I kinda mentioned, doing some BRUTAL heavy Smith front squats or hacks or something really helped me to go from hesitant with bigger weights to more confident… with the catches and stuff. But IDK man, I’d be lying if I told you I had a good solution for that.
ANDERSON SQUATZ
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
ANDERSON SQUATZ[/quote]
lol serious? I just did a quick read and it’s used for busting through sticking points. I think I just need to put on my big girl pants and not be so hesitant to drop the last inch to parallel, especially since I don’t have to go much below parallel to hit the rack.
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
ANDERSON SQUATZ[/quote]
lol serious? I just did a quick read and it’s used for busting through sticking points. I think I just need to put on my big girl pants and not be so hesitant to drop the last inch to parallel, especially since I don’t have to go much below parallel to hit the rack.[/quote]
I don’t know about you, but having 800+lbs on my back makes me not give a shit about sinking 400+.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
ANDERSON SQUATZ[/quote]
lol serious? I just did a quick read and it’s used for busting through sticking points. I think I just need to put on my big girl pants and not be so hesitant to drop the last inch to parallel, especially since I don’t have to go much below parallel to hit the rack.[/quote]
I don’t know about you, but having 800+lbs on my back makes me not give a shit about sinking 400+.[/quote]
good fucking point!
=( I don’t have safety chains, boxes and safety/camber bars at my gym though
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
ANDERSON SQUATZ[/quote]
lol serious? I just did a quick read and it’s used for busting through sticking points. I think I just need to put on my big girl pants and not be so hesitant to drop the last inch to parallel, especially since I don’t have to go much below parallel to hit the rack.[/quote]
I don’t know about you, but having 800+lbs on my back makes me not give a shit about sinking 400+.[/quote]
good fucking point!
=( I don’t have safety chains, boxes and safety/camber bars at my gym though
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Fuck there goes my box suggestion. You could do it to a bench for awhile, as long as your consistent it doesn’t really matter if its high.
yea Spar mentioned that he was doing them in a half ROM anyway so I won’t even need a bench