Looks ok to me lol. We got insane humidity in southeast US. Both my bars are extremely tarnished.
Shame
I rub them down with oil and a wire brush every month during the warmer months. Still happens to no avail
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Do u use bare steel bars?
Laughs in dry country
Edit: Just saw thru Instagram that ur with Caleb now. I know him personally. Keeps roasting my squat form. How’d u end up with an Australian Strength Coach (not Seb Oreb lol)
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Not feeling super strong but not bad either today for deads. 4x2 Pause Deadlifts @ 210kg.
Resisted temptation to go bigger for a “PR” which wouldn’t have meant much and messed up the training effect. DisciplinePig
Belt was kinda meh today. More practice required
Romanian deds as main assistance work today. Slowly pushing into new PR territory but not overly excited because non cheat deads lol
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Hamster: Oh, totally not feeling strong today, I feel all fainty and bitch-like
Also Hamster: Here’s a vid of my rest-pausing more weight than you can pick up in your sad little dreams
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PMC on Facebook lol. He had been helpin me out with some form related stuff and asked if i was interested in gettin picked up. He was pretty fair priced so just decided to give it a shot.
and yea both my bars are bare steel
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Pausing 210kg this is insanity brah
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It’s a good movement for me. Still going heavy but lighter for light days while making things hard in other ways. Decent enough carryover I think.
Don’t really have a 2nd best assistance movement so far. Maybe high rep deds. Stiff bar deads and tempos maybe.
Light bench today with a friend. Nothing much to report 4x4 Spoto press @ 100kg. Saving big sessions for training at my mate’s hone gym in Bendigo over the weekend.
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Light deads today with some mates. Well timed because deads felt weak today.
Saving it for a big bench sesh tomoz and squats the day after.
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Good to see you still strong Hamster, loved that double 210 paused one.
You’re fast of the floor, pause is strict and perfect and you can take of a great speed from the pause, without losing tightness. Well done.
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It’ll feel terrible when the bar slows down a lot after the pause once the weight gets up there enough but it’ll be a good learning experience and stimulus
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Bit of arm wrestling to finish up was fun. Still training it a bit for that but nothing serious. Been Improvements in arm wrestling specific strength mostly my ability to maintain a closed angle to my elbow and generate more back pressure.
Not much in the way of actual table practice so not much technical improvement but was able to put some theoretical strats into practice.
Gym nemesis won once but my motivation to train arm wrestling is boosted so I’m pulling away soon.
Those deadlifts look awesome. I love seeing sumo deadlifts with good technique. It looks so efficient and satisfying. Still cheating though of course.
Careful with the arm wrestling. That shit can fuck up your elbow something fierce.
That said, if you’re really good at it, come to the Oktoberfest in Germany and you can make some good money, haha. I was there a few years ago with some guys from Australia and Denmark and a guy was going around with his friends and occasionally arm wrestled them (losing mainly). He then reached our group and challenged whomever was up for it to arm wrestle him. Everyone got hyped because they thought I’d win easily. He wasn’t super skinny (maybe 90 kg?) but I had a definite weight and size advantage. So before I knew what was happening, a whole crowd stood around us and placed their bets. all on me besides his two buddies. Mainly bets were beers but that’s some good money considering the prices at the Oktoberfest, haha. I think people also bet actual money.
When we sat down and got into starting position right before the “ref” would give the start command he couldn’t keep his poker face anymore, winked at me and started chuckling.
Yeah so match started and I was so utterly without a chance it wasn’t even funny. Like there was no fight. He had the technique down so damn perfect, he could have probably smashed my hand through the table no matter how much stronger I was
Turn out that’s how he manages to not pay a single beer each year. 
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Yeah I’m not going to overdo the arm wrestling. Just a bit of fun. It fits around my powerlifting training well as I neglect forearms and biceps usually so it’s helps motivate me to train em.
From what I’ve looked into with it arm wrestling is very much a strength sport. Good technique only goes so far before there’ll be guys who blow through you with superior strength. Strength is specific though. For arm wrestling it’s mostly in the fingers, wrist and elbow flexors. Relatively small muscle groups and can’t always pick out the strong guys in it. A hundred grams extra muscle in the forearms and arms could be the difference. Like when Larrat beat Hafthor ez it was mostly because he was an order of magnitude stronger in the ways that mattered on the table.
Conventional weight training doesn’t carryover very well it seems. Say BB/DB bicep curls have greatest tension with a more open elbow angle. Strength is joint angle specific. So your strength at closed elbow angles lacks and you get opened up at the elbow and that’s a disadvantaged position to be in. Opponent has much better leverage so unless one can curl like 80+kg ur done. Bodybuilding curls are still of some use. Grip strength and wrist curling is quite useful. Apparently rock climbing carries over best though
I’d like to join up with a club post lockdown for some variety but I don’t really see myself pursuing Otto the point of elbows exploding.
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I can see the wrist thing. You have to turn your opponent’s wrist at the start, so he has the longer lever. Once you’ve got that done it should be nearly impossible for the opponent to overpower you.
It’s all about leverage / physics even if that just means more force at times. Apparently even if the wrist is completely lost you can still drive through the elbow to victory. Always different avenues to take but sometimes opponent is stronger in every way lol
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Joints a bit beat up from arm wrestling @Koestrizer. Training arm wrestling is one thing but table time against mates is a bit different lol.
Push sesh in Bendigo that was decent. Low bench readiness and joint soreness though. Seems like my visits to Bendi never coincide with high readiness for bench.
Bitched out on top set of bench @ 125kg. Stopped at three reps but going by footage shoulda gone for 4 for a rep PB.
One a positive note handled some weight on slingshot bench. Can’t call it a rep Pr because I’ve no idea how this IronTanks knockoff compares to Mark Bell’s blue slingshot but 140kg x 3.
Went pretty heavy on dips also. Heaviest total and added weight I’ve had on dips. BW+30kg x reps.
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