Whenever he doesn’t post for a few days I always wonder if powerlifting’s finally killed him.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Whenever he doesn’t post for a few days I always wonder if powerlifting’s finally killed him.[/quote]
Me too. Like he decided to do 500 pound Tabata deadlifts and got to 200 reps, then his torso imploded.
Nah, I live in the general area and I have yet to hear of any medium sized gorillas dieing. I am sure he just got hyuuge enough that he couldn’t type on the computer and needs to write stuff down instead.
Mike’s fine
[quote]The3Commandments wrote:
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
Wednesday-1/30/13-AM- What am I doing?
250 bodyweight squats in 11:20.[/quote]
I gotta ask:
I’m always interested to follow your conditioning work. Perhaps beause I’m trying to see if I can intuit whether there’s some sort of logical coherence to the activities in question, or whether they’re simply arbitrary ways of getting your heart rate elevated for a certain amount of time.
It seems like it’s some combination of time and setting yourself a particular goal (e.g. 250 bodyweight squats).
So, how are your conditioning activities planned for? I have a hard time believing they’re just arbitrary, as someone at your level presumably has some sort of underlying justification for most things being done.
Thanks.
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Right now, they seem totally random because they are. I don’t have a meet planned in the near future and I am keeping everything VERY general. If a meet were coming up, there would be a slow transistion from:
General Physcial Preparedness- kinda what I am doing now
to
Specific- heavy sled drags for shorter distance heavier rep work with the competition lifts
to
Realization- Speed work with lighter weights, lighter sleds, sprints
Volume is usually by feel. But, obviously, it slowly decreases in order to focus on GPP, then strength development, then speed, then realization of both.
[quote]Drake37 wrote:
My school offers “Personal trainers”
They had a girl with a weight problem doing one arm cable curls. Obviously that will help her lose the necessary weight, right?
Also, a guy teaching someone to run ran out of steam before said client did.
Final gripe, I was doing Farmer’s walks and he brought his client to the middle of my path where people do lunges and stuff all the time, instead of using the mats designated for push ups and stretching.
Also, my teacher said “Overhead bench press” again.
Rant over. Hope your back is feeling better! The thought of tabata sumo deads with 315 made me cringe when I read it, then I saw you did 48… Monster.[/quote]
These stories make me want to see how many barbells I can shove into my mouth at one time.
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Nice work here, I hope you back heals up eventually.[/quote]
I should be fine. None of my problems are anything major. Thanks, man.
[quote]IronAbrams wrote:
Is it normal to have an almost debilitating lower back pump after LTT Box Squats? Speed and cardio were loads better than last cycle but my back was lit up until about four or five sets into speed deadlits.[/quote]
Use a higher box and use a primarily wider foot position. If the box is too low and feet are too close, this will put a ton of strain on your SI and the surrounding area. Which, is not always a bad thing but if you go to deadlifts and it feels like your sacrum is trying to violently evacuate your body, then that can cause some problems.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Whenever he doesn’t post for a few days I always wonder if powerlifting’s finally killed him.[/quote]
Nothing is killing me as fast as I would like it too. Seriously, this is much harder than I thought.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Whenever he doesn’t post for a few days I always wonder if powerlifting’s finally killed him.[/quote]
Me too. Like he decided to do 500 pound Tabata deadlifts and got to 200 reps, then his torso imploded.[/quote]
The hamstring pump I achieved from reading this made me throw up lactate all over my keyboard.
Funny, I filmed my tabata sumo deadlifts last week and then my flip completely stopped working. Can’t charge it, can’t turn it on, can’t pull the videos from it (which sucks because I just wrote an awesome article for Elite that had a video detailing how to pull the slack out of the bar and now it is gone forever). It’s like what it saw scared it to death…
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Nah, I live in the general area and I have yet to hear of any medium sized gorillas dieing. I am sure he just got hyuuge enough that he couldn’t type on the computer and needs to write stuff down instead.[/quote]
This is exactly what happened. I had to get a special keyboard with larger spacing between the keys. My finger biceps got to big and I kept pushing the keys through the bottom of my desk.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Mike’s fine[/quote]
Alive would have been a more appropriate term. “Fine” is a stretch. I really wouldn’t be surprised if there were something deeply and clinically wrong with the way my head works.
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
(which sucks because I just wrote an awesome article for Elite that had a video detailing how to pull the slack out of the bar and now it is gone forever). It’s like what it saw scared it to death…[/quote]
Look forward to that article. For whatever reason I just now have recently tried to learn how to get the slack out. I use to just dive bomb and rip it.
Mike, I hope your back is healing up and you’re feeling better.
What do you think of “packing the neck” during squats and deadlifts? I’ve heard some people say that this is a stronger/healthier position for the spine.
Today my teacher in Fitness and wellness said “Deadlift the weight overhead.”
I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry.
Is it possible to do so much mobility work that you overtrain and you actually lose mobility, just like its possible to get weaker and overtrain your muscles.