Contrast shower and stretching later. I am sick as hell. Went to the docs after work yesterday and found out I have strep. I don’t ever get this and its awful. But, it does explain why I have been draggin ass so much lately. I did a gas chamber shot in a hotel bar in Munic, Germany last year (google it). That made my throat burn less than it does right now.
Made a new blog. I’m going to post my training plan with detailed description later on. Solum Per Exitum mother f*cker.
Contrast shower and stretching later. I am sick as hell. Went to the docs after work yesterday and found out I have strep. I don’t ever get this and its awful. But, it does explain why I have been draggin ass so much lately. I did a gas chamber shot in a hotel bar in Munic, Germany last year (google it). That made my throat burn less than it does right now.
Made a new blog. I’m going to post my training plan with detailed description later on. Solum Per Exitum mother fucker.
[quote]Drake37 wrote:
Thanks man! I know it is hard to explain how I squat via the internet but I try to make sure I break at the hips first and force out my knees. I have a slightly wider than shoulder width stance. The weight feels light on my back, but when I get down its like someone unplugged my quads. There is just no strength there.
My plan is to do a lot of volume with jumps, lunges, and squats.
I’ve been doing 6 sets of 2 kneeling jumps. Will that help?[/quote]
Paused squats.
CS[/quote]
Good suggestion. Also, even though you feel like you are slamming your hips in external rotation, if your hip ADDuctors are tight, it will limit knee and hip extension. Smash the shit out of your inner thighs with a lax ball, barbell, rumble roller, whatever. Something that hurts and digs into those tissues for a couple minutes.
This is seriously a problem area for everyone. The “medial chain” is severely jinked up for pretty much everyone. There are a couple awesome MobilityWODS about this.
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
YES. Get the extra firm one and use it everyday. Honest to God, the rumble roller is one of the greatest inventions ever. I stry to use it every morning when I get up and before I start my warm-up for my heavy training sessions.
You cn fix 99% of pain issues with some knowledge, a rumble roller, and a lax ball.[/quote]
Do you have a routine for where you roll, or do you just go by feel? I will be ordering a rumble roller.
[quote]Drake37 wrote:
Thanks man! I know it is hard to explain how I squat via the internet but I try to make sure I break at the hips first and force out my knees. I have a slightly wider than shoulder width stance. The weight feels light on my back, but when I get down its like someone unplugged my quads. There is just no strength there.
My plan is to do a lot of volume with jumps, lunges, and squats.
I’ve been doing 6 sets of 2 kneeling jumps. Will that help?[/quote]
Paused squats.
CS[/quote]
Good suggestion. Also, even though you feel like you are slamming your hips in external rotation, if your hip ADDuctors are tight, it will limit knee and hip extension. Smash the shit out of your inner thighs with a lax ball, barbell, rumble roller, whatever. Something that hurts and digs into those tissues for a couple minutes.
This is seriously a problem area for everyone. The “medial chain” is severely jinked up for pretty much everyone. There are a couple awesome MobilityWODS about this.[/quote]
Thanks again! You’re like my unofficial power lifting doctor. I started using a baseball to roll my glutes like you had said before and my quality of life has improved. My hip injury bothers me much less and I am almost able to function with the normal people again!
I hate to seem like a douche and hassle you with questions, but you genuinely helped me recover from a serious injury and I’ve never met you.
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
YES. Get the extra firm one and use it everyday. Honest to God, the rumble roller is one of the greatest inventions ever. I stry to use it every morning when I get up and before I start my warm-up for my heavy training sessions.
You cn fix 99% of pain issues with some knowledge, a rumble roller, and a lax ball.[/quote]
Do you have a routine for where you roll, or do you just go by feel? I will be ordering a rumble roller.
[/quote]
I will usually hit major muscles being used that day/training session and just spend extra time on stuff that doesn’t feel good. Nothing really more complicated than that.
[quote]PlainPat wrote:
we’re both doing cube stuff yayayayayay[/quote]
It’s very exciting isn’t it? Just messing around with some stuff. Peaking for a meet seems f*cking impossible with this set up but whatever.[/quote]
Really? I thought it seemed easy with the %'s[/quote]
I am not using those percentages. Plus, I like a 2 week deload before a meet. Also, The only way my deadlift doesn’t suck is if my last heavy pull is right around a month out. Just some little tweaks but it shouldn’t be a big deal.
[quote]Drake37 wrote:
Thanks man! I know it is hard to explain how I squat via the internet but I try to make sure I break at the hips first and force out my knees. I have a slightly wider than shoulder width stance. The weight feels light on my back, but when I get down its like someone unplugged my quads. There is just no strength there.
My plan is to do a lot of volume with jumps, lunges, and squats.
I’ve been doing 6 sets of 2 kneeling jumps. Will that help?[/quote]
Paused squats.
CS[/quote]
Good suggestion. Also, even though you feel like you are slamming your hips in external rotation, if your hip ADDuctors are tight, it will limit knee and hip extension. Smash the shit out of your inner thighs with a lax ball, barbell, rumble roller, whatever. Something that hurts and digs into those tissues for a couple minutes.
This is seriously a problem area for everyone. The “medial chain” is severely jinked up for pretty much everyone. There are a couple awesome MobilityWODS about this.[/quote]
Thanks again! You’re like my unofficial power lifting doctor. I started using a baseball to roll my glutes like you had said before and my quality of life has improved. My hip injury bothers me much less and I am almost able to function with the normal people again!
I hate to seem like a douche and hassle you with questions, but you genuinely helped me recover from a serious injury and I’ve never met you.
Thank you.[/quote]
No problem man. I had to figure all this shit out on my own. I like doing anything I can do to save others the frustration that I have had to go through. What’s the point of knowing all of this bullshit if I’m not doing anyhting with it? haha.
[quote]PlainPat wrote:
we’re both doing cube stuff yayayayayay[/quote]
It’s very exciting isn’t it? Just messing around with some stuff. Peaking for a meet seems f*cking impossible with this set up but whatever.[/quote]
Really? I thought it seemed easy with the %'s[/quote]
I am not using those percentages. Plus, I like a 2 week deload before a meet. Also, The only way my deadlift doesn’t suck is if my last heavy pull is right around a month out. Just some little tweaks but it shouldn’t be a big deal.[/quote]
I decided to run it as is for now… im only 2 weeks in but am feeling pretty good with it
[quote]Drake37 wrote:
What can I do to get stronger out of the hole in the squat? I think it is my quads being weak as shit.
[/quote]
I was gonna explain something but then I realized how that would be a chore and probably wouldn’t really help anyone.
Glad that you’ve brought the blog back, really enjoyed the last one. As a side bar, have you experimented with the Slingshot/Titan Ram much? I think that paused close grip with the Slingshot has been one of the best tricep strength ME exercises that I’ve used lately.
[quote]budreiser wrote:
how were those steak ums with peanut butter?[/quote]
Really, really bad. That was right around the time in my life I got addicted to Nitro Tech… quite possibly the worst tasting, dumbest supplement ever made. I think I drank like 5 a day.
[quote]IronAbrams wrote:
Glad that you’ve brought the blog back, really enjoyed the last one. As a side bar, have you experimented with the Slingshot/Titan Ram much? I think that paused close grip with the Slingshot has been one of the best tricep strength ME exercises that I’ve used lately.[/quote]
I’ve got the original slingshot (the red one). I like it for rep work. I don’t know if it is something with my bench set-up, bar path, or just how I am shapped but using that thing with heavy weight makes me feel like I’m going to kill myself. I can never get into a comfortable position and everything just feels awful.
I think it is just me because everyone else seems to love the thing.
I have normalish length arms and it already takes my groove a little lower than I prefer, I can only imagine how much worse it is for you.
On a totally unrelated note today was my first time around with the giant cambered bar. I stuck to paused singles with 315 because I didn’t want to kill myself. That is one unstable motherfucker.