Hedlesky's Mental Collapse to The Arnold

[quote]IronAbrams wrote:
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.[/quote]

Jesus. That thing is awful. It’s like the bar was designed to reject people lifting weights with it. I once did 30 sets of 2 with 400lbs on mine. It felt like my spine was ground into a powder and it almost ripped my head off.

Saturday-1/5/12- Squats Reps

Still sick as shit. Almost decided not to train today but I completely skipped thursday and yesterday.

Rolled Stuff
Hip Ext. Rotation Stretch
Hip Opener Progression<~~~ something I have been messing around with for a while. I think I got it down pretty good. I am going to video it soon and make a blog post about it. Squatting felt smooth as butter today for the first time in a while and I think it was because of this progression.

Pause Squats- 45x6
135x6
225x6
315x6
405x6
500x6<~~~ PR. Even though I am sick and my back is still all jacked up, I still did this. There is something seriously wrong with me.

Bradford Presses- 45x6
95x6
115x6
135x6
155x6
175x6<~~~ could have done more but I was trying to keep the form as strict as possible. Anymore weight and I would have started cheating.

Fallouts-3x10<~~~ 10 count pause on the last rep of every set. At 288lbs, these felt like I was being ripped in half.

Did some shoulder int. rotation mibility stuff and did some more hip opener stuff for about 10 minutes.

almost everyone in Maryland is “down with the sickness” I had to leave the gym today before passing out and/or shitting myself. I mean that could have just been my pre-workout chipotle and assault…

[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
Saturday-1/5/12- Squats Reps

Still sick as shit. Almost decided not to train today but I completely skipped thursday and yesterday.

Rolled Stuff
Hip Ext. Rotation Stretch
Hip Opener Progression<~~~ something I have been messing around with for a while. I think I got it down pretty good. I am going to video it soon and make a blog post about it. Squatting felt smooth as butter today for the first time in a while and I think it was because of this progression.

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Would actually love to see a video.

[quote]Consul wrote:

[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
Saturday-1/5/12- Squats Reps

Still sick as shit. Almost decided not to train today but I completely skipped thursday and yesterday.

Rolled Stuff
Hip Ext. Rotation Stretch
Hip Opener Progression<~~~ something I have been messing around with for a while. I think I got it down pretty good. I am going to video it soon and make a blog post about it. Squatting felt smooth as butter today for the first time in a while and I think it was because of this progression.

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Would actually love to see a video.
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Do you know some good scientific sources for creatine? I just kind of want to geek out on the subject and don’t know the best places to look.

[quote]scottkoscielniak wrote:
almost everyone in Maryland is “down with the sickness” I had to leave the gym today before passing out and/or shitting myself. I mean that could have just been my pre-workout chipotle and assault…[/quote]

With that pre-workout, your gains are infinite.

I was just reading about how we have like 6 different strains of the flu flying around. One of them is “severe respiratory distress.” I think I’ve got that one. It’s funny that all those assholes that got flu shots are all sick right now too because the vaccine only covers 2 strains of the flu.

[quote]mkral55 wrote:

[quote]Consul wrote:

[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
Saturday-1/5/12- Squats Reps

Still sick as shit. Almost decided not to train today but I completely skipped thursday and yesterday.

Rolled Stuff
Hip Ext. Rotation Stretch
Hip Opener Progression<~~~ something I have been messing around with for a while. I think I got it down pretty good. I am going to video it soon and make a blog post about it. Squatting felt smooth as butter today for the first time in a while and I think it was because of this progression.

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Would actually love to see a video.
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I should be able to get the whole thing recorded and edited on Monday. Seriously, squatting has never felt so natural and my usual slight buttwink was totally non-existant even though I was burying the squats. I havent been able to go heavy on squats caus of some back stuff going on and even that didn’t bother me.

[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
Do you know some good scientific sources for creatine? I just kind of want to geek out on the subject and don’t know the best places to look. [/quote]

Pubmed.com and google scholar. Also, join the International Society of Sports Nutritionists. They have a couple position statements out that are a total review of all the creatine literature out there. The website for thier journal is jissn.com

[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:

[quote]mkral55 wrote:

[quote]Consul wrote:

[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
Saturday-1/5/12- Squats Reps

Still sick as shit. Almost decided not to train today but I completely skipped thursday and yesterday.

Rolled Stuff
Hip Ext. Rotation Stretch
Hip Opener Progression<~~~ something I have been messing around with for a while. I think I got it down pretty good. I am going to video it soon and make a blog post about it. Squatting felt smooth as butter today for the first time in a while and I think it was because of this progression.

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Would actually love to see a video.
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x2
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I should be able to get the whole thing recorded and edited on Monday. Seriously, squatting has never felt so natural and my usual slight buttwink was totally non-existant even though I was burying the squats. I havent been able to go heavy on squats caus of some back stuff going on and even that didn’t bother me.[/quote]

I’m excited!

Squatted last night and foam rolled and crushed my inner thigh like you said. After I was done crying I hit depth no problem.

[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
my usual slight buttwink was totally non-existant even though I was burying the squats.[/quote]

EEfffffffff you! No fair, I’m jealous.

Ima be a butt winker till the day I die!

Monday-1/7/12- Speedy Tuggin’

Rolled everything
Hip Opener Progression

Speed Tugs- Hook Grip
405x5x2
455x1
495x1
545x1
605x1<~~~ smoked it

SLDLs- 405x5x10

Hamstring Curls/Roman Chair Sit-ups
Strong bandx3x40/50lbsx3x10

Stretched for 10 minutes

Hip Progression stuff:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
my usual slight buttwink was totally non-existant even though I was burying the squats.[/quote]

EEfffffffff you! No fair, I’m jealous.

Ima be a butt winker till the day I die! [/quote]

Butt Winker would be a cool name for a heavy metal band.

thanks a ton for the last blog post

You’re shoulder stuff you’ve posted on a blog helped me a bit so I’ll have to give this hip stuff a go as well.

[quote]budreiser wrote:
thanks a ton for the last blog post[/quote]

Thanks for reading.

[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
You’re shoulder stuff you’ve posted on a blog helped me a bit so I’ll have to give this hip stuff a go as well. [/quote]

Good to hear, man. I’ve had a lot of people tell me that was helpful. That was actually an elitefts article I wrote. I’m working on one for deadlifts that I will hopefully have done this week.

Wednesday-AM-1/9/12-

Treadmill- 20mins @ 140bpm.
Stretched

My hamstrings and glutes are sore as $hit. Probably from 50 straight leg deadlifts with 405lbs the other day.

More later.

Wednesday-PM- 1/9/12- Max Bench

Tons of band traction stuff

Close Grip Bench- 45x10, 95x5, 135x5, 185x3, 225x5x3
275x3
315x3
365x3
385x3
405x2<~~~ Didn’t fail just looked like shit
Rev. Average bands, no wrist wraps
405x3
425x3
445x3

Immediately to
Comp grip bench- 225x25
Very Close Grp-135x25, 45x50

Done. Beat to hell. Need to eat.