Nice lifts Joe! I’m looking forward to when I can do as much
But I thought you liked pie not cake??? I’ll bring one of each.
I only wear a belt to bench when I’m in a shirt to hold the tweaked shirt in place.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
Hi Joe, just got a belt of my own today - why do you like it for benching? sorry for the newb question. Just thought of it when I saw your vid.[/quote]
Actually I don’t like it for benching or pressing movements at all, but I am wearing ti for just about everything I do right now for two reasons.
First I want to break it in more and make it a bit more piable for deadlifts so wearing it as much as possible should help.
Second, since my low back actted up and isn’t quite 100% I’m kind of paranoid about it. As soon as its 100% though and the belt is broken in I won’t be using it for bench.
[quote]soldog wrote:
Nice lifts Joe! I’m looking forward to when I can do as much[/quote]
It won’t be long now for you George.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
But I thought you liked pie not cake??? I’ll bring one of each.[/quote]
Well after I am sated with pie I can turn my thoughts to cake.
Good benching Joe!
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
But I thought you liked pie not cake??? I’ll bring one of each.[/quote]
Well after I am sated with pie I can turn my thoughts to cake.[/quote]
heresy!
and thanks for the belt answer. makes sense.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
But I thought you liked pie not cake??? I’ll bring one of each.[/quote]
Well after I am sated with pie I can turn my thoughts to cake.[/quote]
heresy!
and thanks for the belt answer. makes sense.[/quote]
Perhaps, see I have yet to be sated with pie so its possible it can’t be done.
A few years back I would buy (I don’t bake) the best damn huge raspberry pie with a jug of icecream and have that for supper. Nothing else. just ate it all.
And then I would fall asleep in a sugar coma. Ahh the fatty days.
So today I start tightening my diet up, both calories and carbs, until a couple of weeks from now when I will be utterly carb deprived. So that on Thanksgiving, when I enter into a two day Bacchanalian orgy of Turkey, dressing, potatos and apple pie that could only be surpassed if the pie was eatten off of the trembling belly and thighs of a smiling maiden, it doesn’t all just turn to fat.
So hopefully I won’t be grumpy.
Does this mean no Frid Chicken? Hey awesome bench work…is the 265 a PR? either way, I think with the amount you are now dipping a 3000b press is just around the bend. Awesome stuff, Joe.
eating pie off of someone…very nice. except the husband is a hair bear and I’d probably be hacking hair balls later.lol. still, nice fantasy. dripping icecream and all.
ok. I gotta go now.lol.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
So today I start tightening my diet up, both calories and carbs, until a couple of weeks from now when I will be utterly carb deprived. So that on Thanksgiving, when I enter into a two day Bacchanalian orgy of Turkey, dressing, potatos and apple pie that could only be surpassed if the pie was eatten off of the trembling belly and thighs of a smiling maiden, it doesn’t all just turn to fat.
So hopefully I won’t be grumpy.[/quote]
Very nice benching. How close is that to your max?
Dressing, you say? I was raised on the stuff. My wife, however, is from Washington state. She had never heard of dressing…only stuffing (Despite her claiming otherwise, I knew she was a yankee!).
I have given in and let her make stuffing, instead of dressing, even though she offers to make both. (Too little South in her to make it right :))
I still get Granny’s mac and cheese, though. It’s good for a 10# bw increase in 2 days.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
So today I start tightening my diet up, both calories and carbs, until a couple of weeks from now when I will be utterly carb deprived. So that on Thanksgiving, when I enter into a two day Bacchanalian orgy of Turkey, dressing, potatos and apple pie that could only be surpassed if the pie was eatten off of the trembling belly and thighs of a smiling maiden, it doesn’t all just turn to fat.
So hopefully I won’t be grumpy.[/quote]
Very nice benching. How close is that to your max?
Dressing, you say? I was raised on the stuff. My wife, however, is from Washington state. She had never heard of dressing…only stuffing (Despite her claiming otherwise, I knew she was a yankee!).
I have given in and let her make stuffing, instead of dressing, even though she offers to make both. (Too little South in her to make it right :))
I still get Granny’s mac and cheese, though. It’s good for a 10# bw increase in 2 days.[/quote]
I have done one really ugly rep at 275 or 280 I can’t remember which so its pretty close…
Wave 2-Cycle 2-Week 1-Day 4
Squats
5x170
5x195
5x225
1x245
1x265
5x10x155
Had a had time finding depth and over all not a great day for squats.
those look a smidge below parrallel to my untrained eye. Even paused your butt to check my claim 
and I might never have said it before but I think your red belt is pretty cool.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Had a had time finding depth and over all not a great day for squats.
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Maybe you just need a hug? Where is the guy with the pretty legs? He looked like a hugger…
does squatting hurt your back at all?
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
does squatting hurt your back at all?
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Not really no, only DL’s tend to cause stiffness. Why do you ask?