they were damn close if they weren’t there…
nice squattin’
They were close. The first one may have been good. The second was just parallel to my eye.
The belt looks orange on my monitor. I like it.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[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?[/quote]
I thought I had read that your back was buggin you. Your squat form looks good.
Joe, good squatting. If you are looking for USAPL depth for a meet, to be safe, you might want to try for another inch. After pausing it a few times, I think the first one was legal and the second one was cut just at parallel, but both were very close and it just depends on the angle of the judge. I am not sure what fed you are looking at competing in, but I have noticed that some of those USAPL judges really want you to bury them. But another inch should not be that big of an adjustment, those looked like solid squats.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
does squatting hurt your back at all?
[/quote]
Not really no, only DL’s tend to cause stiffness. Why do you ask?[/quote]
I thought I had read that your back was buggin you. Your squat form looks good.[/quote]
You my back has been bugging me but its only DL’s that seem to do it. Oh and some times I can’t figure out any reason for it to be stiff at all.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Joe, good squatting. If you are looking for USAPL depth for a meet, to be safe, you might want to try for another inch. After pausing it a few times, I think the first one was legal and the second one was cut just at parallel, but both were very close and it just depends on the angle of the judge. I am not sure what fed you are looking at competing in, but I have noticed that some of those USAPL judges really want you to bury them. But another inch should not be that big of an adjustment, those looked like solid squats. [/quote]
Thanks, I’m going to try and drop them an inch or two just to be sure. I’ll be lifting in the SPF at first because they do a lot of stuff relatively near by.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
They were close. The first one may have been good. The second was just parallel to my eye.
The belt looks orange on my monitor. I like it.[/quote]
Thanks for the input, when I first started doing the videos it showed me at wasn’t as low as I thought and its been a bit of a struggle to “re-learn” depth.
Had a stiff back myself lately and put it down to deadlifting. Then did some googling and started doing hip flexor stretches and instant relief. Apparently tight hip flexors pull on the lower back. Might be worth discounting.
Great work, Joe. Looks like everything is moving in the right direction.
thanks Skip, doing my best. Well or close to it.
Arms
Dips
8x BW+45
8x BW+90
3x BW+115
14x BW+45
CGBP
8x135
8x155
8x175
4x185
Alt Hammer Curls
8x40
8x45
8x50
Seated DB Press
8x40
8x45
8x50
BB Shrugs
10x225
10x245
7x265
Standing EZ Curls
12x70
12x80
6x90
3x115
Nice work here JG
Nice squat form. Nice volume aswell. Good gpp.
3x115
14x BW+45 Finisher
Joe- you make your dip setups look a little kinky 
and does that dude in the back have a crush on you? staring at you fiddling like that? lol.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
Joe- you make your dip setups look a little kinky
and does that dude in the back have a crush on you? staring at you fiddling like that? lol.
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Boy I hope not. He was actually waiting to do something like 1/4 weighted dips.
I need more chain so the weights don’t have to be so high up and my “fiddling” isn’t so Freudian. Though I am highly ID oriented.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Arms
Dips
CGBP
Alt Hammer Curls
Seated DB Press
BB Shrugs
Standing EZ Curls
[/quote]
I like the exercise selections for your arm day. No pussy pushdown or concentration curls.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Arms
Dips
CGBP
Alt Hammer Curls
Seated DB Press
BB Shrugs
Standing EZ Curls
[/quote]
I like the exercise selections for your arm day. No pussy pushdown or concentration curls.[/quote]
Thanks, If I’m going to do an arm day I at least want it to be hard.
Wave 2-Cycle 2-Week 2-Day 2
Deads
3x240
3x275
4x315
V-bar pullsdowns
8x140
8x160
8x180
5x190
Face Pulls
5x10x65
HS Low Row
8x 100/side
8x 110/side
6x 120/side
Wide Grip Cable Rows
12x100
12x120
8x140
Go ahead and pick my fornm apart. I can already tell my hips weren’t low enough. You go a couple of months without pulling and it all goes to shit.
Joe its great that your back is up to pulling again. I am really sensitive to back rounding because I work so hard to banish it from my own lifting. That is more rounding then I would like to see. Are you focusing on keeping a back arch when you pull?