A deload next week and the week before the meet might be a good idea. Maybe deload next week and then you have 3 weeks to pyramid up(using percentages) and then one week to take it easy/deload going into the meet.
Had a bad day myself today, don’t sweat it dude.
vaginosis, lol…
perhaps, just an off day?
HR sounds like he knows what he’s talking about!
I leave for a few days and come back to see you all wrapped up in rubber bands? Didn’t think it was your style ink 
seriously your deads and squats were awesome. I think you have inspired me tp try. Problem is my rack cage has no overhang - it’s more like the “shelf kind” I’ll have to look up ways I can use it…
-Dixie, yeah you’re right dude, I just had trouble getting my head in it last night, and I was contemplating for a while if I should stop my DL’s to go help out this kid and his sister with their “clean” (I think you could call it that. I didn’t help out, because I was already getting looks from the sister who could tell I was puzzled as to wtf they were doing.
This kid took the bar, with 2.5’s on each end, and jerked it up to the “catch” part, while dropping a little bit and spreading his legs so his feet were really wide, then his knees buckeld all around while he stood up. It was horrible/hilarious, and if it was with heavier wiehgt I might have said “would you guys like a tip or two with these??”
Question, who sees someone needing help (or notices they could benefit from a tip) and actually says anything? I’m not very social in person, and while I know I could offer good advice, I know I wouldn’t want someone to walk up to me and basically tell me I’m AFU. (all effed up) Whatever, I should just keep to myself and get shit done. I try avoiding the mirrors but then I turn around and see all the freaks anyway. I need a blindfold I think!
-Herc, thanks man, that sounds good. I’ll deload next week, ramp the next 3 weeks, and then take an easy week prior to the meet. Good plan, I like it.
-Trav, yeah, they happen, so we just pick up and push forward, right?
-MiM, you like my vocab? I got some good ones that I’ll drop every now and then 
-N, I don’t know what my style is, I’m just trying to get a taste of it all. Bands are fun, really fun, I’m going to bust them out tomorrow and give lessons in their awesomeness to some work guys. For the “no overhang” issue, could you grab the safety’s from another rack to set up high, put the bands on those, and still be able to use the other safety’s for squatting? For deads, you just set the safety’s around head-height, bands around them and around the bar, and pull! Give it a shot, you won’t be disappointed!
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Question, who sees someone needing help (or notices they could benefit from a tip) and actually says anything? I’m not very social in person, and while I know I could offer good advice, I know I wouldn’t want someone to walk up to me and basically tell me I’m AFU. (all effed up) Whatever, I should just keep to myself and get shit done. I try avoiding the mirrors but then I turn around and see all the freaks anyway. I need a blindfold I think!
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You know man, i used to do this all the time, i also worked in a gym where it was part of my job to do that as well. So i would spend a good deal of time helping these people out and then the next week they do the same thing, same weight sometimes even less weight. So i got tired of that and i just focus my attention on what i am doing. Once in awhile i will in earnest, attempt to help someone who seems open to help or seems like they are actually trying.
x2 on something HR pointed out, you will be able to tell if someone is legitimately trying or if they are just in there dicking around. If they are the former, ask if you can offer advice when they are taking a breather. If they politely refuse, then dont worry, if they accept, then offer your advice humbly.
Good points Gents, I’ll just keep my head down and mouth shut unless I think someone’s on the verge of injuring themselves.
Dixie, meadows rows, again…kicked my ass. The 90x15 was a grinder, and took a couple minutes rest before switching sides. Absolutely brutal.
New avatar, “goldfish”
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Question, who sees someone needing help (or notices they could benefit from a tip) and actually says anything? I’m not very social in person, and while I know I could offer good advice, I know I wouldn’t want someone to walk up to me and basically tell me I’m AFU. (all effed up) Whatever, I should just keep to myself and get shit done. I try avoiding the mirrors but then I turn around and see all the freaks anyway. I need a blindfold I think! [/quote]
You can’t protect people from themselves. But I do feel compelled to say something if I see a person doing a truly dangerous exercise, especially things that can injure the spine. As a rule, I do not ever-unless directly asked-give advice on squat technique. The conversation alone takes way too much time. I try to take a step back and just enjoy the freakshow without letting it distract me or undermine my training. For laughs, an old training partner and I used to have nicknames for all the regular nutters at the gym. She still trains there, so she updates me on them sometimes. Hilarious. Commercial gyms have to be one of the funniest places to observe humanity.
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Good points Gents, I’ll just keep my head down and mouth shut unless I think someone’s on the verge of injuring themselves.
Dixie, meadows rows, again…kicked my ass. The 90x15 was a grinder, and took a couple minutes rest before switching sides. Absolutely brutal.[/quote]
Dude, try the stretchers, absolutely intense.
Yes veggie, I’ve forgotten how retarded people are in commercial gyms, since I was training at home for a while, and having not really been in one for a while before that. I think I’ve found a way to tune out the douchebags though…
Hit shoulders tonight, I’ll post it in the morning
sweet new avatar man. I like the fish’s little mustache. reminds me of the one i used to have lol
I dont know why I havent been stopping in on this log? Good looking squats in that vid. Man i need to get vids! you guys with videos all look so cool!
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Yes veggie, I’ve forgotten how retarded people are in commercial gyms, since I was training at home for a while, and having not really been in one for a while before that. I think I’ve found a way to tune out the douchebags though…
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I would say you look like the grim reaper…but the grim reaper is a gear whore.
Like the avatar…
I want to add to my upper arms pieces(both sides) but am having trouble coming up with good ideas…
anywho, about the helping thing. I’ve helped both guys(and girls) There is a look about them.
Sometimes you make eye contact and then they keep looking around as if they need/want help.
But mostly I keep to myself…it does take a lot of time to explain shit to someone who may not even really care.
I also wanted to ask what kind of rows are you doing? The one where you stand to the side of the barbell?
I <3 that one. Dead stop rows are sick as well!
Cool tat man!
Honestly the only time I try to give people advice is if they look like they’re going to hurt themselves or they’re doing something dumb in general (wearing a belt for curls ect.). I’ve had a few more serious young guys randomly ask me for form help though so that happens sometimes. I don’t like to mess with people as long as they’re there working.
Greg-Of course you’d see the 'stache dude, yours was pure win. How’d the wife-to-be like that thing? Thanks for checkin in!
DF-Yeah, he’s a gearwhore I’m sure, maybe I’d fit the part more if I was geared up and walked around with a BB as my sickle.
MiM-Thanks, I’ve just got to make my arms bigger so the koi will look bigger. I hadn’t put much up of my left arm in the past because it hasn’t looked good enough (in my eyes). Now my tris and delts are a little more “there” so I think it works Ideas are hard, especially when you are adding to something. This tattoo was in several sessions. The first was the koi with some color, and the water outline which was done in downtown San Diego (Black Fly, Greg) the night before my first deployment. When I got back, I got some color added back in AZ, and then when I got out of the Marines I got the flowers around the outside added to make it bigger. Oh, and the last session was the lotus, which you can maybe see is a coverup. I had a bulldog under it before, and it just didn’t work having a bulldog ripping out of the skin, with a koi swimming around it, so I covered it.
The rows I’ve done lately and that put my lats into submission are meadows rows (thanks Dixie) which are like standing to the side of a BB, except it’s done on a t-bar station and you grab the end of the bar. Hellacious!
Trav-Thanks dude. It’s not new or anything, just realized I needed a new avi and pch2 said “goldfish” and djht said “ink” and it clicked “No shit, I have that!”
Thanks for poppin in guys (and gals), the support is great.
2-17 Shoulders
Walked up to one of the cages, where a dude was texting on the calf machine next to it and asked if anyone was using it…of course he was. Fine, whatever, I’ll use DB’s.
DB OHP (seated)
45x12
55x12
55x10
60x10
Seated Bent over DB laterals
25x12/10/8
Cable lateral raises
3x12
DB laterals
20x12
15x12
10x12
(Feel lame using 10’s, but I was fried)
BB Shrugs
225x10/15 Overhand grip, hard to hold the slippery bar, so let’s try underhand grip
225x20x2 It worked, still hard to hold onto and left my straps in my locker, but got me to 20 reps, twice, so I’m content with that.
EZ Bar Upright rows
65x12
75x12x2
Then I looked around for one of those things I see people talking about on here lately…a rower. I didn’t think they had any, and was about to do an about face and return to the locker room when I saw some big black dude sliding back and forth in the distance. AHA! They’ve got 3 rowers there, concept2’s, so I tried it out.
2250 meters in 10:00
Kicked my butt pretty good, I’m sure there’s a technique to it, I just fucked around and kept going while sweating my ass off. Good stuff, will continue.
Pretty good workout I suppose, better than the night before, and hopefully tonight is even better still. Squats on the horizon.
No rear lat spread? I am disappoint.