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Sorry, I suck at that pose but I’ll work on it.

Squats tonight, one last push before I deload. Didn’t get much volume
done, and only did squats due to the time, but I did get crafty…

Bar x some x some, working on foot placement and depth memory
135x10
185x5
225x2
260x1 hard and slow…
285x0 to show N how to fail one…
155x3x2

here’s where I got crafty. I’m sure you’ve seen the bands with handles on the ends, right? well, this gym has a few, and I got the idea of rigging those up to do some band squats.

135+2 gym bands 5x5 video to demonstrate in the am.

Notes: left shoulder aches a bit and wrists are sore. gotta figure out the extra crap like hand position and what not before the meet, as I need all the help I can get. vids en la manana.

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This has nothing to do with anything. But it made me laugh.

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hmmm

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[quote]inkaddict wrote:
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!
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she liked it once it was grown out… she said i have “an animal magnetism about me” Her words not mine. (ok those were my words but I’m sure she thought that deep down inside) lol

I’m interested to see the vid you’re gonna post tomorrow. I want to see what that looks like.

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I’ve been searching for days for this log lol

Soooo… love the avvie. And awesome pic you posted.
Which brings to my question: Why did you decide to train in a gym filled with douches?
You had a sweet home op back at the house!.. are you selling the stuff? How much you want for them? :wink:

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Holy shit Dixie, hilarious!! Sleeping bags down the stairs, could be fun even as a growm up.

Greg, I’m sure those were her words deep down, your animalistic nature of your sould is SO obvious

Nik, thanks, glad you like the pics. I think I’ll stick to occasionally changing avatars of only my tattoos from now on, to stay in “theme” with my name. I’ll need to get more of course, so I don’t repeat pics, right? I started training at the douche gym for a couple of reasons. (No, I’m not ditching the set-up at home, I’ll still use it for workouts when I need to get them in and can’t/don’t want to get to the gym) My brother in law works out there, and I thought it would be cool to lift with him again, since I had lifted with him 6 years ago for a short time. Well, it’s not as great lately, different styles of training and whatever, I enjoy it by myself anyway. Also, the childcare center is awesome, so the kids get to play and do fun stuff they couldn’t do at home and be more social. Thirdly, my wife wanted to join too and I thought it was a good opportunity to get her training with weights with me again, but the free weight area is “too intimidating” (her words) which in a regular gym I would disagree with, but I can totally understand her point on this one. There are some huge guys there, plenty of douchers, and only 1 or 2 other women ever in there doing “the right stuff”. So she’ll stick to the classes they offer and stuff for now I guess, I don’t mind.

Damn, little novel right there…

On to the videos.

Squats. Now, I wouldn’t have pushed it to 285 but i did it to show N something; don’t be scared of failing! I rocked forward a little, and you can see I fought to come back to center before dropping it. No harm, no foul. I just re-racked the weights, then re-set it up for lighter squat work. I think my legs are growing too, as I noticed in the reflection of the glass in front of me some separation in my quads. If my squat is going to suck, at least let my legs look alright!

Oh, sorry if you don’t like the music choice, I had to do something brutal enough to mask the Beiber that was playing over the gym speakers. No bullshit, it was the Beibs.

Bands

The gym has a few different sizes of them, but these were the largest. It will definitely suffice until EFS has a free shipping sale or something economical. Enjoy.

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At least you two can go to the gym together. That’s awesome.
Sounds like a really nice gym, especially for the kids, I think it’s a good choice.

Thanks for changing the music, it’ll be ironic to see you putting up some awesome squat numbers to “Baby, baby, baaabbbyyy!”

Your squat form always kills me, so sharp. Great work Inky.

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Thanks Nik, I try keeping my form tight, it’ll only help in the long run. Just gotta work on wrist mobility I think, as they were achin a bit last night afterwards.

Also, thinking pull-through’s will help the bottom end of the squat (or so I’ve heard) but those are just the “straddle the cable, reach through your legs to grab the handle, and pull up” exercise. Right? Anything else beneficial, other than more squats, RDL’s, GM’s (need to do more of them actually), reverse hyper (which I don’t have). I think this next deload week will be good to incorporate a few new exercises into my routine.

Also, I’m ordering an Inzer Forever 10mm lever belt, pretty stoked about it. Also, I’ll be ordering my singlet soon, black (like the belt and chucks). I’m going to be looking like a damn ninja. Black t-shirt too probably? Pink maybe? (Ink doesn’t do pink folks, no way)

LWI

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Nice squats man.

Here this should make you feel better

lol

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Damn Ink! You drop fast on those sqwatz! Nice work.

WTF are these ‘stretchers’ I keep seeing in logs?

And you already know I lurv your avi - but I’ll say it again :slight_smile:

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[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Damn Ink! You drop fast on those sqwatz! Nice work.

WTF are these ‘stretchers’ I keep seeing in logs?

And you already know I lurv your avi - but I’ll say it again :)[/quote]

Masch here are stretchers. The article it’s from: A Monstrous Back: The Mountain Dog Way

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Ink nice squats, now all you have to do is push hard and set prs.

With the bands, don’t you have the black bands? According to the sales items they apparently are still 2 for 1.

Just hook the bands on the bar and a dumbell on the floor, should be about the right height. Depending on whether it’s for ME work or DE work, you only need about 50% of your max in bar weight for the lighter work. You can adjust the bar weight as well depending on how much it takes off for you. You could also loop the band under the safety bars shortening them adding more at the top.

Elitefts is having a sale right now fyi. Save 10 for every 100 you spend through monday till about 2pm.

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[quote]Heracles_rocks wrote:

[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Damn Ink! You drop fast on those sqwatz! Nice work.

WTF are these ‘stretchers’ I keep seeing in logs?

And you already know I lurv your avi - but I’ll say it again :)[/quote]

Masch here are stretchers. The article it’s from: A Monstrous Back: The Mountain Dog Way

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Ooh thank you! So basically all my questions re: stretchers and meadow rows all came from this one article that I must’ve cough accidentally missed.

They do look fun! And i could use a little lat work…

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Haha, Beiber’s DEAD! Thanks Trav, didn’t see that one.

Masch, I drop fast and try to spring up out of the hole (haha) but I’ve also heard that going slow makes it easier to come out of the hole because the bar is moving slower, thus easier to reverse direction. No idea which is better for me, I should figure it out though. Glad you lurv the avi, as time goes on and my arms get bigger, I’ll update it. I think my other arm looks better, but not as much ink, so I dunno. I’ll switch it up sometime, maybe.

Herc, yeah I have the big “strong” bands, and I’d used those before for squats, but not around db’s or anything. I’ll keep messing with different configurations, I love the bands!

Oh, and yeah Masch, anything important that you miss when TN originally posts it, will come up in someone’s log, that’s how you KNOW it’s good :wink:

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[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Oh, and yeah Masch, anything important that you miss when TN originally posts it, will come up in someone’s log, that’s how you KNOW it’s good :wink:

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its true. Thats how I found the meadows stuff.

Good looking Squats Ink. That was some crafty rigging for those band squats. I’d love to try some band work but I am definitely no gearwhore. I’m a minimalist… Although we do have a very similar squatting technique (with the quick drop and all)

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It’s all good Greg.

Whatever it takes. (My old squadron’s motto, which we later modified (after getting shafted often) to “We Take Whatever”)

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Love the way you McGuivered those bands. I might have to try that out.

And thanks for the fail vid- Just for that I will pile 4 plates of awesomeness just to get a feel for my goal squat and vid the fail for you.

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Thank you n, that’ll be great. Don’t be surprised when you get it though :wink:

Woke up lighter today by a smidge (199.2) must have been all that dancing last night :wink:

Chowing down some oats and eggs, then its off to train arms and abs for an “easy” day.

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license plate I saw in Arkansas