[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
Hey man, sorry to hear the meet didn’t go your way. You still get my respect for getting out there and putting your nuts on the chopping block. You learned a ton and will crush your next one. Heal up and stay strong brother.[/quote]
plus to the Juan
I’m sure you took note of the whole experience and will crush the next meet. just curious, what did you bring to eat to the meet?[/quote]
I only brought a few bars, but didn’t eat them. I ate before and after the meet.[/quote]
do you think not eating during the meet had an impact on your performance? I seem to remember scj saying in his first meet that he should’ve brought more food. then again iirc that meet ran all day.
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
Hey man, sorry to hear the meet didn’t go your way. You still get my respect for getting out there and putting your nuts on the chopping block. You learned a ton and will crush your next one. Heal up and stay strong brother.[/quote]
plus to the Juan
I’m sure you took note of the whole experience and will crush the next meet. just curious, what did you bring to eat to the meet?[/quote]
I only brought a few bars, but didn’t eat them. I ate before and after the meet.[/quote]
do you think not eating during the meet had an impact on your performance? I seem to remember scj saying in his first meet that he should’ve brought more food. then again iirc that meet ran all day.
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The meet went pretty fast, so food wasn’t so much of an issue.
awesome lifting man. Unfortunate about the meet. I am sure youll come back and smash it all
[quote]jacob-1310 wrote:
awesome lifting man. Unfortunate about the meet. I am sure youll come back and smash it all[/quote]
Thanks
Strict press
5/3/1 option 1/training max 205
rounded 65% @ 135x5
rounded 75% @ 155x5
rounded 85% @ 175x5 PR
Push press from pins
5/3/1 option 2/training max 210
rounded 75% @ 160x5
rounded 80% @ 170x5
rounded 85% @ 180x10 PR
16" Rack pull
used straps on all sets
320x5
390x5 followed by 5 shrugs
460x5 followed by 3 shrugs
530x5 PR
550x2 PR back/glutes tired
Z press
135x6
175x2 upper back fatigue + quad cramp = stop
NOTES:
- An exciting change of pace.
- The first few sets of strict and push press were pretty awkward due to:
- switching from split stance to power stance
- some jarring of the wrists and hands
- not doing either movement consistently in a while
Once I found my rhythm I breezed through my top-sets with at least 2 reps left in reserve for both.
- It was originally supposed to be free standing push press and not push press from pins, but I like the push press from pins. It’s similar to cleaning every rep and still gives the full ROM.
- The plan for the rack pulls is to run 4 week cycles adding 15lbs to all sets each wave until the end of the cycle then dropping 20lbs and repeating the process. Sets of 5 followed by a realization double based on how today went. That would leave me at 600x5 and 620x2 at the end of two cycles … hopefully.
Technique is starting to come together
sorry about the meet results, it says a lot about in a good way that you dropped the deads and didnt risk getting badly injured possibly
youl get it next time
[quote]Blackaggar wrote:
sorry about the meet results, it says a lot about in a good way that you dropped the deads and didnt risk getting badly injured possibly
youl get it next time[/quote]
For sure. Thanks bro.
If you’re planning to continue benching with the closer grip I strongly recommend you hammer hard and heavy on strict presses and push presses the carryover has been incredible for me personally since I started benching close grip all the time.
[quote]BEAR BORN wrote:
If you’re planning to continue benching with the closer grip I strongly recommend you hammer hard and heavy on strict presses and push presses the carryover has been incredible for me personally since I started benching close grip all the time.[/quote]
Yes sir
I forgot to include the side raises I did
25x10
45x8
55x5
Injury update:
Both my groin and my knee are feeling 100% now. Now my upper/mid back, traps, and lats are superfluously sore. Success!
Hopefully hitting up dat dere upper body today
I need to get those damn vids up lol. I promise they’ll be posted within the next two days.
Incoming vids
1st attempt: 523 squat
2nd attempt: 540 squat
As you can see, I almost lost the bar forward (not tight enough). I recovered, but forgot to await the rack command.
LOL the vids are rotated 90 degrees. Must be a result of the video formatting.
very impressive speed on those squats 
[quote]hastalles wrote:
very impressive speed on those squats :P[/quote]
LOL I didn’t know the video was sped up as well. Dammit.