[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I kind of wanna do a bench press challenge, Chris.
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You already won lol. Unless I can out rep you for some reason just cuz I bench 10000000x more often than you do.
I’m down
1/7/2014
Sqwut:
45 5x
135 5x
185 5x
225 5x
275 3x I use higher reps when I warm up for bench than on squat with the same weight…
315 2x
365 2x Fell into the same old trap of making a form change and thinking it works great, but in reality you’ve just never done anything but light weight with it lol. I’m so stupid. What I thought felt better with a higher bar position in reality just felt better because there wasn’t any fucking weight on the bar.
365 4x Went back to my lower bar position and knocked out a nice enough set of 4. I think that’s a PR even, since I have never done a set of 4 before lol.
315 5x
315 5x
315 5x
Well it wasn’t a total loss. The slight stance change and the new mental cues regarding weight distribution on my feet still feel great. It was just the higher bar position that didn’t jive.
Leg Pruss:
4 sets of 10 or something I think. Does this make your legs strong? How long before my legs are as strong as Dan Green’s?
Decline Situps:
3 sets of some reps with a 25 behind my head and then more without it
Ab Rollouts:
3 sets of 10 Probably time to add some weight on my back when I do these.
Yeah dude, like x amount of weight for reps. I’ll even one arm bench, I’m crazy and unstable I’ll do it I swear!!!
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Yeah dude, like x amount of weight for reps. I’ll even one arm bench, I’m crazy and unstable I’ll do it I swear!!![/quote]
Bench with mixed grip?
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Yeah dude, like x amount of weight for reps. I’ll even one arm bench, I’m crazy and unstable I’ll do it I swear!!![/quote]
Bench with mixed grip?[/quote]
Well if we’re gonna do that, we might aswell also do one rep max single arm bench press with our feet up off the bench!
225 for max reps? Should get Sir Quincy Von Teaspar to do it too.
Weak arm dumbell snatch comp?
[quote]Jlabs wrote:
Weak arm dumbell snatch comp?[/quote]
I only have access to 100’s at my home. Not going to be able to make it to the gym in a while.
Hey on the weighted dips, to both you guys, or anyone that mentioned they were strong at them. It’s one of my pet exercises as well, probably my most impressive lift, but when ever I’m using more weight than 50lbs ( done as much as 150x5) but as soon as I add weight I can’t hit depth until the 3-4 rep, I just wonder’d if anyone else had this problem.
When I climb up to do dips with weight, the first rep is like 3inch deep, then the second rep is like 6inch deep, then the 3-4th rep I’m full depth, and I can get my 5-10 reps or what ever. It’s the same on every set, even if I’m fully warmed up, or what not. I never count reps till I get the first full one, but I just wondered if anyone else has this happen. I have a rebuilt shoulder, so it could just be a mental thing with me, just wondering. Latter
It could just be confidence or it could be that your level of elbow tuck is changing throughout the set. I feel more comfortable with a wee bit of flare myself.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]The_Jed wrote:
I too am a gifted dipper, at least compared to my other lifts.
Race to bodyweight + 200 lbs? :)[/quote]
Let’s do it! I’m excited all the sudden to add a bunch of weight on dips. Might go ahead and see how many reps I can do with 135 next time.[/quote]
I’ll do the same; I’ll video an amrap set with 135. That sounds neat, it could be a tiered challenge with rep challenges at each designated weight on the way to 200.
1/8/2014
TnG Deadlifts:
135 5x
225 5x
315 5x
405 1x
435 10x PR. Pretty pumped about that actually.
435 5x
435 5x
435 5x
Barbell Rows: bleh I hate this exercise, and I hate how all the strong people like it
225 10x
225 10x
225 10x
225 10x
V-Bar Bent Rows or whatever you call it when you have a barbell in the corner with a handle:
4 sets of 10
Weighted Chia Chins:
4 sets of 10
Lat Pulldowns:
3 sets of 10
Cable Rear Delts: I keep forgetting rear delts are a thing
5 sets of 10
Hanging Leg Raises:
3 sets of 10 dat abs
Windmills:
1 set of 10
Concentration Curls:
40’s for 4 sets of 10
Incline Seated Curls:
30’s for 3 sets of 10
I hate barbell rows more than anything
I used to like them when I was starting out, but I just neglected for so long that whenever I would use them again, weights that I felt were light were hard and every aspect of the lift felt incredibly awkward.
I actually prefer bent over BB rows over most back accessory because they can be used for lat hypertrophy, or direct deadlift assistance if you go really heavy and bring the weight down close to the floor on the negative.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I actually prefer bent over BB rows over most back accessory because they can be used for lat hypertrophy, or direct deadlift assistance if you go really heavy and bring the weight down close to the floor on the negative.[/quote]
Winner! I remember starting out and seeing this beast old dude doing bent over rows with my deadlift max. Told me its the best way to get a huge back he was huge so I took his advice. DB rows have their place but seem to hit more of the shoulder blade and trap areas.
I always had issues feeling BB rows in my back and I felt like my lower back got tired faster than anything.
I sucked at them, hard.
Since were all talking about BB rows, and I actually did a few sets today after deads, first time in forever. I love them, and think they build a thick back like no other exercise. The problems I had, and the reason I stopped doing them, was I found, I got to a point strength wise, where they became impossible to program. As a PLer, deads have to be the main move, along with squats, and your doing these a couple times a week atleast, so once you start handling over 275 I found, the benifits to the upper back, became out weigh’d by the recovery of the lower back, I know some guys find a way, but thats my story
Fucking huge back workout by the way Csulli, suprised nobody’s mentioned it, I thought I had a marathon back workout today, then I come see what you slogged through, and I feel like a little girl, 
Latter
Chris Duffin is my sole reason for doing them.
[quote]Jlabs wrote:
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
DB rows have their place but seem to hit more of the shoulder blade and trap areas.[/quote]
ANNNNND this is why I have no lat development