[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
Like a bad fucking dream, that just won’t stop, every time I think I’m gaining ground on you, I flip over to your log, and see more insane shit. I haven’t even had time to set up my belt and dip station to see where I’m at, and then I see your incline workout, the one area I knew for sure I had you beat was overhead strength, and now your doing 5x5 with 235, LOL I’m almost ready to throw in the towel, and find soemone else to do strength challanges with, like a 12 year old Send me some of that water where you live. The guy from that bad X men movie ‘‘Jugernaut’’ jus keeps smashing through shit.
Anyway nice work on the inclines, I hadn’t noticed you getting that strong on inclines, is this somthing new ? Because inclines are my go to exercise when I’m trying to bring up my bench, but I’m going to start keeping secrets to myself, cause you don’t need any, as long as you have that Tennessee watter, I guess ! Good stuff Latter[/quote]
Thanks man! I’ll try to hang in there as long as I can before you overtake me; wouldn’t want to make it easy on ya.
This is only the second time in months that I’ve done barbell incline. I had been doing some dumbbell incline a little while back though. Really the only difference in strength I think is that I’m doing it first as opposed to doing it after I’ve already done 18 sets of flat bench. Turns out that makes a big difference lol.
Ya, I’m training in my garage right now, for the first time in my life, so I’m just using you and a couple other guys as motivation. All my life I’m used to training with partner’s, or back when I was PLing, with a group of PLer’s, and it plays a big role in helping you get ramped up for a workout. It so happen’s that on everything but deads you and I are pretty even, so I’ve been trying to keep pace with you for the last 8mths or so, and you set crazzy pace.
Guys don’t realize how much a crowded gym, and partner’s help, until you have all day to do nothing, but watch TV, and you have to drag your ass out to a freezing cold garage, and find a reason to beat the hell out of yourself for an hour, every day or so. Anyway just kind of feeding off the energy around here, so thanks, and it looks like I’ll be on house arrest until atleast April, so keep up the good work. Latter
Hey Chris, it seems to me that lunging is a rarity for you, but how about adding those and perhaps step ups in to your assistance for squats? Leg press really has almost no carry over to squat besides knee flexion, whereas you get full knee-hip rhythm with lunges. Some people like leg press but tbh I think everyone should lunge for leg assistance. I like reverse lunges off a deficit alot. I wanna see your squat catch up to your bench and deadlift.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Hey Chris, it seems to me that lunging is a rarity for you, but how about adding those and perhaps step ups in to your assistance for squats? Leg press really has almost no carry over to squat besides knee flexion, whereas you get full knee-hip rhythm with lunges. Some people like leg press but tbh I think everyone should lunge for leg assistance.[/quote]
But viiiiiiiiinyyyyyyyy, lunges are hard. Leg pruss I can feel like I’m doing something without really having to do any work.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I like reverse lunges off a deficit alot.
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Are you trying to get me to fall backwards down a staircase?
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I wanna see your squat catch up to your bench and deadlift. [/quote]
Squat is the most unnatural human movement. My body rejects it. It only likes bench press, as nature intended.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Hey Chris, it seems to me that lunging is a rarity for you, but how about adding those and perhaps step ups in to your assistance for squats? Leg press really has almost no carry over to squat besides knee flexion, whereas you get full knee-hip rhythm with lunges. Some people like leg press but tbh I think everyone should lunge for leg assistance.[/quote]
But viiiiiiiiinyyyyyyyy, lunges are hard. Leg pruss I can feel like I’m doing something without really having to do any work.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I like reverse lunges off a deficit alot.
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Are you trying to get me to fall backwards down a staircase?
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I wanna see your squat catch up to your bench and deadlift. [/quote]
Squat is the most unnatural human movement. My body rejects it. It only likes bench press, as nature intended.[/quote]
I just thought of the greatest exercise cause of what you said.
Reverse lunges off of a 20 foot deficit. It’s great because it teaches people to fall off of a house and break both ankles so they can’t ever squat again!
Added a couple things and removed a couple things I felt weren’t working. I’ve not branched out too much yet, just been beating the same kind of PR’s mostly in the 10’s and 5x5. Once the March meet is out of the way I’ll go after some of the random blank spaces just for the hell of it.
[quote]trivium wrote:
Do you still like the wider stance that you were using a few months back?[/quote]
No lol, funny you should ask that. I’ve gone back to a regular stance, but now I am turning my feet out instead of having them straight ahead. This is achieving pretty much the same goal of helping my lockout a little bit.
Upon reviewing this video – and maybe I am just worrying too much, but – it looks like your hip action is basically shifting from a kyphotic to lordotic spine position, all while under a heavy load. I wonder if this will be a sustainable technique in the long run. Perhaps we need to reconstruct your form a bit after this meet.
[quote]BCpowder wrote:
Upon reviewing this video – and maybe I am just worrying too much, but – it looks like your hip action is basically shifting from a kyphotic to lordotic spine position, all while under a heavy load. I wonder if this will be a sustainable technique in the long run. Perhaps we need to reconstruct your form a bit after this meet. [/quote]
I was actually thinking the exact same thing. It would be better if I had a sustained back arch throughout with the same hip action.
Bench:
45 30x
95 20x
135 10x
185 5x
225 5x
285 5x all paused
285 5x all paused
285 5x all paused
285 5x all paused
285 5x all paused; volume PR
225 15x touch and go
Probably going to be pausing all my benching from here till the meet considering the meet is suddenly only like 5 weeks away, and I haven’t really even given it any thought.
Incline DB Press:
70’s 10x
100’s 8x
100’s 6x
Shit felt heavy today.
Skull Crushers:
110 10x
110 10x
110 10x
Rope Pushdowns:
3 sets of 10
Lateral Raises:
30 10x
35 10x
35 10x
Cable Flies:
3 sets of 10
And I just realized I forgot to do rear delts even though I promised Chia yesterday that I would do them. I am about to watch Spartacus for like 3 hours, and I will do band pullaparts the entire time I swear to God.
Send me some of that water where you live. The guy from that bad X men movie ‘‘Jugernaut’’ jus keeps smashing through shit.
