2/13/2014
Paused Bench:
45 10x
135 5x
185 5x
225 5x
275 2x
295 3x
295 2x
295 2x
295 2x
275 3x
275 3x
275 3x
275 3x
275 3x
TnG Bench:
225 10x
225 10x
225 10x
I should warm up more slowly. I didn’t even feel like I had my form dialed in until I was practically done with the pause bench.
Still not 100% on the strength. That 295 felt tougher than it should have. … Or maybe I am 100% ;_;
Okay.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Okay.[/quote]
I don’t get it.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
So did you just end up settling on eating a couple pounds of nuts a day?[/quote]
No I had it figured out eventually between ground beef, avocados, and sweet potatoes. But as of a couple days ago I had cut out all the supposed bad things for several weeks, and I felt no different. In fact I felt worse. My asthma showed zero improvement, I was sick as hell, and I had lost a bunch of weight and strength that I still can’t regain. Now I wasn’t expecting much, but if I’m going to restrict my diet it had better do something.
No, two days ago I decided to fuck off with that. I ate 4000 calories of taco bell, and did the same thing the next day. And you know what? I feel fuckin amazing. I’m still going to track my diet, but I’m eating the shit out of dairy and grains. Cutting those out not only didn’t help anything, I just felt worse all together.
It’s a bit of a necessary tribulation I guess. Now at least I am pretty motivated to track my diet for the first time ever. Right now I’m trying to go with about 3500 calories at 250p/400c/100f, although I am pretty tempted to lower the protein to like 180 and make it up with fat. I think 1g per pound is, in reality, overkill.
I even got a food scale. This morning I ate exactly 100g of Captain Crunch (and a protein shake). I used 500g of milk which I estimated to convert to around 17.5oz. And for lunch I had 170g of couscous.
That’s science.[/quote]
Ha.
Only a matter of time until you start weighing your taco bell meals.
I cut out dairy for awhile because dairy supposedly increases mucous production, and I have all sorts of sinus issues. Things actually got worse. Plus, my body seems to crave the calcium. I actually get achy without enough milk.
I’m not really sure what to think about this nutrition stuff. Most of these “rules” just don’t seem to work for me either.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Okay.[/quote]
I don’t get it.[/quote]
The box used to be all yellow for log posts.
It’s glitching today - it was doing it for me on Chobb’s log earlier, but it’s fine on Csulli’s
2/15/2014
18" Deadlift:
45 10x
135 10x
225 5x
315 5x
405 3x
495 3x
545 4x
545 3x
495 5x
Buffalo Bar Bench: Just messed around with this on a whim since the other powerlifters were playing with it
185 5x
225 5x
275 5x
275 2x paused
275 2x paused
275 2x paused
Bench Rack Lockouts: I just broke these off the pins and held them up for as long as I could
315 + quaded minis
365 + quaded minis
405 + quaded minis
495
545
585 miss; felt the bar bending but couldn’t break it off the rack
Pullups:
3 sets of 15
Shoulder circuit:
3 rounds of -
DB shoulder press
cable rear delts
face pulls
Dips:
+50lbs 20x PR probably?
+50lbs 15x
+50lbs 15x
I dunno how this turned into an upper body day, but at least I pulled heavy first.
2/17/2014
Squat:
135 5x
185 5x
225 5x
275 5x
315 3x
365 1x
add wraps
395 2x pretty smooth
remove wraps
335 3x
335 3x
315 3x
My lower back was feeling torched from Saturday still for some reason, and squatting for me is pretty much just a good morning where I sit down first, so all things considered not a bad training session.
Holy fooook quaded minis are no joke.
[quote]budreiser wrote:
Holy fooook quaded minis are no joke.[/quote]
Just tryin to not get left in the dust by you ya bastard.
Bros check this out. Chia (my training partner) decided to do a mock meet yesterday. No rest or prep (he trains 7 days a week), just a whim. Went 465 no wraps, 335, 620 @ 181; 1420 no wraps gym total. Said he will finally do another meet in May.
Let’s all hate him.
Here’s a vid of the 620, he didn’t video the other lifts, just this since it was a PR:
Fukk that guy lol
With a hookgrip too
Just watched the vid…
2/19/2014
Deadlift:
135 5x
225 5x
315 5x
405 3x
455 1x
495 4x touch and go
495 1x
495 1x
495 1x Did three singles to focus on my form. My opener will be about here.
Chia is quite the beast 7 days a week wow. I like the commands lol
Damn. How does he set up his training cycles? That is an impressive lift.
And, speaking of meets. When are you going to do another one?
[quote]trivium wrote:
And, speaking of meets. When are you going to do another one?[/quote]
I’ve got one March 8; in two weeks lol. I’m hoping that come meet time I’ll feel good. I was feeling my strongest ever about a month or a month and a half ago. Lately training has been very rough.
[quote]trivium wrote:
Damn. How does he set up his training cycles? That is an impressive lift.[/quote]
He does high volume, high frequency training. He lifts 7 days a week, occasionally multiple times a day. There was a period some time ago when he trained 2-3 times every day.
Now it is typically just once a day, not counting pullups. He will do around 1000 pullups a week outside of normal training. He doesn’t even count those as an activity really anymore; just baseline.
This varies, but in general his training is set up like this:
Monday - squat and bench
Tuesday - Olympic lift training
Wednesday - deadlift
Thursday - Olympic lift training
Friday - squat and bench
Saturday - strongman training
Sunday - bodybuilding training
I got the PR spreadsheet training idea from him, and that’s more or less what he does. He’ll often just try to hit very small volume PR’s or occasionally a rep PR followed by back down volume sets.
Typically the volume is Smolov based; either 10x3, 5x7, 7x5, 4x9, or also 5x5. He is a big believer in linear progression; adding a small amount of weight each week for several weeks.
I don’t know too much about the structure of the Oly lift training. He normally will only focus on either the snatch or the clean, not both in one day. He’ll do front squats or snatch grip deads often on these days after his main lift training.
He does conditioning pretty often. 3 or 4 times a week I guess. Sometimes it is an HIIT circuit after lifting, sometimes it’s sprints in the morning. And I mean like 2 hours of sprints lol.
He said recently his diet is 4500 calories a day, 250p; doesn’t specifically track fat or carbs, just protein and calories.
He trains virtually ALL of his squats beltless and paused. He never uses knee wraps. He trains most of his deadlift beltless as well. All of his bench training is paused.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]trivium wrote:
And, speaking of meets. When are you going to do another one?[/quote]
I’ve got one March 8; in two weeks lol. I’m hoping that come meet time I’ll feel good. I was feeling my strongest ever about a month or a month and a half ago. Lately training has been very rough.
[quote]trivium wrote:
Damn. How does he set up his training cycles? That is an impressive lift.[/quote]
He does high volume, high frequency training. He lifts 7 days a week, occasionally multiple times a day. There was a period some time ago when he trained 2-3 times every day.
Now it is typically just once a day, not counting pullups. He will do around 1000 pullups a week outside of normal training. He doesn’t even count those as an activity really anymore; just baseline.
This varies, but in general his training is set up like this:
Monday - squat and bench
Tuesday - Olympic lift training
Wednesday - deadlift
Thursday - Olympic lift training
Friday - squat and bench
Saturday - strongman training
Sunday - bodybuilding training
I got the PR spreadsheet training idea from him, and that’s more or less what he does. He’ll often just try to hit very small volume PR’s or occasionally a rep PR followed by back down volume sets.
Typically the volume is Smolov based; either 10x3, 5x7, 7x5, 4x9, or also 5x5. He is a big believer in linear progression; adding a small amount of weight each week for several weeks.
I don’t know too much about the structure of the Oly lift training. He normally will only focus on either the snatch or the clean, not both in one day. He’ll do front squats or snatch grip deads often on these days after his main lift training.
He does conditioning pretty often. 3 or 4 times a week I guess. Sometimes it is an HIIT circuit after lifting, sometimes it’s sprints in the morning. And I mean like 2 hours of sprints lol.
He said recently his diet is 4500 calories a day, 250p; doesn’t specifically track fat or carbs, just protein and calories.
He trains virtually ALL of his squats beltless and paused. He never uses knee wraps. He trains most of his deadlift beltless as well. All of his bench training is paused.[/quote]
Jesus, I need 4 scoops of MAG-10 and a deload week just from reading the above…
2/21/2014
Paused Bench:
45 10x
95 10x
135 10x
185 5x
225 5x
255 3x
275 3x
290 1x
310 2x incredibly easy, but my ass came up
310 1x butt came up
310 1x
310 1x
310 1x butt came up
310 1x
310 1x butt came up
310 1x
310 1x butt came up
310 1x
310 1x butt came up
310 1x
310 1x
This wasn’t the plan, but for fuck’s sake I tried so hard to be able to consistently keep my butt down, and I just couldn’t.
I ended up doing 13 sets with 310 and my butt came off the bench on 6 of them. Around set 7 I even tried tucking my feet up under me for a couple sets. That didn’t really help. Honestly around a month and a half ago when I started pausing all my reps I thought I had this shit figured out. I trained in my singlet tonight for this exact reason; to see if I could still keep my ass down without shorts, which obviously are looser.
This is like my last meet fucking all over again. It’s been about 8 months since my last meet, and now I don’t even feel any fucking stronger than I did back then. I’d be happy if I can just squat the same shit I did last time. And who the fuck knows what I’ll bench now. I’d like to get at least 325, but more than likely it’ll get redlighted for my hips coming up. So then I’ll end up with just my opener, which will only be like 305 or something.
The only thing I’m actually confident I can PR at is my deadlift. I am pretty sure I can hit 530 any time any place. Big fucking whoop. I already did 530 at that deadlift only meet. I don’t really give a shit about proving I can do that in a full meet. I want to at least improve my bench and dead at this meet and total 1300, but who the fuck knows now.
After this meet I think I am done with powerlifting. For whatever goddamn reason I can’t keep my ass down when I bench. That used to be my favorite lift, but training for meets has made me hate it. Going into a powerlifting meet for me takes literally all the fun out of training. Why do it if all it does is ruin what I love most? After this I am only going to do strongman. My back is already strong enough to do amateur contests and not be embarrassed. I have a ton of work to do with pressing, but I don’t mind that.