[quote]DSSG wrote:
Is it my imagination, or do your knees cave when you deadlift?[/quote]
I dunno, could be. I may take a closer look next time when I have better lighting.
Could you possibly imagine me really hard deadlifting 600? Maybe that would work lol.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Is it my imagination, or do your knees cave when you deadlift?[/quote]
I dunno, could be. I may take a closer look next time when I have better lighting.
Could you possibly imagine me really hard deadlifting 600? Maybe that would work lol.[/quote]
Stop pretending a 600lb deadlift is so hard for you lol. You’ve got it before the end of 2015. Your speed off the floor is great, just work the lockout. Do like 14"-18" pulls and train your glutes and thoracic extension more. Everytime you deadlift sub-500, the speed off the floor is that of a 600lb puller, it’s just your lockout sucks poopie pies. You need to attack that damn deadlift with some serious aggression sometime soon and knock out 600. It’s imminent!
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Is it my imagination, or do your knees cave when you deadlift?[/quote]
I dunno, could be. I may take a closer look next time when I have better lighting.
Could you possibly imagine me really hard deadlifting 600? Maybe that would work lol.[/quote]
Stop pretending a 600lb deadlift is so hard for you lol. You’ve got it before the end of 2015. Your speed off the floor is great, just work the lockout. Do like 14"-18" pulls and train your glutes and thoracic extension more. Everytime you deadlift sub-500, the speed off the floor is that of a 600lb puller, it’s just your lockout sucks poopie pies. You need to attack that damn deadlift with some serious aggression sometime soon and knock out 600. It’s imminent! [/quote]
Me and my training partner were talking about this the other day. For me the deadlift doesn’t even start till it’s past my knees lol.
10/7/2013
Squat:
45 6x
135 5x
185 5x
225 5x
275 3x
315 1x
335 5x
365 2x
385 2x
335 5x
Single Leg Press:
40x each leg
20x each leg w/ isometric push against the pin at the top of each rep
Liked a bit of leg pump. Did some other little things just to get my quads swoled too.
Bench:
45 20x
135 10x
185 5x
225 6x
255 5x
275 4x
285 3x
295 2x
305 2x Easy as ice cream. Bench feels really good again.
275 7x
255 10x
DB Incline starting very steep and decreasing the angle each set:
75’s 10x
75’s 13x
75’s 13x
75’s 15x
75’s 17x
Did some of those rows where you grab a bar and put your feet up on a bench or whatever and row your chest into the bar. Couple sets bodyweight and couple sets with a 45 on my chest for 10’s.
Did you finally abandon those silly things called pecs, and embraced your lats, and triceps, Csulli? 
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Did you finally abandon those silly things called pecs, and embraced your lats, and triceps, Csulli? ;)[/quote]
Actually I’m using more pecs! But mostly it’s using the lats that has helped.
xoxo,
Your biggest fan.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Did you finally abandon those silly things called pecs, and embraced your lats, and triceps, Csulli? ;)[/quote]
Actually I’m using more pecs! But mostly it’s using the lats that has helped.[/quote]
You know that every time someone benches with their pecs, Louie Simmons kills a kitten. Do you not?
That being said, I have pecs now. I am not sure how to feel about that. (since I am more of a tricep/delt/lat bencher)
[quote]infinite_shore wrote:
xoxo,
Your biggest fan.[/quote]
The enemy approaches!
My best single was in the meet I did in July which was 425. Since then I’ve been making relatively steady progress. If I threw on the knee wraps I’d most likely be around 450 at the moment, but we won’t know till I do my next full meet.
Honestly I thought head off the bench was allowed in virtually all the federations except the IPF. It isn’t against the rules in the SPF which is what a lot of the meets around here are. And USPF is okay with head coming off as well. That’s good to be mindful of though. I don’t really feel like I need to do that with my head; it’s just some kind of habit.
I only bench shirtless lol. None of my other training is shirtless except maybe outdoor cardio. I bench shirtless because I can get such a great grip on that bench pad with skin as opposed to cotton or the slick material a lot of athletic wear is made of.
[quote]DSSG wrote:
wide grip overhead press
95X8
115X8
130X10 just being awesome as usual
[/quote]
Csulli, how is your overhead press going? Also… are you a fellow son of odin?
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
wide grip overhead press
95X8
115X8
130X10 just being awesome as usual
[/quote]
Csulli, how is your overhead press going? Also… are you a fellow son of odin?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57nmz_manowar-sons-of-odin_news[/quote]
Nice work on overhead ya skinny bastard! And nice 13th warrior link too lol.
10/9/2013
Bench:
135 +25lbs of chain 10x This was just what was on the bench when I got there, so I went with it.
160 +25 chain 10x
180 +25 chain 5x
180 +50 chain 5x
190 +50 chain 5x
210 +50 chain 5x
230 +50 chain 7x Tried to get nasty with the form and eek out rep 8, but I couldn’t quite lock it out.
Close Grip Bench:
190 +50 chain 10x
165 +50 chain 12x
Close Grip Floor Press:
225 5x
225 5x
225 5x
Dips:
+90lbs 10x
+90lbs 10x
+90lbs 10x
Fat Grip Pushdowns:
fat stack for 3 sets of 12
Card Workout:
Used 90lb KB swings, squat vertical jumps, dips, and BW rows with my feet up on a bench. This feels like the best exercise setup I’ve found so far for this workout.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
wide grip overhead press
95X8
115X8
130X10 just being awesome as usual
[/quote]
Csulli, how is your overhead press going? Also… are you a fellow son of odin?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57nmz_manowar-sons-of-odin_news[/quote]
Nice work on overhead ya skinny bastard! And nice 13th warrior link too lol.
[/quote]
I prefer to be referred to as a moderately skinny bastard now. My collar bone has disappeared, and people say “HOLY FUCK!” when they see my arms.
Here’s tonight’s top set:
There might have been a strategic way in which I could have locked out that last rep. My left arm had it, but I held it back to try and wait on my right arm to catch up, but it never did. Maybe it woulda worked better to just go ahead and lock the left and do some nasty crooked, twisting lockout with the right arm lol.
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
wide grip overhead press
95X8
115X8
130X10 just being awesome as usual
[/quote]
Csulli, how is your overhead press going? Also… are you a fellow son of odin?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57nmz_manowar-sons-of-odin_news[/quote]
Nice work on overhead ya skinny bastard! And nice 13th warrior link too lol.
[/quote]
I prefer to be referred to as a moderately skinny bastard now. My collar bone has disappeared, and people say “HOLY FUCK!” when they see my arms. ;)[/quote]
High school swole is an interesting experience.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
wide grip overhead press
95X8
115X8
130X10 just being awesome as usual
[/quote]
Csulli, how is your overhead press going? Also… are you a fellow son of odin?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57nmz_manowar-sons-of-odin_news[/quote]
Nice work on overhead ya skinny bastard! And nice 13th warrior link too lol.
[/quote]
I prefer to be referred to as a moderately skinny bastard now. My collar bone has disappeared, and people say “HOLY FUCK!” when they see my arms. ;)[/quote]
High school swole is an interesting experience.[/quote]
Swole to normal people, decent to the other lifters. 
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Swole to normal people, decent to the other lifters. :)[/quote]
Senior year of high school I was all of 170lbs, and I still had some girls say things like “you’re too big and muscly” lol.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Swole to normal people, decent to the other lifters. :)[/quote]
girls say things like “you’re too big”[/quote]
Of course, girls say that all the time in bed (just kidding).
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
wide grip overhead press
95X8
115X8
130X10 just being awesome as usual
[/quote]
Csulli, how is your overhead press going? Also… are you a fellow son of odin?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57nmz_manowar-sons-of-odin_news[/quote]
Nice work on overhead ya skinny bastard! And nice 13th warrior link too lol.
[/quote]
I prefer to be referred to as a moderately skinny bastard now. My collar bone has disappeared, and people say “HOLY FUCK!” when they see my arms. ;)[/quote]
High school swole is an interesting experience.[/quote]
Swole to normal people, decent to the other lifters. :)[/quote]
It’s really dumb actually.
10/10/2013
Deadlift:
135 5x
185 5x we’re warmin up slow today
225 5x
275 5x
315 3x
365 3x
425 3x
425 3x
425 3x
345 3x
345 3x
345 3x
Stiff Leg Deadlift:
365 5x
365 5x
365 5x
Chest Supported Row:
4 plates 5x
4 plates 5x
4 plates 5x
Supinated Grip Pulldowns:
whole stack baybay 3 sets of 5
Shrugs:
315 5x
315 5x
315 5x
Hyperextensions:
3 sets of 5 w/ bar behind the head
Axle Strict Press:
110 10x
110 10x
110 10x Just slow for some bodybuilding pump action
Shoulder Press Machine:
4 sets of 15
YTWL’s:
3 sets of 5
Hyperextensions: (again)
BW 10x
BW 10x
BW 10x
BW 20x