Nice pulling, my lungs would be first to go also. How sore are you?
Awesome Snap, agree with the crowd…doms for the win
I wouldn’t even try 35, it makes me sore thinking about it, I like the new avatar.
word! great rep attack! ! sumo too! !
Looking good Snap! How you feeling after all those reps? That had to shock the hell out of your system.
Your laying pretty low. Your probably going to get on here and say I had no Doms bitches, Im going to be the rep queen now 
Now that youve been playing around with more sumo, are you going to stick with it or go back to conventional?
I had no DOMS from the DLs. Obviously, I didn’t push myself. To be honest, I wasn’t really into it but did it anyway. I’ll give it a go another time perhaps. I don’t plan to turn into a rep queen, but it’s very easy for me to rep in sumo stance once I get my rhythm.
Took a few days off and was in Steamboat Springs. Back at it today.
Squat
5/50
5/65
4/85
3/110
2/120
3/141
I required stabilization on my final rep. My coach didn’t help me up. But I can’t say I would have been successful with the rep if he hadn’t put his hands on my waist and stabilized me a bit coming outta the hole.
2/5/115
Standing GMs
3/8/80
RDLs
5/95
3/5/155
Revere hypers with DB, good girl/bad girl . . . all with a wee bit more weight.
5 chins as I was leaving the gym.
[quote]UpScale wrote:
Now that youve been playing around with more sumo, are you going to stick with it or go back to conventional?[/quote]
The jury’s out. I can hold my form and rep this stance so much better than conventional. But I don’t have much confidence that I can break the same amount of weight off the floor for a heavy single. Time will tell.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]UpScale wrote:
Now that youve been playing around with more sumo, are you going to stick with it or go back to conventional?[/quote]
The jury’s out. I can hold my form and rep this stance so much better than conventional. But I don’t have much confidence that I can break the same amount of weight off the floor for a heavy single. Time will tell.[/quote]
In a suit, I think you will be able to break a crap load more off the floor than conventional. You get more out of gear pulling sumo. Raw, I’d go with conventional.
good lifting in here snap…
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Woke up with a slight sense of dread at having to pull for reps since I’d committed to it. Elected to go to my local rec center since my regular training gyms are a drive and I’m super busy.
RDL
8/45
5/95
Sumo DL
5/115
5/135
Time for the 155-lb. challenge. Didn’t quite go as planned. I wanted to pull one set of 20 reps. Instead I pulled two sets (15 and 12 reps, respectively) in less than the 2 minutes for a total of 27. Took a break in the middle because my lungs were burning. Not sure if that’s allowed. Wasn’t expecting my lungs to be the limiting factor. The weight never felt that bad. Except I had a terrible start with balance issues. Makes me wonder how people can break super heavy weight off the floor and keep their balance in sumo stance.
In conclusion, my efforts were nothing to write home about. But it was the best I could do today.
Finished up my training by pulling
1/175
1/185
After that, a few squats with inconsequential weight and a few lat pulldowns.
Interestingly, the cage at this rec center is set up so that when you unrack to squat, your face is mere inches away from a piece of glass that is jutting out (the green line in the photo). Really stupid dangerous.
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Sorry I’m late to the party.
Holy, uh, WOW, uh Dang!
27 is amazing! But at 1.5 BW it is F’n incredible!
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
In a suit, I think you will be able to break a crap load more off the floor than conventional. You get more out of gear pulling sumo. [/quote]
I don’t have a sumo suit. I have a conventional Velocity that I haven’t broken in yet. Or a wide-stance squat suit. That’s what I’ll use when I decide to give gear a go in this stance.
I had what might end up being a breakthrough in bench setup today. Lately, I’ve been noticing that in order to drive with my legs I have been lifting my ass off the bench more and more. I got called for it by one referee at my last meet. It’s a habit I need to break yesterday. So my coach suggested I grip the bench with my thighs to keep my ass down. Well, that did wonders. No ass lift. The challenge now is to keep my feet flat with my thighs gripping the bench. Anybody else use this technique?
Using this setup, I worked up to single at 109 in a loose shirt and then dropped the weight and [sort of] did 5/3/98. The fourth set was a fail as I got out of the groove on the first rep and almost decapitated myself. Haven’t done that in a long while. Makes me remember that you really have to stay tight on the descent when shirted and pay attention. I came back and got all the reps on the fifth set.
For accessory work, I did seated wide-grip rows, HLRs, straight bar cable tricep pressdowns, and a bentover rear delt machine. I was able to go up in weight on all accessory work. My shoulder is feeling super awesome these days.
Super awesome is…super awesome!
Interesting - keep us posted on how that works for you.
I started out benching with my feet in close and sort of gripping the bench with my legs but called for touching the bench with my feet. So I moved out wide with my feet…
[quote]soldog wrote:
I started out benching with my feet in close and sort of gripping the bench with my legs but called for touching the bench with my feet. [/quote]
The base of the bench? Naw, I’m not touching that. But I better video next week to see exactly what I’m doing. I’m often surprised when I watch vids of myself.
nice work-
a while back I was benching- and did use the method you describe-
I never get decent lift offs that are worth it and did use my thighs to grab the bench a bit.
think I did it to keep my ass down when I unracked the bar
can’t beleive you did that challenge and still had more in ya.
and bench break throughs are the bestest.
commercial style kitchen sounds awesome - pics of finish product plz.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
commercial style kitchen sounds awesome - pics of finish product plz.[/quote]
It would be worth it to fly you out to design my home interior and then dress me up and take pics of me. Truly, no talent do I possess in either of these arenas.
Any idea whether you’re going to make it to St. Kitts? I’m arriving on the 29th.
So I had a funny little “nightmare” the other night. I was wrapping my coach’s knees at a meet and just couldn’t do it. Tried six times . . . all the while his name was being called, the clock was ticking, and he was yelling at me. Such anxiety I have about handling him at IPF Worlds in three weeks. Funny but it never dawned on me before that perhaps I get such a gain from my knee wraps because I have tiny little knees and get many, many wraps.