Safety Squat Bar. The 235 tells me she’s got a hella posterior chain cuz those things have a nasty tendancy to shove you forward. Nice work!
When you hit 315 you can get Chucks AND a flame beanie!
[quote]cholulalula wrote:
Today:
SSB Box squats:
A bunch-worked up to a 235 single!!! (these were feeling strong strong)
Edited to add !!! to keep matty and print happy
Then a hodgepodge of DLS (225 singles) sled drag/prowler push (triox5), farmers, stones, tire.
Hodgepodge felt weak. It’s a good thing I didn’t give up swearing for Lent.[/quote]
Seriously, Seriously impressive work…what kind of place do you train at, seems like weight lifting heaven with all the stuffs that is at your disposal.
Nice job on the squat pr!
Holy crap on the SSB squat. I’ve only tried the bar once and it kicked my ass. Great job.
Thanks everyone for the squats love! I love love love squats. Now to work on love love loving deadlifts. So many people do, surely I’m missing something.
Lex-there are types of chucks? I had no idea. I better start researching (always the optimist, ha!)
Austin-Pictured above (the look on that guy’s face tells it all). I’m sure someone else knows more than I do, but I think it changes the center of gravity for the squat, forcing you to use more upper back to keep yourself from eating the floor. I don’t know. It’s hard, but fun.
Frozenkilt-flame beanie? I think I need to wait til I get 2xBW squat to get that.
Matty-I only get to play with that equipment on Saturdays. I go to a gym that is pretty specific to strongman and powerlifting. It is heavenly. I count my lucky stars I get to use the gym and work out with the people there.
Today:
I’ll just cut to the chase. Today was pull up D-Day. I set a goal of 3x10 pull ups last year; attempted in December-failed. Attempted today-HIGHLY SUSPECT reps toward the end. I could have just cried if I weren’t so pissed. I’m currently in the denial stage. I’m not sure if I’ll take a week off and give them another go or if I’m going to just say whatever, be done with it, and set a new goal. UGGGGHHH.
Here’s the video. First set is blurry, it gets better, I promise (sadly the pulls do not).
and a frame of reference-the december attempt:
The rest of today:
MP:
Barx5
65x5
70x5
75x5
85x5
Accessory
DB press
External rotation
Curls
Plate Raise
20 min 20% incline 2.5 speed
Great great videos! Your form is killer.
Hey, you’re looking REALLY good on the pullups. What’s your approach, if you don’t mind my asking?
The only time I decided to add an emphasis for chins, I just started off at 3 sets of 5 (I could do about 12 easy-ish at the time) basically at the end of every workout (so 4x/week). Every week or two, I added a rep.
Over the course of 12 or so weeks I had, without struggling for a single rep, worked up to 3 sets of 12. And I decided to take one day and see how many I could do and I knocked off 24. I don’t think I’ve done any since, seriously 
But if you don’t mind the repetition and patience involved, I think pullups/chins are one of those exercises you can sneak up on.
Might want to try 4x4 and then slowly work up to 4 sets of 8 over the next 8 or 10 weeks. Then see where you’re at.
What I like to do is a few weighted pull ups and then take the weight off and then the regular body weight pull ups feel like nothin’! It’s crazy awesome.
Anyway, you’re my hero. You are the sexiest pull upper I ever did see…
Reps were suspect but you did them from a dead hang so there’s no shame in that. And you didn’t full on kip so I would count them. Nothing wrong with making a new goal though and I’d go weighted. You’re making me really miss pull ups now…
You’re really lucky to be able to use all of that equipmet. I’m super jealous…
james
Hey all max effort movements whether it be reps or 1 rep maxes form is going to be compromised. I don’t care if its chins or deadlifts, if you did each of them with perfect form, it wouldn’t be much of a challenge…you did awesome…I could watch you do chin ups all day
Wow, thats really impressive. You should be very proud madam!!
WHOA!!! Check out the pullups AND the safety bar squat shit!!
Ace!!1 I’m so impressed fucking a!!! Swoon :)!!1
BAMF
Beautiful pull ups Lula as always. Between you and Nadia, it will be a teeth using fight to see who is the Queen of them.
For Austin and the pic above. That would be Dave Tate when he was fat. lol. The safety squat bar puts the center of gravity more forward, so it just puts your back through hell. I want one really bad…
Well i was going to make some sort of crossfit joke… naaahhhh just kidding. Very nice pullups though, keep hammering them and as spock said do some weighted pullups and you’ll get to your pullup goals.
30 pull ups is the shit! I don’t care what anyone says. You just keep doin what you’re doin.
Who else besides Nadia can 3x10 pull ups?
That hat!!!.. You are sulfurous.
Im wayyyyy behind on reading logs, butt speaking of behinds…yours looks very smackable!!
Training looks so awesome, they have stones at the PL gym here, but Im so out of it that
ID be using it only as a seat.
Lula!
nice pullups -
yeah, that’s purdy much all I got~!
You can do way more pullups than me.
Sadface.