ay man good luck in your comp this weekend…tear that shit up!!
best of luck in that…hope to hear you tore it up!
Thanks, guys. I’ll do my best.
452, 331, 463
1246
They were calling depth really strict on squats. My 2nd attempt got 2 reds at 452, but it went up really easy. Third attempt I went super deep and it was really hard, but I got three whites.
Bench was awesome. It was basically two warmups and one real attempt since I had hit 315 easy in the gym. Opened with 303, then 315, then 331. 331 went up a little slow, but it didn’t feel heavy.
DL was not so good. My back has been a problem lately and it didn’t hurt yesterday, but the poor training the last month has messed with my form and I’ve got a lot of work to do.
All in all, not a bad meet, but I did not get the 1300 total I was shooting for.
I did, however, win the 198 weight class by a wide margin.
That’s awesome man, congrats!
Congrats man…I guess no Hokies showed up huh?..though I guess we probably would have choked if the rest of this fall is any indication haha
j/k man…nice work…thats an awesome trophy too…how was the turnout for the meet?
Thanks guys. 60 lifters were there. 5 in RAW 198.
Hang in there Balla. It’s a long season. Still lots of football to play.
Almost another football weekend. Sadly both our teams may suck 
Perhaps, but I’m holding out hope that the 'Skins will eventually get better. I don’t care how we beat Dallas, as long as we beat Dallas.
UVA is on the rise if the game against USC is any indication. Significant improvement is all I ask for.
Today I returned to the gym. My body is still pretty broken down.
DL
135
225
225 sumo
315
Bench
bar
95
135
135
225
Lat Pulldowns
Pullups
Inv row
Rev Crunch
I should be good to go by Monday. Not sure if I’ll do the deload template or start another cycle. Depends on how I feel.
Best news of the day: My gym got two Texas Power Bars. Awesome.
Recharge Week
Not sure if I’ll resume 5-3-1 this week or not. Definitely skipping squats to give my shoulder another week to heal up.
Bulg SS
warm ups
3x5x135
light weight, but I haven’t done these in a while, so I wanted to get my bearings. Still got a good workout from it, though.
Skull crushers
12x50
12x60
Pull ups
10, 8, 5+25lbs, 4+45lbs, 6, 5
Inverted Row
10, 10
T-Bar row
10 x 1 (plate), 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, Drop set 10x4, 10x3, 6x2
More pull ups with fat guy talking to me…not sure how many, but it was a lot.
Reverse crunches
15, 15, 15
Decent workout. I’m trying to get a lot of pulling done to balance out my bench work. I was reading an article about imbalance and the author suggested if you can’t do one pullup with BW+X=Bench max, then you need to work on your pulling strength. Why not?
I think pulling strength should be close to pushing strength, but I don’t see why the author would compare pullups with bench press since they are in two different planes of motion…not that I’m discouraging pullups!
Row vs Bench & OHP vs Pullups would be more appropriate IMO
My guess is the bench press is probably the strongest pushing you can do and the pullup is the strongest pulling you can do (other than DL). Funny thing, I was just talking to my buddy Tim and he was telling me he did 5 pullups with 100 lbs on him. He weighs 260, so that’s 360 pulling whereas he benched 265 in the competition last weekend. So we’re complete opposites on that (as we are in most comparative studies 5’7 195 vs 6’5 260).
hahah I’m 6’5 275 and there’s no way in hell I could do 5 pullups with 100 pounds…I can’t do much more than 5 pullups with BW! But my bench is close to 400 haha
That’s insane…5 pull ups with 100lbs hanging from you at that bw, damn!
Your team got screwed. That timeout thing is such BS.
[quote]Soda Popinski wrote:
That’s insane…5 pull ups with 100lbs hanging from you at that bw, damn!
Your team got screwed. That timeout thing is such BS. [/quote]
Not really BS…first time in history its actually worked!!! I assume you mean icing the kicker…
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]Soda Popinski wrote:
That’s insane…5 pull ups with 100lbs hanging from you at that bw, damn!
Your team got screwed. That timeout thing is such BS. [/quote]
Not really BS…first time in history its actually worked!!! I assume you mean icing the kicker…[/quote]
Yeah, I mean I guess it’s technically not BS but it just seems dumb. It definitely backfires more times than not. Look at 2007 that Monday night game when the Ravens had the Pats undefeated streak in jeopardy. They did that and the Pats missed the kick and then the second time around they hit it.
The Redskins didn’t get screwed. They blew a 17 point lead. If they deserved to win, they would have won.
My only solace is that my boy Matt Schaub (we went to school together and he and I would critique our respective QB performances - mine being in flag football) put up 497 yards with 3 TD’s.
I forgot to set my alarm on Monday night, so I blew it on Tuesday. Today I wanted to work out at UVA, but the lacrosse team was in the old gym I used to use and I didn’t want to impose. Tomorrow I’m going to do OHP and DL.
Yeah man Schaub has really blown up on the scene…you know what’s funny though is that I don’t remember him at all from UVA, even though I suppose we played him 4 times in college…I actually didn’t even realize he went there until I saw somebody had up on facebook last weekend that a UVA grad bombed them for 500 yards…
Thats pretty cool thats your boy though…he is nasty
Yeah, not bad for a guy who looks stoned all the time. We used to give him a hard time about that, but now he makes $8M/year and gets to go to work in shorts. He was the only QB in the Groh era to beat Tech and he has most of the significant passing records. He was only the full time starter for 2002 and 2003. 2001 he split time with Bryson Spinner and I don’t think he played any against Tech that year.
OK, so I got back on track today for my 5-3-1. I am repeating the last cycle.
Cycle 5 (should I call this 4.1?), Week 1
OHP
bar
bar
95
95
135
155
170 x 5
Dl
135
135
225
225
315
385x5
Kroc Row
105 x 12 each arm
Pullup / Reverse Crunch
12 / 15, 10 / 15, 8 / 15
Writing this down, I feel like I didn’t do much, but my heart rate was elevated for much of the time and I was sweating more than usual.
I have eaten very little the past few days. I’m starting a hard cut, but yesterday was a disaster. I ate two protein bars, a cup of fruit, a small bag of peanuts, and a protein shake. Not good.
So, 197 Monday, 195 today. We’ll see how this cut works out.
Now back to pulling for UVA, the Redskins, AND the Texans (all of them this time, not just Matt, especially since they’re playing Dallas).
And of course, whoever is playing TECH (J/K Balla, train’s back on the track, now just get it moving. UNC is the only team I really hate…well, Maryland, West Virginia, Duke, too).
Got some GPP in tonight. Went to help a lady from church move at 5:30…just got home. Tomorrow morning is going to be interesting.