Woke at 263.2 lbs, looking a little bloated.
@littlesleeper ideally I get an invite to nationals in June, but failing that there’s a meet here in October.
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Mark I noticed in your comp vids that you don’t use anyone to give you a hand off for the bench. Is this because you prefer to take it yourself, or because you didn’t have anyone to hand it off for you? At a comp like this do you need your own handler if you want a hand off in bench or will the spotters on the platform hand off if you ask ?
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I just prefer to be self-reliant, and now I can actually self hand out I don’t need anyone to lift off. I don’t have a training partner or someone I know will be at all my meets, so I figured out how to make it work on my own.
Look, ideally you’ve got someone to wrap your knees and someone to hand out your bench. Except, it needs to be someone who knows exactly how you want it done so that usually means the same person. If you train in a crew, that’s not an issue, because most of you will be at every meet. That’s the gold standard, though.
It’s almost always possible to find someone to hand out for you in meet if that’s something you want. You can ask the spotters, talk to the meet director, etc. Except, that means the person lifting out for you doesn’t know how you want it done and unless you can communicate very clearly what you need and they understand exactly what you say, you risk getting a handout that fucks your setup.
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I am not sure that my set up for bench is that specific yet that anyone can fk it up. I still kinda just muscle it up. LOL
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A bad bench handoff is fucked up. You’re all tight, white knuckling the bar, applying enough force that 15-20 lbs of pressure will lift the bar up and into position, and the jackass lifting off to you, despite you telling them not to do this, wrenches the bar off the hooks and lets go, giving you the sensation that somebody has dropped the weight onto your hands from several feet in the air.
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Maybe so, but someone moving the bar against you as you unrack will throw you off no matter how good or has your setup is.
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Exactly. All that does is pull your shoulders out of alignment and ruins all the stability you created. I remember one meet I got the rack call and the spotters dead set pulled the the bar into the rack before I had a chance to move with it. Nearly yanked my shoulders out.
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Is the price difference between the vivo primus and the Merrell vapour glove justifiable in your opinion?
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Extra workout
One round of 25 rounds each of
Pull aparts
Air squats
Reverse hypers
Lying leg raises
Honestly, I could have done two rounds but I figured I’d start slow. Surprisingly none of it was really any effort.
I’ll head to the gym tomorrow for some actual work
I haven’t got any of those 2 shoes, but I’m about to buy both. The merrel for the gym and hill sprints, and the primus for also the gym and occasional casual use. Apparently the primus has a wider toe box and a better quality construction, although saying that the Merrel vapour glove has its own large fan club saying it’s the best shoe they have ever had.
I have the vivobarefoot gobi, which is the dress shoe version that I use everyday for work. One of the best shoes I’ve ever had. At the moment I use the New Balance minimus for the gym which is great, but they have made the newer version much narrower. I’m lucky that my gym is a small local joint and I’m allowed to workout barefoot most of the time anyway, but it’s good to have the barefoot shoe option for when travelling etc.
Let me know what you end up choosing?
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Just to remind you, this is exactly what McGill says to avoid. You absolutely do not want increased lower back flexibility, especially if you already have a back injury. He fixed Brian Carroll after he almost crippled himself, I would take his advice.
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This is why I started self-unracking, I got fucked up by bad liftoffs a couple times in a meet. At my first meet the guy basically threw the bar forward, I lost control and it landed close to my waist. Unless you have a training partner who can give you a liftoff in the meet and he knows exactly how to do it for you, it’s a gamble.
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That’s why I’m ditching it.
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Woke at 263 lbs, looking similar to yesterday
Will do, I’m erring towards the vapour gloves, but only because they’re much cheaper
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Todays training
3x10 bracing hip thrusts supersetted with 15 air squats
10 bracing 90/90
Sled push
Counting a round trip of the 13 pace track as one (low handles one way, high the return)
1xsled
1xsled plus plate
8xsled plus two plates
1xsled plus plate
1xsled
Not incapacitating, but left me breathing hard
Reverse hyper
2x25x2 plates
That left me sucking wind.
Hammer Strength pulldown
Bunchxframe
Bunchxplate
2xsomexplate and a half
Machine RDF
2xbunchx33 lbs
Around 30 minutes
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Woke at 262.1 lbs, looking much the same.
I’m fucking smoked today. That came of the blue. Ended up having a long nap where I slept properly and not just dozed. Possibly I’m coming down with something, or could be delayed from the meet. Normally the day after a meet I’m pretty cooked, this time I had to drive back from Newcastle and the next day back to work so didn’t really have time for that. Didn’t feel it either. Today was like a freight train, and it’s not like yesterday at the gym I did that much or worked that hard.
Extra workout
One round of 25 each of
Pull aparts
Air squats
Reverse hypers
Lying leg raises
Kept it at a round because this was more about doing it than anything.
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I think I’m coming down with something. I’m still tired AF and my nose is starting to tickle and run. Throat feels funny too.
Good timing though. I’ve got three days to kick it before training starts
Drink heaps of water and eat like a mofo you’ll be good.
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