[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
London Runner wrote:
Yep, your very right. Are you taking them on as students/protoge’s?
LR
Sort of. Unfortunately, my pm’s have been disabled… (weird going from having to read a ton of pm’s practically every hour… Straight to zero lol)
Anyway, I’ll be checking their log every now and again and render assistance, see if progress is what it should be…
It’s the exercise technique one can’t teach all that well over the net though…
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That’s weird, same thing happened to me. I still get PMs but I can’t sent them. Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon.
You can always point them in the direction of YouTube videos with correct technique.
Friend:
4(stacks)x12
5(stacks)x8
6(stacks)x4
8(stacks)x15 (Last few reps were iffy)
BB Back Squats
Me:
75x12
95x8
115x4
145x6 (Last rep was a debacle)
Friend:
135x12
185x8
225x4
285x8 (ZING!)
Widow Maker BB Back Squats
Me:
110x13(pause)
110x7 (pause)
Total 20 reps
Friend:
190x10(pause)
190x5 (pause)
190x5 (pause)
Total 20 reps
Thinking about having weight loss take a back seat. Eating less calories has really slowed my strength gains, although my friend hasn’t lost weight he manages to get stronger every week while not getting fatter. Also measured his arms at nearly 16 and a half inch’s, fucking bastard that’s almost an inch growth in 6 weeks!
Was feeling weak as shit today and it showed i gotta figure out how what needs to be fixed outside the gym so i can keep making progress. Maybe more food or more rest?
Was feeling weak as shit today and it showed i gotta figure out how what needs to be fixed outside the gym so i can keep making progress. Maybe more food or more rest?[/quote]
That’s usually all it comes down to. The difference between even a handful of calories (200-300 hundred) can make all the difference in the world for me training.
That, and when I don’t get in my adequate protein, I definitely find that my performance suffers. For me, sleeping is a factor that doesn’t get changed much, so it mostly boils down to one thing.
Get on a good, consistant sleeping pattern fo sho! I know it can be tough with strange work hours (worked 3rd shift for a while,) but it’s pretty darn important, IMO.
And nice to see you using ramp sets! Any thoughts, or too soon to make a judgement call? (Eat moar food, then watch the magic happen.)
Was feeling weak as shit today and it showed i gotta figure out how what needs to be fixed outside the gym so i can keep making progress. Maybe more food or more rest?
That’s usually all it comes down to. The difference between even a handful of calories (200-300 hundred) can make all the difference in the world for me training.
That, and when I don’t get in my adequate protein, I definitely find that my performance suffers. For me, sleeping is a factor that doesn’t get changed much, so it mostly boils down to one thing.
Get on a good, consistant sleeping pattern fo sho! I know it can be tough with strange work hours (worked 3rd shift for a while,) but it’s pretty darn important, IMO.
And nice to see you using ramp sets! Any thoughts, or too soon to make a judgement call? (Eat moar food, then watch the magic happen.)[/quote]
I’ll admit on free weight sets the ramping feels good, however on stuff like calf raise or reverse pecs deck i prefer a higher rep range for warm ups. But it is to soon to make a judgment call.
Overall a disappointing day for flat bench. My incline bench has now surpassed my flat bench…my left arm just keeps giving out. My friend added 5 pounds but got one less rep so no real progress there either…
Alright so my friend starting doing his widow makers without a box and is probably going to start adding in less and less box work until he doesn’t use a box. I’ll give that a try as well. More concerned with my incline bench beating my flat bench at this point.
My friend still felt a weird pain in his right forearm just below the wrist while doing the BB EZ curls. Also thinking about switching out PJR’s since the dumbbells are starting to be a pain in the ass to position.
Alright so my friend didn’t use a box for the first time today and hit his 305x8. Next week 315x8 his first milestone is going down. He leaned forward a bit to much on his top set but he didn’t get any lower back pain so it couldn’t have been to bad.
I attempted 95 lbs my second warm up but found that my knee was hurting like a bitch i wanted to push through the pain but my friend said fuck it just take this week off from squats no point in provoking a long term injury.
Friend:
75x12
105x10
115x9
175x10 (Gonna work on these for a while having trouble keeping elbows from flaring)
PJR’s
Me:
35x12
45x8
55x6
65x12
Friend:
55x12
65x10
75x8
85x12
pushdowns
Me:
60x12
80x12
110x15
Friend:
60x12
90x12
120x15
BB EZ curls
Me:
35x12
45x8
60x12
Friend:
45x10
55x8
85x12 (Gonna work on form for these as well)
one-arm DB preachers
Me:
15x12
25x12
35x12
Friend:
15x12
25x12
35x12
pinwheels
Me:
10x12
15x12
25x12
Friend:
10x12
20x12
30x12
Alright we tried Ez lying triceps extension and quite frankly didn’t like it. We stuck with PJR this week and just tried to maintain or increase reps on all lifts since we were running on 5 hours of sleep. Gonna have to find a new triceps exercise for next week.
For the first time today i didn’t use a box however i felt like i wasn’t going to parallel so im not sure if i should keep using it or not.
My friend hit 3 plates a side for squat and is thinking of staying at that weight for a few weeks and buying a belt and just working on form. His original boast/call out was to be able to squat this weight by September and hes running almost 2 months earlier to it gives him plenty of time to work on form and depth for the video.
We were forced to do Smith High incline presses last today because a guy was super setting between the leg press and the Smith Squat. So that’s why we may have got less reps then we would have if our muscles were fresh.
[quote]Matthaeus wrote
For the first time today i didn’t use a box however i felt like i wasn’t going to parallel so im not sure if i should keep using it or not.
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I would work on hitting your depth correctly. You know if you didn’t go deep enough, so use whatever you have available to get deeper. Box, friend telling you when to push, whatever.
Are you squatting in front of a mirror? When I was just starting I would use visual clues on bar position (what pin I just passed on the power-rack) and leg position in the mirror to get used to squatting until it just becomes part of muscle memory. The box will help as well since you will be hitting the exact same spot over and over.
