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Good chins. I think the old guy on the stair climber in the far left corner had a hair dryer sticking out of his shorts.
Chins video loaded.
nice work
arms and shoulders looking thick
your spotters gut was hyuge
like eggnog huge
VERY nice chins! My envy grows!
And what kmc said. You are looking thick.
On the bench…I noticed you do more of a BB bench (high on the chest, not much arm tuck). Is that due to shoulder comfort (which would SEEM counter-intuitive) or are you actually trying to hit the chest more?
Hold up hold up. When you say chins with bands, you mean you use the bands as resistance? Not assistance?
Very awesome, I dig that idea.
Sorry that you’re still sick.
Less volume is expected and advised.
Damn Matty looking thick! (no homo). I’m with Nikki, I thought when you were saying chins with bands you were talking assistance not resistance, nice!
Matty great work brother, I got to adjust my set up at the house so I can do chins like that. I cant do normal grip with the shoulder, but I think I could do those.
Harry - HA HA , that was the guy!
KMCNYC - Thanks man, yeah bro if you could believe hes been losing weight that belly was like a keg of egg nog last year! Hes a pretty nice guy but man he taaaaaalks, if you really want to waste time one day hes the guy to call.
Strick - Thanks bro, you are absolutely right it is a def BB type bench press. I have always benched this way and hence the shoulder issues, honestly I really dont know how to bench any other way. I have been actually watching your vids and other peoples vids on our forum to get the more of PL style down. I actually do try to retract my shoulder blades, but the bar lower and back arched is very difficult for me to do, old habits die hard. what I may do is really drop the weight and concentrate on form.
Nikki - Nice to see you 
where the hell you been? I saw that zombie toe has healed up! Yeah I do band resistance when doing neutral or supinated grip chins, I was using my weighted dip belt for a while but I like these a bit better, I like the resistance it gives throughout, since I really dont do much direct bicep work they seem to hit them good. Hopefully one day I can start using the bands when I do wide grip pullups (pronated).
DDay - Thanks man! Yeah dude I love using bands from everything from stretching to benching whatever I sleep with em too!
Thanks for stopping in guys I appreciate it.
DJ - Thanks Bro, these are much much easier on the shoulder and easier in general. With the pronated grip I am luck to get 6 or 7 reps out of em. I was at one time using a real wide neutral grip which were basically only hitting the rear delts more than the lats.
There was a great article about pullups a while back that changed my view of wide grip pullups, basically just leaving the grip a little wider than the shoulders will give your lats more activation, but yes they do seem harder on the shoulders.
Outstanding pullups, I also noted that in the second vid there appears to be a very well built woman talking to a couple of guys who look like bags full of ass. Either she’s a trainer or she’s looking for the chance to punch them in the neck.
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Outstanding pullups, I also noted that in teh second vid there appears to be a very well built woman talking to a coupld of guys who look like bags full of ass. Either she’s a trainer or she’s looking for the chance to punch them in the neck.[/quote]
HAHAHA, yeah I didnt notice that it looks like their guts are ready to violate her…Iam going to have to use that term,awesome.
Great work going on in here! Sucks to hear about the your cold.
I’ll definitely be checking in here more often
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Vids to follow when I get home…YAHTZEE
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This had me laughing haha
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Great work going on in here! Sucks to hear about the your cold.
I’ll definitely be checking in here more often
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Vids to follow when I get home…YAHTZEE
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This had me laughing haha[/quote]
Thanks for stopping by Larry, Ive been following your progess for a while, repping 405s like they were 225s now…NICE
OK back to back days…ehhhh
ZERCHER SQUATS 135/5 225/5 315/2 (PR) 325/(F A A I I L) 315/1 225/5 225/5 135/12
PENDLAY ROWS 135/15 185/10 225/5/5/5
UR ROW 135/10 155/10 175/7 135/15
SS DB LAT RAISE 30/20 45/10 45/10
DB BRO HAMMER CURLS 50/10 50/10 60/9/7
EDIT BB SHRUG 135/20 315/10 405/5 315/12 315/12
AND SCENE.
Notes: I learned a very good lesson today, do not drink a DD turbo iced coffee on any type of squat day… Prairie Dog almost got out of its hole, know what I mean?
LOLLL! My personal favorite is “backing out a fin-less brown trout”.
Nice work. If your gym had a place to get a cup of coffee, I’d be there all day people watching!
p.s. I do NG chins while holding the dumbbell with my feet; turns out that works my abs simultaneously, which I didn’t realize until one day I tried doing them when my abs were sore! Then I remembered Contreras the glute guy had pullups activating abs a decent amount in one of his EMG (or whatever) articles.
PG - Thats awesome I have to borrow that one from you. Dude commercial gyms are the best people watching stations in the world, thats why I love working out there, just the nonsense, the posturing and the people like me watching in wonder…shit who knows what they are saying about me!
I have to try the DB chins, lord knows I can definitely get some more ab work in.
Ab work sucks. The best way to get it is by accident, IMO.
A good reminder to add back in the DB / chin thing. Been a while since I did those.
4/9/11
DL 5/3/1 240/5 280/5 315/5
DL 405/1 425/2(PR) 435/1(PR!!!)
CS DB REAR RAISE 30/20 40/12 45/12 50/12
HS SHOULDER PRESS 2PPS/20 3PPS/12 4PPS/3 3PPS/12
OLD MAN CRUNCH MACHINE 155/20 STACK/12 STACK/8
BAND LEG RAISE 15/12
TRI PD STACK/15 +30/12/10
Notes…I only had my cell camera so the 435 you cant see the weight but I assure you it was 435. It was a very surprising day, im still feeling doms from the zerchers but I hit 2 PRS, I am concentrating on keeping my arms straight, and keeping the bar closer to the chins.
vids to follow
425x2
Can’t see the vid bud congrats on the PR! Just a matter of time before you hit the big 5 plates