[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Thats a damn fine lower body day there DCA…[/quote]
Yeah - even though I noted mostly negatives in my post, I’m pretty happy with it. No rep was in doubt on the money set, I simply ran out of air,mostly. Pussed out, I guess you’d call it.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Thats a damn fine lower body day there DCA…[/quote]
Yeah - even though I noted mostly negatives in my post, I’m pretty happy with it. No rep was in doubt on the money set, I simply ran out of air,mostly. Pussed out, I guess you’d call it.[/quote]
you did those 8 reps with one breath? or were you breathing at the top? I have to breath between each rep.
[quote]soldog wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Thats a damn fine lower body day there DCA…[/quote]
Yeah - even though I noted mostly negatives in my post, I’m pretty happy with it. No rep was in doubt on the money set, I simply ran out of air,mostly. Pussed out, I guess you’d call it.[/quote]
you did those 8 reps with one breath? or were you breathing at the top? I have to breath between each rep.[/quote]
Triple, breath breathe breathe, triple, breathe breathe breathe breathe, single, breathe, single, breathe, give up. Took a breath on each rep too.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Stopped ATG squats because they are negatively affecting my turnaround strength for power squats. I never would have expected that. They’ve been great for my knees, but they are not strengthening the turnaround spot as I thought they would.[/quote]
What do you mean by turnaround strength for power squats? Excuse my ignorance . . .
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Stopped ATG squats because they are negatively affecting my turnaround strength for power squats. I never would have expected that. They’ve been great for my knees, but they are not strengthening the turnaround spot as I thought they would.[/quote]
What do you mean by turnaround strength for power squats? Excuse my ignorance . . .[/quote]
Squat to parallel is what I call a power squat. In a full squat the lifter is decelerating through parallel on the way down or accelerating through parallel on the way up, but not turning around the lift AT parallel. Stopping at or just below parallel (the turnaround point) takes more of a muscular contraction than the full squat provides, at least for me. If I want to stop at parallel and ascend again smoothly I have to train it.
Probably sounds stoopid, but that’s the way it’s working for me.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
i’m going to buy a singlet and ask my wife to wear it[/quote]
I’m going to buy a kilt, some pom-poms, and start training: “Give me a D!..”.
edit: too early to plan, but I’ll definitely try to spectate; don’t worry, no pom-poms
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Stopped ATG squats because they are negatively affecting my turnaround strength for power squats. I never would have expected that. They’ve been great for my knees, but they are not strengthening the turnaround spot as I thought they would.[/quote]
What do you mean by turnaround strength for power squats? Excuse my ignorance . . .[/quote]
Squat to parallel is what I call a power squat. In a full squat the lifter is decelerating through parallel on the way down or accelerating through parallel on the way up, but not turning around the lift AT parallel. Stopping at or just below parallel (the turnaround point) takes more of a muscular contraction than the full squat provides, at least for me. If I want to stop at parallel and ascend again smoothly I have to train it.
Probably sounds stoopid, but that’s the way it’s working for me.[/quote]
Doesn’t sound stupid at all. I think that’s why I’m struggling so much right now. When I started back to squatting, I was going too deep and didn’t nip it in the bud. I’m paying for that now with no pop at legal powerlifting depth.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Stopped ATG squats because they are negatively affecting my turnaround strength for power squats. I never would have expected that. They’ve been great for my knees, but they are not strengthening the turnaround spot as I thought they would.[/quote]
What do you mean by turnaround strength for power squats? Excuse my ignorance . . .[/quote]
Squat to parallel is what I call a power squat. In a full squat the lifter is decelerating through parallel on the way down or accelerating through parallel on the way up, but not turning around the lift AT parallel. Stopping at or just below parallel (the turnaround point) takes more of a muscular contraction than the full squat provides, at least for me. If I want to stop at parallel and ascend again smoothly I have to train it.
Probably sounds stoopid, but that’s the way it’s working for me.[/quote]
I’m just intellectualizing from book knowledge, not experience, but you’ve just given a great example of how the SAID principle works (Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand).
Olympic lifters don’t train with ATG squats to be cool, they train that way because that’s their turnaround point (as you aptly put it).
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
i’m going to buy a singlet and ask my wife to wear it[/quote]
No offense to your wife, but singlets aren’t all that sexy on women. There’s much better attire . . .
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
i’m going to buy a singlet and ask my wife to wear it[/quote]
No offense to your wife, but singlets aren’t all that sexy on women. There’s much better attire . . .[/quote]
this is true, and I would be happy to share my list with you. My point is, that my wife would look far better in the mantard than I would.
and you should consider the freestyle wrestling singlet before you jump to any conclusions. not much cloth there.
“Ah’m a tahger, baby, Ah’m a tahger!”
Too funny.
2010-10-8
C1 W2 D1 - MP,3’s
126x3
144x3
162x4 (est Max 183.58=Tmax+3.58)
MP
145 5x4, 6
Pullups
BW+53 5x5
Upping intensity and reducing overall workload running up to the meet. I’m taking a deload after the first week of cycle 3, so cycle 2 will go directly into cycle 3, deload, then the meet, possibly a week off after the meet and then pick up on week 2 of cycle 3. I’ll work up to openers on week 3 of cycle 2 and do 3x3 on assistance.
C2 W2 - normal,5x5 assistance
C2 W3 - normal+openers,3x3 assistance
C3 W1 - normal(prescribed reps), 3x5 assistance
Deload - 40,50, 60%
Meet
C3 W2 - normal, 10x5 or 5x5
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
i’m going to buy a singlet and ask my wife to wear it[/quote]
No offense to your wife, but singlets aren’t all that sexy on women. There’s much better attire . . .[/quote]
They are when they are painted on…
Painted on singlets? Well, now, I’ve never considered that. Good point!
Benedikt Magnusson. 442.5. Raw.
2010-10-10
C2 W2 D2 - DL,3’s
135x5
225x5
308x3
352x3
396x4 (est max 448.75=Tmax+8.75)
DL
355 5x5
Ab Wheel from knees
12x4
Hamstrings were pretty tight from squats 4 days ago, but these all went up pretty smoothly.
god that was an awesom vid. very inspiring. Now I want to go rip something up.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
2010-10-10
C2 W2 D2 - DL,3’s
135x5
225x5
308x3
352x3
396x4 (est max 448.75=Tmax+8.75)
DL
355 5x5
Ab Wheel from knees
12x4
Hamstrings were pretty tight from squats 4 days ago, but these all went up pretty smoothly.[/quote]
Curious mix of numbers - are you lifting with your bumper plates?
[quote]soldog wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
2010-10-10
C2 W2 D2 - DL,3’s
135x5
225x5
308x3
352x3
396x4 (est max 448.75=Tmax+8.75)
DL
355 5x5
Ab Wheel from knees
12x4
Hamstrings were pretty tight from squats 4 days ago, but these all went up pretty smoothly.[/quote]
Curious mix of numbers - are you lifting with your bumper plates?[/quote]
That’s just the way the percentages work out on a 440 training max. I have fractional plates, so I’m just going with it rather than rounding up or down.
So far I only have the 35lb bumpers. The others (45’s, 25’s and 15’s) had to be back ordered from China and should hit landfall this next week. I get them a week or two later.
Nice pulling Tony.