Great work! Really strong benching and rows. Lotta stuff in there to blast your grip, as well.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
It could be Harry, my partner has only ever benched raw and never been in a shirt. I have always been in a shirt for meets and have had to work the weight down to touch. He told me to think of it like air brakes. Pull it out of the rack, get stable and then come down fast applying the brakes at about 2" from the bottom to touch. Not letting it free fall though that would be a bad thing.
I have been pulling allot recently to try and fix the shoulder problems I have. I think I am imbalanced and I am hoping that allot of back work will even me out and stop the pain. It’s funny I was more excited with doing 5 dead hang pull ups then benching. I remember being in 8th grade and mad because I couldn’t do a single pull up, lol.[/quote]
5 Deadhangs. Now those are pullups. No kip or anything?
Huge lifting over here Colin!
Catching up with you Colin. You are really moving the world! Nice work!
Hope all is well with you and yours, Colin! Nice to see you lifting consistently again!
150 DB rows have got to take a lot out of you.
Nice work
Thanks All! QT Nice to see you here again Bro!
Warm Up - BW Wall Squats to a 12" Box - 5x10
Good Mornings - Bar, 135, 225x10, (Added 40 Pounds of Chain), 225x5, 275x5, 315x5, 335x3, 365x1, 385x1, 405xmissx2
(This was funny because 405 stapled me to the rack and I un-assed the bar and deloaded the weight, repositioned it in the j hook and said “I do not accept that” reloaded and promptly got stapled again. I think I have to accept it…for now)
Bent Over BB rows - 3x10@225
Face Pulls, Hammer curls, and Swiss Ball roll outs to finish.
Felt pretty good about this work out even if it was quick. I’m hoping the wall squats will help fix my forward roll problem with regular squats.
never tried GMs with chains. hmmm, I see them in my future. Good work.
Form work for the bench. Concentrating on keeping my back tight and lats set on every rep. It is hard not to loosen up when doing so many reps. I am sitting at 252 weight and I am going to make a attempt here to eat a little cleaner and drop into the 242’s in the next month or so.
Bench Form work - Bar, 135, 225x20, 3x10@250
Dynamic Bench - 4x3@165 with three different grips, 30 second rest
Close Grip Decline Bench - 3x10@225
DB bench Press, palm facing + red mini - 3x8@80
A1 Incline DB Triceps extension - 3x12@40
A2 Standing Preacher Curl extension - 3x12@100
B1 Dislocates 3x10
B2 Purple Band Pull Aparts 3x10
Lots of good work going on in here, Colin. Great job.
Vacation Week!
Yesterday I just messed around didn’t feel like doing anything so whatever look like fun I did it.
Dead Hangs Pull ups - 5x5@BW
Hang Cleans - 5x5@135 (Went light, these really stress my shoulder where it hurts)
Seated DB shrugs - 3x20@150
Side laterals - 3x20@30
Kettle Bell Swings, RC work, Band stretches.
My Step son is really coming along now. 6 weeks into the gym and his form is really improving!
Your GM’s are huge, and your benching is quite good aswell. I am envious, haha.
Thanks Scott, Unfortunately the GM are strong because my Squat form sucks so bad, lol, but I ma working on that.
So how crazy of an Idea is this? My fiancee and I have been having trouble planning our wedding. Everything just sort of sounded “Ok” nothing really jumped out at us. So yesterday we were talking about how we met here on T-mag back in 2003 and were helped along by another T-Nation friends that we had developed friendships with to get together. Our first trip together was a APF meet in York PA followed by a 7 state drive to visit all our on-line Friends. We met up with 5 or 6 people at the APF event and then headed North to Mass to meet and visit with Hogan and Eric Cressey (Not only great on-line people but two genuinely GOOD people I might add) Then we swung over to Boston and met up with Sully and toured that city.
Finally we swung back down through Eastern PA met up with Tom Deeble and drank a few with him then made our way home. Every person we met on the way were awaesome people who werer as cool or cooler IRL than on-line. Well, being gym rats and lifting heavy things is in our DNA so we are thinking why not get married in the squat rack at our local gym? Yes I am being serious our gym rents to birthday parties and we are thinking how cool to come out watch us get married, lift some weights, climb a rock wall, shower up and then head over to the Casino that is about a mile from our house? I wouldn’t have a best man I would have a spotter, lol.
I’m hoping I could talk TC or Tim into selling me some old marketing material for T-mag and have them in the Wedding pictures. Also I now have about 60 days to drop as much % of body fat to look as good as Mike did at his wedding! Going to have to be buying some more supps for sure. Werer waiting for the gym cordinator to call us back with priceing or if it can even be done.
the only thing I can think of is do what you want… weddings are for you and your brides memories and if that is how you want to remember it go for it.
I talk to a bunch of old guys on here, you get a woman. Maybe I should expand my range. Damutt pretty well summed it up. Enjoy, bro.
Go for it. Out wedding was somewhat unconventional. The reverend was an old friend of mine who goes by the name Big Daddy. 6foor4, tattoos down to his knuckles. He beat up an unruly guest, with my wife’s grandpa. Me and my brother in law took care of another. Anyway, we didn’t go with the ‘norm’, and we are happy as can be to this day…
Haha yeah, this is our second marriage for both of us and we just don’t want to do all the traditional things like a chicken dance. I hate weddings and this sounded the least painful for my friends and after we can invite everyone to come party with us at the Casino and have a great time. Thinking a sleeveless tux for the groomsmen, decorate the squat rack with 500 pounds of chain, just good fun!
I see lots of interval training in my future and time to start working hard to looking good nakid.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
It could be Harry, my partner has only ever benched raw and never been in a shirt. I have always been in a shirt for meets and have had to work the weight down to touch. He told me to think of it like air brakes. Pull it out of the rack, get stable and then come down fast applying the brakes at about 2" from the bottom to touch. Not letting it free fall though that would be a bad thing.
I have been pulling allot recently to try and fix the shoulder problems I have. I think I am imbalanced and I am hoping that allot of back work will even me out and stop the pain. It’s funny I was more excited with doing 5 dead hang pull ups then benching. I remember being in 8th grade and mad because I couldn’t do a single pull up, lol.[/quote]
i don’t know how your training partner does that. i wouldn’t have any pop out of the hole doing it that way. i have to row it down, building tension in the lats. this takes a while to do. i row it down really slowly but then attempt to press really fast. if i lowered it fast i would have no power off the chest.
He thinks I am wasting too much energy talking it down so slow. I will mess around with both and throw out hte one that doesn’t work for me.
Form was much better today. The wall squats are paying off…Going just heavy enuff to test my form
Squats - Bar, 135, 225, 315x10, 365x5, 385x1, 405x1, 415x1, 3x5@315
Front Squats - 3x10@135
SDL - 3x10@135
Core and Out…