I’m pumped to get my shirt (shipped a few days ago, so should be here any day). My coach was actually more excited than I was haha. First thing he said “We are going to need more plates!”. So I went and scooped up 6x 45lb plates on the weekend to add to the gym.
I made an offer on a squat suit as well, but guy isn’t budging on his price (which is fair). It is a good deal at $250 (Squat Jack Suit) but not sure I’m ready to commit. Probably play with the shirt for awhile before I decide if I want to try a geared comp.
Do you have some estimated attempts picked out for this upcoming competition? What are your current meet PRs?
Is your raw bench grip width more narrow than your shirted bench?
I find my comfortable raw width to be a finger or so inside the rings, but I tend to go wider when I am using a Slingshot so I can really stretch it and get more out of it. Plus, it is easier on the shoulders.
I’ve benched over the years with thumb length off the smooth ( Ed Coan showed me that and told me to do that ), I’ve tried my shirted grip raw in the past.
Currently RAW is pinky on the rings, shirt is middle finger on the ring.
Might play around with a more slightly narrow grip for raw eventually.
This is exactly how I space my grip for raw (which ends up ~ a finger width inside the rings), happy to hear I’m in good company! Then my Slingshot is ring finger on the rings.
DE SSB squats 10x2 45% + 8 chains, felt really good
ME Pulls
Worked up to opener, then reverse band 3rd
135x3
225x3
315
Suit straps down
405
455
Straps up
495
535 around last warmup
575 openerish
635 reverse with bar floating right below knee
Suspended SSB good morning hard set of 8 240, thought about doing 290 but was getting some solid back work in so didn’t feel it was worth the risk at this point
3x Max GHR
Stir the pots ( fuck do I suck at these )
Ab wheel
Talked to Marshall Johnson about my deadlift, I have a plan.
It felt pretty good, I will say nothing is worse than yoke bar + fuckton of chains, 500 + 200 in chains feels much worse than 700lbs and that’s luckily a good thing. Means 700 is cake.
It’s tough to get air for a brace before you unrack anyhow, especially at the top. If you notice I’ll bring air in through my nose, unrack, then pull what little left i can through my mouth.
I will say I was so hopped up on nose tork breathing was a bit difficult but overall it worked out in my favor. Would of loved to do 800+ but I’ll save that for next cycle.
I thought I’d ask here because you know your way around cheaty quarter rep box squats.
I tweaked my back recently and when it’s the right time in the recovery process I wanna be doing plenty of good work to still train my lower body / sumo muscles.
Heavy hip hinge was what injured me so it’ll probably be the last thing to come back in so in the mean time I’m brainstorming what to do. What are you thoughts on wide stance box squats like in this vid at around the 2:30 mark?
