Great job on the Rows. Do you let the plates touch the ground or nay?
That is a lot of conditioning going on and very thorough. I’m sorry to hear that about your hip, is he going to have you do any stretching or rolling to help it?
I am also excited to see where you are with your main lifts…
[quote]ALKoHoLiK wrote:
Great job on the Rows. Do you let the plates touch the ground or nay?
That is a lot of conditioning going on and very thorough. I’m sorry to hear that about your hip, is he going to have you do any stretching or rolling to help it?
I am also excited to see where you are with your main lifts… [/quote]
The way I had been doing rows is I let the plates touch the ground and start from a dead stop. The bodybuilder was teaching me to keep the plates above the ground and move my elbows back much further when rowing.
He said I was using my rear delts mostly, and not my lats or scapular retractors. Hope the improvement in rowing technique helps bring up these muscles and consequently helps the bench. I’m optimistic.
I firmly believe that if I am to have a successful cycle, it will be dependent upon attention to detail. And if I will hit 1575 and qualify for nationals, it will most certainly depend on attention to detail. The lifting is the easy part. Stretching, foam rolling, rotator cuff work, etc. is the hard part (for me at least), since it is so damn boring.
I just have to stay after the hip. I worked quite a bit on internal rotation stretching last night and this morning and it seemed to help quite a bit. I think the internal and external hip rotators will be the key. I’ll stay after it and predict it will be less pissy this week. Shoulder has been feeling pretty good so that is a great sign. Hyper-vigilance is the key at this point.
Shall be fun testing out the raw versions of the competition lifts. I certainly miss those exercises.
[quote]mrodock wrote:
The way I had been doing rows is I let the plates touch the ground and start from a dead stop. The bodybuilder was teaching me to keep the plates above the ground and move my elbows back much further when rowing.
He said I was using my rear delts mostly, and not my lats or scapular retractors. Hope the improvement in rowing technique helps bring up these muscles and consequently helps the bench. I’m optimistic.[/quote]
I guess I’m going to have to see you do it sometime in order to understand. Where on your body does the barbell hit? Stomach, lower chest, nips?
I agree 100% about that. Stretching and SMR are boring as hell and it takes me about an hour total to do both. You will get that 1575 by then, you’ve been plugging away constantly and I think that’s going to be the biggest decider
[quote]I just have to stay after the hip. I worked quite a bit on internal rotation stretching last night and this morning and it seemed to help quite a bit. I think the internal and external hip rotators will be the key. I’ll stay after it and predict it will be less pissy this week. Shoulder has been feeling pretty good so that is a great sign. Hyper-vigilance is the key at this point.
Shall be fun testing out the raw versions of the competition lifts. I certainly miss those exercises.[/quote]
Good, well I hope the hip loosens up. Also great to hear that about the shoulder, I know that shit sucks. Lol well if you can video them, I’d love to see it to… either way good luck man
Right about middle stomach. Probably can video it, or probably even better to video him doing it.
Thanks man, one day at a time, do the things I don’t like doing and I like my chances.
Yes, that shit sucks indeed. I came in to powerlifting with a hip that was a little funky and 5 years of chronic back pain (which I remedied just before starting lifting). Overall, I think I have been pretty lucky. i think the shoulder thing was kind of a freak occurrence.
I’ll plan on getting some video on Week 9, Day 4 when I will likely be doing doubles on all three lifts. On week 8, Day 4 I will be doing triples and will be fairly conservative so will probably keep the video camera at home.
Keep plugging away man, have a feeling this Korte venture will be very productive.