Squatted 230x4 today.
Stupid mental block completely busted. The reps felt fine and I didn’t grind any out, besides the fact that I couldn’t seem to get my back positioning done properly and so it just felt off the entire time. Pretty sure I had another rep in me, but that would have been grindy and going for a full 5 reps is not included in the game plan atm. I think not eating lunch today affected me a lot, since today’s session sucked balls besides this at the start.
Back squat 140kg x 7 - 3 rep PR, then 180kg x 1 with reverse bands.
Front squat 125kg x 1
[quote]magick wrote:
Squatted 230x4 today.
Stupid mental block completely busted.[/quote]
Glad to hear. What did it end up taking to get there?
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]magick wrote:
Squatted 230x4 today.
Stupid mental block completely busted.[/quote]
Glad to hear. What did it end up taking to get there?[/quote]
Just a slight deload down to 215 and moving up 5lb a week instead of trying 225 every time I squatted.
I seem to be making progress with a 5lb a week jump with both squat and deadlift, so I plan on keeping that up until I hit a wall. Then 5/3/1 from there on out is the current plan.
Benched 92.5kg x 8 for a 3 rep PR, then worked up to 102.5kg x 1 paused, which was a 7.5kg paused PR, and 2.5kg bench PR period, so that’s good.
Looped a couple of bands around my elbows to act as a slingshot and got 110kg for an easy single.
Then tried 102.5 again so I could get a video, and failed miserably at pressing it, but set an almighty PR in the nutcrusher lift.
Tried for a 100kg close grip bench, pretty sure I had it but my spotter got scared and started curling it, so can’t count that one. Got 80kg for 5 paused though, claiming that as a PR.
12in Box Squat 410 for 1 set of 6 and 1 set of 7. I have done this with Knee Wraps but this was just plan old me. Huge PR.
Went in to the gym feeling like shit after less than 4h of sleep. Gotta love final exam season. All the same I squatted 162kg for an easy triple, blasting past my old 3RM of 157.5kg. This wasn’t actually a 3RM though because I made sure to leave one in the tank. Risking a grinder when you’re horribly sleep deprived (and have been for the past 3 days) is just asking to get something fucked up.
Cut a lot of the volume because I was feeling lazy as fuck. Still, I managed to get a 130kg x 10 double-overhand deadlift from a 2" deficit with a hold on the last rep for 2 sets and a couple of speed DL singles at 195kg (~85%). Not too shabby, I suppose.
Also, a sort of PR here, but definitely a marker of progress. Started training calves again, once a week (nothing fancy, 3-4 sets of ~12, with a 1s squeeze at the top, alternate standing and seated each week), after taking about a 3 month break to focus on more important accessory work/tapering for the meet I did. Had 2 training sessions so far. Strengthwise, it’s been insane! They’re much stronger than when I stopped training them (trained them much the same way before). Just a few days I noticed fresh stretch marks on them. Today I had some difficulty pulling my knee sleeves off them. WTF? How is this even possible…
165kg squat 7 sets of 3 I’ve put 25kgs on my squat in 5 weeks pretty happy with that
150kg deadlift 7 sets of 3 extremly happy with that too I’ve gone from 100kg to 150kg in 5 weeks,
I am really enjoying my new program strength has gone up alot I’m only loosing 1kg every two weeks though which is my main goal so thats kinda bummed me out I’ve increased my food by 500 cals and I still loose the same amount of weight
^ Sounds like you’re doing something right at least. Also, I wouldn’t complain if I ate an extra 500 calories and still lost weight at the same rate.
Deadlift 180kg for 5, quite long rests between reps though.
Then 190kg for a single.
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
[quote]Lorez wrote:
And now a 260 lb snatch grip deadlift. 5lb PR. PRs every time I do these right now.
But the real PR in my mind was that I managed to get in 3 cluster sets after the ramp. I love the “things are blacking out and I can barely walk” feeling from the cluster sets. Reminds me of my 20 rep squats. [/quote]
Lorez ; It can’t be healthy to work that hard, LOL, of all the guys I follow here, I know your putting the work in, it’s like a snowball effect, at some point it starts building up, the weights start getting bigger, this gives you more size, this helps you lilft more, this gives you even more size, and so on, and so on. Once you get over that hump, it never gets easy, but atleast you start seeing the rewards, your almost there bud. goodstuff[/quote]
Ha, it’s perfectly healthy I think. If it doesn’t kill me and it doesn’t injure me, it’s only making me better.
SGHP’s tonight.
Ramped to 175 x 1. That actually went like 175 x 0, 0, 1, 0. Once I got it, I wanted to see if I could repeat it. Nope.
The 0s were “almost high enough but not quite”, so I still got something out of them.
This is a 5lb PR. I’m hoping to get to 185 in the next 3-4 weeks.
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
^ Sounds like you’re doing something right at least. Also, I wouldn’t complain if I ate an extra 500 calories and still lost weight at the same rate.[/quote]
It’s one of those things that I love but hate I love that it will benifit me in the long run hate that its taking so low to loose weight I;ve got another 7 months to go at this rate
315 for 2.5 reps. I am pretty off today due to having a tooth pulled yesterday and the Oxys they put me on really have system not firing correctly. Which is why I am pretty damn proud of this. The first 2 were pretty easy but, the second one I let the bar travel to far out in front of me and it landed to low. I tried to bring it back and think if Andrew would have gave 2 seconds longer I might have but, probably a lot safer he took it.
290X3 3 second high bar pause squat
140X6 clean grip reverse lunge
165X5 suitcase deadlift
It seems like having a shitty/botched ME day was a good thing as I feel better. I am gonna keep the lower training percentage (doubles normally being the heaviest, and triples being the normal with sets of five every few weeks), and get volume in my assistance (even on DE) . I probably have been beating my head against a brick wall too long with singles, doubles, and triples and I have been too fatigued to perform my best as my joints told me the previous ME squat day (before the one yesterday) where I couldn’t squat even 255 without a lot of pain.
So let us see how things go.
Deadlift: 200kg x 4
Seated calf raise dropset: 5plates x 5, 4 plates x 6, 3 plates x 8, 2 plates x 10, 1 plate x 10.
EZ curls: 90lbs x 10
[quote]Apoklyps wrote:
Deadlift: 200kg x 4
Seated calf raise dropset: 5plates x 5, 4 plates x 6, 3 plates x 8, 2 plates x 10, 1 plate x 10.
EZ curls: 90lbs x 10[/quote]
What you weighing in at right now man. Your Deadlift is taking off it seems.
[quote]Reed wrote:
[quote]Apoklyps wrote:
Deadlift: 200kg x 4
Seated calf raise dropset: 5plates x 5, 4 plates x 6, 3 plates x 8, 2 plates x 10, 1 plate x 10.
EZ curls: 90lbs x 10[/quote]
What you weighing in at right now man. Your Deadlift is taking off it seems.[/quote]
Thanks 
I cut down to 83kg for my meet (about 183lbs to all you imperial guys :P). Now, I’m normally weighing in at 82-83kg with gym clothes/shoes. 5’8" on a good day. In the new year, I can hopefully move up a weight class and finally break that damn 200lbs barrier (I was only 2lbs off before cutting for the meet lol). And I will be rewarded with teh gainz.
I’ve got long arms and shortish legs, so deadlifting comes pretty natural. Especially since I switched the BBB DL sets for speed DLs followed by some grip work (double overhand deads from a deficit + hold last rep SS with hanging leg raise) and started training lats 4x a week.
Those BBers certainly got one thing right about lats. If you want big, strong lats, train them everyday. Lats used to be my weak point (that and chest). In less than 2 months they’ve become one of my better body parts and I’ve been SEEING changes on a weekly basis.
[quote]Apoklyps wrote:
Those BBers certainly got one thing right about lats. If you want big, strong lats, train them everyday. Lats used to be my weak point (that and chest). In less than 2 months they’ve become one of my better body parts and I’ve been SEEING changes on a weekly basis.[/quote]
How have you been training them?