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[quote]Hallowed wrote:
I solly i has no help on bench.

I know nothing :frowning:

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S’alright we can still be friends I guess

[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
That last video didnt look like narrow grip to me…but whatever you call it, you were way weaker on it than your first video, so use whatever grip that was…you smoked 255…I dont know what youre bitching about…[/quote]

One thing I’ve realized is, I dunno if I’m fast twitch dominant or what, but you can’t really judge my strength based on speed. I either smoke a lift or fail… there’s no in between. So I can smoke 95% of my max on something and look like an ox but it feels heavy as crap. Given that I hit 290 on bench in August, 255 should not have felt half as heavy as it did.

Where do you grip? I had pinkys just inside the rings on the last vid.

[quote]
And dont beat yourself up about the low volume…that is very handy for bench as the weaker delts tend to fatigue easier…in fact, i wouldnt even overhead press in Week -2 (the heavy singles week)…just make that a MWF week with bench in between squats/deadlifts (whichever you want, i recommend DL’ing first since that takes the most out of me)[/quote]

I’m not beating myself up it just feels like I’m hardly working out. I’ve never done such low volume before.

[quote]
And i just realized you do in fact owe me a ton of beer…I managed to get you nearly 50 pounds on your squat without you getting any stronger whatsoever…you are definitely helping me move, bitch[/quote]

Shit what day is that again?

502

5/3/1 Meet Prep - 4 weeks out, Day 4 (DL)

Iffy day today. Felt heavier than it should but it went up fine. I think my lack of food intake this week is hurting me… the high blood pressure thing is making me really not want to pack in the fats, cals and sodium. I’m not responding to meds whatsoever.

I took a vid from behind to show my back when I DL… but the camera was in a crappy angle on the floor and all you can see is my ass and calves. Not very helpful.

Workout:
A) Hang Clean
115 x 5
140 x 5
165 x 3

B) Deads
170 x 5
210 x 5
250 x 3
-work sets-
290 x 3
330 x 3
370 x 3
410 (85% meet goal) x 1… chalk, no belt

C) Good Mornings
135 x 8
135 x 9
135 x 8

D1) GHR
bw x 10
bw x 8
bw x 8

D2) Ab Rollouts… abs were super tight and sore for some unknown reason
8, 6, 6

503

Sooo we had an end-of-season party for kickball last friday (open bar woot). I’m having a couple beers, enjoying myself, and I head over to talk to this girl I’ve been out with a couple times. I say something to her across the table and laugh, she turns away for a second. Then, Impossibly Bitchy Girl (IBG) from our team (this girl once cursed out two teams, a referee, and our own teammate in a single screaming session… totally sober) says to me “wait, are you guys DATING?”.

Important to note, I have said like 15 sentences to this girl throughout the season. Virtually no contact whatsoever.

I’m kind of shocked at the question, and reply “um, define ‘dating’”. She says “are you getting any?” I’m like “we’ve been out a couple times, and that’s not your business”. She goes “What the fuck, I thought we liked each other. I thought we were gonna hook up tonight, like that’s what’s been going on. Whatever. It’s fine. You can go to her. It’s fine.” 30 minutes later, she is in the corner of the bar, SCREAMING HER LUNGS OUT to one of her friends about something, while her friend is yelling at her to stop being ridiculous. It could’ve been about me… it could’ve been that her beer was poured incorrectly, I really don’t know. It’s just like, you really thought I would be interested in that?

BITCHES BE CRAZY!!

Here’s my 410 vid with lots of ass/calves in the frame.

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LMAOLMAO

So people keep telling me I look like Kris Humphries (Nets backup PF who married Kim Kardashian). I keep denying it… anyway my buddy made this meme with an old pic of me and posted it on my fb.

lolololol

505

YES! gratuitous ass shot! Also up the shorts shot…just sayin’ and thank you.

And yes, bitches are fucking nuts! Especially super aggro ones. She’s probably a terrible drunk…

Nice work on the DL! from the looks of it, it went up pretty easy. Well done, sir!

506

So I was thinking maybe you should post your bench vid in the Powerlifting forum here and get as much input as possible before your next bench sess.

also,

muah

507

5/3/1 Meet Prep, 2 weeks out (eek), Day 1 (Squat)

Life rulz.

Mixing up my split a bit… due to travel, can only train three days this week. Tossing out OHP. Also continuing to ramp down volume.

Workout:
A) Squat
120 x 5
150 x 5
175 x 3
-work sets-
190 x 5
220 x 5
250 x 5… atch’ing vid w/ good crotch angle. Already know VT is going to tell me my feet aren’t wide enough, what a dick (nevermind it would be correct). I still feel like I got my ass back a good ways though.

B) Leg Press
5pps x 13
6pps x 9
6pps x 7 wtf
(one legged)
2pps x 17 each… a little too light…

Done. I was so focused that I walked out in 45deg raining weather in my shorts/tshirt/skivvies. Got to the station and realized I couldn’t make it home, so I pulled out my work khakis and put them on over my shorts/shoes in the middle of the subway station. PURE CLASS RIGHT HERE.

[quote]Mascherano wrote:
YES! gratuitous ass shot! Also up the shorts shot…just sayin’ and thank you.

And yes, bitches are fucking nuts! Especially super aggro ones. She’s probably a terrible drunk…

Nice work on the DL! from the looks of it, it went up pretty easy. Well done, sir![/quote]

Gotta post some booty once in a while to keep the t-vix coming back!

Thanks - that’ll be my opener, felt about as heavy as it should at this point. I am feeling confident in my goals of 295/340/480 bench/squat/dead. Most scurred of deads at this point.

[quote]Hallowed wrote:
So I was thinking maybe you should post your bench vid in the Powerlifting forum here and get as much input as possible before your next bench sess.

also,

muah[/quote]

That’s a great idea… I’ll try to get that up tonight.

You keep blowing kisses and I can not be held responsible for the deluge of nudie pics about to flood your inbox.

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5/3/1 Meet Prep - 3 weeks out, day 2 (Bench)

Bench felt good today. Floor Presses are helping glute drive. I also actually talked with a couple random dudes in my gym for the first time in about 2yrs, which was cool/weird. Some guy was using paper towels as straps for DL and I offered him mine. He was so nice and… well if I go any further it sounds pretty homo.

Also, my room mate wants me to write him a lifting program and come to his gym and train with him some time next week… in the middle of my last semi-heavy training week before my meet. I somehow have to have my structured OHP day and hang out with him for a full body workout. Ugh, I shouldn’t try, but I’ll figure something out. Honestly if I believed he would stick to it for more than a month it wouldn’t bother me at all. He’s been telling me for 2 months he’s going to “finally order some protein tonight”.

His training goal is to “maybe put a little mass on my biceps or something like that”. I WILL MAKE HIM BULL STRONG.

A) Bench
105 x 5
130 x 5
155 x 3
-work sets-
170 x 5
195 x 5
220 x 5 (no extra reps)

Chins - in between sets of bench. I think 6x6.

B) Floor Press
195 x 8ish x 3 sets

Happy Thanksgiving y’all! I’ll try to get in a dead workout friday at home. Hoping the gym lets me buy a single pass (and lets me DL without giving me crap).

edit - also realized I have 4 8-hour training sessions I can’t get out of Dec 5th-8th. The week before my meet. Will be super hard to keep myself fed properly. ugh.

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Lol! In my head your room mate will wake up massive and proceed to freak out. He’ll never know what hit him!

Happy Turkey-fueled DLing!!

510

5/3/1 3 weeks out, deads

quick post about the workout I’m gonna do… afterwards I gotta head back to my moms so my little cousins can continue to use me as a jungle gym (twin 11yr olds).

Just getting in my dl work.

Workout:
Deads
170 x 5
210 x 5
250 x 3
-work sets-
265 x 5
305 x 5
350 x 5

I hope they let me deadlift, it’s a crappy 24hr place in my hometown. If I pay $9 and can’t get a workout in I’ll bomb their building to the ground.

[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Lol! In my head your room mate will wake up massive and proceed to freak out. He’ll never know what hit him!

Happy Turkey-fueled DLing!! [/quote]

I would be so pissed if that happened. Where’s my overnight hugeness?

511

bonus wheels pic.

Turns out my hometown gym has a usapl team! god I wish I cared about this shiz when I lived here. was cool talking to the trainer. Catch y’all next week.

512

HI!

Do you favor a leg during squaticles?

513

[quote]Dasher wrote:
HI!

Do you favor a leg during squaticles?[/quote]

Please keep the dirty talk to PMs…thanks

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[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:

[quote]Dasher wrote:
HI!

Do you favor a leg during squaticles?[/quote]

Please keep the dirty talk to PMs…thanks[/quote]
:wink: sowwy…i just cant help myself sometimes!

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[quote]Dasher wrote:
HI!

Do you favor a leg during squaticles?[/quote]

Actually yea my right leg seems to do more of the work. Weird bc my left leg is a bit bigger I think.

That’s why my last leg press set is usually done one leg at a time.

516

oh, um, hi…nice VMO you got there…

So I’m guessing the hometown gym let you DL in peace and that all went well?

517

Got some pins on ya bud. Gonna kill it at the meet.

518

5/3/1 Meet Prep, 2 weeks out, Day 1 (Bench)

Joined a 2nd gym today, worked out with VTBalla for some bench and shit.

warmup
foam rolled and stretched the shit out of my IT bands and quads
a couple sets of chins waiting on VT to get there

A) Bench
105 x 5
135 x 5
155 x 3
-work sets-
195 x 5
225 x 3
250 x 1 (no extra reps)

B) Floor Press
185 x 11
195 x 10
225 x 6

C) Inverted Pushup
3 x 8

Nutrition:
8am - 8oz greek yogurt w/ 25g protein powder, banana, 4oz real cranberry juice, small handful cashews
10am - chili w/ 2/3lb ground beef, 1serving kidney beans, chopped veggies… and apple
1230pm - buncha shit from chinese buffet downstairs
4pm - 2/3lb chicken thigh, handful almonds
7pm - workout drink, 120g carb/45g protein
11pm - big ass chicken breast, half cup (dry measured) rice, 25g protein shake… havent had chicken breast in forever, after the last bite I stood over my sink for 5min thinking I was about to vomit. That shit tastes fuckin terrible.

[quote]Mascherano wrote:
oh, um, hi…nice VMO you got there…

So I’m guessing the hometown gym let you DL in peace and that all went well?

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Thanks! Yeah I chatted the guy up on my way out (their PL team is USAPL, same fed as my upcoming meet). They had one real strong dude’s totals on the wall, the rest of the team was around my strength level I’d say.

[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Got some pins on ya bud. Gonna kill it at the meet.[/quote]

I love your lingo. What the fuck are pins? You mean legs? Thanks bud.

EDITED: Forgot to mention, 1rep set was done w/ meet commands. Longer pause than I’ve done on my own, but otherwise just gotta make sure I remember to hold before I rack.

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5/3/1 Meet Prep - 2 weeks out, Day 2 (Squat)

worked out with VTballa again. Every time we go there, people are abusing the shit out of the GHR apparatus. Yesterday it was this people tag teaming back extensions with each other (right next to the back extension apparatus) and today some dude was doing crunches in it. wtf

Workout:
warmup - foam rolling/stretching

A) Squat
120 x 5
150 x 5
175 x 3
-work sets-
225 x 5 (supposed to be 220)
250 x 3
280 x 1 (no extra reps)… ripped a hole right down the asscrack of my boxers again, fucked up my concentration in the hole. Got it up but, um, maybe I should start buying some new underwear.

…vt squatted 420x9 and I cried for a little while…

B) Front Squat Tabatas, 20s on/10s off, w/ 95lbs. I was finished quicker than most of my sexual encounters, and that’s saying something. I need to work on conditioning after this meet.

Crushed some cheesesteaks, gossiped about girls (BEST PART OF THE NIGHT), peaced out.

520

[quote]scj119 wrote:

280 x 1 (no extra reps)… ripped a hole right down the asscrack of my boxers again, fucked up my concentration in the hole. Got it up but, um, maybe I should start buying some new underwear.[/quote]

This time you could even buy some that fit! You are a big boy now, so buy the big boys underwear!

[quote]
…vt squatted 420x9 and I cried for a little while…[/quote]

It was actually 425x9…stop trying to short change me! That’s like 45 pounds total weight lifted difference, brah!

[quote]
Crushed some cheesesteaks, gossiped about girls (BEST PART OF THE NIGHT), peaced out.[/quote]

You forgot to mention you were giggling like a little school girl while talking about how that one chick dressed up like a little school girl…