[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
T-Cell when you absolutely need to giggle…
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and…
T-bag when you need to wiggle.
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snicker
Nice pullin’ Boss. What you weighin’ these days… you look “svelte”. And toight… toight like a toiger.
[quote]bunny7568 wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
T-Cell when you absolutely need to giggle…
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and…
T-bag when you need to wiggle.
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snicker
Nice pullin’ Boss. What you weighin’ these days… you look “svelte”. And toight… toight like a toiger.[/quote]
i’m anywhere between 250-260. 260 if “i have to crap that could choke a donkey”. “i’m on jerry’s subway diet.” “now my neck looks like a vagina.”
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
Pale One,
do you know what steely was refering to when he mentioned the 600lb smith and 450 rep bench??
if not, check out the T-cell under a thread about the smith machine. [/quote]
made me look. I actually had to venture into the T-Cell. Damn you Meat. [/quote]
i think it’s an honor that regular folks ( you know… those that aren’t invited to post in the t-cell) are even allowed to read the cutting edge information supplied there. consider yourself lucky. [/quote]
I took that one look, and I am ashamed. I will never go back again, unless it is when I am drunk and want to make fun of people. Which might be later tonight, ya never know.
Actually, the whole thread reminded me of a BB wannabe I know at the commercial gym. About a year ago I was doing a couple sets of curls. He looks over at me and asks if it would help if he altered his grip between sets of EZ curls to fully round out the 'ceps. I just said he should try and do more weight or reps next week. That was all I could come up with.
5-3-10 ME Upper
4-Board BB Flat Bench
10xBar
4x135
2x225
1x275
1x315
1x335
4x275
BB Rows
10x135
6x185
10x225
10x225
10x225
Dips
10xBW
10xBW+45
10xBW+45
24xBW
*Triset
Side DB Raises / Rope Face Pulls / Straight Bar Pushdowns
15x20 / 15x80 / 15x150
15x20 / 15x80 / 15x150
+10 min incline walking…
First night doing more of a west side deal. Didn’t push too hard since I just did a meet. I feel plenty rested and ready to go now though, and just generally excited to be changing things up a little bit. Felt strong tonight.
I don’t really LIKE doing different stuff than scott and dave, but I don’t dislike trying something different. We did the same ME exercise and dips together, and I did the rows while they did some press, so it doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. I wasn’t going to do that triset stuff since I just came back to the gym, but just felt like still lifting so I did, heh.
I feel good about this… but we will see how it works out. 
BOF training…
week two of 4 board press. felt really strong tonight. i setup pretty close to the uprights so that i can lift off by myself. of course on my heaviest set with 535 i had to go and hit the damn thing. i’ll hit 535 clean next week. unfortunately hitting the upright really made me grind out that last set and pretty much toasted my triceps. that came back to bit me in the ass on standing strict military presses. i got a wild hair up my ass to do strict press tonight instead of on accessory day… not a good idea. i was seriously gassed when i got to them. pretty happy though. if i can hit 275 totally gassed, i should be good for something in the 300’s fresh.
4 board bench press- feet up, no liftoff, paused.
135x4
225x4
315x4
405x2
455x2
515x1 +20lb PR
535x hit upright
bench- full ROM- with competition pause
135x1
225x1
315x1
405x1
450x1 +5lbs from last week
standing strict military press
0x4
95x4
135x4
185x1
225x1
275x1 + 10lb PR- totally gassed and triceps fried.
dips-
bw x 6
bw +100lb x 6
bw +200lb x 4- talk about gassed. i almost passed out again this week.
bw +45lb x 30
Jeebus! Nice work Meatman.
I’m barely pulling off the floor what you’re benching. This inspires me to eat more and lift harder.
dips with a plate for 30 reps!?
WTF man, i want a vid of that lol. great work in here as always
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
dips with a plate for 30 reps!?
WTF man, i want a vid of that lol. great work in here as always[/quote]
thanks hoss!! i stopped at 30… could have gotten 40 or so. i’ll get a vid next week.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Jeebus! Nice work Meatman.
I’m barely pulling off the floor what you’re benching. This inspires me to eat more and lift harder.
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you get any bigger, door jams are going to need to be widened. i think you are making awesome progress.
I’m go’in to subway after look’in these lifts over.
Double Steak and cheese. Everything on it with Chipoltle.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
T-Cell when you absolutely need to giggle…
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and…
T-bag when you need to wiggle.
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I hate you…lol
Strong work boys. Has Joweee been posting long enough to start giving him a hard time?? Like has he ever dropped the soap when showering after a workout with Scott?
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Strong work boys. Has Joweee been posting long enough to start giving him a hard time?? Like has he ever dropped the soap when showering after a workout with Scott?[/quote]
we don’t use bar soap… liquid soap all the way. it can double as a lubricant in a pinch.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Strong work boys. Has Joweee been posting long enough to start giving him a hard time?? Like has he ever dropped the soap when showering after a workout with Scott?[/quote]
we don’t use bar soap… liquid soap all the way. it can double as a lubricant in a pinch.
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Good thinking. I’ll have to remeber.
I may have missed it, Jowee just finished a meet didn’t he? How’d it go brother? Fill us in!!
copy and pasted from another site…
Well, I’m at work so I’ll just give a quick recap, and I’ll post up the video’s of my attempts later.
I got up at 6:30am to take my time getting ready and everything, got there a little before 9:00am and they started lifting about 10. I sat around for a couple hours waiting for squats to be done. I wish I had some video’s of the squats, because they were fcking ridiculous. NO ONE was getting red lighted… one guy hit a 955 squat but I kid you not his legs were at a 45 degree angle and they passed it…
Anyway, finally got to bench and I opened with 275 and it wasn’t too bad so I jumped to 300 and got that. Went for 310 third attempt and lost my tightness bringing it down and just couldn’t muscle it back up.
Few hours later… got pretty tired sitting around etc. Managed to wake up and get kinda pumped up for deadlifts and warmed up to 405 and it just didn’t feel as light as it should have. I opened with 540 and it went up a lot slower than it should have. My plan has been to hit 605 (5 lb pr) but I told them 580 second attempt but then said screw it, I don’t wanna settle and decided to just go all or nothing and attempt 605. Well I got pumped up and ready to go but it just wasn’t happening that day. 605 only came up a couple inches off the floor, which is usually my strong point too. Considering I did 600 before I was kind of disappointed, but wasn’t surprised when the strength just wasn’t there.
I think this was just due to poor training planning and just ran myself into the ground with never taking any time off to rest up. My bench and deadlift were really strong a couple months ago, and I should have taken some time off or a deload week or something after hitting some big 1RM PR’s.
What’s done is done and I think I learned more about my own body from all of this. With all my time off I’ve been doing a ton of reading up on west side styles of training and decided I want to give it a try and also get in better shape with GPP and cardio, etc.
I think I am at the point where I could benefit from only one week or two of an ME exercise and then switch it up. I was looking back through my training log and for the most part, I don’t think hitting the same ME exercise for 4 or 5 weeks in a row is benefiting me, especially when we are working up to maxes almost every week. I tend to hit a couple good PR’s then lose the momentum.
I think westside will especially benefit my deadlift, which is what I am most concerned about anyway. In a nutshell, I will do a lot more work for my upper back, hamstrings, and lower back.
Well, I better get back to work… I will get the video’s up later on.
Damn… good learning experience though. Get rested up Jowee, suck back, reload… and make another run at 'er…
skwatt night- last night of the reverse band full squat. i’m going to stick with the reverse band squats for the next cycle but i’m going to pause at the bottom for the next cycle. i set a good baseline tonight.
reverse band squat- medium bands
225x6
315x6
405x4
495x2
585x1
700x miss- stepped back too far and that put the band tension in front of me. on the way up the bands pulled me forward. as soon as i felt the weight go forward i put it on the pins. weight felt good and i’m confident that i would have hit it if i had a proper set up.
moved straight to a long pause with 585.
585x1- long pause at bottom. this will be my baseline for the next squat cycle.
squat rep set- damn… i was fried going into this set. it’s going to take a long time to hit 500x20 if i keep doing them at the end of my training. oh well… i like the challenge.
405x10- weight didn’t get heavy but everything was burning… bad.
seated calf raise and behind the back barbell wrist curls
some x some
GHR agianst bands and ab machine
some x some
my conditioning sucks.
hmmm, I might have to start doing some high rep stuff on squats. it’s been awhile.
5-5-10 ME Lower
Box Squats 12.5" Box (Bit below parallel)
6x135
3x225
3x275
3x275
Stiff-Legged Deadlifts
6x135
6x225
6x225
6x225
Neutral Grip Lat Pulldowns
10x140
12x160
12x160
15x120
*Superset
Seated Calf Raises / BTB Wrist Curls
15x3 p / 15x85
15x3 p / 15x85
15x3 p / 15x60 (EZ bar curls)
*Superset
Hyperextensions / Abs
Bunch of hyperextensions… just finding how I like to do them best with added weight. Tried a bar behind the back like a squat but it kept going down to my neck and that won’t work when I start going heavier. Also tried a weight out front, and holding a weight behind the head. I’ve seen people do hypers holding the weight like a zercher squat… ill probably go with that next time.
Did a few sets of decline situps, and some machine stuff.
Those box squats were kind of humbling with the weight I could use. I was making sure I didn’t rock at all to get off the box though. I’ll do the same box squats next week and go heavier. Til I get the hang of a few of the ME exercises I don’t normally do I will do them two weeks in a row like this, the second week going heavy.
SLDL’s sure don’t seem to require much weight when really trying to make them hit your hamstrings because mine were hurting after. Got a nice pump in my upper back. Legs are already aching… gonna pop some ibuprofen and get some sleep. 