[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
yep… we call each other’s depth on our working sets. our fed allows you to have someone calling your depth for you on squats. you just have to be sure that your depth caller is correct:)
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Do you find that having someone call your depth like that causes you to ratchet your way down? I’m a bouncer (hit bottom and bounce back up), so that would never work for me. Are there feds that actually prohibit someone calling depth? Why?
I also would fall over if I looked down. Or even straight ahead. So interesting how different things work for different people. Looks like your methods work VERY WELL for you.[/quote]
I’ve tried a few times having someone call depth for me and I find it harder because when it’s not being called, on the way down, I’m already mentally on the way up. When I’ve had it called, my mind set is different.
I try to look straight ahead. I have a giant eyeball drawn on the inside of my garage door that I try to look at so I don’t end up craning my neck up which has been a bad habit I’ve tried to break.
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i like having my depth called because it’s one less thing to have to worry about. all i’m thinking on the way down is “knees out” and when i get that “up” call i just release and explode up.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
hey meat, what is your opinion of the decline press as an alternate for bench (temporarily)?[/quote]
not a big fan. the bar path isn’t even close to that of a flat bench. if i was to pick a bench variation, i would go with incline because of the emphasis on the shoulders. [/quote]
lol dammit. I was doing decline for a couple weeks cause incline ripped up my shoulders.
NJust wait till some little guy sees your deload weights and thinks that’s all you got in ya and runs arround telling everybody he can out bench you haha. Partial reps of course!
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
NJust wait till some little guy sees your deload weights and thinks that’s all you got in ya and runs arround telling everybody he can out bench you haha. Partial reps of course![/quote]
won’t happen… i don’t train at all on deload weeks:)
cycle 2, week one. i’ve been chewing at the bit to get back to some hard work. the deload couldn’t end soon enough. I added 20lbs to my max military press from 300 to 320. taking 90% of that puts my working max at 290lbs. looking back at this past cycle on the first week i hit 230 x 6 on my 85% set. this time i hit 245 for an easy 8. i was good for at least 10 or so.
standing military press
warmup
0x10
95x5
135x5
working sets
(65%)-190x5
(75%)-220x5
(85%)-245x8 +3 reps
Felt great to get back to lifting today. Plan went well… I did 5 lbs over what I ended on last cycle and still managed to get the same reps. Hopefully every day goes like that, and the following weeks actually get heavy. Upped the weight on the BBB and just did 3x10 but used 135, which is only 5 lbs less than what I used on our first 5’s day, and I only got 7 reps, haha.
Situps are definitely a lot easier than they were before… gotta keep hittin THE CORE.
GHR Hyperextensions *against mini bands
10xBW
10xBW
Decline Situps
30xBW
+machine abs
Hyperextensions
30xBW
Good day… managed 7 with 480 even tho it took a while and I had to reset a couple times, lol. I was seeing stars on about the 4th rep. Tried a single against bands and 495 went up pretty easy except right at the very end. Pretty happy with how my deadlift is going right now. I think I’m on track to break my PR of 600. My goal for the competition is to hit a 600 deadlift in a full competition. I will be really happy with that.
I’ll be happy to be hitting some heavier lower reps deadlifts soon.
Upped the weight on the BBB and just did 3x10 but used 135, which is only 5 lbs less than what I used on our first 5’s day, and I only got 7 reps, haha.
