[quote]yvanehtnioj wrote:
Hey Meat
I just wanna thank you for the advice you’ve given. It’s helped me tremendously. I was thinking of buying a belt and I’m just curious what belt you use. I’m a college student and can spend like $50-75 at the most. Keep up the great work and good luck at your meet! It’s inspiring.
Thanks for your time[/quote]
my pleasure.
i have an Inzer lever belt. i highly recommend it. it has a lifetime warrenty. you will only need the one for the rest of your life.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
You sure as hell know how to make me feel like a bitch.
you can say that after i’m hitt’n 500 plus with the reverse grip but i appreciate it.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
it’s kinda crazy and making me rethink everything i thought i knew about lifting. i was always under the belief that to be able to handle heavy weight comfortably i needed to lift supramaximally.
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This has been my belief. I thought if I don’t lift like this, my CNS will not be trained to handle the heavier weights. Maybe I’m wrong. Interesting.
Nice benching. Both of you![/quote]
i really don’t know what’s going on. in the past i always knew when i need to start training with supramaximal weights again because everything would start feeling heavy. the exact opposite has been happening lately.
tomorrow will be a good test for me. i plan to work up to some moderately heavy singles tomorrow.
thanks:)
[quote]bunny7568 wrote:
… your still sheshy…[/quote]
not sure what that means but i’m glad you’re back just the same my friend.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]yvanehtnioj wrote:
Hey Meat
I just wanna thank you for the advice you’ve given. It’s helped me tremendously. I was thinking of buying a belt and I’m just curious what belt you use. I’m a college student and can spend like $50-75 at the most. Keep up the great work and good luck at your meet! It’s inspiring.
Thanks for your time[/quote]
my pleasure.
i have an Inzer lever belt. i highly recommend it. it has a lifetime warrenty. you will only need the one for the rest of your life. [/quote]
Cool, I’ll get that. Thanks again
We both have the 13mm and Dave has the 10mm… the 13 seems quite stiffer than the 10, but if you need to save money I can’t see it making that huge of a difference.
Yeah I was gonna go with the 10mm. thanks again!
cycle 2, week 1. skwatts. i’ve upped my max 30lbs as well as added bands. things went really well today and i left a lot of weight on the platform.
squats against bands
warmup
0x10
135x6
225x6
working sets
(65%)- 365x5
(75%)- 420x5
(85%)- 475x5
545x1- felt very comfortable and fast. video isn’t the best angle but you can hear joweee giving my depth call. next week i’ll up this set to 565.
hack squats- feet middle of platform and knees together. paused at bottom
some x 10 x 3
abzzz machine
who cares it’s a machine x 10 x 3
another great session. my plan is to hit at least 600 against bands before the comp. the bands definitely force you to keep your form tight.
9-18-10 Squats - Week 1, Wave 3 (Starting Max - 500)
Squats
5x135
3x225
5x290
5x340
5x385 +20 LB PR, I think… could be 10.
1x425
Hack Squat *Heels together, paused
10x0
10x2 plates
10x4 plates
*Superset
Hyperextensions / Machine Abs
30xBW / 10 reps
15xBW+25 / 20 reps heavier
30xBW / 10 reps heaviest
Good training day… that 385 didnt feel too bad, and we got a video from the side and I am going a bit deeper than I even realized I was. I figure it’s probably because I got the wraps on for my heaviest sets and I got a little bit of bounce out there from them. 425 didn’t feel bad either and I thought it was going to go up really fast, but I almost fell backwards but balanced myself in time. You can see it right when my elbows flare out then come back down, lol. It doesn’t look like much, but I’ve fell backwards a couple times before like that and I know it almost happened again there.
Can’t wait for week 2!
[quote]Joweeee wrote:
9-18-10 Squats - Week 1, Wave 3 (Starting Max - 500)
Squats
5x135
3x225
5x290
5x340
5x385 +20 LB PR, I think… could be 10.
1x425
Hack Squat *Heels together, paused
10x0
10x2 plates
10x4 plates
*Superset
Hyperextensions / Machine Abs
30xBW / 10 reps
15xBW+25 / 20 reps heavier
30xBW / 10 reps heaviest
Good training day… that 385 didnt feel too bad, and we got a video from the side and I am going a bit deeper than I even realized I was. I figure it’s probably because I got the wraps on for my heaviest sets and I got a little bit of bounce out there from them. 425 didn’t feel bad either and I thought it was going to go up really fast, but I almost fell backwards but balanced myself in time. You can see it right when my elbows flare out then come back down, lol. It doesn’t look like much, but I’ve fell backwards a couple times before like that and I know it almost happened again there.
Can’t wait for week 2![/quote]
Nice. That squat single looked really easy. ‘Taint to paint.’ What do you do when you ain’t got a taint?
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]Joweeee wrote:
9-18-10 Squats - Week 1, Wave 3 (Starting Max - 500)
Squats
5x135
3x225
5x290
5x340
5x385 +20 LB PR, I think… could be 10.
1x425
Hack Squat *Heels together, paused
10x0
10x2 plates
10x4 plates
*Superset
Hyperextensions / Machine Abs
30xBW / 10 reps
15xBW+25 / 20 reps heavier
30xBW / 10 reps heaviest
Good training day… that 385 didnt feel too bad, and we got a video from the side and I am going a bit deeper than I even realized I was. I figure it’s probably because I got the wraps on for my heaviest sets and I got a little bit of bounce out there from them. 425 didn’t feel bad either and I thought it was going to go up really fast, but I almost fell backwards but balanced myself in time. You can see it right when my elbows flare out then come back down, lol. It doesn’t look like much, but I’ve fell backwards a couple times before like that and I know it almost happened again there.
Can’t wait for week 2![/quote]
Nice. That squat single looked really easy. ‘Taint to paint.’ What do you do when you ain’t got a taint?[/quote]
jowee’s strength has been drastically increasing lately. I think that rep came up easier than he thought it would and he got back on his heels too much and almost feel back. I think he’ll be good for high 400’s in our meet.
i don’t know… i’ll have to give that some thought:) i’m sure i could come up with something pretty vulgar though:)
MM, glad you’re posting vids again. I missed that mass murderer glare you get on your face before the big lifts -good inspiration.
Lol at you and Bulldog wrt the “very clean” 465 lb bench. Given how hard that guy worked to move 505 about 7 inches or so, I’d be surprised if he was even remotely close to a “very clean” 405 lbs. Love the webz…
Nice squatting Jowee. On that 425, if your elbows hadn’t moved, I certainly wouldn’t have known that you almost lost your balance. You got a lot more pounds to add!
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
MM, glad you’re posting vids again. I missed that mass murderer glare you get on your face before the big lifts -good inspiration.
Lol at you and Bulldog wrt the “very clean” 465 lb bench. Given how hard that guy worked to move 505 about 7 inches or so, I’d be surprised if he was even remotely close to a “very clean” 405 lbs. Love the webz…[/quote]
did you check out the “wrist rolling when benching” thread. i was doing my best to be a smartass. i don’t think anyone got it though. the average IQ in the powerlifting forum must be pretty low.
Mr. Meat,
Read your log and watched your videos, thought briefly about doing myself in, thanks. Very nice lifting.
[quote]BrianHanson wrote:
Mr. Meat,
Read your log and watched your videos, thought briefly about doing myself in, thanks. Very nice lifting.[/quote]
thanks hoss. been reading yours. that’s one hell of a bench you got there.
[quote]Joweeee wrote:
So I was sitting here thinking about what maxes to use for next time and playing with the calculator some.
Here are the maxes I thought I would use for the next cycle:
Military: 210
Deadlift: 620
Bench: 365
Squat 475
Of course, you take 90% of those numbers as the maxes you actually use to base your #'s off of.
Then I was sitting here thinking of maybe a way to calculate how much to increase the weight by for the next cycle based on a percentage.
Last cycle on the last 5/3/1 day on my ‘all out’ last set I got:
Military: 160x8
Deadlift: 475x7
Bench: 275x8
Squat: 365x7
So I thought hmmm maybe I will try increasing the weight by 2% for every rep I got OVER the prescribed reps. I did the math and the new maxes came out to be EXACTLY what I was guessing to increase them to. I thought it was pretty cool, because I guessed those new maxes before even trying this calculation. The reason I chose those numbers was because it puts the first week of the new cycle right around the weight that I used on my last week of the last cycle. Since I got 7-8 reps on everything I thought I would start the new cycle of the 5’s week with around that weight. That leaves me open to go for a rep PR. 
Of course, I am increasing them quite a bit because of our competition. To be more conservative I suppose you could just do a 1% increase for every rep beyond the prescribed? I dunno…
These maxes for the new cycle will end up on the last week, heaviest set(95%) being:
Military: 1x180 (I’ll probably just use 185 if the previous weeks went well)
Deadlift: 1x530
Bench: 1x310 (Maybe 315 if the previous weeks go well)
Squat: 1x405
I hope to get at least 3 reps of all of those on that last week. I am pretty confident I can do it. Bench will probably be the hardest. I am pretty excited to start… haha.
After this rest week I am going to be really itching to hit it hard.
Sorry, that turned into a hell of a long post if anyone actually reads it, lol.[/quote]
I’m slowly getting my head around 5/3/1. What you two gents are sharing is helping a lot…thanks for that.
I read it your post above as I am going through the same thought process. Thanks for the math.
Right now I’m getting 10+ reps on the max set of Week 1 and 6-8 reps on the max set of Week 3 5/3/1 day. I think I want to be working closer to my 5, 3 and 1 rep max. Maybe + 2-3 reps.
I can use BBB if I want to do higher reps in the movement.
So, based on that;
If I’m missing something please chime in. Mucho appreciated
By chance will you be adding Smich machine bench to your program? Ive got in on good advice they will rock your bench to the next level.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
. the average IQ in the powerlifting forum must be pretty low.
[/quote]
It is ? I havent noticed.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
By chance will you be adding Smich machine bench to your program? Ive got in on good advice they will rock your bench to the next level.[/quote]
i use the smith machine everytime i go to the gym…it’s a great place to hang my belt.
don’t get me wrong… i think the smith has it’s place but definitely not to bench on.