Nice benching, and I concur with the Faux Hawk
My friend said you can’t use a Katana if you have breasts. Lucky girl.
Yes, I’m a bitch. 
I’ve only used an F6, and a loooooose Fury. What made you decide to get a Katana?
As for getting used to holding the weight - I totally agree, I’m strong enough to bench whatever, but the first time I take a handoff of something relatively heavy, if I’ve not been in a shirt in a while, I feel completely like I’m about to kill myself.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
My friend said you can’t use a Katana if you have breasts. Lucky girl.
Yes, I’m a bitch.
I’ve only used an F6, and a loooooose Fury. What made you decide to get a Katana?
As for getting used to holding the weight - I totally agree, I’m strong enough to bench whatever, but the first time I take a handoff of something relatively heavy, if I’ve not been in a shirt in a while, I feel completely like I’m about to kill myself.[/quote]
Hey, it’s not like it’s a surprise that I don’t have boobs. I’m built for speed, not comfort.
I got the Katana from a friend for whom it was custom made but it was waaaay too much for her and way too tight. She’s in my weight class but about 5 inches shorter and a lot thicker through the chest and shoulders so I don’t know how she even got it on. Needless to say, I am very appreciative.
Because I’m not exactly a big bencher, the fact that I’m losing fear and gaining confidence about getting under heavier weight is good for me. I think the confidence will push my numbers up given a bit of time.
On another note unrelated to lifting, one of our workers ended up in the ER today for stitches when he decided he should turn his jeans into shorts, with a hook blade, while he was wearing them. Jesus. Some people’s kids.
^Darwinism at it’s best.
Thursday September 16
Squat raw
45-10
115-5
155-3
185-2
205-6x3
215-2 rep PR
225-2 rep PR
I was really stoked to hit 225 for a double particularly considering I felt like I had no legs at all when I was doing 205. I really focused on form; keeping my lower back tight and pushing through with my upper back when my instinct was to crane my neck up when I stall.
Bench
85-8x3
Head supported DB Row
42-3x8
DB OHP
25-3x10
You had 3.
BB
That great raw squatting Julie.
Very awesome. Four plates!
Your jumps in weight always surprise me. Like going from 115 to 155. I would probably do two other sets in between there. Assuming I could raw squat 155 for reps.
[quote]Big Bencher wrote:
You had 3.
BB[/quote]
Oh come on. You said I did everything but dance the Fandango to get the second one up 
Soon though, right?
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Your jumps in weight always surprise me. Like going from 115 to 155. I would probably do two other sets in between there. Assuming I could raw squat 155 for reps.[/quote]
It was a conscious effort to make the big jumps in warm ups. I would wear myself out doing too many ‘step up’ sets. Also, I’m a basket case at a meet so I try to minimise the number of sets I have to do there. It’s a good thing too because at my last meet, one warm up platform was still being used to get rack heights 30 minutes before we started and we were all trying to work in on one rack until BB told them they were done using it for rack heights.
looking good J! Nice dls
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Thursday September 16
Squat raw
45-10
115-5
155-3
185-2
205-6x3
215-2 rep PR
225-2 rep PR
I was really stoked to hit 225 for a double particularly considering I felt like I had no legs at all when I was doing 205. I really focused on form; keeping my lower back tight and pushing through with my upper back when my instinct was to crane my neck up when I stall.
Bench
85-8x3
Head supported DB Row
42-3x8
DB OHP
25-3x10[/quote]
Ive been busy with Youth Football so im getting behind keeping up with the other members. By the way GREAT squatting even if im a little late to the show.
[quote]bunny7568 wrote:
looking good J! Nice dls :)[/quote]
Bunny: Your avi really disturbs me.
Sunday SEptember 19
Most of the morning was taken up with cleaning out our crawl space since we have a new tenant moving in. Moving anything in a crawlspace can be like Atlas stone loading in a confined space. I managed to clear out and move to the garage a very large and intimidating pile of shit that we now have to haul to the local transfer station. My lower back was hating me before I started training.
Deadlift - raw
135-5
185-3
235-3
255-3
265-1
275-1 - This was hard until I hit about 6" off the floor then it flew up. Because I’ve always been weak off the floor, I’m able to get a crap load of of my gear.
225-12 - I still remember the day about 2 1/2 years ago that I finally ground 1 rep off the floor at this weight.
Box pulls
225-3
275-3
315-3
365-3
385-2
405-1,1,1
I kept my belt unlatched until I hit 405.
Narrow grip bench (Pinkies on rings) to 3 boards
95-8
115-8
125-8
135-3
125-3
Various weighted sit ups.
We then had an incredibly delicious dinner of t-bone steak, salad and broiled yams. For some reason, the steak was perfect and tasted better than any I’d had in a long time.
all that hard work cleaning out your crawl space followed by what looks like a shit-load of lifting.
Your lower was hating you and then you did raw deads and box-pulls? hope you can walk tomorrow…
or maybe I’m just projecting my old-man back issues…
[quote]soldog wrote:
all that hard work cleaning out your crawl space followed by what looks like a shit-load of lifting.
Your lower was hating you and then you did raw deads and box-pulls? hope you can walk tomorrow…
or maybe I’m just projecting my old-man back issues…[/quote]
Isn’t it enough that I’m cute? Do I have to be smart as well?
I wasn’t sure how much I’d pull off because I felt gassed before we even started. I hadn’t pulled raw in a while and wasn’t even sure how it would feel. It wasn’t bad. Pulling raw, even sumo, I use a lot of back. I might as well switch to conventional raw. That may have been the less intelligent part of the day.
The box pulls were sumo from just below the knee and I set up so it’s pretty much all leg and upper back to lock it out. I didn’t really need the belt tightened because of the almost straight up/down of the position.
How do you organize your training/movements? I have gradually moved to a squat day (and maybe some quad asst.), a dead day (and maybe some hammies/lower back asst.), un upper horizontal push/pull day and an upper vertical push/pull day. I was just curious how you picked how to group movements.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
How do you organize your training/movements? I have gradually moved to a squat day (and maybe some quad asst.), a dead day (and maybe some hammies/lower back asst.), un upper horizontal push/pull day and an upper vertical push/pull day. I was just curious how you picked how to group movements. [/quote]
After some consultation with experienced people I cut to three days a week.
Tuesday:
Heavy bench
Light(er) squat or squat variation like front squats, OH squat, box squat, against bands etc.
Good mornings (heavy or light) and sometimes RDL or Power cleans
DB Bench
Thursday or Friday
Heavy squat
light bench
OH press variation like strict bb press, db press or push presses
row variation
Sunday
Heavy deadlift
DL assistance variation like box pulls, deficits, SLDL, Snatch grips etc.
Tricep work of some variety
Ab work of some variety
Everything I’ve planned around the three main lifts in which they are each given priority once each week. The rest is assistance work that I’ve found works well for me. I’m trying to keep in a lot of rowing and pressing work.
Once I got my template set up, I just follow it. Because I’m not gearing up for a meet right now, I’m playing a bit looser but this mix works for me and I like it. Everything seems to be moving up. I guess I’ll change things up when it’s not working anymore.
That’s an interesting way to do it. I’d like to try something like that sometime, maybe after my next meet.