Retitled, FightingTiger's Log

Training Bodybuilding
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Whats going on man??

Haha I dunno how I missed your log for this long! My bad man.

To increase your deadlift quicker I found low back work to be key. That and work on your form. I pull conventional but I just recently worked on my form and added a solid 10-15lbs in the course of a few days.

Once you get back to Clemson hit up one of the dinning halls after you lift so you can down some chocolate milk. Hell I miss the breakfast at harcombe man! get a smoothie and eggs and everything else. Haha screw this graduating thing, I knew I should have failed some classes!

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Haha, yeah. Harcombe was a big part of the reason that I got kind of fat last year. I usually throw some weight gainer in a shaker before I leave for class/gym/etc. so I put some water in there and down that postworkout.

My stance when I pull is so wide that my lower back’s main role is stability. I do a lot of front squats and RDL’s, so thats about all of the regular low back training that I do. I like pulling sumo a lot better because I can get down deep and drive with my legs a lot more as opposed to the sort of awkward feeling I get from conventional pulls.

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Wild Caught Alaskan Salmon, 3 bucks/lb at the store tonight. Hell yes.

Shoulder feels all better today. I think it just needed some more food and 12 hours of sleep. Thank heaven for weekends. I took a 4 hour nap today. It was nice.

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As of like 30 minutes ago, I am no longer a teenager. Thats right folks, Im 20.

I also ate like 3 lbs of smoked pork today at our 4th of july family cookout.

Time to go pass out and revel in my fatness.

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[quote]fightingtiger wrote:
As of like 30 minutes ago, I am no longer a teenager. Thats right folks, Im 20.

I also ate like 3 lbs of smoked pork today at our 4th of july family cookout.

Time to go pass out and revel in my fatness.[/quote]

Happy birthday tiger.

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Happy birthday

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Thanks guys.

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Ok, so I went to Outback Steakhouse with my folks tonight, got effin’ fat again. I did really good at eating clean today, and then I ate about 3000 calories in an hour when we went out to eat, haha. Oh well, at least I didnt have to pay for it! I was so full that it kind of slowed me down on my workout.

Tonights workout:

Leg Press: 8/450; 8/500; 8/590
superset
Leg Ext: 3x8/145
Gironda Press: 8/90; 8/140; 8/180
Hammerstrength Shoulder Press: 3x8/90 lbs per side
Dips- 3x8/bw
Seated Calf Raises- 3x8/360

After reading TC’s latest article, I remembered how much I liked this sort of setup, although the way he arranged it into a heavy and moderate day for the two workouts and the alternating rep scheme is a definite improvement over what I was used to doing in the past. Tonight was the first time Iv ever done the Gironda presses. Im going to feel those in the morning. Ouch.

Once again, Im off to revel in my fatness.

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Just checking back in. Couple of PR’s in the past week. Got 275 for 11 reps on squat last week and I squatted 315 for 5 and got 225 for 20 yesterday.

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Current/New goals:

405 pull by September- Im 100% positive that Iv got this one now, just need a gym I can deadlift in to prove it.
405 squat by October
500 squat by next summer
500 deadlift by next summer
100 lb db’s for reps on incline…this will have to wait a while, as I am cycling incline db press out of my workouts for a while…Iv been doing them every week since March I think.
225 shoulder press by May

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Thanks man, Iv been workin my ass off. I can only go about nose deep on shoulder presses without pain, so some people probably wouldnt count it, but Im good for 185 max on shoulder press right now on a good day. Id like to be doing 20 rep squats with 315 in the next year or two. I think that would be pretty sick.

I got the 90’s for 7 reps on flat bench today. That was cool.

Saw a kid braggin about his 405 1 inch ROM squat tonight. I wanted to kick his teeth in.

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[quote]fightingtiger wrote:
Just checking back in. Couple of PR’s in the past week. Got 275 for 11 reps on squat last week and I squatted 315 for 5 and got 225 for 20 yesterday.[/quote]

Nice squats.

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thanks man

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dude 225 for 20 is pretty badass. do you mainly back squat or do you do other variations?

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Im rotating out between back squat, front squat, and leg press right now.

I admit my recent numbers have been in knee wraps, but I dont think the increase is attributed entirely to them and alot of what I have read from people who have been at it for a lot time say that they wish they started using knee wraps earlier because of the reduced strain on your knees.

20 rep front squats tomorrow night. I am probably not going to make it out alive.

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[quote]fightingtiger wrote:
Saw a kid braggin about his 405 1 inch ROM squat tonight. I wanted to kick his teeth in.[/quote]

Haha. I have lots of those guys in my gym, and I wanna kick their asses too. The difference is they squat a lot less, never reaching 100.

Although our deadlifts are almost equal, you’re a lot stronger than I am on other exercises. Keep it up, and hopefully, I’ll catch up.

BTW, Good luck with the 20 rep front squats. You’ll need lots of it.

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[quote]fightingtiger wrote:
Im rotating out between back squat, front squat, and leg press right now.

I admit my recent numbers have been in knee wraps, but I dont think the increase is attributed entirely to them and alot of what I have read from people who have been at it for a lot time say that they wish they started using knee wraps earlier because of the reduced strain on your knees.

20 rep front squats tomorrow night. I am probably not going to make it out alive.[/quote]

Knee wraps dont take stress off your knees unless your useing the same weight that you would be squating without them. In wich case it would be takeing away stimulus of your quads hamstrings and probably glutes to some degree. Considering knee wraps would serve the same purpose as those muscles in the bottom of the squat,“where the knee wraps would be fully streched”

For instance: If you can squat 275 x 10 without knee wraps and 285 x 10 with the wraps the wraps would be takeing off 10lbs of knee strain each rep. So you still have the knee strain of what you can regular squat you can just use more weight without the knee strain of that extra 10lbs.

So basicaly it creates false strength in your weak link and the muscles that arent your weak link get used a little more, like lower back etc.

I do belive that haveing pressure “like from wraps” on your knees while squating and the added warmth would be therapeutic. Not by preventing knee strain but by maybe preventing pain and torn ligaments while squating. Then again the extra weight from wraps could lead to other injurys considering your useing more weight than your natural balance would allow.

Extreme Example:If your triceps sudenly became able to bench 100lbs more and you tryed to bench 100lbs more you might tear a pec.

Just thought I would throw my thoughts out there.

Good luck with the front squats your legs will be able to handle it but you will probably be real close to dumping the bar on the last couple reps.

I spend way to much time thinking about this kind of stuff.

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[quote]n3wb wrote:
fightingtiger wrote:
Im rotating out between back squat, front squat, and leg press right now.

I admit my recent numbers have been in knee wraps, but I dont think the increase is attributed entirely to them and alot of what I have read from people who have been at it for a lot time say that they wish they started using knee wraps earlier because of the reduced strain on your knees.

20 rep front squats tomorrow night. I am probably not going to make it out alive.

Knee wraps dont take stress off your knees unless your useing the same weight that you would be squating without them. In wich case it would be takeing away stimulus of your quads hamstrings and probably glutes to some degree. Considering knee wraps would serve the same purpose as those muscles in the bottom of the squat,“where the knee wraps would be fully streched”

For instance: If you can squat 275 x 10 without knee wraps and 285 x 10 with the wraps the wraps would be takeing off 10lbs of knee strain each rep. So you still have the knee strain of what you can regular squat you can just use more weight without the knee strain of that extra 10lbs.

So basicaly it creates false strength in your weak link and the muscles that arent your weak link get used a little more, like lower back etc.

I do belive that haveing pressure “like from wraps” on your knees while squating and the added warmth would be therapeutic. Not by preventing knee strain but by maybe preventing pain and torn ligaments while squating. Then again the extra weight from wraps could lead to other injurys considering your useing more weight than your natural balance would allow.

Extreme Example:If your triceps sudenly became able to bench 100lbs more and you tryed to bench 100lbs more you might tear a pec.

Just thought I would throw my thoughts out there.

Good luck with the front squats your legs will be able to handle it but you will probably be real close to dumping the bar on the last couple reps.

I spend way to much time thinking about this kind of stuff.[/quote]

Haha, I understand. Thats what summers are for. As far as my experience with the knee wraps, I can definitely move more weight when I am wearing them, but what I like is that the next day, there is no knee soreness. I still have pretty intense fatigue and soreness in my quads and hamstrings, but none in my knees. I like that, haha.

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Tonight’s front squat endeavor went as follows

warm up-135
8/205
25/135

I went light on my 20 rep set because I havent done high rep front squats and I wasnt sure how much to drop the weight. This will be significantly higher next time I do this. Did some lockouts on the smith machine for triceps. Need to figure out which way to do them on it since there its one of the 7 degree ones. They felt good though. Very good movement. Im keeping them. Trained with one of my new roommates tonight and the kid is a bulldog. He played football when we were in high school and has always been strong. He was having trouble keeping the bar up on front squats and he dropped it twice during the first 13 reps or so. It would slide off of his shoulders and he would do a rep zercher style and then set it down and pick it up and start over. He looked like he was about to gas out at 14 reps, but he set it down, caught his breath and then picked it up and banged out 11 more reps. Im looking forwards to training with him again.

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[quote]Irish Muscle wrote:
front squats with bodybuilding grip or powerlifting grip?[/quote]

I use the cross grip. I cant do them clean/catch grip because my wrists are too inflexible from all of the “wrist exercise” that I do. You know.