bench and triceps - arms and shoulders are fatigued, still, from the accessory work i did on tuesday. i think i need to make a schedule change. anyway, as a result, i played it conservative and kept the volume low.
bench- full ROM- competition commands and pause
0x10
135x10
225x6
315x6
405x2
455x1
490x1
touch and go
455x3x3
schwabs in smith machine- paused at bottom
135x10
225x10
315x6
365x4x2
circuit- forearms and seated calf raises
some x some x 3
bodyweight 265
squats- we worked up to our openers and second attempts on squat tonight. warmups felt good… a little tight. opener, lower back was tight but the weight was very light. unracked my second attempt and got a very intense jolt of pain in my lower back.
lower back immidiately tightened. i racked the weight… now i have some numbness in my outer thigh. anyway… front squats felt fine. i’m gonna get it checked out this week.
squat
0x10
135x10
225x10
315x6
405x4
495x1
585x1- approximate opener
635x no dice…didn’t attempt
front squats-paused at bottom. decided to try not using my hands. actually had better balance this way… go figure
135x10
225x8
315x6x2
circuit- paused front squats / leg extensions
135x10-paused x 3 some x 20 x 3
circuit- cable wrist curls / stand calf raise
some x 40 x 3 some x 20 x 3
bodyweight -263
I have nothing to say about your progress. I just want to say thank you for keeping this forum alive. It is full with so much bullshit it sickens me. Everyone knows it. It’s like all the guys who have a clue have just accepted it and wait to attack the newbie threads like the “anyone wear a tampon on their back when they squat thread” or the new “how do I train to prepair myself for the I bodybuider thread”. They just keep attacking every day like that will stop the next newbie thread the next day. Hello… the newbs don’t read ahead. They just go ahead and post. We need a new strategy. Just waiting around to crush people isn’t the way.
Lets start with just keep starting threads like this one. Quality, engaging, and productive. Maybe then we will have the patience once again to gently point people in the right direction. If that doesn’t work then its defcon 5 but lets act the part. At one poing we were all brainwashed by mags or the media or whatever. Someone took the time to wake us up. I understand some people have done that a thousand times like prof x. But there are a lot of other people around here who know a thing or two and have not given the kind of hours he has who could show a lot more patience. Maybe if that happened we’d have a shot of turning this place around again.
went to the doc today to get my lower back checked out. i have a bulg in a lumbar disc. i’m not supposed to lift so i celebrated this news by benching tonight. i’m going to try and find some common ground and lay off the things that really aggrevate it such as back squats and deads. apparently hyperextending my back is irritating the damage so i guess that’s why front squats don’t bother it. anyway… i’m still going to compete at the SPF Worlds.
i also didn’t get into a tight arch tonight. i pushed myself up on my traps but didn’t arch my back much at all. still had a pretty good night. worked up to my opener and second attempt on bench.
anyway… this is what i did.
bench- competition commands
0x10
135x10
225x6
315x4
405x2
455x1- opener
485x1-second attempt at comp.- bench is narrow and sometimes i hang off on one side. this happened on this set.
KORE
455x4- i’m call’n this a PR since it’s the first time i got all 4 reps clean
475x2x2- left a rep or two in the tank
Schwabs-paused
225x8
385x4,6
cable crossovers- rest/pause
some x 50 x 2
better night than i expected.
bodyweight 262
Once again insane pressing meat! I’ve got two questions.
Thanks meat
Sherro
[quote]sherro wrote:
Once again insane pressing meat! I’ve got two questions.
Thanks meat
Sherro[/quote]
thumbless gives me more surface area to hold the bar and it places the bar directly over my forearms. when i wrap my thumbs the bar rolls back to my knuckles and puts the bar behind my forearms. doing so decreases my leverage dramatically.
yes… i place plates on the floor to elevated my feet some. i have trex arms and midget legs. to get good leg drive i need a little elevation.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i have trex arms and midget legs.
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Around here we call that a squat and bench build. Nice work Meat, I try and follow all of your threads on this site, as someone mentioned before, they tend to be the shining light in the darkness of shitty threads.
[quote]VikingsAD28 wrote:
maraudermeat wrote:
i have trex arms and midget legs.
Around here we call that a squat and bench build. Nice work Meat, I try and follow all of your threads on this site, as someone mentioned before, they tend to be the shining light in the darkness of shitty threads.[/quote]
thanks man… i try to stay out of all the bullshit and self righteous crap. i just like to train and help others when i can.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
thumbless gives me more surface area to hold the bar and it places the bar directly over my forearms. when i wrap my thumbs the bar rolls back to my knuckles and puts the bar behind my forearms. doing so decreases my leverage dramatically.
yes… i place plates on the floor to elevated my feet some. i have trex arms and midget legs. to get good leg drive i need a little elevation.
[/quote]
Thanks meat. Im definitely in the same class as far as t-rex arms and midget legs. Might have to give it a go.
Cheers
Sherro
This hurt to watch! My abs are killing me!
I am going to train all week for this! Keep it up Meat! :o)
[quote]BookemD wrote:
This hurt to watch! My abs are killing me!
I am going to train all week for this! Keep it up Meat! :o)[/quote]
haha That is gold. Thought it was serious till I saw him walk over. Not only are you strong as fuck you’re a great actor meat! Keep it up!
[quote]BookemD wrote:
This hurt to watch! My abs are killing me!
I am going to train all week for this! Keep it up Meat! :o)[/quote]
You all laugh, but meat is bodybuilding now, this is how bodybuilders train. They look strong but all that muscle is just unfunctional.
you guys laugh but that was a serious PR for me. i had a huge psychological block moving from the pink to chrome dumbells. but then i took some of the vets on here’s advice and i just ate and lifted big. it’s so simple now… no programming needed:)
hahahahahhahahaha fucking hilarious. nice meat!
accessory night- shoulders, back and biceps
-tonight was all about high reps and pain.
seated dumbell overhead press
40’s x 10
70’s x 10
100’s x 22- definitely more reps than i’m used to doing. i will definitely be doing more of this sort of stuff.
drop set
100’s x 15, 70’s x 15, 40’s x 30
seated cable row
120 x 10
200 x 10
stack x 20
drop set
stack x 15, 200 x 15, 120 x 30
lateral raises
25’s x 30 x 3- very little rest between sets
circuit
cybex preacher curl- one arm at a time - standing calf raise - seated calf raise
some x 30 x 3 some x 30 x 3 some x 30 x 3
good night… great pump.
bodyweight- 262
squats- going to stick to front squats for my main lift until i’m healed up. i’m just going to keep upping the weight slowing. 405 felt easy with no sharp, shooting pains down my spine. that makes for a good day.
front squats- paused
0x10
135x10
225x10
315x6
365x4
405x3
circuit
paused front squats leg extensions walking lunges
some x 10 x 3 some x 20 some x 2 laps x 3
circuit
seated calf raise cable wrist curls
some x 30 x 3 some x 40 x 3
bodyweight - 262
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
accessory night- shoulders, back and biceps
-tonight was all about high reps and pain.
seated dumbell overhead press
40’s x 10
70’s x 10
100’s x 22- definitely more reps than i’m used to doing. i will definitely be doing more of this sort of stuff.
drop set
100’s x 15, 70’s x 15, 40’s x 30
seated cable row
120 x 10
200 x 10
stack x 20
drop set
stack x 15, 200 x 15, 120 x 30
lateral raises
25’s x 30 x 3- very little rest between sets
circuit
cybex preacher curl- one arm at a time - standing calf raise - seated calf raise
some x 30 x 3 some x 30 x 3 some x 30 x 3
good night… great pump.
bodyweight- 262[/quote]
And of course there was a dude in the background doing what must have been 3000 reps worth of light-weight pushdowns… Stopped his set the second you ended yours, too, scary…
Good job doing those low-incli-… Er… DB overhead presses meat, on to the 160’s!
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
good night… great pump.
[/quote]
This goes straight into my “quotes to torment meat with, once he goes back to powerlifting”-book.
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
maraudermeat wrote:
good night… great pump.
This goes straight into my “quotes to torment meat with, once he goes back to powerlifting”-book.
[/quote]
you had better stop posting in my thread man… the T-Cellers are going to get mad at you and take back your T-Cell decoder ring.
Also, when are you going to give me a sneak peak into your training so i have something to make fun of. i’m too easy a target.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
maraudermeat wrote:
good night… great pump.
This goes straight into my “quotes to torment meat with, once he goes back to powerlifting”-book.
you had better stop posting in my thread man… the Tcellers are going to get mad at you and take back your Tcell decoder ring. [/quote] Well, I figure that if I can get away with annoying high-level powerlifters, I’m probably enough of a scoundrel to be able to get away with anything… Except for mentioning certain supp-companies on here, that is. That incurs the wrath of the gods instantly, I couldn’t help but notice. [quote]
Also, when are you going to give me a sneak peak into your training so i have something to make fun of. i’m too easy a target.
[/quote]
Yeah, that smith machine vid really kinda got you trapped in a corner, didn’t it.
I guess I’m fighting a little too dirty at times.
I had about a 2 hour time-frame after your injury during which I was probably squatting more than you were, but that chance of mocking you is gone… If I were to post a video now, you could mock me instead, and that’s having things ass-backwards, right?
And now you’re getting all lean and light and “relatively-strong”, too… So I really don’t have much going for me anymore… Don’t you want to keep that belly? C’mon. Um… Because the chicks dig it and the beer demands it?
I can’t call you “my cute lil’ cuddle-bear” anymore, either, because your skin will soon be all paper-thin and un-cuddly and hair-less and tanned and oily…
That’s really what hurts me the most, you know, and once you get down to 160 or wherever it is you’re headed, you’ll be able to chase me around without suffering multiple heart-attacks, too, whenever I make some snarky comment in your thread…
You dieting is really making my life miserable here, I implore you to stop before it’s too late to save that wonderful friendship of ours!
Ok, ok, I’ll stop now.