Thanks bro, one day I’ll squat like a man.
I’ve actually been worried about the city coming down on me about the road. My only saving grace would be the kids up the road have been picking the tar off and making piles of the crap every where. Guess we’ll see what happens.
that is some solid benching and
the prowler stuff is insane nice work
your like really long in the legs- and kinda tall
depth is hard when your tall
you might be stalling on scale weight cause your building more muscle then you think.
^ Agreed about the LBM gain. All diets will level out eventually, you either have to continue to drop calories or change up the diet. My advice is start measuring waist, arms, legs. The goal is to lose BF not scale weight. You have the same mental block that I do we both were former fat guys, so we get stuck on scale weight as the measuring stick. You have to change your tought process.
your body might just partitioning your macros better because it doesn’t have the surplus its used to. The mirror is always a better measuring stick than the scale.
234.0 this morning, GAME ON! That’s -1.8lbs this week, I’m guessing my weight last Saturday was water or something.
kmcnyc- Thanks. My legs are pretty long which I’m sure plays a role in my lack of depth.
DJHT- You’re totally right about getting caught up in scale numbers. Hopefully your guys are right about the building muscle thing.
Joe- Very true. I have noticed subtle changes in the way I look.
Thanks again everyone.
Haven’t felt good the last couple of days, my kid got sick over the weekend and it’s since mades it’s way through the house. Tonights going to be one of those “lets make a deal” workouts. You know the days where you say just go do the main lift and go from there.
- Deadlifts
- Profit!
Oboy, I get to deliver the straight line! OK, ahem. . . what’s step 2?
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Oboy, I get to deliver the straight line! OK, ahem. . . what’s step 2?[/quote]
What I wanted to happen: Come home pull a PR or two, push the prowler around. Eat a steak roasted over an open fire.
What really happened: I came home a took a nap. Feeling pretty good this morning so hopefully it was worth skipping training last night. Being sick sucks, especially on the weekend.
Yeah cav, the type of pill that your friend asks you to take at the club and you do as a result of peer pressure… =D
Lol that’s a funny clip. The guy just stayed quiet for Phase 2.
Everyone’s right about the weight as well, scale weight sucks when you add weightlifting to the weight loss equation.
Sorry you’re sick, get better soon.
^ Thanks Nikki, I don’t get sick often but when I do it usually lingers for a bit.
Yeah, I knew the South Park reference, just couldn’t pass it up, LOL
Re skwat depth: Yeah, you’re a bit high. What helped me was to take an empty bar, squat to parallel, then had somebody set the side rails in the cage to the height of the bar. Then I had to severely lighten my weight and f##king retrain the movement. It took some work. Another trick courtesy of Username was to take 135 lb and go down into the low squat… and stay there. It helped me stretch out the ankles a bit.
Re the foam roller: I love the roller. LOVE the roller. I make slow, sweet love to the roller every morning before I lift. I actually looks like tender-lovin when I’m rolling my hip flexors. I get weird looks from the folks at the Y.
Re diet: Weight loss, like muscle gain, is not linear, as you just saw. It goes in fits and starts. If you plateau again (and btw I define a plateau as 10 days) cut out the carbs in your post-workout drinks.
233lbs today, that -1lb since wednesday. This morning I caught up on the last two days of missed lifting.
DL
135x10
185x5
225x5
275x5
305x3
350x3
390x8-10??? I’ll explain
Military press
45x10
85x5
120x3
135x3
155x2 +3push presses
misc back, bi’s and tri’s and shit.
Probably one of my best deadlift performances every, weight was flying up. On the 6th rep I thought to myself I’ve got 10, knowing that the video camera was rolling I stopped counting and focused on form and power. When the set was over I discovered the camera battery died after my 3rd rep!!! I know I got 8 and pretty sure I got 10, not to self change the camera batteries…again, damn flip camera is a battery vampire.
Military press was fine but seems to be going backward from dieting, I guess. I cut out most accessory lifts just a few sets of each of them.
Today is a carb up day, so far I’ve had 1/3 cup oats in my morning shake, Surge recovery and a Chipotle burrito WITH rice.
390x10 … holy shit bro, thats some serious repping right there! My MP has stalled at 205 forever now, Im certainly psyching myself out. Right on about the flip, Cisco stopped making them too, which I thought was weird its a great little gadget and so easy to use.
Yay for the other pound lost!
Hmm to the Chipotle burrito. Awesome session, those DLs are awesome.
I hate when my camera dies in the middle of the set =(
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Right on about the flip, Cisco stopped making them too, which I thought was weird its a great little gadget and so easy to use.[/quote]
Damn, my camera’s a flip, and they stopped making them? I’m getting really paranoid. Seems like every time I find something really useful, I no sooner leave the store than they phone up “You can stop production now, Phil’s got it!”
Thanks Matty. Would love to get 205lb MP, my best actual lift is 175 my best calculated is 185. Pressing is not a strong suit of mine.
I heard they are going to stop making them, seems weird they’re everywhere.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Yay for the other pound lost!
Hmm to the Chipotle burrito. Awesome session, those DLs are awesome.
I hate when my camera dies in the middle of the set =([/quote]
Thank you. The burrito was awesome, nothing like a 1200 calorie burrito after some serious deadlifting.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Right on about the flip, Cisco stopped making them too, which I thought was weird its a great little gadget and so easy to use.[/quote]
Damn, my camera’s a flip, and they stopped making them? I’m getting really paranoid. Seems like every time I find something really useful, I no sooner leave the store than they phone up “You can stop production now, Phil’s got it!”[/quote]
LOL! Ain’t that the truth, can’t keep up with technology.