Yep. Inspiring stuff. I really like this video:
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A lady I was listening to at a marriage seminar said that a mentally healthy person vents 3 times a year. 
And with bad things that have happened to you in the past… “you don’t have to eat the vomit.”
Just because it happened to you doesn’t mean you have to keep talking about it or sharing it with everyone you meet. Eventually you just move the fuck on…
I don’t share anything with everyone i meet? I actually do not like telling people/or associating with people unless they’re a really close friend or family member. I could count the people that I’ve told all my issues on one hand. I did say I was venting so if you didn’t want to read it you could have skipped it. You can move the fuck on but really it stays and haunts you every now and then. That’s okay and it’s normal
It does. Just passing information along. Nothing personal…
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Well it is the internet. it’s difficult for me to interpret peoples posts. I just assume they have good intentions and try to re read it/re phrase it. i take everything To literal sometimes
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I found a blog helpful for getting all my thoughts out. Really seemed to help me get my head on straight.
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I think I’d like that. I’ll start up a blog.
https://riseoftheslaya.blogspot.com/?m=1
First blog post! Thankyou for the idea @T3hPwnisher
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nice intro post!
Thankyou! I didn’t really know what to write so i just went with the flow.
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that’s always a solid option.
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todays training
Grip.
Warmup:forearm stretches, hand bands, some gripper work with trainer and 1
Trained grip at home today. Might do this from now on
chair levers
Picking up a chair from one corner with one arm. Did some iso holds as well. Pretty good exercise for the wrist. A bunch of reps/sets
pinch grip holds
Concrete as block and wood square thingies to make it thicker:
4 sets of holds
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrcEVpkFCD8/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=udckb9x8z08v
Bunch of hand bands
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@danteism i want to get insanely strong on dumbell rows. You’re a beast at those so i was wondering what method/ frequency you implemented to get the 100kg dumbell.
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Honestly all it took was doing DB rows every six or four days (not quite sure what split I was using at the time) and doing just one all out set. I started with a weight I could do for 20 or so reps and added 5-7.5kgs every time I did them. When done with proper intensity doing two identical sets is pretty much impossible. Although you can do a back off set at 75-85% or so of your top set.
Apart from DB rows I did pull ups and Pendlay rows for back + snatch grip deads and Jefferson deads on leg days.
On Pendlay rows and Jeffersons I focused on getting strong in lower rep ranges (think 1-3), on pull ups I did more volume (5-10 sets of 12-15 or so) on snatch grip deads I worked in the 4-6 rep range.
Remember that when we are talking about DB rowing massive amounts of weight you also want to have strong biceps in addition to having a strong back so you don’t tear them.
And lastly, make sure you’re actually getting stronger and not just cheating more every time you row. Sure getting strong on cheat rows carries over to regular ones but saying you DB row x amount of weight is a bit misleading if your form could be mistaken for a single arm Deadlift
So striving for 20 reps each time, increasing weight?
I think I’ll start doing snatch grip deads on a tuesday. With pullups would you recommend them twice a week? I was thinking on a monday superset them with overhead presses then on thursday do the same. For higher reps I’ll most likely have to use a band for assited pullups because i suck at them. I can do higher rep towel pullups and fat gripz etc but i suck at regular. also will be doing the db rowing on a monday. Pretty much the setup will look like this for a monday:
Axle press supersetted with pullups
Log cleans
Dumbell row top set of 20. Potential back off set depending on energy.
Curls/Triceps/Facepulls etc
Got it
I was thinking more kroc row style? I’ll make sure not to let them look like a single arm dead
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Nice grip workout. The brick plus wood blocks is perfect.
Now you can do pinches with 2, or 1 or zero pieces of wood for 3 different workouts.
Just watch those toes.
Thankyou! Im taking a break from captains of crush work for a bit and focusing on pinch, thickbar,supportive and wrist work for a couple of months. I feel like my tendons and cns needed a break. I’ve also never taken a break from them and i believe it’s a good idea to do so
Exactly! The 2 wood added makes it surpisingly difficult. Best i got was 15 seconds with my left (just matched it with my right to avoid even more strength imbalances). If i go from 15 seconds to a minute in a set i figure I’ll be alot stronger. It’s cool bevause i can do cool dropsets too. Like 2 wood for max time, 1 wood and no wood. The chair levers are cool as well. I can progress on those by working up to the heavier chair as well as doing it at different angles to make it harder.
Haha
Striving for max reps each time; 20 is just the ballpark of where I begun. If you get to 20 on a set don’t stop there, go further.
Twice a week is good. You could do weighted pull ups on one day and bodyweight/band assisted on the other. After a couple of weeks you’ll probably be strong enough to get rid of the band.
When I was at my prime with chins I started every single session with them. Worked from doing 10x2 to doing 30 reps in a set (for one set of course) in under ten weeks
How so? Do regular pull ups bother your joints?
Looks pretty good. You may experience fatigue from pull ups affecting your rows the first couple of sessions but it’ll get better.
As long as you can proudly call them rows anything is fine in my book. (And for strongman Kroc rows may be more beneficial than stricter DB rows).
I don’t know. I think maybe my lats are weak? Or maybe it’s a problem with the shoulder. I can’t perform chinups without elbow/shoulder pain. ( no pain per se but it feels fucked up and i get crackling/popping in the elbow and shoulder) Havent been able to for two years now. That happened from never warming up whilst doing them and doing heavy chinups weighted and not packing my shoulders. Pullups dont cause me pain but they feel funny. Neutral grip feels alright though. Also when i had a pullup bar in my room I’d walk past doing unpacked shoulder reps constanrly so that was worse. Infact when i was 14 i pretty much never packed my shoulders. i didn’t know i guess
Alright.
Monday is more like a strength upper body session so that’s a solid idea. Thursday is upper hypertrophy/accessory kinda stuff so it’ll work perfectly
Nice man! I think Pullups is an essential upper body exercise
I thought as much. Like you said I’ll adapt soon enough
As a neurotype 1a i really think rows should primarily be done heavy with a little bit of cheating. Don’t get me wrong strict has its place but everytime I’ve done heavy rows vs strict my back growth is alot better with heavy rows. Look at cailer woolam a.k.a dr deadlift rowing 500 pounds. Or If you ever see videos of arnie or ronnie coleman you’ll see them doing heavy ass rows. None of that strict shit. Everyone responds differently. Some people might respond best to the strictest rows the planet has ever seen but i sure don’t
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And you’re sure it’s not a from issue?
Absolutely. Abandoning lat pulldowns and switching to pull ups is a surefire way to get your back growing
Sure, I used to do a lot of cheat rows myself, but from a bodybuilding point of view it’s a bit unnecessary. The upper traps will easily hog a great deal of work and you’ll end up with huge traps, and a decent back otherwise. In addition to that, unless your Delts respond really well you’ll have a hard time growing them. So for me personally going a but stricter and essentially shifting the load from being moved by traps to the upper back and lats I’m able to build a lot more balanced body.
But yeah, choose a variation that suits your goals. The point was that the amount of cheating you do, if you decide to employ it, should remain rather constant; if you start off with a good looking cheat row and a month from now you look like you’re having a seizure you’re only fooling yourself.