SteelyD- Do the Tate Presses not bother your shoulder? Just wondering becasue they kill mine.
Nice work!
LS - Thx.
re: Shoulders --As long as I start at nipple level, elbows slightly tucked, scaps tucked, and keep the db’s touching the whole time, the shoulder feels fine. If I try more of an extension, like db’s at my ears, that’s where my shoulder gets hammered. Also, if I flare my elbows out too much.
Anytime I have to reach up (or similar motion), or my elbows are back (eg bench start position, dip, etc), then I have pain.
Hopefully this will change soon…
Hope the rehab stuff kicks in most ricki ticki! You’ll lose your groupies if you don’t get back to pullin’ heavy soon! 
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
LS - Thx.
re: Shoulders --As long as I start at nipple level, elbows slightly tucked, scaps tucked, and keep the db’s touching the whole time, the shoulder feels fine. If I try more of an extension, like db’s at my ears, that’s where my shoulder gets hammered. Also, if I flare my elbows out too much.
Anytime I have to reach up (or similar motion), or my elbows are back (eg bench start position, dip, etc), then I have pain.
Hopefully this will change soon…[/quote]
Very good observation. Thanks! I think I have my elbows perpendicular to my body when I do them. I will try them with more of a tuck…
Tuck at the bottom, flare as you push up. So many things to remember…
Glad to see the shrinking arm syndrome isn’t bothering you. Lots of people lead normal, productive, lives with small arms. Long sleeves do get hot in summer though.
Congrats man…Youre working hard! Sometimes thats all you need.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Glad to see the shrinking arm syndrome isn’t bothering you. Lots of people lead normal, productive, lives with small arms. Long sleeves do get hot in summer though. [/quote]
It’s nice that you all have such sympathetic support.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
hel320 wrote:
Glad to see the shrinking arm syndrome isn’t bothering you. Lots of people lead normal, productive, lives with small arms. Long sleeves do get hot in summer though.
It’s nice that you all have such sympathetic support.[/quote]
It’s tough love around here. Tough love.
stauqs
Bar x 10
135 x 5
285x3
325x3
360x6 (PR?)
Fr. Squat
135x8
185x5
225x1, x5 (Back felt funny, re-racked, walked a few minutes, went back)
Leg Extention (1-leg)
120x10
160x8
180x8
Few things:
– I HEART my Inzer knee sleeves. I looked like an Inzer whore today with the Inzer sleeves, wrist wraps, belt, and beanie. I initially thought the knee sleeves were too tight, but on actually using them, I think they’re just dandy.
– I’m exhausted. Didn’t do too much. After the front squat back discomfort, I just called it a day, but still feel like someone beat me with a maul. Come to think of it, I didn’t sleep for fuck last night, either.
– Did more yardwork. I now have 3 piles of brush, leaves, branches, weeds, each 6’ high by about 6-8’ wide, ready to BURN Baby, BURN!!
– Knee is stiff of all things.
– I want Ice Cream, dammit. I have to clean up the diet though. Starting to feel like a slob. The kids were taunting me with cheesy pizza sticks. Little bastards.
Damned kids with their pizza and ice cream, mine are the same way always tormenting me.
Sic squatting, congrats on that PR. You should be near 400 SRM huh? If not, you will be soon.
Very strong stuff Steely, nice work!
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
stauqs
Bar x 10
135 x 5
285x3
325x3
360x6 (PR?)
Fr. Squat
135x8
185x5
225x1, x5 (Back felt funny, re-racked, walked a few minutes, went back)
Leg Extention (1-leg)
120x10
160x8
180x8
Few things:
– I HEART my Inzer knee sleeves. I looked like an Inzer whore today with the Inzer sleeves, wrist wraps, belt, and beanie. I initially thought the knee sleeves were too tight, but on actually using them, I think they’re just dandy.
– I’m exhausted. Didn’t do too much. After the front squat back discomfort, I just called it a day, but still feel like someone beat me with a maul. Come to think of it, I didn’t sleep for fuck last night, either.
– Did more yardwork. I now have 3 piles of brush, leaves, branches, weeds, each 6’ high by about 6-8’ wide, ready to BURN Baby, BURN!!
– Knee is stiff of all things.
– I want Ice Cream, dammit. I have to clean up the diet though. Starting to feel like a slob. The kids were taunting me with cheesy pizza sticks. Little bastards.[/quote]
Nice session. Regarding the Inzer gear, they make alright stuff at an affordable price. I do feel sometimes a little odd being wrapped up to the eyeballs to get some work done. Yesterday it was APT elbow sleeves and wrist wraps just to do DE bench.
And regarding the short people taunting us with treats: I have awakened in the middle of the night after successfully avoiding carbs for days, only to find myself in front of the fridge searching for the little ones left over mac and cheese. It is a rough road, kids and diets.
If there is one thing that is not a palindrome, it’s stauqs!
Congrats on the PR, Dud! How 'bout a cheezy pizza stick?
Man, I’d love to see the “man on the street” interviews with the other people in your gym. I wanna see pics of you in your Inzer gear!
[quote]mathineer wrote:
If there is one thing that is not a palindrome, it’s stauqs!
Congrats on the PR, Dud! How 'bout a cheezy pizza stick?
Man, I’d love to see the “man on the street” interviews with the other people in your gym. I wanna see pics of you in your Inzer gear! :-)[/quote]
‘Able was I ere I saw Elba’ - long palindrome. I’m a dork.
Nice staugs.
I just don’t feed my kids. It eliminates temptation. They can eat at their dad’s place. I had popcorn tonight.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
‘Able was I ere I saw Elba’ - long palindrome. I’m a dork.
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So, Napoleon was exiled to the isle of Elba, and Steely is exiled from the aisle of cheesy stix.
[quote]mathineer wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
‘Able was I ere I saw Elba’ - long palindrome. I’m a dork.
So, Napoleon was exiled to the isle of Elba, and Steely is exiled from the aisle of cheesy stix.[/quote]
Keeerect. Now I’m craving cheesy stix. Thanks.
DZ - I had a 405x2 squat a couple months back. I’m working back up to that via 5/3/1-ish type workout.
PeteS - I just retired a set of nasty neoprene knee sleeves. The velcro on the damn things would pop in the hole on a squat. I probably won’t go the route of shirts and suits (at least for awhile), but after the back injury, a nagging shoulder, and perpetually inflamed joints, the belt, sleeves, and wristwraps are becoming ‘required’ gear. Anyway, I think you can still be ‘raw’ with belt and sleeves in APA and APL 
re: Cheese bread sticks. In Maine, the pizza sucks (I grew up on S.Jersey/Philly pizza). My family is factioned on food-- I’m a meat-a-tarian. My wife is recently vegan. The oldest kid likes next to nothing (she loves my vanilla M-D shakes, though). The youngest eats everything (and, interestingly, looks just like me-- see profile). You see the challenge at the dinner table.
So, since hardest one to feed is the oldest, and the pizza sucks, we get these breadsticks with cheese on them (basically a small pizza with no sauce and lots of garlic, like white pizza, but more ‘bready’) because both kids will eat them. I have to concede that they’re really good, and, as disgusting as I think they are, they’re hard to resist.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
DZ - I had a 405x2 squat a couple months back. I’m working back up to that via 5/3/1-ish type workout.
PeteS - I just retired a set of nasty neoprene knee sleeves. The velcro on the damn things would pop in the hole on a squat. I probably won’t go the route of shirts and suits (at least for awhile), but after the back injury, a nagging shoulder, and perpetually inflamed joints, the belt, sleeves, and wristwraps are becoming ‘required’ gear. Anyway, I think you can still be ‘raw’ with belt and sleeves in APA and APL
re: Cheese bread sticks. In Maine, the pizza sucks (I grew up on S.Jersey/Philly pizza). My family is factioned on food-- I’m a meat-a-tarian. My wife is recently vegan. The oldest kid likes next to nothing (she loves my vanilla M-D shakes, though). The youngest eats everything (and, interestingly, looks just like me-- see profile). You see the challenge at the dinner table.
So, since hardest one to feed is the oldest, and the pizza sucks, we get these breadsticks with cheese on them (basically a small pizza with no sauce and lots of garlic, like white pizza, but more ‘bready’) because both kids will eat them. I have to concede that they’re really good, and, as disgusting as I think they are, they’re hard to resist.
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I deal with similar issues in my family. When I cook, there’s lots of moaning from the kids. And I don’t expect my wife to cook exactly what I want to eat, otherwise there wouldn’t be peace in the home, so I gots ta compromise. Take one for the family, as it were.
Steelly D
Nice work you mini Gear whore, I need to start with wrist wraps,
and I guess a belt too, but really its about the beanie.
I know you get plenty of PT, and massages, do you foam roll?
I have for the last several months- and lots of little stuff clears up for me.
And I dont think people understand about the Pizza- I am Brooklyn kid and the South Jersey shore pizza is
pretty decent.
kmc
kmc-- Mack and Mancko’s in Ocean City (NJ) = Best.Pizza.Ever. (IMHO)
Yeah, I foam roll, plus monthly chiro. Only had 1 P/T and 1st massage ever is tomorrow. I’ll take whatever I can get.
On another note, prepared to be awestruck with with intensity that is the ‘norm’ at my gym:
I think he’s been doing the same weight for a year now.