Yeah, at least with both weights hitting the floor the middle doesn’t take much impact, but 275 hitting home on the shoulders or in the hands when it’s coming down could definitely impact the bar.
Fortunately my new bar is fucking SWEET. Very pretty.
I was very happy I had my Rogue Echo 2.0 bar tonight got cleans. It’s so smooth. The only problem with it is that it has no center knurling. It’s going to be awhile before I max out the Dick’s bar on squats so it’s not a big deal. I think I’ll just tape the middle like my old baseball bats if I ever need it for squats.
My bar has center knurling. I used to wonder why center knurling was ever not a thing, but then after months of doing behind the neck pressing with a deadlift bar with no center knurl I did a rep with a squat bar and scraped the back of my head down to my kneck, then had to press it back up, scraping it the opposite way.
Day 2 of the full body experiment
Lumber 11
Floor Press
Did a cool guy hip thrust to get these in place
45/10
95/8
135/8
185/8
185/10
205/10
Band Flye
Skinny Orange Band/ 12 per side x 3
RDL
135/6
185/12 x 3
Bent Row
135/8 x 3
Shrug
205/8 x 3
Half-kneeling OHP
My ceiling is low, so I cleaned these into place, then did a lunge to get into a half-kneeling position. I don’t know if this was the best.
95/10 x 3
Band Press-down
Red + Black bands/ 12 x 3
I don’t know if I’m more annoyed by the full body (it’s a lot of bouncing around and never being really in the zone on a movement pattern) or the home “gym” (basically getting the bar into position). We’ll see as the days go which one becomes less of a pain first.
Got the bench from Dick’s today - opened up a whole world!
Push (because I already don’t want to do full body every day)
Incline Press
45/12
95/10
135/10
185/6
205/8
225/5
In between the first few sets I did the pec activation with a band
Bench Press
2” pause above chest, then all the way down and finish the rep - harder than you’d think
135/5
185/5 x 5
Dips
Hooray for my wife’s workout bar things!
BW/12 or so x 3
Superset with:
Spider crawls
3 sets of 3 trips
Seated OHP
95/15
95/20
95/25
Push-down
Red + black band/12 x 3
Skullcrusher
Did these from pins, so dead-stop, with Grip4rce on them
45/12
65/8 x 2
Push session for the win. Nice work
Thanks man! It was quarantastic!
Copywrite that phrase could catch on
Nice workout!
Which bench did you get? I need to either repair or replace mine. I gather you recommend that bench?
In light of all the exercise I’m not doing, I’m tempted to change my log title to Always Skip Arm Day. And All the Other Days.
I got this one from Dick’s.
I chose based 100% on availability, so I didn’t do any research. It feels pretty stable, though. I don’t think you’re supposed to do stuff out of the back of the rack, but I am going to try light front squats and whatnot
That bench is solid. I bought the bench piece to go with my rack. I’m pretty sure you can flip the hooks around and use the back for squats. I bet the safety bars will work, too. The only question is how much it can support before it tips (the safety arms, not the hooks).
Exactly right. I only have a total of 300#, and I’m not flinging it in there, so I should be ok I think
I apparently didn’t really feel like doing anything today, so I did some front squats and some one-arm rows, then asked CT a moderately dumb question, then took the dogs for a 2-mile walk
Searching…
Found it. I would also suggest snatch grip deads and RDLs.
I’ve never done these. Now is a good time
Don’t be afraid to use straps if necessary. I think my best snatch dead is 385 and that was when my deadlift was 450.
I’m really trying to find a better balance between lifting, mobility and cardio anyway through all this. I will end up going back to the Meadows stuff, I’m sure, but for right now I should do different stuff. A snatch-grip lift definitely fits the bill.
RDL’s superset with light SLDL’s was big for my hamstrings. I’ve seen a lot of varying definitions for RDLs/SLDLs but my personal definition is that RDL’s are hinging back where the bar pretty much maintains contact with the legs and SLDL’s are just bending over at the waist. You could use plates or dumbbells if you have them for the SLDLs, or just dropset the weight on the barbell. Good mornings could also be a good second exercise. Basically, with limited weight, supersets, drop sets, and other intensity techniques are going to be your friend.
You can also do your RDLs one legged, with the rear leg elevated for balance. GREAT way to overload the hamstrings.
Thanks! That’s a ton of ideas.
I appreciate the RDL vs SLDL description. I’m in the same boat where I’ve really never known where one begins and the other ends. Based on what you wrote, I’ve probably never done an SLDL. Something to try.
I’ve liked the mechanical drop sets in the past, where you go from easy to hard: like good morning to SLDL to RDL, or one-leg RDL to SLDL to RDL maybe.
Anyway, I’ll start trying stuff out and probably ask you questions when I get frustrated. Thanks again
Finally - do you have ANY dumbbells? Doing hamstring curls on a bench with a dumbbell between your feet is as fucking painful as it gets for the hammies.
