Saturday September 4
DL
135-5
225-3
275-2
315-6x1
DL to knees/partials off the floor
sets of 5 at 135, 155, 175, 195, 215, 235
Suitcase DL
70-3x5
Dips
3x10
This week I’ve spent a lot of time glued to the computer watching the live stream of the juniors out west. They are very inspirational and there are a crap load of really strong kids with some beautiful technique. There are some monstrous Russian and Ukrainian kids. I don’t know what they feed them but they really seem to dominate.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Monday night I went to a sleep clinic and will have the results at some point in the future. I slept like crap with all the wires, electrodes and crap. Plus my back ached like a bitch because it was hard to move around. I’m glad it’s done and I’m sure it will help. The only really good part was spending the evening sitting in bed quietly reading. You had to get there by 8 pm and I wasn’t (thankfully) hooked up until around 11 so I hung out and read my book.
Training last night was minimal with raw benching up to 115 and front squats up to 155. That was it. Even my BB complex with just the bar tired me out and I had to stop part way through. My throat hurts and I’m coming down with something. I’m just lying low for a couple of days.[/quote]
Any word on the results of the sleep study?
[quote]soldog wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Monday night I went to a sleep clinic and will have the results at some point in the future. I slept like crap with all the wires, electrodes and crap. Plus my back ached like a bitch because it was hard to move around. I’m glad it’s done and I’m sure it will help. The only really good part was spending the evening sitting in bed quietly reading. You had to get there by 8 pm and I wasn’t (thankfully) hooked up until around 11 so I hung out and read my book.
Training last night was minimal with raw benching up to 115 and front squats up to 155. That was it. Even my BB complex with just the bar tired me out and I had to stop part way through. My throat hurts and I’m coming down with something. I’m just lying low for a couple of days.[/quote]
Any word on the results of the sleep study?[/quote]
Not yet. They typically take about 4-6 weeks. I don’t imagine it will be anything serious. Much of it is age related. The worst part is the restless legs and the crawling sensation I get with that.
Monday September 5
Bench
bar-10
65-5
95-3
100-3x3
110-2x2
120
110-2x6
Reverse bands
135-5
155-3
165-1
Paused zerchers
bar-5
135-3
155-3
175-4x3
Good mornings - narrow stance
135-5x5
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
okay, couple of points:
first, supposedly this video was filmed in Canada, but I am doubting it because I did not see any beer in the video
second, why no belt? isn’t the collar riding up w/o belt? the Katanan I know you need to place the collar just right to get it to carry through to lockout
third, BB grip on front squats is the only way to go if you a) aren’t a woman or b) a teenager. I haven’t had the flexibility to do them oly style since like 86. [/quote]
You don’t see the beer because it’s in ma belly 
I did once hit a raw squat PR after a beer. It’s the carbs.
I don’t belt the shirt because 1) I’m lazy and 2) It’s still too much shirt pulled down[/quote]
finally saw this response. was very, very worried about the beer/not in Canada thing. I thought maybe you were a Maylasian lifter trying to impresonate a Canadian, but with your leverages that didn’t make much sense.
Never have drank before or during training, plenty the night before or after. I had one traning partner tell me he had his best sessions ever on dbol and Canadian Whiskey.
Belt the shirt, just move the collar up and down for how much jack you want and cinch the belt accordingly. And work the shit out of your lockout/triceps…
lol @ wobbly giraffe.
awesome comment from your kid- and Snap’s right; you do look very good.
Thursday September 8
Squat
bar-3x10 I was super tight. I think it was from the zerchers because I did them wide stance. I won’t be doing those again while I’m training in gear. I got the adductor pulling again. I was fine with narrow front squats. These made my hips and adductors feel shitty even three days later. It’s funny that it doesn’t bother me training raw.
115-5
155-3
195-1
235-3 straps down
265-1 straps up
285-5x1 straps up. I tried my erector shirt again and quickly boffed it off. It felt suffocating.
Bench
100-3x8
DB OHP
25-3x12
I altered my deadlift suit by pulling in the hips and played around a bit with it just to two plates. I prefer tighter hips.
I helped a friend out Tuesday night by shortening her suit straps. She showed up with a picture she’d found on-line of how to alter a suit. I found myself looking at a picture of my suit and my hand. It was one I’d posted last year on another T-Nation thread.
This is my final squat of the day. I was having trouble getting deep probably because of how tight my hips and adductors were. My last one was good though.
Catching up, some really great work in her. Very strong.
Fine squat Miss O.
Coming up on your comp aren’t you?
ah, cool, appreciated the vid of your walk-outs. i sort of try and jump a little bit with the weight because i wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. good idea to set the safeties high and at least get the feel for the start of a descent.
[quote]alexus wrote:
ah, cool, appreciated the vid of your walk-outs. i sort of try and jump a little bit with the weight because i wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. good idea to set the safeties high and at least get the feel for the start of a descent.[/quote]
Yea interesting on the walk out, im doing the walk out part but dont actually jump or do anything but walk it out. Do you start by just getting the weight on back and walking out then progress to this?
Nice squatting !
Damn. Can’t see the vid right now.
I’ve never partial squatted a heavy weight. Just walked it out. And that often feels like the hardest part of the lift.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Damn. Can’t see the vid right now.
I’ve never partial squatted a heavy weight. Just walked it out. And that often feels like the hardest part of the lift.[/quote]
Partial squats seem to get no love. But, board press variations, floor presses, rack pulls, box pulls etc. are common tools. I think partial squat variations have a role to play.
o_b_s nice work and good squats
I’m looking at the lifting schedual wondering which day you are lifting J?
Our,
I just watched your walkout video, thought it was a competition prep squat and thought “Maybe I will hit depth this weekend” then I read your write-up realized what you were doing and figured out that I will be about 6" high come meet time.
Really excellent work, every time I read your log I feel a bit less manly and a lot less strong.
Good squats, I wasn’t sure what numbers women could put up, until now.
I sometimes have trouble with walkouts because I have an improvised home setup with which I have to do a a box squat just to unrack the bar. then the walkout. I almost fail the first part in recent weeks.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Damn. Can’t see the vid right now.
I’ve never partial squatted a heavy weight. Just walked it out. And that often feels like the hardest part of the lift.[/quote]
Partial squats seem to get no love. But, board press variations, floor presses, rack pulls, box pulls etc. are common tools. I think partial squat variations have a role to play.[/quote]
Here’s my [largely unfounded, I’m sure] concern with partial squats: I’m afraid that if I train them I might lose my ability to intuitively know depth. I don’t have to think about it now. And I don’t want that to change. Obviously, no one has trouble with “depth” in bench. You know when the bar is sitting on your chest. Also, the top part of the squat is never my sticking point. If I get outta the hole and a few inches up, I’m golden. If someone struggles with the top quarter of the squat, then it makes sense to train that. But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that whereas I see it all the time with bench and DL. Failure oh so close to the lockout.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Damn. Can’t see the vid right now.
I’ve never partial squatted a heavy weight. Just walked it out. And that often feels like the hardest part of the lift.[/quote]
Partial squats seem to get no love. But, board press variations, floor presses, rack pulls, box pulls etc. are common tools. I think partial squat variations have a role to play.[/quote]
Here’s my [largely unfounded, I’m sure] concern with partial squats: I’m afraid that if I train them I might lose my ability to intuitively know depth. I don’t have to think about it now. And I don’t want that to change. Obviously, no one has trouble with “depth” in bench. You know when the bar is sitting on your chest. Also, the top part of the squat is never my sticking point. If I get outta the hole and a few inches up, I’m golden. If someone struggles with the top quarter of the squat, then it makes sense to train that. But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that whereas I see it all the time with bench and DL. Failure oh so close to the lockout.[/quote]
One thing I noticed was that my supporting muscles in the upper, lower back and core took a beating from the overload. Partials also hammered the crap out of my quads since they become the prime movers.