I am very nervous to see the doc tomorrow about my knee. I had told myself some time ago that if anything else “breaks” on me, I will need to hang up my powerlifting hat. And I am afraid that I may have torn something and will need to figure out how to redirect my passion. It is hard for many people to understand, but I truly live and breathe powerlifting. Even though I have never achieved any serious level of success with the sport, I have attacked powerlifting with such unbridled passion and enjoyed every damn minute of it.
On a positive note, I have figured out how to bench while keeping my ass down! So I am super excited about that. It requires quite a contortion with my legs out very wide. I’ll get a video eventually.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
On a positive note, I have figured out how to bench while keeping my ass down!
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legs out very wide.[/quote]
Great! That was the key for me as well. Getting my feet out as wide as possible helped immensely in keeping my butt on the bench just like you said.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I am very nervous to see the doc tomorrow about my knee. I had told myself some time ago that if anything else “breaks” on me, I will need to hang up my powerlifting hat. And I am afraid that I may have torn something and will need to figure out how to redirect my passion. It is hard for many people to understand, but I truly live and breathe powerlifting. Even though I have never achieved any serious level of success with the sport, I have attacked powerlifting with such unbridled passion and enjoyed every damn minute of it.
On a positive note, I have figured out how to bench while keeping my ass down! So I am super excited about that. It requires quite a contortion with my legs out very wide. I’ll get a video eventually.[/quote]
I totally get this. I actually believe the harder the journey the more dedicated (or obsessed) you need to be to keep it up.
I don’t mean to be obtrusive but there is a guy in RawUnited that I have lifted with who is 65 years old, I think, who had both hips replaced and a knee as well as some part of one shoulder and he still competes. Be obsessive and excited. You’re unique and different than most of the population in the world and keep kicking ass. You have success every time you get on a platform and compete and you probably inspire countless people to be more than they are…so keep enjoying with passion. Passion adds to and === life, good life.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I am very nervous to see the doc tomorrow about my knee. I had told myself some time ago that if anything else “breaks” on me, I will need to hang up my powerlifting hat. And I am afraid that I may have torn something and will need to figure out how to redirect my passion. It is hard for many people to understand, but I truly live and breathe powerlifting. Even though I have never achieved any serious level of success with the sport, I have attacked powerlifting with such unbridled passion and enjoyed every damn minute of it.
On a positive note, I have figured out how to bench while keeping my ass down! So I am super excited about that. It requires quite a contortion with my legs out very wide. I’ll get a video eventually.[/quote]
So true. My wife sand I had this discussion a few days ago. We noted that I have taken a hobby to a lifestyle.
If things turn out bad, you could always go “push-pull” or bench only.
Thanks for the concern. I am doing better! It ended up being some unconventional medicine that has actually worked best. So I hope to start training consistently next week. I am going to take some time off of competing. Probably won’t see the platform until next summer at the soonest. Slow and steady wins the race, right?
Slow & steady is right, sometimes it feels more slow than steady on some days, but the older one gets the more bullheaded we get. You’ll see yourself to getting back on the platform soon.
Now, I have never liked this program on paper. But the reason I am giving it a go is that it will force me to train submaximally and give me plenty of time to work on some form tweaks. Also, the BBB will be good conditioning for me.
Despite the temptation to set my maxes where they really are, I DIDN’T! And that right there is huge progress for me. Also, although I considered squirreling out of the every fourth week de-load, I am not going to do that either.
Well, a program that allows me to do 73 squats can’t be all bad! And the knee held up just fine. I am squatting a little closer stance. It felt weird at first, but not too damn bad.
RDL
3/8/95
Hammie curl
3/8/50
Adductor/abductor superset
3/8/60
Plank
3/1 minute
In other news, my son made the varsity hockey team at Columbine High School. It was kind of eerie going in there to drop off his athletic paperwork knowing the terror that happened in that school back when my son was just six months old.
you may remember that I once loved and experienced great progress on the 5/3/1.
There seems to be a split in the powerlifting community between submaximal trainging and circa max training. I tried both in my mid 40’s, and found that I had a lot more nagging injuries training super heavy every session. When I discovered 5/3/1, I never hurt myself again, even though I took the occasional heavy single.
Since the original 5/3/1, wendler has written 5/3/1 for powerlifting. If you’re not using that already, it might be of more value to you than the original. I’ve bought all of them just because I’m such a nut-swinger.
Have fun with it, and get all healed up.
And I really liked BBB because it got me in and out of the gym in less than 30 minutes. I think I may be the only person in the world that liked bbb
Let us know what you want think of BBB. I found it frustrating…[/quote]
Because?
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
There seems to be a split in the powerlifting community between submaximal trainging and circa max training. I tried both in my mid 40’s, and found that I had a lot more nagging injuries training super heavy every session. When I discovered 5/3/1, I never hurt myself again, even though I took the occasional heavy single.
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This is my thinking. To clarify, I am not repping out the last set but doing the prescribed reps followed by BBB. I may rep out the “1s” day each month. But that is it. I am familiar with 531 for PLing and may try that down the road. Also, I am doing 531 only three times a week: squat day, bench day, and DL day. No OHPing for me. On the weekends, I am allowing myself one conservative play day in the gym with an emphasis on upper body. And that’s what I did today! All movements were very strict since I kept the weights light.
Congratulations to your son quite an accomplishment making varsity as a freshman. My son is a hockey player as well and absolutely loves it but he won’t be making varsity as a freshman.
Columbine may be the only high school in the country that virtually everyone in America knows the name of, unfortunately for the wrong reasons.
