HERO. Seriously. That was amazing brother!
So what do you think you will be able to lift when you grow up?
[quote]Alpha wrote:
So what do you think you will be able to lift when you grow up?[/quote]
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That was freaking brilliant.
I think I leaked some urine on that one. I mean because of the quote, not the lift. Well maybe a little during the lift too.
Thanks!
Very inspiring
I hope to deadlift just like you when I grow up
Congratulations! It’s great to have seen you set a goal and resoundingly break it in a fraction of the time set. I guess you need to change the title of your log now to “650 lb DL”…?
[quote]mahwah wrote:
Very inspiring
I hope to deadlift just like you when I grow up[/quote]
Hopefully with better form than mine…
Thanks.
[quote]kgildner wrote:
Congratulations! It’s great to have seen you set a goal and resoundingly break it in a fraction of the time set. I guess you need to change the title of your log now to “650 lb DL”…?[/quote]
I know. What do I do?
How about this…
“Bucket List: How Many Logs Can I Start Before I Die”
Wtf it took you less than a month to do this? Damn you and your old man strength. And congratulations too I guess…
[quote]csulli wrote:
Wtf it took you less than a month to do this? Damn you and your old man strength. And congratulations too I guess…[/quote]
I guess I didn’t know what I had built up.
Makes me reevaluate strength training, which I guess I always have.
I’ve done a fuck-ton of reps at low(er) weights. Then I went after heavy stuff for a while to try and meet the title of my log.
Pulled my training way beck from the generally accepted norm, I mean I deadlift “heavy” every two weeks, a triple to a single, followed by 5-8 triples at 65-75%, speed singles on alternate weeks at 60-70% after squats.
I truly don’t think I was sandbagging, I just got a wild hair and went for it. Who knew? I keep watching the video because frankly, I don’t fully believe it. Like I hallucinated it.
Maybe I should write a book…
Anyway, thanks, I guess…
Congratulations on pulling 600! Amazing. Road to 7 plates?
Sorry I never dropped by last week; midterms kept me busy.
Anyway, after I finally pulled 405, I decided that since I’m currently pushing squat and bench pretty hard, I’d back off a bit on deadlift and work on my form. Also partly due to your inspiration.
Today was 5x5 with 280 (plus a fun sumo set at the end). I was focusing on keeping my shins as vertical as possible (in addition to a flat back), and I think I was doing a fairly good job. Next week I’m going to work on keeping my shoulders over the bar (it always lose that after the first rep unless I reset). One thing at a time. I also noticed the “helicoptering.” I think it’s a grip issue… I can’t seem to find the exact spot when I switch to over-under. I’ll keep working on it.
I hope you like the socks… and the beard. Sorry I couldn’t get a straight on video. It just wasn’t possible today.
Do you have a date for that meet? Opening above a national record will be amazing. You are truly an inspiration to young and old. I thank you.
I’m with the others emskee awesome lifting.
I’ve gotta say also, that i’ve attempted to shorten my rest periods on everything and my workouts have been shorter and much better overall.
Pedal to da metal works best.
Just saw your deadlift video last night. Well done, you made that look easy.
What now… what now? Maybe “Quest to an 18 BMI”?
[quote]LoRez wrote:
Just saw your deadlift video last night. Well done, you made that look easy.
What now… what now? Maybe “Quest to an 18 BMI”?[/quote]
Nice lift! I now seem to believe that deadlift strength is somehow correlated to years on the earth x training x length of beard. I need to recalculate my training theorems to make use of the new scientific deadlift formula.
[quote]baugust wrote:
Congratulations on pulling 600! Amazing. Road to 7 plates?
Sorry I never dropped by last week; midterms kept me busy.
Anyway, after I finally pulled 405, I decided that since I’m currently pushing squat and bench pretty hard, I’d back off a bit on deadlift and work on my form. Also partly due to your inspiration.
Today was 5x5 with 280 (plus a fun sumo set at the end). I was focusing on keeping my shins as vertical as possible (in addition to a flat back), and I think I was doing a fairly good job. Next week I’m going to work on keeping my shoulders over the bar (it always lose that after the first rep unless I reset). One thing at a time. I also noticed the “helicoptering.” I think it’s a grip issue… I can’t seem to find the exact spot when I switch to over-under. I’ll keep working on it.
I hope you like the socks… and the beard. Sorry I couldn’t get a straight on video. It just wasn’t possible today.
Do you have a date for that meet? Opening above a national record will be amazing. You are truly an inspiration to young and old. I thank you.[/quote]
The video looked like a “how-to”. Stuff was perfect. And your grip didn’t look cocked (i.e. “too much hand”) though center-of-pull effects hard to see. But, if you pull in front of the mirror and the center knurling is biased to one side, or if you constantly put the bar down an inch or two biased to one side, there it is. If no prob, then bully for you.
I have always relied on speed sets for form work. It is the single from the floor which counts after all. And…pulling a 60%er for like 20 singles as if it’s a ton on the bar forces your goof ups to bubble up, if any exist. Sets for reps vex me in the deadlift.
By the by, if I look at your video with my right eye, which is far sighted and thus cannot focus on my PC monitor, the curve of the bill on your hat to the rear, and the curve of your beard to the front makes it look like your head is in something’s mouth. Maybe a cuttlefish or a weirdly head-heavy duck. Anyway, thought you should know and figured that we are close enough now that I could be the one to tell you.
BITCHIN’ SOX!!!
I need to get tall socks for July 13. Meet is WNPF in Youngstown, Ohio.
How was the midterm?!?!?!?!?!? Unless you’d rather not.
[quote]Heracles_rocks wrote:
I’m with the others emskee awesome lifting.
I’ve gotta say also, that i’ve attempted to shorten my rest periods on everything and my workouts have been shorter and much better overall.
Pedal to da metal works best. [/quote]
Right!!!???!!!???
When did this “stay in the gym all day, rest as long as you need” thing start?
I mean, get in shape! Oh my gawd, ever see a guy who has had to follow himself at a powerlifting meet and get that whopping 3 minutes between attempts? Okay, yeah, almost never happens, saw it once…BUT IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN!
And it leaves more time for marathon sessions with NETFLIX.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
Just saw your deadlift video last night. Well done, you made that look easy.
What now… what now? Maybe “Quest to an 18 BMI”?[/quote]
Let’s see, lose 90 more pounds…
Double amputation at the hips should do it.
OMG, I wonder if they’d let me deadlift if I had no legs and the only thing between me and the floor was my balls?!?!?! I’d be locked out as soon as I scooted up there (“ouch, my balls, my balls!”) and grabbed the bar.
Where was this going?
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
Just saw your deadlift video last night. Well done, you made that look easy.
What now… what now? Maybe “Quest to an 18 BMI”?[/quote]
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(That looks like me without my beard)
[quote]Jlabs wrote:
Nice lift! I now seem to believe that deadlift strength is somehow correlated to years on the earth x training x length of beard. I need to recalculate my training theorems to make use of the new scientific deadlift formula.[/quote]
So I should then post my best deadlift, unshaven, JUST BEFORE I DIE.
So there it is, “deads until yer dead.”
Thanks!
Oh, and by the way…in my training book downstairs, I had as my target for this cycle a 545 pull, figuring I’d be happy with a 535.
Anyway, so much for knowing how to program…
[quote]emskee wrote:
The video looked like a “how-to”. Stuff was perfect. And your grip didn’t look cocked (i.e. “too much hand”) though center-of-pull effects hard to see. But, if you pull in front of the mirror and the center knurling is biased to one side, or if you constantly put the bar down an inch or two biased to one side, there it is. If no prob, then bully for you.
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Great! Thanks a bunch. Trying to follow in your footsteps! I want 495 by the end of the year… so I expect you will be at 630 by that time as well (I gave you a â?? reduction in weight compared to me because you’re an AARP member, yeah?).
[quote]emskee wrote:
By the by, if I look at your video with my right eye, which is far sighted and thus cannot focus on my PC monitor, the curve of the bill on your hat to the rear, and the curve of your beard to the front makes it look like your head is in something’s mouth. Maybe a cuttlefish or a weirdly head-heavy duck. Anyway, thought you should know and figured that we are close enough now that I could be the one to tell you.
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Haha! I certainly am glad you were the one to tell me, although I’m not sure anyone else I know would have come up with that.
[quote]emskee wrote:
BITCHIN’ SOX!!!
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Last weekend there was a campus-wide kickball tournament offered by my school. One of the teams had matching uniforms, and the socks you see are the socks they were. I sweet-talked my way into a pair after they were eliminated from the tournament (they were a brand new pair, don’t worry). As an aside, we won first place. Now you have to return the favor with a first place finish (and national record) at your meet.
[quote]emskee wrote:
I need to get tall socks for July 13. Meet is WNPF in Youngstown, Ohio.
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www.redlionsports.com … or in case my link is removed, google Zany Performance Socks.
[quote]emskee wrote:
How was the midterm?!?!?!?!?!? Unless you’d rather not.
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Glad you asked. 98.5% … should be good enough. It was only biostatistics though. Finals (in two weeks) for pharmacology and transmembrane signaling (and biostatistics, of course) will be a bit more challenging, I think.