So Injured, So Old: 600lb DL Before I Die

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DEADS…

deads, deads, deads, deads, deads

March 11, 2014

Um, Deads

Weight 214.6
Height 5’ 9" (I found that I can stretch up, tuck in my chin and I am 5’ 9")
Age 56.23 years (Calculated that at any point in time, I am exactly twice as old as people half my age. Do the math.)

Deads:

Warmups: (forgot to time these, I was so excited, my wife was videoing me AND sorting laundry)

245 x 5
295 x 2
335 x 2
385 x 2
425 x 1
495 x 1

Work set:

545 x 2

2 - 100s, 4 - 45s, 2 - 35s, 2 - 25s.

(I drew 2 smiley faces after this set in my notebook, yeah those can be badass and manly, put a patch over one eye for example)

I forgot to take a breath at the top of the first rep (WTF???), so when I put it down, I had to breathe in which shot my tight and as you see, I was doing the “Quasimodo bell ringer” (otherwise known as “hunch back shimmy”)on rep 2. But it went up. And I didn’t pee myself either. Nor blow a lumbar disc out my rectum. Can I say “rectum” here?

Seriously, who likes the goatee???

Also, I am using a different foot placement than from 2 weeks ago because I nailed my constant companion Mr. Medial Meniscus Tear on that 3rd rep at 520. I am able to slip my femur to the right of the injury with no pain using this different stance, but it feels weird(ish). A person in complete possession of their mental faculties would have dropped back like 25% and started over. No. But this also ain’t my first rodeo. I mean first deadlift workout.

Maybe in 2 weeks I’ll try 570 or 575 or something like that.

It has been a lot of years since I pulled something like 570ish. I think that it was before there was color, when women wore dresses in the home, dogs had names like Spot and Fido, and we were afraid of the bomb (semi Putin reference)(not really). Or maybe it was more recently than that.

Oh yeah, I’m still working out…

Speed Deads:

385 x 8 sets x 3 reps (each rep dead reset on floor)

1 minute per set: 7 minutes 4 seconds for the 8 sets

DONE!!!

I normally follow with 3 - 5 sets of 10 at like 300 lbs. but I just didn’t feel like it. I just want to go night night.

Later…

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At a boy, nice work, nice lookin bike too, been under the hood for a couple days, got quoted 2 grand for head gaskets on wifes summer car, my old 03 grand am, so anyway, I thought 2 grand seemed like alot for head gaskets, seriously rethinking that now, at the end of my second day, and I’m still not done :slight_smile: Small car–big motor—lots of technaaaligy = head ache for Jake, should of spent the two fuckin grand. Had the car since new, it dosen’t owe me nothin, but back in 03, I ordered it loaded up ( cause I was single ) Black, Ram air, limited edition, always babied it, and can’t seem to part with it ( reminds me of being single) but what a pain in the ass of a car to work on, if it dosen’t run tomorrow, they’ll be an insurance claim in my future, even if I have to deal with a second arson charge !

Anyway nice bike Bro, I’ll have a better look, and comment, when I didn’t just spend 11hrs under the hood, and feel like a bag of shit, Good times, later

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[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
At a boy, nice work, nice lookin bike too, been under the hood for a couple days, got quoted 2 grand for head gaskets on wifes summer car, my old 03 grand am, so anyway, I thought 2 grand seemed like alot for head gaskets, seriously rethinking that now, at the end of my second day, and I’m still not done :slight_smile: Small car–big motor—lots of technaaaligy = head ache for Jake, should of spent the two fuckin grand. Had the car since new, it dosen’t owe me nothin, but back in 03, I ordered it loaded up ( cause I was single ) Black, Ram air, limited edition, always babied it, and can’t seem to part with it ( reminds me of being single) but what a pain in the ass of a car to work on, if it dosen’t run tomorrow, they’ll be an insurance claim in my future, even if I have to deal with a second arson charge !

Anyway nice bike Bro, I’ll have a better look, and comment, when I didn’t just spend 11hrs under the hood, and feel like a bag of shit, Good times, later[/quote]

By the way, that video of your kid deadlifting spiked my insulin. :slight_smile: I see she hangs with you sometimes when you lift. I remember my kids going to the gym with me a couple of times. Good days. Thanks for the memory jog.

I bet you had to pull half of the crap under the hood just to find the heads. Good luck with that.

Take care.

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It’s the puttin it back togeather part that sucks, tryin to remember every little piece, braket, and plug, just heading out now to finish up. My daughter has basicaly grown up in a gym, it’s cool to have them around, and realize it, cause my 20yr son, seems to have better things to do, gotta enjoy the times when they actually want to do things with ya, later

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[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
At a boy, nice work, nice lookin bike too, been under the hood for a couple days, got quoted 2 grand for head gaskets on wifes summer car, my old 03 grand am, so anyway, I thought 2 grand seemed like alot for head gaskets, seriously rethinking that now, at the end of my second day, and I’m still not done :slight_smile: Small car–big motor—lots of technaaaligy = head ache for Jake, should of spent the two fuckin grand. Had the car since new, it dosen’t owe me nothin, but back in 03, I ordered it loaded up ( cause I was single ) Black, Ram air, limited edition, always babied it, and can’t seem to part with it ( reminds me of being single) but what a pain in the ass of a car to work on, if it dosen’t run tomorrow, they’ll be an insurance claim in my future, even if I have to deal with a second arson charge !

Anyway nice bike Bro, I’ll have a better look, and comment, when I didn’t just spend 11hrs under the hood, and feel like a bag of shit, Good times, later[/quote]

Oof. I feel your pain, I would NOT want to turn a wrench on a sideways 3.4! They pack those suckers in tight!

I have a beater '87 Mark VII LSC (202,000 miles), a VERY nice '92 Mark VII LSC (109,000 miles) and a haggard '97 Impreza (171,000 miles, I’ve owned it for 10+ years). I figure if I have enough halfway functional turds I should be able to cobble something together to get to work each day!

The wife gets the nice vehicles.
I’m an incurable gearhead. :slight_smile:

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Nice pulls, Emskee!

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Ok, feelin like a new man, motor’s rebuilt, and purrin :slight_smile:

So, the new bike, nice, is that some sort of ‘‘nightster’’ or a blacked out bobed model, kind of looks like a bike called the ‘’ 48 ‘’ that I saw last summer. Anyway give some details, can’t just throw up a pic like that and leave us guessin. I’ve never road an 883, but the 1200 I had, never failed to put a smile on my face, up into 2nd with a handful of throttle,( same motor) just talking about it, is ampin me up. I got less than 2yrs to go, envy you !

All about the torque, the sound, and the girls :)))))))))) !

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THEEEEEEEEEE_Jed, thanks.

The bike is an Iron 883, so yeah, its part of that whole dark whatever thing Harley started some years ago, bobbed out of the box. I like it because it’s less flat track racer than my XLH1200 from '97, lower seat (like by 4") and all that, narrow bars. I like that Forty Eight, REALLY like the Seventy Two. I just don’t want to play with laced wheels any more. And the 72 has a real peanut tank, 2.2 gallon. All the other Sportsters have that new tank which means not a Sportster. I just wanted something that looked like a bike, something to keep Sasha the Ural company.

So I went for an Iron. Cast wheels, low seat, 3.3 gallon tank. No stupid crap. No much chrome.

I don’t know from an 883 either. My 1200 was a rocket. I’d like to shit can the chromed pipes and mufflers, but that’ll just cost money. But Vance and Hines has some nice blacked out short shot pipes.

Just want the snow to go away. I guess we’ve had spring every year so far so they are expecting another one in 2014. 8" of snow yesterday.

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I don’t mind the pipes, you could wrap them from the engine to the muffler, might kill some of that chrome, and help with heat. It looks like they’re sitting a little higher now, with everything up tight ( buell carry over mabey) I know with my 04, it used to rub pavement when I got aggresive in twisties, seems like they might have fixed that.

Funny back when I had the 04, we also had an R6 that we had repo’d from a guy at the time,( just beat it up for a summer) and to look at the two bikes, the R6 looked alot faster, but depending who was riding they were pretty close. Your going to have your hands full, lots and lots of torque, and lots and lots of shit eating grins, your making me yearn for my licence back.

I’m worried about insurance when I get my licence back, it’s crazy to insure a harley here, and now that I’m married, can’t just sweet talk an ugly girl, to put my rides in they’re names ( the good ol days) My 04 was 2500$ a year to insure, and that was someone else’s name. What kind of dough are they charging you a year, just for the bike alone, wondering what the differeance is between US and Can

Good times !

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I “think” the mufflers are lower than on my 1200. Published lean angle right is less I think. I’ll find out soon enough. This bike is used and I ran my hand everywhere and the previous owner hadn’t even touched the pegs.

My 1200 sat pretty high, with lots of ground clearance and I still hit chrome a few times. I had one Victory that was always making sparks. The Enfields I owned had fixed pegs, no hinge. I only scraped those a couple of times, I was afraid of the bike catapulting over.

My 2 bikes cost me about $170 per year total to ensure. BUT…I have buds who pay like $2500 just for a Harley. I don’t know how this stuff is figured out by the companies.

Wrapping the pipes, that’s a compelling idea. Thanks…

I’ve been watching your ROM deads. Really nicely pegged shins, you keep that bar in tight. When you get to a lower starting height do you still pull pegged all the way up or do you start to put the knees over the bar? I wonder because I know about your engineered knee and gotta wonder if that doesn’t make you a hamstring/glute to start puller or if you are able to use any leg drive at the start.

Your squats are all hip and back also, which I think is actually the way to power squat, but you have to have a strong enough erector/glute/hammy chain which many of us don’t. Looks like this is how you are training it and it’s cool to watch.

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Okay, I’m trying to upload a pic of me on my Enfield one winter which a coworker of mine caught. Methinks I look a little large for the bike…

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While I’m at it, me on my first Ural Svetti, on the day I got her running (bought her broken).

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emskee wrote :
I’ve been watching your ROM deads. Really nicely pegged shins, you keep that bar in tight. When you get to a lower starting height do you still pull pegged all the way up or do you start to put the knees over the bar? I wonder because I know about your engineered knee and gotta wonder if that doesn’t make you a hamstring/glute to start puller or if you are able to use any leg drive at the start.

Your squats are all hip and back also, which I think is actually the way to power squat, but you have to have a strong enough erector/glute/hammy chain which many of us don’t. Looks like this is how you are training it and it’s cool to watch.

Reply :
I’ve had to re-invent everything in regards to my squat over the last couple years, and I really didn’t give any thought, or work to my deadlift. The first couple months back, I spent alot of time in the 135-225 range finding a way I could squat, that didn’t hurt too bad, then the past year getting that to atleast 100lbs past my bench, before I even thought about trying to deadlift ( only recently, last couple months) I hadn’t given any thought to how my new squat form affected my deadlift. To me the deadlift is a no brainer, but your right, now that I look at it, and do a dry dead in my office, my form has changed on that as well. Possibly why my dead didn’t come back to where I thought it would.

I was interested in this ROM dead program, thinking it would be a good way to reintroduce my dead back into my programing, without too much strain. I have a hard time deadlifting and squatting heavy in the same week, I find it counter productive for me, so with the ROM program, your just doing one all out set a week, and only from the ground, once every 8 weeks. It seems good so far, to early to really tell, but in the past I haven’t ever really needed to do much direct deadlifting, to have a strong deadlift. I’m thinking when I come back from my work trip, I may cut back to two days a week of lifting, much like your self. My Sunday’s will still be how they are, sort of a mock meet, with one all out rest pause set. Then the other day, Wed, or Thurs, will be some CAT squats and bench, with some BORs supersetted with heavy incline or over head work, like I did today, we’ll see.

It’s been a hard year, just getting my lifts back to where they are now, 405-350-450, kind of thing,( squat started back from zero) so I’m looking forward to taking the next 3 weeks off pretty much completely from lifting. When I get home, the real work will start, and I think I’ve got things back to heavy enough, where I’ll have to be a little more mindful of recovery, 2 or mabey 3 days a week max. heavy day, followed by a couple days of rest, and focus on progression. So when I get back ( leave tomorrow) I’ll be hitting you up for some advice, broken down old man advice ( new to me, your the expert) try and figure out how to get my lower body lifts to that 500 stage with this new form :slight_smile: thanks later

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Good story. Have a good trip and we’ll talk later. I think your hamstring style could really work for you in both, it being a no brainer given your knee, I mean…YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. Sometimes this is good because constraint eliminates questions, if you can only do things one way, then you don’t even HAVE to worry about options. However, I still wonder if sumo ain’t for you now. Your peg leg squat then actually being assistance work for a sumo.

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March 14, 2014

BW ~ 215

Bench:

Warm ups:

45 x 15
95 x 8
135 x 5
185 x 3
205 x 1

Work Sets: (55 seconds between rack and unrack)

220 x 7 sets x 3 reps
220 x 1 set x 2 reps

First 7 sets were first 2 reps TNG, 3rd rep a 1 second pause, relax on bottom.
8th set was a goof, I was slow enough on the second rep that I didn’t even try the pause rep.
Sigh…

Bench Speed sets: (1 set per minute)

175 x 8 sets x 3 reps

Dips:

30 pounds x 5 sets x 8 reps

Chins:

25 pounds x 4 sets x 6 reps

FINI

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Who’s still with me?

Still whittling away at my 57th year on Earth, weighed in at 213.0 this morning. Still losing weight, SLOWLY.

Next Wednesday I get officially weighed in and calipered for percent body fat. This, along with height shall be sent to my “case worker” who will deem that I am still obese and need to weigh between 158 and 177 if I don’t want to pay a fat man penalty on my health insurance next year. They may let me pass if I am under 27% BF but they don’t have to since my BMI is like 32 (she tells me). I have a near elite deadlift. Maybe I am muscular?

I believe I shall fail…

SQUATS & SPEED DEADLIFTS:

Squat Warmups:

45 x 15
135 x 5
225 x 3
275 x 2
315 x 2
345 x 1

Top Sets:

370 x 6 sets x 2 reps, 1 minute rest

Speed Deadlifts:

360 x 20 singles in 4 minutes, 35 seconds

fini

Next Tuesday I want to try for a 570 single in the deadlift. If it goes well, may try for another at a greater weight (duh). We’ll see I guess.

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[quote]emskee wrote:

Top Sets:

370 x 6 sets x 2 reps, 1 minute rest

Speed Deadlifts:

360 x 20 singles in 4 minutes, 35 seconds

[/quote]
Big weights and low rest…awesome session

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[quote]chobbs wrote:

[quote]emskee wrote:

Top Sets:

370 x 6 sets x 2 reps, 1 minute rest

Speed Deadlifts:

360 x 20 singles in 4 minutes, 35 seconds

[/quote]
Big weights and low rest…awesome session[/quote]

Thanks!

Squats were more work than I thought they should be, but I’ve been neglecting the squat a bit to key on my deadlift. I’ll catch up later.

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[quote]emskee wrote:
Next Wednesday I get officially weighed in and calipered for percent body fat. This, along with height shall be sent to my “case worker” who will deem that I am still obese and need to weigh between 158 and 177 if I don’t want to pay a fat man penalty on my health insurance next year. They may let me pass if I am under 27% BF but they don’t have to since my BMI is like 32 (she tells me). I have a near elite deadlift. Maybe I am muscular?
[/quote]
Impossible. The weight of muscular humans is still an anomaly unknown to modern medicine. According to government science you’re just fat as hell I guess sorry.

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I’m actually surprised that you’ve got someone taking your bodyfat levels for insurance purposes. That seems almost too intuitive for the medical and insurance systems. Just out of curiosity, what are the benchmarks for body fat? Are body fat and BMI taken into equal consideration or does BMI have supremecy?