[quote]kollak95 wrote:
Haha, heard that. 465 pull, but a laughable squat.[/quote]
Well I’m trying hard on the Squat brother!
Coan Power Lower
Back Squats: Did the first set, was a bit hard, but ended going for one more on the second set
340x3
340x4
Front Squats:
225x3 (beltless)
225x6 (belt)
That was all I had in me lol
I genuinely think had I just went all out on the first set, I could have gotten 5 with 340, but I’ll take a fatigued set of 4 as a solid number to base future training on. I was going to one more week of 3’s, but I’m not sure if there’s a point in it. This is a PR that I hit in fatigued, tired state (got only about 5 hrs of sleep), so that’s probably the kind of number I should base my training on.
Tomorrow I’ll do something similar with Bench, and then Monday for Sumo.
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
[quote]kollak95 wrote:
Haha, heard that. 465 pull, but a laughable squat.[/quote]
Well I’m trying hard on the Squat brother!
Coan Power Lower
Back Squats: Did the first set, was a bit hard, but ended going for one more on the second set
340x3
340x4
Front Squats:
225x3 (beltless)
225x6 (belt)
That was all I had in me lol
I genuinely think had I just went all out on the first set, I could have gotten 5 with 340, but I’ll take a fatigued set of 4 as a solid number to base future training on. I was going to one more week of 3’s, but I’m not sure if there’s a point in it. This is a PR that I hit in fatigued, tired state (got only about 5 hrs of sleep), so that’s probably the kind of number I should base my training on.
Tomorrow I’ll do something similar with Bench, and then Monday for Sumo. [/quote]
Haha my bad dude I was talking about myself with that comment.
[quote]kollak95 wrote:
Haha my bad dude I was talking about myself with that comment.[/quote]
ohh I know dude, it just king of set me up well to post about my Squatting lol
I’m about to give up with Bench Press lol
Flat Bench: Was supposed to hit 2 sets of 3, but, well fml
230x2 =(
205x6
CG Bench: Paused
195x5
Incline Bench:
165x6
BB Rows:
205x5x5
Straight Arm Pulldowns:
5 sets
So my life sucks lol. Bench hates me. No idea why. I’m very disappointed. I’m goodwith SQ and DL Progress but Bench is just putting a damper on things lol.
shh your squat is going really well
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
[quote]ryanbCXG wrote:
Hitting some sex weight awesome [/quote]
Lol this is the best compliment I’ve received concerning lifting in all my life. [/quote]
Made me smile too
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
I’m about to give up with Bench Press lol
So my life sucks lol. Bench hates me. No idea why.
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[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
[quote]kollak95 wrote:
420 for 5 is nice dude. Good work in here[/quote]
Thanks dude. DL progress is easy when you’re built like an orangutan lol[/quote]
Hmm, I think I know why you struggle with bench. Right turn, Clyde.
[quote]EyeDentist wrote:
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
I’m about to give up with Bench Press lol
So my life sucks lol. Bench hates me. No idea why.
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[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
[quote]kollak95 wrote:
420 for 5 is nice dude. Good work in here[/quote]
Thanks dude. DL progress is easy when you’re built like an orangutan lol[/quote]
Hmm, I think I know why you struggle with bench. Right turn, Clyde.
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Dang this literally made me LOL. This was clever as hell
Thanks for stopping by ED, any advice you have is welcome!
Did some DL’s today. I just worked up to 5 singles at 445. I feel I’m kind of retard-strengthing some of my reps, so wanted to do some Deadstop reps, and this would be like 90% or something. Really tried to open my hips, lot of tension on the inner thighs, not sure if good or bad. Tried to ‘ease’ the bar off the ground, keep thing fluid and not choppy like they have been.
I was supposed to hit 435 for a triple I think? but honestly I’m tired lol. This happens sometimes, I get busy and slowlyyyy cut my sleep from 8 hrs, to 7.5, to 7, then to 6… and it ALWAYS catches up to me. I know others who live and go to work and lift and excel awesome off of like 4-6 hrs of sleep a night, and as bad as I want to be that, I’m just not. Like I can perform well on little food, when I’m stressed, sore, whatever, but a few nights with bad sleep fuck me. ESPECIALLY with lower rep stuff, guessing because it’s a bit more CNS involvement but I feel like a prick talking about that stuff lol
Anyways, took the hint, going to take it easy for the next few days, sleep-in. I got all my law school applications in so that was the big time eater, so hopefully I can take a few days to recharge.
Good luck with the law school applications (lawyer here). You’re applying a bit late in the process, but with the declining application numbers these days I doubt it’ll have a hugely negative effect.
[quote]MinusTheColon wrote:
Good luck with the law school applications (lawyer here). You’re applying a bit late in the process, but with the declining application numbers these days I doubt it’ll have a hugely negative effect.[/quote]
Thanks man. Yeah it was a bit late, but I kind of wanted to milk the time to work on my personal statement and stuff for as long as I could. Plus, one of my letter of recs, the most important one, went out the country for a long period of time and had basically no internet access for months, so until she could write and submit it, I was kind of couldn’t go much further than where I was.
I’m still sleepy as hell, so taking today off
Thinking I’m going to stop worrying about percentages and programming for awhile. I’m just going to make a spread sheet kind of like Csulli and BCpowder use, of PR’s, and just do a lot of volume and set little rep PR’s on:
Squats
Front Squats
Sumo
SLDL
Flat Bench
Incline Bench
CG Bench
BB Rows
probably just alternate upper and lower body, 6x a week Big Beyond Belief style, short 45-60 min workouts. I notice a lot of the best ‘powerbuilding’ programs do 3-5 movements per day tops, so I’ll try to kind of stay with that.
Decent lift today, nothing heavy though
Incline Bench: 2 min rest
135x3x10-12
Fat Bar Chins: Looped a band around my leg to stay in the higher reps, kind of views these as ‘pulldowns’ so form is strict with slow eccentric and pauses and stuff. 2 min rest
3x10-12
CG Bench: This made me cramp up lol. 2 min rest
135x3x10-15
Incline DB Rows: 90s rest
3x25
Would have done some biceps and stuff, but visiting the GF this weekend and will be doing some delts + arms with her tomorrow.
Good workout. Goal is just little PR’s everyday, and slowly increase volume (which I think I’ve been pushing too aggressively).
Lifted with my GF out of town today and yesterday. She’s all about the pump and volume.
Yesterday was Delts + Arms
DB Laterals:
3 sets of 30
Seated OHP:
50’sx8
65’sx8
45’sx2x15
Wide-Grip Upright Rows:
4x15-20
Cordova Extensions:
4x25
DB OH Extensions:
4x12
Rope Curls:
4x15
Incline Curls:
4x15 + 1 dropset
Today’s workout, which was legs
‘Bad Girl’ Machine:
3x30
Leg Curls:
2x20
2x15
1x12
Squats: She just practiced front/back Squats, working up to a set of 75 for 5 on Back Squats (she hasn’t done them in a month or so)
Hit 265x3 on Front Squats (belted)
then 275x5 Paused Back Squats (belted)
Hack Squats:
Pyramided set of 40, set of 30, then set of 20
SLDL’s:
3x15-20
Then 4 sets of calves + a drop set, she did some glute machine while I did abs.
I never do isolation work before the heavy movements, and I hate it. But was happy with the Squats I guess considering. Definitely a change of pace, but she kills me when it concerns being a srs BB’er in regards to reps and volume lol
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
she did some glute machine while I did abs.
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^Seems to me that, in this phrase, you captured the relative mindsets of men vs women vis a vis their attitudes re aesthetics priorities. (And you did so in under ten words! Strunk and White would be proud.)
I was the same way at your age–absolutely HATED doing anything that took away from my performance on the big compound movements. But now that I’m (indisputably) older and (possibly) wiser…
Don’t let the bench get you down, bud. You’ve made a ton of progress overall, some lifts just move slower’n other’s. Congrats on Law School. That’s huge.
[quote]EyeDentist wrote:
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
she did some glute machine while I did abs.
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^Seems to me that, in this phrase, you captured the relative mindsets of men vs women vis a vis their attitudes re aesthetics priorities. (And you did so in under ten words! Strunk and White would be proud.)
I was the same way at your age–absolutely HATED doing anything that took away from my performance on the big compound movements. But now that I’m (indisputably) older and (possibly) wiser…
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On the first part, it really does make me feel intelligent that I didn’t have to Google for the Strunk and White reference. It does say a lot though, that we do seem to have much different priorities in the gym, not just on body part development, but also how we appear to others. She wants no attention on her, and feels like people thinks she looks ‘dumb’ doing things like SLDL’s, while I couldn’t care less if people are watching or not watching or critiquing my form (unless they are experienced, obviously)
On the pre-fatiguing thing, I’m not sure if it’s just the decrease in performance, it just doesn’t feel ‘better’. JM talks about being more comfortable in the hole for Squats with pump hamstrings, but it honestly makes my knees feel unstable. It may be a leverage thing, or just my form ‘fresh’ is yet to be perfected, so fatigued is just more chaos thrown into the mix lol.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Don’t let the bench get you down, bud. You’ve made a ton of progress overall, some lifts just move slower’n other’s. Congrats on Law School. That’s huge.[/quote]
Yeah man, i’m doing what you talked about with Incline and CG, going to focus more on those for a bit, hoping they carryover better. And thanks man, but I’m not officially in yet, so hold up on the congratulations haha
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
On the first part, it really does make me feel intelligent that I didn’t have to Google for the Strunk and White reference.
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Yeah, I figured what with you being pre-law, and an all-around bright guy, that you’d probably encountered Strunk and White at some point.
Anytime I write anything–be it professionally, on TN, or any other venue–I always have Strunk and White’s timeless admonition to ‘Omit needless words!’ bumping around in my head.
[quote]EyeDentist wrote:
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
On the first part, it really does make me feel intelligent that I didn’t have to Google for the Strunk and White reference.
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Yeah, I figured what with you being pre-law, and an all-around bright guy, that you’d probably encountered Strunk and White at some point.
Anytime I write anything–be it professionally, on TN, or any other venue–I always have Strunk and White’s timeless admonition to ‘Omit needless words!’ bumping around in my head.
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Yeah honestly when writing my personal statement, initially, going through and just omitting the ‘fluff’ made the piece much stronger. Though it’s something i have to strive for, because I’m very long winded and seem to over-explain ideas lol
