[quote]stuward wrote:
The deadlift is more for the hamstrings and back. If your grip is the limiting factor then you’re really not hitting them properly.
Stu[/quote]
If the grip is the weakest link in the chain, then I’m not sure what you’re suggesting.
People I have the grip of a silver back. It just makes me nervous when the bar slips/rotates around in my hands and I was wondering if Straps would help that or if chalk would be better.
[quote]TheDudeAbides wrote:
stuward wrote:
The deadlift is more for the hamstrings and back. If your grip is the limiting factor then you’re really not hitting them properly.
Stu
If the grip is the weakest link in the chain, then I’m not sure what you’re suggesting.[/quote]
What I mean is that if your grip is weak, your deadlift will be low, which means that your back and hams are not getting a proper workout. I think that you can make better progress with deadlifts if you use straps. Of course, more caution is required. You can’t just drop the bar if something goes wrong.
[quote]RyanBrown0311 wrote:
People I have the grip of a silver back. It just makes me nervous when the bar slips/rotates around in my hands and I was wondering if Straps would help that or if chalk would be better.[/quote]
Chalk is not allowed everywhere but if it is, you should use it. The alternating grip works well too.
[quote]stuward wrote:
What I mean is that if your grip is weak, your deadlift will be low, which means that your back and hams are not getting a proper workout. I think that you can make better progress with deadlifts if you use straps. Of course, more caution is required. You can’t just drop the bar if something goes wrong.
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Yeah, that’s what I thought you meant. Carry on.
[quote]RyanBrown0311 wrote:
People I have the grip of a silver back. It just makes me nervous when the bar slips/rotates around in my hands and I was wondering if Straps would help that or if chalk would be better.[/quote]
I think you find that initially a mixed grip will resolve the problem of the bar rolling out of your hands. Then as the weight goes up, you’ll need mixed grip plus chalk. Then you’ll need mixed grip with straps.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 4 Day 1
Front Squat: 3 X5 @ 195 Went up easy
Standing Press 3 X 5 @ 140 Got all reps but will stay at that weight for the next workout.
Power Clean: 3 X 5 @ 165 got all reps but there was a lot of huffing and puffing I’m back and forth on whether I’ll go for 170 next workout.
L-Sit Curl Ups: 4.5
All in all todays workout went much better than last time went back to my original order of lifts and didn’t gas out.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 4 Day 3
Squat: 3 X 5 @ 265
Bench Press: 1 X 4 @ 180 2 X 5 @ 155 STALLED
Dead Lift: 1 X 5 @ 295
L-Sit Pull Ups: 1 X 6 BW
So I’m both happy and frustrated today I pulled 295, but my Bench stalled I’ll reset to 155 for next week. Switching to the alternating grip stopped the bar from rotating and let me concentrate on the lift. One of my original goals was to pull 315 before I stalled out on Dead Lift and I feel very confident that I’ll make that plus some before I stall.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 4 Day 5
Front Squat: 3 X 5 @ 205 Hammered all reps out no prob.
Military Press: 1 X 4 @ 145, 2 X 5 @ 115 Stalled out will reset @ 120 next week
Power Clean: 3 X 5 @ 170 throwing weight around like feathers
I’m rather proud of my self today was the last day of 4 full weeks of lifting and I haven’t missed a workout or skipped a lift. I feel like I am making some good gains and I’m starting to feel more dense, I weighed myself last night and I haven’t lost any significant weight but Saturday while I was doing front squats I noticed some veins in my upper chest I havent seen veins their since '99 or so.
Hey Ryan, nice to see you’re sticking with it and seeing progress. Like Stu keeps on reminding you, don’t add too much weight too soon, you will regret it later. I would strongly recommend you buy some chalk, and when necessary begin using a mixed grip. Those two things help me enormously. It helps to keep the focus on your form, and not “Oh crap the bar’s slipping!”. Keep it up, I’m still keeping tabs on your progress.
Just when I talk about being so happy that I havent missed a workout I go and miss one, we spent 10 hours on the road today to go see the In-laws, I’m going to do my best to get to the Gym tomorrow.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 5 Day 1
Squat: 3 X 5 @ 275
Bench Press: 3 X 5 @ 155
Dead Lift: 1 X 5 @ 305
Lifting went well today, just glad I don’t have to lift at this gym everyday, It’s mostly elderly folks on stationary bike and a personal trainer who looks like two different people ripped from the waist up, but his legs looked like a marathon runners.
Not to mention the music it was some sort of 80’s soft rock/new age stuff. I think if I stayed there much longer I could have been at risk for catching the ghey.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 5 Day 1 Again.
Squat: 3X5 @ 275
Bench Press: 3X5 @ 155
Dead Lift: 1X5 @ 305
Finally back at home, I learned something interesting, Weight Lifting is now an addiction, I wasn’t especially happy with lifting on 3/21 and due to scheduling issues I wasn’t able to lift on 3/23 all I could think about on my drive back is how bad I wanted to lift.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 5 Day 3
Front Squat: 3X5 @ 210
Standing Press: 3X5 @ 120
Power Clean: 1X1 @ 170 Stalled
Power Clean: 3X5 @ 135 on Reset
More Later…
Rippetoe Program,
Week 5 Day 5
Squat: 3X5 @ 275
Bench Press: 3X5 @ 155
Dead Lift: 1X5 @ 315 PR!
It’s amazing what a little change up in your diet/supps can do, I read a thread about taking 1/2 serving of Surge during warm up and the other 1/2 serving throughout lifting so I gave it a shot. Holy crap I felt awesome I recovered extremely fast between sets and lifts. As for my PR on dead lift, up to this date I failed to get 315 one time Monday I got it 5 times fairly easily.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 6 Day 1
Front Squat: 3X5 @ 215
Standing Press: 3X5 @ 125
Power Clean: 3X5 @ 140
I’m rather surprised at how light the front squats felt I knew that with the resets on Press and Cleans, they would feel fairly light but I was expecting to struggle with the Fronts.
Ok so today it is/was close to 50 degrees out so I took my youth for a run, not a big one but I finally started doing some cardio again, it’s been nearly 3 months since I took them on a run ended up doing 1 mile at a 9 minute pace then some cardio type stations, mountain climbers, sprints, crunches and sun gods(little arm circles). So it wasn’t anything major but it was something.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 6 Day 3
Squat: 3X5 @ 285
Bench Press: 3X5 @ 165
Dead Lift: 1X5 @ 325
Ok I’ve come to some conclusions.
#1. Anything around 300 Lbs. is farging Heavy.
#2. I have turned myself into a crack head, lifting is my crack today at work about a half hour before I got off to go lift I started to get all jumpy and stuff, that was before I took my Spike tabs.
#3. Surge + Creatine = The Shit!
#4. Beta-7 is worth the money
Until Monday
Did you get your thumb placement figured out? It’s difficult to explain, but I think I do what you do - thumbs between collar bone and bar.
Rippetoe Program,
Week 6 Day 5
Front Squat: 3X5 @ 220
Standing Press: 3X5 @ 130
Power Clean: 3X5 @ 145
Not much to say about todays workout, out of town all day so I lifted at almost 11 PM I expected to be kind of drained from the day but once I got down to business, I couldn’t tell any difference.