[quote]Joweeee wrote:
My shower goes from really hot to ice cold pretty easily. That would probably be much easier than doing an ice bath… how do you do the contrast showers? The time under each I mean?[/quote]
I wish I could say something intelligent like 30 seconds hot, 30 seconds cold, but in reality it is as long as I can tolerate one extremity before I switch to the other. I try to do 5 ‘sets’ of each.
Word. I would just estimate anyway. I’m not going out and buying a waterproof stopwatch or anything, lol.
Nice work Joweeee
I am a big fan/user of both contrast showers, and hot/ice baths
epsom salt baths as hot as I can take
and other days I buy 2 or 3 bags of ice and dump them in a tub of cold water.
shriveling cold
Do you guys think the Titan Ram will have good carry over to your raw benches? I may have to buy one if it does.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Do you guys think the Titan Ram will have good carry over to your raw benches? I may have to buy one if it does.[/quote]
i hope so. i guess only time will tell though. i figure if i can get my bench up over 600 with the ram, my raw bench could only go up.
overhead press’n-
standing military press
0x3
95x3
135x3
185x3
225x3
275x3
315x2
pendlay rows
135x6
225x6
315x6
405x6
short and sweet…
Nice press’n scott. 315 for two… awesome. That is a PR right?
I gotta get to sleep… up early again tomorrow for another all day session. I’ll see you guys on Monday.
[quote]Joweeee wrote:
Nice press’n scott. 315 for two… awesome. That is a PR right?
I gotta get to sleep… up early again tomorrow for another all day session. I’ll see you guys on Monday.[/quote]
yeah… it’s a cheap PR. my head wasn’t into training. i went in to help Bill setup the reverse bands. i feel that if i had my head in the set i would have been good for maybe 4. i’m going to do one more cycle of 5/3/1 and then give it 100%.
see you monday for more whore’n with the titan. i’m off this coming week for spring break.
Meat: sent you a PM
being a gear whore hurts…
bench’n
bench full ROM
warmup
0x6
95x4
135x4
185x3
225x3
275x3
working sets
65%- 325x5
75%- 375x5
85%- 425x5
titan
315x1
405x1
455x1
495x1
565x dumped it… the strap on one of my elbows slipped as i was lowering the weight and it through me out of my groove. the bar came back towards my face and i quickly lowered it back to my chest. 565 sitting on your chest is uncomfortable to say the least. i decided to dump it to one side to get out from under it. my ribs are gonna be sore but i’ll live. we tried setting up in the cage for these last week but we couldn’t figure out a good way to liftoff. i think i’ll switch gears and work on pausing heav(ier) and then exploding off the chest until i figure this damn thing out.
close grip bench, legs up against chains, paused
225+ 100lbs of chain x 6 x 3
that’s it.
on a brighter note, it was one hell of a nice ride home on the harley.
How do you get your legs up against the chains? Sounds, well, just not right and I don’t want to visualize it.
Do you get Power magazine? there are some great articles about breaking bench shirts…
[quote]PeteS wrote:
How do you get your legs up against the chains? Sounds, well, just not right and I don’t want to visualize it.
Do you get Power magazine? there are some great articles about breaking bench shirts… [/quote]
you know you are visualizing it…you whore.
no… don’t get it. but this isn’t a bench shirt. tell me it’s not. it’s just an aid to get my raw bench up
it’s not a bench shirt…can’t be.
4-18-11 Bench
Flat BB Bench Press
10xBar
6x135
3x185
5x225
5x250
4x275
*with Titan Ram
1x225
1x315
1x365
1x405 +20 lbs over last week
Chest-Supported T-Bar Row
8x100
8x100
8x100
Close-Grip Flat BB Bench *Paused
6x135+100 lbs chain
6x135+100 lbs chain
6x135+100 lbs chain
Felt good tonight. 405 was heavy but still smooth. Those paused CG with chains felt great. I’ll up the weight next time.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
How do you get your legs up against the chains? Sounds, well, just not right and I don’t want to visualize it.
Do you get Power magazine? there are some great articles about breaking bench shirts… [/quote]
you know you are visualizing it…you whore.
no… don’t get it. but this isn’t a bench shirt. tell me it’s not. it’s just an aid to get my raw bench up
it’s not a bench shirt…can’t be.
[/quote]
Its a gateway drug…might I recommend the Titan Fury as the next step?
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
How do you get your legs up against the chains? Sounds, well, just not right and I don’t want to visualize it.
Do you get Power magazine? there are some great articles about breaking bench shirts… [/quote]
you know you are visualizing it…you whore.
no… don’t get it. but this isn’t a bench shirt. tell me it’s not. it’s just an aid to get my raw bench up
it’s not a bench shirt…can’t be.
[/quote]
Its a gateway drug…might I recommend the Titan Fury as the next step?[/quote]
shit… my ribs are all bruised up from tonight. i can’t imagine the damage i could do to myself with some real weight and a real bench shirt.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
How do you get your legs up against the chains? Sounds, well, just not right and I don’t want to visualize it.
Do you get Power magazine? there are some great articles about breaking bench shirts… [/quote]
you know you are visualizing it…you whore.
no… don’t get it. but this isn’t a bench shirt. tell me it’s not. it’s just an aid to get my raw bench up
it’s not a bench shirt…can’t be.
[/quote]
Its a gateway drug…might I recommend the Titan Fury as the next step?[/quote]
shit… my ribs are all bruised up from tonight. i can’t imagine the damage i could do to myself with some real weight and a real bench shirt.
[/quote]
you learn to love it. shoot, i am trying to recover from minor injury, been away from heavy stuff for just over a week, and i already miss the cuts, scrapes, and heavy weights.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
How do you get your legs up against the chains? Sounds, well, just not right and I don’t want to visualize it.
Do you get Power magazine? there are some great articles about breaking bench shirts… [/quote]
you know you are visualizing it…you whore.
no… don’t get it. but this isn’t a bench shirt. tell me it’s not. it’s just an aid to get my raw bench up
it’s not a bench shirt…can’t be.
[/quote]
Its a gateway drug…might I recommend the Titan Fury as the next step?[/quote]
shit… my ribs are all bruised up from tonight. i can’t imagine the damage i could do to myself with some real weight and a real bench shirt.
[/quote]
You know you want to experience the real CNS high of gearwhoring. Try it, just once, it ain’t no big deal:)
pull’n
reverse band deads
315x4
405x4
495x2
585x1
675x1
785x1 +20lbs from last week. going to do these one more week. next week going for 800
speed deads against bands
225 x 3 x 8
GHR’s against bands
10 x 2
ab rollouts
10 x 2
seated calf raise
some x some x 2
feel’n good… bw is 242 in the morning.
4-21-11 Deadlifts
Reverse Band Deadlifts ~ -200 @ bottom, ~ -100 @ lockout
6x315
3x405
1x495
1x585
1x675
1x745 +20 lbs from last week
Speed Pulls against Mini Bands
8 sets of 3 with 225
*Superset
Back Raises / Abs
3x10xBW / 3 sets…
Thats bout it… other few small things
Felt better today. Man The that lockout was tough. I’m pretty sure I locked it out, lol. That is the first time I’ve ever started seeing stars BEFORE completing the lift, lol.
I feel like I look pretty small right now… tomorrow is the last day of this diet. I weighed 241 this morning and started at 265 a month ago. Hopefully once I get back to eating some real food, not eating the calories of a small girl and start maintaining my weight… I’ll start to fill back in.
You’re both skinny little 242s now. Wow.
Nice lifting too.