[quote]PeteS wrote:
You’re both skinny little 242s now. Wow.
Nice lifting too. [/quote]
What is the world coming to?
Great pulls, nice determination Jowee
Jowie: I thought you were going to projectile vomit on that pull. Was a little disappointed you didn’t. Nice work staying with it. You took a lot of time contemplating whether you wanted to lock it out or not!
Yeah, you look pretty small. Hee hee.
overhead press’n- i started taking a preworkout drink with nitric oxid and other crap in it. i took it on an empty stomach this morning. it made me very jittery and on my overhead sets i started getting dizzy when holding my breath. on my last set with 265 i had to let out my air early and regain my composure because it felt like the room was spinning. i was able to grind out 3 more reps but i felt as if i was good for 10 today if i wasn’t so damn dizzy.
anyone have an experience with these preworkout drinks??
warmup for military press
0x6
95x6
135x6
185x6
working sets
65%- 205x5
75%- 235x5
85%- 265x7+2 reps PR…should have gotten 10.
swiss bar standing military
135x15x2
pendlay rows
135x6
185x6
225x6
275x6
315x6
face pulls
some x some
hammer curl on preacher curl
some x some
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
anyone have an experience with these preworkout drinks??
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One of my gyms actually gave me individual packets of NO-Xplode. I tried one and had a bad reaction similar to yours. Dizzy, jittery, pins and needles in my extremities. Didn’t care for the sensation at all.
4-23-11 Military
Military Press
10xBar
6x95
3x135
5x145
8x165 +1 rep PR!
Neutral-Grip Swiss Bar Standing Press
8x135
6x135
Pendlay Row
8x135
6x185
6x225
6x275
*Superset
Seated Face Pulls / Preacher DB Hammer Curls
15x75 / 15x30
15x100 / 10x40
10x125 / 10x40
20x75 / 15x30
Decline Situps
10xBW
3xBW+25
Diet is finally over… felt awesome to hit that PR after just dropping a lot of bodyweight. Now my goal is to maintain a weight close enough to compete in the 242 weight class and just slowly recomp a bit more. Hopefully I can start adding some size again but without the fat, and not feel so small!
My overhead press is definitely not my strong suit. My best ever is 3x185. 185 will be my heaviest set for this 5/3/1 cycle and I hope to get like 5+
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Jowie: I thought you were going to projectile vomit on that pull. Was a little disappointed you didn’t. Nice work staying with it. You took a lot of time contemplating whether you wanted to lock it out or not!
Yeah, you look pretty small. Hee hee.[/quote]
Haha, yeah… I thought I was stuck but was stubbrnn. 
I know I look small! The videos show it too… I’m workin on it though!! lol.
Maybe since I’m smaller but getting leaner I should just start training shirtless so I don’t look so small in my 2XL shirts, lol.
pre workout stuff is tricky. my old behaviours I can’t really do any more. I used to be so cracked out it was ridiculous. now I am much better out if I actually follow serving guidelines, and even then if I have had other caffeine it can end up bad.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
pre workout stuff is tricky. my old behaviours I can’t really do any more. I used to be so cracked out it was ridiculous. now I am much better out if I actually follow serving guidelines, and even then if I have had other caffeine it can end up bad. [/quote]
i took it again today and once i worked up to about 315, everytime i would take in my air for liftoff i would immidiately get dizzy. as the weight got heavier it got worse. so… i’m done with the stuff. there’s nothing worse than trying to concentrate on your set and having to stop what you are doing until the room stops spinning.
skwatt’n- going to stick with front squats for awhile. they keep my shoulders healthy and i want to emphasize the quads. did triples up to a moderate weight.
front squats to low box
0x10
95x6
135x6
185x6
225x6
275x6
315x3
365x3
405x3
455x3
135x20x2
that’s it but it was definitely enough.
4-26-11 Squats
Front Squat
8xBar
5x135
3x185
3x225
0x275
0x275
2x205
2x205
2x205
1x225
10x135
10x135
Decline Situps
10xBW
10xBW+25 *plate behind head
20xBW
Man I suck at front squats, lol. 275 I just couldn’t hold onto… dropped the weight back down and on that last set of 205 I tweaked my form and it felt way easier. That last 225 felt real easy after using the new form. I’ll try 275 again next week and I should be able to get it with no problem. I was using a wide stance at first because I was just kind of mimicing scott doing them, but then eventually tried a closer stance, letting my knees drift forward more. I think this made it much easier to stay upright and keep the bar from rolling forward. I don’t think my long torso is helping me out any, but it’s not a good excuse to not be able to do a front squat. On paper it doesn’t look like much, haha.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i took it again today and once i worked up to about 315, everytime i would take in my air for liftoff i would immidiately get dizzy. as the weight got heavier it got worse. so… i’m done with the stuff. there’s nothing worse than trying to concentrate on your set and having to stop what you are doing until the room stops spinning.
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Pass it over my way.
bench’n
warmup
0x10
95x3
135x3
185x3
225x3
275x3
315x3
5/3/1
70%-350x3
80%-405x3
90%-450x3
bench press against chains-paused
225+100lbs x 1
275+100lbs x 1
315+100lbs x 1
365+100lbs x 1 x 3
titan ram bench press- close grip, paused
315 x 4
365 x 4
405 x 4
Jowee that pull was awesome to watch…
you did look a little pukerific
Scott’s lifts always are just so smooth.
that 405 paused bench, pretty crazy
nice work people
4-28-11 Bench
Flat BB Bench Press
12xBar
6x95
4x135
3x185
3x225
3x260
3x290
*with Titan Ram
1x275
1x315
0x350
Flat Close-Grip BB Bench Press *Paused
1x135 +100 lb chain
1x185 +100 lb chain
1x225 +100 lb chain
3x185 +100 lb chain
3x185 +100 lb chain
*no chains
6x225
8x225
I missed that 350 with the titan but felt that I should have got it… oh well. Everything else felt really good. Strength is doing well post-diet. I am still eating healthy and not so many calories. I just want to lose a little more weight or just maintain and get a bit leaner.
Haha. Well tomorrow is the last day of band pulls… so I still have another chance to puke!!
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Jowee that pull was awesome to watch…
you did look a little pukerific
Scott’s lifts always are just so smooth.
that 405 paused bench, pretty crazy
nice work people[/quote]
pull’n- was hoping to work up to 800 today on reverse band deads but my legs still haven’t recovered from the front squat session we did on tuesday. my inner thighs were still cramping up yesterday. on my warmup sets today i felt my left hamstring starting to cramp so i shut it down. no need to pull a hamstring when it can be prevented. i’m going to turn my squat day into more of a rep day so that i’m recovered for deads for this next cycle.
reverse band deads
315x3
405x3
495x3
585x2-felt the hamstring starting to cramp
675-as i started to pull it cramped and shut it down
speed pulls against bands
225x3x6
pendlay rows
135x4
185x4
225x4
275x4
325x4 +10lbs
GHR and seated calves
some x some
here’s a vid of some of our new toys in the gym.
nice set up
4-30-11 Deadlifts
Reverse Band Deadlifts
6x315
4x405
2x495
1x585
1x675
0x765 *faillllllllll
Speed Pulls against Mini Bands
6 sets of 3 with 225
Pendlay Rows
6x135
6x185
6x225
Stopped there… wasn’t feelin that great after that pull. I could barely even keep my eyes awake on the drive home… guess I just wore myself out. Pendlay rows just felt heavy as hell so I just stopped.
Next week we start a cycle of deads against chains and I’m going to start out with multiple triples or something with some lighter weight so I don’t burn myself out. I know I am pretty worn down after those couple weeks of band deads. I had speckles all over my face and shoulders after today… haha.
5-2-11 Military
Military Press
12xBar
6x95
3x135
3x155
5x175 *bleh was losing balance for some reason… shoulda had 6.
Neutral-Grip Swiss Bar Standing Press
10x135
10x135
10x135 *lots of improvement here…
*Circuit
Plate Upright Row / Rope Face Pull / 1-Arm Band Reverse Fly
15x45 / 15x100 / 30xBand (left arm… R/P some reps to get 30)
15x45 / 20x75 / 30xBand (right arm… same)
*Superset
DB Reverse Curl / Preacher DB Hammer Curls
10x25 / 15x35
10x25 / 15x35
10x25 / 15x30
Back Extensions on GHR
2x20xBW
Good night even though press didn’t go as well as expected. I felt like I was all over the place during that set. Oh well, it was still an improvement. Next week will be 185 and my best is 3. So I’ll get it together next week and get 4 or 5 reps.
Last week I only managed 8 reps on the first set and 6 on the second of the swiss bar press, so I was happy with those.
The rest of the workout was just a massive pump fest, lol (no homo). Felt great to do all that stuff though, and I need to keep it up with the curls. My biceps hurt sometimes and I think it’s because I’ll go months without doing any curls.
pull’n- decided to switch up our training a bit. Instead of having a squat day and a deadlift day we’ve decided to combine deads and squats on the same day. We are also going to emphasize hypertrophy with our squat variations. One day will be ME deads followed by high reps squat variations. The other day will be stuff like speed deads or deficit pulls and another squat variation for high reps. we tried it out tonight and like it a lot.
New deadlift cycle- deadlift against chains
warmup
135x6
225x6
315x6
405x2
added chains
405 + 80lbs of chain x 1
405 + 128lbs of chain x 1
405 + 160lbs of chain x 1
405 + 182lbs of chain x 5- these were easy but the new bar has so much knurling on it that it was really cutting into my hands.
circuit
front squats - walking lunges - leg press
some x some- awesome pump and lots of burn.