nice work Meat.
12-4-10 Squats - Week 1, Cycle 4
Box Squats ~14 inches *Stance almost as close as my deadlift
10xBar
5x135
3x225(70%)
3x275(80%)
5x315(90%)
1x335(95%)
1x335(95%)
10x205 *Wide Stance
10x225
10x205 *Wide
Hyperextensions *35 lb bar on back like GM’s
5xBW
5xBW+35
5xBW+85
5xBW+85
5xBW+85
Decline Situps
20xBW
+few sets of heavy machine ab stuff…
That’s it. Box squats felt great. I think they are going to serve me well. Doing them really wide on that 10 reppers was kind of hard since I don’t really do anything that wide. Going to try doing some heavy back extensions and see how it helps. Felt pretty good except that last set was really riding down onto my neck while doing them. Gotta find a way to hold it so I can prevent that.
Three monkeys with a football…err… I mean three big guys with 1 broken powerbelt. 
Are those shoes like Pendlays OLympic shoes/ like with a wooden sole/hardened rubber sole?
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
Three monkeys with a football…err… I mean three big guys with 1 broken powerbelt.
Are those shoes like Pendlays OLympic shoes/ like with a wooden sole/hardened rubber sole?
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i don’t think they are AS elevated as the Pendlay ones. they have a slight heel elevation. I do believe they have a wood sole. so far, i like them.
this video i’m attaching reminds me of a rant from today at the gym.
today was a squat day and for anyone that actually squats… and i’m talking real squats- to parallel and with a bar, not some machine that is supposed to resemble a squat, you will feel my pain. unfortunately, i feel like i’m a rare bread anymore. No one squats anymore… and when they do, it doesn’t resemble a real squat. They put a pussy pad on the bar becuase of thier dainty traps. they squat high. i love watching the average gym goer squat. the first warmup set is usually somewhere close to parallel, but then every set after that the weight added is in direct proportion to their ever limiting ROM. then there are those that have discovered the “box squat”. but most gym goers use a bench. a bench is a horrible choice for box squats-the bench is way above parallel and they always flop down and then bounce off the damn thing. i have no idea how doing this crap ever helps anything. There are good reasons for box squatting. for example, i love box squats to train one’s self to know where parallel is. i also love to pause on the box to build power out of the hole. the crap these douches are doing transfer to nothing. i can see it now, they could ask themselves- “we can either do high plop squats to a bench or we could take turns shoving an oversized dildo up each other’s asses” they would both have the same carryover to a real squat.
anyway… onto my squat day.
we have decided to do low box squats for our squat variation this cycle. I’ve also decided to pause mine. so we go in today and start warming up. then Mr. Wiggles come in. I call him that because his ROM resembles a wiggle… that goes for everything. so… he walks in and sees that we are squatting. he walks up to one of the open squat and immidiatly loads 405 onto the bar. he then desperately searches the gym for the pussy pad. the guy next to him already had the other one so that only left one more. he finally found it and strapped it on the chrome bar. We had been in the gym for an hour and had just finished our warmup sets. He’s hardcore so no nee for a warmup…no spit, no lube, right to work. He unracks it and proceeds to do 4 inch squats for many wiggles. ironically my bar was loaded with 405lbs as well. I did my first set of 5 to my low box, pausing for 3 seconds. He walks off to talk for about 15 minutes. When he gets back i’m on my third set with 530lbs. majically he loads the bar with 530lbs. He gets a spotter to give him a big hug of a spot. he starts down for his ATG 3 inch squats. on his 4th “rep” he falls forward and crashes into the rack. He jumps up and announces that he would have gotten it if he had wrapped his knees and wore a belt. I’m assuming that was directed at me since we were in fact using a belt and wrapps. He quickly looks around and unloads the bar, puts it back up, adjusts his pussy pad that had been dislodged from the bar’s vagina. he then does what anyone would do and load it back up with 675lbs. Feeling very insignificant i load my bar with 585lbs to do one measly rep on my low box for a good, long pause. He watches me as he stands next to his loaded bar with 675. He stands there for awhile before unloading it to then load up the manliest leg machine this side of the smith machine… the leg press. I’m not quit certain why he loaded the bar to 675 just to unload it but i have a feeling it was just in case someone new had come in the gym and hadn’t seen him standing next to all that weight…wtf??
It’s sad really. this guy has to be in his mid 40’s and he’s still “lifting” for others. He really thinks people are impressed by his douchebaggery. I can’t imagine anyone is but i could be wrong. although, most of my gym wear lifting gloves, so i could definitely be wrong. don’t get me started on the tag team row/benchers, back bend curlers, spasm shruggers and half rep benchers.
maybe i’m the crazy one???
feel your pain. at a commercial gym I used to go to I was regularly doing DE work with box squats down to a 13 inch box. After a few weeks of this I came in and some douche, who was always there the same time as me, was doing Smith Machine box squats to a 24 inch plyo box, and giving me ‘the eye’.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
feel your pain. at a commercial gym I used to go to I was regularly doing DE work with box squats down to a 13 inch box. After a few weeks of this I came in and some douche, who was always there the same time as me, was doing Smith Machine box squats to a 24 inch plyo box, and giving me ‘the eye’. [/quote]
it’s crazy how you can take a great movement and fuck it all up because it’s “too hard”.
i see lifting two ways- the hard way and the wrong way.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
Bench - working max 510
warmup
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315x6
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This is the stuff that inspires me.
Thx Meat!
Glad to see you back.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
Bench - working max 510
warmup
.
.
315x6
[/quote]
This is the stuff that inspires me.
Thx Meat!
Glad to see you back.[/quote]
thanks hoss… life has been tough lately. I’m going to do my best to keep my log going. just have some major life changes going on.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
feel your pain. at a commercial gym I used to go to I was regularly doing DE work with box squats down to a 13 inch box. After a few weeks of this I came in and some douche, who was always there the same time as me, was doing Smith Machine box squats to a 24 inch plyo box, and giving me ‘the eye’. [/quote]
it’s crazy how you can take a great movement and fuck it all up because it’s “too hard”.
i see lifting two ways- the hard way and the wrong way.
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funniest thing, is as noted I was doing DE work, so it was like 3 plates plus some chains. This guy seems to make a big point out of doing 5 plates on the smith, twice as high, with no pause. And then kinda look at me like ‘yeah, I am king’.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
feel your pain. at a commercial gym I used to go to I was regularly doing DE work with box squats down to a 13 inch box. After a few weeks of this I came in and some douche, who was always there the same time as me, was doing Smith Machine box squats to a 24 inch plyo box, and giving me ‘the eye’. [/quote]
it’s crazy how you can take a great movement and fuck it all up because it’s “too hard”.
i see lifting two ways- the hard way and the wrong way.
[/quote]
funniest thing, is as noted I was doing DE work, so it was like 3 plates plus some chains. This guy seems to make a big point out of doing 5 plates on the smith, twice as high, with no pause. And then kinda look at me like ‘yeah, I am king’.
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one of my most used saying is - “they don’t even know enough to know they don’t know shit”
Word of warning on the Inzer shoes .The velcro on the ankle straps might come away from the leather. Mine have and I have had to glue them back on more then one time.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
Word of warning on the Inzer shoes .The velcro on the ankle straps might come away from the leather. Mine have and I have had to clue them back on more then one time.[/quote]
good to know. have you tried to return them to be fixed or replaced? i thought inzer was pretty good at doing that sort of stuff.
^^ nope. But the smart thing would be for me to call Inzer .
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
Bench - working max 510
warmup
.
.
315x6
[/quote]
This is the stuff that inspires me.
Thx Meat!
Glad to see you back.[/quote]
thanks hoss… life has been tough lately. I’m going to do my best to keep my log going. just have some major life changes going on.
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Hope everything is ok. I know you know how to keep your priorities in order.
Thanks for the info about the shoes. I just ordered some Pendlays for a christmas gift to myself.
I hope all is good at your household. If you ever need to vent to a computer screen feel free to pm me.
Rick
Good to see you guys still lifting phenomenal weights.
12-6-10 Military Press - Week 2, Cycle 4
Military Press
10xBar
5x95
5x120(65%)
5x140(75%)
5x155(85%)
*Superset
Flat DB Bench / DB Rows
8x80 / 10x80
8x80 / 10x80
8x80 / 10x80
12x80 / 10x80
Military Press
10x115
Chest Supported Rows
8x1 plate
6x2 p
6x3 p
Seated Rope Face Pulls
10x60
10x80
12x60
Side DB Raises
10x25
10x25
CURLS
couple sets… one standing db, one preacher curl…
*Superset
Hyperextensions / Abs
20xBW /
20xBW / … 4 sets of various abs…
20xBW /
Good night. Doing the 5/3/1 powerlifting layout so just hit the prescribed 5’s this week and just tried to get some good accessory stuff in. Deadlifts wednesday!
My hamstrings were the most sore they have EVER been after those box squats and heavy hypers on saturday. Awesome.
deads- real max- 700, working max-630
warmups
135x6
225x6
315x6
working sets
70%- 440x3
80%-505x3
90%-565x4 +1 rep
315x10
405x10
short and nasty.