Congrats on the Milie PR.
hitting PR’s in your jammies - how cool is that.
pics of said fancy clothes!
and nice prs
Thanks Joe. This whole throwing the bar overhead business makes me feel quite badass.
N., the jammie bottoms were pink with sheep on them.
George, just imagine your standard black pantsuit go-to-meeting outfit. The sooner off the better.
At least the conference room was delicious: middle eastern grilled chicken, grape leaves, hummus, fried eggplant and baklava. Its the little things…
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Thanks Joe. This whole throwing the bar overhead business makes me feel quite badass.
N., the jammie bottoms were pink with sheep on them.
George, just imagine your standard black pantsuit go-to-meeting outfit. The sooner off the better.
At least the conference room was delicious: middle eastern grilled chicken, grape leaves, hummus, fried eggplant and baklava. Its the little things…[/quote]
damn - you said fancy not work clothes
disappointed… lol
I will do any number of inappropriate things for good hummus.
joe: a man with the right priorities 
I’m a sucker for good baba ganoush myself
Whew! I was worried you’d kick me outta here Kimba! Hell, I’d just have to lurk 'cause I get inspired by your work!
Great work on your recent training. And, not unlike the bathroom scale, DON’T pay much attention to those ‘calculators.’ They’re a guideline, at best, and don’t really amount to much in the long haul. Just refer to your log…take a look back in a few months, are you accomplishing your goal? That’s all that really matters anyway, right?
Great MP PR! You’re upper body is really strong - so jealous!
Man, I need to work on bringing my hips through in a bad way. This pause on the top and bottom of the pull-throughs, what does that do?
Dog, some of my work clothes are pretty nice but they are somewhat conservative by necessity. 
Joe and N., I wholeheartedly agree.
CD, I know not to pay too much attention to those rep calculators. But I’m just turning over in my mind how my being TOTALLY off on the standard rep calculator continuum affects my 5/3/1 program. Because, that program relies upon somewhat imaginary working max numbers. The reason I say “somewhat imaginary” is that after a few waves of adding 5 or 10 lbs. to one’s working max (90% of actual max) that working max number is pretty darn imaginary. For this wave, my supposed 90% of 1-rep max number for the deadlift is 190 lbs and for MPs it is 75 lbs… Now, MAYBE I could get 190 or 75 up, but maybe not.
My experience with this wave of MPs and deadlifts (for which lifts I have NOT adjusted my maxes) is that I’m hitting the money set weight, but not for the prescribed reps. If I follow the program as written, this means I must re-set my maxes. But then I’ll be lifting lower weight for more reps for awhile longer before hitting bigger weights again. Which is cool, if my weird particular strength patterns match Jim Wendler’s or the typical 5/3/1 follower, but I doubt that they do.
Oh well. Just ruminating. I have no intentions of stopping 5/3/1 just yet.
Maschy, my understanding of the point of pausing the pull-throughs is to really squeeze and fire the glutes. Practically speaking, pausing the pull-throughs makes a lighter weight very much harder.
I tend to look at 5/3/1 like this. The calculated 1RM numbes are meaningless, a max is only a max when you actually hit the lift. Some times the money sets are pretty ugly but as long as I hit the numbers its gold. But its the first two working sets where I get a look at how much progress I’ve made. As I progress those first two sets start to become numbers that a bit of time ago would have been challenging but now I’m throwing them up.
That tells me I’m making real progress.
So, today’s training was just one of those days where I felt really tired and slow, but for no good reason. Eating is OK, sleeping is OK. But from the moment I woke up this AM, I was just sluggish.
5/3/1 “Off the Reservation” Day
AM bodyweight = 111.5 lbs.
Squats (3 risers/step)
Bar 1 x 5
75# 1 x 5
105# 1 x 5 ← felt good, form pretty good
115# 1 x 2 ← failed on 3 but in a weird way – overbalanced backwards but was saved by my spotter.
95# 2 x 5, 1 x 10 <–form was good, didn’t feel super heavy
75# 1 x 10 ← form good
I do. not. know. what my problem was on 115# today. (kimba is a head case, film at 11) I tried to psyche myself up for the weight being light, but one rep into it (with bad knee cave) I felt trouble coming on. And trouble I got. GRRR!!!
Bench Press
Bar 1 x 5
65# 1 x 5
75# 1 x 5
80# 1 x 5
No PRs or anything, but I was fairly happy with this. I felt more comfortable with the setup than I’ve felt in the past, so maybe I’m learning something over time. And the weights felt pretty light except for the last rep at 80# which I barely squeezed up.
Tri-set (no rest) of:
Kneeling Lat Pulldowns behind head with bands
1 x 20
Triceps Rope Pushdowns
30# 1 x 20
Triceps Band Pushdowns
1 x 20
Bulgarian split squats
12.5# dumbbells 1 x 20 each leg
Planks and side planks, oh how I hate you.
Right now I’m feeling way more wiped out from this than I should be.
If Kimba is happy, everyone is happy!
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
I tend to look at 5/3/1 like this. The calculated 1RM numbes are meaningless, a max is only a max when you actually hit the lift. Some times the money sets are pretty ugly but as long as I hit the numbers its gold. But its the first two working sets where I get a look at how much progress I’ve made. As I progress those first two sets start to become numbers that a bit of time ago would have been challenging but now I’m throwing them up.
That tells me I’m making real progress.[/quote]
Joe, thanks so much for sharing that. I’ve been focusing my goal measurement too much on the money sets instead of noticing how much easier my working sets have gotten.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
If Kimba is happy, everyone is happy! :)[/quote]
ha ha! A variant of “if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.”
^ exactly!!
Fantastic work, BTW!!
Betty and Maschy, here is what I’m doing now to reset my sumo deads on my max effort sets. This is last week’s 171 lb. pull x 2 reps.
Exactly! I think we do the same thing - stand up and get back into position. But I actually think you’re better off b/c you’re not pausing so much in the down position!!
Seriously Kimba, unless someone says otherwise, I don’t think this is really a bad thing we’re doing. Anyone?
Btw, that looked great! A little bit of rounding but all in all I think that looked really good. You’re almost at 2xBW!
Thanks Maschy! I am fighting the rounding with every ounce of my being, but it is so. hard. at weights over 170#. That’s why I’m thinking seriously about a belt now.
I consciously try not to spend alot of time in the hole. It messes with my head.
That’s excellent work kimba! and when I was pulling sumo I did the very same reset routine. Now I’m pulling conventional and I reset by straightening my legs and keeping my hands on the bar. You get a better duplication of the pull by doing some kind of a reset vs. a touch and go deadlift. I believe that it is more work but you are practicing the complete pull in a beneficial manner.