[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I just stacked up like 8 bases[/quote]
That’s too many bases. Especially if you’re stacking them all in one place. Noob.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I just stacked up like 8 bases[/quote]
That’s too many bases. Especially if you’re stacking them all in one place. Noob.[/quote]
ROFL WHAT THE FUCK
AS…I was saying…
6/27/13 kind of tired today I have really bad sunburn on my biceps so I can’t flex them or my skin will rip because my biceps get so big when I flex
FS
95x3
145x5
185x3
225x3
315x3 belt on, im a noob with a belt since i have not actually used one consistently since maybe 3 years ago lol. I’m literally like HOW I DO DIS.
365x1 KILLED it
400x2 FUCKING SMOKE SHOW BOYS AND GIRLS, FUCK YES!! Stood for 10 hours straight today in the humidity and sun burned to hell without being able to sit. That’s how you hit a front squat PR motha fuckas! Granted, I used a belt, but come on, it’s a LITTLE BIT OF WEIGHT!
Power Cleans NO belt (basically upright rows durr)
225x5
255x3 shitty
275x2 I dont like how weak I am at these, just feels heavy, probably because I’m catching them in a split, because I’m out of practice
275x1 better, kind of easy, I squeezed my hands harder and really jerked it off the floor with all my strength so the catch was totally at a standing position meaning I really got some good power.
300x0 WEAK
300x1! Think it’s a PR? Haven’t done any legit max cleaning in a very very long time
shuttin it down, awesome day!
By the way, I will be increasing the intensity of my workouts for the next month (one month out of competition) but significantly reducing the volume. Getting there.
Fucking nice front squat.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Fucking nice front squat.[/quote]
Dude yeah it was such a fun session.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Fucking nice front squat.[/quote]
Dude yeah it was such a fun session. [/quote]
Happy for you
6/29/13
Events
Yoke
270x50ft
450x100ft repick midway, much easier the second time, I don’t see how some guys can grip the yoke on the vertical beams while doing it. I keep my hands on the crossbeam like a high bar squat. Feels much better. Probably a physiology thing.
550x50ft belt on…this felt extremely weird with a belt. Don’t know if Ilike that feeling.
600x50ft fucking dropped it wtf? It feels absurdly light on my back but clearly my legs have nothing in them. I made a foolish mistake squatting so heavy. Whatever, more fucking weight.
600x50ft NO drop, very smooth set felt good although I had to slow it down a bit.
650x50ft NOOOO DROPS! My chill as fuck crossfiter mailman was there too, pretty BALLIN IF YOU ASK ME. Strong set.
Anyway, I will be eliminating heavy front squats (=[) for the rest of my training up until the competition because my legs did NOT recover and they were pretty much gone. I need to start fine tuning my event training while backing off in the gym.
Push Jerks 2" Axle
125x8
215x3 triceps feel somewhat tired
265x3 easy as always
305x1 hard?
BELT OFF
335x0 stupid
Today’s not a day for overhead, fucking annoyed I missed such an easy press. 335 should be a cake walk now. I guess I should know better considering my front squats and what not.
Whatevazzzz.
Feeling kind of sluggish, taking a break from heavy farmers.
So I’ll write up how the farmers went later…
So I had decided to do a stupid death medley after the bulk of my event training. What I devised involved 170/hand farmers for 700 foot total distance up a 20 degree inclined hill that spans 350 feet~, and for each drop with the handles, the penalty was 10 burpees. The already dehydrated me precedes to pick up the handles which thus sparks the thought “I picked a heavier weight than I can handle.”
I took it maybe 250 feet before I dropped it and did my 10 burpees. I was pretty much wanting to quit already lol. At this point I had no chalk, so I repicked, took it 50 feet before the next drop because my hand began to tear. 10 more burpees, and a repick for yet another 50 feet which caused a tear on my hand.
So I’m like super close to the top of the hill at this point and I get the chance to rechalk. 10 burpees more and I begin to repick and my nose just SHOOTS blood out. I have a deviated septum, so sometimes it’ll just bleed randomly, but in this instance, the increased blood pressure made blood just squirt out lol. I took it 50 feet and just began spitting large amounts of blood and snot out of my face every 10 seconds.
I had to inhale erratically through my nose during the burpees because of the blood coming out. Needless to say, blood came out anyway LOL. Before I knew it there was just a big ass puddle of blood on the asphalt and blah blah blah…
Let’s just say the bleeding subsided to a degree, and I finished strong. I intentionally smeared blood all over my arms and shirt and deliberately blew air out of my bleeding nostril to make it look gruesome. It was fucking hilarious. Not at the time of course…I mean for the cars passing by it was.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
So I had decided to do a stupid death medley after the bulk of my event training. What I devised involved 170/hand farmers for 700 foot total distance up a 20 degree inclined hill that spans 350 feet~, and for each drop with the handles, the penalty was 10 burpees. The already dehydrated me precedes to pick up the handles which thus sparks the thought “I picked a heavier weight than I can handle.”
I took it maybe 250 feet before I dropped it and did my 10 burpees. I was pretty much wanting to quit already lol. At this point I had no chalk, so I repicked, took it 50 feet before the next drop because my hand began to tear. 10 more burpees, and a repick for yet another 50 feet which caused a tear on my hand.
So I’m like super close to the top of the hill at this point and I get the chance to rechalk. 10 burpees more and I begin to repick and my nose just SHOOTS blood out. I have a deviated septum, so sometimes it’ll just bleed randomly, but in this instance, the increased blood pressure made blood just squirt out lol. I took it 50 feet and just began spitting large amounts of blood and snot out of my face every 10 seconds.
I had to inhale erratically through my nose during the burpees because of the blood coming out. Needless to say, blood came out anyway LOL. Before I knew it there was just a big ass puddle of blood on the asphalt and blah blah blah…
Let’s just say the bleeding subsided to a degree, and I finished strong. I intentionally smeared blood all over my arms and shirt and deliberately blew air out of my bleeding nostril to make it look gruesome. It was fucking hilarious. Not at the time of course…I mean for the cars passing by it was.
[/quote]
That sounds like a brutal training session! Good job for getting through it though!!
[quote]wozniak1995 wrote:
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
So I had decided to do a stupid death medley after the bulk of my event training. What I devised involved 170/hand farmers for 700 foot total distance up a 20 degree inclined hill that spans 350 feet~, and for each drop with the handles, the penalty was 10 burpees. The already dehydrated me precedes to pick up the handles which thus sparks the thought “I picked a heavier weight than I can handle.”
I took it maybe 250 feet before I dropped it and did my 10 burpees. I was pretty much wanting to quit already lol. At this point I had no chalk, so I repicked, took it 50 feet before the next drop because my hand began to tear. 10 more burpees, and a repick for yet another 50 feet which caused a tear on my hand.
So I’m like super close to the top of the hill at this point and I get the chance to rechalk. 10 burpees more and I begin to repick and my nose just SHOOTS blood out. I have a deviated septum, so sometimes it’ll just bleed randomly, but in this instance, the increased blood pressure made blood just squirt out lol. I took it 50 feet and just began spitting large amounts of blood and snot out of my face every 10 seconds.
I had to inhale erratically through my nose during the burpees because of the blood coming out. Needless to say, blood came out anyway LOL. Before I knew it there was just a big ass puddle of blood on the asphalt and blah blah blah…
Let’s just say the bleeding subsided to a degree, and I finished strong. I intentionally smeared blood all over my arms and shirt and deliberately blew air out of my bleeding nostril to make it look gruesome. It was fucking hilarious. Not at the time of course…I mean for the cars passing by it was.
[/quote]
That sounds like a brutal training session! Good job for getting through it though!![/quote]
lol yeah, people driving by were like waving to me as if I wasn’t covered with blood. Terrible humility!
Sometimes I wish I got nose bleeds…
[quote]csulli wrote:
Sometimes I wish I got nose bleeds…[/quote]
I’m actually in disbelief that there’s people out there who have never had a nose bleed in their entire life. I got all mine as a kid from…
Well see, I was a very popular kid in elementary school, so much so, that in recreation, 4/10 times I turned around, a basketball smashed into my face going 50 mph. I would have imagined all the kids were like OMG VINNY CATCH! (Even though I was facing the other way), and BOOM basketball to the FACE.
Seriously though, I got hit in the face alot by random shit including fists as a kid. Makes for a strong (deviated septum) nose.
7/1/13
My triceps are actually quite sore from burpees, kinda shitty but oh well.
Z presses
45x10
135x5
155x3
185x5 triceps got no POW today
205x1 tough
Floor Press (last time I did these, my shoulder bugged me, but it’s been a while since I’ve tried.)
45x8
95x5
135x5 backs bugging me
225x3
275x2 felt ok “It’s not enough to have a little taste, I want the whole damn now can you take it?” - Disturbed. This song played during this set, but I couldn’t help but relate it to my snacking of poptarts. I was like “I don’t want a little taste, I want the whole damn poptart!.”
295x2 good
315x1 got not triceps today, no reason to go for anything heavier
Axle Hang Snatch
125x3,3,3
Nothing more today, I’m feeling gassed, so calling it early. nothing special
Viewer Discretion is Advised
7/2/13
Deadlifts 2" Axle
125x8
215x5
305x5 hm
355x2 tough
405x1 slow
445x1 should be 545, #Cantdeadlift
475x0
Contemplated whether or not I wanted to even log this workout but it’s my log and I log my shit. It’s what I do here. This little writing coming up will be no holds barred.
I have been making my quotas, so to speak, for my competition just fine. Took 650 comfortably on yoke for 50 feet, hit some awesome PR’s on front squat, and a little bonus with power clean. My pressing has been good, as it always is. I felt elated to know the aforementioned PR’s, and I came into this workout feeling excited to follow suit. By 300lbs on warm up, my aura of confidence obviously plummeted, like it always has when I deadlift. Each warm up just took more and more out of me, and I realized, unbeknownst to my ego during the session, that I was NOT going to fulfill that quota today. So I let my ego best me, and I climbed the weights as I would had I been hitting deadlift PR’s out my ass (which only happens in my BEST and rarest of dreams). 445 was very slow, and followed by an emphatic failure with 475. I even felt a spark ignite inside me before the set that had been missing on the warm ups (all the way up to 445), so I was rekindled and I knew I would get the 475. I even put on my deadlift song that I hit all my past PR’s with. The failure was so bad, that…sucks up ego, I took my belt off, put my face in my hands and sobbed. I didn’t even TRY to cry. It just came out hard. I’ve never gotten so emotional in that way during training. I’ve always sucked it up, resolved, and realized what I had done wrong, or found solace in the fact that tomorrow is another day to try something knew. The problem here was, I knew I had done everything I could (or what I felt was the best thing) to make this deadlift happen and meet up the goals that were set. This whole deadlift situation is getting so bad that I can’t even watch videos of guys I’m subbed to deadlifting, because it emasculates me. I get invigorated watching them pull 500 , 600 and 800 saying “I can fucking do that if I WAS THERE!”, then I go deadlift and I fucking cry like a little baby. What the fuck, man? Granted my back has been sore as I started working an intensive labor job and it left my low back feeling tight. I dunno. No point in finishing the workout if the other 249303250342 deadlift workouts never amounted to anything objective, besides the discipline I’ve gleaned (OOOHOHOHOHOHO DISCIPLINE IS SO GREAT), tired of that shit for now. I’m disciplined the fuck out. I just wanna go to sleep.
Payce.
Did you use straps on the axle or was it chalk only?
[quote]csulli wrote:
Did you use straps on the axle or was it chalk only?[/quote]
no straps, just chalk
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Did you use straps on the axle or was it chalk only?[/quote]
no straps, just chalk[/quote]
Oh well fuck man that’s not so bad then. I think you’re underestimating how much difference that width makes to deadlift strength, especially if you don’t have ginormous Mark Felix hands.
7/4/13
Freedom Back Squats (omg that’s right folks, a liberating back squat session!)
135x5
225x3
315x3
365x1
405x1
455x1
500x1 ugly ass rep but I just don’t care. No wraps, no sleeves, just a stupid belt cause I’m a belt whore.
Donezor. I have some friends flying in soon to chill in their time off and hang out at my contest so I might just log their workouts cause they’ll do some strongman training for the first time and it’ll be a cool change. Also, I will be taking that last week off of training entirely so YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
In a non-silly sense, this workout did indeed elicit a sense of liberation from my mind and body. I’ve felt held down by my own shortcomings lately and it feels good as fuck to fall down and stand back up with a huge weight on your back.
that’s a wrap.
It was only ugly because you did it :P. Yes, freedom is indeed liberating.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
that’s a wrap.
[/quote]
eat a wrap