Thanks guys.
It’s true: there’ll always be a skidmark…
I was watching my bench flex as I benched in the vid. That can’t be good.
Found a couple of good bench and 45-lb plate (round) deals on craigslist that maybe I can take advantage of on Friday.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/spo/1189614279.html
If I want to drive 100 miles round trip
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/spo/1191554624.html
if I want to stay in town.
DCA- I was noticing your setup before the bench. I know you are supposed to get way up under the bar when setting up, but any further back and you are going to have to move the rack or knock out the wall…lol.
Solid work!
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
DCA- I was noticing your setup before the bench. I know you are supposed to get way up under the bar when setting up, but any further back and you are going to have to move the rack or knock out the wall…lol.
Solid work![/quote]
I know - I wish my legs were shorter, then I wouldn’t have to go so far. As long as I’m wishing, I’d like the obvious thing…
And a tan.
And straight teeth, too.
A chin would nice as well.
sorry, man, you would have trade your abz to get dat stuff
Lets not talk about height please.
I have to stand on the top step of every ladder I use.
As oldlardass has proclaimed it is all about the girth,
while we are on the wishing for new teeth thing
sign me up,
kmc
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Lets not talk about height please.
I have to stand on the top step of every ladder I use.
kmc[/quote]
Me too!! It’s hell having to keep a 12’ step ladder around to change light bulbs in a home with 8’ ceilings…
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
kmcnyc wrote:
Lets not talk about height please.
I have to stand on the top step of every ladder I use.
kmc
Me too!! It’s hell having to keep a 12’ step ladder around to change light bulbs in a home with 8’ ceilings…[/quote]
Does…not…compute. Allegorically, metaphorically OR mathematically.
I still like you though. Come here and kiss me, ya big lunk!
I was strolling through the house, as the Charming Albino is wont to do, stopping occasionally to try out a little Charming Albino bodyweight squat when I hit upon an interesting combination of limb-ular jusxtapositions (lips and fundament were not involved…nor labia). Ordinarily I turn my feet out very wide, about 90 degrees relative to one another when squatting and track my knees over my toes. I tried in one variation turning them out somewhat less and letting my knees track outside of the toes. I felt a LOT more glute activation doing this, but also a lot more knee stress (surprise, eh?). I ran breathlessly to the garage to attempt this new contortion under load. Felt pretty springy in the hole. Gonna try this out tomorrow on the work sets.
Isn’t it interesting that the plural of labia is labia? Just like sheep. There’s a joke in there somewhere about Welshmen and New Zealanders, I think. Might take some digging though.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I tried in one variation turning them out somewhat less and letting my knees track outside of the toes. I felt a LOT more glute activation doing this, but also a lot more knee stress (surprise, eh?). I ran breathlessly to the garage to attempt this new contortion under load. Felt pretty springy in the hole. Gonna try this out tomorrow on the work sets.
Isn’t it interesting that the plural of labia is labia? Just like sheep. There’s a joke in there somewhere about Welshmen and New Zealanders, I think. Might take some digging though.[/quote]
I’m gonna need video.
Of the squat, not the Welshmen and sheep.
Perhaps labia.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I tried in one variation turning them out somewhat less and letting my knees track outside of the toes. I felt a LOT more glute activation doing this, but also a lot more knee stress (surprise, eh?). I ran breathlessly to the garage to attempt this new contortion under load. Felt pretty springy in the hole. Gonna try this out tomorrow on the work sets.
Isn’t it interesting that the plural of labia is labia? Just like sheep. There’s a joke in there somewhere about Welshmen and New Zealanders, I think. Might take some digging though.
I’m gonna need video.
Of the squat, not the Welshmen and sheep.
Perhaps labia.[/quote]
I can’t give you a picture of labia.
Just writing the word requires me to leave my computer, go to the dining room and take deep breaths while sitting head down with an ice-filled towel on my neck. Imagine what an actual picture would do to me…
2009-5-29
Cycle 3 Wave 1 - Squats
135x5
185x5
225x3
275x5
290x5
310x5
Every last stinkin’ one of them high. Elbows touching thighs is definitely no indicator of depth for me. Back to touching the box.
Deep squats with pause
225 5x3 sets (baseline PR?)
Set the pins 4" below parallel on these and touched (but did not rest!) the bar to them. Gonna push the weight on these and hope they fix my problem.
Tried the new stance and it doesn’t work for me. Can’t hit depth.
Sorry the new stance was a bust…
I saw how it charmed you.
I am often tricked by posture changes with the broom stick…
now only a pic of an Labia with glutes firing will do it.
kmc
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Sorry the new stance was a bust…
I saw how it charmed you.
I am often tricked by posture changes with the broom stick…
now only a pic of an Labia with glutes firing will do it.
kmc[/quote]
I think CircleSnake Girl will have to help with that one.
Someone reminded me that I shouldn’t give up so soon on the new stance. 1 time is not statistically significant enough to base a decision on.
I’ll give it a go again next squat session.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I’ll give it a go again next squat session.[/quote]
That’s the ol’ collej spirrit!
Here’s the thing:
On meat’s program I was only doing lower body stuff once in a 6 day period. I could afford to hammer the bejeezus out the p-chain because I was going to have 5 or 6 days to recover. 5-3-1 the way I’m doing it hits p-chain twice in an 8 day period and I have 4 days to recover between lower body sessions. I think I’ve been putting too much assistance work in and not recovering from it. The indicator is that my bench and press are going up, but squat is suffering in form, which typically happens for me when I start doing too much. I need to consider the main movement as my volume movement, up the intensity on assistance and simultaneously reduce volume. 2x5 or 3x3 with a light finisher I’m thinking.
I’ve started doing more rehab stuff for the shoulder more consistently this last week from suggestions on another forum and from seeing improvements in people in this one and Powerful Women. It’s making a difference, particularly the 1-arm straight arm lat pulldown and the scap protraction/retraction exercises.
Actually, I’m hitting the whole shoulder complex. Rotator cuffs, behind the back shurgs and other tarp work, and scap work. Throw enough mud and some will stick…
Man, those deep dives w/ paws were da bomb! I bet the cougar demographic is drooling all over their monitors, dude! Great, job!
Those deep paused squats have made me sore in a new and exciting way…
Gotta dig stealth soreness. Nothing yesterday, but today I’m walking like I’m performing a slow-motion Gabby Hayes jig.
[quote]mathineer wrote:
Man, those deep dives w/ paws were da bomb! I bet the cougar demographic is drooling all over their monitors, dude! Great, job![/quote]
I did a little test and noted the view count on one of the vids. Then I viewed it from within the youtube web environment. The count incremented when I went back to the MyVideos page. I never stated my age or gender in the account profile page. Gender defaults to female. I suspect age defaults to 65+ insofar as it concerns the Insight functionality. I assumed/deduced the views were from France from other information.
…I am the French cougars…
I feel so conflicted.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
mathineer wrote:
Man, those deep dives w/ paws were da bomb! I bet the cougar demographic is drooling all over their monitors, dude! Great, job!
I did a little test and noted the view count on one of the vids. Then I viewed it from within the youtube web environment. The count incremented when I went back to the MyVideos page. I never stated my age or gender in the account profile page. Gender defaults to female. I suspect age defaults to 65+ insofar as it concerns the Insight functionality. I assumed/deduced the views were from France from other information.
…I am the French cougars…
I feel so conflicted.[/quote]
I don’t like that story as much as the old French lady one. Let’s just stick with that.