^Definitely could see the explosiveness. I think you should add wt or take away one of those risers. That looked incredibly easy for you.
Good to hear your mental attitude is coming out of the fray. Wear your ‘happy’ well.
Great pulling!! No increase in pain is even better.
hell yeah! for the MPs and nice pullin’.
I gotta build some boxes to work that move.
I’m glad your heel and your knee aren’t keeping you from the DL. Those rack pulls did look explosive and easy for you.
Yeah, that looked easy. And sweet. Nice arch. I won’t say anything more about your ass or people are going to start thinking.
Wish you lived closer. I’d sure like to borrow that shirt. Really cute!
Okay, back to business.
Stay strong.
Ha! I heard you grunting. teeny grunts. means you need to try harder.
deja, YAY is right. I was guessing that pulling was going to be OK and I was happy to be proven correct.
print, I am shooting for 225 at that riser height before lowering. I’ve never held up more than 195 before, so this oughta be interesting. Especially since I weighed in this AM at 110.5 big lbs.
Joe, at this point I heartily agree. Injuries begone!
George, I bet you could build something that would be just right. How might you manage the slow lowering though? Lots of boxes at different heights perhaps?
Nadia, I really want to run in addition to the lifting. But I’m holding off on running until my knee feels 100% right again. And I’m still feeling it a little, especially going down stairs. grrr.
Snapper, don’t be shy. People already know about us. Oh, and the shirt would be killer cute on you! Its this one, and I just got it and don’t want to take it off because I’m SO COLD:
http://shop.lululemon.com/RunDistance_Pullover/pd/np/1170/p/3230.html
Cbear, of course you would hear the tiny grunts. I’m saving the loud grunting for 4 plates.
Today was a rest day. Tomorrow and Wednesday are blizzard days, so we’ll see what I can cook up for at-home training unless I can make it between the massive snowbanks to the gym.
I’m thinking a top platform of two layers of 2x somethings, whatever scrap I have and then 2x whatevers held together with a sheet of 1/2 inch plywood for each step up/down.
now it just needs to warm up from minus degrees to let me get to my scrap wood.
sooooooo much better on those deadlifts. i didn’t see any lower back bowing at all… great job!!! i would like to see them a little more explosive. i wanna see you really EFFFF that bar 
you are definitely getting the hips to the bar but i know you can be more explosive with that weight. once you feel it break free of the risers i want you to force those hips forward as hard as you can into that bar.
have you ever done any pull throughs?? i’m going to attach a video showing them. they are really good for strengthening all of the muscles used for getting the hips through. there are also a ton of different ways to do them. this particular way, i think, will help you the most.
i told her to do pull through aeons ago. she’ll probably listen now that YOU said it, meat.
also, i was right about the grunting. meat said you need to try harder, too.
ha!
happy dance
WTG Kim!!
Meat, thanks for looking and commenting. CBear is right: I used to do pull-throughs at her suggestion but I let them fall by the wayside. Thanks for the reminder to put those back in the rotation!
If Meat and CBear want to see me really fuck the bar explosively, then I’ll just have to oblige. Strangely, they seem to have great confidence in my bar fucking abilities.
Betty, thanks for the encouragement!
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Crosses fingers in hopes of a Valentines vid. Better than candy hearts!
Didn’t know you could make rackpulls look sexy, I’d be stumbling into the smithmachine myself if I saw you do those at my gym.
print, I’ll make sure you have a happy valentine’s day.
Frenchy, one day we’ll have to work out together and stop all traffic in a gym.
I went to see my chiro/ART lady about my hurt knee. The very good news is that it is NOT my IT band nor it is any sort of over-use injury from running. Indeed, it is a treadmill-stupidity injury. When my left foot slipped off the treadmill and onto the non-moving deck section, my knee stopped abruptly and thereby strained my lateral quad and a small tendon in the back of my knee called the tendon of Popliteus. My meniscus checked out fine, thankfully. I won’t be running for a week, but otherwise I should be good to lace up the sneakers once again. From now on, either I keep off treadmills or pay better attention whilst on them.
Honestly, it hurt ALOT getting worked on today and trust me that I can take a shitload of pain before flinching. Luckily, there isn’t any pain when I squat or deadlift so strength training should go on as normal. I’ve got a few stretches and some rehab work to do.
I’m quite relieved.
Good news!
Kimba: Glad the knee injury has been diagnosed and treated. And that you can squat and dl as usual. Now, enough with these injuries!
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It might take a few weeks, if you put all your effort into it, to fuck the entire bar. With casual effort, took me a few years. Good thing is, you can’t hold your liquor for shit.
OH!
you meant the BARBELL.
well then yes, i DO have great confidence in your bar fucking abilities.
Glad your knee isn’t seriously injured.
Regarding the bar fucking . . . well, not much I can add. But I was attempting to do the same thing yesterday.
Can I second or third the suggestion for pull throughs? I’ve recently added them and I sure feel them. They’re great for learning to drive your hips through. However, a word of warning, if you’re doing them with heavy bands rather than cables, remove the pin from the rack first or lube it up. It may end up in your ass because bands can snap you back fast and pull you off your feet. Just a bit of learning I thought I’d pass on from training at home…
I’m glad your knee isn’t too bad. Your rack/box pulls are looking solid. You’ll be heavier soon. Like right now