Your beautiful hair!
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Hahaha yeah… receding hairline was getting pretty bad, to the point that styling it was getting dangerously close to combover territory so decided to take the honorable way out before it became too obvious
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Great work on the Strong lifts!
I always like to check out your gym and your lifting. So what’s been up lately? I see the giant cambered bar and the foam pad on the box squats. How does that feel on the hips?
And what’s up with the 1 board press? We were just debating wether or not that helps off the chest, last week.
Yeah just go the cambered bar in a few weeks ago, running in for a 4 week dynamic wave now. I’ve only used it once so far, but I already really like it. Box squatting with it really feels like a good in-between of a low bar squat and a sumo deadlift. For me, that’s perfect because I can’t handle squatting AND pulling twice a week, so the cambered bar will hopefully be a compromise, like effectively squatting and pulling 1.5 times a week if that makes sense…
Threw out an old couch so I decided to steal the foam from one of the cushions. Honestly, never really had problems box squatting to a hard box, so adding the foam only marginally made it more comfortable, but I could see how it would be really usefully for teaching someone to stay controlled sitting back onto the box.
I like to use a 1-board most of the time on my close grip benching just because with CG I want to keep tension on the triceps and if I go to the chest I feel like I get a little out of position and end up using more chest/delts to get the weight moving out of the bottom. As I type this, I’m noticing my DOMs in my triceps lol. I’m not sure about 1-boards for power off the chest… if a lifter uses a lot of leg drive to get the weight moving out of the bottom and a 1-board forces them to “muscle” it more rather than relying on the pop out of the bottom, I could see it having some carryover. Personally, my favorite move for building strength out of the bottom are cambered bench bar (buffalo bars work too as long as your grip isn’t super narrow) Spoto presses. So basically, you utilize the camber to allow you to bring the bar down to the same point that a straight bar would be touching your chest (or just a bit lower) and hold it for a solid 2-3 count. Since the bow/camber keeps the bar from actually contacting your chest, all the tension is in your upper body muscles and you get almost no “pop” from leg drive.
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275 a hand farmer done 8 pounds lighter and after a 505 deadlift.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYUcP5xPQru/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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565 mammoth bar dead @175
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbX_L0ojjRg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Not really a rep PR, but an effort PR on the last rep of a max rep 175 pound log:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbavG0bjkzU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Nice work DD. Determination with that log!
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What’s the most you can weigh for your weight class?
Dude, forget your bodyweight, you’re objectively strong as fuck for any weight class.
175.4
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Thread bump. It’s depressing how few PRs there are on T Nation.
265 axle.
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Here’s 650lb competition bench back in May.
Here’s 700lb to a 1 board a few weeks ago.
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I’ll join in!! These PRs aren’t all current. They’re more the ones I’m most proud of.
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DB Row: 197.5lbs x 10 after a shit ton of sets beforehand
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DB Curl (strict): Curled the 60lbs DBs once lol. And did strict DB drag curls with the 45lbs DBs.
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DB RDL: 305lbs (total weight) x 6 x 10, 335lbs x 2 x 6 in same session
(For context, in Dec 2019, I literally could not touch my toes and stand back up) -
DB Split Squat: 120lbs (total weight) x 10 x 10
(Did all 10 sets on left leg first, then all 10 sets on right leg. Done as quickly as possible to mimic rest pausing a 100 rep set for each leg) -
DB Split: 150lbs x 5 x 10
(Done in the same style as above, but for a 50 rep “rest pause” set) -
Power Clean: 185 x 1 easy
(Basically my first time trying a power clean) -
Front Squat (paused): 225 x 3
(For context, this was my first time squatting on two legs since early 2014 due to Elhers-Danlos) -
Standing DB Press: 75lbs x 1
(For context, it took me 8 years to be able to a full ROM press due to shoulder instability) -
Can finally do Chin Ups for a full ROM since I’ve improved my shoulder stability a ton!!!
I rarely try to PR, so I don’t have many haha
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150 circus dumbell.
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250 a hand fatback farmers…
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Hello
My weighted pull-ups
+31lbs as of yesterday :
I’ll be back at +45lbs with a big boy plate.
Thx
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Arise from the Dead old thread.
587 deadlift @ 190. 12 pound PR.
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For my 53rd birthday I planned on squatting 135 lbs for 53 reps, actually ended up doing 60. Now I’m thinking 100 is doable.
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