[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:
That some good volume.
If you are into anatomy this is a good 3D site, but you’ll need firefox or chrome. I don’t think IE supports it. www.zygotebody.com/
It’s a google company.
Took me a while to figure out how to turn off some of the layers to just see muscle and bone.[/quote]
Took me about 4 tries to find a browser I had that would work (chrome didn’t strangely enough), but that is way cool. I didn’t know that I even had a serratus posterior inferior.
Wow, DCA…impressive work here! Your squats were perfect…deep and just like you, I growl! LOL
Good lifts DCA.
Have you ever tried BTN push presses ? I find these work real well in develeoping the bar speed on the ascent.
Try using reps of 3 and ramp up till you start to grind on your 3rd rep then take 85% of that and do a 5x3 as your starting weight.
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
Good lifts DCA.
Have you ever tried BTN push presses ? I find these work real well in develeoping the bar speed on the ascent.
Try using reps of 3 and ramp up till you start to grind on your 3rd rep then take 85% of that and do a 5x3 as your starting weight. [/quote]
I’ll try those. They make me a little nervous because as I get tired the bar comes forward and crashes down either a) on the back of my head or b) that big vertebra at the base of the neck - but that’s a lot of incentive to do them right. I can only imagine they help me keep the bar behind my head on jerks.
izzat 5 set of 3 or 3 sets of 5 or does it matter?
[quote]Kairiki wrote:
Wow, DCA…impressive work here! Your squats were perfect…deep and just like you, I growl! LOL[/quote]
Thanks Kairiki.
I’ve only started the growling as a regular thing recently. The main lifts have me so tired I need to amp up a bit to get the other lifts I want.
Welp, our landlords overbought on real estate, lost it all, and now have to move back into their old house, which just happens to have me and mine in it - so we’re scrambling to find a new gym, …er, …house.
5 sets of 3. These will really teach you to explode and learn how to control your body to catch weight as well.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]Kairiki wrote:
Wow, DCA…impressive work here! Your squats were perfect…deep and just like you, I growl! LOL[/quote]
Thanks Kairiki.
I’ve only started the growling as a regular thing recently. The main lifts have me so tired I need to amp up a bit to get the other lifts I want.[/quote]
I know what you mean…I have to have my epic music playing in my ears to jack me up or a tall can of Hansen Energy Pro to do the lifts.
2012-2-24
SN
75,95,115x3
127,5,137.5,147.5 1x5
150,152.5,155x1
157.5x0,1
CJ
165,167.5,170,175,180,185,190,195x1
200xmissed the clean
200x1
OK I’ve done this for about two weeks and the results so far are:
I’m tired all the time
I hurt in my shoulders, knees and hips almost all the time
All my lifts are in retrograde.
My form is deteriorating
Screw it. What I was doing before was working: my form was better, I was happy and had energy and I was getting stronger and better.
I’m going to:
DAY1: quick lift - w/u triple + singles to the day’s max + 2-5 backoff sets of singles doubles or triples + pullups day
DAY2: strength train whatever the hell I feel like working on, probably squats alight pulling exercise and a press.
I don’t like pain, I don’t like reps and I don’t have Cavalier’s will to continue doing them.
DCA, do you take off every 8th week? This helps me a lot…your symptoms read like overtaining and that’s bad ju-ju.
[quote]Kairiki wrote:
DCA, do you take off every 8th week? This helps me a lot…your symptoms read like overtaining and that’s bad ju-ju.[/quote]
I’m actually pretty used to high frequency training, but not doing the same exercises over and over and for this amount of reps, so you’re probably right. I thought I would adjust more quickly than I have to the volume, but it seems such is not the case.
What sort of methodology are you following?
I’m not a big believer in over training but doing the same motions over and over again can be rough.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]Kairiki wrote:
DCA, do you take off every 8th week? This helps me a lot…your symptoms read like overtaining and that’s bad ju-ju.[/quote]
I’m actually pretty used to high frequency training, but not doing the same exercises over and over and for this amount of reps, so you’re probably right. I thought I would adjust more quickly than I have to the volume, but it seems such is not the case.[/quote]
Here what I do…I follow 5 x 5 scheme…the why is here: StrongLifts 5×5 workout: Get Stronger by Lifting 3x/Week
Week 1 - 3 = workouts
Week 4 = Deload week (all bodyweight exercises) - The why is here: Strength Training - Rest, Recover and Get Stronger - Diesel Crew - Muscle Building, Athletic Development, Strength Training, Grip Strength
Week 5 - 7 = workouts
Week 8 = rest for 1 week - the why is here: Using A Recovery Week To Propel Your Muscle-Building Efforts!
[quote]Kairiki wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]Kairiki wrote:
DCA, do you take off every 8th week? This helps me a lot…your symptoms read like overtaining and that’s bad ju-ju.[/quote]
I’m actually pretty used to high frequency training, but not doing the same exercises over and over and for this amount of reps, so you’re probably right. I thought I would adjust more quickly than I have to the volume, but it seems such is not the case.[/quote]
Here what I do…I follow 5 x 5 scheme…the why is here: StrongLifts 5×5 workout: Get Stronger by Lifting 3x/Week
Week 1 - 3 = workouts
Week 4 = Deload week (all bodyweight exercises) - The why is here: Strength Training - Rest, Recover and Get Stronger - Diesel Crew - Muscle Building, Athletic Development, Strength Training, Grip Strength
Week 5 - 7 = workouts
Week 8 = rest for 1 week - the why is here: Using A Recovery Week To Propel Your Muscle-Building Efforts!
[/quote]
I’m not a big believer in deload periods. I went that route and they didn’t really do anything for me. I prefer to just take a light day here and there as I feel I need them. I guess it amounts to the same thing., when you think about it.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
What sort of methodology are you following?
I’m not a big believer in over training but doing the same motions over and over again can be rough.[/quote]
The Joe Mills program I read about on Glenn Pendlay’s forum. The program is not from him, ket it be noted. It sounded workable, and it may be for other types of lifters, but I should know better than to think “many reps/same exercises” works for me, having tried it in the past.
Been doing whole lots of nothing except miniband pullaparts, facepulls,bodyweight squats and split squats. May train tonight after we get the lease signed for the new house (fingers crossed). Feeling pretty good, physically.
Then comes the moving…
Good luck on the house.
Good luck with moving
I’m torn on this house (signed the lease - yay!). Being a condo in a controlled community, I think dropping weights is a no-go; against the by-laws to make excessive noise or disturb other residents, y’see. But the sq footage is 40% more than we’ve had and it’s warmer and my son’s room will be bigger and the kitchen is nicer.
But the garage ceiling is too low to do any standing overhead work - so that, coupled with the noise rules, Oly-style lifting is out altogether. Looks like I’m doing powerlifting stuff again.
hmm powerlifting…
maybe that’s the swicth up you needed?
gym trumps tv anyday.