let us know how the sizing thing work
bands
chucks
squatting in 15 sweat shirts
belt wraps
elbow sleeves
you are living the dream buddy
training looking good
GUESS WHAT?! I am going to try to look for a pull up bar that I can put in my apartment (it can’t require any type of constructiony work though) so that means…
I will have a pull up bar, and a stretchy tubey thingie. HA! My home gym is coming along very nicely…you better watch out, I’ma catchin’ up!
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
GUESS WHAT?! I am going to try to look for a pull up bar that I can put in my apartment (it can’t require any type of constructiony work though) so that means…
I will have a pull up bar, and a stretchy tubey thingie. HA! My home gym is coming along very nicely…you better watch out, I’ma catchin’ up![/quote]
Hey there Spockinator. That’s awesome that you are collecting stuff for the apartment! Sometimes convenience is the best way to stay on track. I have an ab wheel and some push up handles (easier on my wrists). Those might be easy additions too.
I’m not sure about all the pull up bar options but just make sure you don’t get one that stays in place by compression (you twist it until it is tight in the doorframe). They don’t stay in place well. And if you get one that screws into the door frame they are good up to 200lbs and the screw holes are small and easy to fill if you need to.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
training looking good[/quote]
Thanks Pete.
hot damn, i want to play with chains!
take care of those biceps, mkay?
sits waiting for PR-fest<<
<<----loves fests
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
GUESS WHAT?! I am going to try to look for a pull up bar that I can put in my apartment (it can’t require any type of constructiony work though) so that means…
I will have a pull up bar, and a stretchy tubey thingie. HA! My home gym is coming along very nicely…you better watch out, I’ma catchin’ up![/quote]
Hey there Spockinator. That’s awesome that you are collecting stuff for the apartment! Sometimes convenience is the best way to stay on track. I have an ab wheel and some push up handles (easier on my wrists). Those might be easy additions too.
I’m not sure about all the pull up bar options but just make sure you don’t get one that stays in place by compression (you twist it until it is tight in the doorframe). They don’t stay in place well. And if you get one that screws into the door frame they are good up to 200lbs and the screw holes are small and easy to fill if you need to.
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This one works great!
^^^ yeah that looks almost identical to the one I bought yesterday!
BOY, what a bitch that was carrying that damn thing home on the bus, ha-ha.
BUT SHE WORKs! So now whenever I am getting anxiety for feeling like I have too much energy I will knock out a few pull ups.
I got an ab wheel a while back, but it doesn’t glide too well on my carpet 
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
^^^ yeah that looks almost identical to the one I bought yesterday!
BOY, what a bitch that was carrying that damn thing home on the bus, ha-ha.
BUT SHE WORKs! So now whenever I am getting anxiety for feeling like I have too much energy I will knock out a few pull ups.
I got an ab wheel a while back, but it doesn’t glide too well on my carpet :/[/quote]
Awesome! Upper back muscles are super sexy on the wimmenz.
I got the elitefts elbow sleeves and they work great. I don’t use them for singles but I’m loving them for rep work and I think they might make appearances on my t-bar rows as well.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
I got the elitefts elbow sleeves and they work great. I don’t use them for singles but I’m loving them for rep work and I think they might make appearances on my t-bar rows as well.[/quote]
Why not use them on singles? Not legal?
I would need them for low rep work since that is when shit starts to hurt.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
I got the elitefts elbow sleeves and they work great. I don’t use them for singles but I’m loving them for rep work and I think they might make appearances on my t-bar rows as well.[/quote]
Why not use them on singles? Not legal?
I would need them for low rep work since that is when shit starts to hurt.[/quote]
Yeah no sleeves on bench in SPF. I find though that I don’t hurt on singles if I use them on reps. Its the volume that gets me, particularly on Smolov Jr.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
I got the elitefts elbow sleeves and they work great. I don’t use them for singles but I’m loving them for rep work and I think they might make appearances on my t-bar rows as well.[/quote]
Why not use them on singles? Not legal?
I would need them for low rep work since that is when shit starts to hurt.[/quote]
Yeah no sleeves on bench in SPF. I find though that I don’t hurt on singles if I use them on reps. Its the volume that gets me, particularly on Smolov Jr.[/quote]
Mine should be here in about a week and we’ll see what’s up.
Tate Plan, Week 6, Day 1, ME squats
Have a bit of a stomach thing.
Box Squat
lots of hip mobility stuff
bar x 2 x 3
95 x 2 x 3…felt like shit
135 x 2 x 3…felt like shit
185 x 2 x 3…felt like shit
225 x 2…felt like shit
275 x 2…felt like shit
315 x 2 x 1…felt like shit
355 x 1…felt ok
375 x 1…felt pretty good
395 x 1…+10lb PR. Looks cleaner and faster than the 385 last week. Still needs some work.
Was short on time so picked a bang for buck exercise.
Dimel deads - added 10lbs over last week. Supposed to be 30-40% of your max DL for high reps. The straps keep me from being distracted by the ridiculous forearm pump. I think I would have a heart attack using 185. Out of shape maybe?
165 x 3 x 20
Still need to do some more hamstring and ab stuff. Tomorrow.
Dude, you had more! Should have went to 405 after that, that was gravy.
Congrats on the PR! And re: going for 405, I rarely go for two PR’s in a workout. Train optimally, not maximally. Don’t get greedy! That leads to getting hurt and stuff. I hate, hate missing attempts. But that just my stance on the issue.
I’m going to read a couple of pages back and see what you’ve been up to in here.
[quote] Matt wrote:
Dude, you had more! Should have went to 405 after that, that was gravy.[/quote]
If I had a spotter I probably would have. As Ghost mentioned, I hate ending on a down note and I don’t like dropping the bar on the pins. BUT I was eyeballing my chains as safeties so i don’t use pins. I bet there is a solution there.
[quote]GhostOD wrote:
Congrats on the PR! And re: going for 405, I rarely go for two PR’s in a workout. Train optimally, not maximally. Don’t get greedy! That leads to getting hurt and stuff. I hate, hate missing attempts. But that just my stance on the issue.
I’m going to read a couple of pages back and see what you’ve been up to in here. [/quote]
Ghost! What have you been up to? I check out your log every now and then but it’s a bit quiet in there.
You might need to go back farther than 2 pages to find anything interesting. I tend to have a lot of clutter in my log.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]GhostOD wrote:
Congrats on the PR! And re: going for 405, I rarely go for two PR’s in a workout. Train optimally, not maximally. Don’t get greedy! That leads to getting hurt and stuff. I hate, hate missing attempts. But that just my stance on the issue.
I’m going to read a couple of pages back and see what you’ve been up to in here. [/quote]
Ghost! What have you been up to? I check out your log every now and then but it’s a bit quiet in there.
You might need to go back farther than 2 pages to find anything interesting. I tend to have a lot of clutter in my log.[/quote]
Yeah, I kinda let my old log fall off. It’s weird, you know, I never got many comments or anything on it ( nothing like the fan club you have here haha), but since I stopped posting my sessions, a few people that I know in real life, that I didn’t know posted on here, have asked me about my log. I might start a new one…
excellent stuff you manimal!