Thanks for the advice, guys. I’m not sure if I can floorpress or not yet. I tried to do a girly pushup on my knees and found that to have been a mistake.
I dont know how high mine is but with green bands 95lbs is weightless at my chest.
Looking for info on the Titan Fury bench shirt…Like it - hate it ect, I heard good things about it today want to get some other feed back, tell a bro what u think…Big Martin
Ryno- Yea the reason I ask is that today while doing reverse green band press, During a rest period I was thumbing through a old Powerlifting USA and there was a elite fitness band advertiement and they had a picture of a dude doing a rev bad press and damn his rack was high compared to ours. But we also sawed off the bottom of our power rack and built a wooden squat plat form so we can squat extra wide and use bands. So th platform takes away a good 8 inches or so…Big Martin
I don’t even have a powerrack yet. I just have this shitty old open rack… thats why I have to use chains and the i-beam. It works alright though. I just better not ever fuck up when I’m squatting or I’m in deep shit.
the fury is a good shirt for a poly. poly wise i’d say it’s top of the line.
as far as shirts go, my prefs are:
poly’s - 1) fury 2) hdhp
denim - 1) karins 2) karins 3) karins 4) karins
i really love karins shirts. theyre also really nice people too.
Kind of offtopic but I didn’t want to make a new thread. I’m sure most of you guys have seen this… I just saw it today.
http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/default.asp?m=PD&cid=182&pid=779
Cool as fuck.
John222- How much you get out of your furry compared to your Inzer hphd???
Ryno… already orderd one…as I sit here drinking a Big Martin Protien shake full of 40 ounces of whole milk, ice cream, berries, bannas, and a lil protien all before i go to bed… GFH my Friends. Big Martin
Yeah,
The sled, band and board press shirts are nice too I gotta start saving
martin, rougly 20 lb more out of the fury. as i said, for a poly it’s the best on the market at the moment in my opinion. though i have not tried the METAL shirts.
the only downside is, Titan is HORRIBLE at shipping. mine took about 2 months to arrive. they are very very bad at customer service too… but the shirt is good. there’s some sites that sell Titans stuff so it’d be a good idea to go through a reseller instead of directly through titan.
On my way to the gym for my DE-Squat session. Its great to sit back and ponder how many people around the T-Nation, who just like me, are getting ready to box squat, knowing its going to make all the difference in their total. I’m sorry for all those who can’t relate; I hope to face them at the next meet.
Actually, all this talk about bands and the distances people are using has brought up a question I’ve been wondering about for a while. When you get the bands they say that they have X amount of tension “at the bottom” and Y amount of tension “at the top”.
I figure that at the bottom is pretty easy - just wherever there starts to be tension on the band. But is there any standard accepted measurement (Four feet? Five feet?) for “at the top”? I’ve looked over on the EFS site, but haven’t seen anything that explains this.
Anyone know?
char, I don’t think I can help you. We always set up our bands in strange ways it seems.
I have a question on ME exercises. What kind of tempo does everyone use? I’m not talking about tempo prescriptions, but just wondering how fast everybody moves the weight. On the way up, as fast as you can (generally pretty slow when it gets heavy I would guess). But do you guys get better lifts when you lower the weight slower or faster? People keep telling me to bring the bar down to my chest faster on benching movements, but every time I do, I miss the lift. Not sure what it is, and it could be psychological, but I feel stronger coming back up when I’ve lowered it slowly. Any ideas or suggestions?
Jared thats a really good question. Today I was doing floor press (they rock) and I was going to try to increase the momentum so that I could push it back up but it went down and stayed there.
Personally, I am finding it better to control it on the way down and explode from the bottom.
GqArtGuy: Louie reccomends a pause at the bottom for floor presses, rack lockouts and board presses.
Char-
Check out jumpstretch’s website for some VERY general ideas of how much one is getting at the top with different bands (I think it’s www.jumpstretch.com). There’s a little chart on there. Although most of the guys at my gym can estimate how much tension we have at the top depending on our height, we don’t really care what the actual number is.
Jared, Gq-
The faster you can lower the weight UNDER CONTROL the better. I am constantly told the same thing by the guys here, Jared, and at first I would do the same thing you do: I would lower it too fast and not be able to budge it (I had lost my “tightness” while trying to lower it too fast). Now, I’m somewhere in between in that I can stay tight while lowering the weight a bit faster…still not fast enough. I guess it just takes practice and time.
BrianT: I do pause at the bottom, the great thing about the floor press is that the bottom is right at my sticking point so I do try to maximize that part.
Steve- I totally agree with you about loosing tightness if it falls too fast. I will just need to keep practicing to be to explode out of the bottom under heavy weight.
Ok guys could you critic my last programand see if i have missed something out? Last week i had a go at my first meet and bombed out in the BP which i thought would be my strongest.
I am 53 now weighing 149kgs.I was hoping for a 110kgs in the BP but got stapled with 100 twice.
I will only put up the BP w?outs starting with D.E and then ME.
For gear i only have chains(4 lengths),pink bands(i think you call them purple) and 12 mini bands.
Here goes :-
wk1 BP with p bands
55x3x8
jm press 25x5x6
tri press downs
9 on stack x 8x3
ME
Bp with 2 boards
barx20 40x5 60x5 70x3 add board
80x3 90x1 95 x1 100xmiss 100 x1
w/dips
30kx4x6
elbows out
12.5x10x4
face pulls 4x15
shrugs
110x10x4
wk2
D.E as wk 1
M.E
f/p with chains close grip
barx5x2 40x3x1 60x3x1 65x3x1 70x1x1
75x1x1 77.5x1 80x1x1
pull ups with weight(10k)
6x3
dips with weight
20 x6 30x6 40x3
face pulls
15x3
e.out
12.5 x 8x3
wk3
DE
bp with 2 minis
40kx3x9
3 board press+1 mini
worked up to 55x1
seated pulls to navel thumbs up
60x5x5
plate raise
15x10x3
ME
2 board press
barx5x2 40x3x1 60x3x1 65x3x1 add board
70x1x1 80x1x1 90x1x1 95x1x1 100x1x1
102.5x1 pr 105x1x1 pr 105x1x1 110x1x1 pr
supported rows
50x6x3 60x3x2
e.out with mini band
10x8x3
face pulls
x15x3
wk 4
DE
BP with 1 mini band
50x3x9
jm press on floor and d/bell press no rest
30x6x3 and 12.5x6x3
seated pull to navel
4x6
ME
floor press c/grip 1" from smooth
barx5x2 40x5x1 45x3x1 50x3x1 60x3x1
65x3x1 70x3x1 75x1x1 80x1x1 90x1x1
92.5x1x1 95xmiss
e.out 12.5x12x3
plate raaise
20x8x3
face pulls
15x3
WK5
DE bp straight weught
60x3x9
3 board press
80x5 90x3 95x3
plate raise
15x15x2 20x6x1
pull ups
b/weightx10x3
hammer curls
15x6x5
ME
close grip floor press
worked up to 95 and failed again
single arm rows
32.5x3x8
d/b floor press
25x5x3
rear delts supported
20x8x3
hammer curls 15x3
WK6
DE bp with 1 mini band
60x3x9
decline bp close grip
70x3x5
push press
45x8x2 50x5x1 55x3x1
supported rows
40x8x3
Hammer curls
15x8x3
Meet:-
90k easy 100k barely off chest 100k stuck on my chest.
After looking at my log i thought it was because i had not done any heavy full range Bps but on this thread you dont think they should be done.
Any comments?
Steve - Thanks. I’ll work on a quick yet controlled descent.