[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Look at this shit![/quote]
I am not sure how to interpret this. Is that good or bad? 
[quote]Destrength wrote:
[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Look at this shit![/quote]
I am not sure how to interpret this. Is that good or bad? [/quote]
Destrength, this is MightMouse.
Mighty Mouse, this is Destrength.
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[quote]Destrength wrote:
[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Look at this shit![/quote]
I am not sure how to interpret this. Is that good or bad? [/quote]
Good!! I’m jealous that you’re getting so much stronger than me now! I may still compete with you on the deadlift though.
[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
[quote]Destrength wrote:
[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Look at this shit![/quote]
I am not sure how to interpret this. Is that good or bad? [/quote]
Good!! I’m jealous that you’re getting so much stronger than me now! I may still compete with you on the deadlift though.[/quote]
Thanks. What is your deadlift like at the moment? This was my deadlift day today.
week 4 day 1 rep deadlifts
beltless deficit deadlifts off of 1.5 inch deficit
135X5
225X3
275X3
315X1
340X7 (previous best off of this height was a very rough 300X8 three weeks ago)
strict chin ups (I AM COMING FOR YOU CSULLI!!)
bwX20 1 and a half minutes rest
bwX10
bwX5
bwX5
DB swings
80X10 L
80X10 R
80X10 L
80X10 R
seated band leg curls
one light band per legX15
one light band per legX9
one light band per legX7
Suitcase deadlifts for later.
I hope your lifts get better/keep progressing, Mighty. Have you been gaining weight? Being larger (height limits how heavy you can get of course) definitely helps. I think I have been hovering around 180 or ballooning up to 190, I am not sure which. I’ll have to weigh myself.
Well, just this Thursday I repped 342.5 x 8 beltless. I’ve had a lot of issues lately but am getting everything back on track. The bench seems to be stubborn though! I’m weighing around 151-153 these days, hoping to compete in the 148s next meet.
Week 4 Day 2 heavy bench
floor press
135X5
135X5
165x5
185X3
205X3
225X1
245X2
250X2
260X2+1 rep I had to bridge because I thought I was going to miss it, and I don’t want to miss any reps this cycle
then to high-rep-muscle-building-kill-yourself-work.
ultra wide bench
135X22 2 minute rest
135X12
135X8
strict one arm DB rows
110X20 right side, 45 second rest
110X20 left side
110X20 right side 1 minute rest
110X20 left side
110X10 right side
110X10 left side
quasi-poundstone curl like work (basically just work towards getting 100 reps in one set)
tricep extensions
55X52
curls
50X42
DB lateral raises
10’sX50
I am very pleased with this training session. The main movement went well, and the assistance/hypertrophy work beat the shit out of the muscles and a horrific pump.
I think I might’ve dicked up something in the right side of my back during rows when I sloppily lowered the DB after one set. It doesn’t appear to be anything serious, but I am going to make extra sure to keep my back in a neutral position for squats/deadlifts/etc.
DE squat day 12/16/14
DE squats
245X2 for four sets, then add 40-50 pounds of chains
245+chainsX2 for 2 sets
275X1
295X1
Ultra wide (toes about four inches away from plates) Sumo SLDL’s
225X10
225X10
225X6
I then decided to try out a leg press machine
leg presses with slow eccentric
1 plate per sideX10
2 plates per sideX10
2 plates and a quarter per sideX10
3 plates per sideX10
3 plates per sideX10
3 plates per sideX22 Kinda rest paused a bit
GHR’s with hands on chest
bwX13 1 minute rest
bwX4
bwX4
Suitcase deadlifts
175X4 R 1 minute rest
175X4 L
175X2 R
175X2 L
Ran a pacer in gym today, and got 61 laps in. My throat tasted like blood.
Got my nerd shit ordered for Xmas. A Ti-Nspire CX cas a calculator that if I recall correctly can solve for variables and is the god of graphing calculators. It is also supposedly like the ti-89 platinum and Jesus had children. Some other stuff is a beautiful 100 year old copy of Macbeth, a few science/chemistry related books (mostly through good will and goes towards charity), a nice and cheap trigonometry text book (14 dollars with free shipping) to study over the summer with, and a translated collector’s copy of Mein Kampf.
We gett’in some brain gheynz here. All types of gheynz. If I have time after more family Christmas I’ll get a quick body day in today, however, I feel completely fucking wrecked from my calves to my shoulders.
Body day Week 4
Over head press
45X8
95X5
135X5
145X8
150X8
155X4
overhead press with 5 second eccentric
115X4
super strict bicep curls (hold at the top, and slow eccentric and all of dat MMC shit)
95X10
95X7
95X5
pull ups
bwX15 1 and a half minutes rest
bwX10
bwX8
bwX6
bwX5
bwX5
bwX3
bwX3
bwX3
bwX3
single leg hip thrust
45X20 per side
45X12 per side
45X12 per side
dragon flags with hips off of bench
bwX7
bwX6
bwX2
kirk shrugs
95X40
Rough training session. I think my press is getting better, the 145X8 felt much easier than the first set of 145X8 out of two I did a couple weeks ago. For the next few weeks I’ll work towards 135X10 for five sets or just hit 135X10 for 5 sets and work towards 145X8 for 5 sets , and then come back to this progression and do 145X8, 150X8, 155X8, 115X8 then add 5-10 pounds to all sets and work towards hitting it again.
Oh, apparently I suck at pull ups off of a normal bar now. To progress with them, I’ll work down the rest to 1 minute while keeping the reps the same then do a week of 1 and half minutes of rest, 1 minute and 45 seconds rest, then 2 minutes rest and try to add 1 rep per set each week. After that, I’ll just do 100 chin ups in as few sets as possible for a few weeks and go back to pull ups and work the rest down to 1 minute with the same reps.
Time to get 'dem 'dar yoke gainz.
I’m reading Mein Kampf at the moment. This is my third attempt, don’t think I’ve made it past 200 pages yet. The first things that struck me are how passionate and intelligent Hitler was. If he wasn’t fucking evil he could’ve taken over the world. He got damn close as is.
Strong lifting.
I am heading out on vacation. I’ll be back on the 24th, I might get my bro to go to the gym with me tonight or tomorrow.
Also, I think I am coming down with something. My throat burns, and I have been coughing and sneezing. I am gonna be pissed off if I have the flu. lol
[quote]Destrength wrote:
Also, I think I am coming down with something. My throat burns, and I have been coughing and sneezing. I am gonna be pissed off if I have the flu. lol[/quote]
Feeling very similar myself actually, and my little bro just found out he has the flu, so I’m hoping I can fight it off.
Just stopping by to return the favor, your cues for Sumo helped a ton. Cool to see how dedicated you are already at 17, and seem to not be wasting your time doing pointless shit in the gym like most of us do when we are younger. Excited to see how the Cube goes for you, always considered running it.
Christmas DE tugging
DE conv pulls 275X2 for 6 sets, 45 second rest. I pulled every rep with tons of speed, and impeccable form. Speed and form didn’t drop at all.
Snatch grip deads
275X3 I was a retard and this was my first snatch grip set so the form was dog shit
275X3
315X3 15 pound PR bitches (I am pathetically weak at these lol)
315X2
275X3
bent over rows
245X5 2 minutes rest
245X5
245X3
One leg SLDL
60X15 per side
60X9 per side
60X8 per side
one arm DB roll outs
bwX8R
bwX6L
bwX5R
bwX5
motivation 6/10
training session quality 8/10
nutrition: Not sure how to quantify, I’d say I need to eat more today (which I shall). So far I have consumed
Breakfast: 6 eggs, 5 pancakes, 5 slices of bacon
snack: 2 cups of skim milk, 2 ounces of cheese, 1 banana, 1.5 table spoons of PB, 24g of walnuts
lunch/dinner (I woke up late as fuck so this was my family’s christmas dinner) 8 Ounces of turkey, three potatoes, 40 grams of almonds, a massive salad
Pre workout: 49g of raisins
during workout: 3 bottles of gatorade
post workout: brotein shake made out of the following: 2 cups of milk, two scoops of whey protein powder, 33 grams of honey, 2 table spoons of PB, then 35 grams of chocolate (dark chocolate is fucking good, and my parents bought me a lot) and a square of fudge which appeared to have a 2in circumference.
I shall soon eat 450g (weighed raw) of chicken, 3 ounces of rice, and a fuck ton of greens. After that, I’ll eat another snack with the same set up as the morning snack.
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
[quote]Destrength wrote:
Also, I think I am coming down with something. My throat burns, and I have been coughing and sneezing. I am gonna be pissed off if I have the flu. lol[/quote]
Feeling very similar myself actually, and my little bro just found out he has the flu, so I’m hoping I can fight it off.
Just stopping by to return the favor, your cues for Sumo helped a ton. Cool to see how dedicated you are already at 17, and seem to not be wasting your time doing pointless shit in the gym like most of us do when we are younger. Excited to see how the Cube goes for you, always considered running it.[/quote]
You’re welcome, bud, and thanks. The cube seems to be treating me pretty good (I seem to recover a lot better, and my joints seem to like it better), but other than indicators (rep PR’s, good DE work, and PR’s in variations) I have no idea how it works until it is time to go do a mock meet to test my lifts.
12/26/14
The bench training moved back to 27th. My Dad has a port for chemo in which would get damaged if he spotted me, and my Mom has work tomorrow and doesn’t need the additional stress of staying up to spot me after my brother accusing her of stealing 150 of the $300 dollars she and my Dad gave to my brother.
I am just gonna chill out, drink some of my kick ass coffee, and study for a few hours then do some late in the night GPP work. I’ll go fuck around with one arm racked DB carries with 110 pounds. My mini goal with these is to do them with 165 before next Fall; if I can do 165 with a lot of speed then they’ve more than likely done added a good bit to my GPP.
Rep bench day
comp grip bench
45X5
95X5
135X5
185X5
215X3
235X4 I couldn’t get my spotter for about 10-15 minutes so I was cold as fuck, and this was very painful and hard
235X6 last rep was a grinder
DB bench
85’sX9
85’sX5 drop set 60’sX5
close grip tricep extensions
105X6
105X4
105X2 drop set 95X5 85X2
kroc rows
135X30 L the skin on my left hand got dicked up bad from this. If I didn’t reset my grip on the 15 rep, I think I’d have torn skin off.
135X30 R
DB 1 two shrugs (do each side one time then do both sides=1 rep)
80’sX8
80’sX7
80’sX6
one arm rear delt raises
20’sX15 per side
20’sX9 per side
20’sX8 per side
I’ve been putting this off since I haven’t been able to get a spotter (dad can’t spot me because of one of the side effects from chemo, and my mom has been working the past few days). I think I might’ve gotten a bit detrained or this was just a bad day. I still hit my minimum reps of my rep bench… so I guess I am happy for that.
Do you lift at home? Do you not have a safety rack? Idk what I’d do if I always had to depend on a spotter, would be aggravating lol
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Do you lift at home? Do you not have a safety rack? Idk what I’d do if I always had to depend on a spotter, would be aggravating lol [/quote]
I lift at home, but I don’t have a bench that fits in my rack.
Heavy squat day #2 cube
I am going to preface this by saying that I felt like absolute dog shit, my positioning was shitty, and I had an exertion headache just squatting 225. It would’ve been a miracle to squat 95% of my max for a single, let a lone get a PR.
Competition stance squat
45X5
95X5
135X5
185X3 drank water
225X3 drank a gatorade
295X3 drank another gatorade
325X2
345X2 I was over stimulated for this so my positioning was shitty, and my knees caved
365X2 big PR (previous best was 375X1) first rep was good, the second I don’t even fucking know what happened, it just felt off. I think my knees caved, but my knees felt fine and it was actually my glutes that felt beat up.
After this, I applied some kind of liniment like those elitefts products except advertised with the original purpose to be used for humans
barbell step ups
135X12R
135X12L
135X9R
135X9L
DB swings
85X5 R
85X5 L I tried for a third set, but my body felt too beat up for me to justify it.
band leg curls
1 light per sideX20 45 second rest
1 light per sideX12
1 light per sideX6
back extensions
25X23
25X15
25X4 tried to get 50 reps, but I was cramping too much on the four rep here and decided to stop
This is a quality mixed workout. I’d say this was very shitty, however I still hit a personal record. I’d guess I could’ve hit 365X3+ if I had a better workout. Also… time to start hitting the shit out of my hamstrings and glutes on this squat days, and do more single leg stuff.