[quote]MegaDavo891 wrote:
Ben, does it generally take about the same amount of time to finish each day, or does it depend on how good you’re feeling?[/quote]
Usually depends on how I’m feeling, combined with who’s in the gym. I do a lot of coaching while I’m in and sometimes my workouts get dragged out while spotting, form checking, depth calling, and talking programs with other people who are in the gym too. I’m definitely not the guy with headphones who ignores everybody around them.
Great session today
Recap of the weeks shennanigans!
The lifting in this log is ridiculous!
Do you have any long term/ life goals numbers wise for the PL lifts? How tall are you? Did you have any sports background growing up?
It’s a shame you don’t post much in the PL forum.
[quote]yolo84 wrote:
The lifting in this log is ridiculous!
Do you have any long term/ life goals numbers wise for the PL lifts? How tall are you? Did you have any sports background growing up?
It’s a shame you don’t post much in the PL forum.[/quote]
Thank you. My long term goals are chasing all of the raw 198 records and eventually aiming to get on par with my lifting icon Ed coan. I’m about 5’10" In highscool I was the captain of the football, wrestling, and soccer teams, played baseball and ran track before highschool granted I was raised in a relatively small town so our school was only about 100 per graduating class. Iff I find some more time to get into more posting I will look into being more present on this site
upped the training weights a bit and didn’t even notice killed todays session and even had some fun with my gymnastics rings
Close grip Bench
205x5
225x4
265x3x2
305x3x5
Squat
135x3
225x3
315x3
415x3x2
add belt
475x3x3
505x2x2
505x3 (paused)
Close grip Bench
Round 2
225x5
245x5
285x4x2
285x5
Ring work
pin squats
5x5
Arm work
Felt pretty beat up going into today’s session but made the conscious decision to get better today. Remember you aren’t training for great workouts you are training for meets.
Conventional pause deads
135x2
225x2
315x2
405x2
500x2x5
Close grip Bench
195x6, 225x5
265x4x2, 285x3x2
305x2x2, 325x1x2
305x2x2, 285x3x2
265x4, 245x5
225x6, 225x7
225x8
deads:
405x1x2
495x1
620x4x3
620x5
finished off with some single leg presses chins and calf work
Big Bens a fucking machine!!!
I love the videos, Ben! Keep them coming.
You said you don’t like to do the block pulls in the program Sheiko calls for. I’m the same, block/rack pulls just feels awkward to me sometimes. Do you keep the same percentages when you do them, though? I’m just assuming the program would call for higher percentages on rack pulls since they are a bit easier, so I was just wondering if you adjusted accordingly for full deadlifts from the floor.
[quote]2Pac wrote:
Big Bens a fucking machine!!! [/quote]
aww shucks haha I try!
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
I love the videos, Ben! Keep them coming.
You said you don’t like to do the block pulls in the program Sheiko calls for. I’m the same, block/rack pulls just feels awkward to me sometimes. Do you keep the same percentages when you do them, though? I’m just assuming the program would call for higher percentages on rack pulls since they are a bit easier, so I was just wondering if you adjusted accordingly for full deadlifts from the floor.[/quote]
I’m glad you are liking em brother! Generally I make the call whether or not I can finish them with the same percentages from the floor, yesterday I didn’t adjust boris wanted 620x4x4 from blocks but I figured that I had a good shot of being able to do it from the floor. If the block deads or rack pulls are at the point where I don’t think I could hit them for full deads I usually just replace them completely with something else. I’ll do conventional work or something. I get plenty of volume with my sumo stance running sheiko skipping some ridiculous weighted block deads doesn’t throw me off too much haha
Yo man…your a MONSTER…definitely inspirational…how did you go about getting sponsored? Did you contact them or did they come to you?
Getting called in to work on a reduced amount of sleep resulted in 2 tough workouts in a row, nothing left to do but push forward.
Squats:
135x3
225x3
315x3
425x3x2
add belt
485x3x5
Close grip Bench:
205x5
225x4
275x3x2
310x3x6
Squats:
Round 2
315x3
455x4x3
ring work and calves. Made it through in 1 piece time to eat like crazy and rest up for tomorrow.
hey Ben, what is your daily eating looking like at the moment? also, do you think less strong lifters (been lifting for a couple years) can handle higher intensity weights more frequently?
thanks
Way to grit through that stuff Ben. Do you work and go to school at the same time? That seems like it would be a toughie with your training frequency and volume.
[quote]bud moody wrote:
hey Ben, what is your daily eating looking like at the moment? also, do you think less strong lifters (been lifting for a couple years) can handle higher intensity weights more frequently?
thanks[/quote]My daily eating is pretty sporadic in the near future I plan to take some focused attention towards structuring it a bit more but for right now I just eat when I’m hungry and it’s pretty Paleo esk with the addition of dairy. and I would say generally the lower your maximal weights are the more frequently you can hit them. when I was younger I could hit a max every workout if I wanted to because I was constantly gaining. now the strength gains come slower and you have to be a bit smarter about it.
[quote]xjusticex2013x wrote:
Way to grit through that stuff Ben. Do you work and go to school at the same time? That seems like it would be a toughie with your training frequency and volume.[/quote]
I do but during school I have a different job that is much more manageable with school going on, currently I’m just working a summer job and training.
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
[quote]bud moody wrote:
hey Ben, what is your daily eating looking like at the moment? also, do you think less strong lifters (been lifting for a couple years) can handle higher intensity weights more frequently?
thanks[/quote]My daily eating is pretty sporadic in the near future I plan to take some focused attention towards structuring it a bit more but for right now I just eat when I’m hungry and it’s pretty Paleo esk with the addition of dairy. and I would say generally the lower your maximal weights are the more frequently you can hit them. when I was younger I could hit a max every workout if I wanted to because I was constantly gaining. now the strength gains come slower and you have to be a bit smarter about it.
[quote]xjusticex2013x wrote:
Way to grit through that stuff Ben. Do you work and go to school at the same time? That seems like it would be a toughie with your training frequency and volume.[/quote]
I do but during school I have a different job that is much more manageable with school going on, currently I’m just working a summer job and training.[/quote]
With regard to training when you were less advanced (maybe when you had a 315 - 405 deadlift say), how did you structure it? work up to a max or 3rep max or something each week? would love to know how you used to approach training before you were so advanced. thanks
My strategy has always been hitting PRs whether they were a max or a rep PR I always wanted something that I hadn’t done before. I trained basic pyramiding workouts on a 5 day on 1 day off split. squat, bench, clean, incline, deadlift. When I started to focus more on powerlifting I started to narrow down my focus and made a 5 day program of my own. deads,bench,squat, bench, deads. I was still in highschool at this point and had the recovery time of freaking wolverine from x-men so 5 on 2 off didn’t bug me even when I was playing sports. didn’t get into more advanced techniques (speed work, accomadating resistance, days off during the week) my junior and senior years of HS I weighed 183 and competed as a 198… I wish that I would have had some more focused training but I didn’t have anyone around who really knew much about powerlifting, most of what I figured out I had to research myself which is why I am still such an advocate of learning your own body, taking in all the info that you can, and not relying on someone else to make you reach your goals.
thanks for your response, Ben. How do you deal with not beating PRs sometimes? do you just accept it and quit the workout, or do you then chase after another rep max or something. I sometimes find when I dont perform well I end up killing myself by not giving up that day! thanks