Wow, you look like KK on your deadlift. Great first meet!
Great first meet showing, nice job dude
2:17 with the music was perfectly lined up with the lift. I was like COME ON CHRIS!..DAMMIT! He doesn’t care about anyone else but him so he didn’t get the rep!
Super fast floor speed on deadlifts btw, you’re like the literal EXACT opposite of me.
6/17/2013
Squat:
45 10x
135 5x
185 5x
225 5x
265 5x
300 8x Beltless. Felt very easy on my legs and back and such, but good lord I was more winded than a fat kid in a zombie apocalypse! I can really notice the extra effort it takes to maintain core tightness without a belt.
Paused Squat:
225 5x
225 5x I waited at least 2 seconds at the bottom for each pause.
Leg Press:
4pps 15x
4pps 15x
4pps 20x
Glute Bridges:
315 10x
315 10x
315 10x
Leg Curls:
one set of 20
I meant to do 2 more sets of leg curls and some calves, but I accidentally did a chest workout instead.
Bench:
45 10x
135 5x
185 5x
225 5x
275 3x
275 5x
275 3x
So the way I did all the benching is sorta what Brandon Lilly does, except I go farther down. I try to pause it just a hair’s breadth above my chest and wait there a good second before going back up. I also moved my legs back out and am flat footed again. Forget arch, forget leg drive, I’m just going to see how training goes when I do things like this.
My chest used to be my strong point, but I think I really broke down my bench, got really weak off the bottom, and just have strong triceps. I’m going to rebuild my bench from the ground up and make my chest the powerhouse it used to be relative to everything else. I’ve got plenty of chest mass to work with, so I’m pretty optimistic about how the training will go.
Doing things that way I really felt it in my chest. It’s been a long time since I felt bench in my chest like that I realized. It was definitely harder on the right shoulder though. I have to pop that shoulder back into place kinda periodically lol. Or a tendon or something I dunno what it is. Anyway the tendon isn’t out of place, so it’s possible training this way will be good for it, even though I felt it more there. It could help break up some scar tissue and make it even better sort of like what happened to my right bicep a while back.
Close Grip Bench, feet up:
250 5x
250 5x Everything paused like regular bench.
Incline Bench:
200 5x
200 5x
DB Bench Parallel Grip: 1 minute rest between sets
75’s 12x
75’s 10x
75’s 7x
75’s 7x
Incline Flys: 1 minute or less rest between sets
30’s 12x
30’s 12x
30’s 12x
30’s 12x
Dips w/ 25lbs of chain superset with cable flys: no rest time between lifts at all
10x; 12x
8x; 12x
8x; 12x
Chest was hugely pumped after this. Probably hit 50".
And thanks to everyone else who gave meet congrats!
So are you gonna get into strongman now?
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
So are you gonna get into strongman now?
[/quote]
I believe that’s the plan
Chris can still compete in NC strength challenge! OHHHH YES.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
2:17 with the music was perfectly lined up with the lift. I was like COME ON CHRIS!..DAMMIT! He doesn’t care about anyone else but him so he didn’t get the rep!
Super fast floor speed on deadlifts btw, you’re like the literal EXACT opposite of me. [/quote]
LOL
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
So are you gonna get into strongman now?
[/quote]
I believe that’s the plan[/quote]
Affirmative.
Here’s the tentative plan so far. After deadlifts on Friday will be Atlas stones and some axle deadlifting (probably from 18"). This will be every week.
Saturday will be overhead. I will hit axle push presses (or jerks if I can) after some strict pressing. Circus dumbbell press will also be this day, although I’m not sure if it will be every week yet or not. Farmer’s walk will also likely be Saturday.
I need to remember to get in touch with the Pitbull strongman equipment guy. I’m thinking I’ll put up a sheet or something at the gym and take names of anyone who wants to chip in to buy the gym a log.
6/19/2013
Bench:
45 10x
95 10x
135 10x
185 5x
225 5x
245 10x vid. I didn’t bother pausing these since I was so sore from Monday. Anyway, I still tried to lightly touch. Leg drive and arch were much less than in the past (makes it really easy to keep the butt down that way at least). I’m confident I can make this form as strong (stronger) than my old form.
Close Grip:
230 9x
Incline:
190 8x
Dips:
+90lbs 8x
+90lbs 8x
Flys:
20lbs for 4 or 5 sets of some amount. I didn’t count I just let it stretch my pecs at the bottom for a long time and then squeezed it up to the top and did that for as many reps as I felt like. Probably 10-15 each set.
Facepulls:
3 sets of 20
Something behind my right collar bone was really fucked up from Monday. It’s like all the muscles and shit back there were just sliding all over the goddamn place. Ridiculously unstable and uncomfortable. I made an “emergency” trip to my chiro. He fixed me up and showed me how to stretch it out, but it was still pretty wonky during the lifting today. Whatever that’s my shoulder’s problem not mine.
Go go new bench form:
new bench form looks better. I switched mine up recently and It’s just like what the fuck why are my pecs actually sore
[quote]budreiser wrote:
what the fuck why are my pecs actually sore[/quote]
Exactly lol
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]budreiser wrote:
what the fuck why are my pecs actually sore[/quote]
Exactly lol[/quote]
lol I think touch and go is better for strongman
I don’t ever Bench anymore, but when I did I never could do it with your ‘new’ form. Ass would pop up every time. I have to do the feet tuck.
Good benching though. Real strong, and dominated those reps.
6/21/2013
Deadlift:
135 5x
225 5x
315 3x
380 10x meh. beltless
Atlas Stones:
240lbs 5x
Axle Double Over-Hand Static Hold:
315 for like 12 seconds or something
Axle RDL:
315 8x
315 8x
Bench:
225 10x paused
225 10x paused
The bench was an accident I promise.
T-Bar Row:
3 plates 10x
3 plates 10x
3 plates 10x
Hyperextensions:
3 sets of 20
Pullups:
3 sets of 10
Here’s the deadlifts: check out my shoulderz
Here’s the stones: I need to really improve my conditioning. Get tired too quickly.
Here’s my axle double overhand hold:
Here’s one of my axle RDL sets: real life redneck talking in the background
Lot of cool stuff going on in here, nice
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Start doing barbell/axle hip bridges/thrusts. I promise they will help you. Heavy and hard with em. They’ll help your deadlift lockout, and I noticed you also struggle alot with the extension of the stone towards the top. That will help alot with those aswell.