You’re getting at least 15 pounds out of those oly shoes.
Cheater
bro I heard those were sick for your bicep peak
Got a 405 Zercher squat with no belt today. It was easy.
[quote]mahwah wrote:
You’re getting at least 15 pounds out of those oly shoes.
Cheater [/quote]
Dude after going so long without a belt it seriously felt like the difference between knee wraps and no knee wraps lol.
[quote]budreiser wrote:
bro I heard those were sick for your bicep peak[/quote]
I all seriousness the best feeling bicep training I’ve gotten has been with shit like that lol. You don’t have to go that over the top, I was just playing around. But things like cable curls combined with chains or something of the sort are golden.
My philosophy on bicep training is the complete opposite of my philosophy on training everything else. The more complicated you make it, the better it works lol. I’m not sure I’ll ever do a curl again without at least throwing some chains on somewhere.
[quote]Reed wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]Trevshenko wrote:
My preWO is about as cheap as they come. Just take half of a 200mg caffeine pill. 200 pills is like �?�£4 or like $6 lol. That preWO looks like a cappucino at first glance, if its got pepsi max in it then its got to be awesome.[/quote]
My training partner swears by pepsi max. He’s set all his PR’s with it. He’ll bring like 3 bottles to a meet.[/quote]
I heard its practically Test Suspension in carbonated water probably explains why.[/quote]
Lol. Either that or hes creating a cover story for his addiction. But hey if it works, it works
Not that im one to talk; i chug down endless amounts of the stuff
Lol. I was referring to the chained, banded, cabled, dumbbell curls (with oly shoes).
And absolutely, I get more like 40-50 lbs out of my belt on squats.
Wait… and here me out…
What if you threw on the BELT…for the CURLS!!1!!!
[quote]mahwah wrote:
Lol. I was referring to the chained, banded, cabled, dumbbell curls (with oly shoes).
[/quote]
Lol. Well when I throw on my Inzer triple ply curl suit that kind of training will really pay off working the top end of the curl. I’ll show all of you.
Can you imagine a multi-ply curl shirt? People would be walking around unable to straighten their arms. They’d look like praying mantises until they gripped the bar and proceeded to curl 495.
Yo csulli, sorry if I’ve missed it somewhere but what are your long-term goals? What do you want to achieve? Sorry if it’s a strange question, I’m just interested.
All the best!
[quote]furo wrote:
Yo csulli, sorry if I’ve missed it somewhere but what are your long-term goals? What do you want to achieve? Sorry if it’s a strange question, I’m just interested.
All the best![/quote]
500/400/600 in PL
and do strongman competitively
at around 200lbs
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]furo wrote:
Yo csulli, sorry if I’ve missed it somewhere but what are your long-term goals? What do you want to achieve? Sorry if it’s a strange question, I’m just interested.
All the best![/quote]
500/400/600 in PL
and do strongman competitively
at around 200lbs[/quote]
Awesome, thanks. Good luck with them, I have full faith you’ll crush them.
Csulli, you should also add “Curl two quaded mini bands for 20 reps”. You know… since you are into accommodating resistance arm work.
8/28/2013
Bench:
45 10x
135 10x
185 5x
225 5x
275 1x
280 5x
315 1x
threw on the slingshot
335 1x
355 1x
Close Grip Bench:
255 5x paused
255 5x tng
Close Grip Floor Press:
135 w/ 50lbs of chain 5x
185 w/ 50lbs of chain 5x
205 w/ 50lbs of chain 5x
205 w/ 50lbs of chain 3x
205 w/ 50lbs of chain 3x
205 w/ 50lbs of chain 3x
DB Incline:
70’s 10x
85’s 9x
85’s 8x left arm 7x right arm
The gym didn’t fucking have 80’s lol; so I had to use 85’s.
Did the deck of cards workout in 34 minutes using burpees, dips, blast strap tricep extensions, and pullups.
Well friends I don’t think my bench is coming back; at least not now and not doing what I’m doing. I’m giving up on it currently and also I’m calling my doctor tomorrow. From now on I am going to be doing probably just the minimum reps for 5/3/1 and then doing bodybuilding style benching.
I’m not sure what exactly it is in my right shoulder, but it is definitely something. I don’t see any visible deformity, so I didn’t think it was separated. It’s possible though that there is some partial separation that isn’t causing a noticeable visual difference. It could also be severe tendonitis. I believe tendonitis can cause muscle weakness? I think maybe yes.
Whatever the case it is affecting nearly everything I do with my upper body. Besides the obvious loss of pressing strength I notice it a lot on pullups. My right elbow wants to collapse inwards on pullups. Also, I feel it on all bicep curl movements. In fact, if you notice on that goofy curl video I did, when I start getting tired you can see my right arm just cave in. It’s not really a bicep failure, it’s something else that can’t seem to keep my arm in place.
I do occasionally get a popping of the bicep tendon across the AC joint, and also either my first rib or my collarbone, I can’t tell which, will sort of pop back into place (or out of place?) when I stretch my arm back after being hunched over the keyboard too long at work. The whole joint feels very, very loose and unstable. When I pull my arms back like I’m about to do a bench press the left side feels like a loaded gun ready to fire and the right side feels like a slack piece of string.
I am going to start implementing what I will call “anti-stretching”. I’m going to keep my right shoulder as immobile as possible and try to tighten it up. Hopefully the doctor has a much better plan when I go see him.
So we’ll see. Hopefully I get things figured out without breaking the bank.
Wow I’m really long winded.
TLDR:
My bench isn’t coming back
My right shoulder is FUBAR
I’m calling the doctor
[quote]csulli wrote:
Wow I’m really long winded.
TLDR:
My bench isn’t coming back
My right shoulder is FUBAR
I’m calling the doctor[/quote]
Google a few ortho moves. (Drop arm, empty can, Hawkins kennedy, neer, speeds, yergasons, o’briens, and apley’s scratch tests)
Youtube should have videos, and it can help you see what’s up before you go to the doc.
Well friends I don’t think my bench is coming back; at least not now and not doing what I’m doing. I’m giving up on it currently and also I’m calling my doctor tomorrow. From now on I am going to be doing probably just the minimum reps for 5/3/1 and then doing bodybuilding style benching.
I’m not sure what exactly it is in my right shoulder, but it is definitely something. I don’t see any visible deformity, so I didn’t think it was separated. It’s possible though that there is some partial separation that isn’t causing a noticeable visual difference. It could also be severe tendonitis. I believe tendonitis can cause muscle weakness? I think maybe yes.
Whatever the case it is affecting nearly everything I do with my upper body. Besides the obvious loss of pressing strength I notice it a lot on pullups. My right elbow wants to collapse inwards on pullups. Also, I feel it on all bicep curl movements. In fact, if you notice on that goofy curl video I did, when I start getting tired you can see my right arm just cave in. It’s not really a bicep failure, it’s something else that can’t seem to keep my arm in place.
I do occasionally get a popping of the bicep tendon across the AC joint, and also either my first rib or my collarbone, I can’t tell which, will sort of pop back into place (or out of place?) when I stretch my arm back after being hunched over the keyboard too long at work. The whole joint feels very, very loose and unstable. When I pull my arms back like I’m about to do a bench press the left side feels like a loaded gun ready to fire and the right side feels like a slack piece of string.
I am going to start implementing what I will call “anti-stretching”. I’m going to keep my right shoulder as immobile as possible and try to tighten it up. Hopefully the doctor has a much better plan when I go see him.
So we’ll see. Hopefully I get things figured out without breaking the bank.[/quote]
Those symptoms sound a bit like what i’ve got atm. when you move your arm in a circular motion do you get any clunking/catching sensation in your shoulder? if you do then considering all the other symptoms you might have a minor SLAP tear.
[quote]wozniak1995 wrote:
Well friends I don’t think my bench is coming back; at least not now and not doing what I’m doing. I’m giving up on it currently and also I’m calling my doctor tomorrow. From now on I am going to be doing probably just the minimum reps for 5/3/1 and then doing bodybuilding style benching.
I’m not sure what exactly it is in my right shoulder, but it is definitely something. I don’t see any visible deformity, so I didn’t think it was separated. It’s possible though that there is some partial separation that isn’t causing a noticeable visual difference. It could also be severe tendonitis. I believe tendonitis can cause muscle weakness? I think maybe yes.
Whatever the case it is affecting nearly everything I do with my upper body. Besides the obvious loss of pressing strength I notice it a lot on pullups. My right elbow wants to collapse inwards on pullups. Also, I feel it on all bicep curl movements. In fact, if you notice on that goofy curl video I did, when I start getting tired you can see my right arm just cave in. It’s not really a bicep failure, it’s something else that can’t seem to keep my arm in place.
I do occasionally get a popping of the bicep tendon across the AC joint, and also either my first rib or my collarbone, I can’t tell which, will sort of pop back into place (or out of place?) when I stretch my arm back after being hunched over the keyboard too long at work. The whole joint feels very, very loose and unstable. When I pull my arms back like I’m about to do a bench press the left side feels like a loaded gun ready to fire and the right side feels like a slack piece of string.
I am going to start implementing what I will call “anti-stretching”. I’m going to keep my right shoulder as immobile as possible and try to tighten it up. Hopefully the doctor has a much better plan when I go see him.
So we’ll see. Hopefully I get things figured out without breaking the bank.[/quote]
Those symptoms sound a bit like what i’ve got atm. when you move your arm in a circular motion do you get any clunking/catching sensation in your shoulder? if you do then considering all the other symptoms you might have a minor SLAP tear.[/quote]
O’Brien’s test.
8/30/2013
Single Arm Deadlift: NO STRAPS NO KNURLING
135 1x
185 1x
225 1x
225 1x
245 0x
So there we go! For this challenge I got 225 with one hand on the deadlift; no straps.
Deadlift:
315 3x
365 3x
405 1x
440 3x This was a pretty easy set. I was feeling kinda drained today, so I didn’t bother trying to go full balls out mode on deads.
Hyperextensions:
BW 10x
45lbs 10x
90lbs 10x
135lbs 10x I was holding plates in front of myself for these, but I didn’t really like it, because it was limiting my ROM.
So I switched to using a bar on my traps like if you were doing a high bar squat or something, and it worked WAY better. Just the bar behind your head like that was twice as hard as doing it with three plates held in front.
w/ bar behind the neck 10x
w/ bar behind the neck 10x
w/ bar behind the neck 10x
Close Grip Bench: Just because.
45 20x
135 10x
225 10x
225 10x
135 20x
135 20x
135 20x
I superset those with 5 sets of 10 chinups.
T-Bar Rows:
3 sets of 10
So the new plan on bench is this: Only do the minimum required reps for 5/3/1 then do just bodybuilding style chest work (nothing over 225 on bar and lots of DB’s). Everything will be done close grip (inch outside the smooth), even the 5/3/1 sets. My close grip is near enough to my regular bench that I can just start doing 5/3/1 with close grip and not even bother resetting my training max.
Because Paul Carter.
I am also going to make extensive use of 20 rep sets for my bench, Bauber style. I experimented with that using 135, but that was too light. I’ll try 10 or so pounds heavier next time, or maybe use chains or something.
[quote]trivium wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Wow I’m really long winded.
TLDR:
My bench isn’t coming back
My right shoulder is FUBAR
I’m calling the doctor[/quote]
Google a few ortho moves. (Drop arm, empty can, Hawkins kennedy, neer, speeds, yergasons, o’briens, and apley’s scratch tests)
Youtube should have videos, and it can help you see what’s up before you go to the doc.[/quote]
Shit thanks dude!
None of them hurt, but the Hawkins Kennedy one made shit pop and roll all over the place on my right side, which didn’t happen on my left. Whatever that’s worth.