[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Strong work MattyXL. Remember a bigger belly equals a bigger bench.
I’m sorry you’re a Jets fan. Pats are gonna win the superbowl this year. Please don’t tell me you’re a Yankees fan as well. Sox and Yankees have 3 games in Boston this weekend.[/quote]
I didn’t know I had relatives in New Hampshire! Go Sox!
Pfft, It’s all about the Saints this year.
Well this preseason looks like its all about the Eagles and the Pats.
Today was an exercise in futility…horrid. I had planned to max out on DLing today but I couldnt even get my previous 1RM up (455) very dissapointed. My confidence in my DL changes like I change my underwear which is once a week. Meh…heres how it went…
DL 315/3 365/1 405/425/1 455/0 315/6
UR ROW 135/10 155/10 185/5 135/16
TBAR ROW 2PPS/15 3PPS/15 4PPS/7 5PPS/3
MEADOWS ROW 2PPS/12,12
CS DB ROW 80/15 100/8,8
GOBLET SQUATS 0/10 50/10,10
BAND OH TRI EXT 3X12
BAND PUSHDOWNS 3X12
Notes: just not into it over the past week, maybe with all the changes to my schedule my body needs to adjust…every day cant be a sale day.
The DL is funny, it seems like it should be so simple, but I have found just about anything can throw me off huge… flexibility, sleep, recent training, or even just forgetting simple queues. One dude I train with has pulled 840. He will have these horrible days where he can’t break 600 off the floor.
x2 Pete, I believe I was done from the get go I was trying too remember to much, and was actually waiting for this max out day for a couple of weeks and when the time came, I already starting thinking of excuses…I think the adage of grip and rip is alot more beneficial for me.
Im happy you brought up that example it makes me feel better lol.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
x2 Pete, I believe I was done from the get go I was trying too remember to much, and was actually waiting for this max out day for a couple of weeks and when the time came, I already starting thinking of excuses…I think the adage of grip and rip is alot more beneficial for me.
Im happy you brought up that example it makes me feel better lol.[/quote]
Makes me feel better too. Matty, I’m not going to give you a hard time about the DL. Mine sucked worse than yours.
mine got better. but you guys can probably press it, if that helps any 
yeah deadlifts are funny beasts. i have the same trouble with them. i’m kinda scared i’ll hurt my back, too, which makes me reluctant to ‘grip and rip’ mostly. but seems that doing that is precisely the way to go. unless… it is not. which is what worried me, i think.
there will be better days!
Git, we will get this 500 DL eventually!
Alexus - your comment is probably exactly why you should probably grip and rip, your like me and think about too much junk while doing the DL, and for me when I think too much I end up doing exactly what I didnt want to do…but then again your DL is progressing nicely…so maybe Im wrong lol.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Git, we will get this 500 DL eventually!
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Yes brother!
Over the past 2 days, I have watched 20 x 10min youtube clips (13 to go) by Dave Tate on Westside training. DL is almost an afterthought, although you do beat the shit out of exercises that support it. Clips are from 2005 and I believe they are doing a bit more direct DL now - but still.
I’ll admit to being a bit fucking confused at this point.
Bad days happen.
I tend to really think about the light weights but just grab and go on my heaviest sets.
james
Im gonna check those vids out git, funny that I read Tate say in his latest installment that he hated DLing, which I was surprised to hear.
James - I agree and that will be my mindset from now on.
Sometimes its just not right. Next week when least expect it your gonna rip a crazy amount off the floor and wonder what the hell just happened.
Thanks Dude, I hope your right…
SQUAT DAY
SQUAT 135/10 225/5 275/3 315/3 325/1
SQUAT W ORANGE BAND RESISTANCE 225/5 135/10
LEG PRESS 3PPS/10,10 4PPS/10 5PPS/5
FACE PULL STACK/12,12 +25/12,10
SKULL CRUSHERS INCLINE 60/15 80/10 100/10 120/5 80/10
DB TRI EXT 40/10 45/10
WG CHINS 4X5
SS
WTD PU 0/20 45/10,10,10
NOTES: good quick session today squats felt good, vids below, practicing depth, please LMK if you think Im parallel.
Looking strong as always, Matty! Seemed to be a little leaning on the last one, but bands will do that.
Depth wise, I’m not a competitive powerlifter so I’ll leave that to someone else, but your form looked good to me.
Face pulls with the stack? Blimey! What’s the stack?
and what was that guy in the black T-shirt doing on that pulley machine? All I can conclude is that he must be a champion arm wrestler or something.
Thanks Cav, yeah Im all about GMing a squat!
Honestly brett, that guy is always doing that forearm fuckery everyday Im there!
For gym squats they looked great. Form was good and you looked like you were tight through out all of them.
By meet standards, in my experience, they were about 2-3 inches high. Others will know better than my limited experience.
Good work regardless.
Just catching up Matty. x2 on the form looked really good.
They looked a tad high to me too. The 325 looked better to me than 315 did regarding staying tight but all of them looked great to me.
Have you gotten “The Vault” from EFS yet? If not sign up for their strength club and you’ll get it free. The point is that there is some really good information on bands and how to insert them into your programming.
james