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4/25/2011

Extremely lackluster, I was dead tired and actually felt light-headed midway through, so I just stopped.

Squat: 215 4x5
Bench Press: 155 for 5, 150 for 4

Squat: Probably could...

4/25: 237, big drop from high of the week, 242, attained after a fair amount of overeating, but still a horrible spike.
I swear, I will be better from here on!

NOTE: 4/21's workout I lifted 205 in squat, not 195. That was a typo

4/23/11

Workout was truncuated by unexpected early gym closure. Probably for the best though, to spare me from the deadlift....

4/21/11

Weight: 233 - eh, you know what yesterday was. I pigged out a bit so this isn't too bad.

Squat: 195 5x5
Bench Press: 150 4x5 - NOOOOOOO
Power Snatch: 70 5x3
Sit-ups: 3x20
Cardio: 3...

It looks like your heels came off the ground during the first rep. Did you feel like you were leaning forward?

Did another workout today, kind of a "bonus" workout if you will - I have to get in "makeup days" for a gym class. I tried to keep it to stuff that wouldn't weaken me tomorrow, but ended up going...

I think he's just saying that people who do hang cleans and power cleans poorly, as many football players he works with do, get injured by them. He shows a video of a kid doing a horrible hang clean...

I as I understand, Smolov is more for advanced trainees. So if your squat is 400+, and other routines are giving poor results, try it. As for finding a good source,...

Due to poor time management, I've shifted this week's workouts forward a day too. At least I got 3 days rest.

4/19/11

Weight: 235 - Baaaaad. I am hardly dieting at all, my diet is about the...

232 Ugh, bad, worse than I started (230) but better than last week (235)

Bad diet contributed, but I managed to cut a few pounds last minute with a well timed "emptying".

Blood in your stool, especially "toilet covered in blood" is pretty much an instant sign that you need to see a doctor. Basically, if it's an orifice that starts bleeding and its not your nose:...

I'm taking caffeine in coffee and green tea (tea bag) form.

I guess I'll lay off, or at least dial waaaay back (I've probably been up to 3+ strong cups a day recently).

I'll keep everything...

I've recently made a bunch of changes to my supplementation, and now I'm finding it much harder to, well, yeah.

I went from using whey and caffeine only to:

Multivitamin (centrum)
Fish Oil...

Saturday 4/16/11

Weight: 236 - I guess it's not just creatine to blame. Going to fix diet! Even if I overeat, I can at least start overeating cleaner (ex. avoid having street fair sausage and...

This is a question to anyone who has been involved in powerlifting, olympic lifting or bodybuilding for a long time.

Are strength sports getting more competitive?

The internet has massively...

Oddly enough, some of the logs I've seen from really strong lifters suggests they do this sort of super-high set/ semi-high rep scheme. Of course, They're using weights far below their maxes when...

I could get depressed when I hear that Chris Hickson, at my age and weight, is deadlifting 3 times what I can. I could throw up my hands and say, "what point is there in doing this if I can never...

By incline pushups, do you mean your feet are elevated or your hands are? If your hands, get rid of these, since that lowers the intensity. For variety in your pushups, focus mainly on hand width -...

To give you an idea of how hard this is, Mark Rippetoe himself - who literally wrote the book on strength training - at the 200ish weight class, maxed out at

Squat: 610
Bench: 398
Deadlift: 633...

So essentially, except maybe for single-ply, serious gear is just a an alternative approach to the sport?

And what about belts and wraps? Do most raw federations allow those, and what's their...