Arian's Rise to Power

[KelseaMarie]

You have a monolift in your gym, might as well be a smith machine. Plus everyone in your gym uses the GHR solely for abs. Might as well do hanging crunches in the monolift using the texas squat bar.

I think me and a couple other people are the only ones who can do GHR's without assistance, da fuq.

[arian11]

11/25/13 - 3 WEEKS OUT

SQUAT
45x10
135x5
225x3
315x2
385x1
420x1
450x1
395x7 (Max reps, PR)

FRONT SQUAT
135x5
185x3
225x1
255x1
275x3 (PR)
275x3 (PR)
275x3 (PR)
275x3 (PR)

PULLUPS
7
7
7



Holy fudge, maybe I should clean up tree branches and replace a water heater before every squat session. I didn't even execute the bottom half of my squat descent correctly, lost tension and bottomed out but some how still got it up quick.

[xRequiem]

strong squats holy ****

[dtaps24]

LMAO at the penis gallery and the clapping. Good squats but that is far and away the best part of that video.

[Jason2459]

lol @ everyone clapping but nice speed coming back up.

[NorthStrong]

How exactly are you programming the heavy singles? I know you're doing them before the work set, but just wondering if you have a certain % for each week or whatever.

[ErickStevens]

You have a monolift in your gym, might as well be a smith machine. Plus everyone in your gym uses the GHR solely for abs. Might as well do hanging crunches in the monolift using the texas squat bar.

Watch your mouth, *******!

[baxtej44]

yeah strong squats dude dang

[arian11]

strong squats holy ****

Beard power.

LMAO at the penis gallery and the clapping. Good squats but that is far and away the best part of that video.

lol @ everyone clapping but nice speed coming back up.

Lol, yea. First they were laughing at me for wearing my singlet. Then they were all mirin' me and I think it was the little kids' first time in the gym and asking me how much weight I'm squatting. I had my music on so loud that I didn't hear anything though.

How exactly are you programming the heavy singles? I know you're doing them before the work set, but just wondering if you have a certain % for each week or whatever.

Just by feel. When I first started, I worked up to something that was inbetween a 1st and 2nd attempt, like for squat was 435. Original plan was to just keep going up 5 lbs every week but last week squats felt like crap and 2 weeks ago bench felt like crap. So I try to stay smart and take what is there so I don't miss a rep or do a full out grind. After tonight, it's looking like 420 is a good opener and 450 is a good 2nd attempt and will put me in position to break my 463 competition PR.

Watch your mouth, *******!

Say it to my face in 3 weeks muthatrucka.

[Jason2459]

So, 450 for a single tonight huh?

brb in about an hour or so...

[Jason2459]

Notes: did. it.

[L The Pirate]

Arian, your crushing it right now. Keep it up bro

[arian11]

Arian, your crushing it right now. Keep it up bro

[mattdajani]

How the hell do you squat so much more than me? Our front squat strength is the same and my deadlifts are slightly higher. There's gotta be some weak link that I'm not thinking of because I don't think it's my quad strength any more.

[Jason2459]

How the hell do you squat so much more than me? Our front squat strength is the same and my deadlifts are slightly higher. There's gotta be some weak link that I'm not thinking of because I don't think it's my quad strength any more.

leverages and technique can be a factor too.

[KelseaMarie]

Watch your mouth, *******!

Husband to the rescue.

[arian11]

How the hell do you squat so much more than me? Our front squat strength is the same and my deadlifts are slightly higher. There's gotta be some weak link that I'm not thinking of because I don't think it's my quad strength any more.

Bodyweight and leverages. I see tons and tons of tall, lanky lifters who can deadlift quite a bit for their bodyweight. This in turn makes them suck, in comparison, at squatting. This is how you get a guy like Maxx Chewning who can deadlift 561 @ 163 lbs but only recently was able to squat 405. If you gained 20 lbs to get to a similar bodyweight as me and did high frequency squatting along the way, I'm positive your squat strength would shoot up.

[samsont]

Arian, your crushing it right now. Keep it up bro

This.

[arian11]

11/27/13 - 3 WEEKS OUT

PAUSE BENCH
45x10
135x5
185x3
225x1
255x1
270x1
280x1

BENCH PRESS
260x4 (Max reps, ties 4RM)

PAUSE BENCH
255x1
255x1
255x1
255x1
255x1



Initially thought 280 was the most I've paused in the gym but looks like I made a mistake. 285 is the most I've paused which makes sense since we tried 286 in competition at Nationals. Either way, 280 felt good and still 5 lbs more than my competition PR. Only did tng for that 1 max reps set and tied my best 4RM then went back to practicing pause singles with my opener. Got the key to the gym so I can go back tomorrow morning and get my deadlift training in plus a bunch of back work that I didn't do tonight.

[Jason2459]

Great job


So, 280 for a single huh?

bbl

[Jason2459]

And 260x4 right?

[Jason2459]

BTW, Did. It.

[arian11]

Great job


So, 280 for a single huh?

bbl

And 260x4 right?

BTW, Did. It.

lol

[budreiser2]

Excited to see how this meet goes for you. when were you going to have tuscherer do your training?

[arian11]

Excited to see how this meet goes for you. when were you going to have tuscherer do your training?

Right after the meet apparently.

I'll get to work on this and we should be ready to start the week of December 15th.

Looks like I ain't gonna be getting any days off to do stupid sh!t.

[Jason2459]

Right after the meet apparently.



Looks like I ain't gonna be getting any days off to do stupid sh!t.

That's good because I'll be coming at your total a few weeks later in January.

[arian11]

That's good because I'll be coming at your total a few weeks later in January.

[Jason2459]

Pretty accurate pic depicting how worried and scared you look.

[TheStigIsBig]

Pretty accurate pic depicting how worried and scared you look.

Yeah....but.....we all know how that ended.

[arian11]

Pretty accurate pic depicting how worried and scared you look.

No no no, you got it all wrong. You are the white dude, I'm the terrorist.