Multiple-O Sessions

[samsont]

Keeping your back tight, flexing and pinching shoulder blades together.. making it real uncomfortable, will help the lats come into play which will help with the controlled descent. which will in turn help with bar path and speed off the chest/improve everything all together. Tuck them elbows and control the weight, eitherway good job.

can't tell too much from video but seems you're inhaling/exhaling each rep. stop that. Hold your breathe for as many reps as you can, its not like a squat.. when you exhale on a rep you lose your upperback tightness and setup.

[cactusflower]

Great vids! The bench press vid timing did look a bit off...it looks like you need to go slower when bring the weight down and fire it up.

Maybe one day i'll post vids...my vids are old and outdated lol

[simp3204]

No big deal. The timing on the video is a bit fukked up... but I may be bringing it down too fast. Control, not even once?

A little fast without much control.

Keeping your back tight, flexing and pinching shoulder blades together.. making it real uncomfortable, will help the lats come into play which will help with the controlled descent. which will in turn help with bar path and speed off the chest/improve everything all together. Tuck them elbows and control the weight, eitherway good job.

can't tell too much from video but seems you're inhaling/exhaling each rep. stop that. Hold your breathe for as many reps as you can, its not like a squat.. when you exhale on a rep you lose your upperback tightness and setup.

Practice this and review the two vids posted.

[izzygrant]

videos; tldr you suck izzy

Gee thanks arian.

Keeping your back tight, flexing and pinching shoulder blades together.. making it real uncomfortable, will help the lats come into play which will help with the controlled descent. which will in turn help with bar path and speed off the chest/improve everything all together. Tuck them elbows and control the weight, eitherway good job.

can't tell too much from video but seems you're inhaling/exhaling each rep. stop that. Hold your breathe for as many reps as you can, its not like a squat.. when you exhale on a rep you lose your upperback tightness and setup.

Yes I am breathing. I will stop that and try tightening everything up (inb4 I pass out). Thanks for the critique - I appreciate.

Great vids! The bench press vid timing did look a bit off...it looks like you need to go slower when bring the weight down and fire it up.

Maybe one day i'll post vids...my vids are old and outdated lol

I agree... In for vids from my future wife

A little fast without much control.

Practice this and review the two vids posted.

Will do.

[arian11]

Gee thanks arian.

That's usually what women tell me...after 1 mins and 28 secs of sexual heaven...

[izzygrant]

That's usually what women tell me...after 1 mins and 28 secs of sexual heaven...

Not going to cut it. Endurance cardio for you naow.

[cactusflower]

not going to cut it. Endurance cardio for you naow.

^^^^^

this!

[izzygrant]

Dec 23

Yesterday made me want to quit lifting, srs. I t-rex curled all my cleans and couldn't get under them, my front squat looked like a GM, and after I did a set of what I thought were decent back squats one of the trainers let me know that the bar was seriously tilted left. FML. Also I'm angry that I want to put enough weight on things to get stronger but I can't yet because my technique on these lifts sucks donkey balls and apparently I'm unable to improve it even when I know what's wrong with it.

Fuk my SI issues, I'm gonna add deadlifts. YOLO. And squat every 2nd day.

Clean and Jerks
bar not close enough - tried fixing, ended up checking myself in the tits hard on one rep. hilarious mental image of the day for ya
assorted c/j's at 45 and 55
cleans at 65

Back Squats
55 x12
65 x10
65 x10

Front Squats
45 x10
55 x10
55 x10

[arian11]

Not going to cut it. Endurance cardio for you naow.

Need someone to practice with.

^^^^^

this!

[izzygrant]

Need someone to practice with.

Tell Stig to stream more of his sessions then. No threesome til you are up to 5 minutes.

Back off! She's mine!!


First video of jerk, folks. I'm aware the clean is terrible.

[simp3204]

Dec 23

Yesterday made me want to quit lifting, srs. I t-rex curled all my cleans and couldn't get under them, my front squat looked like a GM, and after I did a set of what I thought were decent back squats one of the trainers let me know that the bar was seriously tilted left. FML. Also I'm angry that I want to put enough weight on things to get stronger but I can't yet because my technique on these lifts sucks donkey balls and apparently I'm unable to improve it even when I know what's wrong with it.

Fuk my SI issues, I'm gonna add deadlifts. YOLO. And squat every 2nd day.

You can't always have a good day. I bet the barbell was leaning because you setup off to one side. If your capable try looking at each side of the bar when it's on your back and see if its even. I'm bad about being uneven, but I don't tend to let the bar lean. YOLO on the deads.

[arian11]

[cactusflower]

Dec 23

Yesterday made me want to quit lifting, srs. I t-rex curled all my cleans and couldn't get under them, my front squat looked like a GM, and after I did a set of what I thought were decent back squats one of the trainers let me know that the bar was seriously tilted left. FML. Also I'm angry that I want to put enough weight on things to get stronger but I can't yet because my technique on these lifts sucks donkey balls and apparently I'm unable to improve it even when I know what's wrong with it.

Fuk my SI issues, I'm gonna add deadlifts. YOLO. And squat every 2nd day.

Clean and Jerks
bar not close enough - tried fixing, ended up checking myself in the tits hard on one rep. hilarious mental image of the day for ya
assorted c/j's at 45 and 55
cleans at 65

Back Squats
55 x12
65 x10
65 x10

Front Squats
45 x10
55 x10
55 x10

I'm sorry you had such a crappy time at the gym....there are always crappy days/workouts but you know they happen only once in a while. Next w/o will 100x better!

Tell Stig to stream more of his sessions then. No threesome til you are up to 5 minutes.

Back off! She's mine!!


First video of jerk, folks. I'm aware the clean is terrible.

Since I know nothing about oly lifting, I think everything looks great lol.

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[TheStigIsBig]

I'm sorry you had such a crappy time at the gym....there are always crappy days/workouts but you know they happen only once in a while. Next w/o will 100x better!


Since I know nothing about oly lifting, I think everything looks great lol.



HA HA HA HA HA!



MERRY CHRISTMAS IZZZZZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

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[izzygrant]

You can't always have a good day. I bet the barbell was leaning because you setup off to one side. If your capable try looking at each side of the bar when it's on your back and see if its even. I'm bad about being uneven, but I don't tend to let the bar lean. YOLO on the deads.

I am hoping it is because my setup was crappy but I suspect it is really because I broke a bunch of stuff on my right side when I was younger and there's some alignment issues, which you'd never know from looking at me, but a bar full of weight across your shoulders highlights problems. Gonna make things tricky but I will just have to adjust. No mirrors but sometimes there's a reflection in the glass I can judge by.

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I'm sorry you had such a crappy time at the gym....there are always crappy days/workouts but you know they happen only once in a while. Next w/o will 100x better!

Since I know nothing about oly lifting, I think everything looks great lol.

HA HA HA HA HA!

Merry Christmas CF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And you're right - yesterday's session was a billion times better

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You back off too!!! She is mine, all mine

[izzygrant]

Merry Christmas *******s!!!

Enjoy xmas socks avi.

More importantly:
I DL'ed a motherfukkin plate last night
aww yeah

workout writeup and vid after presents

[arian11]

Enjoy xmas socks avi.

brb let me get my hubble telescope

[izzygrant]

lol

[arian11]

lol

[izzygrant]

Lol, glad you approve

[izzygrant]

Dec 24

In addition to the below, I also did 100% of my Christmas shopping on this day. And most of it was already on sale. #winning #do I even female

Warmup
45 minutes rolling joints in sauna
glute/hammy stretches, foam rolling
bodyweight jump squats

Snatches
Kinda meh. Most still too far away from me at the top.
45 x2reps x5sets
50 x2reps x5sets

Clean and Jerks
Very hit and miss. Catching the bar now with bent knees at least but it's a long way from a full front squat. Still curling too much esp at 65
55 x2reps x5sets w/ jerks
65 x2reps x5sets
60 x2reps x5sets

Deadlifts
Went for it and pulled a plate. Everything went better than expected. So then I did four more. Then I sat on the floor for a bit with my head on my knees cuz I was dangerously close to throwing up. That means I'm doing it right. Right?!
95 x6reps
115 x6reps PR
135 x1rep x5sets *massive PR*

Back Squats
45 x8reps
55 x10reps
65 x10reps
75 x8reps x2sets

Front Squats
Took coach deez's advice and actively tried to choke myself with the bar. Was able to stay much more upright Fuk breathing.
45 x10reps
55 x8reps

Cardio
5 miles to make up for Christmas off and the fact that I went home to cry instead of cardio after Sunday's bad workout.

Glute/hammy/piri stretches and foam rolling. Utterly and completely annihilated.

[cactusflower]

lol

SEXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

Dec 24

In addition to the below, I also did 100% of my Christmas shopping on this day. And most of it was already on sale. #winning #do I even female

Warmup
45 minutes rolling joints in sauna
glute/hammy stretches, foam rolling
bodyweight jump squats

Snatches
Kinda meh. Most still too far away from me at the top.
45 x2reps x5sets
50 x2reps x5sets

Clean and Jerks
Very hit and miss. Catching the bar now with bent knees at least but it's a long way from a full front squat. Still curling too much esp at 65
55 x2reps x5sets w/ jerks
65 x2reps x5sets
60 x2reps x5sets

Deadlifts
Went for it and pulled a plate. Everything went better than expected. So then I did four more. Then I sat on the floor for a bit with my head on my knees cuz I was dangerously close to throwing up. That means I'm doing it right. Right?!
95 x6reps
115 x6reps PR
135 x1rep x5sets *massive PR*

Back Squats
45 x8reps
55 x10reps
65 x10reps
75 x8reps x2sets

Front Squats
Took coach deez's advice and actively tried to choke myself with the bar. Was able to stay much more upright Fuk breathing.
45 x10reps
55 x8reps

Cardio
5 miles to make up for Christmas off and the fact that I went home to cry instead of cardio after Sunday's bad workout.

Glute/hammy/piri stretches and foam rolling. Utterly and completely annihilated.

Sounds and looks like a much better workout for you!!! Kill it lady!!!

[simp3204]

I am hoping it is because my setup was crappy but I suspect it is really because I broke a bunch of stuff on my right side when I was younger and there's some alignment issues, which you'd never know from looking at me, but a bar full of weight across your shoulders highlights problems. Gonna make things tricky but I will just have to adjust. No mirrors but sometimes there's a reflection in the glass I can judge by.

Sounds like a painful injury. Nothing like weight on the back to highlight any old injuries and mobility issues.

Nice pic

[kingscross]

Nice pic izzy, arian gets himself banzored on Christmas day. Oh well!

[izzygrant]

SEXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

Sounds and looks like a much better workout for you!!! Kill it lady!!!

Right back atcha babe!

Sounds like a painful injury. Nothing like weight on the back to highlight any old injuries and mobility issues.

Nice pic

I know... sigh. Not gonna stop me. Thanks

Nice pic izzy, arian gets himself banzored on Christmas day. Oh well!

Wtf, what did that idiot do?! It can't have been for trolling in here, I do worse in his and Stig's journals on the reg. And misc is FOR trolling.

[simp3204]

I asked why he got banned and was told not to ask about it. Leh sigh.

[izzygrant]

Dec 26

Bench
Totally changed my form - back arched, lats much tighter, feet more underneath me, bar moving more in a straight path up and down from my lower chest. This automatically made me tuck my elbows a lot more. No spotter so didn't push the weight on the new form but I don't think I had 70 for 4 reps before so I'm happy.
45x12
55x10
65x7
75x3 x2sets
70 x4 x3sets

Snatches
Trying to focus on keeping it close and getting under it... did not feel as light as it should.
45 x2 x50reps

Cleans
Came up easy, caught in squat (though not quite parallel) and sometimes got elbows staying above bar
55 x2 x100reps

Back Squats
45x10
55x8
65x8
75x10
85x8

Front Squats
Pressing the bar into my throat is allowing me to stay much more upright. Form much improved, unpleasantness much increased.
45 x10 x3

Cardio: 1 mile jog w/u, some walking with fam

Food
Family christmas cheat meal of peace Ham, sweet potatoes, chocolate/whipped cream yule log dessert.

Song:

I asked why he got banned and was told not to ask about it. Leh sigh.

Now aware. PM if you want.

[Keyboardsmasher]

What gym is that? It's that first local one I've seen with those "bumper," pads or w/e they're called..



inb4 gym creeper.

[securekey]

Looking good izzy... congrats on the 135 dl

[TheStigIsBig]

lol

woodeat/10