All Eyez On Me 2.0

[adamsz]

****in LOL at that sun burn.

shoulda just went shirtless brah damn! lmao

solid benching m8 I lol at illegal. what does that mean. I thought you could grip the bar anyway you wanted?

lmao yeah I was detailing my car for like 2 hours in a tanktop, but it was only like 60-70 degrees out so I didn't even think about getting a sunburn. I guess when you're full zombie white status that's all it takes...

In PL the max "legal" grip for competition is pointer fingers on the rings. "Illegal" wides are anything done outside of that.

[AirForceV]

lmao yeah I was detailing my car for like 2 hours in a tanktop, but it was only like 60-70 degrees out so I didn't even think about getting a sunburn. I guess when you're full zombie white status that's all it takes...

In PL the max "legal" grip for competition is pointer fingers on the rings. "Illegal" wides are anything done outside of that.

Weird.

when I bench I have my pinky on the ring. anything wider feels really bad on the shoulder.


hahaha heat has nothing to do with it, dat uv rays of peace will bust through clouds and burn you.

[fittofattofit]

5/20/13 Today's Macros: 93F / 400C / 208P : 3269 cals

15 minute dynamic warmup

4:45PM - 7:00PM: lifting

Illegal-Wide Grip Bench Press superset with Wide-grip Pullups all reps paused
95 x 10 - 5
125 x 5 - 5
135 x 5 - 5, 5
185 x 5 - 5
225 x 4 - 5, 5
275 x 3 - 5
315 x 3 - 5
315 x 3 - 5
315 x 3 - 5
315 x 3 - 5
315 x 3 - 5
all 315 sets are PRs

Catback Latpulls medium green band
15
12
15
15
15

Shoulder Horn
5's x 10
5'sx 20
5's x 15
2.5's x 35
2.5's x40

30 minutes lacross ball work / rumble rolling / band stretching after

Thoughts

First off, it's been damn near 2 months since I pulled my groin and it still hasn't recovered. I'm gonna go see the chiropractor, so until then I'm pretty much gonna put the lower body stuff on hold (at least the compound lifts). I need to get this chit straightened out.

I was out running errands all day, and by the time I was done with them and because it was rush hour I decided to just go straight to the gym without going home to get my gym chit. Just bought a rockstar low carb, went in, borrowed a pair of wrist wraps, and lifted. Was kinda nice to just go in and lift like that without all the ritualistic stuff like liniments, workout journal, my own gear, etc. Surprisingly, my left elbow felt fine the whole session without the liniments and just doing the pull up supersets.

Benching went great. There was like 10 people in the rotation tonight so there was a lot of time between sets so I decided to superset all the bench sets with wide grip pullups. I changed the numbers around a bit tonight though - instead of doing 2 sets of 260 for 3, I just did one set of 275 for 3, and instead of 300 x 3 x 5 sets I upped all those sets to 315. Since the beginning of this cycle I told myself I wanted to eventually bump up my heaviest triples to 315, and I finally did it. Only on the very last rep of the very last set did I get out of groove and really struggle with the weight, and since I hit the bar stand on the way up I got a tiny bit of help at the very top. Either way, I had never done 315 for more than a double before tonight so that's awesome.

Got hella sunburned working on my car outside before going to the gym:



lobster status: achieved.

^^^^^^^ LOL


Great job on the benching Zack ... despite the lobster status
5 PR sets and all going super wide = FTW. Awesome stuff!

[BabyOilBrah]

beastmode WG benching bro! I'm jelly of that strength. LOLing hard at the pic, saw it in the SCC and almost spit out my coffee.

[Mitch666]

I posted this in the fam thread but no one answered haha.
I'm planning on buying my first pair of wraps soon, I was thinking the EFS normal wraps, they're $26, I've never really looked at anywhere besides EFS so idk how that is price wise. Do you think those would be good? I squat medium/close stance.

Then I want to buy some bands too, for mobility stuff and to play around with speed pulls/bench at some point. I was thinking the long mini bands? In some of the mobilitywod and bryce lewis videos they use what looks like an average or strong band for some hip openers so idk. You do a ton of mobility so I figured you'd know. Thanks.

[nwskier]

beast benching! also jelly of dat strength

back is looking thick/wide bro. nh. you going to follow more 'powerbuilding' now? seems like good fit between the heavy PL work and some bb accessory stuff. Powerbuilding is full of awesome tho if you can balance the strength gains with the body fat reduction

[adamsz]

^^^^^^^ LOL

Great job on the benching Zack ... despite the lobster status
5 PR sets and all going super wide = FTW. Awesome stuff!

Thanks Andrew

beastmode WG benching bro! I'm jelly of that strength. LOLing hard at the pic, saw it in the SCC and almost spit out my coffee.

hehehe When White Boys Tan: Episode 1.

I posted this in the fam thread but no one answered haha.
I'm planning on buying my first pair of wraps soon, I was thinking the EFS normal wraps, they're $26, I've never really looked at anywhere besides EFS so idk how that is price wise. Do you think those would be good? I squat medium/close stance.

Then I want to buy some bands too, for mobility stuff and to play around with speed pulls/bench at some point. I was thinking the long mini bands? In some of the mobilitywod and bryce lewis videos they use what looks like an average or strong band for some hip openers so idk. You do a ton of mobility so I figured you'd know. Thanks.

As for knee wraps, I'm unfortunately the wrong guy to ask. I've only used knee wraps like twice before, and they weren't mine. For that, I'd probably just bump your question in the fam.

For mobility work, I bought the rogue fitness pullup package http://www.roguefitness.com/rogue-monster-bands.php (on the right side of the page for $67.60). It is enough for most of the mobility work you see like in Bryces videos. In terms of speed pulls/bench, the only time I've done those was at my gym which has a full set of bands so I used the bands there. I have no idea what one's they are though. I've seen people ask that question in the fam thread before, so I think if you searched around enough you could find a good answer, or you could again bump your question in the fam thread.

beast benching! also jelly of dat strength

back is looking thick/wide bro. nh. you going to follow more 'powerbuilding' now? seems like good fit between the heavy PL work and some bb accessory stuff. Powerbuilding is full of awesome tho if you can balance the strength gains with the body fat reduction

Thanks Terminator Timbo! Yeah for the last 2 months since injuring my groin I've been doing a decent amount of bodybuilding work because I can't dedicate a lot of energy to squats/DLs ATM. There's times where I'm like man maybe I should just keep cutting and get back on a hypertrophy routine and get juicy, but honestly I'm much more interested in powerlifting in the long term. As soon as I get rehabbed and back to 100% my focus will continue to be on PLing, but there will always be some element of higher-rep bodybuilding-style training incorporated into my programming.

[adamsz]

5/22/13 Today's Macros - 3377 calories: 419C / 89F / 225P

1 hour dynamic warmup / mobility work

4:45PM - 7:35PM: Lifting

Illegal Wide Grip Bench Press all reps paused
95 x 5
135 x 5
185 x 5
225 x 4
260 x 3
260 x 3
295 x 3
295 x 3
315 x 2
325 x 2 PR (was only supposed to be 315)
315 x 2

Sumo Deadlifts 3rd time ever pulling sumo
135 x 5 conventional
135 x 5
185 x 4 conventional
225 x 4
275 x 3
315 x 3
315 x 3
365 x 3
365 x 3
385 x 2 --> vid
405 x 2



Illegal Wide Grip Bench Press suicide grip, all reps paused
135 x 5
205 x 4
245 x 4
280 x 4
280 x 4
280 x 4
280 x 4

Cable Lat Pulldowns varying grips
5 sets

Seated BO DB Raises
15's x 12
15's x 12
15's x 12
15's x 12
15's x 12

50 minutes mobility / stretching / rolling after

Thoughts

Got to the gym extra early today to work on mobility work for my lower body, which I have been really slacking on lately. Because of my lower body injury I think I've just been depressed/demotivated to keep up with the lowerbody mobility work, which is an attitude I need to change.

Today's benching was quite possibly the most painful benching session I've ever had in my life. Because I am so sunburned on my traps/lats/delts now benching hurt like HELL every single rep, even with just the bar. Trying to get into position up on my traps hurt like a bish, not to mentioning loading your lats/traps with 300lbs+ for reps, chit was really intense. Since I got the sunburn on Monday it didn't really affect me that bench session because it hadn't really kicked in yet, but today was absolutely aweful. At least I still managed to hit a PR lol. I'm just praying by next wednesday I'll be back to normal in time for my max effort attempts.

Just for chits and giggles I tried pulling sumo today for I think the 3rd time ever IIRC. Everything actually went better than expected... Every other time I've attempted sumo I never had any real strength with it, but today the strength seemed to be there.

I was really surprised that it didn't seem to bother my groin, but it was still tweaking my right glute at lockout, but it didn't seem to be as bad as when pulling conventional. I made sure to roll the glute/hip on a baseball between sets to keep it feeling good. I think once I get the groin issue sorted out (I have an apt with the chiro next week finally) I'm gonna keep toying around with sumo and see how it goes. Duffin said the technique looked pretty good and that he'd be willing to help me out with it. I also noticed that it put next to no strain on my lower back, even without a belt the entire time, which is something that my regular DL (which always turns into a SLDL once it gets heavy) does. I'm pretty excited at the prospect of learning to pull sumo once I'm recovered.

[AirForceV]

nice Michael jackson moves when dropping bar.

that's what happens when you pull like a sissy.

[adamsz]

nice Michael jackson moves when dropping bar.

that's what happens when you pull like a sissy.

at least I can bench 315 for reps phaggot

[fittofattofit]

nice Michael jackson moves when dropping bar.

that's what happens when you pull like a sissy.

at least I can bench 315 for reps phaggot

LOL .... would be scared to call either of you guys phaggots

Congrats on the benching PR Zack!
Why the suicide grip for the second round of benching?
It's good that you liked the sumo deads and that the groin was OK. You have long legs and can take a really wide stance ... so presumable that loads up the quads more than the glutes. My nads would be resting on the ground if I got my feet that far apart