It's a long way to the top...

[kmc06005]

Grats on the gym PR! Don't worry about your butt coming up, either tuck your feet more or widen them out until it doesn't.

[psychodiver9]

Congrats. I dont even remember what a bench pr feels like

[Filmbuff81]

Nice work.

I feel your pain literally and figuratively speaking when it comes to back pain and deadlifting.

I will probably switch back to sumo at some point myself and just use GHR and SLDL for assistance.

[NorthStrong]

booty poppin might also have occured to "leg driving" wrong. think more of pushing the floor away from you, than pushing down into the floor if that makes sense.

275 is nice. between you and coocoocachoo i at least feel OK about my bench even though you're both stronger lol.

[FenderElectrics]

Grats on the gym PR! Don't worry about your butt coming up, either tuck your feet more or widen them out until it doesn't.

yeah my feet positioning needs to change regardless I'm not getting great leg drive as is and now got butt coming up will definitely play with both tucking more and widening thanks

Congrats. I dont even remember what a bench pr feels like

yeah bench is so hard it's ridiculous. I was king of the benching world in my own head like 8 months ago I couldn't be stopped then all of a sudden I hit a wall and started going backwards. If you would have told 8 months ago me that I wasn't even close to a 300 bench right now I'd laugh at you the way I was going. FML

Nice work.

I feel your pain literally and figuratively speaking when it comes to back pain and deadlifting.

I will probably switch back to sumo at some point myself and just use GHR and SLDL for assistance.

Yeah I think I'm just gonna go with alternating each week and then setting up a peak with just conventional when I pick my next meet. I really need to take the time to work on strengthening my lower back that's for sure

I wish my gym had a GHR amongst other things

booty poppin might also have occured to "leg driving" wrong. think more of pushing the floor away from you, than pushing down into the floor if that makes sense.

275 is nice. between you and coocoocachoo i at least feel OK about my bench even though you're both stronger lol.

lol yeah your bench is heading in the right direction though mine has been stalling forever.

I also am pretty sure you're stronger now I could barely manage 315x5 on squats the other day ffs lol I just always seem to perform well at meets, I'm a gamer I've always done better at sports under pressure especially golf for some reason. I've played in probably 100 tournaments in my life and every first tee you get jitters because there's like 50+ people watching and I think I've piped every single drive lifetime in that spot. But yeah same goes for PL, squats especially I get those jitters and they always seem to help I've only missed 1 squat ever and that was a misload of 11 pounds

[FenderElectrics]

was annoyed that I only got 3 triples at 270 but then saw I only got 2 last week so progress is progress that will work. Maybe I can get 4-5 next week now, third set was super tough tho

Front Squats:
45x5
135x5
185x3
225x2
250x1
270x3x3

Comp Bench:
135x5
185x3
205x2
225x1
245x5x2 ->mostly good queued butt down and that was all I needed to do forgot on one set and sure enough it came up again
225x5

Incline BB: hate these, def prefer DBs but DB area was jammed and this was open
135x5
165x3
185x3x3
155x8

Hammer strength fly machine and tricep stuff and done. Sumos tonight and gonna add in a second day with some kind of overhead stuff.

[CooCooCaChoo]

Mirin front squats

[FenderElectrics]

When you miss logging 5 workouts in a row and don't realize it it's a good time for a break from logging!

I'll be back once I pick my next meet

[Mitch666]

madtown is doing another one october 10th and 11th, same power weekend with strongman contest type of deal


I'll have moved to PA already but think I'll be doing programming for a bodybuilder friend of mine then. he's competing for the 1st time at the upa one august 1st

brb 600/400/600 roughly at 1st meet, kden.

[FenderElectrics]

madtown is doing another one october 10th and 11th, same power weekend with strongman contest type of deal


I'll have moved to PA already but think I'll be doing programming for a bodybuilder friend of mine then. he's competing for the 1st time at the upa one august 1st

brb 600/400/600 roughly at 1st meet, kden.

Wow where do these guys come from? I grind and grind and am shooting for 1200 lol

October is a possibility and I like madtown a lot (location good + liked the gym) but was hoping for a December type timeframe. I'll play it by ear for a bit here

[Mitch666]

Wow where do these guys come from? I grind and grind and am shooting for 1200 lol

October is a possibility and I like madtown a lot (location good + liked the gym) but was hoping for a December type timeframe. I'll play it by ear for a bit here

idk man i'm srs gonna bodybuild hard and bulk this winter to build up a bigger muscular base i guess

if you find something around our area in december holla at me i'd like to push pull while i'm home for fun or something.

[FenderElectrics]

PR UPDATE

Comp Bench:
265x2 @9-9.5 PR

I took a real strange bar path on second rep but the weight moved real nice. I didn't even consider going for 3 (cause I thought 2 was going to be tough) then I racked it and thought wait why did I rack it and the spotter said the same thing. Oh well, real pumped, I may go for 275 next week but I'm gonna be out of town friday-tues so that may screw my lifting schedule up

I think I'm probably 6-8 pounds lighter too

idk man i'm srs gonna bodybuild hard and bulk this winter to build up a bigger muscular base i guess

if you find something around our area in december holla at me i'd like to push pull while i'm home for fun or something.

Will do, I'll start looking in a bit for one end of year.

[NorthStrong]

Your bench is getting close to mine, I can't let this happen. Nice set m8. No video?

[FenderElectrics]

Your bench is getting close to mine, I can't let this happen. Nice set m8. No video?

I think you still got me by 10+ pounds but getting better. No video my bench video game is weak I always feel weird filming when I'm using a spotter

[Filmbuff81]

congrats on the PR.

Less fat and more strength = ultimate win

[FenderElectrics]

congrats on the PR.

Less fat and more strength = ultimate win

yep. going to keep losing for awhile despite already being a skinny punk by PL standards. I think a lifetime of weight 160-170 has just made my body hate being over 200 even though again I know that's not overweight or anything. I just feel way better overall closer to 190ish and I'm not setting any records ever so I may as well feel as good as possible

[Filmbuff81]

yep. going to keep losing for awhile despite already being a skinny punk by PL standards. I think a lifetime of weight 160-170 has just made my body hate being over 200 even though again I know that's not overweight or anything. I just feel way better overall closer to 190ish and I'm not setting any records ever so I may as well feel as good as possible

I am in the same boat as you.

My set point seems to be a really high BW, but I always feel ****ty when I am too far over 200.

I'm trying to get back in the 185-200 range as well. Then I can either hover and try to compete at 85kg or enjoy some eating into 95kg.

But I would prefer the lighter weight, just due to the overall better wellbeing that I feel.

[Mitch666]

nice bench pr. I just hit a pr double too and am just gonna yolo and go for another pr double next monday