Barbells, Booze and Beef. Mitch's Deadlifting and Drinking Log 2.0

[NorthStrong]

Maybe just reduce the intensity of cardio like flat walking instead of incline and 10 min instead of 20? And just eat more peanut butter and stuff.

Nice work on the benching though - doing real volume unlike someone else...lol.

[Mitch666]

Maybe just reduce the intensity of cardio like flat walking instead of incline and 10 min instead of 20? And just eat more peanut butter and stuff.

Nice work on the benching though - doing real volume unlike someone else...lol.

Yea good thought I could keep it in but just less. and yea he can program volume but not do it himself

[Mitch666]

Squat
barx10
135x5
225x5
275x3
305x1
325x1
345x1
365x4 @9 easier than 355x5 last week, for sure had a rep in the tank. This is a pretty big PR also
385x2 @9.75 fairly difficult but a good PR and after a hard pr set already.

Highbar Squat
280 4x4

Horizontal Hacksquat Machine
2x10 275

GHR
BW 3x10

Ab Wheel
15,15,14

15 minutes stationary bike


Haven't maxed out of wraps in a long time but still very happy with how my squat is going, I'd like to hit 415-425 wrapless in 3 weeks.

[NorthStrong]

You going wrapless and I'm going wrappy. Wow so turntables.

How many revs you get out of your RPMs? I'm thinking of getting them tighter and tighter as the weights get heavier, 7 revs is loose, 8 a bit tigher and 9 is about all I get out of them while still being able to tuck the end through the wrap.

[Mitch666]

You going wrapless and I'm going wrappy. Wow so turntables.

How many revs you get out of your RPMs? I'm thinking of getting them tighter and tighter as the weights get heavier, 7 revs is loose, 8 a bit tigher and 9 is about all I get out of them while still being able to tuck the end through the wrap.

That's basically what I get and I consider the 7-8-9 to be loose, tighter, heavy as well. When I have someone help wrap me I can get like 10 maybe more, but that's painful, but fun as well.

I usually end up hitting 2 sets in wraps before my work set, the first one will be looser but the last warmup I'll tighten them as much as I intend for my work sets just so I get the feel down.


I'll be back in wraps pretty soon. I want 475 as my last gym single and 485+ at the meet

[FenderElectrics]

ordered my wraps a week ago and it took titan until yesterday to finally even run my paypal payment through so guessing it's not even on it's way out yet

really want it to come in next few days while I deload squat anyways so I can play around a little wrapping them with light weights

[Mitch666]

ordered my wraps a week ago and it took titan until yesterday to finally even run my paypal payment through so guessing it's not even on it's way out yet

really want it to come in next few days while I deload squat anyways so I can play around a little wrapping them with light weights

Even if they aren't there in time for the deload you should have enough time before the meet to learn them well IMO. 6 weeks is more than enough, so as long as shipping isn't ridiculously slow or something you should be good.

I'm getting excited to get back into my wraps but not excited for the time it adds to a squat session.

[NorthStrong]

That's basically what I get and I consider the 7-8-9 to be loose, tighter, heavy as well. When I have someone help wrap me I can get like 10 maybe more, but that's painful, but fun as well.

I usually end up hitting 2 sets in wraps before my work set, the first one will be looser but the last warmup I'll tighten them as much as I intend for my work sets just so I get the feel down.


I'll be back in wraps pretty soon. I want 475 as my last gym single and 485+ at the meet

How much of a difference do you find the 7-8-9 makes? I did 7 for a warmup single to feel the wraps a bit and it felt the same as a bare knee lol. 8 felt good, and 9 will definitely be a bit tighter..

I only did 2 sets in my wraps today but it's still some practice I guess.

[Mitch666]

How much of a difference do you find the 7-8-9 makes? I did 7 for a warmup single to feel the wraps a bit and it felt the same as a bare knee lol. 8 felt good, and 9 will definitely be a bit tighter..

I only did 2 sets in my wraps today but it's still some practice I guess.

It's a different feeling with them very tight. Feels a bit different when you hit depth and quite a bit more rebound out of the hole (at least how I squat) so it's good to get used to what depth feels like in a tight wrap and the rebound so you dont' get pitched forward.

I think it's a good idea how you're doing it, starting out looser to get used to that and gradually getting tighter

[NorthStrong]

It's a different feeling with them very tight. Feels a bit different when you hit depth and quite a bit more rebound out of the hole (at least how I squat) so it's good to get used to what depth feels like in a tight wrap and the rebound so you dont' get pitched forward.

I think it's a good idea how you're doing it, starting out looser to get used to that and gradually getting tighter

Yeah that's what DG recommended when I asked him on the animal forvm too. I'll probably do a few more weeks with 8 revs and then the last few with 9.

[Mitch666]

2ct pause bench
barx12
135x5
185x3
205x2
225x1
250 4x3 moved kind of slow

Close grip bench
5x5 235

Cable Curl
95 x 12,12,12,12,11

Db Shoulder press
40x10
60x6
80x10 PR

Rear Delt machine
3x20 155

superset

Machine Fly
3x15 175

15 minutes incline walking


Had to fly through everything fast after benching. For close grips tendonitis was flaring up so I put the compression cuffs back on and tried them above the elbow on my tricep (as I think thats where the tendonitis is) and it felt good. I haven't been using them on bench since I started meet prep because for me the do make it feel a bit different.

Still stuck at 232

[FenderElectrics]

you going 220 for meet?

[Mitch666]

you going 220 for meet?

I was planning 242 but idk if I'm still 232 I'll most likely cut

[Mitch666]

So it was pretty fitting my apemanstong lift angry shirt came today. I'm just going to try to cliff this

-warmups feel really good, last dl session before my bday, figure yolo
-miss 600 above the knees
-old british ***got complains about me deadlifting
-kunt gym worker comes and tells me I can't deadlift there (in wide open area lol)
-i've done exactly this for 4 years
-try to remain calm, she's a huge bitch
-leave all the plates and bar right there, storm out of gym
-she yells way to be mature, I say way to do your job so professionally
-drive to another gym
-rage deadlift for an hour, worked back up to 545 single, then yolo'd off a deficit
-ton of deficit prs, 500 abd 525x1 were the best ones



pretty sure I actually blacked out in a rage for awhile. I might post up the dl video when I calm down lol

[Mitch666]

[Mitch666]

So today was my birthday, last time I can use that as an excuse for deviating from my programming. however htis went alot better than yolo deadlifting. lol

Bench
barx10
135x5
185x3
205x2
225x1
250x1
275x1
295x1
315x2 PR @10, harder than I wanted but the 2nd rep was harder than it needed to be because I flared my elbows too much off my chest, got in a bad position, felt very strong though.

add og slingshot
325x3 @7.5-8 loooooool well I definitely fixed my tricep weakess this "offseason"
340x2 @8-8.5

no slingshot
3x3 255

Spoto press
2x5 215

hammerstrength low row
2pps x 12,12,12,10

Incline dumbell bench
95x8
110x7 @9 PR das it

Rope Hammer curl
96 x 15,15,14,14

Facepull
84 x 15,15,15,14

Seated Chest cable fly
3x12 80

20 minutes incline walking

Bodyweight 232.5


so apparently getting borderline blackout drunk, friday and saturday, spending sunday puking with a crippling hangover=bench pr's. Sort of frustrated bodyweight is stagnant still.

Also i madeout with a midget at a bar this weekend. So that'll be a story I can tell for years to come. And yes it was a girl midget lol.

[Smolovicus]

mirin midget story. that is high up on my "before I settle down" checklist. some day.

cannot relate to heavy drinking correlating to a good bench session tho. if i have more than a beer the day before any pressing, the empty bar will feel heavy as phuck. grats on your first rep set of 315 bruh.

[Mitch666]

mirin midget story. that is high up on my "before I settle down" checklist. some day.

cannot relate to heavy drinking correlating to a good bench session tho. if i have more than a beer the day before any pressing, the empty bar will feel heavy as phuck. grats on your first rep set of 315 bruh.

well i didn't drink sunday, but my hangover sunday was so bad I felt ****ty monday yet lol.

yea the midget thing was nice to check off bucket list, now to try to bang lol.


Squats
barx10
135x5
225x3
275x3
315x1
335x1
355x1
375x3 @9.5 PR
395x1 @9.5 PR think Ill try to double this fresh next week.

Highbar Squats
5x3 290

Standing Calve raise
2pps x 12
3pps x 20
dropset
2pps x 20

GHR
BW 3x12

Horizontal Hacksquat machine
2x8 285

Ab wheel
3x15

15 minutes stationary bike


Bodyweight PR of 233 today


Looks like 415 minimum will be my wrapless max. Surprised how good it's feeling considering I've been doing one or 2 lowbar sets a week only.

[sheed30]

Damn man you're PRing all over the p[lace. Good sheit. I'll hopefully have some in the upcoming weeks

[Mitch666]

Damn man you're PRing all over the p[lace. Good sheit. I'll hopefully have some in the upcoming weeks

yea bench is moving decently, squat is making the most progress. Probably no coincidence that I'm not emotionally attached to squat pr's so I can just go in and put in work for weeks on end (now finally seeing the gains), where as I go full potato deadlifting all the time

[FenderElectrics]

I'm just glad you haven't caught my squat yet since you are about a combined 300 pounds ahead of me push/pull now

[Mitch666]

I'm just glad you haven't caught my squat yet since you are about a combined 300 pounds ahead of me push/pull now

haha i'm getting close though. What was your best gym squat?


but yea I should just do push pull meets lol

[FenderElectrics]

haha i'm getting close though. What was your best gym squat?


but yea I should just do push pull meets lol

lol yeah just messing I guarantee you're good for 405+ right now gotta hold on to what I can though

I think the most I ever even attempted in the gym is 385 and it flew up at that time and I wish I went for more. I peaked horribly for our last meet, I know the weeks leading up to it I was good for 415+ and 402 was a grind day of.

[Mitch666]

lol yeah just messing I guarantee you're good for 405+ right now gotta hold on to what I can though

I think the most I ever even attempted in the gym is 385 and it flew up at that time and I wish I went for more. I peaked horribly for our last meet, I know the weeks leading up to it I was good for 415+ and 402 was a grind day of.

well lets hope you peak good for this one and hope I don't stumble after squatting again lol

[FenderElectrics]

well lets hope you peak good for this one and hope I don't stumble after squatting again lol

lol yeah chalk that one up to first meet jitters IMO

To be honest I don't think I'll peak very well for this one and I'm cool with it. I took so much time off I know I'm not putting a huge total I just want to put some work in and get back on the platform and then next meet try and set some big PRs (maybe in October ish)

[Mitch666]

2 ct pause bench
barx10
135x5
185x3
225x1
255 5x2 moved ok, last few sets I stayed tighter and found my grove better

Close Grip Bench
240 4x5

Cable Curl
5x12 96

Dumbell Shoulder Press
45x10
65x6
85x8 PR had one or 2 reps left for sure
dropset
50x15

Rear Delt Machine
3x17 160

superset

Machine Fly
3x15 180

v-bar pushdown
120 x 15,15,13

20 minutes incline walking


bodyweight PR of 234

[FenderElectrics]

what method do you use to wrap your knees? Do you have a video by chance showing it?

Gonna try em out tomorrow for the first time

[Mitch666]

what method do you use to wrap your knees? Do you have a video by chance showing it?

Gonna try em out tomorrow for the first time

i use the video breathinglife posted along time ago in fam thread i believe his youtube channel was etwade. I'll look for it when i'm not drunk lol.


So this shouldnt' be a surprise after last weeks rage pull extravaganza, but today sucked ass.


~5inch block pulls
135x5
225x5
315x5
365x3
405x3
425x3
455x1
475x3 @9 fukk grip was horrible, always a sign i need to backoff

Speed pulls
385 3x2 cut planned volume in half because these were awkward and not fast

Front squats
135x3
185x3
225 3x3
255x2

HS Pulldowns
4x11 2pps+10

seated calve raise
3x13 160

Dumbell shrugs
2x30 110

15 minutes incline walking


Pulls were absolute garbage, fronts felt good once i actually got mobile enough to get in a good front rack position. Pump stuff was nice, didnt feel as ****ty after that.

[FenderElectrics]

perfect thanks found etwades vid and first similar video was brian carroll and they both wrapped identical so I think that's a solid way to go

[Mitch666]

Bench
barx10
135x5
185x3
205x2
225x1
250x1
275x1
295x1
315 2x1 called for 3 singles but the second one was so god damn fast.....
330x1 PR not a true max either

add OG slingshot
345x2 @9
350x1 @9 actually surpised me how unstable I felt holding this at the top before descending

no slingshot
245 3x3

HS Low Row
4x12 2pps

Incline Dumbell bench
95x8
115x6 PR

Rope hammer curl
4x15 95

Facepull
4x15 85

Seated Cable chest fly
3x13 80

20 minutes incline walking

BW 232


Going to actually max touch and go next week, then main benching will switch to pauses.