Not tracking for a couple of days. We have a huge family gathering today with a ton of bbq and I can't be bothered in the least to care about cals or macros today. Tomorrow and Tuesday we'll be at the trailer and I won't track there but cals will be at least reasonable. Back in proper form on Wednesday.
Squats later today.
Thanks Ron. It was close. Okay, fine I'll count it
Yeah man, I love goblets. Legs were just wobbly after them. I'm going to make them a regular part of the routine I think.
Sen, don't get me started Funny enough that was one of the better sessions lately in terms of staying tight. I'm still really struggling with it. My leg drive is feeling a lot better lately but staying tight, especially for higher reps, is proving to still be a challenge.
Thanks Vic.
Thanks man. Was really happy with that session.
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Cycle 1 l Week 2
Weight: A lot
Warm-Up
A table full of food.
Squats
5 × 100 [25,2.5]
5 × 120 [35,2.5]
3 × 145 [45,5]
3 × 170 [45,10,5,2.5]
3 × 195 [45,25,5]
3+ × 215 [45,35,5] - 8 meh some okay - vid
***My daughter was watching a dance show in the other room Apparently youtube is blocking this vid in some countries lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHx_eUA82cE
I wanted moar than 8. Felt I was losing focus though so racked it.
Eta it's a miracle I'm still able to use the fourth hole on my belt lol I thought back to 3 for sure today.
BBB Pyramid Down
10 × 180 [45,10,5,5,2.5] - vid
10 × 180 [45,10,5,5,2.5]
10 × 160 [45,10,2.5] - pause
10 × 140 [45,2.5] - pause
10 × 140 [45,2.5] - pause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tffcDRvFQNg
Plate loaded leg ext
10 x 75
10 x 75
10 x 75
10 x 100
RDL
8 x 135
8 x 135
8 x 135
8 x 135
Got a nice quad pump from the leg ext and my hams are on fire from the the rdl's. Pretty decent session in terms of moving some weight. That 215 felt like nothing on my back. Really, really light but depth just still isn't quite there. I'm going to stop obsessing about it and just deal with it being what it is. Not sure what else I can do at this point. Had my wife watch my last pause set with 140 and she said I was just hitting parallel and below on a couple. Zero flexibility crewLast edited by mirroroferised; 06-28-2015 at 07:17 PM.
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lol I hear that
I told my wife she needed to eat more she was skin and bones (kind of an inside joke with her mom who's always obsessing about my wife's weight cuz she's naturally quite small) and he shot back with you could be a little moar skin and bones or something like that lol it was pretty funny.
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Big leg day...reps looked very good....
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Some seriously awesome squat volume Dave. Looked pretty awesome to me too. YES to eating ALL the yummy foods!
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OK, so this is the point IMHO that you need to beware of depth Nazis. Which includes you - don't become a depth Nazi yourself and start obsessing over it. There is nothing wrong with your depth. Some reps are parallel, some reps are a tiny mite above parallel. But we are talking tiny margins. They are all near enough.
My vote is just stop worrying about it. Load up the bar. Squat. Keep an eye on depth just to make sure you don't start stopping inches short, but anything there or thereabouts is completely fine. I spent far too long obsessing about an inch in my squats, and only moved on once i stopped worrying about it. I rarely have depth concerns these days.☻/
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Thanks Shawn, legs are feeling it this morning.
Thanks Ron.
Ha it was a great meal with 2 different cakes to finish it all off. I miss it already
It should Shane. Hope you have a good one today.
I'm really trying to tell myself this lately. I'm driving myself crazy with it lately, checking each rep right after the set and beating myself up if they're not perfect. I'll stop obsessing so much. You're right, I'm having a hell of a time moving forward with them right now.
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Living the dream Dave ... John and Tim may have set a standard but you've got a nice slab of meat on your quads now!
Huge volume on that squat session today and I'm with Flounder ... don't beat yourself over the head about your depth ... you are at or close to parallel and you maintain very strong and consistent form. It's great that repping 215 for 8 felt light
Also your benching looked good to me ... your 185 reps looked the way my 160 reps do, and you got 10 reps out at that weight"Better to wear out than rust out!"
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Dave. I agree with the sexy Englishman with the hot James Bond accent regarding depth. If you were competing in an IPF meet, you'd be white lighted. Meaning good to go.
The depth thing mess was indirectly started by weightlifters. Many of us try to squat ATG because we want carryover to the cleans and snatch. But for PL and for general strength development, ATG is NOT needed. In fact, my own coach doesn't care if I don't ATG as long as I get stronger in the squats.
Moreover, the Internet commandos who preach ATG don't even squat. Keep doing what you're doing.This above all..
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Still fighting some crazy doms from that BBB session plus the bed at our trailer always makes my back scream to me. That being said I did sleep about 10 hours Tight and sore but nothing that some ohp won't solve in a bit.
Thanks Tim. It was a great time. We have a very strong current up there so canoeing is always a huge workout. Had a blast.
Protz on the camp fire just for you
Thanks for taking a look man. Yeah that's really about as low as I go. Thought about trying a plate under the heels once upon a time but envisioned myself tripping over it and never did it lol
Thanks Doc.
Appreciate it Joel, thanks. I've been more obsessing about just hitting parallel and not stopping to high like I was when I was piling the weight on the bar. Clearly I'm doing okay so I'm gonna just shut up about it and keep on going
I've been thinking about this for awhile. We're quite shallow on the river but it would be a lot of fun if I could make it work. The current is brutal there. Took us 20 minutes to go in one direction and 2 minutes to get back lol
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A lot to think about this session. Joel's absorbing the weight vid from last week, Rippetoe's vid that Robert posted about grip and "slingshotting" the weight up as well as Rippetoe's other vids that I watched on benching, squatting etc. Over all this wasn't a great session. Moved some weight for sure but all the foam rolling, stretching and light movements beforehand wasn't loosening me up.
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Cycle 1 l Week 3
Warm-Up
BB Complex of Rows, Cleans, Fronts, Press
Moar very light Front Squats
Stretching
Foam Rolling
Shoulder Dislocations
Press
5 × 50 [2.5]
5 × 65 [10]
3 × 75 [10,5]
5 × 95 [25]
3 × 105 [25,5]
1+ × 120 [35,2.5] - Got 3, reset and got 3 more
Not great today. I know I can get 6 or 7 at this weight if not a couple more. Putting it down to tightness. Absorbing the weight went very well I think but the grip tricks and trying to slingshot the weight up felt really awkward. Not doubting Rippetoe but something I definitely need to work at with a lighter weight at first. Felt really out of place doing them that way.
BBB Bench
Did a bunch of sets with 5 reps working up to 155 lbs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T9U...o-0lA_kBIT71At
Watched the bench vid and played around with the cue's in that. Grip placement made a lot of sense and felt great for me. Picking a spot on the ceiling and pushing the weight to it and keeping the bar level I'm still struggling with. Did better keeping my shoulders driven down, chest up and pushing my arch up with my legs. Overall not too bad for practicing bench as opposed to BBB.
Called it here. I'll get the accessories in at some point during the week. No vid today. Nothing really interesting or watch worthy. Bench mildly improved I think and 120 felt like I was lifting my house. I did nearly fling myself face first into my rack on my first set with 120 but I'll keep the blooper reel for myself
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Nice workout Dave! I was thinking about trying that little hip swing on OHP from the Rip video as well. I pictured it awkward as faak though, and I think you confirmed that lol. Did the absorb the decent cue work well? I can see that being a big benefit, but I guess I won't know until I try it out.
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It was really strange feeling and didn't do me any favours tonight that's for sure. The absorbing cue worked well but trying to couple that with the swing or whatever made the entire process a bit of a mess. Think I'll work on just the absorbing for awhile until that is ingrained and then try to add in the swing. Good session overall though,
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Nice work out Dave. Rip has some great video's and I own the starting strength book. Ton's of great info in it and he covers a lot of it in his videos as well. I think to get the press right you almost have to strip down everything you know about it, start back at the bar and work on form from there. I plan on doing this at some point, I might do it the month before I start 531. There are a lot of cues that are easy to put together, the motion with the snap back before the push is probably the hardest to get right. At least it was when I started trying it awhile ago. Well, that and not knocking yourself out with the the bar.
Get yourself a hot girl in a bikini poster and put it on the ceiling, push the bar towards the boobs man.
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I know them feels Dave, tightness is a bitch. Still looked like a productive session even though you weren't 100% happy with it. Way to get after the accessories later at home. Productive!
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Good work done......muscles worked hard.....progress will be made.....
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