The Official Powerlifting and Strongman Family Appreciation Thread: Part XIX

[Torrtrefireto]

Always happens to me when I'm squatting/benching in my gear. I get a few hours less sleep than normal. Who knows why.

I sleep better during equipped cycle because I know in my heart I'm back where I belong

Everything else is worse from my skin being raw, but sleep is good

[NorthStrong]

goddamn seasonal affective disorder hitting me hard, but it works well for recovery. Been sleeping an ungodly amount.

[Larfleeze]

goddamn seasonal affective disorder hitting me hard, but it works well for recovery. Been sleeping an ungodly amount.

How bad are the winters where you live? In Scotland winter is pretty much the same as summer but the rain is colder, the near total lack of daylight gets pretty depressing though.

[NorthStrong]

How bad are the winters where you live? In Scotland winter is pretty much the same as summer but the rain is colder, the near total lack of daylight gets pretty depressing though.

Winters here are weird lol. Daylight starts getting short around October ish, and I think the shortest daylight we have is about 8 hours and 35 minutes and there are a few months between there and maybe 10 hours. This is pretty short compared to June where the daylight get to close to 16 hours at the longest. It's weird though only the last couple years have I noticed the fatigue and stuff around this time of year.

Snow usually starts in December and lasts sometimes until April. I think we had some snow in May last year. So our winters start and end late, whereas western Canada I believe is a bit more of starting earlier and ending earlier. Definitely not like the Arctic here though.

[martin_mathers]

Only thing that bugs me about winter is having to wear pants and shoes. Other than that I don't really care.

[NorthStrong]

This week's poll

Is floor pressing still cool?

[adamsz]

This week's poll

Is floor pressing still cool?

Never really used them or OHP since I started PLing personally.

[Larfleeze]

Winters here are weird lol. Daylight starts getting short around October ish, and I think the shortest daylight we have is about 8 hours and 35 minutes and there are a few months between there and maybe 10 hours. This is pretty short compared to June where the daylight get to close to 16 hours at the longest. It's weird though only the last couple years have I noticed the fatigue and stuff around this time of year.

Snow usually starts in December and lasts sometimes until April. I think we had some snow in May last year. So our winters start and end late, whereas western Canada I believe is a bit more of starting earlier and ending earlier. Definitely not like the Arctic here though.

Glasgow the shortest day is like 6.5 hours, longest about 17.5 but in summer it's never truly dark and you can always see blue sky on the horizon (which I hate). Snow falls a couple of times a year but very very rarely lies deeper than an inch or two. Coldest I've ever experienced was -12 Celsius in 2010 when we had some day after tomorrow **** going on, probably nothing to a Canadian but it was crazy to me lol

Not sure about winters down here (just moved) but holy **** is it warm in summer

[NorthStrong]

Glasgow the shortest day is like 6.5 hours, longest about 17.5 but in summer it's never truly dark and you can always see blue sky on the horizon (which I hate). Snow falls a couple of times a year but very very rarely lies deeper than an inch or two. Coldest I've ever experienced was -12 Celsius in 2010 when we had some day after tomorrow **** going on, probably nothing to a Canadian but it was crazy to me lol

Not sure about winters down here (just moved) but holy **** is it warm in summer

Yeah Scotland is a bit higher north than New Brunswick is I figured it'd have weirder day lengths.

The snow and temperatures are lols. We got close to 70 inches of snow in one big storm we had a year or so ago. It's gotten colder than -30 here probably about every winter at some time or another too.

And yeah fuk it is hot over there man. I was in London for a few days this Summer and I was dying. Ireland on a nice day is much nicer lol.

[Larfleeze]

Yeah Scotland is a bit higher north than New Brunswick is I figured it'd have weirder day lengths.

The snow and temperatures are lols. We got close to 70 inches of snow in one big storm we had a year or so ago. It's gotten colder than -30 here probably about every winter at some time or another too.

And yeah fuk it is hot over there man. I was in London for a few days this Summer and I was dying. Ireland on a nice day is much nicer lol.

One thing I can't bemoan about Scotland is that it thankfully very rarely properly snows, I ****ing hate snow. London is crazy hot in summer, went down to see the dolphins play at Wembley twice and got stupidly dehydrated both times, I can't handle heat at all and I've been suffering quite a bit since moving here haha.

Never actually been to Ireland despite being half Irish and growing up in an ultra Irish part of Glasgow lol

[NorthStrong]

One thing I can't bemoan about Scotland is that it thankfully very rarely properly snows, I ****ing hate snow. London is crazy hot in summer, went down to see the dolphins play at Wembley twice and got stupidly dehydrated both times, I can't handle heat at all and I've been suffering quite a bit since moving here haha.

Never actually been to Ireland despite being half Irish and growing up in an ultra Irish part of Glasgow lol

Yeah I was blown away at the heat. Ireland is awesome man. Would love to go back there. I was in Dublin and Belmullet.

[j2nicee]

This week's poll

Is floor pressing still cool?

I think rawr benchers get more carryover from doing sets with varying grip widths and hammering their shoulders/triceps with accessories compared to doing things like floor and board pressing. I also like switching between volume and heavy work on incline as well as long as its a half decent setup.

[NorthStrong]

I think rawr benchers get more carryover from doing sets with varying grip widths and hammering their shoulders/triceps with accessories compared to doing things like floor and board pressing. I also like switching between volume and heavy work on incline as well as long as its a half decent setup.

Yeah I know most guys like doing that. I had to do some floor presses the other day because the benches were way too narrow and were hurting my shoulder, but the floor presses felt pretty damn good. I'm thick enough with short enough arms that my floor press is only about 1-2 inches shorter than my full bench rom, and my floor press strength is just about a 1:1 ratio with my bench strength. Might start doing it a bit more, really easy on the shoulders and hits the triceps and pecs pretty hard.

[wollo7]

joe sully, wong and kevin oak all posted stuff about their re-hydration with IV's. i enjoy the transparency with that

[Dmetti]

This week's poll

Is floor pressing still cool?

I was gonna ask about floor pressing lol anybody find it beneficial doing some after bench sets?

[happylifter]

This week's poll

Is floor pressing still cool?

I had a huge lockout problem started doing floor presses and adding chains every so often worked well enough

[NeverEnough89]

Which big names are competing today at Reebok Record Breakers?

[Trolltongue]

Which big names are competing today at Reebok Record Breakers?

JP Price, Joe Sullivan, Big Sexy J, Rubish, Larry Wheels and Oak, at least, I think Andrew Herbert as well.

[NeverEnough89]

JP Price, Joe Sullivan, Big Sexy J, Rubish, Larry Wheels and Oak, at least, I think Andrew Herbert as well.

thats what I thought. No one I wasn't expecting at least.

[adamsz]

Jesus how many flights are there?

[NorthStrong]

Commentary is off the charts stupid. Seems like an average backyard meet being streamed so far.

[TheIronAsylum]

Always happens to me when I'm squatting/benching in my gear. I get a few hours less sleep than normal. Who knows why.

dem dere cns

goddamn seasonal affective disorder hitting me hard, but it works well for recovery. Been sleeping an ungodly amount.

winter sucks

This week's poll

Is floor pressing still cool?

they are making a come back

Commentary is off the charts stupid. Seems like an average backyard meet being streamed so far.

[NorthStrong]

RIP J wong FUK that looked rough.

[Dmetti]

RIP J wong FUK that looked rough.

Damn just seen it. Why do I feel like something bad is always happening to him at meets

[Larfleeze]

high frequency works really well with females. Especially on the bench press.

shameless plug of our program

Your routine is evil. Gf is doing alright with it so far but the squat days have left me ****ing crippled, needed like four days of recovery after the first day before I could walk properly never mind deadlift lol.

Edit : did second squat session earlier tonight, just tried to get off my couch and my quads completely gave way and ended up on my arse. 9 months of Sheiko and barely going over 3 reps does not prepare one for volume sets

[Dontfealthsauld]

RIP J wong FUK that looked rough.

Excellent job by spotters. Nailed it!

[Dontfealthsauld]

Hopefully no bad tendon, cartilage injuries for BSJ.

[BombDonald]

Yeah Scotland is a bit higher north than New Brunswick is I figured it'd have weirder day lengths.

The snow and temperatures are lols. We got close to 70 inches of snow in one big storm we had a year or so ago. It's gotten colder than -30 here probably about every winter at some time or another too.

And yeah fuk it is hot over there man. I was in London for a few days this Summer and I was dying. Ireland on a nice day is much nicer lol.

Sounds like my kind of weather. Minnesota gets a lot of snow and can have days of <0 highs, but it's not as bad as up there.

[invain]

I didn't know Joe was going up to 242. Putting up some big numbers so far.

[wollo7]

is there a stream somewhere?

nvm got it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWNKOTacUU