Black_Spit's training Journal

[Black_Spit]

Thanks guys. I never felt right squatting in this environmemt in that monolift (i walked out and i might have been the only one... they thought i was being dumb i think). But i recovered enough to make 8/9 lifts on the day and get a total. I literally just finished so its been a long day. I actually felt better deadlifting than squatting. But i guess thats to be expected after having an incident like that.

Squat- 455/485/500
Bench- 315/335/350 (miss)
Deadlift- 465/500/515 (PR)

So a 1350 total. Ill take it for a 1st meet.

Archduke is about to open with a 425 dl. hes a strong guy @ 160 lb's. i think hes looking at a 1100'ish total.

[Kent.White]

Congratulations for your first meet. That is a good total.

[martin_mathers]

nice job man! in4vid. and if you were the only one who walked it out then only you had a legit squat and total!

[B1GinNY82307]

Thanks guys. I never felt right squatting in this environmemt in that monolift (i walked out and i might have been the only one... they thought i was being dumb i think). But i recovered enough to make 8/9 lifts on the day and get a total. I literally just finished so its been a long day. I actually felt better deadlifting than squatting. But i guess thats to be expected after having an incident like that.

Squat- 455/485/500
Bench- 315/335/350 (miss)
Deadlift- 465/500/515 (PR)

So a 1350 total. Ill take it for a 1st meet.

Archduke is about to open with a 425 dl. hes a strong guy @ 160 lb's. i think hes looking at a 1100'ish total.

fcuking A! Great shyt bro!!!

In4vids!!

[dtaps24]

Good job man. Very solid work there. In for videos. If you had fun then Mission Accomplished. 1350 is rock solid.

[Black_Spit]

lol sorry no video. I went down there by myself.

Actually I take that back. I'm 99% sure there's a video of the misloaded opener that crushed me taken by Archdukeoftops' brother. I'll look for it. It will probably be tomorrow though.

[dtaps24]

lol sorry no video. I went down there by myself.

Actually I take that back. I'm 99% sure there's a video of the misloaded opener that crushed me taken by Archdukeoftops' brother. I'll look for it. It will probably be tomorrow though.

Ah, no worries. Congrats on a job well done.

[TheBateman]

good job brah

[ArchDukeOfTops]

yeah my brother was supposed to get all the vids, but you can't get 18 year old kids to do sh!t without telling them every little thing lol. the kid recorded the misload, and then asked him if he got the other squats, and he said "no one told me to." wtf? lol

I bet you were tired as hell at the party, we were dead after the meet. damn near 11 hr meet.

[Liftamulti]

Yay. Great meet! Strong misload was strong.

[Juggernaut0]

Nice work man. 1350 total is awesome, especially for your first time.

[Black_Spit]

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[Black_Spit]

Btw thanks everybody in here for helping out a n00b. Thanks Mike Moore for helping me get the last few weeks right.

I do believe I'll be copying Mike Moore even more following this meet. Time to start training for 1500!

My Mike Moore inspired routine for a while-

Bench Press 1-3
French Press 5x10
Face Pull 5x10

Squat 1-3
Leg Curl 5x10
Standing Abs 100 reps

Shrug 5x5
Pulldown 5x10
DB Row 5x10

Press 531
Press 5x10
Lateral Raise 5x10

[NC_Tarheel]

Awesome first meet!!!

Now onto 1500

[Mike.Moore]

Btw thanks everybody in here for helping out a n00b. Thanks Mike Moore for helping me get the last few weeks right.

I do believe I'll be copying Mike Moore even more following this meet. Time to start training for 1500!

My Mike Moore inspired routine for a while-

Bench Press 1-3
French Press 5x10
Face Pull 5x10

Squat 1-3
Leg Curl 5x10
Standing Abs 100 reps

Shrug 5x5
Pulldown 5x10
DB Row 5x10

Press 531
Press 5x10
Lateral Raise 5x10

No problem man. Glad I could help and happy you had a great meet and hit that 500 squat. You are now squatting more than me

Though not sure copying me is that great an idea. LOL

And not sure I inspired that routine, I barely shrug!!!

[Black_Spit]

^ I knew I was taking a liberty with it when I threw Shrugs in there. One of the things I think I learned is that I don't have to DL to progress my DL. And I honestly felt I could have DL even more than I did. But on my 2nd lift my grip slip a little... So I was worried to go more than the 515. Anyway I figured Power Shrugs would be a good way to get my grip up to par.

Btw I am still really sore. All over. Hamstrings, upper back/traps, etc... That's expected though when you don't DL, but show up at a meet and DL I guess.

[NC_Tarheel]

But deadlift's all I got...I can't skip my deads!!!!

[Black_Spit]

But deadlift's all I got...I can't skip my deads!!!!

By all means.

I wonder how much connection there is to your leverages and how bad DL's beat you up?

Bc I like DL. Always have. But when I stopped doing them it was like my batteries were being recharged twice as fast if that makes sense. And yet I still hit a DL PR after all that happened...

[Mike.Moore]

^ I knew I was taking a liberty with it when I threw Shrugs in there. One of the things I think I learned is that I don't have to DL to progress my DL. And I honestly felt I could have DL even more than I did. But on my 2nd lift my grip slip a little... So I was worried to go more than the 515. Anyway I figured Power Shrugs would be a good way to get my grip up to par.

Btw I am still really sore. All over. Hamstrings, upper back/traps, etc... That's expected though when you don't DL, but show up at a meet and DL I guess.

Well, I seriously only do 2 sets of shrugs. I also do Facepulls, but I do those for my rear delts, though the traps get some work too.

I don't advise not to deadlift. As my partner says I only deadlift 600 cause I don't train my deadlift. In other words, I'd be pulling a heck of a lot more if I did. I'll see how my back is doing in a few months and MAYBE I'll put some deadlifting in. Even if its just rack pulls. Though, then again, maybe not...

For grip, all I do is do higher rep heavy dumbbell rows. I TRY to get 12 on each set, though doesn't always work out. But just 3 sets. Seems to be helping my grip alot,as well as keeping my back big.

[Black_Spit]

Cool.

I actually came to the no DL conclusion on my own after I hurt my back for the second time. In 4 months or so I think I did speed deads once and worked up to 455 once. Both times was to see if my back was ok. I didn't want to pay my entry fees and travel all the way there and start warming up for DL's and my back give out.

But somewhere in there I realized that by training my squat I'm already training the DL to a degree. I'll just keep telling myself "If I can squat it, I can DL it," until that doesn't work anymore.

[Mike.Moore]

Cool.

I actually came to the no DL conclusion on my own after I hurt my back for the second time. In 4 months or so I think I did speed deads once and worked up to 455 once. Both times was to see if my back was ok. I didn't want to pay my entry fees and travel all the way there and start warming up for DL's and my back give out.

But somewhere in there I realized that by training my squat I'm already training the DL to a degree. I'll just keep telling myself "If I can squat it, I can DL it," until that doesn't work anymore.

Well, I'm not a big believer in speed work. I do think you should try to move everything as fast as you can,on every set, but just not big on just speed specific days. All they ever did for me was hurt my joints and aggravate my tendonitis.

[NC_Tarheel]

You could maybe try and just set up a 2 week split and then rotate between heavish singles and reps

Week 1 - Shrugs
Week 2 - Deadlift movement (def, regular, rack pull, etc..) to a heavy single
Week 3 - Shrugs
Week 4 - Deadlift movement up to a set of 5


Both of you blow me out of the water in lifting heavy crap so.............


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EDIT: KK is a big fan of using the trap bar in his deadlift routine and that's a bit easier on your lower back....just throwin that out there for more confusion.....err....discussion

[Black_Spit]

EDIT: KK is a big fan of using the trap bar in his deadlift routine and that's a bit easier on your lower back....just throwin that out there for more confusion.....err....discussion

I do like the idea of some trap bar DL's on occasion... Now that this meet is over I'm focused on dropping some weight too so I could see myself doing something simple like 531 BBB... We'll see how it goes. Another thing I believe I learned (One of the upsides of being a little slow is there's plenty to learn from every experience ) was I don't have to be on a "program" all the time. 18 mo ago I did SS for 8 weeks, then 531 for 14 mo, then Conjugate. When I asked Mike for some help he basically said "well I'd squat 480 this week then 490 the next and maybe 500 the next" lol.

What's the point? I got no clue I told you I'm slow...

[martin_mathers]

interesting on the no deadlift approach. but dont you think you should deadlift at least once a month?

[Black_Spit]

interesting on the no deadlift approach. but dont you think you should deadlift at least once a month?

Idunnolol. Talk to me in a couple of years when it starts getting hard. Right now everything seems to work.

But, now, I would like to share a work of art. My 8 year old son has a comic strip that he makes every day before school on the computer. He calls it the Walking Butt (taken from my favorite show The Walking Dead I'm sure). He is up to 28 now.

I present to you one of my favorites, #7:

[Liftamulti]

Lolwut? Also, you have an 8 year old son? You're like ancient then. Lol jk my stepdad is like 15 years older than you.

[Black_Spit]

Lolwut? Also, you have an 8 year old son? You're like ancient then. Lol jk my stepdad is like 15 years older than you.

lul I have 3 kids. One older than the 8 year old.

[Liftamulti]

lul I have 3 kids. One older than the 8 year old.

Information overload. How old?

[Black_Spit]

Information overload. How old?

12. Married for 10 years in Oct. She's still hot after having kids. (srs) I like long walks on the beach and I DVR the Steve Wilkos show every day while I'm at work (srs).

[martin_mathers]

adpot me?