13 Weeks to RPS Rawdawg Nats: Herder's PUUUGHE Comeback

I'm obligated to be a bucs fan, I went to a game at three rivers when I was 11.

That and they sucked for so long...
 
herderdude said:
Oh **** me. I'm getting a front squat harness and putting on my full gear, now. I weigh 230. I need 575. You better hurry the **** up and hit yours while you're skinny, or you're in deep ****. I'm guessing you won't get back below 205 after making weight, so I'm thinking you'll need to hit a 525.
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Yeahhhhh I'll be goin to 220..

This will be a long challenge
 
Screw you guys. It's like dealing with 7 bitches in a bitch boat trying to get to the 210 mark.
 
I meant to say 2.5 in my original post but wrote 2, then corrected myself to 2.5

If it's 2x, I'm gonna do it within a couple weeks

If it's 2.5, gimme a year lol
 
Hell of a year. Big progress for the pirates this year. I wouldn't be disappointed
 
smoker145 said:
Hell of a year. Big progress for the pirates this year. I wouldn't be disappointed
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Can't be disappointed. We got outpitched all series, and pitching is our strong suit. We need a little more in the bat department and we'll be right there.
 
The floor is flexing under you as you squat, might want to look into that.
 
NomZ said:
The floor is flexing under you as you squat, might want to look into that.
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Been like that since Day 1. Might need to reinforce it a little, though.
 
herderdude said:
Basing percentages off of a 5lb PR leads to some scary ass stuff like 385x8-12x3 for next weeks' squats and a week 4 deadlift day that goes 455x2x3, 495x2x2, and 425x5x2. Those numbers don't look like much relative to my absolute max, but after you do it once, you know what to be afraid of.
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I can believe that as it edges up your capacity to hit volume (20 reps +) up over 80%/85% of maxes.
 
PaulBlack said:
I can believe that as it edges up your capacity to hit volume (20 reps +) up over 80%/85% of maxes.
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Right. In the past, I would work up to one all-out top set. Now doing multiple top sets will build up the volume and work capacity. And work capacity is the foundation for huge skyscraper numbers. I'm starting to care less about how many times I can hit a weight in a single set and worry about how many times I can hit a weight in a single session AND over time.

Brad Gillingham has deadlifted 800+lbs 99 times in competition. I have hit 500+ five times in my life. Puts it into perspective.
 
Body Day/Upper Accessory

Press
185x5

CGBP (pointer on slicks)
205x8
225x8
265x8x2

Delt Raises of all varieties

Pull ups
10x3

Catback pulldowns
3xAMRAP

BB Rows
245x8x3

Dimel Deadlifts
225x10x2

Hit what I wanted to hit, good sesh. Basically my Body day is going to be the opposite of my Bench day. When I Rep Bench and the Rx'd reps are high, I do Press for lower reps, but not quite "heavy". When I rep bench and the Rx'd reps are low, I'll go higher reps on Press and CGBP. When I do speed bench, I'll press and CGBP for a triple. When I bench heavy, I'll do those for speed. Get it? Good.

Dimel deadlifts are brutal. Exhausting and blasts the glutes and hams.
 
Food pron! 2 cups brown rice, three eggs, some salsa, and two quarter pound burger patties chopped up.

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I like the idea of alternating body days like that. I think when I jump back on the wagon, I'll vary Light OHP/heavy Tri, Heavy OHP/light Tri. And always heavy ass rows like yours on body day.

Dimel deadlifts? I'll look em up now.
 
Sean1332 said:
On a baller ass leather couch
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This is a theatre seating system. I have a cupholder for my tea and a cupholder for my spitter. Power recliner, the whole nine, baby.
 
Sean1332 said:
I like the idea of alternating body days like that. I think when I jump back on the wagon, I'll vary Light OHP/heavy Tri, Heavy OHP/light Tri. And always heavy ass rows like yours on body day.

Dimel deadlifts? I'll look em up now.
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Think of it as similar to an explosive romanian. I pushed my hips through hard and fast at lockout. Not overpulling and unlocking my knees, but just pushing them through. The bar was traveling away from my hips a good 6", and then I dropped right into the next rep.
 
Serious weight handled on the OHP and close grip, man. Impressed. I think that bench of yours is definitely in you right now, today; you just have to coerce it out.
 
Torobestia said:
Serious weight handled on the OHP and close grip, man. Impressed. I think that bench of yours is definitely in you right now, today; you just have to coerce it out.
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It's close, but I don't think it's there yet. I need some lats to control and reverse the weight. And I skipped out on front delt raises LIKE A DUMMY for the past eight months. I'm attacking everything. Lats, off the chest, lockout, arm and shoulder health, gaining weight. I'm leaving my body with no choice but to move more weight.
 
Holy cow that meal knocked me on my ass.
 
Headed to Gold's Dahntahn, my mom wanted me to go to her Body Pump class, and I agreed. I'm going to be dripping sweat, back pumps, bloodshot, eff'd up, snot bubbles, puke burps, the whole 9.
 
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.

I deserve that.
 
10/12 Body Pump

Squats
40kg x 536865432

Bench
40kg x 2478538

DB Flye
10lbs x a thousand

Hang Clean to Press
30kg x 22585

Dropped the bar right on the floor during those. The instructor made fun of my grip. Not like I can hold 500lbs in my hands or carry construction materials all day or anything.

Lunges
F U C K lunges

These were done at many different tempos. Interspersed were romanian deadlifts, barbell rows, and at the end we did a crunch circuit. surprisingly, the ab circuit was the only thing that didn't suck. Loaded carries FTW. Hopefully I'm not sore for heavy pulls tomorrow.
 
Props for getting out of your comfort zone and spending time with Mom!!
 
At first, I thought you did not know how to use ladders AHAHHA
Rep day............!

herderdude said:
Headed to Gold's Dahntahn, my mom wanted me to go to her Body Pump class, and I agreed. I'm going to be dripping sweat, back pumps, bloodshot, eff'd up, snot bubbles, puke burps, the whole 9.
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Hide in the ferns, so as to not scare the bankers
 
PaulBlack said:
At first, I thought you did not know how to use ladders AHAHHA
Rep day............!

Hide in the ferns, so as to not scare the bankers
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Oh yeah, rep rep rep rep day. The instructors are dancing with the little sand barbell on their back, I'm sprawled across the little stepping platform trying not to shytpuke. I think I kinda scared the little ladies in the back, but the instructors loved telling me how they were kicking my butt and how they were using the same weights as me.
 
Groce
 
aceroni said:
Tell them to meet you in the squat rack
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When we started doing squats, I was like "Ok, show off time. Brandon Lilly said I have good form, I must have good form."

First thing, she tells me I'm going too deep. Here we go . . . She wanted me to keep my butt above my knees to hit quads and glutes. Lady, you got some nice glutes, but they ain't got shyt on mine.
 
Lol, people crack me up with their crazy/uneducated ideologies. How would squatting to depth somehow bypass your quads and glutes? Kudos for biting your tongue lol.
 
herderdude said:
When we started doing squats, I was like "Ok, show off time. Brandon Lilly said I have good form, I must have good form."

First thing, she tells me I'm going too deep. Here we go . . . She wanted me to keep my butt above my knees to hit quads and glutes. Lady, you got some nice glutes, but they ain't got shyt on mine.
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Should have looked her straight in the eye and said "you don't know squat"
 
Week 1 Heavy Deadlift

Floor (conventional)
425x2x5

Block Pulls
455x3x2 these were insanely tough. We had to set them up on bumper plates and it just would not seem to work. Finally I remembered to just push my hips in and it worked. I've got a lot of room to improve here.

2" Deficit Pulls
385x6x2 brutal. The volume at this weight was insane.

SSB Pin Suspended GM
205x5x3

GHR/Reverse Hyper
BWx6x3/BWx12x3

Stone Over Shoulder
175 each shoulder

Arm over arm Prowler drag
Prowler+300x50ft

TOUGH day. Had some good and bad reps at 425, but no grinds. Going to start heading to the gym more often. Some members had a meet yesterday and we had a 500lb single ply bencher (for the third time in 2013) and a girl who did her first meet and set 4 American records in her fed (she's such a badass). We're going to be squatting on Sundays at the very least and I'd like to get out there more often.
 
Nice sesh. Could definitely be cool to get out there with like minded lifters. Even if just on the main lift.
 
rob112 said:
Nice sesh. Could definitely be cool to get out there with like minded lifters. Even if just on the main lift.
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Well this gym has a SSB and a GHR and conditioning equipment. So I need to go here every once in awhile to fill in the gaps. And I'd like to have eyes on me to give me feedback, set an atmosphere, and spot some ambitious sets.
 
herderdude said:
Well this gym has a SSB and a GHR and conditioning equipment. So I need to go here every once in awhile to fill in the gaps. And I'd like to have eyes on me to give me feedback, set an atmosphere, and spot some ambitious sets.
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Definitely.

And I'm falling in love with the SSB myself. I wish I could try a GHR or Reverse Hyper.
 
The prowler drag just a rope row?
 
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