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

It's way too early for this ****. I hardly slept last night. Yesterday's 5x5 stunt has me afflicted with slight DOMS. Tomorrow and Monday should be fun times walking.

Should roll through Washington, PA around 7 and Morgantown around 8. After we get about an hour south of WVU, I'll be in uncharted territory around Charleston, WV, site of the 2008 World's Strongest Man and home to strongman great, Phil Pfister. I wish I had known about it then, we'd have gone.
 
Akron? Damn, you can get as drunk as you want, that game will be over at halftime! Always wanted to go to a game at The Big House. I've been to Ann Arbor twice and both times I made sure to stop and see The Big House. I think Penn State's Beaver Stadium looks bigger, since it just rises up from the cornfields.

It's gonna be napalm and 110,000 of his closest friends!

Also, Hail to Pitt! Gonna smoke those Lobos today. Not smoking as many lobos as Oklahoma State, though!
 
herderdude said:
Akron? Damn, you can get as drunk as you want, that game will be over at halftime! Always wanted to go to a game at The Big House. I've been to Ann Arbor twice and both times I made sure to stop and see The Big House. I think Penn State's Beaver Stadium looks bigger, since it just rises up from the cornfields.

It's gonna be napalm and 110,000 of his closest friends!

Also, Hail to Pitt! Gonna smoke those Lobos today. Not smoking as many lobos as Oklahoma State, though!
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Our freshman wonder boy QB Shane Morris is gonna get playing time today. 37 yd line, row 20 right behind the Michigan bench baby!
 
Hell yeah that's gonna be awesome! It's a good thing we left when we did, Mountaineer traffic is going to be horrendous! There must be 50 'Eer fans here at the rest stop at any one point in time. The tailgate starts here. The craziest part of that is that it's only 15 miles from Morgantown to the PA border. I can only imagine what it's like on the WV side.
 
napalm said:
Our freshman wonder boy QB Shane Morris is gonna get playing time today. 37 yd line, row 20 right behind the Michigan bench baby!
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Nice man! Ever been to a penn state game? That's an experience right there!
 
I've been to three Pitt games, once because I took the wide receivers coach for South Florida's drunk ass back to the hotel from the South Side (swear to God, free tix too). But Heinz Field is only half full for Pitt games.

Steeler games? Sheer lunacy. I thought college kids drank a lot for football, but no college kid can drink with a grown ass man who works for a living. And, you have to know somebody to get a ticket, and someone has to die to get season tickets (if they aren't in their last will and testament)
 
I'm grilling these...NU plays UCLA @ 1000 my time.

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smoker145 said:
QFT. You can tell that getting smashed watching this football game is the only thing they have in a week
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I worked concessions in peanut heaven for wrestling fundraising in college. Holy hell that was awesome/sucked.
 
That looks like the font you'd see in a children's book.
 
You all need to leave the 165lbs class to me. :D
 
Aaaand we're here. I'll catch you phuckers later!
 
napalm said:
I'm 5'7" and I couldn't make 165 if god helped me. I'm 40 lbs north of that...
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We're almost the same height!!! You can do it! (You look taller in your vids tho!) :)
 
Today was squat day. We listened to Brandon talk about programming and how training balls to the walls 100% is only 1/4 of the equation. Caitlyn instructed us a little bit on the squats, and Corey mobilized us (Corey is a genius and a sadist). They all liked my form but instructed me on head position (head back) to neutralize the spine. They also had me sitting back a little more.

I hit two PRs: 420 no belt no wraps, 470 no wraps. Both moved pretty good.

After 470 I decided I wanted to wrap up. I went with 510 a touch high with Corey wrapping my knees with my blue arrows, then I tried to GM 550 after Brandon wrapped my knees with his Slingshot wraps. Both of those guys wrapped it so tight that I forgot to bend my knees or was afraid to bend my knees. I know that sounds idiotic, but it happened.

I might have been good for 500 with no wraps, but I'm happy with my performance. They're all outstanding people and very very helpful. We had four of the five of us hit PRs, and I hit two. Their coaching was superb, and I can't wait for them to have me hit a bench PR and a deadlift PR tomorrow! I'll upload the vids tonight.
 
[video=youtube;rJQCMjY5vdo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQCMjY5vdo[/video]
 
I'm having trouble walking from the knots built up from the wraps. Also, my spinal erectors are trashed from trying to good morning 550.
 
Sean1332 said:
Badass!!! Lilly is huge lol
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Oh, dude. So PUGHE. I shook his hand when he rolled in, which was like shaking hands with a 2x6. Then a little later on, e had me feel his stomach and back and then his obliques to get an idea of 360 degree core bracing. It's frickin THICK. Like, idk, 18-22" front to back. And rock solid. There is no layer of softness over his stomach like you would think a SHW would have. And as thick as he is when he braces his abs, his chest and back still dwarf his waist. And he stretches the crap out of his 2 or 3XL shirt.

Corey's frickin rock solid, too, and mobile as all hell. He's got a donk. There's another guy that trains there (I think you can see him in some of Lilly's vids, I didn't catch his name) that is also jacked as all hell. And Caitlyn is lean as it gets and is girl jacked. Back, shoulders, abs, and of course lower body.
 
smoker145 said:
Lol I know but too attempt.... For me that's an unreal number at this point. But like they say " every dog has his day" so my time will come
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Last year about this time, I was hitting 365 for 3 and proud of it. Keep that in mind.

Brandon asked everybody what they squatted. The one guy said "Ah, just 435." Brandon told him "BE PROUD OF THAT NUMBER. YOU EARNED IT AND IT'S YOURS." Always remember that. Your numbers are yours, and your 5lb PR is just as huge as anybody else's. We had a girl hit her first 200lb squat today, and everybody was pumped for her.
 
herderdude said:
Last year about this time, I was hitting 365 for 3 and proud of it. Keep that in mind.

Brandon asked everybody what they squatted. The one guy said "Ah, just 435." Brandon told him "BE PROUD OF THAT NUMBER. YOU EARNED IT AND IT'S YOURS." Always remember that. Your numbers are yours, and your 5lb PR is just as huge as anybody else's. We had a girl hit her first 200lb squat today, and everybody was pumped for her.
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I love when there is a comradery to the sport. Part of what I love about it and has made it suck me in. That type of attitude is always why I think Brandon is extremely inspirational. I miss when he was posting thoughts videos on YouTube from his truck and home haha. But he has been doing bigger things so can't blame him.

A+ post herder
 
Thanks. I am proud of my lifts thus far except squat bc j have procrastinated it. but rob has taken me under his wing and helps me out with form, programming, etc. he's been a huge help to me, and has finally gotten my dumbass to skwat.

Goodluck with your lifts tomorrow. Expecting vids of prs
 
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