napalm: 12 weeks to WPC Worlds...ya, really...

jem6702 said:
I think the Joe is about the oldest arena left. Will miss the bounces off the dashers there.
New conference this year too. Made for TV change- lot less 10:30 PM starts for road games.
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Yeah, it's about time we play some more O6 teams. I say they take the dashers out of the Joe and put them in the new arena.

Downtown D is gonna be a lot more fun (READ: SAFE) with everything within a mile of everything. No more treks into the ghetto...
 
8/22 weak ass bench

warmup
internal/external rotations 50 total
band pull aparts 3x15 - s.hit, first time i've done these...yikes!
bar x 2 x 15
95x2x5
115x2x5
135x5

work
210x5x3, here's the last:
[video=youtube;dPcSWbsi1b0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPcSWbsi1b0[/video]

assistance
face pulls 5x12 @ 75
super set w v-bar pushdowns stack x 5 x 10

thoughts
not sure how many more linear weeks i have left in me, maybe 2, which would be triples w 220 for 4-5 sets. by wendler's formula that puts me at 241 in a couple weeks, which is 6 weeks from worlds. taking a week off, and a week for openers/maybe seconds leaves 4 weeks to do something with my bench. maybe program one month for 10 more pounds? i'd like to think i'd get 5 lbs from adrenaline, so that puts me right around 255ish.

shoulders are ok, right labrum sucks but the joint help should be kicking back in here in a couple days.

any way i add it up it comes to 1070-1080ish. :(
 
I was thinking today a short blast might be in order. I got some extra test laying around. BW is about 193-195ish on any given day...
 
8/23 deadlift
warmup
a crap load of stretching and rdl's w the bar x 5 minutes or so
135x3x5
205x2x5
275x5

work
330x4x3, here's the last:
[video=youtube;UDNJqbn_ilA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDNJqbn_ilA[/video]
felt a little twinge in my left lower back so i shut down the last set. i don't think it's anything, better safe than sorry. was a little quick on the last one, didn't get to where i wanted to be.

assistance
not a dam thing

thoughts
just like w my bench, i'm almost done w linear increases. i think i'm pretty close to 400, if not there. i might be able to squeeze 415-420 at worlds, maybe 425. i'm pretty happy being able to put together some semblance of a deadlift in about 3 months total. the only reason i'm able to do it is i never stopped training the squat. next week is deload week, i might just warmup and rip 360 or so off the floor. that would be my opener for 420, so i'll know a little more next week. something weird: i felt a little pulling in both my pecs the first set i did, a little uncomfortable. it went away fast so i just kept going. strange...

a good week...
 
Well...not much to say. Form is always pretty tight with your lifts. Nice work, sir.
 
A good week indeed! Nice work.
 
One of these days, Alice. One of these days . . .
 
Yesterday was yesterday's yesterday's tomorrow. So today is out of line.
 
Lol, I was busy all day yesterday and today and forgot!

Blast has started. Twice my trt dose, the hell with high hematocrit and hemoglobin. I'll just take two aspirin instead of one...

Squats today, deload week so you know what that means, no deload.

Warmed up to 315x5x1, then went for 350, here it is:
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Thoughts
It appears I got down a little lower than last week, this one looks good. It's around what my opener will be, a true 85%. Bar speed was ok. Wanted a different camera angle, sorry for the junk close up.

Prolly warm up the shoulders weds and go for 230ish.

We'll see...
 
Rodja said:
Looks deep enough, but it's hard to tell from the front.
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Txs rodja, I'm pretty confident about that one. When I was getting set up I told myself: 'rodjas gonna see this' and went for it.

Last week was iffy, this one I think was good. I'll send it to the short dude w the ponytail and get his feedback. He's a judge after all...
 
napalm said:
Txs rodja, I'm pretty confident about that one. When I was getting set up I told myself: 'rodjas gonna see this' and went for it. Last week was iffy, this one I think was good. I'll send it to the short dude w the ponytail and get his feedback. He's a judge after all...
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From my eye, it looked good.
 
I'm grocery shopping, looking at the contents of everyone else's cart, we should be ashamed as a society...
 
napalm said:
I'm grocery shopping, looking at the contents of everyone else's cart, we should be ashamed as a society...
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Preach!!

I made a couple trips down the middle aisles (looking for rice) at my local King Soopers this weekend...simply awful.

How many bags/boxes of processed crap can one buy? A LOT.
 
Update: the minor back tightness from deadlifting friday is still there. Flared up squatting Monday. I still don't think it's anything, but I'm prolly not going to deadlift Friday.

Late meeting today so bench will have to wait until tomorrow...
 
Had my kid work my back over w a tennis ball and did a bunch of rolling. Feels looser, will do this nightly for the foreseeable future.



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Dinner...
 
8/29 weak ass bench

warmup
internal/external rotations 50 total
band pull aparts - mini, 3x12 man, these things suck in really good way
95x2x5
135x2x5
185x3

work
230x1, here it is:
[video=youtube;iHNNw1jxrwI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHNNw1jxrwI[/video]
not my best effort technically, but bar speed was ok. i think my eccentric was a little slow for no apparent reason. i'm open for suggestions gents, i'm guessing something around this should be my opener. i'm pretty sure i got 250-255, but 260 would be sweet. my back is still a little sore today, gonna roll it and have my kid mash it. she was enjoying working me over with the tennis ball a little too much last night!
 
Hold the bar after the lockout. You'll want to get used to having to hold it at the top until you hear the "rack" command.
 
Rodja said:
Hold the bar after the lockout. You'll want to get used to having to hold it at the top until you hear the "rack" command.
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You are correct sir. I'm really out of practice with the bench commands. The pause at the bottom needs work too.

Did you think the eccentric was too slow?
 
a little saturday morning humor. this is what mrs napalm goes through every time she wants to run...[video=youtube;Oogw2MTjHfU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oogw2MTjHfU[/video]
 
lol awesome dude

My son hasn't seen the dog or myself in two weeks. He was more excited to see the damn dog than me.
 
napalm said:
Uh, just saw Obama on tv. I'm setting the over/under on cruise missiles hitting Syria at 50...
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Phuck Obama. My freshman year of college our baseball team had 6am weights and when we arrived there was 6 dudes in all black suits standing around the weight room. We're all thinking, hmm this is weird. Come to find out, Obama was in our weight room working out. He was giving a speech at our school before he was elected and was literally doing incline DB 5 feet from me. I should have "spotted" him and let the DB's decapitate him.
 
CincyKiller45 said:
Phuck Obama. My freshman year of college our baseball team had 6am weights and when we arrived there was 6 dudes in all black suits standing around the weight room. We're all thinking, hmm this is weird. Come to find out, Obama was in our weight room working out. He was giving a speech at our school before he was elected and was literally doing incline DB 5 feet from me. I should have "spotted" him and let the DB's decapitate him.
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I used to be stationed in NY...that's also where his campaign ran out of...working in some of the details its pretty impressive seeing first hand and up close the size of his posse
 
Sean1332 said:
I used to be stationed in NY...that's also where his campaign ran out of...working in some of the details its pretty impressive seeing first hand and up close the size of his posse
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That's awesome man and impressive to say the least. There was at least 6 ppl in the weight room, a bunch outside and on campus, and a sniper on the bridge 100 yards out. And that's just the ones I knew about lol.
 
Training week is kinda fck'd. Gym was closed yesterday - ghey, now with golf tonight it's gonna be weds, thurs, Friday.

On another note, I'm going to have a 12 hour layover in FCKING Amsterdam on the way back from Prague. Get there at 8 at night, leave at 8 in the morning. Oh man, this could be epic.

Prolly buying the tickets this week...
 
Holy shyt, I just looked up the WPC raw world records. The squat for masters 3 at 198 is 528

I'm breaking that mother fckr next year...
 
9/4 squats new cycle, 70/80/90% 3x3

warmup:
a few rdl's with the bar back is still sore - more on that later
bar x 2 x 5
95x2x5
135x2x5
185x5
225x3

work:
260x3
290x3
325x3, here it is:
[video=youtube;kSdnJJVJsec]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSdnJJVJsec[/video]
kind of ugly, but i'm pretty sure i hit depth. form broke down at rep 2, 3 was a little better. had trouble keeping my chest up.

thoughts:
this new cycle puts me over 400 for the first time, max is now 401 - 4 more fcking pounds.

well, that little thing going on in my r lower erector is now officially something - i think it showed the 2nd rep today. back is a little sorer than usual right now, gonna roll it and tennis ball it here in a few. this is eerily similar to what happened to me about 3 months out from nationals - same fcking r lower back. this time though, there ain't no squat only, it's full power at worlds and i ain't taking a token dl. i'm going for a number. i think i might do some light rdl's friday to loosen up a bit, but that's about it. i figure my dl is right around 400 right now, i gotta figure out how to let it get some rest and still do something around 360 in a few weeks.
 
Sean1332 said:
Your do a good job sittin' back man
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Txs Sean, this is also about the time I start questioning the width of my stance. It's not out if the realm of possibility that I'm too wide for raw. Hopefully rodja will chime in. Not sure if I'm bent over too far...
 
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