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And me as well. For me one cue before I break the weight off the floor and one after is all I can handle. Before I break the weight it is driving my heels into the ground after it is keeping my chest up.
When I have tried to concentrate on both driving my heels and keeping my chest up at the same time it has proven to be one more cue than I could process while pulling.
Well I can tell ya you're makin me wanna bang him.
Keeping my chest up is the cue. The more I exaggerate that the more I sit back. I also keep my toes up a bit when I initiate the lift- keeps me honest. You saw I almost fell over backwards on my 405 attempt. Very surprised how light it felt.
Unfortunately won't play for me
Today was not the day. Work has been ridiculous, kid has been the spawn of satan, I am sleeping for shit lately. Usually I perk up when the blood hits my muscles but such was not the case today.
Flat bench
135 x 10
135 x 10
225 x 10
315 x 3
365 x 2 horrible speed, no explosion. Yuck.
220 x 20
Incline dB bench
100's
3 sets 10
Dips bw
3 sets 10
Hammer strength push down
6 plates
3 sets 10
Couldn't do any more. Wanted to leave after every set. Came home and choked down a dinner. In bed by nine. Dueces.
Flat bench
135 x 10
135 x 10
225 x 10
315 x 3
365 x 2 horrible speed, no explosion. Yuck.
220 x 20
Incline dB bench
100's
3 sets 10
Dips bw
3 sets 10
Hammer strength push down
6 plates
3 sets 10
Couldn't do any more. Wanted to leave after every set. Came home and choked down a dinner. In bed by nine. Dueces.
Definitely happens sometimes especially when stress is high. You still got plenty of good work in and set yourself to bounce back with a big session the next time you bench.
Don't sweat it big man. Shit life happens to the best of us bro. We can't have the stars aligning for us every workout. Hell you still got in a good one though. Tomorrow is another day. Get some much needed rest if you can. I know what ya mean by kids. We cant get my lil 2yr girl to stop saying "Fuck You" smh. We was at a parent teacher conference a couple weeks ago for my son. We almost made it the entire time until something didn't go her way an you guessed it. She yelled out fuck you an we just had to act like it didn't happen lol but not lol smh.
Same, spent 7 hours in 110 degree weather golfing today, then tried to hit chest.... Well, lol, I think my girl benched better than me.... Today was a lot of pussy machines....
Finally a fellow golfer, you play much ?
I had a day like this last fri, i drive a little over an hour to get to the gym and that day i yawned the whole way but thought ill shake it off cause i always do. Well not the case, i hated every second of every set, if not for the fact i drive so far i would have went home.
But the next workout and every one since has been epic! So no worries brutus you'll bounce back, i just think sometimes the mind and body just need a break then its go time again.
Kill it next time brother!!!!
Hahaha! Bro, it was literally my first time ever.... I am not built for golf. But, I had a blast.
ChaseTheYoke
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You're pretty huge dude. 270 at 12-13% bf.... crazy big. Your lifts don't seem to match up with your size though. I'm 205 10-11% bf and am with 20lbs of all your lifts (from your opening post anyways). I'm not being a douchebag, I don't consider myself very strong, but something might be up with your training. Looks like you hit mostly in the myofibillar range of reps.
Heavier lifting preferentially induces myofibrillar growth , and lighter lifting sarcoplasmic growth. Heavier lifting does result in some sarcoplasmic growth 11 12 and lighter lifting some myofibrillar growth , but the former induces more myofibrillar than sarcoplasmic, and the latter vice versa.
Cited: “Muscle Time Under Tension During Resistance Exercise Stimulates Differential Muscle Protein Sub-Fractional Synthetic Responses in Men,” Journal of Physiology 590 (2011): 351-362.
What do your rest periods look like? Again, please don't take this the wrong way. You just seem borderline strongman size, lol.
Edit: I'm not withing 20 lbs of your DL, lol. And after reading this post it does seem overly douchey. Just feel like your lifts could be bigger. Not saying I'll necessarily will have any answers to why that is, but hey... maybe someone will
I think Brutus"s bench is over 400lbs and his dead lift is way over 500. Not bad . Look at his before pics from just a few years ago , pretty impressive progress I think , plus he just started powerlifting . He's going for it..
ChaseTheYoke
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I think Brutus"s bench is over 400lbs and his dead lift is way over 500. Not bad . Look at his before pics from just a few years ago , pretty impressive progress I think , plus he just started powerlifting . He's going for it..
Not stating he is weak by any means. That dude has to be freakishly huge. I just feel like he has monster strength potential at that size. Dude has like 230lbs of LBM! I would hit the 4-6 rep range more on my big lifts with 3 minute rest periods. Just my .02c
I think it all the time. People tell me it's because I have only been lifting weights for 2 1/2 years and really only been squatting and deadlifting for about a year and a half. I apparently have only been deadlifting correctly for a week. They say "be patient, it will come. Rome wasn't built in a day." Most of my training has been hypertrophy based- I am excited to see what happens when I switch to a pure strength building routine next month... hence the log. Stay tuned- you will either get to see a big man finally get strong or a big man cry because he is so weak. We shall see.You're pretty huge dude. 270 at 12-13% bf.... crazy big. Your lifts don't seem to match up with your size though. I'm 205 10-11% bf and am with 20lbs of all your lifts (from your opening post anyways). I'm not being a douchebag, I don't consider myself very strong, but something might be up with your training. Looks like you hit mostly in the myofibillar range of reps.
Heavier lifting preferentially induces myofibrillar growth , and lighter lifting sarcoplasmic growth. Heavier lifting does result in some sarcoplasmic growth 11 12 and lighter lifting some myofibrillar growth , but the former induces more myofibrillar than sarcoplasmic, and the latter vice versa.
Cited: “Muscle Time Under Tension During Resistance Exercise Stimulates Differential Muscle Protein Sub-Fractional Synthetic Responses in Men,” Journal of Physiology 590 (2011): 351-362.
What do your rest periods look like? Again, please don't take this the wrong way. You just seem borderline strongman size, lol.
Edit: I'm not withing 20 lbs of your DL, lol. And after reading this post it does seem overly douchey. Just feel like your lifts could be bigger. Not saying I'll necessarily will have any answers to why that is, but hey... maybe someone will
ChaseTheYoke
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Oh wow. Didn't realize how short of a period you've been lifting. No doubt you'll be bending bars and bruising egos before long.
I want that more than anything... except to continue to stay clean and sober and make a good life for my baby girl. I'm gonna raise my weights and drop the reps from your posts for the remainder of the month until I get on a coach program based on your feed back. Thanks!
keep the good outlook on what you need to do and you will be fine.
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