Beware the Jabberwocky!

[Zerocrew1984]

buy some oly shoes.

 

[liquid!]

I dropped an arch playing basketball years ago which has continually aggravated my Achilles. I'll put those on my Christmas list. Does the sizing run big or small?

...I need to space out my gear-whoring so why wife doesn't wise up to all of my purchases.

 

[Zerocrew1984]

small.

 

[liquid!]

Fourteens it is then.

This is my last unemployed Friday, I'm starting work next week.

Phoenix in January.

 

[Zerocrew1984]

dam so you wear size 15's normally? freak.

sweet you got a new job! doing what?

 

[liquid!]

Nope. I'm normally 13-14, so if they run small I bump up to 14. Most running shoes run small.

I'll either be working for Bayer or a pharmaceutical contract manufacturer. I have one last interview on Monday and then I'll have to make up my mind.

 

[Zerocrew1984]

oh i meant the other way around i guess....

so if you wear a size 13 then get size 12

 

[liquid!]

Thirteens it is then. Good to know. I hate ordering shoes online.

 

[Zerocrew1984]

For some reason i say that to myself but i've ordered shoes 3 times in my life and everytime everything worked out just fine. I have been burned on shirts before. damn sizes....

 

[liquid!]

Warmup: Face pulls, cable arm traction, and cable rows.

Bridging One Arm Db Bench
65x6
70x5
75x5
80x5
85x5
90x5

Db Row
110x5
110x5
110x5
110x5
110x5

Tate Press
45x5x2

Floor Rolling Tricep Ext
45x5x2

Saxon Side Bends
15x10x2

Db Snatch
45x100 in 4:33 _____previous best 5:25____

Dammit I ran out of my super carb awesome sauce!!! Ordered some more Thursday from True Protein , I'm switching to Waxy Maize Starch

PeriWO: 1 serv Gatorade; True Protein (10g:5g) w/ BCAAs & glutamine peptides.
PWO: True Protein (10g/5g) w/ BCAAs & glutamine peptides; 25g MPI; 10g Whey Isolate; w/ skim milk, and a banana.

 

[liquid!]

______Circuit_____
10 Med Ball Burpees
10 Pushups
40ft Foam roller push across gym floor
10 Heavybag jumpovers
10 Heavybag shouldering
-90s rest-

x3

_____Circuit_____
10 Heavybag zercher walking lunges
40ft Foam roller push across gym floor
-30s rest-

x3

Snatch Grip Speed Deadlifts w/ 35s
255x3 45s rest
255x3
255x3
255x3
255x3
255x3
255x3
255x3
255x3
255x3

Back Extensions with 2 sec iso-hold
Avg. band x10
Avg. band x10

Decline Situps
Avg. band x10
Avg. band x10

10 min Stationary bike

Adding bands to back extensions and decline situps was great (it sucked).

Out of Awesome Sauce...so
PeriWO: 2 serv gatorade
PostWO: 35g MPI, 10g Whey Isolate, banana, frozen fruit, w/ skim milk.

 

[liquid!]

Warmup: Cable traction and rowing, Face pulls, Cat Stretch, Lat Stretch.

_Chins_
bw x5 - softball grip
bw x6 - softball grip
bw x3 - softball broke -finished set bw x 4
bw x5 - underhand
bw x4
bw x3
bw x3

_Dips_
bw x6
bw x7
+25x5
+25x5
+25x5
+25x5
+25x5

_Bench_
135x15
185x5
225x3
235x2
225x2
185x3
135x15

Pretty crappy session today. I had no energy and didn't bother with any PreWO drink. I broke my softball grip for chins (bw=250), but that can be fixed. I kept the weight light on the dips so I could go deep. Teh Bench sucked. Is it ok to say I hate benching...Well I do. I really don't enjoy it at all. I'm going to buy some rings soon and stick to dbs for a while, with the occasional cg bench. I really dig pressing shit over my head though.

Their was a funny moment at the gyn today though. Two PTers decided to squeeze in a chest workout. 3x15 bench @ 135lb. The kicker was they used a Theraband for their benching. This must of added a whooping 5lbs to the top of the lift. The smaller guy who is normally very quiet was yelling out the number of each rep when he was spotting. I mean yelling: THREEEE, YEah GET IT YEAH.......FOUR.....Needless so say. It was an awesome spectacle. I couldn't help but stare blankly. When they were done they looked at me and said, "We need to get some energy in here." I said, "apparently so........."

Leaving the gyn my wife come over to me and said, "please tell me that wasn't you yelling." She was on another floor tearing it up a treadmill and heard the glorious cry of the benchmonkey. I just said sorry hon' sometimes I get carried away when I'm when to 10. She punched me...and we headed home.

Peri: 10g WPI, 1 serv gatorade
PWO: 50g WPI, frozen fruit , banana, w/ skim milk.

My Awesome sauce should arrive soon.

 

[enright3060]

uh, Liquid - you need to edit the color of your post above.

Also, as a tall fellow, I would guess you keep a wide grip on teh bench. Correct?

 

[liquid!]

I'm trying to get my hands out on the bench, hence the low numbers. I've got frickin monkey arms. I'm talking a wingspan is around 6'9". I was at shoulder width. Now my pinkies are 1 inch inside the outer rings. I need to go wider huh?

Where do you put your hands?

 

[enright3060]

I only bring this up because at your body weight and strength level, I figured you should bench a bit more. (Especially, when you consider how you are destroying 225+ on the push press)

I'm 5'7" with short arms. I have my hands in about the same place you do. My understanding is that tall individuals with long arms usually do better with a wider grip, which might help you. It will limit your ROM, which is already laughable long.

But, I got tons of bench problems. You might want to ask Fatty, Devil, NerdKing, Lusst or Fatkid for advice. I don't really know what your goals are (other than kickin’ ass). If you are not really interested in power-lifting, then the bench is not really that important.

 

[liquid!]

Yeah, I haven't made much progress with the benchzors. I've got 250 at shoulder width, but I lose a bit when I move my hands out.

As a point of pride I think I need to pick it up a bit. I hate programs, but I may need a bench intervention with the amount I suck I brought to the gyn today.

 

[enright3060]

Are you weak of the chest, but good at locking out whatever you can push off your chest?

 

[liquid!]

Hell Yes. I get stuck just off the chest.

Any suggestions? Should I hit up dbs from a while?

 

[enright3060]

I would work on pause bench for a while with low reps sets, but with some volume. Focus on staying tight and give yourself a second or more pauses. This should help your starting strength. Try to add 5 pounds a week.

Heavy dbs would also work.

You could alternate between the two so you don't get annoyed with doing so much bb benching.

 

[liquid!]

Thanks mang.

I agree. I do need to be more strict with the pause. I usually keep adding weight and abandon pausing halfway through a set.

I just have a boner for 2 wheels, but she doesn't reciprocate. Looks like it back to trusty 185 and 205 for some pause set action. You Dbs can hang out and watch.