Goals & Gains Devil's power/strength training log

[takeahnase]

It's worse than you can imagine: I'm 6'0. PL style is around 150-155kg. I am currently on Smolov with an estimated ATG 1RM of around 130kg.

 

[Cap'n]

Well you're already at about 2x bw. Not far off from hitting the big 2.5

 

[vince89]

Jesus man, Im 71kg and 6'0 and I can only squat 77.5kg for reps - how long you been training for? Youre strong! Any reason why you cant put on the weight? Or just dont want to?

 

[graedy]

At the moment 69kg, usually a little above 70kg, my target weight is more like 80. I've never been over 74 however.

you should come and eat some steaks with me next summer.

 

[takeahnase]

you should come and eat some steaks with me next summer.

Steak is actually one of the few foods were I actually develop an appetite!

 

[takeahnase]

Jesus man, Im 71kg and 6'0 and I can only squat 77.5kg for reps - how long you been training for? Youre strong! Any reason why you cant put on the weight? Or just dont want to?

I am a typical hardgainer crybaby. I try hard to gain weight, but I can't seem to force myself to eat very well, i.e. it's much harder for me to motivate myself to eat than it is to motivate myself to train. If I have a couple of good weeks, foodwise, I start gaining, but if I'm stressed out by work I eat less and it all goes away again pretty fast. I've been training properly for 2 1/2 years or something like that now. I was pretty weak when I started, but I could always jump pretty high/run quite fast, so I gained strength pretty quickly.

 

[Devil's_Advocate]

I have been squatting inconsistantly for several years. For a long time I was high squatting for high reps....on deadlifts I was doing stupid shit but at least I was doing singles...

I dont want to be any heavier...I am naturally a smaller built guy so I dont want to go too heavy. Plus I am trying to get on SFPD and they got some fairly strict height/weight guidelines...plus I gotta pass their 1.5 mile physical run...little stuff like that lol...

 

[takeahnase]

BMI FTL, hehe.

 

[Devil's_Advocate]

before I forget:

Hex50:
2 sec right, 2 sec left(help with other hand lifting then let go and hold)
3-4 sec right, 0 left(help with other hand lifting then let go and hold)

not the brightest of things to do for left considering I sprained my thumb doing a hand/thumb stretch....bleh...

I seriously want to water-board the guy who invented BMI..lol

 

[graedy]

I plan to gain weight up to about 95 kg over the next 3-4 years. Of course given the pouch allows me to eat sufficeint amounts of food. The heaviest I was in the past was 90 kg. But this was before I got to know sherdog which means that I didnt train legs. So in the lowerbody I had a couple of more kg in me. My natural weight is arround 80-85 kg so I think that 10-15 kg over the course of some years might be ok to add with weighttraining without forcing the body into an "unnatural" state (my goals are not just strength but also good conditioning - and the more muscles you have the more muscles want oxygen).
I am really looking forward to see what one year of consistent, smart weighttraining can do for me.

 

[Mickey's]

Nice squatting....Leo...

Just like a big lion, rawr...

Any suggestions on how to loosen up my #3. The BBSM is around a 2.7 and the BBE is like a 3.3 right?

 

[Devil's_Advocate]

WD40 on the spring....also it will naturally loosen up after 100-200 closes...

yes my BBSM is right about 2.7 and BBE at 3.3 although they do vary. I heard some people have BBSM at 2.4-2.5 and BBE that range from 3.1 to 3.5

 

[Mickey's]

I wd40'ed it and did a bunch of chest closes and stuff and it is still ridiculous. I can shut my 2.5 from parallel and I can barely get my 3 TO parallel. Me=pussyhands

 

[Zerocrew1984]

bahahaha, i lmao with your little warrior cry after squatting...lol

420 looked better than 405. nice job.

 

[Devil's_Advocate]

My suggestion is to get a tougher gripper like BBE or #3.5 and to do some forced closes against the leg and severe negs....

zero dont make me scream SPARTAAAAAAAAAAA at the end of my next PR...yea went deeper on 420 than 405...the guy told me verbatim "go DEEP to make it good for the camera" so I did my best to go as deep as I could...I thought I was well under parallel....then i see the vid and just my head near the safeties...probably DWing myself while off camera....

 

[FATKID]

I've been gone too long.

Nice squattin' man!

Very impressive.

 

[Devil's_Advocate]

Thanks Fatkid. I was thrilled to finally hit 2xbw.


12/05/07 12:45am-2am

-500mg chocamine+200mg caffeine+250mg magnesium+b-complex

-played 3o3 bball 3 games...halfcourt...my conditioning blows...

Squats:
bw(210)-5 reps
95-5 reps
135-5 reps
225-5 reps..

had no energy...

-did a little bit of rotator cuff stuff

-wanted to bench today but my shoulders were really sore for some reason...still feeling effects of CNS fatigue...

-ordered 3 2lb tubs of Choc Mint Muscle Milk ..thanks to the D/S thread that had the 25$ off....54$ shipped total...not bad...

-as I was taking a crap yesterday I was thinking of whether it's better to squat heavier or lighter...came to conclusion that by emptying the intestines...i'd be squatting less weight so it's in my best interest to take a big crap before a big squat session...I dont know why i think about weird shit like this...lol....came out of the bathroom 5lb lighter....lmao...

 

[Donut62]

Also, it helps preventing sharting during the squat which is a danger.

 

[enright3060]

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[Devil's_Advocate]

My guess is that your setting up in less than optimal way. My other guess would be is that you're scared of the weight so you're getting the body to judge how heavy it really is so then after you realize it's not too bad you go faster. Doing some heavy rack holds with supramaximal weight prior to singles can help quite a bit. Definitely video tape your bench as it's very hard to know otherwise.