Strength in Interesting Places

[JauntyAngle]

Nice lift, Jaunty! It's always a good feeling to set a new record. I guess it's time to bump up your work sets now, eh?

I'm still doing linear progression on the DLs, 2kg per time, on the classic 'Starting Strength' rotation, meaning DL twice in the first week and once in the second. So I am adding 6kg per 2 weeks. Monday's session will be 5x140kg, and it will take me about 4 weeks to get to 5x150kg for my work sets. By that time my 1RM ought to be 160-165kg

I think that I am one of those people who will stop progressing doing linear progression with sets across pretty quickly. Deadlifts might be the only exception- I've had smooth progress adding weights, and am pretty sure I have quite a bit more session by sesion improvement still to come.

 

[JauntyAngle]

Forgot to mention that I also took a video of me doing some Sun Salutations.

I do these quite often before lifting, as my 'dynamic stretch'. You may notice that it is quite similar to a Burpee, but it adds stretching to the neck, hamstrings, calves, lower back and shoulders. Also, when in the downward dog (the position you hould for along time in the middle), if you're not a woman or insanely flexible, you have to work very hard to flatten your lumbar region. I find this good practice for keeping my lower back straight there is a weight pulling me forward. Some yoga people do 108 of them in a row, which is a gruelling workout (I've done 108 once, and 110 once, and 55 several times).

In this video I just do two.



These are not bad, given how much flexibility I have lost in the last year. My standing forward bend is a bit crappy- should be able to get palms flat on the ground, legs completely straight and back should be long, not round like this. My downward dog is better than I thought it would be... in the second one, you can see that for a brief moment I almost eliminate my back rounding.

Glad I took this video- it encourages me to do them more often, and to work on improving them.

 

[MIDMOBOX]

Shinnoh League 4 life

 

[JauntyAngle]

Shinnoh League 4 life

Agreed!

 

[MIDMOBOX]

would rape that Jessie

cause seriously how is she going to report it, Team Rocket are wanted criminals


Which brings me to another thing about Black and White. Team Rocket(jessie and James) almost appear to have their act together. They are catching pokemon and completing missions for the boss. They still suck at getting pikachu but thats a given.

 

[JauntyAngle]

would rape that Jessie

cause seriously how is she going to report it, Team Rocket are wanted criminals

You might try, but she would probably get Koffing or Wheezing to release a large cloud of toxic smoke, and escape. Possibly Arbok would bombard you with mildly poisonous needles at the same time.

 

[MIDMOBOX]

You might try, but she would probably get Koffing or Wheezing to release a large cloud of toxic smoke, and escape. Possibly Arbok would bombard you with mildly poisonous needles at the same time.

Might still be worth it


Also you can read updates on Black and White on the offical pokemon site. It turns out that B&W is season 14.

Pok

 

[JauntyAngle]

Found these awesome black and white pictures of hostesses from Tokyo.

 

[JauntyAngle]

Kabul Week 7: Workout 3

Warmup

C2 rower- 3 minutes


Squats

93kg: x5, x5, x5, x5
65kg: x10

These were pretty much all good, especially the second set. The feeling of going the extra depth was coming very naturally. I threw in an extra set for fun. And so backoffs.


Press

56kg: x5, x5, x5 (+1kg 5RM PR)

Yay! Never got past 55kg for reps before. It was kind of tough, especially the last set. Don't know if I will be able to do 57kg next time. But I guess I will give it a go.


Power Clean

I wanted to take some time to work on form. I was reading that it is good to practice hang cleans too, so this is what I did:

40kg: hang power clean x3, power clean x3
45kg: hang power clean x3, power clean x3
50kg: hang power clean x3, power clean x3
55kg: hang power clean x1, power clean x3
60kg: power clean x3
65kg: power clean x3
70kg: power clean x 1
71kg: power clean x 1
72kg: power clean x 1

There were some improvments, but I was just too tired at the end, and was doing them horribly by then. For some reason I was barely resting between the sets, which didn't help.

* * *

Was really tired and lethargic today and nearly didn't go. With all the power cleans I did, I was too tired to do any extras.

I am actually leaning strongly towards replacing power cleans with Bent-Over Rows as my second pull. I have doubts about my ability to get the power clean form down just being self-coached, and I think BOR will help my deadlift and bench press more.

I'll still be power cleaning the bar onto my shoulders in order to press. I will probably make power clean one of my main extras- along with weighted dips and weighted chins. Try to do them once a week if I can, but not going too much with the weight.

 

[Justice 4 All]

Power cleans are the shizazle brah! I love 'em.
Took me a long long time to get a form that's now decent. You should stick with it, especially if you want to do oly lifts sometime down the line.

By the way, when will we be seeing pics of this Thai wife of yours? =D

 

[JauntyAngle]

Power cleans are the shizazle brah! I love 'em.
Took me a long long time to get a form that's now decent. You should stick with it, especially if you want to do oly lifts sometime down the line.

By the way, when will we be seeing pics of this Thai wife of yours? =D

I don't really see Oly lifts in my future. Living in Chiang Mai and working in places like Afghanistan, you are lucky to see a regular barbell, let alone bumpers and platforms. I do love power cleans, but I also love BORs. So it is not so much getting rid of power cleans, just letting BORs take their place as a main lift. Mind isn't completely made up yet, though.

As for pics of wife... so all you internet pervs can drool over her? Don't think so. May post pictures of my dog though. You can drool over him if you like. :icon_chee

 

[scoopj]

As for pics of wife... so all you internet pervs can drool over her? Don't think so. May post pictures of my dog though. You can drool over him if you like. :icon_chee

Wise man. Do you have a sister though? I keed. I keed.

 

[calvus]

What you guys fail to realize is that Jaunty has been posting pictures of his wives...

 

[belph]

What you guys fail to realize is that Jaunty has been posting pictures of his wives...

is there a written rule against stealing another mans wife ?

 

[LitteringAnd]

As for pics of wife... so all you internet pervs can drool over her? Don't think so. May post pictures of my dog though. You can drool over him if you like. :icon_chee

Very selfish bro.

 

[JauntyAngle]

is there a written rule against stealing another mans wife ?

Just one that I know of...

Although there are obviously complicated jurisdictional issues with that one.

 

[belph]

Just one that I know of...

Although there are obviously complicated jurisdictional issues with that one.

might as well complete all 7 deadly sins, i hate leaving things unfinished. :icon_twis

 

[JauntyAngle]

So, looks like I am here until next Friday. Then home for just over a week, then back to Kabul for about three weeks or just over.

I am very seriously considering doing a cycle of Smolov Jr for my bench during that three week period. I want to do this because (a) it sounds fun and I want to try some high volume approach, (b) bench is one exercise I think doesn't have much more gains left doing 3x5 sets across LP.

My current plan is to do the bench and just one other exercise on each Smolov day. In general, I will try to keep the workload on the other exercises fairly light. I want to have the last two days on Thursday and Friday, so it will be something like this:


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Sunday
Smolov Jr Day One
Squats 4x5 (sets across)

Tuesday
Smolov Jr Day Two
Bent Over Row 3x5 (ramped)

Thursday
Smolov Jr Day Three
Deadlift 1x5

Friday
Smolov Jr Day Four
Power cleans 5x3 (ramped)

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Thoughts, comments?

 

[The_observer86]

Do it!
It seems to be working, we (my brothers are in on it too) are setting rep PR at the end of the week 2. The first week should be really easy. I'll report tomorrow if I finish week 2.

 

[Voodooloco]

So, looks like I am here until next Friday. Then home for just over a week, then back to Kabul for about three weeks or just over.

I am very seriously considering doing a cycle of Smolov Jr for my bench during that three week period. I want to do this because (a) it sounds fun and I want to try some high volume approach, (b) bench is one exercise I think doesn't have much more gains left doing 3x5 sets across LP.

My current plan is to do the bench and just one other exercise on each Smolov day. In general, I will try to keep the workload on the other exercises fairly light. I want to have the last two days on Thursday and Friday, so it will be something like this:


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Sunday
Smolov Jr Day One
Squats 4x5 (sets across)

Tuesday
Smolov Jr Day Two
Bent Over Row 3x5 (ramped)

Thursday
Smolov Jr Day Three
Deadlift 1x5

Friday
Smolov Jr Day Four
Power cleans 5x3 (ramped)

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Thoughts, comments?

Do it!!!
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