Recent content by w8lifterchick

i've competed three times, bench only. I started lifting for looks, but i like improving my strength so i gave up the high rep garbage and concentrate on overall strength. i want to be able to move furniture or hurt someone if i'm attacked. I want to bench more than the guy next to me and more...

very nice becoming. whats a 'mare mortal'?

pain? vioxx is prescription. its an anti inflamatory, but a great one. once inflamation is reduced, you can heal. so its not a pain killer- it won't make you feel much better on the first day, but a few days later and you'll be a new person.

I sprained my sacral joint last year- i think i originally hurt it while spotting someone benching who needed assistance and i was in a bad position. then during some squats i felt a bad sudden pull and could barely make it up the gym stairs. I went for 2 mri's and a nuclear scan because the doc...

I'm not sure, but when i went for rehab for my shoulder in a totally other town- they knew who he was- he's fairly well known and supposedly one of the best. I'll get you his number- his name is dr. frank lanzone don't get drunk at a party and call him frank calzone. just a suggestion.

I know a good one on the island- he was chief of orthopaedic surgery at LIJ. Let me know if you want his name- he's a good friend of my father's (then he made a pass at me at a party before he realized who i was)

lol.. i'm never told i'm too skinny. a lot of people say "powerlifting???? How'd you get into THAT????" like its midget bowling.

i have done the routine-(i designed the logo for them btw) the speed sets are important, whether for competitive reasons or not. i dont have the routine in front of me but do the prescribed amount of reps for the assistance- choose a weight that is close to failure

lol... i know what a snatch is... i was joking.

I don't do any direct tricep work- ed coan wrote my routine. I do a lot of close grip declines for the triceps, but thats about it.

your workout looks good to me- you might want to start a new thread called "illuminati's training journal" or something. If you look at some of the other threads in this group- you'll see mine and parabellum's, although i slacked off a while ago and stopped posting my workouts here. For bench...

I'm not becoming (he's prettier) but i have competed a few times- all raw. i own two bench shirts and will use one at my next competition. My advice is to get one now and train with it for the next year- hopefully you'll have a training partner to help you. Different shirts are for different...

*sigh* whenever i tell someone i'm into powerlifting, they look at me skeptically until i tell them "its not bodybuilding". then they almost always say "OHHHHHhhh... you mean like the stuff in the olympics". NO.. thats OLYMPIC lifting. i don't even know what a snatch IS. :-)

http://www.weightliftingdiscussion.com/routines.html there... choose a good routine and stick with it. don't just train your triceps and not know how you're training the rest of your bench.

thanks (yes, i did see i spelled weight wrong, which is pretty damn stupid of me) and your post is good as well- thats usually how i do it as the weight gets heavier for me.. as a series of singles.