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[Jim Ouini]

Week 9 Day 3

Worked out at home. All weights in kg's. Kind of warm today and I worked out in the middle of the day so I was somewhat worried about my energy levels. Plus my hip wasn't feeling tip top so I had lots going on in my head today.

Squat
Bar x 2 x 10
60 x 2 x 5
80 x 2 x 2
102 x 3
125 x 3
150 x 3 (no belt 1 x 3 PR)

vid

Well I was pretty concerned about my top set today. 125 felt pretty heavy, in fact I stumbled forward a little bit on the 3rd rep, really an awful set. So I approached 150 with a lot of concern - for anyone that watches the vid you can tell as it takes me a minute to finally start the rep after the camera starts I even busted out my little portable spotters. Anyway, I thought I coulda been a tad deeper but hams were touching calves so I'll take it.

BB row
Bar x 10
70 x 3
105 x 3 x 3

vid

A little body english but who cares Mostly I was concerned about my hip starting to bother me but the sets were OK.

Overall: Good workout, another short one. I'll either do my inclines tomorrow or wait until Monday.

 

[blut wump]

Nice work. They looked plenty good enough to be 'over 40s ATF squats'.

Congrats on the PR

 

[anotherbutters]

Those portable spotters look pretty neat.

When you walk towards the camera after the rows, it looks like your right foot twists inwards. Everything ok?

 

[Jim Ouini]

Nice work. They looked plenty good enough to be 'over 40s ATF squats'.

That sounds familiar

I think we older folks get some slack because hams to calves isn't as hard to attain if one has saddlebag thighs.

Those portable spotters look pretty neat.

When you walk towards the camera after the rows, it looks like your right foot twists inwards. Everything ok?

Yeah, it's just my pigeon toed-ness, I think.

The portable spotters are cool, I'd never used them for squatting as you can tell as I didn't have it aligned properly and the bar would've completely missed them if I did have to dump it. Not that I mind dumping it on the ground so much but my wife's car was right behind me. I've used them primarily for benching

 

[BiggT]

I can't get the vids to upload on my cpu for some reason, but screw it, lol....Your squats have made leaps and bounds, man.....I predict a double bodyweight raw squat within 18 months or so......it seems like you went from mid-200s to mid-300s over the last 6 months, really nice progression........what do you weigh? Around 200ish?

 

[Jim Ouini]

Thanks man, my progression is maybe more like 290's to 330's in a few months. Slow going but coming along I think, lots of tweaks and form improvements along the way and I have a feeling more to come.

I weigh 205 right now, so double BW would be 4 plates and change. My goal is to hit that before I turn 50

 

[Protobuilder]

40 pounds in a few months for someone w/ your skill is really impressive. Very nice job, man.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Thanks for the kind words Proto, really appreciate you checkin out my log.

I think my 'skill level' is such that I can make gains on my squat just by squatting, to paraphrase Biggt.

Although I'm itchin to try that Dan Johns method where you squat with the bar starting right at your sticking point and try to blast through that

 

[fortunatesun]

Although I'm itchin to try that Dan Johns method where you squat with the bar starting right at your sticking point and try to blast through that

Those are really tough. I was inspired to try some after watching a clip of B-fold doing GMs starting from a 90% position and blasting it up. For some reason I think they're called negative GMs. I tried both GM and squat. They turned out to be way more difficult than B-fold made them out to be. My conservative estimate still had me taking plates off. They're sort of fun, though, and I plan to do some more esp. for squats which seemed to have a lot more potential for useful carryover than the GMs. Those seemed more a strongman feat in and of themselves.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Yeah I need to research it more but I was wondering what %RM to try these at and if they're supposed to done in a DE-like manner or ?