Feeling Undiminished, Blut Attempts Restoration

[Jim Ouini]

I dumped the bar on my 6th rep at 140kg last Friday - same type of circumstance: tired (from travel), hot, not much to eat. Lots of good excuses

First time I've had to dump it without a power rack. I lowered myself then dumped it while kind of launching myself forward so it wouldn't land on me.

 

[blut wump]

I've done the same in a power rack. Just a shrug of the shoulders and launch forwards. I guess the fact that the bar caught my back on the way down is another sign that I was too slow to be lifting heavy.

HT you must be a few weeks into those 20-repper by now. Do you feel progress?

 

[blut wump]

Intensity - Week 2 Day 2

Another light fronts and GMs workout. I had to rescue a little chick before I could start. It was struggling on the floor by the stable entrance. I managed to find the nest and pop it back.

I'm starting to settle into using the clean grip. I think I have my handwidth pretty much down now but I'm still fiddling with how much of my fingers to use. Get it wrong and the wrist complains bitterly.

My knees were caving in on the reps of set 4. I didn't notice it on the earlier sets and it didn't happen on set 5. After doing the fronts, I had to nip to the toilet and looked in the mirror. I had a big red mark across my neck and the knurling had left an impression. I might need a front pussy pad.

GMs were fine. I just fancied a bit more weight for the last set.


All weight in Kilos, +.5Kg unless just the bar. Previous weeks in orange
Front Squats
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 80x3 for 5 sets
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 80x3, 90x3, 100x3x3
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 80x3, 100x3 for 5 sets
GM
20x10, 40x5, 60x3, 90x3 for 5 sets
60x8, 80x6, 100x3, 105x3, 110x3x3
60x8, 80x5, 100x3, 110x3x3, 120x3

 

[solarclimax]

Good front squating, and those GM's are heavey stuff 2.

If your looking for good deals on pussy pads check out this site they have an offer on.
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[blut wump]

LOL. Just what I was looking for.

 

[Tweakle]

next time can you get a photo of the chick please, I like fluffy lil' things

if you want to spring for a cambered squat bar it makes GMs a lot less annoying, and a full yoke would be stop any rolling around malarky

how wide is your grip? looking @ the coach hatch vids the kid is using almost a bench width when he front squats.. no way could my wrists deal with that

 

[Maks]

next time can you get a photo of the chick please, I like fluffy lil' things

I dunno ... BT certainly had a no-nonsense combat training for his chicken in the last months, after that fox business. I have the feeling that by now they lay steel eggs, throw foxes over the roof for fun and smoke cigars. Maybe not that fluffy and little.

 

[blut wump]

The chick was just a wild bird nesting in the rafters. Here's a picture of it with its siblings.

The chickens have no fear of foxes now but the last incursion was some damned ninja rodent that tunneled through the roof. I've had to equip the chicks with assualt rifles since then.

 

[blut wump]

Intensity - Week 2 Day 3

I was quite leery of the squats after Monday's collapse but they went well again. The set at 153Kg felt solid. The set at 163 was fairly hard but I definitely had more in me.

The PP felt harder than I expected and then the set at 85Kg just wasn't happeneng. I wasn't getting the leg drive and was pressing them out. I racked the bar and tried for the third rep but it wasn't going up. I had planned my final set at 95. So much for optimism. Anyway, I took 5Kg off the bar and did 3x3 at that weight. Each set was the same: first rep went well and then the next two had ever less leg drive and more pressing. I'm missing something here and I don't yet know how to find it.


All weights in Kilos, +.5Kg unless just the bar
Squats
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 135x3x3
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 140x3, 142.5x3, 145x3, 60x10
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 140x2, 150x3x3, 100x8
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 135x3, 150x3, 160x3, 100x10
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 135x2, 150x1, 160x1, 165x0
20x10, 30x10, 60x6, 90x3, 120x3, 140x3, 152.5x3, 162.5x3
Push Press
20x10, 40x8, 60x3, 80x3, 90x3
20x10, 40x6, 60x3, 75x3, 85x2, 80x3x3

 

[blut wump]

My grip on the front squats is just a bit outside my shoulders. The bar I have has central knurling then a gap and then more knurling with just one set of rings. I place my thumbs such that they are just touching into the smooth gap.