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bigguns15
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I have to thank pwr_machine for the best present ever!!
We just returned and this quite possibly could have been the best thing I could have done for my lifting. I gotta start off by saying this guy is freaking HUGE! I just couldn't help but stare. He was super nice and down to earth too. He he, his gym was in his backyard. That was sweet!
Pwr_machine and I decided that we wanted him to look at my bench most of all. Even so, Joe wanted to check out my squat form first. I went really light, just 135. He had me sitting back, pushing my knees out, and squatting on the outside of my feet. I kinda knew to do these things already, but with him there telling me exactly what to do, everything clicked. They felt great! And, doing it this way, I did feel a difference in my squat shoes and deadlift shoes. I'm going to send off my squat shoes to get the soles redone so they are flat. I'll have a video posted shortly.
Next we did bench. This is what we spent the rest of the time on. My arch was good and feet placement were good. He had me change a few things though. First, he brought my grip in just a little more. I was benching with index fingers on the rings and I moved it to ring finger. He moved it one more to pinky on the rings. Next, he had me tuck my elbows. Now I've heard of this for a long time and even gave it a shot before, but I wasn't doing it quite right. This time it was right! I had so much explosion off my chest!! It was amazing. The last thing he changed was my bar path. Nothing too drastic, but on the way up instead of pushing in a straight line up, he had me come back over my eyes. Not what I expected, but this was working wonders for me. So, I warmed up and then put my shirt on (Titan Fury). Then it went like this:
165 x 1
185 x 1
215 x 1
225 x 1
240 x 1 <---- PR!!!! And I wasn't even training for heavy weights!
Woohoo!!
Unfortunately, I only got 225 on video. I ran out of tape
I'll have that up in a minute too.
Then we did some lockouts, but I was a little pooped from all that benching (plus I just did chest yesterday!).
Didn't get to touch on deadlift, but I think I will be making another trip down there soon so we can look at that.
I had such a great time and got to meet an incredible guy. Fun times!!
Oh yeah, I'm sold on sniffing ammonia now too. It rules!
We just returned and this quite possibly could have been the best thing I could have done for my lifting. I gotta start off by saying this guy is freaking HUGE! I just couldn't help but stare. He was super nice and down to earth too. He he, his gym was in his backyard. That was sweet!
Pwr_machine and I decided that we wanted him to look at my bench most of all. Even so, Joe wanted to check out my squat form first. I went really light, just 135. He had me sitting back, pushing my knees out, and squatting on the outside of my feet. I kinda knew to do these things already, but with him there telling me exactly what to do, everything clicked. They felt great! And, doing it this way, I did feel a difference in my squat shoes and deadlift shoes. I'm going to send off my squat shoes to get the soles redone so they are flat. I'll have a video posted shortly.
Next we did bench. This is what we spent the rest of the time on. My arch was good and feet placement were good. He had me change a few things though. First, he brought my grip in just a little more. I was benching with index fingers on the rings and I moved it to ring finger. He moved it one more to pinky on the rings. Next, he had me tuck my elbows. Now I've heard of this for a long time and even gave it a shot before, but I wasn't doing it quite right. This time it was right! I had so much explosion off my chest!! It was amazing. The last thing he changed was my bar path. Nothing too drastic, but on the way up instead of pushing in a straight line up, he had me come back over my eyes. Not what I expected, but this was working wonders for me. So, I warmed up and then put my shirt on (Titan Fury). Then it went like this:
165 x 1
185 x 1
215 x 1
225 x 1
240 x 1 <---- PR!!!! And I wasn't even training for heavy weights!
Woohoo!!
Unfortunately, I only got 225 on video. I ran out of tape
I'll have that up in a minute too.Then we did some lockouts, but I was a little pooped from all that benching (plus I just did chest yesterday!).
Didn't get to touch on deadlift, but I think I will be making another trip down there soon so we can look at that.
I had such a great time and got to meet an incredible guy. Fun times!!
Oh yeah, I'm sold on sniffing ammonia now too. It rules!
