Becoming a Squat Freak

[Matthew]

560x25 ft. 60lb PR

Nice! Way to go man.

Good luck at the contest. You'll get the other lifts up enough as well.
Are you planning any kind of tapering or whatever you want to call it?

[Alcoholiday]

what do you mean by tapering? like lowering volume?

[Matthew]

ya, in prep for the contest.
So you are fresh.

or have you already started?

[Alcoholiday]

yea kind of. my last heavy session (including pulls) will probably be 10 days out. 7 days out, i'll do light event work, and then pretty much nothing strenuous the rest of the time.

[Frank.S]

yeah, 5-7 days off is a good idea alot of the time. If there are no weight classes, eat as much as physically possible

[Waittz]

hahaha right on frank. I think Zach is about to slay some chipotle those days.

[Alcoholiday]

Originally Posted by Waittz

hahaha right on frank. I think Zach is about to slay some chipotle those days.

hell yea dude! Probably buy copious amounts of meat and just have a feast the whole week. It's an open class so no weight classes. I'm 30lbs heavier than one of the guys. He can't even pull the 500lb sled.

[Alcoholiday]

Log Clean:
up to
165x1
175x1x2

Trap Bar Deadlift:
335x1
395x1
435x2 (good! back felt strong on these! I love rehband belts. 15lbs more than last week)
385x3
335x6 (+1 rep from last week)

Some squats. These hurt my upper back, so i decided to just call it.

Solid deadlifting session. Things are REALLY starting to come together. I'm thinking i'll bomb the log, but do well on everything else.

The keg carry will give me trouble as he bumped it up from 190 to 250.

Any ideas on the best way to pick these up, let me know. I've been doing one hand high, one low, and trying to lift it, but i can barely break it off the ground. It's stupid because i can pull over 450, but can't get a 250lb keg to my lap?!

[Simon C]

Can you try and clean it sorta like a log? you're pretty good with logs, so that might work!

[Alcoholiday]

Originally Posted by Simon C

Can you try and clean it sorta like a log? you're pretty good with logs, so that might work!

yea, that's what i try and do, like lap it, and then clean it to my chest and carry it, but i can't even break it off the ground. I'm not sure why.

[Frank.S]

can you just drag it? hahahhaa.

I have no idea how to pick it up. Id probally try to like bent over row it to my lap.. dont do that.

[tkinsley]

Originally Posted by Alcoholiday

Yoke:
360x3 runs
450x1 run
560x25 ft. 60lb PR This is the contest weight. I had 1 drop here. This was a DEFINITE confidence booster. I know i can gut out some more distance on this come the contest, and i just need to get a good pick! I should be able to do 4 out of the 5 events in the contest now.

Farmers: i picked these, and took them a few feet. They didn't feel good at all. I'll do them next week

#180 10" Log: 5-6 cleans. No presses. I got pretty close on the last one, but i'm slow, and my pressing sucks. The cleans felt pretty easy. In the contest, you have to put the log down after each rep and re-clean it. If i don't get one here, i can save some major energy by letting everyone else battle it out in the Kokomo heat, and then come back strong on the deadlift.

Sled: 375 or so for a trip. I did this inside today where the floor is filthy so awful traction. My feet kept slipping out from under me. Not a hard weight though.

Overall a good day. I need to put it all together for the contest in 3 weeks. I'm pretty happy with where i'm at now.

Nice PR, sonny boy.

[Alcoholiday]

Originally Posted by Frank.S

can you just drag it? hahahhaa.

I have no idea how to pick it up. Id probally try to like bent over row it to my lap.. dont do that.

ha, nah, you have to drag the sled, but pick up the keg.

I'm hoping it's a drag first so i can at least get that done.

[Alcoholiday]

Originally Posted by tkinsley

Nice PR, sonny boy.

thank you very much!

[Alcoholiday]

a little random thought for the night:

i really think it's funny how the people on Intense Muscle hang from Dante's nuts. I don't know why these people can't think for themselves. Seriously, it's really pathetic. I feel sorry for Dante because from a few of his posts, it basically sounds like he's tired and burned out on doggcrapp training, but you still have these people making posts like "TELL US WHAT A NATURAL TEST BOOSTER IS?!"

I don't blame him for keeping the site up and running. Hell, he created a successful lifting system that (gasp) focuses around lifting heavy shit for as many times as you can. And he makes money off it and trueprotein. I would do the exact same thing if i was him, and there's nothing wrong with someone making money for an idea. But a lot of the people who post over there need to climb off his balls and start worrying about other things in their lives other than if their chicken breast is .5oz over what they're calculated protein requirement is for the day.

Or another topper. There was a guy who was asking about catabolism, and saying how people should worry about amino release or some bullshit. Another guy came on and started talking about how "nasty" catabolism is.

Then you have the people over there who believe that there is nothing more sacred than doggcrapp training. They thing anyone who does it needs to sign their body and soul over to Dante on a dotted line:

lastly, and most importantly. DC did not create this program for the weekend warrior. This is not a program to make you better or stronger at golf and you cannot substitute exercises to make your golf game a little easier. This is for bodybuilders who are serious about training. I am personally surprised that nobody has seen your post and gone off the deepend, especially dante, but I guess everyone around here is just getting used to it. I for one admire their patience and will continue to bite my tongue instead of spewing out a multitude of profanities followed by the tossing of my shitty dell computer out of the window.

The reason people always jump on people who mention things like golf here or martial arts here or who knows what(fencing?) is because of what DC training is about in the first place. This is not some program designed to increase your bench and get you bigger arms or something like that. The basis of DC training is to do one thing: Put as much mass on someone in the shortest time possible.

Now, the program is not just the training its the heavy eating, the training, the supplements, the crazy mental attitude to push your body to the limits, AND REST!!!!!!

Everyone seems to get all gung ho about those and I think a lot of people are forgetting about rest.

Yes these are other things out there besides bodybuilding for most people, which is exactly why most people shouldnt be doing DC. DC works with extremes to break new grounds with soemones body but all these people come in thinking they are hardcore and they can take DC along with X and Y and Z on tuesday nights and weekends. So this is why people tell you to reconsider DC training because they are trying to give you advice on what will be best for you. The last thing DC training needs is for someone to knowing go and try DC while trying to water it down to "fit" their needs and then come back and say DC is crap and it didnt work. Then the people has some horror story about how bad it is and everyone is unhappy.

The most important thing for everyone to understand before you start DC training is that it was NOT designed for the masses. It is designed to use every aspect of your time and body in way to build the most muscle. Period.

It's really crazy. It's like you enter a bizarro world going over there. The people who post there follow every bodybuilder stereotype. They are the same kids who stay home on weekends and eat their tuna in solitude so they can go to the gym in the morning with their gallon of water and pump iron.

and just so you don't think i'm lying:

20 lb. increase after first rotation - IntenseMuscle.com

[Steve-O-68]

When I do keg carries, I find it easier to do one hand high and one hand low, then carry it high on one side around the high thigh/low hip area with a bit of a sideways walk. I keep it off to the side just enough that I'm not banging both thights (or my nuts) on the keg. Trying to get it up to your chest, or even over your belt line, is going to be difficult... especially when you start moving.