Remember it's deficit deadlifts I'm doing for a few weeks, so my hips are lower than they would be if I were pulling from the ground. So ya, I'm almost squatting the weight up right now.
I don't do sumos. I'm not sure if they'd be better than regular pulls for my build. I've never done them long enough to find out. One day I will, maybe after the contest I'll do a couple cycles with sumos.
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Apparently we'll be staying in the french quarter, which is supposed to be the main part of town. Or something, I don't really know.
We're taking a bus down, how cool is that? Roadtrip! haha. According to mapquest it's a 20 hour drive. I guess we'll be stopping partway for the night, because the trip is from Sunday to Sunday but we're only scheduled to work Tuesday-Friday. The work day is 7:45-3:45, then after 3:45 we're free to do whatever we want apparently.
Pretty sweet I think.
Roland, why five or six times?
Randomly picked destination for a road trip
On the way to Mississippi/Alabama for a vacation
Took a cruise that left from there
Won a contest at work to go there
Vacation
Road trip
It's fun there. Lots of good food. French Quarter is like a 24/7 party. Lot of great jazz and blues clubs (not that I know it, but I like it). If you're into mystical stuff, there's all sorts of voodoo and psychic stuff around. Beer on the street. Shrimp Creole. Fried oyster po boys.
SWEET! hahaha you know I'm going to be in the jazz/blues clubs.
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
I think that keeping the back arched and tight throughout the lift is a really good thing. It will teach you better form, so on a max attempt, your back won't round as much. And with sub-maximal work you should learn to keep your back arched well.
And even when you are lifting a max weight, and your form isn't great, you should still be trying to keep good form, although with a max weight it isn't going to be perfect.
The bars are fatter wtf? don't they use standard bars there? That sounds stupid if they don't have normal bars!!!
The good room has normal bars. The old room has thinner, cheap bars.
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Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
It takes place during reading week, so I'd have no classes that week anyway.
I wouldn't be leaving the country anyway, though, so there's a bonus.
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Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
The best idea since KY. It's a week off school for absolutely no reason.
I really hope that some clubs down in NO check ID at the bar, and not at the door. I'll be heartbroken if I can't get in anywhere. Stupid November birthday.
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
Weights are down on everything except the back raises I think. I have a million excuses. Down on the RDL because I paused longer and because I couldn't hold the bar. Also, we focused today on cuing me to keep a tight arch and my shoulders pulled back tight, which made the lift harder obviously. Also, he killed me on the RDL warmups, I was in pain holding the empty bar because I was spending time in the bottom position getting my arch/hip angle/knee angle right.
Not really sure why the deadlifts are down. I left it all out there, and even ate better preworkout than I did with this session last week. I kept my arch through the whole rep (new for me I think) and I kept my hips from floating up at the start better than I have before. Possible reasons.
Besides my excuses it was still a good session and I have no beefs with the lowered weights.
Looks like a good workout. Lower weights and better form will translate to bigger weights and better form really soon.
Had kind of a bad night last night so I had some anger to let out today. Everything is up except chin ups, which stayed the same.
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Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
step ups - two inches higher than last week, thigh ~parallel
60eax8x3
leg curl
120x8x3
Stuck at 275x3.
I'm probably going to start wearing my belt next week.
Might start using low bar again pretty soon, but maybe not until the next phase starts. I haven't felt any pain at all in my elbows for a few weeks now.
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Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
im a bit late on this, but I was in New Orleans in 2000, we stayed at the Maison Dupuy, and we were told (by the staff) when we walked out the door to ALWAYS turn left and head towards Bourbon St, Apparently if we turned left and got to the end of the block we may not have come back. , other than that it was a fun place to visit
paused close grip bench - hand next to smooth part
70kg (154) x5x3
db bench
60x8,6
55x6
dips
bwx8,6,6
bridge +45x45sec
side bridge
med ball sit up
hanging leg raise
Numbers all seem to be down again. Could just be because of the differences in equipment, might not be.
I won't lie, this phase is incredibly de-motivational. I know in the next two phases my numbers will start to shoot up because of this phase, but it's still a bitch not being able to lift near what you're capable of.
This is the last week of this rep scheme, hopefully the lower reps/heavier weights in the next few weeks will make a difference.
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
deficit deadlift
315x8
335x6
365x4 - I was happy with getting all these reps (I think for the first time?) so I kept it light after
315x6
295x8
paused RDL
275x5x3
bentover db row
75eax8x3
1seated row
200x7
190x8x2
2back extension
+45x8x3
Next week the rep scheme changes. Planned triples, less sets of 6 and 8. I'm very happy about that.
I'll be going for 225x20 on Saturday.
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Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
I'm kind of upset about the squats, but at the same time I'm happy I got 18.
I probably could have gotten the last two reps. At the time it was iffy, and I didn't want to fail a rep. So I racked the bar.
Oh well.
I can't wait to be done with all this volume. This is killing me.
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Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
All of you can bite me.
Except Tina, because she totally burned you three.
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
step up - higher than last week, knee above hip
50ea(dbs) x8x3
goodmorning
80kg (176)x8x3
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
bench - middle finger on ring
180x8
190x5
195x4x2
200x2
paused close grip bench - hands next to smooth part
155x5,4,5
db bench
60x8,8,7
dip
bwx6,7,7
Today was ok. Finally got 8 reps on the db bench for more than one set.
Dips haven't moved at all over the three week period.
I kept changing grip width on the close grip, so it's hard to tell if it went up or not.
200x2 bench is ok for now. Could've gotten a triple under better conditions. I can feel that my bench is about to shoot up. I feel it.
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
Zach Even-Esh
I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
-Dave Tate
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