I'm currently uploading the vid of the world's worst set of deadlifts.
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me. and they're not that bad. You'll see when I put them up.
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"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
I think your back is slightly rounded, but not too bad. One thing, I'm not sure if this matters, but you lower the bar differently to the way you lift it, You do more of a straight leg deadlift on the way up, and use your legs to lower it, like in a squat. This means that the weight will be all on your heels when you lower it, and less so when you lift it. Again, I'm not sure if it's a bad thing or not, but I like to lower the same way I lift.
It also looks like you might be trying to use momentum to jerk the bar off the floor, when you raise your hips before each rep? Or that might just be you resetting your grip and setting up again.
Do you reset your grip for each rep? Just wondering.
It looks like you're stiff legging it up, like Simon mentioned. Your set up seems pretty good, but you're locking out your knees way before your hips. As for the lowering, I remember reading (and something is telling me it was Cressey, or maybe it was Robertson, I don't really remember) about the deadlift, saying your knees shouldn't bend during lowering until the bar is past them.
Simon, what he does with the hips before the lift is a personal thing for deadlifts. It's something some people do and some people don't. Personally, I've tried it on a few occasions in the past and haven't liked the feel of it. For some people, it helps.
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It looks like you're stiff legging it up, like Simon mentioned. Your set up seems pretty good, but you're locking out your knees way before your hips. As for the lowering, I remember reading (and something is telling me it was Cressey, or maybe it was Robertson, I don't really remember) about the deadlift, saying your knees shouldn't bend during lowering until the bar is past them.
Simon, what he does with the hips before the lift is a personal thing for deadlifts. It's something some people do and some people don't. Personally, I've tried it on a few occasions in the past and haven't liked the feel of it. For some people, it helps.
Yeah, stiff legged it waaay to much. I should be able to correct this when I pull on friday.
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It also looks like you might be trying to use momentum to jerk the bar off the floor, when you raise your hips before each rep? Or that might just be you resetting your grip and setting up again.
Do you reset your grip for each rep? Just wondering.
I don't use the hips for momentum. I just like to reset my stance. and the grip stays the same--my hands never leave the bar.
Rest day today--sore from yesterday.
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looking forward to the "recovery" workout tomorrow. Should look something like this:
Front Squat-3-4x3-5
Military Press(you're supposed to alternate bench/military)-3x5
Stiff-Leg Dead from floor-3x6-10
Supplementary work:
Dips/other triceps movement--I'm working on bringing my tris up.
pendlay rows
biceps
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Rack lockouts and board presses are awesome for the triceps. Throw in some high rep band press-downs between sets and you're golden.
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Rack lockouts and board presses are awesome for the triceps. Throw in some high rep band press-downs between sets and you're golden.
thanks for the tip, I did some rack lockouts today.
Front Squats
1x3x185
3x3x195
Military Press
3x5x95
Stiff-leg Deads, pulled from floor each rep
3x6x205
Rack Lockouts, Pin 8
1x5x185
1x5x195
Chin-ups
1x8xBW
3x5xBW
1x2xBW
Comments:
-nice, easy workout. This is the recovery workout, so everything was done nice and light and not to failure.
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"Don't spend your life wishing. Spend it doing." -FishrCutB8
"You're a mutant, like a snake with two heads or a cat shy one nipple. Be thankful that your mutation is helpful." - LD
"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
Off day today. Decided to put what I ate today into fitday, just to see where I'm holding. Here' the link.
What I ate today:
7 AM
1 cup oats
scoop protein
1 cup skim milk
12PM
1 avocado
1 can tuna
cherry tomatoes
lime juice
throughout the school day
Lots of sunflower seeds. I keep a bag in my locker, and just eat them throughout the day. Easy way to up the cals.
4PM
2 tbsp peanut butter
scoop whey
7PM-1st dinner, went out with friends
burger
bun
salad
fries
10PM-ish
Probably a can of tuna with salad+olive oil/vinegar.
Total for today will be around 2700. Workout days are sually around 3200.
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Bench Press
1xbar
1x3x135
1x1x155
1x1x185
1x2x210-PR for a double
2x1x205
1xfx205
Deadlift
1x5x135
1x3x205
1x1x275
1x1x325
1x2x365PR for a double
Dips
1x10xBW
1x5xBW
1x6xBW
1x5xBW
Cable Seated Rows
1x10x135
2x8x135
Comments:
-solid workouts. Plenty of PR's, which is the point of this workout.
-squats felt OK. Happy with the numbers I hit, not with the form I used. I'm having trouble leaning forward at all with heavy weights--my body wants to stay as upright as possible. It's also tough for me to descend/come up with any speed whatsoever. Getting used to heavy weights should correct these problems.
-I didn't have a spotter, so I benched in the power rack(which I HATE doing). Still, hit a double PR, so I'm not going to complain.
-everything else was good.
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"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
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"Rust on a nail builds tetanus. Rust on a barbell builds character, strength, and attitude." -EC
"Don't spend your life wishing. Spend it doing." -FishrCutB8
"You're a mutant, like a snake with two heads or a cat shy one nipple. Be thankful that your mutation is helpful." - LD
"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
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AM-flag football game. We were missing some guys, as were they, so each team picked up some guys. Close game, we lost by two. Unfortuntely, the prick ref was a player on the opposing team, who decided to ref instead of play. Logically, he made garbage calls.
PM-my friend invited me to a tackle game. Played there for 40 minutes. Fun. I had a nice black on a big guy, knocking him to the floor.
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Try sitting back more in your squat. This will cause you to lean forward, because your body will try to balance out and keep the bar over your heels.
Do you use a high or low bar?
Wide stance?
I can't really tell much from your video, next time try to wear some shorts or at least some pants that don't seem to take on a form of their own. Can't tell where your legs are, but it looks like your knees might be coming in?
Couple more tips. Don't drop so fast, go down nice and easy. It's not a race to the bottom.
Also start each rep by pushing your back into the bar, not by pushing up with your legs. This is hard, I get stuck sometimes pushing with my legs and my torso ends up leaning forward a touch before it starts straightening out. You don't want that to happen (you have a little bit of this in the video you posted). From the bottom, push your back into the bar, and then squat up. Keep pushing back into the bar as you go up.
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Dude, I think you should go to UC Berkly now, this chick goes there
LOL, I was actually going to apply there, but my parents didn't want me going to school on the west coast. I argued that Cornell(where I'm going) is in the middle of nowhere and takes JUST AS LONG to get to as California, but they didn't budge.
Can't see the pic, but I think you're talking about her:
WOW
BTW, going to the gym now.
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Comments:
-great workout. everything went up.
-I actually had to wait for the squat rack as some women in great shape was squatting. With 95. and decent form. Said women later called me strong, after watching my puny military press.
-squats went well. I could've probably ground out 240, but I'm going for steady, consisten progress. Form was good. 240 will be easy next mon.
-Militaries were OK, goal for next time is to hit 5x5 with 125.
-deads went up well. My quads were tired which made deads feel weak, but I managed to get through them, with actually decent form.
-This bulk is starting to get a bit ugly, so I'm going to make a conscious effort to eat better, and a bit less. No more crap--just protein+veggies+fruit, ect. This won't be so hard, I can easily cut 400 cals from subtracting 400 from my PWO meal (700 to 300). The goal is to eat good until model UN weekend, which is 2 weeks from thursday. Easy.
-3 more days of school until winter break.
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"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
LOL, I was actually going to apply there, but my parents didn't want me going to school on the west coast. I argued that Cornell(where I'm going) is in the middle of nowhere and takes JUST AS LONG to get to as California, but they didn't budge.
Can't see the pic, but I think you're talking about her:
WOW
BTW, going to the gym now.
the picture didn't show up, but i got the link when i quoted right now.
wow.
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LOL, I was actually going to apply there, but my parents didn't want me going to school on the west coast.
Course not. You might fall for some crazy left-coast shiksa.
Nice increases on those deads and squats. And the eating plan sounds good -- you know what you gotta do.
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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw
Course not. You might fall for some crazy left-coast shiksa.
hahahahahahahahaha! Or maybe one of the 3 jewish girls that go to berkely
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the picture didn't show up, but i got the link when i quoted right now.
wow.
Her pictures were apparently all over the internet, where she(maybe 17 y.o.), was being ogled by lecherous males such as ourselves. There were fan sites, everything. I'd be surprised if this was the first time you saw her.
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"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
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