8/26/2011

 Fuck me friday night deadlifts are tough.

Squat 285 3x5
ovhd press 130 4x4x3
deadlift 360 1x4+1
pullups 10x6x3


This is the third time I stalled at 130 on the ovhd press; so I'm going to deload it to 115 and work back up.  There is some voodoo about 135 lbs; the fifth rep just was never going to happen without push-pressing; which I take as hip or leg drive.  If you guys are wondering about deadlift technique; check out the starting strength or strong lifts website.

- Ben

8/24/11

Much better day at the gym today!!! I think the devastation to my quads was largely due all the basketball I played the day before.  Today I was able to continue make gains on my squats.  Back rows are getting pretty tough and I may have to deload that in the next week or 2 but we will see what monday brings.  Bench also felt a little heavy but I'm only taking around 1 minute breaks between sets so I think if I took alittle longer then it wouldn't be to hard.  I couldn't find the belt to add weight to my dips so I just did them regularly, but I could feel the strain that the bench had on them.  I've also been wanting to tighten up my chest alittle bit, so yesterday I spent some time researching Arnolds encyclopedia or body building and decided that decline bench and flys with light weight will help that without taking away much from my bench so today I did some of those.  All in all a good day!

Squat: 225 4x5
Row: 175 3x5
Bench Press: 190 5x5x6
Dips: 10x9x7
Decline Bench: 65 20x20x30

-Bear Babineau

8/22/11

Squat: 220 3x5
Over head press: 115 3x5
Deadlifts: 265 1x5
Pullups: 6x4x3

Okay day at the gym.  To start the squats felt extremely heavy.  I was hoping to be able to get through 230lbs 5x5 before I went down to 3x5 but today it wasn't going to happen.  I'm not sure if it was the couple hours of basketball yesterday or that the weight is just getting heavy, but it was tough.  So, hopefully I can get 5x5 on Wednesday.  I finally broke through my road block on the overhead press and was able to get 115 3x5 without much difficulty so that makes me ecstatic.  Then Deadlifts were heavy but still doable, I'm hoping I can break 300 without having to deload any weight.  Besides that pretty good day.

- I live, I love, I slay and am content!!!

-Mikeybabs

8/19/2011

Tough day at the gym, Fridays are easily my hardest and least productive days.  At the end of the work week and being out in the heat I feel drained and un-motivated, but gotta swell through all the bullshit if you want to get conan strong (first conan shout out on the blog, yeahhhh buddy!).  Squats are difficult but easily accomplishable with the right amount of time in between sets.  I'm taking around 4 minutes between sets now and I'm lifting with good strength levels each time, so thats good.  Ben and I have been trying to figure out the right technique with the pendlay rows, in order to not cheat ourselves to much but using our legs, so I think we have it figured out pretty good and can keep our backs straight across for all the reps.  Bench was alittle more difficult today but i still think I can get 200 without having to deload.  Have a good weekend!

Beast of the week:  Benny P, for his tremendous deadlift on Wednesday, keeping beasting Benny!!

Quote of the week: "You will sense it; you will be awed by it; and your fellow men will indeed, as he has done for thousands of years, pay you homage".


8/19/11
Squat: 215 5x5
Pendlay Row: 170 3x5
Bench Press: 185 2x5 1x8
Dips: 25lb 7x7


-MikeyBabs


8/19/11
Squat: 270 3x5
Pendlay Row: 150 5x5
Bench Press: 175 3x5 135x12
dips 45lb 6x5x5
GHD raise 12x15x15
reverse hyper-ext 20x12
double-unders 5x10x20x50x45x20
-Benny


I think keeping my legs wider and concentrating on driving up on the bench with a tight back helps, did 175 again bc I felt like crap last time I did it; was easier this time but if there was any question about carry over between dips and bench; I lost a couple reps per set on dips by doing those right after the lighter cool down set on bench.  Mike apparently decided to go nuts on the weighted dips and did 50; awesome man; consider how hard those were 2 months ago.  


If you guys are curious what them GHD and reverse hypers are check out this: http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/cfj-oct-2005/glute-ham-demo.wmv


and this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM4fcVP4hHo


I's kind of hard to describe but it will help your deadlift by strengthening your lower back and teaching your to use your hips to get your upper body up to nearly vertical; because, hips don't lie..
You know though; gold's gym doesn't have the right bench for this so forget all of this.

8/17/11

Pretty good day at the gym, squats are hard but definetly doable.  Deadlift also went well, still feeling pretty strong going up by 10 lbs so hopefully that continues.  OHP was very tough and I wasn't able to complete my original 3x5 weight, so I will have to modify and practice my technique in order to improve in that.

Squat 210 5x5
OHP 115 1x5 110 2x5
Deadlift 255 1x5
Pullups 5x4x4

-MikeyBabs


Squat 265 3x5
OHP 130 3x4x4
Deadlift 350 1x5
Pullups 10x7x5

-Ben

Andy Bolton training advice

http://www.mystronglifts5x5blog.com/

Heres Andy Boltons strength training blog (Andy Bolton has recorded over 1200 on the squat, 1000 deadlift and 750 on the bench).  There are some really good pointers on the major lifts so check it out!

-Mikeybabs
8/16/2011

Stonglifts 5x5

Great workout at the gym today.  I'm beginning to near 200 lbs on all the workouts besides the overhead press.  On wednesday I will be trying 115lbs 3x5 on the OHP and we will see how it goes.  I failed with the 5x5 and have seen my progress slow to a crawl, so instead of just deloading every week, switching to 3x5 seemed like the most logical answer.
-Mikeybabs
8/15/22

Squat 205 5x5
Pendlay Row 165 3x5
Bench Press 180 5x5
Dips w/25 7,6,6
15 mins, tire flip and drags
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Squat 260 3x5
Pendlay Row 145 5x5
Bench Press 175 3x5
Dips w/ 45 7,7,7
15 mins. tire flip and drags
- BenP
8/15/2011