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BW = ???
SORENESS = right rear shoulder, bicep, and wrist extensors
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = low to moderate

- warm up

- squat 315 x 5,5,2

- hanging leg raise x 10

- stretch

had to make it a quick run to the gym in part because i had trouble finding the place. damn google maps. no idea about bw but based on ab definition i'd guess i'm a little bit lighter than last week. kind of mad about the squatting but whatever, i'm on vacation. hitting all five reps on the second set is an improvement, and i think i'm closer to 170 than 175, so there's that.

brothers didn't end up coming, hoping to go again with one or both tomorrow.

Quote from: Raptor on August 19, 2012, 05:05:59 pm

I remember someone who said "people of the past had much more interest in the standing overhead press vs. pushing something from the chest while laying horizontal on a bench".

there were much less shoulder injuries back then as well, due to the balanced nature of prioritizing the OHP and using the bench press more sparingly.

really? seems like kind of an odd claim.

whatever, just being anal.

my youngest brother is 6'3 with an 8'2 reach. all else being equal, if i was that tall i could dunk with two hands and hit the middle of my forearm on the rim.

fuck tall people.

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re: fred hatfield: i stopped reading at, "Do NOT allow your hips to drift backward, your knees to drift inward or out beyond your toes, or your torso to incline forward," because it's physically impossible for you not to do those things. look at any picture of him squatting, he's doing every single thing on that list except letting his knees drift inward.

you're thinking about the positioning of the weight in completely the wrong way. look harder at the picture raptor posted. the lower the bar, the closer to the center of your torso, the closer to the center of your torso, the more of your torso needs to be on the other side of your center of mass for you not to fall backward.

getting stronger in the squat will make your squat go up, full stop. don't pick at the minutiae like that, you're getting distracted. just work on getting stronger, both of those squats look fine.

i was gonna say something snarky and clever about physics and something something something but raptor nailed it. just look at that picture, it's not a hard concept.

Speaking of leg pressing - why is it so "terrible"?

it's not.

BW = 174.5
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = moderate

- warm up
included a couple of rounds of knockout. nothing gets me quite as hyped for jumping as that.

- DLRVJ x 8-10
best 33.5, a few 32.5-33, rest 31-32. the 33.5 was the highest jump i've had since may. every other jump felt good.

- squat 310 x 5,5,3
rep PR, obviously. last rep on second set was grindy but not terrible. might have had one more on the third set but it would have been ugly. also, i was a little worried about depth but had one of my oly lifting friends watch the second set and she confirmed that i'm going way below parallel. no problems.

- pull up +10 x 10+3+2
damn it

- dip +50 x 10+3+3

- SS1: hyperextension x 10
- SS1: GHR situp x 10
- SS1 info: 3 rounds, no rest between exercises, one minute between rounds.

- calf raise 135 x 16
arthritis makes it hard to keep balance when plantar flexed. still, this was harder than it should have been.

- curlzzzzzz 20 x 10e

- tricep cable pull down 100 x 10

- stretch

good workout. pleased. 174.5 is the most i've weighed this year, i'm pretty sure. that's surprising because i was away last weekend at a wedding and was puking up my guts all saturday morning. i have a weird reaction to alcohol sometimes; i wasn't especially drunk on friday but as soon as we got back to the hotel i threw up and then i was terribly hung over the next morning. every once in a while that just seems to happen but other times i'm totally fine. i can't figure out what makes the difference there. anyway, guess the milkshakes have helped. also, i found a gym very near the beach that has a squat rack, so i will get in a workout or two next week while on vacation.

also, my pants felt a little tight today and my vanity is kicking in and telling me my belly fat is spilling over more. this is absurd, as i'm not more than ~11% bf and i can still see my abs and veins in my lower abs. i'm not going to let that stop me from chowing down over the next two days, just noting it.

three plates on thursday. come on now.