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On what do you base these assumptions? How do you know your hip flexors are strong?

Yeah but you don't have Asafa Powell's 10x hip flexor size vs a normal person.

You're weak.

The end.

some questions for you:

i just read the last few pages of your log and im curious as to why you are squatting with 165 when your max is much higher?

also regarding your age, how do your joints feel training this way at your age..? im constantly worried about my knees and back being fucked from all this very heavy squatting and jumping.

1 August 2012

Bodyweight@session : ~190
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : left quad

Starting Strength - workout #13

SQUATS:
Skipped! Just checked log , there hasn't been a single week that i didn't squat in all 2012!

SEATED OHP:
5@121 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
5@121 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
5@121 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
-Awesome, also PR-ish.
Most i've done this year is 8@110lbs. I remember doing 8x132 the past years but it was at the smith machine.
So in free weights seated OHP that's a  

CHINUPS:
9@Bodyweight ( +2 reps ) ,  
7@Bodyweight ( same )
7@Bodyweight ( +1 rep )
Total = 23 ( +3 reps )
-Awesome,   total too.

BICEPS EZ-BAR CURLS:
12@65 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
12@65 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
10@65 lbs ( +5,5 lbs ) , ( -2 reps )
-Very nice.

TRICEPS PUSHDOWNS:
12@60,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
12@60,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
12@60,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
-Very nice.

The missing squats fatigue had obvious positive results on the other lifts.
I'm off for holidays, finally ~20 days of rest for my injured quad. If it still has issues when i come back I'm going to a doctor.
I will try to make a smart cut during the time off, with quality diet but without exaggerations. A good goal would be 183-185 wet weight at 14-15%bf, current status is 190-192 wet weight at 16-17% bf.

3x5 with 55 kg overhead press?

wtf...

I don't think I can do one set of 5 with 40 kg.

Agreed! Anything close to a plate is difficult actually seated vertically.  I can push press and bench over 250+ but find 135 really challenging in the seated vertical press.  No chest, no legs, just nothing to push with!

Quote from: Raptor on August 01, 2012, 03:19:58 pm

3x5 with 55 kg overhead press?

wtf...

I don't think I can do one set of 5 with 40 kg.

Agreed! Anything close to a plate is difficult actually seated vertically.  I can push press and bench over 250+ but find 135 really challenging in the seated vertical press.  No chest, no legs, just nothing to push with!

Really??? I thought i was weak at presses, my bench PR is an embarrassing 3x165, LOL.
Maybe i am doing them wrong , my ROM/depth is from full extension to about chin level. I find it very hard with my long ass hands to go deeper ( when my hands are parallel to the ground the bar is above my head ).
Maybe i am deluded and those presses i do qualify as half-presses, hence the "good" numbers.
Also FWIW, i dumped doing standing presses because they were very difficult for me, 8x99lbs was my PR and it felt very uncomfortable and hard, stressing my spine a lot too.

there's a guy at my gym who can overhead press as much as he can bench. he's not super-strong in either, but maybe some people are just better set up to do vertical than horizontal pressing?

Quote from: T0ddday on August 01, 2012, 04:01:23 pm

Agreed! Anything close to a plate is difficult actually seated vertically.  I can push press and bench over 250+ but find 135 really challenging in the seated vertical press.  No chest, no legs, just nothing to push with!

That's odd, even w/little direct training my press has always been about 2/3 of my bench going all the way back to when I began weightlifting in college.  Can you do handstand pushups and is your incline bench also significantly lower than your bench?

I can do handstand pushups but I was a gymnast as a kid and am pretty comfortable upside down.  I don't really do incline bench, but the last time I tried I squeezed a few reps out with 225, my max bench is between 275-295.

I think it's something to do with the barbell when seated.  I can do seated shoulder press with a couple 65 pound dumbells but anything more than a plate gets really impossible with a barbell.  I think it's something to do with getting your face out of the way that makes it so difficult for me, for some reason raising it from delts overhead when sitting makes it feel like it just gets stuck.  Really hate that lift!