PumaKrieg's Journal

PumaKrieg


Wednesday September 2nd 2009

Squat 5x5 Ramped to 185x5 i suck at squats i need bands big time
Deadlift 3x5 Ramped to 205x5 i had some lady who worked at the Y come up to me and complain about me damaging the floor on the negative. Felt EXTREMELY strong on these today though so there is no doubt that my deadlift is going through the roof with the usage of chalk.
Ab Work

Nice and easy, next week and the week after it gets hard. I'm really disappointed in my squats though; i have a huge amount of knee drift no matter how much i try to throw my knees out. My hips tend to shift one way too. Squats just aren't for me I really think.

I'm pretty sure free weight room floors are designed to handle this.  What a BEE OTCH!  Throw down a couple towels or a yoga mat or something if it'll make her happy.  Was she hot?

Even if she was, she wanted me to stop deadlifting. She also insinuated that 205 pounds was too heavy for me and thats why i was dropping it. That as far as i'm concerned should get you burned as a witch. 205 pounds heavy.. me?

in our gym, we're not allowed to "throw" weights onto the ground, simply because it'd probably break the floor.

anyway, you really shouldn't be throwing throwing the weight onto the ground, meaning you're not controlling the weight properly. Even if you are doing it explosively, it still shouldn't be happening. But anyway, good work on the deadlift!

I'm not literally throwing it, just that it was making a little thud when i came back down and reset. It's pretty much impossible not to do, and i want to focus on moving as much weight as possible as im not going to do a nice and controlled manuever downwards in a powerlifting comp.

Just for your information

http://www.powerlifting...a.com/GettingStarted.htm

Deadlift:
Main Causes of Disqualification in the Deadlift:
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Not controlling the bar on the way down.

vdk_au


Just for your information

http://www.powerliftingaustralia.com/GettingStarted.htm

Deadlift:
Main Causes of Disqualification in the Deadlift:
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Not controlling the bar on the way down.

have you actually been to a meet or competed in one? Controlling the bar basically means throwing it down as long as you hold onto it so that it doesn't bounce up and hit someone. That's all you really need for it to be "controlled".

If you're basically dropping it, that's one thing... but there's nothing wrong with a bit of *thunk* on the DL.

Sorry, my bad then.

Was out of town from around this point to Tuesday night.

Friday September 4th 2009

Bench: 5x185x5
Dips 3x8
Rows 5x105x5

5 sets of bench was hard. Dips always hurt me. Oh well.

Monday September 7th 2009

Bench 1x200x5
Chin 3xFailure
Tricep PD 3x8 (at a diff gym so no clue about weight)
Lat Raises 5x20x9

Bench was tough and that sucks because i was supposed to be still ramping up.

Wednesday September 9th 2009

Squat 5x5 ramped to 205
Deadlift 3x5 ramped to 230
Ab Work

All of this was extremely easy

Friday September 11, 2009

Bench 4x190x5, 1x190x4
Dips 3x8-12
Rows 5x120x5

Was pretty hard as I only had 25 minutes to get this all done so breaks were pretty much nonexistent. On a bright note (although it doesn't directly concern me), a friend of mine transferred into my weightlifting class and benched 210 without ever really working out before. Shame some people are naturally stronger than others.

I know I haven't updated this but i am still lifting. Anyhow i am hitting PRS on deadlifts every week since using chalk, and my squats and bench are finally approaching my old PRs from June 11th 2009. I have been working out in my weightlifting class which also means less time for breaks and unfortunately weightlifting class is actually interfering with my actual weightlifting. First, I got in trouble for doing deadlifts. Therefore, I go to the YMCA's on Wednesday and do my deads as well as whatever else I do that day. Last week, I got in trouble for doing rows (wow really?) and I do those on Friday.

What do I do now? I already pretend to workout Tuesdays and Thursdays when I really dont because im running a three a day. Should I just do very light weight in class, so I look like im doing something or will that screw up those lifts so that I won't be able to do as much for real later in the day after school? Is there anything I can actually do in these classes instead of my normal routine that might help?

Monday, October 12 2009

Bench 3x3 Ramped to 215 very easy; could probably do 230
Chin 3xFailure
Tricep PD 3xEntire Stack x8 sucks that this can't go heavier, the heaviest setting is too light for me now, what do i do?
Lat Raises 5x25x8 somewhat hard but could do a rep or two more each set; trying to decide whether to move up in reps to 10 next week or move up in weight to 30s. Most likely will go 25x10 though as 30s are a big jump.

Monday, October 26 2009

Bench 3x3 Ramped to 225 just barely missed the 3rd DOH
Chin 3xFailure
Tricep PD 3xEntire Stack x5-8 didn't do to hot because i was running out of time and my friends kept screwing with me
Lat Raises 4x25x9 wanted to go for 10 but couldn't get with limited time

Going to deload next week by maxing out then look into another low volume workout. I'd kind of like to rerun this program from scratch, but as i've found out when doing madcows, my body doesn't seem to react very well when running the same cycle back to back.