On October 21 2013 06:46 Ichabod wrote: I've started lifting, following the Starting Strength model, but I've found that my shoulders/arms are slightly less flexible than they need to be for good squat technique.
Does anyone have advice for the type of stretches that can help increase the range of motion necessary for back squats?
Just google pec stretch, wrist stretch, and lat stretch. Maybe Tricep Stretch. There's a ton of resources out there, and you really only need the basics for your shoulders and squatting.
On October 21 2013 06:46 Ichabod wrote: I've started lifting, following the Starting Strength model, but I've found that my shoulders/arms are slightly less flexible than they need to be for good squat technique.
Does anyone have advice for the type of stretches that can help increase the range of motion necessary for back squats?
Starting strength is mostly very good, but i'd suggest doing high bar squat over low bar
I currently have a 32mm thick bar (which holds up to 700kg but is really inferior).. which is quite annoying. Have used it for over 2 years, so lets see what this Ohio baby can do <3!
good deadlift improvements today, focusing on angle of my hips&knees/sitting back, resetting after each rep. looking forward to practising hip mobility now i understand more in what way i'm lacking it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (i didnt really think i was lacking it)
ohp 55kg 6-5-5 - thats a pb (i went 5-5-5 on 02/02/2013, lol)
Awesome day yesterday, crushed some clean and jerks in the morning then went to see Muse in concert. It was fucking insane, I elbowed my way into like 20ft from the stage.
Hit a PR clean double with 230lbs and just barely missed the jerk. I've decided to stop being a pussy with the c&j. Gonna start pushing that c&j as much as I've pushed the snatch.
I was pretty tired from squatting and didn't want to push deadlifting even though the sets were really easy for me. Could've easily done 230 or 235 x5.
Pretty fed up of squats and deadlifts as they haven't improved noticeably in a long time. Deadlift has been at 235-240kg for ages, kinda demotivating. I can put some of that down to injury, and rugby, but I miss back when I could put 10kg on my deadlift in a month.
A lot of Oly workouts recently just because the weight moves up quickly.
best i got in the past was 4 reps, on 26/01/2013 and 30/01/2013 (9 months ago)
so today i was looking to do a solid 5 reps and was really nervous about it XD
yes that is NINE fuckin reps at 85kg . (i went 9-7-5) . and that was with pretty dodgy form (footwork is retarded - will fix)
so you guys can see what this means to me, here's a chart showing 95 bench press sessions from the last few years (pretty sure a fair bit of data is missing ontop of that). note this does not show reps, only what weight i achieved 5 or more reps of
Skipped my heavy sets of 8 BS cause rugby saturday but: Morning: Yoga session (this was actually really cool and got to try a bunch of handstand work) FS 135 225 315 365 385 405 then 3x 355 (these were all suspiciously easy...yoga must have had my chi in line) snatch + hang snatch 135 155 175 205 225 bench 3x5 @ 240 (almost as strong at bench as i was 3 years ago :p)
My current workout has me doing a single set of 8-12 front squats, and then a whole bunch of triples after that.
My legs are strong enough to move a lot more weight than I'm actually getting for the 8-12, but I find that once I get to about rep 6 I just can't breathe anymore, and I'm killing myself in a cardiovascular sense to get to 8, when my legs could probably push 20. Anyone have any tips on getting more breath during a higher rep set here? Do I just not have a strong enough core?
On October 25 2013 05:23 Snuggles wrote: You've got a pretty badass outdoor gym setup FFGenerations.
its great if you have a flat, stable surface and buy some thick doormats/mats to drop the weights onto. not sure what i'm gonna do when they concrete the driveway tho
On October 25 2013 11:03 phyre112 wrote: My current workout has me doing a single set of 8-12 front squats, and then a whole bunch of triples after that.
My legs are strong enough to move a lot more weight than I'm actually getting for the 8-12, but I find that once I get to about rep 6 I just can't breathe anymore, and I'm killing myself in a cardiovascular sense to get to 8, when my legs could probably push 20. Anyone have any tips on getting more breath during a higher rep set here? Do I just not have a strong enough core?
Ummm yeah, don't do sets of 8-12 front squats lol. Those are the exact reasons that no decent program has sets higher than 5 for front squats. I never do working sets of more than 3 personally.
On October 25 2013 11:03 phyre112 wrote: My current workout has me doing a single set of 8-12 front squats, and then a whole bunch of triples after that.
My legs are strong enough to move a lot more weight than I'm actually getting for the 8-12, but I find that once I get to about rep 6 I just can't breathe anymore, and I'm killing myself in a cardiovascular sense to get to 8, when my legs could probably push 20. Anyone have any tips on getting more breath during a higher rep set here? Do I just not have a strong enough core?
Ummm yeah, don't do sets of 8-12 front squats lol. Those are the exact reasons that no decent program has sets higher than 5 for front squats. I never do working sets of more than 3 personally.
It's really not a working set.
It's a rest-pause program, with a first set that's intended to pretty much exhaust my legs.
EPT
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