The 2014 Weightlifting Progress Thread - Page 81

On July 10 2013 02:44 micronesia wrote:
By the way, I noticed something that seems strange. I've tried out pretty much all of the machines at the gym. Usually, I place the pin like 25-50% of the way down the stack of weights. However, there is one machine (two, but just opposing motions) where I place the pin nearly at the bottom: the hip abductor machines. They look like these: first and second. I place the pin almost near the bottom of the stack of weights. Am I just much stronger at that particular motion than all the other ones (if so, why the heck), or is there some other reason why I'm lifting 80% of the stack of weights on those machines?

On July 10 2013 02:53 autoexec wrote:
This was me afterwards:

On June 14 2013 07:15 Donkeys wrote:
Lol fine [race to] 220kg then!

On July 12 2013 03:52 Vitruvian wrote:
Today just felt like one of those days where it didn't matter how much weight I put on the bar, I was going to rip it off the ground and stand up under it. Best session I've had in weeks.

All weights in kg this time - dropped in on a local barbell club, whose owner has been really cool about letting me sneak in a session here and there for free.
Snatch (in kg): 70 / 80 / 90 / 90x / 90x / 90 / 95x / 95x / 95x / 95 (PR)
CJ: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 115 (PR)

Had myself an autoexec moment



Also,


Race is on, where you at Donkeys? :D

On July 10 2013 02:53 autoexec wrote:
Welp. 295 was my max squats 1 week ago and I had a light week last week with only cardio and I came back to the gym to do 5x5 squats today. On my last set I threw on 315 just to try and I went to failure. I somehow got 8 reps!!!

This was me afterwards:



Except not with a six pack... or defined muscles really :/

On July 13 2013 22:36 BenKen wrote:
Bw: 167

OHP: 45x10, 95x5,135x5, 155x1, 165x, 165x, 145x5
Squats: 45x10, 135x5, 185x5, 225x5 speed squats: 185x2 on the minute, 10 minutes

Another light day. My speed out of the hole sucks, so I figured I'd do some speed work instead of pushing too hard on squats. Wrist was bothering me a little bit on CJs, so I just cut the session short and live to lift another day. I'm hoping for an autoexec moment next week.

Anybody have any experience running Mag/Ort for Deadlifts? Cause its about to go down.

On July 14 2013 12:07 Snuggles wrote:
Watching you do snatches and c&j's makes me really want to do them, it's just such an efficient and a badass workout. But NO ONE in my gym ever does them, and there's not really any room for me to be dropping the weight down on the floor like that except for maybe one tiny little corner where there's no equipment. I remember practicing with just the bar for c&j and got some weird looks from a bunch of people =_=. Felt awkward as hell.

And still there's only one guy I've seen in the gym besides me who squats parallel. Just a big huge oaf that was pushing 245 x 5 or so. Everyone else does this slight knee bend in their squat, but never parallel, not even close. There's not a reason to not go parallel right?