Ryan's Journal

Sorry to do this, Ryan. My journal won't let me post, checking to see if yours will... Hope everything is great with you, Claire
 
Now I know your name is Claire. This is a win. I've been offline and out camping for the last couple days, so I'm not sure when I became able to access the forums properly again, but it appears I can now.
 
Nice to have you back, I had noticed you were away and hoped you were out doing something and not just staying away for technical reasons.
 
CrazyOldMan said:
I haven't done hypers in ages, but have definately noticed tight back means lousy bench. Good stuff.
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I guess there's that, too. My main concern was just making sure that I had the lumbar stability to load up my erectors without my back screaming at me. I predicted that if I felt any lower back pain while doing hypers, I'd also feel very sharp pain getting into an arched position to bench. Hypers turned out to be fine, and so did bench.
JustinRVA said:
Seems I'm the only one here not using Fat Gripz. I guess I need to get on that.
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One of us, one of us...

Alternatively, I don't be uncool just cus the cool kids are doing it; I'm an individual.
 
I guess being the only person at my gym who bothers doing cleans and doesn't care who hears my man grunt when I'm doing them would drop me near that category.
 
I've never been the only person in the gym who bothered doing cleans, although I've frequently been the only person who bothered to at least try and do them in a way that resembled being proper.
 
JustinRVA said:
Good lift. 3 plates for 10 reps would put me in a hospital.
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If you trimmed those legs down a few inches I'm sure you'd breeze it. Ryan has a serious height advantage on both of us when it comes to the lifting. Being the man in the middle I know I have to be far heavier to outlift Ryan and in a good practice to outrun people your height.

Good stuff there Ryan. Take it you will be starting to work in lower rep higher weight work soon in prep for competition.
 
Yep. In about a week I'll start peaking.

Yesterday mentioned to the owner of the gym that when I first starting doing 3x10's on deadlifts it was with less than half of my 1RM at the time, so we agreed that it was only sensible that we should assume 140kg is still less than half of my 1RM and that I should open with 300kg. Can't possibly be anything unreasonable about that.

In all seriousness, I'm hoping to hit 200kg when I compete on 1 Dec. 160/100/200 would be pretty sweet, although only time will tell how well everything carries over to my maxes. Based on my competition earlier this year, and the competition I spectated at when I was too injured to compete a couple months ago, it looks like just being balanced is going to be a serious advantage in my weight class, as other lifters in my class have similar deadlifts, however my squat and bench press bring me up. Unless of course a certain Estonian gentleman I train with competes on the same day. He has a richer beard than me and is consequently stronger all over.
 
CrazyOldMan said:
If you trimmed those legs down a few inches I'm sure you'd breeze it. Ryan has a serious height advantage on both of us when it comes to the lifting. Being the man in the middle I know I have to be far heavier to outlift Ryan and in a good practice to outrun people your height.

Good stuff there Ryan. Take it you will be starting to work in lower rep higher weight work soon in prep for competition.
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I'm saving for my Decreasement Surgery know. It's new. You haven't heard of it.
 
What's the difference between farmers walk and suitcase walk?
Worried this was you being told to leave the gym.
 
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