The Magic 20!

dang....your right....to me it looks like im pulling more with my right arm. what do you think?
i mean its kind of natural for my right to be stronger than the left and it was only when i was burning out...do you think its serious?

im going to focus hard now on equalizing. tons of db rows...what do you think? perhaps 1 arm negatives...any ideas?
 
3/31/08
WORKOUT 12 OF 18

-warmup sets

SQUATS
20@240lbs

PULLOVERS
15@20lbs

(weightxreps)
1 ARM DB BENCH PRESS
50x8
55x6 left arm, 4 right arm ><
55x6

1 ARM DB ROWS ON BENCH
60x10
65x6
65x6

POWER CLEAN
135x3

1 ARM DB SNATCH
60x2
60x2
60x2

PULLUPS
8 (new pr)

PWO: pear, whey, bananna, OJ, cantelope, 3cups skim milk, 5g creatine

COMMENTZ:
squats=ez and fun today
FUNNY=coach telling me not to go too low and im going to blow a kneecap on squats
NEEDS WORK=db snatches. my form is ok but i need to practice getting under it
1+1=2
 
Proteinboy said:
yup he said go parallel or you might hurt your knees :/
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One of the football players at my college came up to me and offered that advice as well, said something like:

"I saw you doing squats and I think you were going too low... how's that feel on your knees? Our coach says we should only go to parallel."

I was like...... ATG or go home brotha!

Actually I just told him "yeah.... I've heard a few different sides of that argument"
 
I've never had anyone come up to me and tell me I was squatting too low because they were concerned. Because I go so low that there is no question in their minds whether or not I am doing it on purpose. I've had those unspoken competitions where the guy in the rack next to you tries to squat more, and squat lower. That is where I squat and rest at the bottom to show those chumps who's king of mobility :D
 
lol nice lei; it drives me crazy when guys say "i can squat 405 easy" and then we get to the weightroom and they rep 1/4 squats with a weight they probably cant max out with parallel.
 
Proteinboy said:
lol nice lei; it drives me crazy when guys say "i can squat 405 easy" and then we get to the weightroom and they rep 1/4 squats with a weight they probably cant max out with parallel.
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Yeah, I hear ya.

It's really crazy how rare it is to see a person go to parallel or below when squatting.

I hardly ever see it unless it's an athlete, and lots of times they miss parallel by a bit too.
 
4/2/08
WORKOUT 13 OF 13

-warmup

20 REP SQUATS@246lbs
FAILED
13@246
7@246

extremely hard this time. i dunno why. i didnt feel like working out today but i tried anyway. hard.
i tried so hard and got so farrrrrrr but in the end it doesnt even matter!
lol jk

PULLOVERS
15@15

1 ARM DB BENCH
54x5
54x5
54x6


1 ARM BENT OVER DB ROW(no bench)
59x10
64x8
69x8


1 ARM DB SNATCH
54x4
54x4
54x4
practiced mai form! :D im really getting the hang of it

CLEAN PULL
170x5

RDL
170x5
170x3
video taped these. could have done more but i want to see if mai form is good. i think it is. il get the video up.

PWO: usual

ALERT:
i have made a big descision. im cutting this routine short due to epic phail. i havent taken a week off all year and im really feeling it. this routine is really stressful!
so im taking a week off and i plan on doing pendlay's 5x5 routine intermediate version.
in this situation, i think this is the best descision only because i have been feeling burnt. what do you think?
its been fun bustin my butt and il defenetly re-do this routine and learn from my mistakes. thanks for folowing guys and im sorry.

MISTAKES:
-miscalculated my beginning 10rm for my first session
-had 1/2 of workouts using a standard barbell/weights and the other half using olympic barbell/weights. the major problem with this is that 240 on the olympic bar feels much lighter than 245 on my standard bar(diff between 20 and 13 reps)
-failed twice before the end of the 18 workouts because of non-consistant training equipment and haste without thought
-didnt take a week off before starting the routine

edit:
you only fail if you give into the failure and dont try again.
 
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well it's up to you if you wanna cut the program short. You could always take a week off and then go back and finish it too if you wanna.

Either way i'm behind ya bro!
 
so today i decided to pull my thumb out of my mouth.

4/4/08
WORKOUT 14 OF 18

SQUATS
21@241lbs

i widened my stance about 1 inch on each side. before, my legs were exactly shoulder width apart. now they are slightly wider than shoulder width. makes for much more powerful squatting imo

WEIGHTXREPS
PULLOVERS
15x20


SUPER TRI-SET WITH REST(1min):
1 ARM DB BENCH PRESS
54x8
59x6
64x4
good improvement on these


1 ARM DB BENCH ROWS
64x8
69x8
74x6
good improvement on these too


1 ARM DB SNATCH
59x5
64x3
64x3

very fun. i really enjoy these.

PWO: blueberries, strawberries, 1.5 whey, pineapple, 5g creatine, tons o water

COMMENTS:
Someone was making a speech today at school about fighting cancer.
"I will never give up"
i figuered its a good principle to apply in life.
 
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Proteinboy said:
edit: mai db snatches

had some fun editing.
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OMG that video was freakin hilarious
I loved the background music and the funny edits, it was awesome ( especially the last 10 seconds )
Favorited your video, good pick of song too.

Nice snatches too.

+repped.
 
at the end it looks like you're banging the DB into your balls in furious anger.. tell me.. aren't they working properly? :p :D
 
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