blue bands on ME day

[ironmaiden181]

Spatterson - I thought that you might be interested in this...

We did Reverse band presses today for ME day....

I had a PR of 335 x 2 with the Blue bands....

Then went to close grips with the reverse blue bands....

Got 275 x 5... another PR for me

The last ME exersice we did was the Pin lockouts with the purple bands knoted together and double looped to a dumb bell under the bench...

I was able to get 225 x 2..... Man do those really bite the big one.. there soooooooooooooo tough!!!!!

What a awesome work out today!!!!!!! I love the reverse band exersices!!!!!

 

[ironmaiden181]

I have written you a reply 2 times and it doesn't go through..... Just what to see if it goes through with this....

 

[ironmaiden181]

CROSSING MY FINGERS THAT THIS GOES THROUGH!!!!!!

Our next competion is a few months away.... Which is a good thing.... Ill have time to work on my lockouts!!! I really want to hit over 300+ at the next one!! We plan on hitting some WPO meets soon... I just want the numbers first before i get to one!!!

At the last meet I had 300 at the top. The bar drifted on me and I couldn't recover to lockout the last couple inches!!! So needless to say I'm doing alot of lockout excerises!!!!

Right now I lift in a double poly but I think that I'm going to order me a demin so that I can start working with it..... I respect that shirt ALOT!!!!

 

[ironmaiden181]

I would love to do 3 lifts but im not sure about them..... my squats are really weak compared to everything else..... I'm not really built for squats.... and Dead lifts just screw with my mind!! The weight doesn't bother me but the position of my body does... It just feels so weird!! Did you go through that too? Does it get easier?

Have you used a denim or just poly?

 

[ironmaiden181]

Really, thats kewl!!! Don't worry about the off the chest part then.... if you plan on getting a shirt!!! it will help you get off the chest!! Is the meet your lifting in Raw?

I only use the shirt in the meets.... practice I do use a belt and wrist wraps... Have to!!!! I have bad wrist.... thats from my younger years.... lol

Do you train with the boards and chains??? We use 2, 3, and 5 boards....

 

[ironmaiden181]

shoulders

You mentioned about your rehabing your shoulders.... I had a simular problem.... I had a problem with the flexablity of my rotator..... killed me... couldn't even pick up a piece of paper from the back seat of the car.... hurt like hell!!! went to the doc... he hold me it was due to my back muscles being so strong that it was holding my posture wrong... told me to work my abs to equal out the strenght..... and gave me a simple excerise.... hold on to a bar ( or something) about shoulder hight behind you and bend at the knees... until you get a good stretch... hold it there for a few seconds ........ this helped me alot and in a week or so i was fine...... hope that that helps!!!

 

[ironmaiden181]

yes a demin is better...... but its much harder to use,.... you have to be so careful about staying i the grove and it takes alot of weight to get it down..... you and I seem to be about the same in the numbers.... and our size seems to be about the same... so your in the same class as I am ( i think) what I'm worried about with the demin is that we are big women ... that means we will wear a pretty good size shirt..... that means bigger numbers to beable to get the bar to chest..... I'm guessing that i'll have to beable to lockout well over 300 to get the bar to touch!!! I would start with the double poly.... just get it really small.... I ordered my about 2 to 3 sizes smaller than I needed....

 

[Hannibal]

So you think a denim shirt is better?

We are going to start workin on equipment. You have to find what works best for you. Denim...if you can use it is much better than poly. With your strong lockout I think that Denim is the way to go, but then Arioch said his wife didnt get shit out of Denim...so you have to find what works for you. It's a trial and error process and we have 6 months to figure it out. Probably have to get a denim and a poly and see what works. The only problem with Denim is the measurements have to be "precise"...with poly it will adapt to you more.

Don't worry...by Nov 31st all equipment issues will have been addressed and you will be ready to rock. Bob Youngs recommends single ply denim for his female lifters...which is probably what we will try.

 

[ironmaiden181]

think of it like this..... your shirt is like a spring being stretched.... as you come down your shirt gets stretch tighter,.... so when your allowed to press then you release the spring and it shots off your chest to about where the 3 board starts..... your going to love the shirt,..... but hate the way it feels.... just always remember to keep you elbow tucked and stay tight.....

Going to a meet without a shirt would be like going to a gun fight with a knife!!! lol

 

[ironmaiden181]

Hannibal..... don't rule out a dbl poly,..... Mine works like a demin.... I really got luck with my shirt.... i think that it is more than 2 to 3 sizes smaller..... i had to cut the back to get in to it.... it is really small...... but i try the 300 and it got it off my chest really easy.... I was really lucky with my shirt like i said... Demins have a tendency ( not sure about the spelling LOL) to make you flare your elbow... which is a problem for me.... Musclehed275 just got his demin and had his first meet in it 3 weeks ago..... he had a problem with it getting it down... got out of the grove and his elbows flared and it came back at his head grazing him and breaking his finger against the rack.... Like I said i have a great respect for the demins.... they are awsome.... but tricky... what do you think???