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benchmonster
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OUCH!!!!
Just got home from a tough workout with bigokie. We did speed squats with green bands. bigokie has told me in the past that he squats outside the rack. I thought that meant that he put the j-hooks on the outside of the front posts rather than inside where the catch pins are. I was sorely mistaken, and saw the second most amazing thing I saw all night, I will get to the first most amazing thing later.
bigokie had the j-hooks set up before I got to the gym. He had them set up where I could get the bar out. Now I thought we might have some problems because bigokie is 10 inches taller than I am. He asked if the hooks needed to be lowered, and I assured him they were fine, but asked him how he was going to get to the bar. He said it was fine, and then showed me what he meant.
This rack was a heavy duty rack made out of 4 by 4 steel. The ground supports extend out the front of the rack for at least 2 feet, and we had the hooks out front as well, with dumbells to anchor the bands. Well, when bigokie said he squatted outside the rack, he meant that he set up with his feet outside of the 4X4 bases!!! Imagine squatting with your feet wider than a monolift will allow. This was how wide his squat stance was. I was amazed.
We worked up, and I did 315 plus bands for a few sets, then switched to 365 plus greens for a few sets, then took a couple of singles. Did 405, and it was real easy, so I decided to go for 500, which I did not think about at the time, but would tie my M.E. pr on a box of that height. Well, I got stuck on the box. Hips just gave out. Then the coolest thing happened. bigokie gave me a boost, and I was able to stand up and rack the bar, then bigokie started looking at me funny, and said something to the effect of "Well, I have never seen that before"
I turned and looked at the mirror, and saw a stream of blood coming from my hairline down to my eyebrow! I had strained to the point that blood was coming out of my head. It was so cool. I really feel like I have strained much harder at other periods and this has never happened before.
After this we did some deadlifts, then did 4 sets of 10 glute ham raises, then abs and went and ate. I want to thank bigokie, and say that if you guys happen to be in Stillwater, OK, for any reason, you can find a great gym called the Rockhouse. All in all, a very good evening, and we got to see something we had not seen before.
B.
Just got home from a tough workout with bigokie. We did speed squats with green bands. bigokie has told me in the past that he squats outside the rack. I thought that meant that he put the j-hooks on the outside of the front posts rather than inside where the catch pins are. I was sorely mistaken, and saw the second most amazing thing I saw all night, I will get to the first most amazing thing later.
bigokie had the j-hooks set up before I got to the gym. He had them set up where I could get the bar out. Now I thought we might have some problems because bigokie is 10 inches taller than I am. He asked if the hooks needed to be lowered, and I assured him they were fine, but asked him how he was going to get to the bar. He said it was fine, and then showed me what he meant.
This rack was a heavy duty rack made out of 4 by 4 steel. The ground supports extend out the front of the rack for at least 2 feet, and we had the hooks out front as well, with dumbells to anchor the bands. Well, when bigokie said he squatted outside the rack, he meant that he set up with his feet outside of the 4X4 bases!!! Imagine squatting with your feet wider than a monolift will allow. This was how wide his squat stance was. I was amazed.
We worked up, and I did 315 plus bands for a few sets, then switched to 365 plus greens for a few sets, then took a couple of singles. Did 405, and it was real easy, so I decided to go for 500, which I did not think about at the time, but would tie my M.E. pr on a box of that height. Well, I got stuck on the box. Hips just gave out. Then the coolest thing happened. bigokie gave me a boost, and I was able to stand up and rack the bar, then bigokie started looking at me funny, and said something to the effect of "Well, I have never seen that before"
I turned and looked at the mirror, and saw a stream of blood coming from my hairline down to my eyebrow! I had strained to the point that blood was coming out of my head. It was so cool. I really feel like I have strained much harder at other periods and this has never happened before.
After this we did some deadlifts, then did 4 sets of 10 glute ham raises, then abs and went and ate. I want to thank bigokie, and say that if you guys happen to be in Stillwater, OK, for any reason, you can find a great gym called the Rockhouse. All in all, a very good evening, and we got to see something we had not seen before.
B.
