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benchmonster
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Hello all,
Hannibal has been giving me shit for not posting more. I have been in the basement since bombing out of my last meet, and have not posted much here, or anywhere else, but I am done feeling sorry for myself, and am ready to go back to my jovial, goofy assed self.
I have been doing some different kinds of things for squat/deadlift training lately, in part because my shoulders have been beat up, and I needed to get the bar off my back for a while, and also because I misplaced my squat suit, and I don't care much for box squats without suit bottoms on, tough on the old hips.
Well, then, BM, what have you been doing?
I have been doing, for M.E. movement, last week, Suitcase Deadlifts. These are performed with an olympic bar, on the floor beside you, to the side, and you reach down with one hand, grabbing the bar in the middle knurling, and stand up with it just like you would pick up a suitcase (hence the name).
I am not much of a deadlifter, as many of you know, but did manage to work up, going up 20 lbs per set, starting with 95 lbs, and maxing out at 175 lbs. My grip failed on my left hand at 175, and I was forced to cheat a bit, and use the hook grip, which I did, and managed to hang on with my left.
After this, I did step ups, to a 12 inch box, doing 5 reps per leg, per set, holding 80 lb dumbells in each hand. This will give you quite a leg/hamstring workout, and I highly recommend throwing these in on occasion. You strong people out there reading this can use some heavier weights than what I used.
This was followed up by reverse hypers using about 450 lbs for 3 sets of 10.
After this was farmers walk, on the toes, which is a monster calf exercise, and then, on to the fun. . . ab workout!!!
Using the stability ball, I put my hands on the floor, as if doing a pushup, while the ball was under my thighs, and drew the legs to my chest, rolling the ball down to my feet, doing 3 sets of 10, then doing this with one leg for 3 sets of 10, then the other leg for 3 sets of 10.
This was an exceptionally good workout, I thought, and I never even had the bar on my shoulders. Just throwing out some thoughts. I have been shown some more ab exercises that were very impressive, that I will share later, and I have been doing a lot of work with kettle bells, which will be the subject of another thread soon. They are great for increasing core strength.
B.
Hannibal has been giving me shit for not posting more. I have been in the basement since bombing out of my last meet, and have not posted much here, or anywhere else, but I am done feeling sorry for myself, and am ready to go back to my jovial, goofy assed self.
I have been doing some different kinds of things for squat/deadlift training lately, in part because my shoulders have been beat up, and I needed to get the bar off my back for a while, and also because I misplaced my squat suit, and I don't care much for box squats without suit bottoms on, tough on the old hips.
Well, then, BM, what have you been doing?
I have been doing, for M.E. movement, last week, Suitcase Deadlifts. These are performed with an olympic bar, on the floor beside you, to the side, and you reach down with one hand, grabbing the bar in the middle knurling, and stand up with it just like you would pick up a suitcase (hence the name).
I am not much of a deadlifter, as many of you know, but did manage to work up, going up 20 lbs per set, starting with 95 lbs, and maxing out at 175 lbs. My grip failed on my left hand at 175, and I was forced to cheat a bit, and use the hook grip, which I did, and managed to hang on with my left.
After this, I did step ups, to a 12 inch box, doing 5 reps per leg, per set, holding 80 lb dumbells in each hand. This will give you quite a leg/hamstring workout, and I highly recommend throwing these in on occasion. You strong people out there reading this can use some heavier weights than what I used.
This was followed up by reverse hypers using about 450 lbs for 3 sets of 10.
After this was farmers walk, on the toes, which is a monster calf exercise, and then, on to the fun. . . ab workout!!!
Using the stability ball, I put my hands on the floor, as if doing a pushup, while the ball was under my thighs, and drew the legs to my chest, rolling the ball down to my feet, doing 3 sets of 10, then doing this with one leg for 3 sets of 10, then the other leg for 3 sets of 10.
This was an exceptionally good workout, I thought, and I never even had the bar on my shoulders. Just throwing out some thoughts. I have been shown some more ab exercises that were very impressive, that I will share later, and I have been doing a lot of work with kettle bells, which will be the subject of another thread soon. They are great for increasing core strength.
B.
Man, that dude has some wierd gadgets and ideas, but I hurt like a MOFO after he showed us that stuff at eastside! Next time you see him, tell him I said thanks for showing Vanessa how to hit the pressure points in my back and shoulders by rolling a tennis ball up nad down the back.--Thats heaven and hell all in one sitting!
