Test With Shirt On April 25th. Alterations Went Great!

[powerlifterjay]

Well got my shirt back and had alot taken off. Jimmie Dean and Freak 19 both slide in it and said "how in the hell you gonna bench in this". Well tonight went like this

warmups
135x 10 3 sets
225x 10 2 sets
315x 8
405 x 3
455 x 1
500 x1 3 board
545 x 1 3 board
shirt on
585 x 1 no touch
615 x 1 3 board pulled to board. light!
650 x 1 3 board pulled to board. Blew up fast as hell!
675 x 1 3 board pulled to board. Blew up faster!
700 x 1 3 board pulled to board went up nice!

So i will drop down to 2 boards later but needed to knwo what my lockout potential was in it. I feel excellent locking out 700 off a 3 board. I will go more later off the 3 brd. Purpose is to get used to pulling down. So i will lower my groove each week about 4 weeks out. until then i will jsut play with it hear and there. I think i can go 725 off the 3 for a PR. So with that i am hopeing to make 650 feel like butter!

Learn something though. I got this shirt lose in the arms. If it isnt fastend it will fall off. Reason is i didnt want my arms to turn purple. What l felt different is the hand offs were nice and light. Were as normally my arms are purple and when i hold 635 plus my arms feel liek there gonna explode. Also with lose arms my muscles felt like they could full contract ,and explode. Instead of being held too tight. So if anyone is taking notes losen up those arms and go tight every where else. Big difference in my opinion.

 

[Deciever]

nice job... u sure u cant tell us who makes the shirt??? Is it titan.. there supposed to be coming out w/ a new shirt mid june or something... supposed to be pretty good.

very impressive weights on the 3 board..how the hell can you move that weight???

 

[powerlifterjay]

Most people have emailed me and figured it out but all the company's new shirts start June 10. The patent is up the 9th.

People think with denim you just throw it on and BAM big weights fly. And to some extent its true, but you must have tri power. Period. I spend alot of time on the boards. More then anything else. Strengthen the lockout and you can utilize a powerful shirt. But sometimes the weight it takes to come down is more then can be pushed up, in fact i bet that is the main reason many denims are hanging up in closets. I knwo i have some!

This shirt is awesome! And for the topic of can a shirt be exact in what it takes to touch, well this one is dam close give or take. I have a lot of work left in it so i am sure things will get better , and worse before i master it.

 

[k1401]

Awesome Job Jay
Keep us posted and thanks for the tips earlier!!!!!!!

 

[Deciever]

all this shirt stuff is complicated... everyones getting a double denim radical cut, open back , velco shirt... and im gonna be getting a HD Blast... lol, i feel so inferior

 

[Screwball]

Great workout, Jay. Damn, if I had half of your lock-out strength then my new shirt would work for me. I've decided I'm going to continue to work with the shirt without getting it altered. I think with all of the good advice I've recieved from board members that I will eventually be where I want to be. How much weight do you think it will take to touch your chest? That is a great tip about the shirt's tightness in the arms. How much room do you have? Would you estimate an 1/8", 1/4", 1/2"? You should be satisfied with your training. It seems that you are going to hit some huge numbers in your next meet. Good luck!

- Screwball

 

[FREAK19]

i was there spotting him for all of his shirt lifts and i tell you that they were bad ass. they all had great speed on it. the only weight that looked slow was 585 and 615(sorry jay) but as he went heavier the bar moved faster, he didnt have any sticking points. Great job Jay

Shit He benched what i Squatted today

 

[I'D RATHER BE DEADLIFTING]

Freaking amazing tricep strength bro!!!

Can't wait to start up the program on Monday. I'm gonna be doing board presses with 700 in no time.





..........well, maybe I'll try for 250 first, lol.

 

[Deciever]

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Shit He benched what i Squatted today

Shit, he benched what i totalled a little while ago

IRBD, you could board press 700 in a short time... just try something like an 9 board press and see how it goes.

 

[I'D RATHER BE DEADLIFTING]

Yea, maybe a 6 board press with the Monster bands suspended and doubled.

Maybe not even with that, lol.


I ned that guy Ironbull's spotters. Anybody ever see that homo try for 1,000 lb bench, lol. What an ass.