working on a new routine

[Andalite]

True that but competition is one of the best things to make people perform better...shit people wouldn't be nearly as strong and good as they are in life without competition.

True. But is this something you are competing in? If you're doing PL'ing at a professional level, then competing is crucial but do you think teams compete WITHIN each other? No way man.

Which of the two scenarios is better? You hit a 500 lbs Deadlift for 20 reps.
(a) I say "Awesome, dude. What now?"
(b) I say "Awesome. Now sit back and watch while I destroy 500 lbs and make you look like a little girl."

Which is gonna be more productive? Hell...I'd like someone to guide me to better myself. I am in this for myself. I could care less (and I don't mean anything bad by this) whether you hit 500 lbs or 600 or 200 or even 100 lbs. I'd love to cheer you on and guide you and help you and do everything possible to get you strong but no way are your achievements going to spur my progress.

Having said that, I agree with you: a little competition is fine because it brings out the best in us but when it becomes into the sole discussion in a thread where every workout is followed by "you're not catching up to X person fast enough" or "fuck you bitch I am 1000000x stronger than you" then we're losing focus of the goal here: to better ourselves.

I am not bashing you. This was just a general observation. I have nothing against YOU and this is not directed towards anything particular which you have said.

 

[Tblock1]

True. But is this something you are competing in? If you're doing PL'ing at a professional level, then competing is crucial but do you think teams compete WITHIN each other? No way man.

Which of the two scenarios is better? You hit a 500 lbs Deadlift for 20 reps.
(a) I say "Awesome, dude. What now?"
(b) I say "Awesome. Now sit back and watch while I destroy 500 lbs and make you look like a little girl."

Which is gonna be more productive? Hell...I'd like someone to guide me to better myself. I am in this for myself. I could care less (and I don't mean anything bad by this) whether you hit 500 lbs or 600 or 200 or even 100 lbs. I'd love to cheer you on and guide you and help you and do everything possible to get you strong but no way are your achievements going to spur my progress.

Having said that, I agree with you: a little competition is fine because it brings out the best in us but when it becomes into the sole discussion in a thread where every workout is followed by "you're not catching up to X person fast enough" or "fuck you bitch I am 1000000x stronger than you" then we're losing focus of the goal here: to better ourselves.

I am not bashing you. This was just a general observation. I have nothing against YOU and this is not directed towards anything particular which you have said.

I just don't know though. Many of the type of friends I have would say exactly that... "Dude 500 pounds for 20 reps are you fucking kidding me that is the weakest pussay shit I've ever heard! Watch as I destroy you with 600 POUNDS for 20 reps biatch!!!!" And I tell you, if someone said that to me I gauarantee I would be working out twice as hard to get to 700 for 20 reps. I do agree though that this competition online is stupid when we are saying "I'm 1000x stronger than you bitch from 1000 miles away lol. It's just that no many people are strong at my gym so I have to have somewhere to look for competition.

I'll try to be done f'ing with your log though jdid

 

[ExtraMile]

Who gives a fuck what somebody else lifts?

me

 

[JDid23]

come on guys... i don't mind friendly conversation/debate on topic, but i hate going back to try to find what i did last workout and not being able to as easily because people are talking about random stuff. Anyways,

Today i jammed the fuck out of my pinky. Intramurals basketball playoffs we were 7th seed, they were 2nd with 3 former school varsity players, and i dropped 8 points and 2 assists and we lost 11-10 in OT. Fucking miss basketball.. but i jammed the shit out of my pinky and it was pretty swolen, which felt weird during deadlifts. I am also just getting over being sick, and even though i felt somewhat better today i was still coughing during my workout.

Deadlift
135x3
155x3
185x3
225x3 (left under/right over from here on)
255x6- PR
255x3
245x5

Bench
45x8
65x8
95x3
115x3
135x8- PR (small spot on 8th)
135x6 (small spot on 6th)
135x4 (big spot on 5th, only count 4)
85x17- PR

BB Curl (forgot about squat after bench until 2nd set!)
45x8
45x8

Squat (medium day, fuckin tired from sick/deads/bench)
95x3
135x3
155x2
175x3
175x3
155x3 (this was medium with how tired i was.. hell, it was almost hard lol)
155x3

Seated DB Press (when i put the DBs down.. well my iphone has a crack now)
20s x 12
25s x 12- PR
30s x 8

Seated Calves
45x10
55x10
65x10
70x4 (kinda hurt but not good pain.. will keep light and higher reps)

CGBP (cut short had to go)
45x8
65x8
90x10
95x8


Comments: was an eh workout besides the fact during seated DB Press i had the DBs on my knees and kicked them up into the press... lets just say i rested the DB on my right leg on my iphone (had no headphones either today). Deads weren't that hard, but i didn't feel great overall during them. Bench was very solid, and i'll move to 140 next workout. I'll do BB Curls again this weekend because i really just kinda neglected them today cuz of squats.and time. squats were fucking hard today because i've never done them after deads and bench before. Seated DB Press was ok numbers wise lol. Seated Calves goign to stick to light weight high reps (even though i could have probably gotten 10 reps with 70 had my calf not hurt). CGBP had to go or i woulda hit 100x8 hopefully. I would have done more with 95 but no spotter.

 

[the.gladiator1987]

i think u can go way heavier with cgbp!

 

[ExtraMile]

i think u can go way heavier with cgbp!

yeah i bet you could press 135x1 if you really went for it!

about the seated calves, you keep having trouble with them so just do standing...

 

[JDid23]

yeah glad i can... i didn't have a spotter though

EM- i bet i might be able to hit that for a 1RM.... but at the moment i am focusing more on increasing weight/reps.

 

[JDid23]

today was sub-par

Squat
95x3
135x3
155x3
175x1
190x2- PR- 5x2
190x2
190x2
190x2
190x2
160x6
135x7

DB Row
40x6
55x5
55x5 (left shoulder hurt a bit so i toned it down from here on out)
45x8

Incline DB
35s x 12
40s x 10
45s x 6

Standing Calves
90x8
110x8
130x8
150x8- PR

DB Skull Crushers- First Time
15s x 10
20s x 6 (right failed on 7th)
15s x 8

Abs.. superset 10 pound plate holding in front of body...... leg raises
20....10


Comments: Squats were good and more importantly, so was my form..... i got really pumped even without my ipod by grunting whenever i took the bar off and taking it off with force. DB Rows were good, but i felt a strain in my left shoulder so i lowered it. Also didn't do as much during incline DB, and for rows i am dropping working sets to 45 and keeping STRICT form. Seated Calves were good, and skull crushers were ok but i prefer them with the EZ Bar. Abs were eh. Working out M/W this week cuz im going away tuesday, which is also why i lifted today instead of sunday

 

[oso0960]

Today was sub par? You got a PR! Nothing sub par about that

 

[Andalite]

Good stuff, Josh!!!