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Who else has held the oceans in his hand?
Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers?
Who else knows the weight of the earth
or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?
Isiah 40:12

ME Upper

Decided to play around with some DB's today

Workout was as follows:

Flat DB press:
60x6, 75x6, 100x9, 130x4, 4, 100x6

JM Press:
135x3,3, 185x3, 225x3, 245x3, 255x3

Incline DB Press:
100x7,6

Power Shrugs:
135x8, 225x6, 315x6, 405x6, 495x3,4


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very impressive lifts man! whats your body-weight and are you planning on competing??

1) nice bench pr and I see why you are doing the floor presses as your sticking point seemed to be right there

2) you crazy for squatting that outside of a cage w/ no spotter.

restoman45 wrote:very impressive lifts man! whats your body-weight and are you planning on competing??

thanks bro

I compete in 198's for now, floating around 200lbs BW

planning on dropping to 181's though

bigla2004 wrote:1) nice bench pr and I see why you are doing the floor presses as your sticking point seemed to be right there

2) you crazy for squatting that outside of a cage w/ no spotter.

Thanks

And regarding squatting without a spotter.. FWIW I believe squatting WITH a spotter is more dangerous.. because if i start to lose that much weight its going down. period.

I can just throw it backward and fall forward onto my knees


first thing i learned about squatting - how to fail properly

Good point. I mean not being in the rack is closer to how it will be on competition day anyway.

As far as competing in 181's.. if you have a 24 hour weigh-in then you shouldn't be too far off of the bodyweight you need to be at to get there comfortably, but I know a 24 hour weigh in isn't always the case

Wow a 340lb bench press! That was legit!

AND a 510 squat! Geez man. I was surprised at how fast your descent was, then you reversed the weight fairly quickly as well. Sometimes when you see a really heavy squat the athlete will ease into it like an old man into a warm bath but not you!

Side note, can you dunk a basketball? I'd be interested to know.

bigla2004 wrote:Good point. I mean not being in the rack is closer to how it will be on competition day anyway.

As far as competing in 181's.. if you have a 24 hour weigh-in then you shouldn't be too far off of the bodyweight you need to be at to get there comfortably, but I know a 24 hour weigh in isn't always the case

I do have a 24 hour weigh in, thus my goal is to be floating around 190 2 weeks out from the meet

won't be hard to deplete the last 10lbs as water at ALL

RyannayR wrote:Wow a 340lb bench press! That was legit!

AND a 510 squat! Geez man. I was surprised at how fast your descent was, then you reversed the weight fairly quickly as well. Sometimes when you see a really heavy squat the athlete will ease into it like an old man into a warm bath but not you!

Side note, can you dunk a basketball? I'd be interested to know.

I definitely cannot dunk a basketball! hah I wish!

I can just about grab rim

I don't do alot of jumping though, so perhaps with a bit of practice it would be a different story

funny you should mention easing into the squats - I typically do.. I suppose this one just went a bit faster than normal lol

Yeah I wasn't sure if you could dunk or not because I've heard stories about Olympic lifters weighing close to 300lbs with 35 inch vertical leaps just because their power base was so strong from squating. You obviously have a strong base already if you can squat 2.5x your body weight.

I read all about this topic in the "Vertical Jump Development Bible." I'm going to begin implementing these exercises in on my cardio days so I can start slamming on people by mid summer.

Shoot me a PM if you were interested in any of the I info I have.

Olympic lifters tend to have the huge verticals from clean/snatch

you will find they are much more explosive and involve an actual JUMP which tends to help

ME Lower

Good Morning Squats
135x3, 185x3, 225x3, 275x3, 315x3
335x1, 355x1, 380x1

EZ Bar GHR's
BWx5x5

DB Lunges
90x3x10

45 Degree Hyperextensions
BWx4x10


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ME Upper


Ball Press
60x20
70x20,19

Seated DB Military Press
60x4x10

Incline BB Ext
85x6
105x6
125x3x6

Dips
BWx20,12,12

Face Pulls
80x15
100x15,13,12

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Who else has held the oceans in his hand?
Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers?
Who else knows the weight of the earth
or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?
Isiah 40:12

DE Lower

Didn't feel like going too heavy on the box squats today - my back has been taking a beating lately, so I'm trying to ease off it just a bit


workout was as follows;

Box Squats:
255+2Avg Bands: 10x2

45 Degree Hypers:
BWx10
BW+25x10,10

Wide Grip Pullups:
BWx9,8,7

Leg Curls:
110x12
120x10,10

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what's a video?

your workouts scare me.