Sorrow's powerlifting log

[Sorrow]

yeah 99.9999% of the time we all wind up in tricep failure after those

12/20/2013
light accessory work

incline bench press
bar x 10
135 x 10
185 x 8

Machine flies
90 x 10 (didnt feel right stopped)

standing overhead press
95 x 8 x 4

machine press down
100 x 8 x 3

standing cable press down / ss / standing curls from lower pulley
100 x 8 x 3

Mostly tried to get blood flowing through my upper muscles. Think I was hitting a bad angle on the flies, I should probably switch over to DB flies instead of the machine but its so much easier to setup. I needed rest thursday so I didnt deadlift. Just to much going on this week didnt feel recovered.

Squat saturday

[Sorrow]

12/21/2013
Squat training
Raw
bar x 5
150 x 5
240 x 3
Add belt
350 x 3
Add knee wraps
460 x 2
550 x 1
Add hanging blue bands
660 x 1

Leg Press
8 plates x 8
10 plates x 8
12 plates x 8

situps
20 x 2

Good raw day, felt good to be able to put some decent weight on my hips without my suit. Still alot of work to do. But, everything felt good overall

[Sorrow]

12/23/2013
pre christmas bench session

135 x 5
225 x 5
275 x 3
315 x 3
365 x 2
405 x 1
420 x 1 (PR)

Laying cable skull crushers
45 x 10
75 x 8 x 3

Alright, got some rest and got to carb up before hand. Apparently my body likes being fueled up and rested.. go figure lol

Merry Christmas to everybody!

[Cobalt]

420, lol, nice PR.

Keep it up!

[burlyman30]

420, lol, nice PR.

Keep it up!

X2... things keep moving upward... very nice!

[Sorrow]

Word, I couldn't resist the "420" lol. We actually had 425 on but had to ask the guys to reload to 420. And I fully admit this was more of a touch and go.

Tim 420 bench press raw - YouTube

Oh and the 555 x 4 No video of the pr deadlift before it but this was a first too

Tim 555 x 4 raw deadlift, Dukes Iron Zoo - YouTube

[burlyman30]

Word, I couldn't resist the "420" lol. We actually had 425 on but had to ask the guys to reload to 420. And I fully admit this was more of a touch and go.

Tim 420 bench press raw - YouTube

Oh and the 555 x 4 No video of the pr deadlift before it but this was a first too

Tim 555 x 4 raw deadlift, Dukes Iron Zoo - YouTube

The 420 went up slow... but just kept going up!

[olddawg]

yeah that was nice!

[VayneZ]

Man awesome nail!

I liked how the crew clapped their hands at the end. Now that's support!

[Sorrow]

The 420 went up slow... but just kept going up!

Yeah bench has always been more of a grinder for me. Especially raw. But at least there's still some improvement in there! As long as I keep improving I'm good.

12/26/2013
Deadlift work

We pulled off several mats (9 I think it was) which was just bellow the knee cap on me. Rack pulls but in 1/2" increments into a dead-blow surface basically. Not much bounce when you do it right.
245 x 5
425 x 3
515 x 3
625 x 1
655 x 1 (if you thought my bench was a grinder wait till you see this one.. literaly half the lift was getting it to break that first inch off the mat)

Single arm rows
90# x 8 each side.

Decided to cut back the accessory work, I'll make it up tomorrow. Considering how bloated I was from all the christmas food this felt productive. Didnt want to abuse my hips to bad today as were using our new camber bar saturday.

And VayneZ, it's always fun when my crew meets up! IT's also really competitive just amongst us in the gym, let alone when we go to a meet! Its that odd quality of powerlifting where even though you want to be the top dawg (no offense olddawg) you also want to see what the other guy can do! And everybody pushes each other to do their best. ITs just a very productive mix! And now that 5 of us are in the same weight class it seems like every other day we are in a true competition just to see who will move the most weight that day! And I thrive on that.