Friday, March 30, 2012

Squatz and Friendz

So I've made 2 friends at the gym over the last few months, and literally the only reason is that one of us saw the other squat correctly which tends to start a conversation since it's so rare. What a sad state of affairs. Whenever I see someone load up 365+lbs on squat I'm like, oh damn, maybe this dude is pretty strong and I can learn something. Dude then proceeds to quarter squat while grunting loud as shit so the rest of gym knows he's squatting 365. The worst WORST thing I've ever seen though, is this dude who had about 135 on the bar, and proceeded to try to squat it on a bosu ball to maybe half depth; I'm being generous here.

/rant

Training:

On Tuesday I:

Squat 3x5 350, felt really really heavy, and I was worried I'd get stuck at 355.
Press 3x3 135, easy day
Power Clean: worked up to 185. The oly class really helped. I find that I'm much better at this now. I didn't have time to go heavier. Will do so next chance I get. I still catch the bar crazy high, so that's definitely something to work on.

On Thursday:

Squat 3x5 355, this was really easy (WTF?) I think part of the reason was I had a ton of carbs right before (PFChangs)
Bench 245 for 3, 225 for 6. Was going for a 5 rep pr at 245, but wasn't strong enough. Probably should have microloaded to 242 but oh well.
DL 355 for 5. Did conventional this time.

2 comments:

  1. This is pretty funny because thats basically the same way I met a few guys at the gym I used to go to at work.

    Do you usually eat before working out?

    What's conventional DL?

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  2. I do on my volume day. For the other days it's random.

    Yeah I've been going back and forth between my sumo deadlift style and my conventional style. My sumo is probably stronger and I can probably do more with it, but conventional develops more musculature I think. I still haven't made up my mind about it haha.

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