On Saturday I drove an hour and change to hangout with Ricci in Havre de Grace with the idea that we'd max out mock meet style. I got in around 2pm, we headed to the base and started warming up. By 3:20pm we were about to start on our working set squats. At 3:25 pm, over the intercom we hear "the gym is closing at 4pm everyone must leave at 4 sharp k thx bye". Is this some sort of sick joke, Ricci? Not a joke...totally cereal. At this point we decided to finish up our squats. I posted 345, 370, and 390 - all of which were one rep max PRs. 405 feels like it's within reach. That'd be sweet if I could get it at the competition.
As the gym closed up at 4, Ricci started flirting with the 60 year old female gym employee and got her phone number. We eventually figured out there was a ymca in Abingdon, Maryland about 20 minutes away. Fortunately, the ymca's gym was pretty well equiped and we were able to finish up our bench press and deadlift session so the day wouldn't be a waste. I benched 225, 240 and failed 250. I think I'm definitely capable of 250 but I think benching with only a day of rest since my previous bench session hurt me on the max out session. On deadlift, I successfully got 425 and 450 lbs and didn't try a third attempt because my wisdom teeth were bothering me. I'd post videos of the squat and deadlift attempts if my computer wasn't using windows 95.
After that we drove for Sonic where I crushed a milkshake, double bacon cheeseburger, and chicken tenders. All in all, a pretty fun day. Thanks for hosting, reech.
My numbers...
ReplyDeletesquat: 345-365-385
bench: 185-195-200x
DL: 425-455-475x
real close on the bench and DL failed reps. it's crystal clear what I need to work on for the next meet...also want to buy lascek's "paleo for lifters" ebook. need to eat cleaner for my gut's sake, also to be more tan.
if you buy the paleo for lifters ebook, please send that to me... or we can split the cost of it.
Deleteside note: klein realized yesterday that we left our driver's licenses at said YMCA. had to drive back up there last night, which turned into another sonic binge. see above comment re: need to eat cleaner.
ReplyDeletenice work on the squatz and deadliftz. i dont understand your bench. how many push ups do you think you can do in a row?
ReplyDeletehis elbows are too close to his torso when he benches. it's like he's doing close grip bench for his regular bench.
DeleteWe need to get some video of him benching.
DeleteWe'll have videos from the meet, too late to worry about changing shit at this point. I might be going about achieving external rotation totally wrong. Been gauging grip width to give a forearm that's perpendicular to the bar at the bottom of the movement.
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