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| | #183 (permalink) |
| Rank: Middleweight Experience: 1-2 Years | had a nice light week last week...knees are feeling better....mental break felt real good as well.... so. 3/3/08 squat - 150, 3 x 5 incline bench - 115, 3 x 5 chest supported row - found 5RM - did 3 x 5 at 110. dips - 50, 3 x 7 planks & side planks - held each for 90 seconds or so...my shoulders were super tired and they gave out before my hips did did a set of RDL's real light weight just to get a feel for them...will bump up the weight friday. felt....super good today. |
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| | #184 (permalink) |
| Rank: Middleweight Experience: 1-2 Years | 3/5/08 deads - 220 x 6 standing arnold press - 40's, 3 x 8 stepups - 20's, 2 x 6 pullups - bw, 3 x 10 captains chair - 3 x 15 preachers - 40, 2 x 10 knees are almost 100% again...light week + stepups + no ghetto ghr's = good. thanks to mr. eric for the 8775 bazillion pm's. much appreciated. gonna do some single leg squats on fridays...and maybe progress on reps for a2g squats...work up to 3 x 7 before adding weight...play it by ear...let the knees talk to me... |
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| | #185 (permalink) | |
| Moderator Rank: Heavyweight Experience: 7-10 Years Join Date: Jul 2005
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You should find as the glutes and posterior chain in general gets stronger you will have less problems with the knees. Also ankle mobility can play a part as well as hip mobility. From time to time though the knees can get achey when you do a lot of squatting and a little switch like this can fix them up but basically it's the all squatting and little else that leads to this. Squatting is good for the knees in some ways but they will not in themselves cure a weak a relatively weak PC. Just the opposite, really, a strong PC can help cure a bad squat. | |
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| | #186 (permalink) |
| Rank: Middleweight Experience: 1-2 Years | 3/7/08 one leg squats - found 5RM - 35's, 3 x 5 incline bench - 115, 3 x 5 js rows - 105, 3 x 5 RDL's - 70 x 5......90, 2 x 5 dips - bw, 3 x 20 plank - made 60 seconds, and then got a phone call.. balancing was tough on the one leggers....but fun...right leg is stronger than left leg. inclines flew up...rows flew up...was good to hit the js rows. been awhile. rdl's are fun...love the hamstring work. i have not taken a break from loading on deadlifts since like........september. so i think...i may go back to the a-b-a format...do some lighter deads twice a week every other week and really focus on form...and romanians once that week on wednesday which will turn into heavy squat day...do stepups monday and single legs friday. and rotate through t bar rows, js rows, and chest supported rows. i'll have to video them..but i think on the heavy deads the bar is still going straight up from the ground...but i'm not really leaning back on the heels and letting the hams do some work...so maybe light form work + rdl's = good. we shall see. |
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| Moderator Rank: Heavyweight Experience: 7-10 Years Join Date: Jul 2005
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I did not just read something about a phone call. I take my planks back! ![]() | |
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| Rank: Middleweight Experience: 1-2 Years | hahaha...it was a serious phone call though...and i have been waiting for it...back in august my best friends uncle died in a motorcycle accident...super cool guy...really close family and i've been part of this family since i was like 4....his wife took it super hard...and her daughter found her dead yesterday...and it was probably suicide...so...my best friends little sister called me on her way home from work so she wouldn't be "alone" and cry the whole way... i will do the planks today don't worry...just to appease your nanobots. |
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| Moderator Rank: Heavyweight Experience: 7-10 Years Join Date: Jul 2005
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