I just got owned on the incline press today Wolf :biglaugh: Not to worry its a bitch of an exercise.Nice W/O :)

yeah dude....thats one difficult exercise indeed!!! i am dreading my lower 2 workout today..

I would say that we definitely don't see eye to eye here. My experience has taught me and shown me that injuries happen. Not for lack of trying to avoid them, but the sport of weight lifting is dangerous. Aside from the downright clumsy crap I've done to myself through the years (dropping weights on toes, etc) I've had injuries that I never saw coming. A partial pec tear beaing one of them. The addition of weight begins to expose flaws in the way we move, or exposes weaknesses in musculature/joints. I recon that most of that is congenital and is typically brought to light under innocent enough circumstances. Sure, you will get the occasional kid that thinks they can squat 400lbs and gets squished... but you can't fix stupid and you can't save people from themselves. The rest of the time I'm willing to bet that most people don't suspect an injury prior to the big moment. So how do you train around this?

As an example, and I recognize that you don't want to hear my life story... but this fits, I was training Olympic lifts last night. I met with the assistant coach of the local weightlifting club. No shlub, the club has national competitors in olympic lifting. So I had the right person watching me and guiding me, in person. Even so I still managed to screw up a couple cleans and catch the bar in painful places. Had a couple snatches that were out of whack too, causing me to fight to get control of the bar. As a result I'm a little banged up, and not just DOMS. The weights were not maximal, as I was only working on form tweaks. Granted the lifts are pretty technical, but crap happens.


No... as his trainer you do what you have to do to keep him on track. I'm just offering "alternative" views. I've known Anuj from way back, and I'm just being me. I'm sure by this point he knows to ignore me :D

MAXIMUM STRENGTH by Eric Cressey

Beginning Thoughts:

My entire posterior chain is sooo sore today I am surprised I was able to even lift the barbell for Deadlifts. In other news...Hancock releases today and although I do not have high hopes for this movie, I do predict it to be better than Wanted. I am gonna go see it tomorrow :)

On a side note, as per this program, I have to do the following for Deadlifts in the upcoming weeks:
Week 3 = 6 sets x 5 reps
Week 4 = 2 sets x 5 reps
The problem is: I am going back home to Bombay during these two weeks (and for the first 2-3 weeks of Phase 3 of Maximum Strength) and the barbells I have back home do not have the amazing knurling my school gym barbells do. So, I will probably lower the weight if the chalk I use doesn't work out for me.

Workout:

Started off with 5x5 on Broad Jumps...these were kinda hard actually. I don't know the distance I jumped but I did try to jump the most I could.

Followed that with some 5x5 Deadlifts. I was supposed to do elevated deadlifts but I didn't know what to elevate them with. So I have made a modification and I am going to be doing regular deadlifts right now and once I fly back to Bombay I will do elevated deadlifts for the remaining 2 weeks of this Phase. Videos for todays Deadlifts are right here, but before that I want to mention some things. Firstly, I am not quite certain about my form. I believe I should've used more leg drive on some sets/reps if not on all. Ok, here go the vids;
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...t=02072008.flv
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...2072008001.flv
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...2072008002.flv
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...2072008003.flv
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...2072008004.flv

Then, it was time for some Reverse Lunges and Palloof Presses. Both exercises are awesome IMO :)

Overall Impression:

I hope everyone is having a good week so far :)

nice looking deads man....i'm still so jealous of your floor. i can drop mine a bit on my little platforms...but nothing like that :(

Actually, when I go back home, in my gym in Bombay, I am not allowed to do that...So I'm going to have quite a problem deloading the weights safely lol.

i bet you f up on the first rep :)

and i been meaning to ask you....what is life like in india? any major differences from here?

i bet i fuck up on the FIRST rep lol....

nah...i'm gonna get those yoga mats, and use them as bumpers :biglaugh:

so when i drop the weights, they won't destroy the concrete floor.

although its funny...my gym is located on the 5th floor of a huge building. i wonder which genius thought that lifting up there would be the best idea for stability. stupid civil engineers.

umm....

In terms of gyms...no no difference.

I cant answer this question without qualifying certain things...I'm from Bombay. This is not India. We don't really care about the rest of India very much. 80% of India's GDP is earned by Bombay alone. 7th largest city in the world. It's a lot like New York in terms of Public Transport but looks-wise it's like LA. I love Bombay (3rd generation born and raised there). We function very different in Bombay....women & men are more or less equal, women can do whatever they want....it's a very safe city....It has the most number of millionaires and billionaires per squat foot so you'll have a multi-millionaire's huge mansion neighbouring a poor man's apartment....it's very diverse. People come in from all over India and so there is no "orthodox" society...night clubs are fucking amazing..much better than San Antonio lol.

It's a great city...I can put some cool pics if you like :)