Tip Toeing in my Vibrams

[Renascent]

3.10.2024
Deadlift
315 x 8
365 x 8
425 x 6
455 x 4
485 x 3
515 x 1 x 2



Barbell Good Mornings
205 x 8 x 8

Seated Reverse Calf Raises
60 x 35 x 8

Seated Cable Leg Curls
55 x 15 x 4
60 x 8 x 4

Nordic Curls
10 x 4

Assisted Reverse Nordic Curls
10 x 3

[DCR]

As someone who uses his own perpetual beltlessness to justify his subpar lifts, this log is where I come to get my teeth kicked in.

Deadlift
…
515 x 1 x 2

Right.

I don’t even deadlift anymore, and still felt this right in my nuts.

[Renascent]

As someone who uses his own perpetual beltlessness to justify his subpar lifts, this log is where I come to get my teeth kicked in.

Deadlift
…
515 x 1 x 2

Right.

I don’t even deadlift anymore, and still felt this right in my nuts.

It was unplanned. Still pissed off about my watch.

[lheugh]

3.10.2024
Deadlift
315 x 8
365 x 8
425 x 6
455 x 4
485 x 3
515 x 1 x 2



Barbell Good Mornings
205 x 8 x 8

Seated Reverse Calf Raises
60 x 35 x 8

Seated Cable Leg Curls
55 x 15 x 4
60 x 8 x 4

Nordic Curls
10 x 4

Assisted Reverse Nordic Curls
10 x 3

When I feel like going into the garage in the wee hours of the morning is going to be a daunting prospect, I'm reminded you're out here deadlifting in the outdoors at dusk.

[DCR]

As someone who uses his own perpetual beltlessness to justify his subpar lifts, this log is where I come to get my teeth kicked in.

Deadlift
…
515 x 1 x 2

Right.

I don’t even deadlift anymore, and still felt this right in my nuts.

It was unplanned. Still pissed off about my watch.

I meant to comment on that earlier. There are few, if any, feelings worse than having been robbed, and in my experience the feeling has nothing to do with the value of the property. It's the violation. I'm sorry that it happened and fuck the perpetrator(s). Hope it gets you a lifetime PR, though. I see that you're breathing on it.

[Renascent]

When I feel like going into the garage in the wee hours of the morning is going to be a daunting prospect, I'm reminded you're out here deadlifting in the outdoors at dusk.

I try not to make that a habit.

The mosquitoes will eat me alive.

As someone who uses his own perpetual beltlessness to justify his subpar lifts, this log is where I come to get my teeth kicked in.

Deadlift
…
515 x 1 x 2

Right.

I don’t even deadlift anymore, and still felt this right in my nuts.

It was unplanned. Still pissed off about my watch.

I meant to comment on that earlier. There are few, if any, feelings worse than having been robbed, and in my experience the feeling has nothing to do with the value of the property. It's the violation. I'm sorry that it happened and fuck the perpetrator(s). Hope it gets you a lifetime PR, though. I see that you're breathing on it.

I never keep anything of value in my car overnight, though I do forget groceries pretty often. Fortunately all they got was a dollar I found in a parking lot and said watch.

And thankfully they left my aux cable and closed the fucking door all the way. They also didn't check the trunk, since my 5lb bag of s'mores-flavored protein powder was still there.

Really fucked up part is that I went to bed real late that night, so there's a chance I might've been awake when they came sneaking through. Kinda pissed I didn't go sit out on the porch on a whim.

I wouldn't want to risk getting cops involved, and I partly suspect they may not have been armed (seemed like a crime of opportunity?). I'd have loved to choke the living shit out of this slimy motherfucker with the car door.

Not intentionally pushing my deadlift at the moment, but if something is there, I'll take it.

[Renascent]

3.11.2024
Bench Press
175 x 12
225 x 12
275 x 9 x 1 (PR), 8 x 1
295 x 5 x 3
315 x 2 x 2
320 x 2 x 2



Dumbbell Flyes
25 x 12 x 5

Bilateral Dumbbell Split Squats
75 x 9 x 4

Standing Barbell Calf Raises
185 x 25 x 4

Lateral Plate Raise
25 x 12 x 3

Assisted Lateral Squats
10 x 3

[Renascent]

3.13.2024
Underhand Barbell Hang Rows
275 x 8 x 8

Landmine T-Bar Rows
200 x 12 x 7

Straight-Arm Pulldowns
110 x 10 x 6

Weighted Neck Curls
45 x 25 x 4

Kneeling Single-Arm Iliac Pulldowns
75 x 10 x 4

Weighted Sisy Squats
35 x 12 x 4

Dumbbell Pullovers
80 x 12 x 3

[cgeorg]

3.13.2024
Underhand Barbell Hang Rows
275 x 8 x 8

Man that's ridiculous

[Renascent]

3.13.2024
Underhand Barbell Hang Rows
275 x 8 x 8

Man that's ridiculous

To be fair, the range of motion is a lot shorter than it is for a standard row, and it's a lot easier to load these more heavily.

Not sure how much longer or heavier I'm going to push these, though.

[cgeorg]

Hmm, the way I was doing them ROM felt about the same. Leaning over about parallel to the ground, bar to belly button-ish. Are you more upright? I could see that changing it and taking some biceps out of it.

[Renascent]

Hmm, the way I was doing them ROM felt about the same. Leaning over about parallel to the ground, bar to belly button-ish. Are you more upright? I could see that changing it and taking some biceps out of it.

Yeah, more upright. Hips closer to a 45-degree angle than 90.

[MarkKO]

Hmm, the way I was doing them ROM felt about the same. Leaning over about parallel to the ground, bar to belly button-ish. Are you more upright? I could see that changing it and taking some biceps out of it.

Yeah, more upright. Hips closer to a 45-degree angle than 90.

Yates rows, effectively

[Renascent]

Hmm, the way I was doing them ROM felt about the same. Leaning over about parallel to the ground, bar to belly button-ish. Are you more upright? I could see that changing it and taking some biceps out of it.

Yeah, more upright. Hips closer to a 45-degree angle than 90.

Yates rows, effectively

Yep!

[Renascent]

3.14.2024
Overhead Press
175 x 8 x 2
185 x 6 x 3
195 x 4 x 2
205 x 3
215 x 1
225 x 1 x 2



Walking Dumbbell Lunges
50 x 9 x 4

Cable Hip Abduction
25 x 15 x 2
30 x 12 x 2

Weighted Neck Extensions
35 x 25 x 4

Lying Cable Knee Raises
90 x 12 x 3

Seated Dumbbell Reverse Flyes
25 x 12 x 3

[DCR]

Took it a second time to try and push through the stall. Didn't work out the way I wanted, but it was fun to try nonetheless.

What am I missing here? Looked like you hit it twice, and pretty easily too?

[Renascent]

Took it a second time to try and push through the stall. Didn't work out the way I wanted, but it was fun to try nonetheless.

What am I missing here? Looked like you hit it twice, and pretty easily too?

I didn't want the bar to stall on the way up. Wasn't as smooth as when I did this for a PR once before.

[DCR]

Took it a second time to try and push through the stall. Didn't work out the way I wanted, but it was fun to try nonetheless.

What am I missing here? Looked like you hit it twice, and pretty easily too?

I didn't want the bar to stall on the way up. Wasn't as smooth as when I did this for a PR once before.

Ah, got it. Still, those were solid reps and neither looked like a max.

That said, as a fellow forebearer of a belt, I've found that going for an actual, form-breaking max on the press isn't the most swell idea.

[MarkKO]

Took it a second time to try and push through the stall. Didn't work out the way I wanted, but it was fun to try nonetheless.

What am I missing here? Looked like you hit it twice, and pretty easily too?

I didn't want the bar to stall on the way up. Wasn't as smooth as when I did this for a PR once before.

Ah, got it. Still, those were solid reps and neither looked like a max.

That said, as a fellow forebearer of a belt, I've found that going for an actual, form-breaking max on the press isn't the most swell idea.

Even with a belt

I'm fairly sure a guy at my last competition ruptured a disc trying to press the axle.

[Renascent]

Took it a second time to try and push through the stall. Didn't work out the way I wanted, but it was fun to try nonetheless.

What am I missing here? Looked like you hit it twice, and pretty easily too?

I didn't want the bar to stall on the way up. Wasn't as smooth as when I did this for a PR once before.

Ah, got it. Still, those were solid reps and neither looked like a max.

Thanks. It was supposed to be just one attempt at 220, as a follow-up to a few weeks prior.

Not totally pleased with it, but good to know that 230 would not be an outlandish goal if I should choose to attempt it in a few weeks.

I'm fairly sure a guy at my last competition ruptured a disc trying to press the axle.

How much did it weigh?