Exodus Strength

Hey all, I'll be posting my log here as well now . (Wow, hyperlinks here are not subtle at all.)

First log is here.
Second and ongoing log is here. I'll be mostly copy/pasting from that log going forward, but the cats will be different.

Age - 27
Height - 6'4"
Weight - 250 lbs
Best meet lifts: 551/375/661 at 264.

Right now I'm just LPing back to, well, wherever I can get. The four workout so far have been:

Squat: 315x5x3, Press: 150x5x3, Deadlift: 335x5x1, Chinup: BWx5, 5, 5
Squat: 335x5x3, Bench: 240x5x3, Deadlift: 355x5x1, Chinup: BWx6, 5, 5
Squat: 355x5x3, Press: 165x5x3, Deadlift: 370x5x1, Chinup: BWx6, 6, 5
Squat: 375x5x3, Bench: 250x5x3, Deadlift: 390x5x1, Chinup: BWx6, 6, 6

I knew you were real! Welcome to Exodus Sean, glad to have you.

Good to see you here!

Woot! Looks like you're the real Sean!

Cats were definitely what this place missed!

Great to see you here. I am still appreciative for calling me out on a deadlift video last year, "Cool, now do something challenging".

Hope all is well with you.

Welcome, Sean. I'll be following. : )

I will enjoy this brief period where I am deadlifting more than you.

We were just talking about your zercher squat earlier today. Always a classic.

Welcome, Sean.

Welcome aboard Sean! I was hoping you would come over here and visit.

I'm glad you're here, but what will the Pharaoh say?

Hey buddy!

mgil wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:34 pm Good to see you here!

Chebass88 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:40 pm Great to see you here. I am still appreciative for calling me out on a deadlift video last year, "Cool, now do something challenging".

Hope all is well with you.

Wilhelm wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:45 pm Welcome, Sean. I'll be following. : )

EricK wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:59 pmWelcome, Sean.

tdood wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:03 pmHey buddy!

Thanks for the welcome, everyone.

LexAnderson wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:16 pm I knew you were real! Welcome to Exodus Sean, glad to have you.

AaronM wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:37 pm Woot! Looks like you're the real Sean!

I knew the cats would convince you. Though I'm a little worried I might be too easy to impersonate if it was that simple.

vanslix wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:39 pm Cats were definitely what this place missed!

Isn't Les here? Has he been slacking?

Les wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:16 pm Welcome aboard Sean! I was hoping you would come over here and visit.
[kitten in marshmallows picture]

Oh, nevermind, there it is. Hey Les.

Manveer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:47 pm I will enjoy this brief period where I am deadlifting more than you.

Yeah, after that period's over you'll just have to content yourself with smashing my squat.

Cody wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:49 pm We were just talking about your zercher squat earlier today. Always a classic.

Amazing what you can accomplish when you don't think about it first.

ShuggyBear wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:55 pm I'm glad you're here, but what will the Pharaoh say?

I haven't been very diligent in my lurking, but I'm assuming Egypt = Starting Strength Forums and thus Pharaoh = Rip? Does that make Mgil Moses?
If so, please don't try to show me your staff.

Ok, Sean I saw the Zercher squat and the catch off the floor. Were you thinking about cleaning it? Because it looked like you contemplated on cleaning it.

SeanHerbison wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2017 6:56 am I haven't been very diligent in my lurking, but I'm assuming Egypt = Starting Strength Forums and thus Pharaoh = Rip? Does that make Mgil Moses?
If so, please don't try to show me your staff.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Messed around with color correction some more, and what I learned today is that you can't really do much if there's just way too much light in some parts of the video. Well, maybe someone who's good at this can (Tom?), but I can't. So I'll try to stop getting the window and/or the lights in frame.



Remembered to shoot all the clips in 60fps this time. By the way, if anyone else is interested in learning this stuff, Casey Faris has some very helpful videos, and Resolve 14 Crash Course in particular seems like a great place to start.

Saturday, 18 November

Comp Squat: 390x5x3
Press: 175x5x3
Comp Deadlift: 410x5x1
Chinup: BWx7, 6, 6

Squat: Better than last time, but still plenty of extra knee movement to work on. Dropped from 20 to 15 lb jumps. I'll probably go straight to 10 lbs next time, so 400. Had to fight good mornings on a few, and lost at least one of those fights. Also, set up a bit lopsided on set two, which I thought I'd been getting better at. I'll have to do more checks with a view where I can watch for that.

Press: I accidentally jumped 15 lbs to 165 last time, so I figured 10 lbs this time would be fine. I was not correct. I mean, I finished them all, but not with the form I'd like. While I am still working out the press (I'll never finish refining my thoughts on it at this rate), I more or less see a second layback as analogous to upper-back rounding in deadlifts. It's fine if you want to do it, but it shouldn't happen by accident, like it did here. I was actually trying to avoid it.

Deadlifts: I don't want to speak too early, but I think I may have turned a bit of a corner with hook grip. In the past I've done DOH until I couldn't, then switched to hook. This time, I'm hooking every single deadlift rep, warmups included. I think this is helping me adapt, as 410 actually felt better on my thumbs than 390 did. Then again, maybe a fluke. Guess we'll see with 430.

I need to adjust my days to Friday/Sunday/Tuesday, but I don't want to have two rest days both before and after a workout while I switch, so I just won't take two days off now. I'll do Monday/Wednesday/Friday, and then normal from there. I'll get a little less recovery, but it should be fine.

Speaking of recovery, I was sticking to three minutes rest until last workout. I'm up to four now. Exciting stuff.

I hereby introduce a bill to ban Herbison from the forum, unless he gives me a very dishonorable discharge.

LexAnderson wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:00 amOk, Sean I saw the Zercher squat and the catch off the floor. Were you thinking about cleaning it? Because it looked like you contemplated on cleaning it.

Yeah, no. No I was not. I'm reasonably good at power cleans, but that was still about 50 lbs over my max. Maybe I should have tried.

Nikipedia wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:01 amIt is very nice to have you here, Sean. Are you still deployed in Germany?

Yep.

KOTJ wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:42 amI hereby introduce a bill to ban Herbison from the forum, unless he gives me a very dishonorable discharge.

... I see KOTJ hasn't changed.

Nice to see you here, Sean. I'm also trying to get used to the hook grip. What do you think made it click for you this time?

Way to stand up to Rip in the "Carni kill yourself"-thread. I was wondering if one of the SSCs would ever do that, so thank you.