Imma gonna be an Emo

supposedly · 03-11-2011 11:57am

token wrote: »

I don't know yet If I'll put the video up because Supposedly will laugh at me.

Hahaha :P

And well done on the pr

howtomake · 03-11-2011 12:00pm

Great stuff!

See now all the 'positive' attention you are getting now:)

token · 03-11-2011 12:29pm

howtomake wrote: »

See now all the 'positive' attention you are getting now:)

So all I have to do is PR every night and I'll be emo free! Simples

supposedly · 03-11-2011 12:58pm

token wrote: »

So all I have to do is PR every night and I'll be emo free! Simples

You'll have to start doing weird random lifts so that everytime you lift, it'll be a pr. Your training log will look like this:

The one handed behind the neck, burpee boxjump pullup jerk.
The blindfolded plyometric benchpress.
The trampoline double barbell snatch...
and so on

gavtron · 03-11-2011 7:43pm

supposedly wrote: »

You'll have to start doing weird random lifts so that everytime you lift, it'll be a pr. Your training log will look like this:

The one handed behind the neck, burpee boxjump pullup jerk.
The blindfolded plyometric benchpress.
The trampoline double barbell snatch...
and so on

no sure he's finished with crossfit for ages now...

Frogdog · 04-11-2011 2:56pm

How's your cut coming along?

token · 04-11-2011 3:17pm

Frogdog wrote: »

How's your cut coming along?

Cuts are for gays*

*4 days before comp

token · 05-11-2011 7:56pm

Friday 4th November

Max night 2 yo!

Powerclean & Jerk
3@60kg
2@70kg
1@80kg
1@90kg
1@94kg
1@98kg
1@101kg(+1kg PR)

Back Squat
5@60kg
2@80kg
1@90kg
1@100kg
1@110kg
1@117kg (+2kg PR)
1@120kg (+5kg PR)

98kg was a bit all over the shop even on the jerk so got nervous on the 101kg but apart from my usual american high school powercleans at max weight I stuck it. The jerk felt easy much lighter than a few months ago. I'll probably go 103kg on my 2nd attempt in NI and 105kg on 3rd after getting an opener in.

Back squats felt really good 110kg was about as Chinese as I'm ever going to get. 120kg was a different story it was even uglier than my 100kg front squat. A few war cries were needed to help me grind it out. Still 5kg PR and finally a nicer looking number so I'm happy. My camera man was off gallivanting on the town instead of training so I didn't get these ones on video.

I also got some knee sleeves finally after asking about it on the main forum. Had them on both PR nights and while most say they don't get anything out of them I definitely am. The only problem now is I have no more aides* to help me that are legal in competition :pac:

*Not the aids you are thinking of Dead Ed

Edwardius · 05-11-2011 7:58pm

token wrote: »

I have no more aides* to help me that are legal in competition :pac:

You're not allowed aides anyway, you need to lift the weight without the help of manservants.

Nice lifting though fatso.

Molly · 05-11-2011 8:01pm

101/103/105 = a lot of sand in your lady parts.

supposedly · 05-11-2011 8:22pm

I declare a ban on all Token negging for a minimum of 3 days in celebration of him getting all those amazing prs. He's clearly been eating something and I have it on good authority he didn't end up wasted in a ditch last night. Well done dude!

token · 05-11-2011 8:28pm

Molly wrote: »

101/103/105 = a lot of sand in your lady parts.

haha, I'm not going to open at 101! something I'll definitely get like 97kg maybe then go for PR. My legs are so gimped I can't even catch a deep powerclean yet so I high school them up high and can't make big weight jumps on it.

I'll add this footnote while I'm on the topic; I'll never full clean I'm too f*cked. You'll understand when I put up the front squat video. I'll be going old school with the split clean in a year or two when I top out my powerclean.

Molly · 05-11-2011 9:07pm

Hah, I must have misread

Explain the inability to clean.

token · 05-11-2011 9:20pm

Molly wrote: »

Hah, I must have misread Explain the inability to clean.

Strong pull, weak legs and inability to stay upright on squats. All equal me always out power cleaning my full clean. I reckon on a good day I could powerclean 105kg I had a good day when I front squatted 100kg the other night. I'll eventually be able to front squat more but it'll always be ugly and not far enough ahead of my powers. So enter the split clean when my powerclean tops out. I don't mind I love the split lifts, split snatch is especially class.

Molly · 05-11-2011 9:22pm

If you don't fix it the same thing will surely happen with your snatches as well and you'll just end up splitting them right?

token · 05-11-2011 9:29pm

Molly wrote: »

If you don't fix it the same thing will surely happen with your snatches as well and you'll just end up splitting them right?

Wayne said I'd be able to split snatch more as well actually. It's not like I'm ignoring it my training looks like anyone else's I still have to suffer through cleans despite hating doing them and I do loads of squats. When I eventually start split cleaning which is still a ways off I would mostly likely only do them in lead up to competition and not all the time.

token · 07-11-2011 10:16pm

Monday 7th November

Ra Ra Recovery

I need to max more often you get to taper, go for maxes which are fun then another handy session to wrap it up. Haven't had to suffer through triples in well over a week.

Snatch
3@40kg
2@50kg
1@60kg
5x1@63kg

Powerclean & Jerk
1@70kg
6x1@80kg

Base Ball Swings
3x8 at various weights, basically do a baseball swing type motion from pulley thing (I don't know the proper name?) I liked it. Gonna have jacked obliques yo!

Played around a bit with a few things on powerclean. Tighter grip, keep bar closer and get hips in more. Also work on catching it a bit deeper hoping it will carry over to max attempts. Which I'll be doing this Saturday at the postponed halloween powerclean comp in Ironside. The plan if I'm feeling good is 94,98,102,104 attempts.

In other news 'Project Strong' which I renamed after thinking 'Project Less Useless' was a bit too emo has been moved forward from January to starting on Wednesday. Olympic lifting is about to go all powerlifting'esque with partials in racks and what not. Should be interesting don't know the full details yet.

The general idea though is I have good technique so I don't need to work on that so much. Strength is my limiter so a lot of heavy overloaded partial work and from Janurary I'll be doing isometric stuff too. Old School. I'll be having hypertrophy & conditioning phases in the future too. Should make for more interesting reading than endless snatch, c&j, squat.

Edwardius · 07-11-2011 10:44pm

You filthy heathen!

token · 07-11-2011 10:50pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

You filthy heathen!

I'm going to dedicate my new program to Mark Rippetoe. Not trying to get strong or anything :pac:

Edwardius · 07-11-2011 11:10pm

token wrote: »

I'm going to dedicate my new program to Mark Rippetoe. Not trying to get strong or anything :pac:

you are not doing the program and are therefore a pussy. If you do not do three sets of five you will grow tits and die. if you don't have a gun and listen to "chicago" you are a communist. You will not illicit the appropriate hormonal response and therefore adaptation will not occur in a manner by which you will end up weighing 200lbs. You will therefore not be an adult male or 70s big. Therefore. blablabla libertarianism, Doug Young.

token · 07-11-2011 11:17pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

you are not doing the program and are therefore a pussy. If you do not do three sets of five you will grow tits and die. if you don't have a gun and listen to "chicago" you are a communist. You will not illicit the appropriate hormonal response and therefore adaptation will not occur in a manner by which you will end up weighing 200lbs. You will therefore not be an adult male or 70s big. Therefore. blablabla libertarianism, doug young.

Haha you left out Scottish Whiskey but I like! Also if you partake in gymnastics with a barbell you should do deadlifts to improve your first pull and stare at the ground low bar back squats for leg strength. Positional strength is illogical.

Edwardius · 07-11-2011 11:24pm

I left out Heinlein and that roided up emo henry rollins too

Edwardius · 07-11-2011 11:24pm

I'd have remembered them if I'd just do the damn program and drink the damn milk.

token · 10-11-2011 10:58am

Wednesday 9th November

Snatch
3@40kg
3@50kg
2@60kg
6x2@65kg

Quarter Squats (in rack off pins)
3@70kg
2@100kg
1@130kg
1@140kg
1@150kg
1@160kg
1xf@170kg
1@170kg

Spiderman Plyos
5x5

These are the best and most hilarious exercise ever. A textual description would do no justice I'll take a vid of them on Saturday.

Press
5@40kg
3@50kg
3@55kg
3@57kg
3@60kg

"Easy" snatches to keep some speed and technique. Myself & Wayne have different definitions of easy I think but they were alright. The Mountainous Strain of African Aids I had have fully left me now and I can actually lift half decent again.

Not sure how much I'm moving on the quarter squats about 6 inches maybe. If anyone is thinking 170kg sounds reasonable I've seen Wayne do 360kg on it.

Some plyometrics to get some speed going again after heavy rack squats. I don't know if there is a real name for the thing I was doing 'spiderman plyos' seemed an apt name. They are hilarious.

Was meant to do heavy clean pulls from blocks then but left them out this session.

That's the general idea though some technique maintenance then really heavy partials and plyometrics. Max strength, max speed. Good buzz.

token · 12-11-2011 4:43pm

Saturday 12th November

ECB/Ironside Powerclean Comp

Weighin: 79.0kg omg I'm so fat

4 Attempts

94kg
98kg
102kg (+1kg PR)
103kg (+2kg PR)

Felt strong today but ugggh do not eat mcdonalds 40 minutes before you have to weightlift. Good for powerlifting but makes you as slow as **** on the Olympic lifts. I didn't have much speed at all. Powercleans were brutal, as well as PR'ing I surpassed my previous ugly powerclean bests also. They were like Splot Powercleans instead of my usual American high school powercleans. **** it a PR is a PR. My new training program is primarily aimed at strengthing my quarter squats so I'll be able to catch heavy powercleans properly and not spazz out.

supposedly · 12-11-2011 5:07pm

token wrote: »

I surpassed my previous ugly powerclean bests also. They were like Splot Powercleans instead of my usual American high school powercleans.

I'd call them SPF squat cleans! Good work dude, there was no way you were missing those. Should have put 200kg on the bar and told you it was 103kg and I reckon you'd still have got it!

token · 12-11-2011 5:14pm

supposedly wrote: »

I'd call them SPF squat cleans! Good work dude, there was no way you were missing those. Should have put 200kg on the bar and told you it was 103kg and I reckon you'd still have got it!

Damn, does that mean I have to become a good god fearing Christian who donates to his church to get red lights changed to white?

Edwardius · 12-11-2011 5:18pm

token wrote: »

Damn, does that mean I have to become a good god fearing Christian who donates to his church to get red lights changed to white?

Powerlifting jesus changes red lights into white

supposedly · 12-11-2011 5:41pm

You won the comp, right? I mean, for style, there's no doubt it was yours!

token · 14-11-2011 9:28pm

Monday 14th November

Snatch
2x3@40kg
2@50kg
1@60kg
3x1@65kg
3x1@69kg failed the last two

Block Can I call this a block or did IP copyright that?
3 rounds /w 60s rest
3xFront Squat from pins (quarter fsquat) up to 130kg
3xhurdle jumps
3xsquat jumps @ 25kg

Clean pulls from below the knees
4x3@105kg

Bit sluggish after the weekend. I moderated the drink intake but was still up till 4:30am on Saturday. Just a lack of concentration on the snatch misses they felt alright.

Wayne says he usually does full squats on the circuit thing but since I'm special and powerclean in comps I'm working on strengthening just that position. He also usually does 5 rounds but since I'm close to competition just 3. Which is a good thing too because my conditioning is shot haha, crossfit I take all those bad things I said about you back :pac:

First time using blocks on cleans. Felt a bit weird but I got the hang of them by the last set.

Edwardius · 14-11-2011 9:33pm

token wrote: »

crossfit I take all those bad things I said about you back :pac:

Heavy deads RX+ in the morning then bro!

token · 16-11-2011 9:49pm

Wednesday 16th November

Powersnatch
2x3@40kg
2@50kg
5x1@60kg

Powerclean & Jerk
1@70kg
6x1@80kg

Front squat
3@60kg
3@70kg
3@73kg
3@76kg
3@79kg
3@82kg

Press
5@40kg
4x5@50kg

Fairly standard and handy enough tonight. Probably so I have some energy for all the **** I have to do this Friday.

token · 19-11-2011 9:11pm

Friday 18th November

Snatch
2x3@40kg
2@50kg
2@60kg
4x2@66kg failed one

Quarter Squats (in rack off pins)
3@70kg
2@100kg
2@130kg
1@150kg
1@160kg
1@170kg
1xf@180kg

Spiderman Plyos
5x3

Rack Jerk
2x1@80kg
1@90kg
1@100kg
1@105kg took 3 attempts, ffs

Was all slow n ****' tonight snatches were icky, rack jerks were awful. I wasn't leaving without getting 105kg though or I'd be back to full on emo logging. 170kg went up a good bit easier than previous week on the quarter squats so I got cocky and went for 180kg. It didn't budge one bit should have went to 175kg.

Went out for recovery pints then

Saturday 19th November

I was bollixed and didn't want to train but Dead Ed, Supposedly, Frogdog, L and TCB were training in ECB so I felt compelled to do something.

Snatch
2x3@40kg
2@50kg
1@60kg
1@64kg
1@67kg
1@70kg
1xf@73kg
1xf@74kg
1xf@75kg

Nearly f*cked up my elbow trying to save the 75kg. I was lifting at the front of the platform and eventually had to drop it before I ran into the wall.

Then a bit of benchin', split snatching, and getting negged about my dysfunctions.

EDIT: Spiderman Plyos, lulz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clf-IfEZjvM

Had trouble getting takes without wardrobe malfunctions :pac:

Inspector Coptoor · 19-11-2011 10:19pm

They're class looking!

the drifter · 19-11-2011 10:23pm

They do look savage

Somebody bring a band to the beers next weekend....this is gonna be epic...

1 shot/1 spiderman

Inspector Coptoor · 19-11-2011 10:24pm

the drifter wrote: »

They do look savage

Somebody bring a band to the beers next weekend....this is gonna be epic...

1 shot/1 spiderman

I'll bring a band

Frogdog · 20-11-2011 12:07am

Nicely edited Token!

token · 20-11-2011 5:50pm

Frogdog wrote: »

Nicely edited Token!

I'm sacking you as my camera man. I don't need long lead ins, zooming in and out for dramatic effect, commentary or pre and post interviews.

Frogdog · 20-11-2011 7:58pm

It was more in reference to you pulling up your pants!

howtomake · 20-11-2011 9:51pm

Frogdog wrote: »

It was more in reference to you pulling up your pants!

Ya mean exposing his glutes?

token · 21-11-2011 10:41am

Frogdog wrote: »

It was more in reference to you pulling up your pants!

howtomake wrote: »

Ya mean exposing his glutes?

If I left that in people would have to sign into youtube to view the video for its mature and sexy content.

howtomake · 21-11-2011 10:53am

There's lots I could say to this^^^^, but I'll leave it.

token · 21-11-2011 10:27pm

Monday 21st November

Powersnatch
2x3@40kg
2@50kg
5x1@60kg

Powerclean & Jerk
2x1@60kg
1@70kg
1@80kg
4x1@88kg

Front squat
5@40kg
3@60kg
2@70kg
2@75kg
2x2@80kg
2@85kg
2@90kg

Press
5@40kg
3@50kg
4x3@55kg

Was bollixed again so I did my power day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jGYMskYaTY

Mirin' my calves brah? :pac: I can't even keep a straight face saying that.

Anyway there's my boootiiful front squat 1RM. A band of warriors have been dispatched from Shanghai to rid me from the gene pool

supposedly · 21-11-2011 11:13pm

You finally front squat more than I do. Well done!

token · 22-11-2011 10:31am

supposedly wrote: »

You finally front squat more than I do. Well done!

I don't know if that makes me more or less likely to jump off a cliff

token · 24-11-2011 11:29am

24th November 2011

Snatch
2x3@40kg
2@50kg
1@60kg
2x1@64kg
2x1@68kg
2x1@72kg 3 attempts

Block
4 rounds /w 60s rest
3xFront Squat from pins (quarter fsquat) 100kg,115kg,130kg,130kg
3xhurdle jumps
3xsquat jumps @ 30kg

Clean pulls from above the knees
3@108kg
3@113kg
3@118kg
3@123kg

I think there is a bit of a case of white men can't jump on the squat jumps. I can usually tell by Waynes demeanour if I'm good or bad at something and looks like I'm bad at squat jumps

damnit!

On a positive looks like I'm good at clean pulls from above the knees though. They were total piss. Could have kept loading on more weight for another few sets if I wanted.

howtomake · 24-11-2011 11:33am

token wrote: »

24th November 2011

I can usually tell by Waynes demeanour if I'm good or bad at something and looks like I'm bad at squat jumps damnit!

HA! I know exactly what you mean, I could always tell if I did something well or not. Besides you can't be good at everything ya know.

token · 25-11-2011 10:09pm

Friday 25th November

Snatch
2x3@40kg
2@50kg failed one WHUT??
1@60kg
1@64kg
4x1@68kg

Quarter Squats (in rack off pins)
3@100kg
2@120kg
1@140kg
1@150kg
1@160kg
1@170kg
1@175kg
1xf@180kg

Spiderman Plyos
5x3
2x2 showing people spiderman plyos

Rack Jerk
3@60kg
1@80kg
1@90kg
1@95kg
1@100kg
1@105kg
1@110kg tf, pressed out like a boss
1@110kg (2.5kg PR)

Whoop whoop got 110kg Rack Jerk when I came into training bollixed and at the tail end of 90min training session. Reckon I got 115kg in me fresh I'll find out once these comps are out of the way. Frogdog has the video, if he gets around to sending me it I'll put up the video tomorrow. I have it on my phone too but it's a bit blurry.

Nearly more impressed that I managed to press out 110kg tbh, like a bauss!

EDIT: I'd be waiting an eternity for Frogdog to send the video so here's the blurry one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2y-eKpwZpU

token · 28-11-2011 10:15pm

Monday 28th November

Went a bit herp derp on Saturday night. I had a self imposed 4 drink limit but ended up having 7. That's not so bad on it's own but it was enough to activate the stupid gene. I decided I wasn't getting a taxi after a house party at my friends gaff and I started walking home. That lasted all of about 2 or 3 minutes because walking is boring as f*ck so I ran the rest of the way home. I looked it up the next day at it was 4km. I haven't ran in about a half a year so when I woke up and my calves were destroyed. I've been hobbling around the last two days. Lulz :rolleyes:

Snatch
2x3@40kg
2@50kg
1@55kg
1@62kg
1@67kg
1xf@71kg
1@73kg
2xf@75kg

Powerclean & Jerk
2x1@60kg
1@70kg
1@80kg
1@90kg

That's all, tapering has begun. I was a bit out of the groove on the snatches after being a tool over the weekend but the weights were feeling pretty light. Clipped my knees on the first 75kg, then over pulled the second one probably could have powersnatched it. So confidence remains intact. I'm probably going to open at 75kg. I'll probably open at 95kg or maybe a little more on the C&J.

Bodyweight tonight 80.7kg. Which is spot on I think. Eating paleo the rest of the week brah. The plan is eat clean but get lots of quantity in, basically don't go hungry. The only time I plan to feel hungry is the morning of the weigh-in from skipping breakfast. I'll start cutting the fluids on the Friday.

Here's the snatch that al most never was.. from a few weeks back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z044zOMhfBY

Go go gadget legs!

d'Oracle · 28-11-2011 10:41pm

What in ****s name was your right leg at there?

Imma gonna be an Emo

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