05/16/13 Thursday.

Squat and bench numbers are still way down. Deadlift is getting there. Upper body was still really sore and squat was incredibly weak. Elbows are fucking killing me on...

05/14/13 Tuesday.

Upper body was incredibly sore today.

Chins:

BWx10/10/10

Press:

Whatever you wanna do man but you gotta enjoy what you're eating if you actually want to gain weight and not hate your life. I'd never be able to eat the same thing every single day. Shakes got old...

05/12/13 Sunday.

Another crappy day but not as bad as Thursday.

Bench:

45x10
45x10
135x5
185x3

05/10/13 Friday.

Couldn't go Thursday because I had a term paper due Friday morning. Terrible, terrible day at the gym today. I felt awful from lack of sleep; I had been up till 6am Tuesday and...

05/07/13 Tuesday.

Bench:

45x10
135x5
185x3
225x2
275x1
300x1

Exactly. Besides, the new MDUSA team is great fun to follow. Life moves on.

Was sick and puking all night Wednesday so no gym on Thursday. Started feeling better Sunday night. Kept squats out because I've had adverse affects before trying to squat while sick.

05/05/13...

Don't remember if this has been posted before, but how about the hip drive on Blaine Sumner's 400kg IPF raw world record squat? (lifting starts around 0:15) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty0p-7fnpCM

Quick clarification: he was popped from an out of competition test that was taken about a month before nationals. The lower totals could be due to coming off of drugs but don't forget that he was...

Dude...just tell him not to spot you.

04/30/13 Tuesday. Light day.

Press:

45x5
45x5
95x5
135x5
135x5

Hey,

I've never used 531 so I probably can't be too helpful with specifics. In general, I recommend hitting some heavy triples, doubles, and/or singles at least a month out if you've been doing...

Nice pulling!

Thanks. I ended up watching a video of Stan squatting before I hit the gym to check it out (and to see some awesome squats) and saw the 2 fingers around. I actually ended up doing 4 fingers around...

It's your rear delt that's hurting? I've been having that problem with my bench. I found yesterday that my foot position was pretty asymmetrical and fixing that seemed to help. My body was likely...

This is awesome btw, great job!

I tried out the wider grip on squats today and it felt pretty good. Just wondering, when you grip the bar like that, is the bar in the fingers of your hand or in the palm?

04/28/13 Sunday. Volume day.

Bench:

45x10
135x5
185x3
225x2
265x1
282.5x5/5/5/5/5 (PR)

In my experience I definitely squat more with my rehband blue knee sleeves. However, it's not clear to me if that's due to the sleeves themselves -- as in the material of the sleeves stores energy...