Reply With QuoteWhat if I'm a Buckley/WA folk? Seattle is way too gay and major 90's small. Regaurdless, copious amounts of beer and meat must be consumed.
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ATTN: Seattle/WA folks - just bought my ticket for June 15th-23rd. Get ready, suckas.
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What if I'm a Buckley/WA folk? Seattle is way too gay and major 90's small. Regaurdless, copious amounts of beer and meat must be consumed.
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He's right, dude, Seattle is a pretty '90s Small city.Originally Posted by kittenSmash
Edit: Then again I'm from the Bay Area, so I shouldn't talk.
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....I guess I might be able to fit you in. Also, we might go whitewater rafting up near Leavenworth on the 19th, and camp in the area...sounds like a good time for mead, eh?
Mini-me, Seattle isn't quite as bad as the Bay Area (which I will be traveling to soon as well). Luckily both have decent strength-oriented CF boxe$, and I know of several legit PL gyms in the Seattle area. Luckily, I still have a membership to Eastside Gym and plan on punking Alex Bond in person if he doesn't hurry up and respond to this.
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HPG ~1:15pm
OHP: 75kg (+1kg) x5,5,5 *PR*
Press Starts: 100kg x3,3,3,3,3 (not quite to eyes; need to stay at this weight I think and get it a little higher...maybe do these to a pin in a cage?)
Push Press: 70x5, 100x1, 105xF, F, dropped the bar, PC'd it, racked it, and then got a rep(!) *PR*, then 70x10 (quickly)
Krocs: 90lbs (+5)x25/arm
Good day in the gym. Met a really strong Oly lifter, got a few PRs, and did some extra work in preparation for being out of the gym for a week. The PR's took serious effort - that last rep of OHP didn't want to happen, but I beat the snot out of it. Great week of training. I'm curious to see how I feel when I get back from camping for a week...hopefully the "rest" will do me good and I'll come back and keep up the PRs for awhile, and I'll be able to start working in deads right away.
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I'd be down to get in a workout together while you are up here. I am seriously falling down on gym stuff - my new job is pretty demanding on time and I get pretty much one gym visit a week. We'll work something out, though.
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Looking forward to it, dude. Luckily, I bought a year-long membership, so I can go back for freeeeeeeeeeeee!
Also, just looked at your FB pics. If you don't win the 70sbig before/after contest this month, I'll drink soy milk on a stability ball. Srsly. Get a good after pic, hoss.
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I'll spend an hour or so practicing my double biceps pose, the pics will be even hotter than this. Well, maybe.
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Spent almost a week in Big Bend, did some hiking, backpacking, and a lot of sweating in the desert. Spent more time than I care to admit picturing the video provided by Alex. No bears to wrestle, someone must have warned them. Fatty in the desert: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._2684015_n.jpg
Back home for a couple days before I hit Seattle for 8 days. So my training is kinda out the window during this time, but I wanted to get in some work at least and see how I felt, specifically, my lower trap injury thing.
6.13 HPG 3:45pm
BP: 225 5x5 - wanted to do a bit lighter weight since I missed 3 workouts, and made up for it with a bit of extra volume. Not too hard, but probably harder/slower than it should have been.
PC: Lots and lots of warmups and singles. Worked up to 110kg, failed a couple times (slow elbows, no catch), then finally got it to tie my PR from about 2 months ago. Decided to put on 115kg (~253lbs) and failed at least half a dozen times before finally getting it for an all-time PR I believe. Used a cheesegrader bar and nearly ripped off my callouses again, but was too hardheaded to quit attempting it, and too lazy to reload a different bar. I knew it was just a mental battle, because I was getting the bar high enough, but not committing to the catch.
DL: Used PC as warmups, worked up to 170kg (~374, meh), did a set of 5, no belt, way harder than it should have been. Pathetic.
Dips: 5x8 (5 sets of 8, I still use the "old school" method of reporting sets/reps), shoulders tight but not too bad overall. I think dips are going to help more across the board than I ever expected, and I look forward to getting to Starr's magical 4x20 so I can alternate weighted dips as well.
Good long day in the gym. Spotted a strong dude on bench (275x4,4, 295x2-3) and met another guy doing SS and chatted with him while repeatedly failing on 115kg PCs. He was supportive and that helped me keep going til I finally got it. I caught in about a quarter to half squat, but I still consider that a PC versus a full clean obviously. My form sucks - I look forward to getting some coaching at some point in my quest for 300+.
Trap feels absolutely fine, which is awesome. Time to start putting in squats and deads again! Hopefully they will catch up relatively quickly so I can do some heavy shit and stop feeling like a girl.
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Small world me and the girlfriend are white river rafting near Levenworth on the 19th as well.
I think you mentioned at some point that you came out of linear progression weighing around 275 with a 500 pound squat? I'm curious how you ate for that last month or so of SS? Did you pound down a gallon of whole milk and eat 7000 + calories like the skinny guys? I still have a few more months till I'm at that point I think, but I definitly want to get everything I can out of the program.
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