Originally Posted by
stuffedsuperdud
Thanks folks. The elephant in the room is, of course, that 92 ain't shit in the grand scheme of things, but it's a step in the right direction. Direction to where though? Ehhhhh B-session at the 2020 American Open if I'm lucky, I guess. Can you believe that in January 2012 I was convinced I'd do 120/150 as a -94 by the end of the year and go to the Palm Springs AO????? LOLOLOL this shit is much harder than the Cal Strength team of 2011 made it look....dammit.
Today:
Woke up feeling like garbage. Shoulders and traps totally destroyed from all those beeeg pulls, and some rotator cuff tendonitis to boot.
I got to the gym late and found out that since no one else had come in at all, coach had left early to go get his beer on....but he told one of the trainers to not let me leave. Instead I was ordered to do:
Snatch extra-high pulls
60kg x 3
80x3
90x3x3
100x3x2
105x3
Pause slow mo squat:
70x5
110x4
140x3
145x3
150x3
Again, the knee feels pretty good, hence stressing the slow eccentric and zero bounce to try to get these janky tendons in order.
My shoulder was killing me all day, but after I warmed up, it cleared up. I've been getting this a lot lately, and not just with the shoulder, either. Any idea what's going on?
Also, the trainer they had babysitting the gym while the owner partied was talking to some other guy about the commonly believed 1-3 reps = power, 3-8 = strength, 8+ = hypertrophy. Is this still a thing? Or are we shifted to the whole "volume drives progress" in general thing, where we sort of hand-wave a bit at what "volume" means?" Related: the issue of whether myofibril concentration vs. sarcoplasm thing is true or not. This also teeters on the whole "can power be trained?" business. And even more tangentially, the CNS boogeyman.
The dude asked me to weigh in and I was like, "Ugh you know what? I used to agree 100% with everything you said but now I have no idea." Better read more Vershanksky, I guess? Or is he outdated too? Crap. We need about 10 more articles similar to Lt. Gotcher's...to start.