00Snitch, Jim wishes he never met you (5/3/1 log)
04-23-2014
, 08:06 PM
1) My press has always sucked
2) Are they? I mean, I benched 8x90 and pressed 7x55. That's press ~60% bench for a comparable number of reps.
If you look at everyone's favourite table...
http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLi...Standards.html
The intermediate standards for bench and press for a 198lb male is press = 67% bench. So whichever way you cut it, it's probably no bigger than a 10% deficit. Not really "so" far apart.
If you use the 1rm estimator on that site the deficit is probably slightly larger, but those 1rm estimators are pretty bogus imo (and even more so for higher numbers of reps).
Aaaaaaand given my recent lackluster lifting efforts, I wouldn't read much into any of the numbers I'm putting up. I really don't like lifting atm. Pretty proud of myself to string two sessions together this week actually.
2) Are they? I mean, I benched 8x90 and pressed 7x55. That's press ~60% bench for a comparable number of reps.
If you look at everyone's favourite table...
http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLi...Standards.html
The intermediate standards for bench and press for a 198lb male is press = 67% bench. So whichever way you cut it, it's probably no bigger than a 10% deficit. Not really "so" far apart.
If you use the 1rm estimator on that site the deficit is probably slightly larger, but those 1rm estimators are pretty bogus imo (and even more so for higher numbers of reps).
Aaaaaaand given my recent lackluster lifting efforts, I wouldn't read much into any of the numbers I'm putting up. I really don't like lifting atm. Pretty proud of myself to string two sessions together this week actually.
Last edited by 00Snitch; 04-23-2014 at 08:11 PM.
05-19-2014
, 04:40 AM
tl;dr - Played the last three weeks in the lowest grade at first-five which is where I would like to play, but I'm not very good at it. Team is going badly overall.
Yep. Three full weeks without injury.
Personally my season is going "ok". Due to injuries to others, I've had the chance to start at first-five the last three weeks - which is ideally where I would like to play - but I'm not very good at it, although I'm slowly improving.
I would say defensively I've been great. Haven't missed a tackle I can think of, can't ask much more than that from a #10.
Game management and communication has been fairly good - everyone knows more or less what we are doing at any point in time.
Kicking has been average. No real mistakes (I can think of one penalty I didn't kick out on the full and one general play kick that I did not too bad across three games), but not super effective (not a lot of distance which is frustrating because it's always been a bit of a strength of mine).
Play-making has been questionable. Not many mistakes, but not setting the world alight. Last week I created two tries, but no real line breaks beyond that. This week I created two line breaks, but no tries... That said, our backline has been very disrupted. Myself and the fullback are probably the only two players who have played all three games in the last three weeks, so it's hard to get the timing/communication/etc going with a new group of players every week.
We've also had precious few opportunities in the backs with the ball in hand because overall the team isn't going well and imo it's mostly due to poor ball security at the break down (conceding lots of turn-overs - don't tell 'rugby' he'll just come in here with a rant about sh*t Australian forwards) and conceding lots of ruck/maul penalties in both attack and defence...
Soooooooooooo... Overall I give myself a 5/10. I doubt I'll be able to hold my position once the "real" #10s come back.
Overall the team is 1 win and 6 losses iirc... so not good... but no real blow-outs and we've generally been in the contest. We've been losing by 1-12 points. This week was our worst loss of 29-0, but that really blew out with two late tries in the last 15 minutes.
/end rant
Side note: I've been playing 3rd grade (the lowest) the last three weeks. This week I came on late in the 2nd grade game on the wing (my traditional position) and made a bit of an impact. So that was nice. I get the feeling I could probably work my way back into the 2nd grade team as a winger, but given the choice I would keep playing #10 for 3rd grade ....and actually I was given this choice last week and chose #10.
Yep. Three full weeks without injury.
Personally my season is going "ok". Due to injuries to others, I've had the chance to start at first-five the last three weeks - which is ideally where I would like to play - but I'm not very good at it, although I'm slowly improving.
I would say defensively I've been great. Haven't missed a tackle I can think of, can't ask much more than that from a #10.
Game management and communication has been fairly good - everyone knows more or less what we are doing at any point in time.
Kicking has been average. No real mistakes (I can think of one penalty I didn't kick out on the full and one general play kick that I did
not too bad across three games), but not super effective (not a lot of distance which is frustrating because it's always been a bit of a strength of mine).Play-making has been questionable. Not many mistakes, but not setting the world alight. Last week I created two tries, but no real line breaks beyond that. This week I created two line breaks, but no tries... That said, our backline has been very disrupted. Myself and the fullback are probably the only two players who have played all three games in the last three weeks, so it's hard to get the timing/communication/etc going with a new group of players every week.
We've also had precious few opportunities in the backs with the ball in hand because overall the team isn't going well and imo it's mostly due to poor ball security at the break down (conceding lots of turn-overs - don't tell 'rugby' he'll just come in here with a rant about sh*t Australian forwards
) and conceding lots of ruck/maul penalties in both attack and defence... Soooooooooooo... Overall I give myself a 5/10. I doubt I'll be able to hold my position once the "real" #10s come back.
Overall the team is 1 win and 6 losses iirc... so not good... but no real blow-outs and we've generally been in the contest. We've been losing by 1-12 points. This week was our worst loss of 29-0, but that really blew out with two late tries in the last 15 minutes.
/end rant
Side note: I've been playing 3rd grade (the lowest) the last three weeks. This week I came on late in the 2nd grade game on the wing (my traditional position) and made a bit of an impact. So that was nice. I get the feeling I could probably work my way back into the 2nd grade team as a winger, but given the choice I would keep playing #10 for 3rd grade ....and actually I was given this choice last week and chose #10.
Last edited by 00Snitch; 05-19-2014 at 04:47 AM.