I think it looks ok as well, but not sure. Doesn't look good on the DL though.

Agree on DLs, didn't watch that before. Needs some chest up before the pull.

ya, back is 100% fine on squats.

Deadlifts look ok. its hard to tell cause your shirt is so big

Things I never thought I would read in busto's log:

Back looks fine on both deadlift and squat.

Soulman freeze the deadlift video where you think he loses lumbar extension. I don't see it. Just post here what second that occurs, I want to see what the heck you are seeing. Obviously he deteriorated a bit on the last reps, but they still looked good to me. Better than 90% of H&Fers.

fwiw I dont see anything wrong with the back in that squat vid either. I took your word that you were losing extension before my previous post. You have great hip mobility.

loco,

I don't think he ever gets into proper lumbar extension. It's nowhere near jdockesque or anything, but worth fixing imo. Like weasel says, it's a bit hard to tell due to the big t-shirt. busto, tuck your shirt next time you vid your DL.

His back looks good imo. You do not want excessive extension - that leads to problems like jammed facet joints and cracked vertebrae.

busto, i think your squats look ok... but like me, you're knees and sh*t go back and forth all over the place. Watch someone like G4S and he's mostly just straight up and down.

I don't like it, but I haven't been able to fix it.

e.g.

Thanks! I'm DL tmrw so I'll get more vids.

re: the knee travel.. i try to not do it, but it just happens, and as long as I point my toes slightly out, they don't seem to cause any patellar tendon pain. I have to work on my ankle mobility and calf flexibility just incase. You know, instead of actually fixing it lol.


12/5

shoulder prehabs
band pullaparts

531 cycle 2 wave A incline bench (all paused)
bar x20 x2
85x5
125x5
155x5
180x5
205x5+= 10 (not bad.. best 10 is 225 without pauses)
145x15 close grip
145x10 wide grip
145x5 close + 145x3 wide

pullups
4x3r
+35x1 x4 ( ~30s rest)
+25x5 x2

pushups 5x10

band pushdowns 3x15

band pullaparts
lots of foam rolling

Last time I tried sumo, I hurt my back. I'm sure I'm not as stupid as before, but I really am not trying to figure it out on my own or take the take to learn it. Plus I do way too many PCs and feel that my conventional DLs help those.

I'll take vids tmrw of my DLs. Have 270 for 5+ and just gonna do 275x10 or two sets of 8 or something.. *shrug*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24rHQS6QdLU


Happy with no right pec pain (as of now). Will continue to poke at it and roll it out often.

I warmed up doing some light dumbbell presses and noticed that at the top, my left shoulder gets an inch or so more back than my right. Just posting this here in case anyone might think that is something to worry about.

IMO this tends to happen when you bounce off your hip flexors and not your hamstrings. I think it is relatively inevitable when you squat to the degree of knee flexion that you do (fully A2G).

If you decided to do a more powerlifting style, cut off just below parallel squat with the hamstrings engaged the entire time then I think your knees would not travel as far forward. I'm not saying one style is clearly superior to the other, just that the demands of keeping your torso more vertical do play out a lot in the amount of ankle and knee flexion required at the bottom to keep the bar over mid-foot.

DFII- I much prefer hbbs over lowbar. hbbs just feels a lot more natural for me. I'm sure my mobility/flexbility has improved, but I used to get buttwink doing lowbar.


Forgot to log 12/4

pullups
4x3r
+25x1 x10 on the min

12/6

PC
115x2 x5
135x1
155x1
175x1
195x1
225x1
235 f x2 (smfh... high pulls imo)

531 cycle 2 wave A DL
240x5
275x5+= 6
275x3 x5 (last 4 were off 1" or 2" deficits)

pullups
4x3r
+25x1
+45x1 (first set of +25 was slow so did this)
+25x2 x3

paused skwats
135x3 FS
165x3 FS
185x3 FS
185x5 hbbs
205x5 hbbs
185x10 hbbs no pause

abs pulldown 2 sets

Can't lift on sadderday so gotta do my 531 press tmrw. More power cleans as well.

how is my lower back here, bras?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yukex58Nvag


Maybe I should take 230 instead of tryna PC 235 all the time lol

Looks good to my professionally trained eye. :P

Digging the first swagger clean.

Looks good

Even the worst form nazi would give that a pass

Cool! Hopefully it stays the same for heavier weights.

12/7

shoulder prehabs
band pullaparts

531 cycle 2 wave B presssss
125x3
140x3
160x3+= 10 (best 10 ever is 165.. not bad)
185x1 (on <2min rest.. grind)

PCs
(did PCs with press weights above)
205x1
205x1 (hang pc) x2
205x1 (hang PC + PC) x2

(less than 30min left at this point.. I don't usually work this fast)

press
145x10
145x8
145x5
145x3 (dead.. lol)

pullups
3x3
+25x2 x3 (weak today.. super slow)

lateral raises 2x15
alt/
abs pulldown 2x15

band pullaparts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uk1GUzkkWA


531 is working out great so far. So great that I want to do something else already I'm BOARD.

DLs -

Lmao

That is one ****ing awesome jpg

12/8

pullups
4x3r
+25x1 x7


12/9

pullups
6x2r
+25x1 x5

Been doing lots of foam rolling and stretching and that right tricep pain that only shows up in the first few reps/sets of pullups won't go away. Not getting worse either, sooo *shrug*

How one can become board on 5/3/1 i will never know...

You squat/bench/press/dead 1x/week and then do whatever the f*ck else you want.

Time to take a break bro. You'll have to look up what "break" means in the dictionary first though.