Elf creatine is the most potent creatine.

Pretty happy going three whites on all squats.

Going to sign me up for a go on the weaselocycle if I bother with nationals.

Nice bench too, busto rustles are tasty rustles.

Aidan praise is pretty tasty

Depth Dictator Evoken agrees. 9 whites total, congratulations.

Lol at whites for bench. 3 reds there obv.

He doesn't get it.

Everyone's banned. This is now a foreveralone log to mimic his lifting environment.

Watched squats again. All to depth IMO but again they'd have reds for you at the meets here.

Good call wearing black pants to make it very tough to assess depth.

All seem basically to parallel ± one inch to me.

So you're still giving any judge a chance to redlight them if they feel like it.
But as people who actually go to PL-meets have pointed out they'd probably rarely actually get rejected.

In any case, solid work all around.
Potential for both golden cha and loco.

It would be pretty sweet to steal the Golden Cha and the Golden Loco for 2015. Still lots of opportunity though for a new challenger to appear (or for me to turn into a stunning failure).

Week One
Day 1

Deloading with Monte's maxes/realB's warm-ups.

3 Count Bench
235x3, 250x3, 260x3, 265x3



Count off on some reps imo/according to actual math. 260 probably the real top set if they were all 3 counts.

Comp Bench
205x7x5



Squat
270x6x4



Second set only one that struck me as pretty good.

Wanted to murder that idiot who walked under the bar in the second video. Wtf?

Weighted chins, face pulls, hanging leg raises, c2 10 mins

Depth is bad and feels bad.

2nd set tho

I do feel bad tho

2 good reps out of 5 does not a good set make.

Worse. 2 out of 6.

Those are all more than my maxes fwiw.

Only watched the first set of squats but they were super high and you know this. You can squat to depth. Do it every time.

Keep squatting high, fakeB. U make them when they count! Mostly serious, minor sarcoplasms

Now I feel terrible

Week 1
Day 2

TNG Bench - 2 fingers wider than normal
245x6x6





Beltless squats
225x6, 245x6, 265x6x2









Terrible. Wasn't going to move up again without hitting an acceptable set. Think the last set looked good. Just skip everything else.

DL
315x1x12 - beltless

35 seconds between sets, aka Yugo sets with shorter rests

Not sure if these were supposed to be beltless but light weight so yolo

Rope curls, face pulls

Damn, I just did 235 6x6, and was pretty difficult. I am guessing I could complete 245 6x6 but it would be pretty hard. I think you might actually be stronger on bench than me now. Hows your press looking these days? Maybe it is time for me to focus on press.

Also, as far as the squats if your knees and your lower back are fine, I say keep on doing what you are doing. Basically the only "cost" of you squatting like you do is lack of internet cred. But really, how much cred are you gonna get anyways if you rework your form so you hit depth all the time?

Lets say you spend the next year reworking your form, hitting depth and you bust out a below parallel 345 1RM. Big ****ing wup-de-do. Unless squatting below parallel is something you actually care about yourself, doesn't seem worth it. And that is not even taking into account you will probably increase your chance of flexing and hurting your lower back if you start squatting lower.

Week One
Day 3

Comp Bench
235x5, 250x5, 255x5







Squat
265x5, 290x5, 315x5 (QB approved)



No.



Maybe.



No.

How do I adjust my shin angle?

I wish I could just choose to hit depth every time.

Pull ups, face pulls, c2 eight 30s rounds

QB,

I haven't done an OHP or MP in a long, long time. It was dog **** the last time I did them so I stopped gaf to focus on bench.

I guess The answer to this is to let your knees travel farther forward. But this wil put more stress on your knees. Not sure if this would really be a positive development.

I guess you could try high bar, but same issue

I don't understand how to let my knees travel farther forward though. Which gets at my question for how to adjust my shin angle. I just squat between my legs. Everything else happens on its own.

I do notice that I feel like I'm tipping forward a bit when I go past parallel, and now that I'm reading Starting Strength again, I notice Ripp does say that when you hit depth, the pelvis does tilt forward. So maybe I should focus on that sensation as the cue for when I've hit depth.

I've tried to avoid this sensation of tipping forward. I don't want the weight to shift onto my toes, and if I'm not careful, tipping forward means my chest caves and the bar rolls up my back. Bad news if either happens.

I've considered going back to high bar.

/thoughts