squat - 275x5, set 1
squat - 275x5, set 2 (maybe point my toes out more?)
bench - 162.5x5
deadlift - 325x4 + failed 5th

I blame it on Journey.

Toes look fine in set 2. Nice music in the background.

JUST A SMALL TOWN GIRL

LIVIN' IN A LONELY WORLD

SHE TOOK THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN GOING ANNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYWHEEEEEREEEEEEE

How are you supposed to deadlift with that song on? That explains your failure.

not sure, but narrowing your squat stance a little might help. i mean like an inch total. this would require more outward pointed toes. this stuff varies person to person and rip talks about it on the forums. i've found myself most comfortable at like 40 degrees.

you definitely unrack the bar with a strangely wide stance.

fwiw I had headphones on with Bane playing, my official deadlift music. It's just fitting that the song came on before the failed rep. I took too much time between reps. Lost my momentum, started thinking about it too much. Didn't put enough ass into it. I lost all hamstring/glute recruitment and tried to back it. Weird place to lose it. It was higher than I thought when re-watching. In my head, it felt like just above the knees.

it just means you are probably weaker at lockout. remember this when you want to add supplemental exercises in your programming later on.

oh and you had it!

I think you go deeper in your last squat vid. In this one (#1), I'd say you def. stay above parallel. I'd say that goes for the 2nd set too. But it might be the angle.

And who makes the music choices. Tool (?) is def. awesome, but the other random crap? wow.

So nice to watch a good dead lift form after watching my dad mangle it up today. Good work. And I think you might have psyched yourself out on that last rep, I def think you had it. I know I do that when the weight is really heavy. Good work though.

I'm going to respectively disagree. Euros seem to have a weird idea of what parallel is. I just watched both squat vids and counted 1 maybe 2 reps that are debatable.

re: Music, I dunno. I actually think it can be shut off in that room if you ask the front desk. Maybe I should do that and bring in a little portable ipod radio. That'd be sweeet.

i think you're at the same depth in all of the last three videos and need half an inch to hit parallel in pretty much every rep. i am going to slow it down and post on youtube to show what i'm talking about. give me a few minutes to waste.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-1yAhgGLU

this is your 2nd set at 275. 1st rep is microscopic amounts from parallel. others are a quarter to a half inch high.

I disagree. Parallel is femur parallel to the floor. Easiest way to tell is crease of shorts with the top of the knee. I think they're all at parallel, aside from maybe the 2nd rep. That being said, I can probably get a tad lower just to do some extra work and be safe with respect to parallel on those reps where I bail a tad early.

I'd like some others' thoughts on this, cuz I'm obv bias. Thanks for the slow mo, it's helpful. What program do you use?

This is the freeze frame of the 1st rep, just a microsecond after I start my ascent:

OK maybe you're right. 1/4" high or so:



damn it.

if really want to be sure you need to make a vid next time with the camera at the height of your knee and directly from the side. anyway, i think you are at parallel but it's a close call, and you probably know its better to go half an inch deeper and be certain then starting at 50/50 and cutting it high due to fatigue.

reps 2 and 3 for fun


and a quote from rippetoe

i'm gonna go so deep i put that ass to sleep next time

Your deadlift form looks really good.

Very nice sir.

skipped my workout today cuz I stayed home from work. Wasn't feeling so hot.

I could go tomorrow, but it's the opening night of the NBA, so I'll just resume on wednesday as normal, with heavy PCs, and still DL on Friday.

Anyone have experience with hamstring injuries? This **** is still bothering me. Doesn't seem to affect my squat, but it's still limiting my ROM when putting on pants and ****, and I always tweak it just getting in the car or sitting down or something. Real pain in the ass.

10/28, Wed

Squat	Pryesss	Power Clean
2x5x45	2x5x45	hpc w/ bar
5x135	5x65	5x75
3x185	3x85	3x94
2x235	2x105	2x115
3x5x280	3x5x120	5x3x135

well, this workout slayed me. I attribute it to ****ty eating, too much beer past few days (I usually indulge in 1, maybe 2 750mL bottles of beer every now and then, but Octoberfest was callin' me and I had some left over stouts from a couple of weeks ago and so i drank them all), and ****ty sleeping. Just fell into bad habits. Plus I doubt missing a workout helped.

Squats were really hard. Closest I've ever come to missing a rep. Oddly, 2nd set was the worst. Kinda like how last weeks DL were the first time I felt mentally challenged (lol), the same can be said for the squats this time. This time I passed. I think it's easier to pass on the squat, cuz you have some survival mechanisms at work with heavy ass weight on your spine, versus having the option to just let go.

I suck at pressing. You'll see.

Power cleans went OK, but 4th set I flubbed a few. I think it went flub first attempt, refocused, hit the next, flubbed another one, cussed, then got the last 2. Other than that I was fairly pleased.

vids up later.

Lolol. Pryessss. That's sweet that you're at the point on PCs that you can just use 45s if you don't have access to the bumpers. I'm pretty jealous of your squat as well. Pretty frickin good.

Looking forward to vids.

squat - 280x5, set 1 (note that I used a bad clip on the left side and the weight was out a couple inches). I was unhappy with my depth
squat - 280x5, set 2
press - 120x5, set 1
press - 120x5, set 2 (i think this is better than set 1)
pc - 135x5, set 1
pc - 135x5, set 2

no complex analysis here but the first thing i thought when i watched the first set was that your stance was too wide. second set looks narrower and better, but i'm not sure.

just read through the stance stuff in ss. I think you're right. 2nd is better but slightly wide, maybe .5-1". I've always had slightly wider than shoulders in my head for some reason.

tbh i'm not sure if it's a big deal.

it helps keeping the knees out and insuring the adductors get stretched. i would at least try it.