I've been thinking about that, but I'm not sure if it would work, because I have clubbed thumbs. Probably going to mess around with it in a week, though

10/7

194.0. All the dessert the last few days.

A1:
Squat: 10x45, 5x95, 5x135, 3x185, 2x225, 2x5x245, 6x245

A2:
Bench: 10x45, 10x95, 5x135, 3x185, 2x215, 1x240, 1x255, 3x4x225

B (supersetted exercises between A exercises):
NG Chin: 4x6x+45
Face Pulls: 6x12x52.5
Good mornings: 8x45, 6x95, 4x8x115
DB Hammer Curl: 4x12x35

C:
Dips: 3x5xbw+70, 4xbw+70

90 minutes. Might have had one more squat rep, but no coffee because the pipes in my office exploded + I'm a gash. Bench sucks. I suck. Dips are probably close to a PR, but whatever. 2 plates for reps soon. Might have gotten close to this on chins before, but probably a PR for NG chins. Whatever.

i have long fingers and very very short thumbs and hook grip works OK for me.

Hook grip was a no go; too much of a pussy. Did 6x1x350 with the last few reps being in the jdock zone, got disgusted, and left. Probably going to go to something like Coan Phillipi starting my next session so I can get more DL and assistance volume.

I am ****.

You doing any heavy direct ab work?

There's a George Leeman vid where he talks about his choices for deadlift accessory stuff, might have some ideas. But I think the way people incorporate accessory work for deadlifts is a bit suboptimal. For example, good mornings are pretty good, but 115lb GM's arent going to carry over much to your ability to hold a stable position at 360lb deadlift, if you know what I am saying. Im also not suggesting loading up 300lbs and going for a 3RM good morning. But finding a holistic middle ground should work.

You can and should do accessory deadlift work while doing sspt

Is there really a benefit to doing hook grip vs straps for DL? Sorry, prolly a stupid question

You can't compete in straps. Also, straps can affect your setup a little bit. Hookgrip is orders of magnitude manlier.

Aidan,

You don't think you can get in the same position hook vs straps? Is it cause You think you can get it more in your finger tips than hook? Genuinely curious.

Bros,

Hearing that my dreams of competing have apparently been dashed due to my preferred mode of DLing is tough to swallow.

I just meant that the faffing around with straps often causes people to set up differently than they would without them.

Tough to compete against others when you beat yourself so easily philosoaidan.jpg

Is ok to lose to opponent; must not lose to feeeeeeeeeeah

Update:

Lifted consistently through Thanksgiving, or at least as consistently as I could with travel. Got viral bronchitis from the kids, missed 7 weeks. Decided going back to basics with straight GSLP + bro stuff for the first half of 2016 is probably a good idea, so the one month update is as follows:

Weight Jan 1: 202.4
Weight Jan 29: 195.2, although I was down as low as 192.2 before this current extended weekend of an assload of meat comes up

Current big lifts work sets:
Bench: 210
Squat: 215
Press: 130

AMRAPs at bench are at 7, squat 10 (I'm not moving up 5 lbs until I get 10 reps for the third set here, just because my form tends to break down at heavy weight), press 6. Still feel like I have plenty of room to grow with squat, obviously, and a few more workouts for bench and press before resetting becomes worth thinking about. Both of the upper body lifts are depressingly heavy, but being de-trained and on a slight caloric deficit probably isn't a great combination.

SSPT DL: in week 4 with a 1RM of 350; still pretty easy

Alternating weighted chins (4x6x+35) and 1 arm DB row (4x10x100) each workout

Alternating weighted dips (4x6x+60) and standing kb shoulder press (10x35) for shoulder/bench workouts, respectively

Then other random bro stuff bolted onto the end.

Ideally I'd like to get down to a less emaciated 185-190 than a few years back, although that is going to require a slower cut/slight recomp, obviously. Nice to be back in it, at any rate.

Just need to get your gut flora right and you'll be there in no time.

Monte is back! Yes!

I know you're probably more worried about injuries from form breaking down but you wont get good at squatting with heavy weights unless you actually practice with heavy weights so getting good form with 10s wont necessarily make your form with heavy 5s better.

What the ****, I'll log for a while and see how it works out. Weasel, you've inspired me to not be a pussy and just run GSLP as written for squat (if only once a week), which will probably last until I get stuck in an endless reset loop around 260 as usual.

Smoked 60 lbs of meat for my brother-in-law's (the deadbeatacore, for those of you that remember -- he's still not done with undergrad, btw) birthday this weekend. Two 15 pound briskets, 4 ~7-8 lb pork shoulders, and a few chickens. Brisket took 16 hours or so, and had a nice lacquer on the outside when it was done; pork was also good, but went in too early and might have dried out a bit too much. Still tasty. Might get pictures from family in a few days; I was kind of busy for documenting. Homemade potato salad, homemade bacon mac and cheese, buffalo chicken dip, three pony kegs of craft brew -- good times. Didn't get too drunk, but did get the meat sweat.

2/1 (193.2 lbs)

A
Bench: 2x5x212.5, 6x212.5
NG Chins: 4x6x+35

B
Squat: 2x5x215, 8x215
Facepulls: 6x12x47.5

C
Standing single arm KB Press: 4x10x35
DB Curl: 3x9x40

D
Cable Tri Pressdown: 4x12x75
Cable Lateral Ext: 4x12x10

Very slightly hungover and a little sluggish; pretty good workout otherwise, but I lost a few reps at the end of my squat set because two dudes started yelling across the gym to each other and it distracted me and made me lose tightness. Even my autonomic functions are beta. Fantastic news. Bench continues to suck.

2/2 (192.2 lbs)

C2 Row: 6 mins (1480 m) @6
Planks: 3 rounds of (3 reps x 10 seconds on/10 seconds off)
LISS (Treadmill): 50 minutes (3.2 miles)

2/3 (193.0 lbs)

A
SSPT DL (Round 1, Week 5, 82.5%, 350 1RM, 60 s rest): 8x1x290

B
OHP: 3x5x135
DB Row: 4x10x100

C
Dips: 4x6x+65
Facepulls: 6x12x47.5

D
Cable Lateral Raise: 4x12x10
Incline DB Curl: 3x10x25

DL was easy and snappy. OHP is getting hard and belting up is probably going to be necessary going forward; technically should have only done 132.5 because of microloading, but **** that. Dips keep going up, so I'm going to keep adding weight. Took a DL video and it looks fine; may upload just for a quick form check, but it's baby weight so probably not.

82.5% who does that?

http://marylandpowerlifting.com/2014...-the-deadlift/

That question is so weird. What the hell is wrong with 82.5%????? Can you only do numbers divisible by 5 or something?

:09 and 1:04 for the BTMs of the world that find sliding a scrollbar without knowledge of the endpoint frightening.

One of the minis stole one of my DL slippers and I can't find it, so a new pair is in the mail. The lady at the Y caught me in socks the other day and told me to knock it off, which was slightly annoying.

They look pretty good. Something is kind of weird though. Next time you film deadlifts, can you stand in your normal standing stance like if you were talking to someone so I can see your feet and shins. So like stand out of the view of the plates.

I think when you stand even normally and not deadlifting, the angle from the top of your feet to your shins is very open. I stand like this too and it messes me up deadlifting if I dont pay attention to it because your shins will be one inch away from the bar but its kind of fake because when you stand like you should, your shins will move forward. Like normally standing, feet and shin angle should be _! but i bet when you stand, your angle is _/

Thats why when you pull it looks like your shins are like _/ instead of more vertical. That probably made less than 0 sense so if you need me to clarify i can

No, I understand what you mean. I think I'm ok until I try to get my butt back and get more on my heels, and then my shins probably come a little past vertical if they are actually doing it. I'll try to figure out how to film it next week.

2/4 (192.6 lbs)

C2 Row: 8 mins (1960 m) @5
HLR: 3x10
LISS (Treadmill): 50 minutes (3.2 miles)

Chatted with a friend on Facebook that rowed in college and coaches rowing, and he gave me some stuff to read on technique and whatnot. Workout #2: 22 minutes. Probably being trolled, but apparently I can lower my stroke rate and the resistance a bit until I get the form completely dialed in, so I guess we'll see.

Not weird at all when you consider who asked it.