That's the thing about the Monte, baby weights but a lot of heart. A lot of heart.

Coincidentally I have to do front squats today and last week I did a pathetic 4x2 @185. Just pathetic. I was formulating my workout in my car right now and I was thinking of light front squat, leg press, deadlift, pull-ups, and rows. And then finish it off with an intense decline leg raise session from hell that would probably make want to puke.

Obviously the forum inspires what I do. And EV is the facking worst. I need to quit that log.

I am going heavy on front squats. The quality of your workouts says a lot about you, especially lowerbody. And the Monte doing good work. If the world were coming to the end and we needed warriors from S&F, surely he would be picked in the first few rounds.

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Got 185x6!! Last couple of reps Monte was looking down on me and laughing that I was a short and that my relatives rake his yard. So I reached deep and got them. I could probably get 8 but I am assuming they get ugly.

High praise indeed!

We actually have a neighborhood 13 year old do it since our lawn is small (we live downtown), but he's taller than you so it's close enough.

I doubt I could pull an eight repper at 185 right now. Two plates for a single/3x5x205 are my shortish to mediumish term goals.

'Mirin. Heart and all that like lolco said.

Front squats are good! Nice depth, bar path, etc.

I assume that you don't have the mobility for proper front rack positioning since you don't do FS much, right?

4/9 (186.4 lbs)
C2 Row: 33:27 mins (8253 m)

• WoD: 3x2000 m/3 minute easy + 2:00 minute warm-up and cool-down

HLR: 4x10
Pallof Press: 4x12x32.5
Farmer's Walks (85 lb DBs): 3x~50 seconds each

Under a 2 minute pace for all three 2000 m pieces, so pretty happy with that. Still sick.

Nice to hear the front squats are OK.

BTM, assuming you're not constantly negging me because you're trying to bang me, I've been front squatting regularly for a while now (probably ~18 months), and never really had the initial mobility to comfortable get in the "proper" position. I was never all that interested in olytarding, so I never bothered to go through the pain of trying to fix it, even though I know I probably "should". Maybe if I decide to cross over to the dark side.

If you're comfortable with the arms crossed method, then keep it up I guess. I don't know if it really matters

Haven't really been following the conversation and I don't even lift, but two things I've heard against the arms crossed thing for front squat...

1) The bar is almost certainly going to be further from horizontal
2) It's harder to keep your scapulae retracted/tight upper back

Not sure what you mean by "further from horizontal"; I'm racking it against my collarbone either way, no?

2) may well be true, not really sure. Probably enough of a reason to change if I ever leave baby weights.

Why not just uncross and use straps? I've heard that crossed is AIDS so straps are better. Not sure if that's true or not.

I'm a r'tard and don't know how to explain stuff, but I mean "less level", like an angle greater than zero degrees, more un-horizontal. If you put a spirit level on it, it would not be level.

I believe the reasoning is because one arm is slightly higher than the other, one delt is going to be slightly higher than the other and possibly more flexed than the other, all contributing to a non-horizontal bar position.

Also, and I'm obviously being #wristmobilityprivilege here, but are you using only your finger tips (just the tip) to hold the bar? I never had an issue with getting into this position with front squatting (other than when carrying an actual wrist injury). I know, blah, blah, forearm length, etc.

I only really tried half assedly once, so who knows if I could actually do it. I think probably not, but who the **** knows. I'll try next Friday and report back, I suppose.

Re: the bar position stuff, I do alternate which hand is on top from week to week, so there's probably some merit there. Meh.

For me (and most people) it was more of a lats mobility issue than anything else.

4/10 (188.2 lbs)
C2 Row: 19:20 mins (4749 m)

• WoD: 4x500 m/2 minute easy + 3:00 minute warm-up and cool-down

Got drunk and played cards last night; minimal regrets. Fasted through the day. Row went well; pulled under 1:50 for the first three legs and under 1:55 for the fourth, so not too shabby. Feeling almost human illness-wise; seems like it was the OHIO PINTS that did it.

Spent the rest of the weekend doing 'Will Ferrell in Old School before alcohol' type things, like going to Costco and two other supermarkets with the boys, breaking out the pressure cooker and making two stews, spending 6 hours reorganizing the kitchen so it's actually functional instead of the mess of random ******ation it's been since we moved in, etc.

What's under the sink now? Rice or cleaning products?

Still cleaning products; didn't touch anything there.

Monte may not know much about rice, but at least he knows where not to put it.

4/11 (187.0 lbs)

A
Bench: 2x5x217.5, 6x217.5
NG Chins: 4x5x+60 (PR)
Facepulls: 6x12x52.5

B
Squat: 1x5x250, 1x4x250, 1x3x250
Arnold Press: 4x10x40
DB Hammer Curl: 3x12x40

C
RDL: 4x10x155
Tricep Pressdown: 4x15x75
Lateral Cable Raise: 4x12x10.5

D
C2 Row: 5:41 min (1500 m)

Pretty meh result on squat; probably could have super grinded the fifth rep out in the second set, but didn't, and then just had nothing left for the third set. I'll give it one more go next week maybe, or maybe just go to 5/3/1 for this as well since I'm still a bit calorically restricted.

Might have had an extra rep in bench, as the sixth rep was pretty smooth, but for some reason I didn't go for it; kind of sad that after I get praised for WIM I pussy out so many times, but it is what it is. Everything else was fine; pretty sure chins were a PR, so let's call it that. Kind of dead now, but in a good way. Motivated to have a good week food-wise and see what happens.

Curious.

What meat did you get at costco?

What is your fastest recorded 500m?

Prime sirloin steaks that were the most marbled of the ones available
Choice ribeyes that looked well marbled enough to be marked prime
A 10 lb pack of chicken thighs, all of which have been cooked
A pork roast four pack (I think the sirloin roast or something? not really sure)

I think my first split on Sunday was around 1:43 or something, but I wasn't going for broke. Doubt I could go too much faster, though.

1:43 seems good although I'm sure you could probably do better. All out sprints on the rower though is legitimately an awful experience.

you could definitely do faster than 1:43 imo

4/9 (183.4 lbs)
C2 Row: 16:00 mins (3940 m)
HLR: 2x12, 2x10
Pallof Press: 4x12x32.5
Farmer's Walks (85 lb DBs): 1x~60 sec, 1x55 sec, 1x45 sec

Somehow down to a new low for weight (insert machinist.jpg), even though I ate 2500ish calories yesterday and an assload of protein. In a related story, my legs were a little gassed today, so I just did a light semi-recovery type row so I wouldn't hurt DL day tomorrow.