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evol_js Posts: 111 Joined: 2006/03/19	2006/08/11, 05:11 PM my 3rd week or so deadlifting.. I'm up to 235ish now, but I have to let my hands catch up to my muscles.
	2006/08/12, 08:15 AM congratulations...deadlift is a lift where u can progress fairly quickly if u keep pushing yourself...as a beginner u can gain couple hundred pounds first year starting out easily... check out www.gripboard.com to find out new and fun ways to strengthen your hands, wrists, and forarms...to keep up with your other muscles.... Also want to stress how important CHALK is on max sets....you can expect to gain as much as 100lb or more...truly amazing piece of equipment...
evol_js Posts: 111 Joined: 2006/03/19	2006/08/14, 06:03 PM Thanks.. that'll be really helpful You're right about gaining fast.. today I did 225 8 times, according to the one rep max calculator that's about 280 lbs. This is definitely becoming my favorite exercise. If only my bench press would increase too.
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/08/15, 12:15 AM ============ Quoting from evol_js: If only my bench press would increase too. ============= Why? -------------- Iron and chalk.
	2006/08/15, 09:59 AM Evol I would stick to lower reps once you get used to the deadlifts...you can make much better gains lifting in the 1-5 rep range....ditto with bench press if you want to bring it up...(also work on your technique, like arch, foot placement, etc....)... I agree...bench is way overrated ...I'd rather have a big deadlift or squat any day....
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/08/15, 12:14 PM 20 pounds with a nine pound bar. May not be much....but I'm mighty proud!!!!:big_smile: I'll let you know when I'm in the "I could take your lunch money" status!!
evol_js Posts: 111 Joined: 2006/03/19	2006/08/15, 04:05 PM I don't want my bench to come up because of bragging rights or anything-- just because I haven't seen any improvements in my upper body strength in quite some time. Maybe my lower body just needed to catch up? We'll see. Either that or I'm just stuck to maintaining muscle until I'm done cutting.
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/08/15, 08:19 PM Evol, I sent you a PM. -------------- Iron and chalk.
jeon Posts: 26 Joined: 2006/08/20	2006/08/24, 09:41 PM wrestler125, let me quote you on a sentence. "So, I purpose a better measure of manhood." This is kind of funny if manhood is measured in the gym then there are alot of men out there manhoodless. Like the Big Lebowski said; "What makes a man a man, I guess a pair of testicles". I always like to use my father for an example. Not that he is any more of a man than you or I but he is a man that has achieved feats with his body you or I will never. He would say I purpose a better measure of manhood. Try carring a chain saw that weighs 30-40 lbs. 5 days a week cutting and limbing trees for 6-8 hours through heat and cold for 30+ years then you have proven your manhood. But that is just my fathers way.
	2006/08/25, 01:41 PM jeon it was more tongue in cheek....people are so focused on their bench(even you if I remember right from another post)...that they dont pay much attention to bigger and better exercises like deadlifts....
jeon Posts: 26 Joined: 2006/08/20	2006/08/26, 02:29 AM YOu are right and that's my big downfall in the scheme of weightlifting. It's my favorite thing and I'll never get away from the bench. Like others theirs may be the deadlift. I'm thinking about why I like the benchpress so much more than anything and here is the reason. When I lie down on that bench I know there is no turning back. Unlike the deadlift or any other exercise I can think of off the top of my head. What I mean by no turning back is. Knowing that I have the strength so Can I lift the weight off of my chest or do I scream for help like an inexperienced weightlifter who doesn't know his limit. THis has gone way off topic.
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/08/29, 01:18 PM I agree with you to a degree jeon, but I still think it is a "BETTER measure of manhood" than the bench press by far. You brought up the point of working outdoors and life. Well when in life will you be lying on your back pushing something away from your body? Now, when will you be picking up something heavy off the ground? -------------- Iron and chalk.
coolnatedawg Posts: 813 Joined: 2005/03/09	2006/09/02, 12:30 AM hit 375x1 today... i hit 355x3 a while ago but i havent dld in a while. i am going to try again next week and i think i could break 400 since i still had some left in the tank. I actually failed on the 400 3 times but i pulled it off ground twice (only couple inches tho)
	2006/09/02, 08:22 PM congratulations...going to hit 4 plates soon :)
joe_ceronio Posts: 26 Joined: 2006/06/26	2006/09/18, 08:04 PM i'm on 350x3 going for 395x3 tonight.
joe_ceronio Posts: 26 Joined: 2006/06/26	2006/09/19, 09:24 PM I maxed out on 375 only one rep.
joe_ceronio Posts: 26 Joined: 2006/06/26	2006/09/19, 09:25 PM But i think i can make 395 by the end of next month.
	2006/09/20, 07:13 AM good luck....soon 405 will be your b#tch
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2006/09/26, 09:23 AM alas i still can't dl... -------------- Get your bicep curling, cut off shirt, matching workout outfit wearing,flexing in mirror "toned" wanna-be ass , out of my squat rack! People don't reach thier true potental, only those who seek it.
	2006/09/27, 12:18 AM Andrew try heavy Hyperextensions....(start low and slowly up the weight)...
joe_ceronio Posts: 26 Joined: 2006/06/26	2006/09/27, 06:38 PM Got 395x1. Form was a bit of. But will work on 395 till i have good form and then move on. 405 here I come.
coolnatedawg Posts: 813 Joined: 2005/03/09	2006/09/28, 07:17 PM hit 4 plates today! went up pretty easy but i struggled to lock out cuz of grip issue. tried to do more but couldnt do it. i need to figure out why my squat and deadlift are almost exactly the same....
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2006/10/03, 08:51 AM I do those......alot..but it still feels funny on my back when I dl.. I can't even sleep on my stomach anymore -------------- Get your bicep curling, cut off shirt, matching workout outfit wearing,flexing in mirror "toned" wanna-be ass , out of my squat rack! People don't reach thier true potental, only those who seek it.
	2006/10/03, 05:14 PM have u been to a chiropractor or physio therapist?
joe_ceronio Posts: 26 Joined: 2006/06/26	2006/10/03, 06:59 PM got 395 good form.try asecond one only got it to my knees. might go for 405 next week. i squat 285 for 6 reps. still have to go for 1rm will do that next week.
coolnatedawg Posts: 813 Joined: 2005/03/09	2006/10/04, 11:30 PM you should be able to hit 405 when you attempt again. maybe you should do squat tho instead this week cuz i find if i do my max deadlift 2 weeks in a row i get real burnt out. so i do squats with a max deadlift day every 2 weeks or so. just a thought....
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2006/10/09, 04:22 PM i went to the doc....I have a slight degenerated disk or somthing...nothing they can do for it really. I blew my back out like this in highschool too. Took a LONG time before i could dl again. -------------- Get your bicep curling, cut off shirt, matching workout outfit wearing,flexing in mirror "toned" wanna-be ass , out of my squat rack! People don't reach thier true potental, only those who seek it.
coolnatedawg Posts: 813 Joined: 2005/03/09	2006/10/09, 10:27 PM sorry dude...
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/10/11, 02:53 PM Hit 205x5 first DL day since August and felt great. -------------- A journey beigns with a single step. 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
	2006/10/13, 09:13 AM sweet...keep it up Mutt
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/10/13, 09:18 AM thanks i will hit 315 but mid Nov i think then off to the big numbers! -------------- A journey begins with a single step. 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/10/23, 02:48 PM first week back training I hit 155x5 second week (last week) 225x8. This week I am not doing them, will do hyper extensions and pull throughs in stead week after I will hit 315x6! -------------- Stop freaking talking about what you squat and SHOW ME WHAT YOU SQUAT! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/10/26, 10:13 PM Well to keep me accountable, Push/Pull nationals this year will be held in King of Prussia, outside of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. I will be opening with 405 and moving on from there depending on how I feel. I hope to break 450. I'll be lifting in the 148's. -------------- Iron and chalk.
coolnatedawg Posts: 813 Joined: 2005/03/09	2006/10/27, 10:17 AM when is it?
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/10/27, 05:36 PM December 9th -------------- Iron and chalk.
	2006/10/29, 05:39 AM wrestler why are you dropping weight again? I thought you were trying to get to 170+lb bodyweight?
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/10/29, 03:52 PM Yea well I'm only at 158, so 10lbs in water weight won't kill me. Then I have 5 months to work up to 175 in preparation for my next strongman, and eventually nationals. -------------- Iron and chalk.
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/11/02, 12:13 PM I pulled 315x2 2 months out of surgery. -------------- When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/11/11, 09:13 PM Nice. How'd it feel? -------------- Iron and chalk.
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/11/12, 07:32 AM First try I missed, waited a minute then ripped of 2 reps.....To say the least it felt heavy, my form was a bit off. But in the end IT WAS AWESOME!!! Today is a DE leg day and I feel like either front or box squats and some speed pulls! -------------- When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/11/12, 02:54 PM Well since you will be working through the weights from your surgery, now would be the perfect time to get your form dead on. -------------- Iron and chalk.
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/11/12, 05:18 PM Yeah just need to get the rust off is all LOL -------------- When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/11/14, 08:15 AM Speed DL last night 205x3 for 6 sets.....Man this felt heavy for the first set or so. I am on my way back though:angry: -------------- When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
coolnatedawg Posts: 813 Joined: 2005/03/09	2006/11/15, 10:24 AM did some trap bar dl on monday. pulled 425 easily. my rest periods were shorter than normal but i actually got 465 off the ground but stuck about 2in off. i think it was more a bad form thing as i hadnt brought in enough air and probably needed some more rest...
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/11/16, 05:15 PM Make sure you are warming up properly mutt. I buckled on the second rep of 405 from the rack the other day. Dropping down again and probably not pulling over 365 from the ground until competition. I aim for mid-400's. -------------- Iron and chalk.
Big-E Posts: 248 Joined: 2002/08/07	2006/11/17, 10:06 PM a-maze-ing Wrestler and Coolnatedawg. I hurt my lower back (not exercising, I have been traveling and working 14-17hr days for almost 6 months now) almost 2 months ago. Last week I was able to start again. My deadlift dropped 65lbs, from 285lbs/6/6/6 to 220lbs/7/7/6. Other exercises suffered too.. squat went from 385/12/12/12 to 310/12/12/12 and I gained weight too.. nicht gute! But I am on the way back!!! :dumbbell:
homegym1 Posts: 75 Joined: 2005/08/12	2006/12/31, 10:43 PM im 14 224 lbs and closing in on a 500 deadlift
homegym1 Posts: 75 Joined: 2005/08/12	2006/12/31, 10:52 PM thats with only a belt not even chalk also all 35lbs plates (bars lower to the ground):cool:
	2007/01/01, 10:23 PM congratulations....I think with 45s you might already be there..... learn to use chalk...it's a great lifting aid.....legal even in competitions..
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2007/01/07, 09:15 PM OK after a few months I finally got 365x1 belt and chalk used...missed 385 twice. 2nd time was just about at my knees and I could feel my back "rounding" so I dropped it. next time for sure. -------------- Curl Jockeys, get outta the squat rack! Warning:Deadlifting going on! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com

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