Hazzard's Training Journal Of The Testosterone-Tastic Journey To A Quarter-Ton Squat

[LtL]

Sick lifting P. Looking forward to seeing the video. Did you go Cena afterwards?



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[Hazzard]

Originally Posted by T-Bone

Big numbers and brutal volume, nice job!

Thanks mate, because the ME training doesn't have a great deal of volume (lots of 1 rep sets) I like to make sure I do some higher rep stuff (2 rep sets!) after to get my workload in.

Originally Posted by MikeC

Congratulations on that huge pull.

Thank you man (like to mix it up between 'mate' and 'man' because I know this is a fairly American-centric site!).

Originally Posted by Fazc

Awesome! Looking forward to the vids.

Thanks mate, should get them up in a couple of hours.

Originally Posted by LtL

Sick lifting P. Looking forward to seeing the video. Did you go Cena afterwards?

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Ah, dammit, I completely forgot to do that or the Green Bay belt motion! I did do another celebratory thing but it's not on video I'm afraid. It does have my psyche up though!

[BendtheBar]

Way to kill it Hazzard. Congrats on the fast pull and the total.

[Hazzard]

Originally Posted by BendtheBar

Way to kill it Hazzard. Congrats on the fast pull and the total.

Thanks a lot for the support mate, much appreciated.

Just trying to get some food down me, which I always struggle with after a session like this...

[Hazzard]

Currently editing together today's training session in Avid, woot!

[Hazzard]

Video of today's session:



Matt's the guy I've been training since around October last year - he's done a 92.5kg bench, 145kg squat and a 167.5kg deadlift since I started training him. The first and latter he did this week, beating previous PBs with two months off training. Currently got him on WS4SB three times a week, two max effort and one dynamic effort/repetition effort sessions.

[LtL]

Very nice lift brother. Sled work looked harder

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[Creechur]

Awesome lift, great technique and perseverance. Sled drags look tough since you gotta hold onto it.

[Hazzard]

Big session today. What was meant to just be DE and assistance turned into DE and then ME then assistance. I've decided to do two ME bench press sessions a week while I'm still young and physically capable of doing so without killing myself. The main ME session on Tuesday is going to be focused on full ROM benching in reps of 1-3, possibly with bands or whatever, to a pause or touch and go. Anything that's heavy as f**k and touches my chest. Saturday, on the other hand, is going to be ME preceded by my standard DE work, the former of which is going to consist of sets of 1-3, with or without bands, and with a board of various sizes. For example, the aim for the next few weeks is to take what I achieved today on the board press and gradually increased the distance I have to press week by week, hopefully leading to a strong as hell press. I like to think that in the end this should hopefully as smoosh (I doubt that's what the EliteFTS guys call it...) together and leave me with a hench bench press.

Anyway, after that wall of text here's today's bench session:

03/09/11

DE Bench Press
Warm-Up
60+red bandsx5
80+red bandsx3x3 sets
90+red bandsx3x3 sets
100+red bandsx3x2 sets
60+red bandsx8

3-Board Bench Press
100+red bandsx3
130+red bandsx3
145+red bandsx3
155+red bandsx3

Al reckons the bands add around 20kg-ish to the top of the lift, so that final press had me locking out at around 175kg, so I'm pretty pleased with that. Was tempted to go a little higher, but Big Daddy Al said I should leave it at that.

V-Bar Pull-Down
35x18
45x8
50x4>35x12

> represents a drop set

Band Pull-Apart
Red bandx50

Just want to finish by saying thank you to Al for letting me use his kit. Bands are pretty damn fun and I need to get some of my own soon! I'm exhausted, my CNS has taken a battering these last couple of days so I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon eating and playing video games, woot!

[LtL]

Really enjoyed training this morning. Great work and thanks for your help. Here's to BDFPA being dominated by TNT next year

Now I'm going to eat my not inconsiderable weight in chocolate cornflake cakes

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