Quote from: Chunkford on August 06, 2012, 11:50:43 AM
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I think we've just done week 8?

I glad someone was awake.  Edited for Week 8 results.

3/3 that last one killed me! Serves me right for slaking last week

Good job Chunk!

>Rumbas:my long term goal in 2012 would be to make a combined 400 kgs ~ 880 lbs in the 3 majors.

That's a lot of weight!  You seem to be built for powerlifting though, so I bet you get there.

4/4 for me.

4/4 (+ a bonus round today - going for 7/7 this week)

QuoteRumbas:my long term goal in 2012 would be to make a combined 400 kgs ~ 880 lbs in the 3 majors.

That's a lot of weight!  You seem to be built for powerlifting though, so I bet you get there.

Excellent! I'm built for running and rock climbing, so even though I think deadlifts are king, I'm not very strong. At my best, I do 2x bodyweight (which in my case is only 280 pounds). Since my back injury in March, I have given up deadlifts until this week - started very light and went up to a whopping 185 pounds (1.3x bodyweight), but my back didn't hurt at all the next day and nothing went "pop" so I hope to slowly regain some of that deadlift strength.

No squat rack in my gym :-( and I don't really care about bench, so I rarely do it - no powerlifter here!

>lower back

I have issues with squatting and my lower back.  In HS I wrestled and one day something pulled back there.  In daily life it doesn't bother me, but my lower back seems to take forever to recover whenever it is engaged with much weight, be it squatting or DLs -- more so for squats than DSs.  The typical response is to work on my form, but I don't believe my form is that bad.  It doesn't really seem to matter if I use high-bar or low-bar squats.  As of laity I just been avoiding them and doing alternative exercises, like weighted step-ups & goblet squats.

Squats can be very bad for your body. You can do them and stay healthy, but your form needs to pretty much be perfect.

I can't do it without someone who knows perfect form watching and keeping me straight most times, but I don't do them a lot either.

It's such an unnatural position with correct form, you feel like you will fall backwards.

Quote from: littleman on August 11, 2012, 07:32:15 AM
>lower back

I have issues with squatting and my lower back

I used to have chronic back problems, also partly the result of getting tackled badly as a kid, but also muscle imbalance. I can't stress enough how much working the transverse abdominis has transformed that and made me generally back healthy.

Current problems are more chronic (really bad fall skiing) and seems to be going away - for the first time since March, I woke up this morning with pretty much no back pain and no pre-bed drugs. So moving in the right direction
Anyway...

>>alternative exercises, like weighted step-ups & goblet squats.

And split squats? Single leg? I know single-leg squats are good for me... but I hate them (always a sign that you should be doing more). Used to be so easy when I competed in skiing and on a 45-degree sled I could outlift guys with thighs the size of my waist, but, alas, that was over 25 years ago now!

3/4

Just finished with one of my semi-famous wheelbarrow workouts. Apart from feeling vaguely sick to my stomach and having trouble standing up for a while at the end, it went well ;-)

That was at least one exercise session per day this week. Haven't done that in a long time.

4/4

I'll get the results up later today.

Week 9 results (just waiting for Rumbas)

Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 1/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 3/4
Week 6 - 2/4
Week 7 - 1/4
Week 8 - 2/4
Week 9 - ??


littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 4/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 - 4/4

thesaintv12
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Week 1 - 3/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 3/4
Week 4 - 3/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4+
Week 7 - 4/4+
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 - 4/4+

ergophobe
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Week 1 - 3/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 3/4
Week 4 - 3/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4+
Week 7 - 1/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 - 4/4+


nffc
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Week 1 - 0/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 1/4
Week 5 - 1/4
Week 6 - 1/4
Week 7 - 0/4
Week 8 - 2/4
Week 9 - 3/4

Chunkford
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Week 1 - 2/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 2/3
Week 4 - 2/3
Week 5 - 2/3
Week 6 - 3/3
Week 7 - 3/3
Week 8 - 1/3
Week 9 - 3/3

3/4

That's a pretty good week guys!  Nice improvement NFFC.

And awesome job LM - you're the champ.

I don't even remember - we still have any money riding on this?

Anyone in for another round, possibly timed to end with Pubcon if anyone else is going.

Thanks.  Nope, no money on this one.  I'm up for another round if there is interest.  I'll be going to the gym either way -- for me its like brushing teeth, although I do that more than four times a week  .