Iain K's Powerlifting

No probs. May need to put your stance a little wider and possibly work with straps down for a while.

Ok, thanks Iain.

12/8/08

Just some light shoulder work;

BTN press- barx10x5
Dumbbell side, front and bent over raise- 10x2 on each (5-12kg bells)
Farmer walk holds- 2x100kg impliments x 30s
Dumbbell row- worked up to do 75x3
Lots of stretching and band traction

Felt like **** today. Still getting used to extra poundage on the shoulders squating equipped. Anyway feal better now so good.

Played with farmers walk impliments for the weekend. They are very basic standard gauge impliments with a low pick up. Essentially a long dumbbell with small handle. I picked up 100kg per hand and was happy to hold there for 30s, however my training partner Pat couldn't get them up. It didn't help that I was using some oly guage plates and meant it was very loose and tricky. We dropped it down to 90 using only 2 oly plates and Pat had little trouble with that. Gona get hold of some more standard plates and test em again on friday

Played with farmers walk impliments for the weekend. They are very basic standard gauge impliments with a low pick up.

Catching the Strongman bug mate ?

Not at the moment, although it sure dose look fun! Running a smal unofficial meet this sat; max floor to overhead anyhow, max deadlift and farmers walk.

My openers for Saturday:

90 / 200

Does the gym have bumper plates and/or an oly platform? Me and Dave tried to set up something on the floor using mats to minimise noise and damage but we ended up ripping both of them. More reasons for them to ban our asses

Cheers. Got bumper plates, plus ad hoc platform. Its still very noisy though!!

Iain - my Inzer Rage-X bench shirt arrived arrived today - size 48. According to the Inzer site it should be 2" bigger than your chest measurement.
So 48" should be just right.
However, I can get my head through the neck hole but it barely goes past my shoulders and won't go anyway past my arms. I've probably got a proportionally small chest and I imagine I need a bigger size but how should they fit?
So tight there's no circulation?
Big enough to get on but tight enough so movement is restricted?

I got this from eBay so I'm limited by what auctions come up.

ORIGINAL: Lord Monkcheese

Iain - my Inzer Rage-X bench shirt arrived arrived today - size 48. According to the Inzer site it should be 2" bigger than your chest measurement.
So 48" should be just right.
However, I can get my head through the neck hole but it barely goes past my shoulders and won't go anyway past my arms. I've probably got a proportionally small chest and I imagine I need a bigger size but how should they fit?
So tight there's no circulation?
Big enough to get on but tight enough so movement is restricted?

I got this from eBay so I'm limited by what auctions come up.

Hey LMC

Are you planning on competeing in this shirt?

How long did you spend trying to get in the shirt? Did you have anyone pulling the shoulder/arms for you?

HEY HEY !!

bench shirts dont fit unless you:

put placcy bags on your arms

have a big mofo tugging in all the way on

THEN the pain starts !!!

Not planning on competing but never say never. Just thought it would be a nice addition to see if there's some carryover to my raw bench.
The only help I got getting it on was from my missus who's a frail 8 stone so I possibly could have tried harder.
There just seemed no way that it would budge past my arms.

Sounds like the shirt fits well! Bring it this sat and we'll get you in it. If I remeber I'll bring my suit slip ons that'll help

A new shirt will take a few sessions to break in and get sorted. My advice is after this weekend 9if we get it on) to get it at the begining of a bench session. Take some weights and then off and crack on with normal work.

My new shirt couldn't get seated in my pits the 1st time despite some big effort by 2 people, 170 could only just get down to a 2 board bepth, and had to have somone position my hands on the bar. Now, 5 sessions later, it goes on with just 1 big tug per arm, and I can get 140 to touch if I want too.

Having said all that it does seem as though the shirt is possibly too tight for what you want it for.

14/8/08

Pullthroughs- 10x5

Roman sit ups- 10x5

Rowing- 10min (approx 2100m)

Stretching for lower back mainly


Not much more than a warm up today. Felt beat from sundays squats this week and with the comp on sat 'put my feet up' duing the middle of this week. Still I felt less lazy for doing a little bit of fluff today!

Fuuccckkk... went to check out new avatar bit and lost my avatar. I obviously pressed a wrong button but ... grrrrreeee... no warning....I HATE COMPUTORS!!!!!

Just gona have to be a big question mark till I can be bothered to do anything about it.

iaink


Just gona have to be a big question mark till I can be bothered to do anything about it.

Adds a touch of mistique to your persona.

Did I sound cleverer then?

Formerly Known as Old Git

iaink


Just gona have to be a big question mark till I can be bothered to do anything about it.

Adds a touch of mistique to your persona.

Did I sound cleverer then?

LOL Almost!

15/8/08

Bench press;

70x5
80x3
90x2
100x2
110x2
130x2 (shirt on)
150x2
170x2 (pb, all touched and paused )
150x5 (pb)

2 board press;

130x2
140x2
150x2


Great session today. Really nailed the benching. Very happy to do a max double with what must be very close or just on comp form. The 5 was hard work in the shirt, but all but the 1st rep was touched. Good days!

Finished with some limited assistance work, but the 150 2 bp was a very tough double.

nice!

Cheers pal!

Very good benching, and well done with the PB's