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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭
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Bench Press
82.5kg - 5x3 ... personal best. Got videos of all the sets which I'll compile and post later
The last rep of both 4th and 5th sets was weaker on the right, which is odd as I thought my right hand side was stronger.
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The last rep of both 4th and 5th sets was weaker on the right, which is odd as I thought my right hand side was stronger.
Any advice / comments on form let me know.
It can be hard to tell from a vid when benching, but I'd say;
-you need to tighten up. It looks like you've just lay down on the bench and started pressing with no thought to set up (pinning your shoulders, getting your feet back a bit to have a solid platform etc)
-your descent is a bit screwy.... looks like you're flaring your elbows too much and taking the bar down to high. I say this because on some of the reps you're adjusting mid way thru and moving the bar forward to make toching easier. This will kill your power off your chest since you're in a bad position
-try not to snap your elbows at the top. A solid lockout's good, but that's all you need. No need to really put an emphasis on it cos it can wreck your elbows pretty quickly.
More importantly tho, what are YOUR thoughts on the vid? what do you think you need to work on??
Btw that's seriously good going. There's no way I'd do 94% 5x3.... with a tight set up your max might actually be a lot higher!!0 -
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 8940
Saturday May 23rd:
Bench Press
20kg - 1x10
40kg - 1x5
60kg - 1x3
70kg - 1x2
80kg - 1x1 ... video to follow
85kg - 1x1 ... video to follow
90kg - 1x1 ... personal best. At last!!!!! Absolutely chuffed with myself. Video to follow
75kg - 1x5
70kg - 1x5
60kg - 1x10
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Mini 35kg Barbell Thrusters
1x5 ... warming up and trying to get a feel for how to attempt Fran
CrossFit - Fran in 24:08- 21 thrusters (35kg) / 21 pull ups
- 15 thrusters (35kg) / 15 pull ups
- 9 thrusters (35kg)/ 9 pull ups
Fran nearly killed me. Used a mini 35 barbell for the thrusters. Good job I didn't try it with 45kg
Absolutely wrecked afterwards. The pull ups were proper dead hang ones. I need to learn to "kip". I guess that would have knocked a bit off the time. I'm assuming kipping is easier than dead hang. Maybe I'm wrong. I have to admit that a lot of my pull ups on Fran were not full range of motion. Maybe 60 to 70% were.
Next time I may try it when totally fresh (i.e not after a bench pb) and use 20kg to get a bit of conditioning going. Will try and do it once a week
Bench PB at last! - Yay!
Bodyweight 76kg this morning.
It took me from 10pm until 4:30am to get the fitness records thread up and running in the early hours. Got 4 hours sleep and then went to the gym so happy enough with my performance when you take lack of sleep and a plate of apples for dinner last night into account :pac:
90kg bench felt fine. It was as if everything went into slow motion before I lay down on the bench. I looked up at the clock and though "10:15am - nice time to set a pb". I then listened to the music and thought "random song - ah, nice song to set a pb to". And then I did it. Yes!
Long time coming so pardon my revelry. My last pb was 87.5kg set back in maybe September 08.0 -
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Thanks85kg - 1x1 ... video to follow90kg - 1x1 ... personal best. At last!!!!! Absolutely chuffed with myself. Video to follow
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You are right, they are meant to be far easier. I saw rules for a world record for pullups and kipping is not allowed, then there is a record allowing kipping. John Curd Edmunds, allegedly did 220 chinups in a row at age 67 but was kipping and using wrist straps. It is sort of like swinging on a bicep curl, you use your own momentum to swing yourself upI'm assuming kipping is easier than dead hang. Maybe I'm wrong.
I cannot kip at all, just never got the knack for it.
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 8940
You are right, they are meant to be far easier. I saw rules for a world record for pullups and kipping is not allowed, then there is a record allowing kipping. John Curd Edmunds, allegedly did 220 chinups in a row at age 67 but was kipping and using wrist straps. It is sort of like swinging on a bicep curl, you use your own momentum to swing yourself up
I cannot kip at all, just never got the knack for it.
Thanks for the vids rubadub. I have been looking for some decent tutorials. These are good.
My aim in the coming weeks is to learn to kip .... so that I can have a proper go at Crossfit workouts Fran & Cindy.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7IEIlyatTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZmTwJ9v98I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0YvND8Qg-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7spRknkD1hU
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