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drdeadlift wrote: »WTF is a fish bowl pull down?
Its a wide-grip-kneeling-straight-bar-face-pull... basically the greatest exercise ever invented, its named after VIS 'fishbowl' VIRES enormous inhuman head
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Its a wide-grip-kneeling-straight-bar-face-pull... basically the greatest exercise ever invented, its named after VIS 'fishbowl' VIRES enormous inhuman head
Haha the real reason for the name is way better :P
But it is COH' favourite exercise (after high squats , bounced bench pressing and hitched deadlifting ) :P0 -
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Last heavy day before the comp..
Squats
60kg (3x5)
100kg (2x5)
140kg x3
160kg x2
180kg x1
200kg x1
*heavy sleeves*
220kg x1
240kg x1
*knee wraps, game face*
262.5kg x2 (P motherf*cking R)
From deciding to do this comp for the craic and only doing a short prep cycle I can now officially say I cannot wait to get on the platform saturday week.0 -
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No carbs and no caffeine makes COH a complete fanny dull boy...
Yesterdays Bench, today...
60kg x5
80kg x5
100kg x3
120kg x1
*opener*
140kg x1 (Paused like a boss)
Lat Pulldown
Pin F*ck All (3x8)
Seated Row
As per Lat pulldown
Some other crap
Still sick... so frustrating after the epic prep cycle. If I'm not feeling somewhat better tomorrow I'm going to scrap the water loading and eat my way to recovery, and probably the 110s
hope you feel better for the comp - best of luck 0 -
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AM - 60mins Mobility/Stability
PM - Chiro/Sports Massage.. my poor glutes
Just about finished water loading, have consumed ~30litres since Sunday evening and can safely say I am absolutely 100% not thirsty, nor do I enjoy urinating every 5 mins. I'll have enough water tomorrow early AM for a quadruple espresso and to dissolve about 5000mg Vit-C to wash down the cold/flu meds that I'm tripling up on, but thats it until the 10am weigh in on Friday morning. I'll probably do some LIT in the hotel gym tomorrow evening, hopefully the sauna/hot baths etc. isn't going to be necessary.
Fingers crossed I come in feeling strong on Saturday now, and best of luck to everyone else competing on the day.
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AM - 60mins Mobility/Stability
PM - Chiro/Sports Massage.. my poor glutes
Just about finished water loading, have consumed ~30litres since Sunday evening and can safely say I am absolutely 100% not thirsty, nor do I enjoy urinating every 5 mins. I'll have enough water tomorrow early AM for a quadruple espresso and to dissolve about 5000mg Vit-C to wash down the cold/flu meds that I'm tripling up on, but thats it until the 10am weigh in on Friday morning. I'll probably do some LIT in the hotel gym tomorrow evening, hopefully the sauna/hot baths etc. isn't going to be necessary.
Fingers crossed I come in feeling strong on Saturday now, and best of luck to everyone else competing on the day.
GAME ON
Not a hope will you need hot baths/sauna. And even if you did I'd seek to avoid it in favour of LIT with bags on.0 -
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IPO Nationals - 31/3/2012 - Patrickwell Powerlifting Club, Limerick
Having reached a fatty fatty fat PR at 108.8kg two weeks out, and walking around at ~105-6kg since I started to water load the Sunday evening before the Friday weigh in. 4 litres on Sunday, 8 litres Monday (dropped all carbs here), 8 litres Tuesday (dropped sodium here) and 10litres Wednesday... bleugh. At 10pm that night I had my last meal of peanut butter and eggs and my last fluid intake until Friday morning. Thursday night sucked, couldn't sleep with the cotton mouth but knew I was set to come in comfortably under 100kg. At this point I had no saliva, and my head changed shape to a permanent state of blue steel. Hit the venue as early as possible Friday morning to weigh in, 98.25kg. Job done, then proceeded to do a take-away tour of Limerick city with VIS VIRES, bloating myself back up to over 106kg that evening before bed. Job done...
Sat 31 - The comp
I was lifting in the 2nd flight so had plenty of time to warm up. Squat warm ups went
75kg (2x5)
105kg x5
*light sleeves*
145kg x3
165kg x1
185kg x1
205kg x1
*heavy sleeves*
225kg x1
Squat 1st attempt
240kg - Good lift
Squat 2nd Lift
255kg - Good Lift (10kg comp PR)
Squat 3rd attempt
270kg - Good lift (25kg comp PR) - Probably lucky to have gotten this, but who am I to argue with judges :pac:
Bench warm ups went...
60kg x5
80kg x5
100kg x5
120kg x3... all felt really heavy
Bench 1st Lift
140kg - Good lift - slow and hard FML
Bench 2nd Lift
145kg - No lift - No excuses, felt tired, hit an awful line and didnt lock it out.
Bench 3rd Lift - PASS
- Knowing that I wasn't going to get the 150+ that I wanted, and not wanting to risk any low back issues ahead of the deads since the opener would get the total I was chasing I just passed.
Deadlift warm ups went..
70kg x5
120kg x5
150kg x3
180kg x1
200kg x1
*realised I had started warming up too soon...*
210kg x1
230kg x1
Deadlift 1st Lift
240kg - Good Lift - total secured, delighted
Deadlift 2nd Lift
252.5kg - Good Lift (7.5kg comp PR)
Deadlift 3rd Lift
260kg - No lift - Got to my knees then nothing, no excuses, just had nothing left in the tank.
Over all I was delighted with the squats, very disappointed with the bench and happy enough with the deads. A nice 30kg comp PR, and a shiny token medal to take home. There were only 2 of us in the mens <100kg open class, out totalled him by a whopping 2.5kg lol. Since its the first year the IPO has run a raw division I think some of the lift were records by default.. to be broken no doubt, at the next comp. More paused work on the bench for the next comp, and a bit more confidence in the deads should see a legit push for 700@100 this year. More importantly though, my back feels great... could not be happier. Probably do the GPC push/pull comp in Spartan in two weeks then start training for the GPC Nationals in June.
Thanks to VIS in particular for all the help in the run up to, and on the day of the comp. It also helps to have a gf that's happy to double up as a chauffer/chef/masseuse and cheerleader Thanks also to Tony in FightingFit Camden St for sorting me out as always, Anita, Shane and everyone else involved on the day and of course to everyone at Raw Condition Gym. Here's a vid...
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I think I gave myself diabetes over the Easter weekend... why is chocolate so much tastier when its overpriced and round
Aaaaanyway.. Trained twice last week, essentially upper push/upper pull... all very high volume stuff, bleh... Then shot off to the extreme west to eat, sleep and chill the hell out. Have decided against doing the GPC Push/Pull comp this weekend too. Not too fussed about making weight just think I'll be better off resting up and getting my non functional hypertrophy on for a while then making a good push for the GPC nationals in June with a completely recovered everything. I'm undecided as to whether ill do a short or long(ish) prep cycle.
Did some chest today, when its go time its bro time, all me...0 -
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