Month: June 2018

“Bad” Form = More Strength

I sit here post workout happy with the session. Contemplating.

I have terrible olympic form, and on the powerlifts I don’t do anything right.

I starfish my medium height catches, I kinda power jerk landing in a semi wide, somewhat high horse stance.

Legs always out on a two hand variation…though sometimes I’ll hit an ugly one hand sorta split snatch.

I squat narrow and barefoot, always walked out, no monolift. I pull conventional sometimes even round backed. I bench close grip with a flat back and according to observers my elbows out.

I’ve never so much as put on a belt, wraps, or sleeves.

Every lift I do doesn’t have the form on point leaving a lot on the table in pure numbers, but know this…

If a big compound lift moves up for me, I AM most definitely STRONGER.

No technique was ever fixed. I barely even pay attention to my foot spacing.

Often my best olys and deadlifts involve me jumping around, running up to the bar, grab and GO! (Like mat mode amp up.)

If you care primarily about numbers I’d hardly suggest one emulate me, but if you want to lift soley by strength, passion, and balls TRY IT.

Everything is at or near PR territory right now. I’m getting scary strong.

Peace,

-J

Gym Dreams : Deadlifting 405x75ish Reps

Following in the tradition of dreams that I’ve had over the years involving awesome physical performance, yesterday I dreamt that I pulled 405 for about 75 reps.

As I was breaking into the 30s I thought “Who the fuck else can do this? Gym record at least.”

They were strict into the mid 40s, and after that it was soft lockout. The last ten or so were partials from floor to somewhere above the knees.

Even in a dream some fucker (dude about my age from the gym) took issue with the form involved.

“You didn’t lock those all out!”

“Mixed grip builds uneven development!”

“Where’s your belt! You’re asking for injury!”

Obviously like in real life I pulled it RAW, beltless, etc.

In a cloud of chalk dust I tried to explain how when pushing that hard “perfect” form is limiting, eventually giving up and with a metaphorical mic drop going “ok, your set, match that many reps with perfect form”.

A slew of excuses began to flow, when I noticed that I’d actually not loaded it to 405, bar weight was 365.

Damn it! I forgot to change plates after taking the bar over. Mentally I put in effort thinking 405 x infinity, I’d of had more reps had I realized the misload going in.

So it was 365x75ish.

and…I woke up needing to piss.

-J