12/6/22
Press
9×195 (wore mouth guard)
4×195 (perfect form, no mouth guard)
The first set is loose form going for PRs, the second set, is following a Paul Carter suggestion – the 50% set, bout a minute rest, looking for bout half the reps, but my spin on it is go from loose to strict form.
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I’m in love with the press.
Yesterday I could’ve lifted and didn’t, even thinking that I may take a week off from lifting, at points this year I was lifting once every week to ten days at best, and plenty of world class lifters will take a season off yearly…
I took Monday, yesterday, one day, and lifted real minimally today – the two sets aforementioned.
Did my lunges a couple hours later, and really dug how they alongside a bit more bw leg movements really pumped up my legs.
If I was to take a season off, well I’d probably have to travel – some beach somewhere, or maybe make it the simplest thing ever logistically (like live next door to) a boxing, bbj, muay thai, or mma place.
As is I lift.
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It amuses me to know that many make a power clean out to be a complicated thing needing a coach.
If you were to start with a 300lb weight set thrown in the yard, massive desire to be strong as fuck, big as fuck – you’d eventually figure the shit out.
Does it really matter if you’re using textbook form?
Shit, the international oly girls way out pull me, and I’m known in my day to day life as being bullishly strong.
Go the Mario Martinez route, fuck the form – be strong instead.
It’s amazing how much being strong enough overrides little things like technique, the right attire, perfectly level floors, heat/ac (I lift at The Cold Air Barbell Club), etc.
It’s an open secret that effort, not programming, is what makes awesome results.
You can put me in any circumstance, and I always get stronger.
At present it’s c&p, for whatever reason ducking just about any other lift I do have floor based access to, and just talking about joining the current sports performance/powerlifting (trendy), admittedly well equipped local facility.
The answer for me really is :
•open my own gym
•fill it with people worth being there
Persistence & Tenacity