SmileyEH's Log

[SmileyEH]

What do you mean by "TUT"?

The thing with pullups is that within the crossfit framework most people quickly get to the point of their max reps of either far beyond what one would do for strength/hypertrophy training. When I want to train upper body pulling strength I'll either do weighted pullups or L-pullups. Doing 3 sets of 12 deadhangs would be kind of pointless for me and my strength endurance is still nothing compared to the guys doing 50-60 kipping and 25+ deadhang.

Also I wouldnt compare them to cheat curls. I think a better analogy is split jerks vs. shoulder press. Both exercises' limit strength is shoudlers, but split jerks incorporate more muscle groups, a skill element and most of all are done explosively.

[1C5]

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Start a stopwatch, 1 pullup in 1st minute, 2 in 2nd minute, 3 in 3rd etc. until failure
made it to the 12th minute before part of my palm peeled off . Could have gone for a coulpe more rounds. Total pullups (kipping): ~70


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Please explain this better, I am confused.

[SmileyEH]

You just start a stop watch. You have until it hits 1:00 to do 1 pullup, then until 2:00 to do 2 more, then until 3:00 3 more etc. So in the 10th minute you have to do 10 pullups in that minute. I was able to finish the 12th minute's pullups so I did 12 + 11 + 10 etc = 78 total.

[1C5]

ahh ok, so you just do 1 pullup for the 1st minute then rest the other 58 seconds until you start the 2nd set?

[SmileyEH]

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ahh ok, so you just do 1 pullup for the 1st minute then rest the other 58 seconds until you start the 2nd set?

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yup, sounds easy but it gets hard fast.

[Reef]

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You just start a stop watch. You have until it hits 1:00 to do 1 pullup, then until 2:00 to do 2 more, then until 3:00 3 more etc. So in the 10th minute you have to do 10 pullups in that minute.

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this sounds like a pushup excercise I used to do. You have X seconds to do X pushups each minute for 10 minutes. Beginners use a low X obv. So say your number is 20. Starting at time 0:00, you have to do 20 pushups before :20 then you rest until 1:00. Then you have to do another 20 pushups between 1:00 - 1:20 and rest until 2:00. etc.

[SmileyEH]

rest day today. back is sore plus my hand is [censored]. Hopefully can figure out some way to tape it up for tomorrow.

Food:
breakfast: protein shake + bagel with butter from dd
meal 2: grilled chicken burrito
meal 3: chicken, broccolli and peppers with pasta
meal 4: protein shake and oatmeal

[SmileyEH]

Worked on Full squat snatch and C&J form. Hand is still [censored] so I tried to tape it up with a little success.

Food:
A whole ton of crap topped of with 4 beers before bed. Cheat day wooo!

[SmileyEH]

Maxing out on Snatch and C&J today.

Worked up to a new PR of 135 in snatch by way of lots of triples and doubles. Technique still sucks.

Matched PR of 205 in C&J but pressed out the jerk. Couldn't improve though and I was really dissapointed. My friend took a bunch of video of me yesterday and I still have a lot of work today on keeping the bar close to my body in the 2nd pull and getting under the bar quicker.

Food:
Breakfast: 5 eggs, 4 peices of bacon, toast, coffee
pre/post wo: banana, protein shake, bbq chicken burrito
snack: 2 peices of rye
snack 2: bowl of raisin bran & protein shake
dinner: chicken and pepper tomatoe sauce with pasta

[SmileyEH]

Warm up:
2 min. bike
power snatches + OHS
stretching

Back Squat:
8 x 135
10 x 180
10 x 195
8 x 210
8 x 225

Front Squat:
5 x 135
3 x 185
3 x 200
2 x 215
2 x 225
2 x 235 x 2

DBell Bench Press:
8 x 50
5 x 70
5 x 75 x 4

DBell Decline:
5 x 75
2 x 75

L-Pull Ups
8, 7, 7, 6

Worked in some broad/box jumps (jumping to 20inch box from 5ish feet away) with the bench press and pullups
plyos on stairs: jump 4 steps + 4 steps + 4 steps fast as possible. did a few sets

Finally started to take a notebook to the gym to keep track of stuff better.

Food:
Breakfast: raisin bran, protein shake
breakfast 2: 5 eggs, 4 strips of bacon
pwo: protein shake, 6" spicy italian sub from subway - all vegetables no sauce, fountain coke, small bag of chips
dinner: 2 chicken breasts, peppers, rice