Had a Great Friday. This was our last week during our “Circa Max Phase”. The guy who trains me has his competition on Nov 17, 2007 and he was having his last day of Max Band Resistance.

I have to stress how much weight the bands add. When you are standing in the “lock out” position, the bands are equal to about 400lbs, probably even more, but i don’t ever want to over guess.  When you are sitting on the box, the band resistance is less, but it is still around 250lbs.

The object of the bands is for resistance, also to work on the eccentric/decentric part of the lifts.  Instead of it being like “dead weight” the bands are pulling the bar down causing you to have to stabalize it alot more. 

This amount of band resistance is for for experienced lifters, this took us a couple of weeks to work up to, also last week the bar flew off my back because the resistance was so much. So trust me, start slow with them.

Box Squats with 2 Monster Blue Bands + 1 Mini Black
Top of Squat: 400lbs + Bar Weight
On Box: 250lbs + Bar Weight
Warmup
Bar + all Bands
154×2 + Bands
198×2 + Bands
242×2 + Bands
264×2 + Bands - Only Breifs
330×1 + Bands - Suit Straps down
330×1 + Bands - Suit Straps down - (Camera was off)
330×1 + Bands - Suit Straps down

Deadlifts with heavy Band Resistance:
Top of Pull: 300lbs + Bar Weight
154×1 + Bands - Camera Off
220×1 + Bands
286×1 + Bands

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Whats up World?! Well guess what, i deadlifted 595lbs yesterday at the gym and i have the popped bloode vessels in my face to proove it. This was after going for a max single in the squat cage so i am VERY happy right now. I never have hit 595 before, especially not at 185lbs. My best was like 560-580 at 205.

Squat Day:
Warmed up until 3.5 plates each side. Then slapped on my briefs.
365×3
403×2
455×2
484×1
504×0 - Missed this one, actually dumped it, since i was in the rack.

It was the first time in a while walking out the heavy weight and my abs really are alot weaker then they used to be. My abs played the biggest part of walking it out. I was crunched over.  I dont know if its true or not, but i always felt box squating is alot harder then a regular squat. Tell me what YOU think…

Deadlift:
After missing a heavy squat i was very happy.  I went ahead and deadlifted.  I felt like i was on fire yesterday. 

I was wearing my metal squat suit to deadlift in.

I dont remember my work set too much because i was so excited about the weight going up i was not even counting.

But my last set was:
595lbs

I hitch up a little, but this is the gym and not a competition. The hitch is very subtle, but i felt myself do it. But reguardless, the weight felt amazing in my hands. Here is the video to proove it from someone watching on their camera phone.

Thanks for Stopping by!

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This Amazing son of a bitch pulled over 1000 pounds and is rumored that he had plenty in him. If you see how fast the bar actually goes up, i bet he does!

This is one of my favorite videos. Every Deadlift day i want to start watching this one video. I got plenty more in my favories, not that the “design” of this blog is almost final, i can get you guys some content!

I had a preety decent lifting day for my first week back and first time back using any gear. The gear is a little looser then i would like, but hey after 2 months off They fit fine.

Since this was a speed day i didnt have to go so heavy, just enough weight so i could do a fast 2 reps.

We used the chains today.

Squat Suit had the Straps Down

5 chains each side. Chains = 20lbs each. So an Additional 200lbs on the top of the Squat

I did 8 sets for speed work, all doubles.

240lbs + 200chains X 2

22lbs + 200chains X 2

220lbs + 200chains X 2

220lbs + 200chains X 2

220lbs + 200chains X 2

220lbs + 200chains X 2

220lbs + 200chains X 2

220lbs + 200chains X 2

After that was completed we deadlifted full range with Blue bands. The idea behind the bands is to explode out of the bottom to “outrace” the bands. On the top of the lift it had to be atleast 150-200lbs

8 Sets - Still focusing on Speed rather then poundages right now.

264lbs + 150-200bands X 2

308 + 150-200bands X 2

374 + 150-200bands X 1 - This got heavy for me, only got 1 rep

308 + 150-200bands X 1

308 + 150-200bands X 1

308 + 150-200bands X 1

308 + 150-200bands X 1

308 + 150-200bands X 1

Speed day Very Good, Videos to Follow in a bit once uploaded!

SQUAT VIDEOS EVERYONE.

From Competition Day. Full Power. Team K.T.S. This was a non sanctioned meet for fun. This is why i have 4th attempts. I weighed in at 196lbs. This was after NO cutting was done. I could have made the 181 category with a weeks worth of dieting/cutting.

Deadlift:
520 - good
563 - good
581 - miss

Bench Run
350 hit
396 hit
430 miss
430 miss

Squat:
560 - good
606 - good
650 - good

Here i am. Partialing 837lbs x 1. Great Day. Did heavy goodmornings before, so to save lower back we decided to do partials from the knee

Here I am Deadlifting With the Bands. These clips were very long ago or else i would have described them alittle better.
Deadlifting 5 plates each side. Bands help with lower part of lift. Lower back was sore so decided to train differently. Liked the weight! Came back and hit 6 plates later in the day. (more)