First of all, seriously?
“How big are they going to go?” he said. “When will it stop?”
Hey, those guys have to make up for their…uh…”deficit”…somehow, right? Big trucks and big balls…gotta wonder about the 10″-ers.
Next. Global Advances Challenge U.S. Dominance in Science.
Many Americans remain ignorant about much of science, the board said. Many are unable to answer correctly when asked whether Earth moves around the Sun (it does).
I don’t know how many “Many” are…but if it’s more than 3 or 4, pitiful.
Workout
- Warm Up
- 10x Pull Ups @ BW
- 15x Overhead Squat @ 45#
- 6x Pull Ups @ BW+5#
- 6x Overhead Squat @ 95#
- 6x Pull Ups @ BW+5#
- 12x Overhead Squat @ 105#
- 6x Pull Ups @ BW+5#
- 18x Overhead Squat @ 115#
- Clean & Press
- 5x @ 95#
- 4x @ 105#
- 3x @ 115#
- 2x @ 135#
- 0x @ 150#
- 7×1 @ 135# @ 45 sec. intervals
I cleaned that 150# successfully, but couldn’t quite press it. Ended up cheating it up with a bit of knees to get the bar started. Good for the negative effort, but not a good press. Maybe next time.
- More Cleans
- 4×1 @ 160#
- 5×1 @ 150#
- 5×1 @ 140#
Ended with another round of pull ups and some dips.
- Pull Ups
- 2×8 @ BW
- Dips
- 2×8 @ BW+40#
2 Comments
It sounds like your “cheating” on a Clean and Press was essentially a push press.
You’re doing military presses and NOT push presses after cleans?
Burly.
Is your reasoning that you want to focus the effort into your shoulders and arms or is there some other (negative) motivation for avoiding push presses in general?
A push press indeed. When I’m trying to hit a new 1RM, only strict presses count. That’s just my own personal rule.
Helps keep me consistent in measurement.
Push presses are excellent for many reasons, and I use them often enough. Great for power production and great for helping to build to stronger military presses.
One of the things I’ll do if I’m push pressing is to push press up, then do about 6-8 ‘mini-presses’ through only the top 4-6 inches of the ROM. Then slowly lower. That’s 1 rep.
The lowering slowly builds starting and mid-ROM strength, the mini-presses at the top help w/ the lockout.
…but, I was trying to set a new 1RM so only the strict ones count.
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