Thread: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Originally Posted by ihateschoolmt

I think if you did more than one rep, then it becomes plural. How did you injure your back from deadlifts? Bad form?

You wouldn't believe how I did it. I was working with two kids from the local high school football team, teaching them some moves for explosive power. I was showing them how to deadlift, talking to them while I was demonstrating the lift. I had 225 on it, and being overeager, as I lifted the weight, I ACTUALLY TURNED AROUND WITH THE WEIGHT!!!!! What was i thinking???? It was a kneejerk reaction, to talk to them about how to finish the lift. I felt a sharp pain in my lower back, and I couldn't stand up for ten minutes to leave the gym. It was humiliating, they kids had to unrack the weight for me. I spent the next week hobbling around the house.. 225! lol! We are humbled in so many ways.

LOL!!! Its the teacher in ya, Legion! Tryin to demonstrate, lol...

Originally Posted by * Legion *

You wouldn't believe how I did it. I was working with two kids from the local high school football team, teaching them some moves for explosive power. I was showing them how to deadlift, talking to them while I was demonstrating the lift. I had 225 on it, and being overeager, as I lifted the weight, I ACTUALLY TURNED AROUND WITH THE WEIGHT!!!!! What was i thinking???? It was a kneejerk reaction, to talk to them about how to finish the lift. I felt a sharp pain in my lower back, and I couldn't stand up for ten minutes to leave the gym. It was humiliating, they kids had to unrack the weight for me. I spent the next week hobbling around the house.. 225! lol! We are humbled in so many ways.

Lol, I did the same thing on calve raises. I was trying to show this kid how to train legs, and we got to standing calve raises (my gym doesn't have the machine, so I used a step and the smith machine) and I hurt my back while I was telling him about training safe lol. I had the step to far back and it put to much pressure on my back.

LOL I did something equally as stupid. I was showing my friend DB Flat presses, chose a safe weight (50's). and I showed him how i contract... etc. and I was locked out and for some dumb reason my left arm decided to give out and the dumbell landed on my chest, right by my heart... i thought I was gunna have a murmur. I'm such a clutz

Originally Posted by ihateschoolmt

Lol, I did the same thing on calve raises. I was trying to show this kid how to train legs, and we got to standing calve raises (my gym doesn't have the machine, so I used a step and the smith machine) and I hurt my back while I was telling him about training safe lol. I had the step to far back and it put to much pressure on my back.

At one gym, all they had were those damn step aeropic steps, and I loaded up a smith, got under it, and the damn step flipped up, and the weight and I crashed to the floor face first. I was sooooooooo emberassed.

Originally Posted by * Legion *

At one gym, all they had were those damn step aeropic steps, and I loaded up a smith, got under it, and the damn step flipped up, and the weight and I crashed to the floor face first. I was sooooooooo emberassed.

Man, that's pretty bad. I don't know if that tops fainting on a treadmill though.

Originally Posted by ihateschoolmt

Man, that's pretty bad. I don't know if that tops fainting on a treadmill though.

If you are referring to my wife.......

Originally Posted by * Legion *

At one gym, all they had were those damn step aeropic steps, and I loaded up a smith, got under it, and the damn step flipped up, and the weight and I crashed to the floor face first. I was sooooooooo emberassed.

I don't get this...

How were you standing??? -

Originally Posted by The Monkey Man

I don't get this...

How were you standing??? -

Upright. Vertical. On my feet. heels hanging off the end of the step.

Heya bro!!! Hows things? Just cstching up on your jounal...sorry was swamped all weekend.

Glad your back in the swing of things....I couldn't help but agree 100% with yan before he is totaly right!

As for dumb things in the gym....I was finishing a drop set of pullovers when I stepped on a crack walking back to the rack. Me being light headed as it was from the drop set and the extra 55lbs in my hand both went tumbling into the smith machine where a few girls were doing inclines....talk about lookin like a jackass. But I did get them to come over and nurse me back...I played it off like I fainted from working to hard LOL.

Any hoot classes start again for me this week so I'll try to make some extra time to get in here as much as possible! You keep strong and put forth some energy into keeping focused! Its times like these that seperate us from the wannabe's....we keep pushin through thick and thin...bad diet and slump...nothing gets us to stop doing what we love to do my friend!

Hey there Legion! Just checking in on you. Last w/o looks great!

Hows it goin my Friend? I can't count the stupid things I've done at the gym!!!

Originally Posted by * Legion *

Upright. Vertical. On my feet. heels hanging off the end of the step.

Calf accident, eh? -

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Tonight was a light chest workout, my will was there, but my body was not responding. It was a long day, student's first day of class. One of my students never made it back to school, was killed last week by a rival gang member. Cast a pall on the day.

RACK BENCH: 1's and 2's off low rack, explode up, 10 second negative, 275 lbs
REVERSE GRIP BENCH: 3 sets 185x 8, felt heavy, went slow with extra squeeze at top
HEAVY PRESSDOWNS: (double pully pressdowns) 200 lb stack x3x7-8 reps
KICKBACKS: 2 sets 50 lbs. arms felt dead.

Sorry to hear about your bad day my Friend!!! Hope it gets better for you!!!
Solid w/o there too my Friend, Great #'s!!!
How do you like the reverse grip benches? They are more for your tri's right?

Originally Posted by Archangel

Sorry to hear about your bad day my Friend!!! Hope it gets better for you!!!
Solid w/o there too my Friend, Great #'s!!!
How do you like the reverse grip benches? They are more for your tri's right?

Well, I have heard a great variety of plusses and negatives about them, what they work, how they feel, mechanical advantage and disadvantage.. i only really pay attention to how my body reacts to them. I don't always do them, and I am not in the position to attempt a max bench right now. I DETEST the bench, but I have made it my mission to hit a particular number in the bench before i back off it for good. There are a million posts on this forum about young gym buffs trying to impress the shit out of one another with their bench numbers, and I really don't care about mine stacks up to the next guy. There are millions out there who bench a great deal more than I. I am tall, with long arms, and benches mess with my shoulders. MY cleans are great, I push press a great deal, squats and deads are fine. I care little anymore about that flipping bench press. I switched to reverse grip to record the differences they make in my bench workout, whether or not they help or hinder. Besides, after five explosive sets of 1's and 2's off the rack, i was gassed for heavy power-syle benches off the uprights, so i dropped to 185 reverse to grind out some quick ups, slow negatives. My lats are almost as sore as my pecs.. intersting.
The gym is, now more than ever, a theraputic sort of containment venue, for which to channel and release my rage. I burn inside, more often than not, and there is a point in there, where I am loose and fluid, where I am white knuckles and gritty teeth, and I get lost for a while, just me, the music, and the muscle.

when does school start?

Originally Posted by P-funk

when does school start?

Started last week. This will be a good year. Got off to a rough start, but I'm getting back to rythm with the workouts. It's so hard to balance wife with kid with day and night job with the workouts, but I get creative. thanks for checking in.

Originally Posted by * Legion *

I burn inside, more often than not, and there is a point in there, where I am loose and fluid, where I am white knuckles and gritty teeth, and I get lost for a while, just me, the music, and the muscle.

I hear ya on that...I dazed out today while doing cardio....damn I wish I could daze out like that while lifting I could use that extra boost!

Hey man a crappy w/o is better then non.....so everyone has been tellign me the past few months. Take the good with the bad and run with em big guy! It always gets easier as the day goes on....hardest part is getting out of bed.





ps: I'd kill to put up numbers like you!!!

I hear ya my Friend!!! Numbers are just that, Numbers!!! I may not put up a bunch of weight, but I know my FORM is solid,and to me thats more important!!! I hear ya about the Gym too, always feels like therapy you know!!!

Originally Posted by * Legion *

I DETEST the bench, but I have made it my mission to hit a particular number in the bench before i back off it for good.

What number are you going for?

Originally Posted by * Legion *

I DETEST the bench, but I have made it my mission to hit a particular number in the bench before i back off it for good.

What number are you going for?

Not posted much lately. This week is another week of lacking in the gym. I am not worried, I am determined. I'll be back guys.

Originally Posted by * Legion *

Not posted much lately. This week is another week of lacking in the gym. I am not worried, I am determined. I'll be back guys.

Sounds good Legion, hope all is well. Take it easy.

why not just switch to a 2-3 day routine if you are short on time?

Originally Posted by P-funk

why not just switch to a 2-3 day routine if you are short on time?

Because I neither see nor feel results from this. This is what I did last year, and all it was was maintainance for me. Not fun, physically or psychologically.

Originally Posted by * Legion *

Because I neither see nor feel results from this. This is what I did last year, and all it was was maintainance for me. Not fun, physically or psychologically.

What was your routine. I bet P, or myself could help you make a 3 day split that would yeild results.

Originally Posted by ihateschoolmt

What was your routine. I bet P, or myself could help you make a 3 day split that would yeild results.

the basic routine that i have been sticking to is posted at the beginning of my journal. I have reworked it this week, and have planned out a schedule that should get me in and hit all that needs to be hit on a regular basis. I will do a hybrid pl/bb program until new years, trying to put on lean mass and drop the fat from my waist. Then, I will structure a strict pl routine, dropping most of the assistance movements, save for maybe one per bodypart, but I have not gotten to that bridge yet. I have been voraciously reading the "weightlifting encyclopedia" that P funk and i talked about, and am more and more considering just dropping the joint-popping powerlifting bodybuilding crap altogether in a year and becoming an oly weightlifting purist. i have been toying with that for almost two years now, but oly weightlifting and strongman don't go hand in hand for me. right now, i want the size and the raw strength that pl gives me. fine. its more about stoking the aggression, the release. My job overwhelms me, i bring it home, and that is not good. my family does not need to see that. the gym is my meditation, sometimes a punishment, sometimes a reward. but its an obsession. the first time i hit a 600 dl, i changed forever. i want that back, i want to spin off all the excess crap that holds me back, whether it be useless information that i hear from less than educated individuals, or the desire to sleep in, or the calling of a tall cold beer or sheer laziness... i was dedicated once, i am dedicated now. thats what its all about, my friends. i fear that so many of you think i am negative, self-depreciating... i do this alone, and that gets hard, because i am so solitary and secretive in the gym. i do not pose, i do not wear revealing clothing, i do not stand around and watch myself workout in the mirror. i do not go there to watch thong-wearing pole dancers or stare down the ignorant meatheads. i become a vicious, fierce warrior and internalize the music and the rage and the weights. i fight it and myself, and love the war i wage. this is my competition. this is my test and my salvation. to race through a day, to teach by day and sling long island iced teas at night is exhausting, but soon enough i will find a school that pays a master's level teacher what I should be making, and not have to work the night job, and ill get to see my kid and ill get to hit the weights and make my paintings again. but for now, for this next year, i hope my shoulders stay strong so i can carry all this shit around.
I am the nicest guy you will ever meet. ill do anything for someone in need. but i burn and i do these things in the gym because i am fueled to do so.... compelled. ingrained, mechanical and yet, visceral. I want freakish strength, i want mass and an imposing presence, because my job requires this. its part of my nature, the "gentle giant." i dont care about definition, vascularity, tan skin, bf % or how i look in calvin kleins. i only care about being "big bill." about quelling the fires for one more day.