Really hard to increase strength consistently while keeping the same bw. try to gain 8-10 pounds imo. How fucked are your knees?

i like having lil body weight. i wrestle and its fun being strong for my weight class. and fuck enough to be starting physio soon. just feels really uncomfortable every time i go to at least parallel. i tihnk I'm lacking cartilage in the knee. people hae suggested knee wraps but i never tried them

So do I... I mean my vert jump has became insane lately. -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3WWPVKb9Uo

You'll become much stronger with 10 pounds on you. 5'11 160 is light... I mean 5'11 fighters are 170-185 and sometimes 205.

I've had my share of knee injuries with gymnastic and when I was in college I refused to train when my brother asked me to go with him and start powerlift. I couldn't squat. Not even to parallel...I was 16-18 during college and I couldn't squat my bw without pain.

I currently squat pain free because I learned how to. Man just look at this video lol this is me after 4 months and half of weightlifting handling 2x275 like a boss...NOT hahahaha look at the knee path -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v04xzJ1HpU

and now with 365 lbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6GhI%5FI-yQ

This post was edited by Aube on Apr 29 2013 09:10pm

haha how do you suppose i put on the weight nicely without losing definition. beautiful vertical by the way. i wanna be able to do a backflip too. so how did you overcome all these knee injuries and be able to squat beast weights?

I went back to my log to check what I did and It looked like this:


Those were my absolute max
as you can see squat did not progress that much in the beginning because of bad technique.

FOR YOUR KNEE PAIN:
-Start by eliminating the cause of the pain
-Start taking 3 g of Omega-3 (many pills of fishoil). These help a LOT with pain. I wouldn't be squatting pain free without these atm.
-Relearn how to squat with an empty bar.

in august of 2011 I started stronglift 5x5 to learn how to squat with an empty bar (my max was 13x198 in august 2011 and 15x 265 on deadlift).... ma my legs were pretty scrawny back then hahahaha. http://imageshack.us/a/img854/2861/604843644.jpg LOLOLOL

september 2011
squat: 5x5 235
bench: 2x198 haha
Deadlift: 1x405 (ugly form)

then I injured myself again while doing gymastic (nov 2011). stopped from nov 2011 to may 2012.

may 2012-august 2012 (squatted 8x280 and 1x 325) then injured myself

started to squat again febuary 2013 (here we are lol).... so yeah I haven't been squatting a lot


This post was edited by Aube on Apr 29 2013 09:41pm

Countdown: 39 days

bw: 167

Barbell Deadlift:
154.3 lb x 5 reps
198.4 lb x 5 reps
242.5 lb x 3 reps
286.6 lb x 2 reps
352.7 lb x 1 reps
396.8 lb x 4 reps video coming soon

Speed Deadlift:
330.7 lb x 3 reps
330.7 lb x 3 reps
330.7 lb x 3 reps

Barbell Power Shrug:
286.6 lb x 5 reps
286.6 lb x 5 reps
286.6 lb x 5 reps

Stiff-Legged Barbell Deadlift:
286.6 lb x 5 reps
286.6 lb x 5 reps
286.6 lb x 5 reps

Bent Over Barbell Row:
187.4 lb x 5 reps
187.4 lb x 5 reps
187.4 lb x 5 reps

Lat Pulldown:
205 lb x 5 reps
220 lb x 5 reps
220 lb x 5 reps

Stiff Leg Barbell Good Morning:
187.4 lb x 5 reps
187.4 lb x 5 reps
187.4 lb x 5 reps



This post was edited by Aube on Apr 30 2013 09:20pm

Injured my right foot.

bw: 167

Friday:
Barbell Bench Press:
...
6x6 195 lb Paused reps

Chin-Up:
15/15/12

Saturday
Barbell Bench Press:
...
7x5 205 lb Paused reps

One-Arm Dumbbell Row:
3x10 100lb dumbbells

Dumbbell Shrug:
2x15 100lb dumbbells

bw: 166.4

Barbell Bench Press:
...
8x4 220lb Paused reps

Chin-Up:
10/10/10/10/13

whats with the chin ups?
weight chins? or what, why sets of 10 for this competition etc

NO!