The (Sidetracked) Road to 3/4/5
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5Ab wheels work dude. They're the only infomercial product I can ever see myself recommending. To be honest you can just keep one at home and do a few sets every 2-3 days. They're pretty cheap
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5I felt like unleashing my inner retard in weights terms so I did:
Full Snatch into snatch grip behind the neck press
20x3,3,3,3 25x3 30x3 35x3 40x3 45x3 (grip went awry, gave up)
Power Curl into curl grip press
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5Snatches
worked up to 50x3
Back Squat
worked up to 115x4,2 90x8
Strained an oblique so no more assistance work
Bench
worked up to 80x5,4,3
Incline Bench
24x8 30x6
Dips
bwx8 bw+25x3
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5Behind the neck works a lot better for pressing with a snatch grip. I have no clue why as my understanding of anatomy is terrible. Don't try and go too low, keep the weights very light and see how you feel about it. It's nowhere near as bad as it sounds.
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Six hours a week is amazing lol. I have more contact hours on a tuesday than you have in the whole week! If I start coming Bloomsbury regularly Ill probably be there around 5.30ish. Is that a bad time? Plus I'm gonna need to sort out some decent pre-workout meals. I felt superweak at the UCL gym that day, this might sound slightly stupid but I probably need to get used to the surroundings lol. And the oily plates and bar didn't help loll.
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5The oilyness is something that truly boggles the mind. It's got a lot better though, trust me. 5.30 wasn't a good time last year but there's about twice as much kit going around now so I reckon it'll be better. All you need is the squat or power rack anyways right? Pre-workout nutrition is necessary.
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5Hit 57.5 on the snatch
Squats
120x3,1,1 95x8
Felt nice and tight, will be higher when I start eating/looking after myself better
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5Continuing my theme of not eating enough and being pushed for time 145x4 on the dead and 52.5x2 on the snatch. Full snatch is getting there but no point getting sloppy form on it. Deadlifts are a bit more of a primitive creature. Will get there eventually.
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5Wanted to try out straps. Pretty fail. Very tired/not eating well (feel a bit sick/nauseous most of the time.)
Snatch work up to 50x3
Deadlift work up to 145x5
Some back extensions with 10kg
Chins up to BW+20x5
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5Feel utterly horrendous etc so going back to bodybuilding as I feel a bit burnt out in trying to push the weight up too quickly.
Deadlifts
work up to 135x2 (double overhand)
Curls
Hammer Strength Mil Pres machine.
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Re: The Road to 3/4/5My trap is pretty messed up. Which helps explain my deadlifting yesterday. I won't be deadlifting for at least a month to try and help recovery. I will be squatting 2x a week instead.
