2100 @ 242

[Pete Rubish]

:-) Monster Lift!

Thanks buddy! Had a few things come up, so I'll finish out the assistance work tomorrow. But here's what I did:

Deadlifts: 5x805, 3x805, 3x805, 2x805

The weight is getting up there to the point I'll probably have to only do two working sets with the heavy weight and then drop down and build back up next week. This is the first week I saw a noticeable drop-off on my backdown sets. So next week I'm aiming for 5x820, 2-3x820, 2x5x765, or something along those lines. 805 moved nicely on the first set, but I could tell a sixth rep wasn't going to be there. That being said, the fifth rep moved fast enough that I believe a grinder fifth rep is possible next week with 820. The other big thing to note is that I woke up this morning at 243 pounds bodyweight (aka I am very light right now). I'm in a great spot weight wise though and am going to treat myself tonight to a nice cheat meal of Doritos Loaded frozen bites, mac and cheese, and cream cheese brownies.

[Buckfever]

Thanks buddy! Had a few things come up, so I'll finish out the assistance work tomorrow. But here's what I did:

Deadlifts: 5x805, 3x805, 3x805, 2x805

The weight is getting up there to the point I'll probably have to only do two working sets with the heavy weight and then drop down and build back up next week. This is the first week I saw a noticeable drop-off on my backdown sets. So next week I'm aiming for 5x820, 2-3x820, 2x5x765, or something along those lines. 805 moved nicely on the first set, but I could tell a sixth rep wasn't going to be there. That being said, the fifth rep moved fast enough that I believe a grinder fifth rep is possible next week with 820. The other big thing to note is that I woke up this morning at 243 pounds bodyweight (aka I am very light right now). I'm in a great spot weight wise though and am going to treat myself tonight to a nice cheat meal of Doritos Loaded frozen bites, mac and cheese, and cream cheese brownies.

No question pulling that at that weight adds to the significance.

[Pete Rubish]

Eddie Hall just pulled 1102...I have no words...can you say goals

Finished up my training for the week today.

45 Degree Barbell Back Raises: 12, 10 x 375
Barbell Bulgarian Split Squats: 12x265 + 10x175 each side
Shrugs w/double overhand up to 4 plates + 35/side on smith machine
Hammer Deadlift Machine Static Holds up to 8 plates/side

[Pete Rubish]

Nothing real notable. One rep PR on db bench from last week, but that's about it. On to the 160s on Thursday.

30 minute rotator cuff warmup
DB Bench: 14, 13 x 150s
DB Hammer Curls: 4x15x60s
Straight-Bar Tricep Pushdowns: 2x25, 21x200
Face Pulls alternating under/overhand: 3x15x140/3x15x160
Double Overhand Shrugs: 10x315, 2x10x325, 2x10x335

[Buckfever]

Nothing real notable. One rep PR on db bench from last week, but that's about it. On to the 160s on Thursday.

30 minute rotator cuff warmup
DB Bench: 14, 13 x 150s
DB Hammer Curls: 4x15x60s
Straight-Bar Tricep Pushdowns: 2x25, 21x200
Face Pulls alternating under/overhand: 3x15x140/3x15x160
Double Overhand Shrugs: 10x315, 2x10x325, 2x10x335

Almost 15, looking good.

[Pete Rubish]

Almost 15, looking good.

Thanks bud! Felt great, but I'm always thinking about the Saturday deadlift day on these bench days lol. One more bench day this week with the 160s and then it will be the fun one.

Lake County, Illinois isn't too far from where I grew up east of Madison, WI. My best friend is from Kildeer lol.

[Pete Rubish]

Chomping at the bit to deadlift 820 for reps on Saturday. But first I get to throw around the 160 lb dumbbells tomorrow afternoon. My best with those is 8, but I think 10 should be there. 12 would be awesome, but who knows. Body feels very good right now. The right rotator cuff still aches a bit when I bench, but other than that I feel 100%. Best I've physically felt in probably 3 years.

[J Wong]

It's pretty amazing at the bench progress you are making for basically no barbell bench work and only using DBs for the bulk of your training.

[Pete Rubish]

It's pretty amazing at the bench progress you are making for basically no barbell bench work and only using DBs for the bulk of your training.

My right rotator cuff is still too jacked up to do volume work on barbell bench. So I will start doing singles for the last three bench sessions before the meet, but that's it. I even still feel it on dumbbell, but it's at least doable with those. I still don't really know what I did to it back in January when this happened.

[FullBore]

Hey Pete, I'm a long time fan that gets a great deal of inspiration and motivation from your amazing lifting. I hope you crush some Big PR's.
A couple things, where are the Squats, and is the goal to hit a prescribed number of quality reps at each percentage?
Thanks

[Pete Rubish]

Hey Pete, I'm a long time fan that gets a great deal of inspiration and motivation from your amazing lifting. I hope you crush some Big PR's.
A couple things, where are the Squats, and is the goal to hit a prescribed number of quality reps at each percentage?
Thanks

I appreciate hearing that buddy! I honestly don't do any squatting leading up to a meet because it's tough on my hips and forearms. So I pretty much go into the meet cold on squats and only train single-leg squats once a week. But the single-leg squats really hit my quads and glutes, so it somewhat makes up for it.

I don't do any percentage based training, rather it's a planned out progression when I'm planning my meet prep 10 weeks out. I pretty much have it all planned out ahead of time exactly what numbers I am going to hit each week.

[Pete Rubish]

Was planning to do 4x825 on deads, but the plates fell off at the top of my second rep and derailed that plan. So I improvised and hit my bench day instead.

DB Bench: 2x10x160s
DB Hammer Curls: 4x12x65s
Straight-Bar Tricep Pushdowns on lat pulldown: 3x15x110
Face Pulls alternating underhand/overhand grip: 3x15x150 & 3x15x170

I definitely need to temper my expectations a bit I think heading into this meet. Too often we get caught up in comparing ourselves to others when really we just need to focus on ourselves and getting better meet to meet. So realistically speaking, I think 2050 would be a much better goal and a heck of a lot more doable. Anything over that would be icing on the cake. But a 749 squat (27 lb meet PR), 446 bench (11 lb meet PR), and 854 deadlift (16 lb meet PR) would put me at 2050, which would be perfect.

[Buckfever]

That's too bad it was coming up fast. Was that a bad clamp? Bench was strong. When you going again?

[Pete Rubish]

That's too bad it was coming up fast. Was that a bad clamp? Bench was strong. When you going again?

When the plates are that close to the end and the clamps aren't A+ brand new, they don't hold sometimes. Everybody points out to throw more 100s on instead and it's not like I don't know this. But the further the weight distribution is the faster it moves, so I try to get by with as few 100s as possible for as long as possible because that's what I've been doing the last 9 months and I want to compare my numbers to the same standards as before. But going forward, I will likely have to use 3 100s per side and suck it up that it's going to be a lot tougher to break off the floor.

[C.Coronato]

I am not working with Matt anymore, but that did help me. It gave me a template to follow whenever I'd like even if I substitute different foods. I'm not tracking anything this prep, it's simply a matter of cutting back on portions and meal frequency that is keeping my weight down from that 255-260 range that it go up to last meet prep.

Awesome bro, looking forward to following

[Buckfever]

For 10? Nice jump!!!

[Pete Rubish]

For 10? Nice jump!!!

Thanks man! My best before was 7 reps with those so pretty happy with that. Had a very minor pec tweak with those on my second set. Hoping I'll be okay by Saturday to go again.

DB Bench: 10x170s, 6x170s (cut short due to pec tweak)
DB Hammer Curls: 2x12x70s, 2x10x70s
Tricep Pushdowns on lat pulldown: 3x12x140
Face Pulls: 4x15x180
Pec Fly Machine: up to 10x200
Double Overhand Static Holds: 365, 385, 405

[SMuncey]

Crazy strong brother, definitely inspiring to all of us.

[Pete Rubish]

Crazy strong brother, definitely inspiring to all of us.

Thank you! I'm doing my best!

Back on track today on deadlifts

Deadlifts: 4x830, 5x765, 5x750
Bulgarian Split Squats: 10x275 drop set to 10x185
45 Degree Barbell Back Raises: 2x10x385

[Buckfever]

Thank you! I'm doing my best!

Back on track today on deadlifts

Deadlifts: 4x830, 5x765, 5x750
Bulgarian Split Squats: 10x275 drop set to 10x185
45 Degree Barbell Back Raises: 2x10x385

That was awesome! You would not be denied that 4th rep!