5 Tricep Exercises for Size and Lockout Strength
The basics build strong and big triceps, BUT it all depends on how you execute them. I’ve got some tricks up my super tight sleeves.
New to Gear? Start Here!
Coming from someone who didn’t listen to these tips the first time and learned the hard way…
Putting Me Back in Max Effort
Assuming you have the basics like a straight bar, rack, bench, box, boards, bands, and chains—you have plenty to rub out a successful and safe max effort session. Go team solo!
4 Ways to Mentally Master Your Meet Performance
I’ve learned how to frame my meets so they are a positive and successful experience— no longer do I drink and cry (afterward). From goal setting to learning from mistakes to gaining some perspective, I hope a few of these tips help you.
1300 at the WPO Semi-Finals
I’m glad that I got the total I wanted and hit a bench and deadlift PR. I JUST WANT TO MAKE MY GEAR DADDIES PROUD.
Mid-Week Accessorystravaganza
No benching! No squatting! But everything else that exists for those bodyparts!
Off-Season with a Reason
No idea what to do now that your meet is over? Here is an easy guide to help you make the most out of your “off-season.”
HOLY SHIT I CAN ACTUALLY SQUAT FAST?
Adjusting the program, and way more working sets than I've ever done in my life. Is this what squatting is like? Also what am I like 5/6 weeks out now???
OH THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN
And by that I mean our weekday workouts. Much volume. So supplement. Small rest time. Wow. Also peep this picture of me touching JM's titties.
Last Week of Bands thank lil baby Yoda
Do you ever feel like a different person after you squat against bands? I felt like my soul had left my body and I was just this meek shell of a human.
A Weekend of Weird (ME Variations)
And working on my new DL! And my new goal of not doing things the wrong way! Oh and a VID of some DL work with T-Dawg. So much excitement!
Fucking Bands. And Speed Bench.
7ish weeks out?? Also how I feel about all the changes we've been making .
Training With Intent
Back to real training and hot damn this shit is DIFFERENT. Training is quite a bit different when you do every movement with i n t e n t. And I don't have to do as much of it. Oh also I changed my deadlift a lil bit.
New Year New Meet
A couple weeks of easing back into training. Nice n easy. Just like that.
Also my New Year's resolution is to write 2020 as the date. Ha!
Looking Back
At my meet/training cycle. Not at my whole year. Because I don't care about being introspective based on calendar dates.
Penultimate Squats and a Shirtless Day
I guess this is my opener! And by shirtless I mean raw. Sorry.
Penultimate Pulls
pen15ultimate club. Plus a bonus picture of me running away from a rogue barbell (rogue as in runaway.)
FULL GEARSTRAVAGANZA aka squatting to depth with wraps and the most succ...
I’M GOING TO DO SO MUCH TOUCHING AT THIS MEET IT’S GOING TO BE LIKE THE TOUCH TANK AT AN AQUARIUM WHILE THERE ARE MULTIPLE SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS.
4 Weeks Out DL
Fuck you percentages, I'm my own woman! (Don't worry I explain it a little better in this log)
5 Weeks Out- New Suit, Reload Week, and DL BDSM
BDSM: Bands (so you) Don’t Suck (as) Much. And a video of it.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN BENCH ADVENTURE
Completely changing my bench to the ol' fat man heave-ho style. Oh and also a squat day.
Apparently We Need Very Explicit Instructions To Not Blow Our Loads
6 weeks out deadlift and light bench.... and a new spin on our program
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE TIME DAVE LEFT ME TO ROT IN LONDON OHIO
It has been a little over a year since I became a Baptist for a night when Dave left me to wither away on a cold church pew and eat shitty lifesaver mints and I've been waiting a year to repost this
Board Press PR with VidZZZZ
Plus some more about my SHIRT SAGA and Dave's misguided attempt at "mind games"?????
Two More Q&As- Quips & Asinine Answers
Plus a collage of my puns so you can't go wrong there. Or you can go very wrong. One of the two.
Push N Pull- Also Heavy Barbell Humping
And surprise my regular grip bench is sucky but my close grip is better that must mean I'M A REAL GEARED BENCHER NOW. Plus some VIDZZZ
Doctors hate her for using this one tiny trick to get her bench to touch!
Squat and bench and last week of 5s thank little baby jesus. Also did I use a random picture of my training partner's crotch for this? Why yes I did.
Back in the Suitdle Again Featuring Deadlift ~ViDz~
Did that read like "Back in the Saddle Again"? Well it should have. If not, try again. Anyway working on pulling in the suit more. Also including a comical video of me being chased by a runaway bar (where is my Benny Hill theme song?). Oh and some benching.
3 Easy Ways to Be a Better Training Partner (Even as a Newbie!)
You don’t have to be an expert lifter to make your training partners better. You just have to always be actively watching and engaged in training. Here is how you can be an asset to your group — even as a newer lifter.
Suit Squats in a Roomy Fleshbag, Shirted Benches, and Many Gym Visitors
Wow so this is what it’s like to not get stuck in your gear... Also a meh joke in the beginning. AND THE TIME DAVE TOLD ME I WAS RIGHT HOLY SHIT NOW IT'S BEEN COMMITTED TO THE INTERNET FOREVER.
Fat Tuesday Pulling and ACCESSORY PR THURSDAY (just kidding I don't...
By fat Tuesday I mean too fat to fit into a suit... On a Tuesday.
A Debacle Squat Day and Debacle-less Shirt Day
And a full compendium of my non training but gym related boo-boos that I sustained on Saturday. WHAT A DAY.
11 Weeks Out: Actual Deadlift Day and Light Bench Day
I need some snazzier terms since it's no longer ME and DE so now I just have to describe them long form? Plus a picture that has nothing to do with anything I did it was for another article but my traps look juicy.
First Weekend of New Program (All Gear All The Time) (Well like 50-75% o...
Learning how to drop the bar on myself in a shirt.
12 Weeks Out and TOTALLY CHANGING OUR PROGRAM
WOW SO MUCH GOING ON. The conju-gate scandal has come to an end and we will just be friends this training cycle but not lovers.
THE SUM OF ALL FEARS
The fear = being weak. This weekend was a testing weekend and we all done fucked up and now it's time to reevaluate our lives. Well, just our training. But same thing. Also I used a trash picture for this log.
Last Week of NOT DE Lower. And DE Upper
Also my CBDebacle (CBD=Causing Bizarro Dreams) (They are weird) (Reader Beware). Also did you know according to my dreams Benjamin Franklin invented stairs and before that people would just jump/fall down several stories of buildings through holes? Oh also that is a normal dream, not one of the weird dreams.
NOT DE Lower and Actual DE Upper
AKA the "rolls off the tongue name" Sub Max Using Dynamic Effort Set And Rep Scheme
ME Upper and Lower- A Weekend to Recamber (that was not a good joke but ...
COME ON NEWLY ACQUIRED FAT DO YOU JOB MAKE ME STRONGER
4 Habits of an Intermediate Lifter
How many of these things do you think about when you’re training? What could you be doing to make yourself and your training partners better?
Dave's First Fisting Experience
Also I conned him into letting me get a new bench shirt. Also my training for speed bench...