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Originally Posted by Derek Maffett
126? Definitely not a good thing at your height. What happened to your knee?
What are you up to with the OAC now? I seem to be a little stronger in that now with all the Olympic lifting, but I still can't pull from the bottom. So frustrating... even if I haven't trained pull-ups seriously since forever.
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Tendon/ligament pulling away from my tibial tuberosity last Oct. I have reinjured it multiple times so am taking it extremely slow this time. Like... insanely slow.
OAC my PR is 1x4 with both arms. I have pulled 1x5 without the eccentric portion though. And yeah, work the negatives and work weighted pullups. Assisted positives can work... but I felt they didn't help me as much as I wanted. Emphasize the portions you are weakest on by going the slowest in them or do a static in that range. My sticking was the bottom so I did super-slow work with the bottom; now my weakness is the top, lol.
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Originally Posted by Blair Lowe
You need to sleep way more. And I'm pretty sure eat way more too as I'd guess you don't eat much. You are a stick amongst other sticklike asian ppl. However, a very strong stick.
While I can run on a biphasic sleeping schedule, 3.5+2-3, it ain't fun not even with 5+ in the first phase. Little naps help but it still sucks for working out imo. It might be ok for a pure strength modality if I could get past the WU when I'm that sleepless.
I figure the cross hurts simply because you don't do it much anymore.
How clean is your press to HS?
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Yep.. more sleep would be good. Trying to transition my schedule more... I've gone to bed at like 1-2 AM past couple days so it's getting better.
I don't like splitting sleep it's no good. Trust me.. did a lot of that in college, hah.
As for cross, it's not that it hurts so much. When I get fatigued I can't keep my shoulder girdle depressed well and it pushes my shoulders up into my ears more or less. This pinches my supraspinatus either tendon/bursa or whatever is there into the acromion which makes it sore and painful to do more. The couple crosses I held on Tuesday were not enough to make it fatigued, but the one on Wed was after I did heavy work the day before.
As for press to handstand. When fresh I'd estimate I could do about 4-5 good pike presses. Straddle presses probably 7-8 or so. They're VERY strong now that I'm much stronger. Like silly easy.
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Anyway, I am probably gonna try to do some maltese work tonight and maybe some type of crank/front lever work. Shoulder is sore where the cross hit it on Wed, and OAC aggravated it a bit as well so I'm going to try to stay away from those two at least until next week or so.