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@juliewatkin - awesome fights! I can't wait to see all the results from all the meets this weekend.

What's a deadlift again?

Awesome work Kyle!

Bahahahaha! I do a weird hybrid strength/power snatch right now. Even the coaches just shake their heads at me

Playing around with snatch.

Playing around has gone well this week so far. Yesterday hit a beltless 137.5kg dead, and today a fairly easy 80kg front squat (actually hit 85, but didn't record it). https://instagram.com/p/BMhZgd9hEpX/ https://instagram.com/p/BMkPUwEB9dg/

I have chronic nerve impingement from c2-t7/8. If I don't train on a very regular basis, the nerves start really acting up and cause the muscles to go into extreme spasms. So I do the very best thing that I've found. Forcing the muscles to work properly keeps the nerves firing correctly which in turn keeps the muscles…

Because training is my outlet for all the other stress in my life. Plus there is something fundamentally cool about being able to do things that a pretty low percentage of people can do.

Nope. The real question is arch or no arch.

You said it far nicer than I was about to. I'd say about 75% of brand new lifters I see come in with chucks and a singlet.

I just eat the candy. But, I only have it while I'm training. I don't even want it any other time.

Good thing I'm just a bencher or I'd have been doing it wrong all along. As far as weight, if you want to lose weight for health and/or aesthetic reasons, it's all good. I know quite a few masters athletes who are cutting down at least a weight class for health reasons. As someone told me, there is a reason you tend not to…

However long it takes. Somedays I'm in and out in about an hour, but three hour bench days are not unheard of. Total for the week can range from about 6 hours to 15+ when I'm peaking and the weights are heavy and the rests long.

Gym for me. Competition grade equipment plus my coaches. Don't even mind the cross town commute to get to it.

It wasn't really a surprise based on the overall size of the sandwich, but I had a peanut butter and jam sandwich at the Houston airport last week and laughed when I saw the label say 1000+ calories (it was something like 1080). Mind was blown at the sheer amount of peanut butter on the thing.

My home scale is with a couple hundred grams of the calibrated scale at the gym. So I'm happy

Two rest days from lifting a week, although I'm typically up and being fairly active on those days. Actual total lazy sloth rest day? Maybe once a month.

Bench. Always bench. Deadlifts next. Squats come a distant third.

Pretty proud of myself today. 10kg improvement in my platform performance. 92.5kg/203.5lb proven on an IPF international platform. With plenty more in the tank to come. It might have been an NAPF record for all of a minute, but I'll take it! https://instagram.com/p/BMIXGN3B2it/

Pretty proud of myself today. 10kg improvement in my platform performance. 92.5kg/203.5lb proven on an IPF international platform. With plenty more in the tank to come. It might have been an NAPF record for all of a minute, but I'll take it! https://instagram.com/p/BMIXGN3B2it/

Pancakes, eggs and bacon at least once a week. Protein pancakes. Peanut butter and banana wraps. Cereal. Occasionally donuts. Oatmeal. Red river cereal. Basically, whatever sounds good to me on any given day.

Popcorn is my go to when I'm focused on making weight for a meet and need more volume.

I only buy things I like and want to eat. Popular unpopular couldn't care. I eat what makes my taste buds happy.

Back in the days when I did have to push a double stroller, I only tracked the distance walked. Figured any extra from pushing that weight just helped cover any overages anywhere else.

I settled on my current goal weight because it's just a couple kg under the top end of my weight class. Close enough that in the weeks before a weigh in I will have to be on point nutrition wise to make sure I make weight, but low enough that I won't have to water load.

Finally the end of my heavy work. 90%, 85kg for paused doubles. Four days out. https://instagram.com/p/BL9NNQZB48Z/

@McCloud33 - you should see an improvement from using pin press. Even a long pause bench still leaves you a good amount of stretch reflex to help get the bar back up. Pin press completely removes that and forces you to use raw strength.

@SideSteel summed it up pretty perfectly. Far more than squats and deads, technique on bench has to be on point to progress in weight and the only way to build that technique is to spend a *kitten* ton of time with your back on a bench.

I'm mostly solo but it's fun when teammates are in training at the same time.

Those Swiss ball curls are a subtle killer for the hamstrings!