WATCH: How Lily Starobin Started Training with Dave Tate
After an ugly incident with a Smith Machine, Lily Starobin decided maybe she needed an actual powerlifting coach. She didn't anticipate, however, to find a coach in Dave Tate.
THE EXPERIMENT (Good-bye speed work) (Also hello trying to pull sumo aga...
Also did you know that if you can pull sumo and conventional you are bi-sexupull
ME Upper: GEARSTRAVAGANZA and The Pact
First time in the upper meat container (shirt) since the meet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ME Lower- Shoving Myself into the Meat Sack For Real
AKA- My first time back in the suit for straight weight (I'm not counting that debacle against bands on Tuesday)
"DE" Lower and DE Upper- You get a band! And you get a band!!!
You will want to read this just to see the name I came up with for belt squat marches
Off-Season Recap: Were Glute Bridges and McFlurries a Success?
THE INCREDIBLE BULK- by Lily Starbloatin (thank you George and Tyrel for these V good puns)
TOP CHAIN
Nate dubbed this Game of Chains but I prefer to call it Top Chain and SPOILER ALERT: I AM ICEMAN. Everyone else is whoever came in dead last in Top Gun or dropped out because there was too much heat in the proverbial kitchen.
Bropertrophy Thoughts
My slight ramblings on programming considerations for part 2 of our 6 week hypertrophy block
DE Upper and Lower- Part 1 of 3 of Part 2 of Hypertrophy Block.
How was that for concise? Also working on my choice making.
Training Partners vs. People You Train With
Are you cueing your training partners correctly? Helping them find their weaknesses? How everyone, even beginner lifters, can be an asset to your group.
ME Top & Bottom. The Good: Friends! The Bad: Missing Lifts! The Ugly...
Like that Aerosmith song "Do Want to Miss Everything". Right? RIGHT??!!!
Fourth o' July DE Upper and Lower
Including 1 new good morning variation, 1 quote from The Room, and 1 pair of tickets to see Alice Cooper that I got at a parade. Thanks, America.
ME UPPER AND LOWER I AM SO MAD I AM YELLING IN CAPS
FUCK YOU BANDS FUCK YOU BANDS FUCK YOU BANDS ALSO FUCK YOU BANDS
DE Upper and Lower- Operation Jacked n Sweaty Commences
Surprise! Just when you thought we were done with the crazy shit we are into even more crazy shit!
DE Lower and Upper- Death by Doubles
BUT DID YOU DIE??!!?? And last week of our conditioningish wave.
ME Lower- Chains, Cues, and Calories
IT'S SLOPPY O'CLOCK FOR LILY. Also I'm proud of my lil' group (but don't tell them)
Close Stance Low Box Yoke Bar and other things we are bad at
THE LEG PRESS PUKER STRIKES AGAIN including pictures. not of the puking. of the post-puking.
Speed Bench Week 1 and My Sensitive Sad Back
Making better choices with my training AND my recovery woweee.
FIRST DAY BACK TO REAL SQUATTING
Our new lil crew and some lugubrious leg press. Is this the first time that word has been used on elitefts.com?
Picking Speed Squat Weights
And New Exciting Hamstring Explosion Extravaganza with video. And a Tina Belcher gif duh.
YES I AM TOUCHING A BARBELL AGAIN
Praises be to he, David L. Tate, decider of barbell touching. Giver of lifting life. Also good news my strength didn't drop as much as it normally does. Probably all those Bojangles' biscuits I consumed.
The Absolute Highlight of the SSTS Summit
Spoiler alert: helping Dave coach the powerlifting workshop
I FUCKING LOVE BOJANGLES'
My ode to those beautiful buttery biscuits. And my trip to South Carolina.
Too Much Experimenting
Switched a few things to spice up my bland non-barbell doldrums but got too spicy with my back work
Standard Saturday and Sassy Sunday
Sometimes it's more important to berate those you care about than to actually do your training
Land Whales and Lat Work
Featuring my dwindling work capacity and blundering my way through "off season time"
"Off Season" Time: Too Much Yoke, Not Enough Junk in My Trunk
My butt, my back, these things I am not good at. Also how did I not use this picture for my Passover post?
Oh, Hello. Here is what I've been doing since my meet and what I�...
Spoiler alert: booty blaster fit girl program.
Meet Report: Taking Third Place at APF Women’s Pro-Am
I told Dave to listen carefully because this is the only time I’ll ever say it, but this was a pretty good meet. I'll take a 50 lb meet PR.
ANNOUNCEMENT: I decided which deadlift grip to use. 2 weeks out.
And a wild ride that is my video commentary. Buckle up, it’s going to be a spicy one.
"Shit! Goddamn! Three Weeks from Pro-Am" -Funkadelic
A Video! Important Training Info! A GIFt from me to you! Something for everyone!
YIKES MORNINGS
One dumpster fire, some benching, a note on our warm ups, and AT LEAST I GOT A GOOD GIF OUT OF THIS TRAGEDY
Sdnab Weekend (Reverse band! Get it! Haha... ha.. heh.. :( )
Wow how did it take me this long to unveil this "joke"? ANYWAY squats and bench from some short number of weeks out from the meet.
Deadlift Dilemmas and Directives
Also some benching and only one gynecology reference. And a video! Not of gynecology though.
Suited Squats, 225 Floor Press, Additional Accessory Accoutrements
Some ruminations on what I need to do better, 1 flattering picture, and only 1 GIF this time to accompany my bizarro log ending
Belt Sqattin, Tuggin, Benchin, Gif..in (I can only convey my feelings in...
Also the first cut of my powerlifting AC/DC cover band
Ahnold Weekend
Getting back into the suit, ACTUALLY TOUCHING MY SHIRTED BENCHES HOLY SHI(r)T, and the two most important pictures from the weekend.
Shmedium Benching and My Squat PR From 2014
May want to know where the nearest emergency eyewash station is after you see this
THE GREAT PANIC OF 2019 (and the resolution thereof)
It has been a linear progression to my top training freak out of this cycle.
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