July 22nd, 2016
Dear J.L. Holdsworth,
Thanks again for the help today. As I told you I wasn't going to go and try to squat something stupid. I gave you my word and stuck to it, instead I did a max effort pulling session. As you know I hate the deadlift and reaffirmed this tonight. I'm tapping this out as I catch my breath before hitting Glute ham raises, pull down abs and reverse hypers.
I pulled off blocks with the plates about 5 inches off the floor - mid shin for me. I've never pulled max against bands so I started with a stupid 45 pound bumper and one light band. Worked up to three light bands a side and did multiple sets of 3. Started working up and did max sets of 335x1, 355x1 and 365x1 all with the three light bands. How much at top? You already know my answer to that, it's 3 light bands at the top.
How much do they weigh? Hum, not sure, I think the scale says around 2 pounds when we ship them out.
Who cares it's band tension, and to me it was a fuck ton.
One fuck ton = 100 ass loads. Hope that helps.
How do I know this was max weight?
Well I burst my spleen on set 1, set two my right ball blew out and is now somewhere under the belt squat machine.
That set was really fucking hard. I mean really really hard.
Nothing hurt so I did another just to see if I could strain three singles over 90%. I did pull the next one, 365 and it took about one hour to lock out. May have been the longest pull of my life. This one sent my left ball flying across the gym, it bounced off the Glute Ham pad and is somewhere under the dumbbell rack.
Just wanted to let you know three max pulls over what had to be 90% and my back, neck, and body feels worked but not broken. I would have been happy to be able to just do one true maximal effort strain but three is crazy.
I'm now going to gather my balls and put them back in my sack and finish this session out.
Yours truly,
Zippy
ps - deadlifts suck and bands make them suck even more.
Pss- I'm also seeing sled work
In my future because if I keep this shit up I'll need to bring up my aerobic base to help recovery. Not happy about that either.
Psss - All the shit I really hated about training seems to be creeping back into my life.
Pssss - hey after I found and dusted my balls off. They were much bigger than I thought. I had to wash them up as well as my sack. Now I've lost all the wrinkles I used to have on my ball sack and think I'll have to spend some time tomorrow contrasting the hot tub with sun bathing to bring the wrinkles back.
Thanks again, you're the best!
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