El Freako: Staying North of Vag

[Skeptic]

How are the Zerchers feeling on your arms?

 

[El Freako]

Not hurting the arms too much but I am feeling it big-time in my upper back.

 

[Skeptic]

I bet. Are you able to go as deep as you would wih back squats?

 

[El Freako]

Its easier to go deeper with fronts and zerchers IMO. You keep your torso straighter because you're fighting against the weight pulling you forwards and it makes it more of an Oly squat.

 

[Bulkboy]

haha, good old suicidal freak is back nice sessions freako. how are the shoulders feeling now that uve laid off em abit?

oh and for the record...

FSQ> Everything else

 

[El Freako]

^My right shoulder is getting progressively worse at the moment, even with the lay-off. Have a physio appointment booked for next week so hopefully I'll get to the root of the problem soon.

 

[jonathan]

too bad to hear that

 

[El Freako]

Smolov Mesocycle: week 2, day 1
Zercher Squats
5 x 7 x 110kg
Trained at the uni gym near my parent's place so I added an extra 5kg than planned to make up for the lighter bar (its still an oly but my normal gym bar seems to weigh significantly more).

Supersetted pullups and cable pushdowns for 5 sets each then did 3 sets of hanging leg raises, 15mins cardio and some foam rolling.

 

[pingu]

Smolov for zerchers... Sounds like fun heh

 

[El Freako]

Smolov Base Mesocycle: week 2, day 3
Zercher Squats
7 x 5 x 115kg
Hard.

Supersetted deadlifts and pullups, worked up to a 200kg single with deads and cracked out 50 pullups. The deadlifts may have been a bad idea, I'll find out tomorrow.

 

[Pickle]

good session your the toughest man i know. xooxoxox

 

[Skeptic]

Why would you do really heavy deadlifts while doing Smolov? That seems like a super silly idea

 

[Natzo]

Why would you do really heavy deadlifts while doing Smolov? That seems like a super silly idea

musclebear

ditto.

 

[El Freako]

Why would you do really heavy deadlifts while doing Smolov? That seems like a super silly idea

It was only 200kg...

I was having DL withdrawals so I decided to work up to a sub-max single for shits and giggles.

 

[Skeptic]

Hahaha, I hope you overtrain

 

[jonathan]

nice man, I'm doing heavy zerchers too now. thumbs up

 

[_ROBERTiNHO_]

Smashed potato low back

Good luck with that!

 

[El Freako]

Off to do 10x3x120kg Zerchers then die. :crymeariver:

Tell my wife I love her.

 

[jonathan]

good luck chuck haha

 

[Skeptic]

Quit your belly aching.