Dirty cheating sumo guy is back at it

[Sumo]

BIO

• Age: 35
• Height: 5'5
• Weight:154
  
  GOALS
  • Short term(2019- mid-2020): Get back to pre-injury strength level and stay healthy.
  • Medium term(second half 2020-2021): Find a meet and compete, ideally a state level meet so I can post a total towards qualifying for GPC &or APU Nats, but this is in no way a priority.
  • Long Term(2021- 2025): Compete for Australia at IPF Worlds, ideally in the open but realistically it'll be Masters

CURRENT PROGRAM
- I got myself a coach as I'm coming back into doing all 3 lifts I wanted someone experienced so as to minimize chance of re-injury.
- I wanted someone that's comfortable in Eastern European approach, namely Russian.

[simonrest]

Following.

I'm also aiming for IPF masters in a few years time. Might see you there

[Sumo]

I hope so @simonrest, how far off masters are you?

[simonrest]

2 measly years

[BenM]

Also following. As a fellow manlet, who has just competed (sorta kinda) at 74kg for the first and probably only time cos I gotta get heavier.

[Sumo]

BENCH ASSISTANCE DAY

WARMUP	SET		REPS	WEIGHT	NOTES
Tricep Pushdown -close grip V-bar	4	x	25	33
Lat Pulldown -neutral grip bar	4	x	25	88
DB Flat Bench Press	4	x	25	11
WORK	SET		REPS	WEIGHT
Incline DB Neutral Grip Bench-warmup	2	x	30	11
Incline DB Neutral Grip Bench	2	x	25	44	20,18
EZ Bar Skull Crushers	2	x	10	77	up weight
Overhand Cable Tricep Ext	2	x	25	55	up weight
Underhand Cable Tricep Ext	2	x	25	50
Band Pull-Apart	3	x	30	black-medium
				SESSION VOLUME	22873

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NOTES -since I think most people here work in Murica units, I'll use pounds. For the rest of the world, divide by 2 and minus 10%
I did this session last night around 8:30pm, I usually train in the evening because of family and work. It suits me well though, I'm an owl.

• 9pm and it's hotter thana sheep shearer's armpit.
• This is the 4th week since introducing the new warm-up, have changed hand position/implements
  • Rope pushdown > V-bar, close grip
  • Lat pulldown bar > Bent Lat bar, neutral grip
  • Incline Bench, natural grip > Flat bench, natural grip
• Warm-up is still impacting work sets but it's starting to fall off now and I'm not feeling as tired going into the work sets.
• Completed the warm-up in 13.5mins
• Work sets completed in just under 45mins
• Really feeling the caloric restriction, just a deep seated lethargy, 2 more months and I can stop...

[Sumo]

Also following. As a fellow manlet, who has just competed (sorta kinda) at 74kg for the first and probably only time cos I gotta get heavier.

You mean you'll stop competing while you get heavier? I wouldn't, just compete without the stress of placing to get meet experience under your belt.

2 measly years

Oh, not long now. How are you tracking with your TOTAL, good enough to go straight in or do you still need a little work?

[KOTJ]

You could so kg. I just use the "x 2.2" method to get close enough.

Also, no sumo h8 here

[Sumo]

I'm sure I'll fall back into just using kilos after a while. I was hoping, and actually searched, for a chrome plugin that might recognize and automatically add a kg/lbs conversion in the post, but no such luck.

[Wilhelm]

I'm sure I'll fall back into just using kilos after a while. I was hoping, and actually searched, for a chrome plugin that might recognize and automatically add a kg/lbs conversion in the post, but no such luck.

We need @unruhschuh in here, stat!

[simonrest]

Oh, not long now. How are you tracking with your TOTAL, good enough to go straight in or do you still need a little work?

not 100% sure, but a mate of mine has a smaller total than me at a heavier BW and he qualified so I figured the bar is low. I'm not far from getting my total over 600 which should be enough

[chromoly]

Or just post in kilos. Lots of people here are fluent enough in both. Also, I object to that analogy for conventional.

[BenM]

I'm sure I'll fall back into just using kilos after a while. I was hoping, and actually searched, for a chrome plugin that might recognize and automatically add a kg/lbs conversion in the post, but no such luck.

You know, I log in kilos for the main lifts, but my main dumbbells are in lbs so db lifts get both units. I never thought of getting a plugin to do it but you could probably do it with a Chrome bookmarklet I reckon. It's just a bit of javascript from memory.

Will have a play with it later if I get time, I could use it as well.

[BenM]

Also following. As a fellow manlet, who has just competed (sorta kinda) at 74kg for the first and probably only time cos I gotta get heavier.

You mean you'll stop competing while you get heavier? I wouldn't, just compete without the stress of placing to get meet experience under your belt.

No, I just meant I will probably never again compete at under 74kg because by the time I do compete again I expect to weigh more than that and probably won't ever drop under it again, if things go to plan this year.

[SJB]

Down with freedom units. Metricocity all the way.

[Shane]

Welcome to the boards man. Australian population explosion!

[Sumo]

@Shane thanks mate.
@BenM got it, yeah that makes sense. At your height the most competitive guys are north of 100kg. If you figure out the kg/lb plugin let me know, I'd be keen.
@simonrest is that total for nationals or Masters Worlds?
@chromoly tell me why you object to the conventional analogy

[chromoly]

I wouldn't call conventional deadlifts savage. Badass, certainly! I don't feel like a savage when I do them though My other objection to the analogy, well... we can leave the discussion about the confederate flag for shitposting.

I've tried to pull sumo a few times, and I cannot get the technique down. I certainly wish I could though!

[simonrest]

there's no grading for masters, either national or worlds. Open you need elite II, so I'm currently 140kg off

[unruhschuh]

@Sumo do you create the tables by copy pasting from Excel using our tool? If that's the case, I'd add a column and do the conversion in Excel.