Deloading ala John Davis 8x2.

Morning cunts. Rant is still squatting and pressing daily. I guess you could call it unloading but I went down to 80% of my workout max squat and push press. I was going to do the Russian squat routine but it seemed lame so I did both squats and push presses ala John Davis. John Davis was one of the greatest lifter ever back when Americans trained daily like real men. Now you have the Bruggers or whatever they are called teaching broom stick lifts to douchebag crossfitters and producing shitty,fat, puffed up Olympic lifters that get their assess handed to them year after year after year by the Russians and Chinese. Oh but it must be the drugs.

Anyway Rant is doing a Davis style workout taking 80% and doing 8 sets of 2 reps. Nothing fancy, no assistance exercises, chains, bands, or boxes; no couches; just good old fashioned hard work. Fuck days off. I am going to run with this till next Friday every day and then take the weekend off and drink a lot of beer. I will then come back to see if I top my 425 and 230 max. I am sure I will. LOL @ the assholes questioning my ways and trying to figure out what Rant is doing. Stop trying to read into things too much and leaping to conclusions. You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about when it comes to Rant and most of you are just a bunch of pasty faced pussies.

 

Speaking of pussy. Rant had a dream that he was rubbing butter on Allison NYC tits. I turned my head for just a moment and when I went back to those legendary ta-tas Jimmy Moore was licking up all the butter. I woke up screaming and drenched in sweat. What could this dream possibly mean?


 

The "Dark Times" have arrived.

UPDATE!

This is more or less what Rant has settled on going forward. I will still be training 6 days a week but I will break things up with 3 squat days and 3 push press day occasionally swapping for bench press.

John Broz talks about the “dark times” that come with daily training. Well I think I hit that point yesterday. I hit another PR in the squat with 425, did my back off sets and then went on to bench and hit a PR there as well. I got through the workout but my lower back on the left hand side was tender (do to deads) and my right shoulder felt fucked up (due to bench). And deep inside my right IT band I can feel this pulling sensation and well as a pulling sensation in my left hamstring (due to deads).

When I was done with my workout all I could do was eat and then lay around. Frankly I felt beat up. I even thought about going down to the pub for a few to take the edge off but decided against it. I still feel banged up today. It’s nothing serious but shit hurts. In spite of that I still feel like I want to squat again today. In spite of the pain something is drawing me back into the rack. Maybe it’s self loathing. I don’t get it.

In any event I have gone 3 hard weeks going 6 days a week. So next week I am due for an unloading week. Maybe a 2 to 1 ratio might be better for someone my age. Maybe another program would be better. This shit is hard but something about it draws you in. I think it’s the gains. It also has something to do with the fact that it flies in the face of what all the experts say about daily training. One thing is clear. Our Oly lifters in the USA are pussies if they are not training 6 days a week. What excuse does a young man with unlimited time have for not training daily? What a bunch of fat, soft motherfuckers. All the couches should be canned peddling that less is more crap as if Bulgarians and Russians are somehow different species.

On the other hand if you are a middle age fat fuck like me do you really need to be hammering away at back squats on a daily basis?  I am not sure how wise it is. I do know that it can be done with gains. There is nothing special about Rant that is allowing him to do this. I don’t have freaky genetics. I don’t use PEDs. I am not Bulgarian.  At some point I will have to tinker with this to see how 3 days a week of squatting compares to 6 days. It has to be done to see which works better. I was looking over the Russian Squat program last night and after doing this daily Bulgarian thing it no longer seems so daunting …well at least the 1974 version doesn’t seem so bad. The 1976 version is still deadly.

What I have been toying with is this. Finish this week up. Take next week to unload. The week after next start the 1974 Russian Squat program with maybe a day or two a week devoted to push pressing. It seems reasonable. For some reason I am really focused on the squat. I have never worked the squat all that hard and would often opt for push pull meets but I have come to appreciate that the squat is the godfather of all barbell exercises. If the squat goes up all the other lifts will go up. The reverse is certainly not true with the bench or deadlift and the squat.

Another interesting thing I have discovered is that the push press carries over to the bench very well. Doing almost no benching at all I was able to jump in and press 300 no problem from doing little more than push presses and squats. I wish there was a completion that just did push press and squat. The bench is just tough on the shoulder and deads are tough on everything. I think that biomechanically they are both very awkward exercises that put stress on all the wrong body parts. I don’t care what you say the deadlift is hell on the lower back and the bench is hell on the shoulders and no matter how great your form is in time these exercises will kill your lower back and shoulders. Personally I have come to the conclusion that the perfect strength routine is squatting, push pressing and heavy kettlebell swings. 

Another squat PR.

The body plays tricks on you. Last night I was starting to squat and thought, “fuck this shit”. I knew my legs were cooked. 315 felt like 1,000 pounds. My knees felt shaky. The spot where I hold the bar on my back was chaffed and raw.  It didn’t matter Rant pushed on and topped out at 420 then did some back off doubles with 365. Then it was off to 10 sets of doubles on speed pulls with 275. This time I went back to sumo. I honestly don’t feel like I am built for conventional. The only way I feel comfortable doing conventional is hump backed and I don’t know what the repercussions are for that. It still feels wrong going sumo. It’s like those PL faggots that wear gear talking all kinds of shit about how they do it for safety. Bullshit. They were gear so they can inflate their numbers not by tens of pounds but hundreds of pounds. I can’t squat 500 by myself but I can in an Inzer space age polymer squat suit. I might have to go back to conventional just in principle.  

Anyway it was a great workout. Keep in mind it has been at least a decade since Rant has tried to squat in earnest. I feel that I will be up to 500 on a daily basis sometime this summer. Not bad for a broken down middle age pug like Rant. Quick somebody remind me again why squatting daily is dangerous overtraining. Somebody? Anybody?

The only thing that is disappointing about this style of training is that it doesn’t leave much room for GPP. I am pretty much done after the second exercise and roughly an hour of heavy singles.  The thought of kettlebell swings seems repulsive. So it feels like I have been getting a bit of a spare tire. Jerry Lewis thinks that training like this calls for a ketogenic diet. I don’t know but I do know that I don’t want to look like a fat fuck. Maybe I will start chewing nicorette gum like Robb Wolf in order to stay lean. LOL at that practice. Seriously though a little ketogenic run or anabolic diet run might not be such a bad idea. I can feel I am putting on some dense muscle. I am putting in the hard ass work. I might as well look the part.

Speaking of diet. Rant has not been drinking at all. It’s been 2 weeks or so with no drinking and it’s no big deal. I don’t even really think about it. I like not drinking and being clear headed at least 95% of the time. I will say this and this might cause some controversy. It is easier to control my weight when drinking. If I have 2 beers I am full and that only constitutes about 300 calories. I just don’t want to eat after a few beers. When I am beer free I want to eat much more. Funny how that goes. There is evidence that regular drinkers are less likely to be obese than non drinkers. I have always contended that all these beer belly theories were less about beer and more about the crap that people eat while drinking beer. I have never been one of these nachos and beer kind of guy. I am either eating or drinking but not doing both at the same time and I rarely drink.

Speaking of drinking I went an AA meeting a few weeks ago after feeling guilty about imbibing at little more than I should have one night. I wish I would have bit the bullet. LOL @ AA. What a bunch of fucking losers and social misfits. I guess it’s good that these degenerates have somewhere to go and something to do where they can all pat each other on the ass about how they paid their phone bill, went to work and didn’t slap their old lady around.  Hooray for the recovering alcoholic! Please share you experience strength and hope with the group about how you did it. Fucking losers. Sorry if that offends you but AA is a cult of weirdos. Get an AA outside of the groups and he is often a great guy but put him in a meeting and it’s like listening to a member of the Manson Family talking about how Charlie is Jesus Christ. The group speak and the scripts are insufferable. How the fuck that is supposed to help someone is beyond me but to each his own I guess. It’s not for me. I don’t want it and more importantly I don’t need it. Besides I am so busy living life I don’t really have much time for alcohol. I would really have to go out of my way to drink assuming I even thought about it.

Speaking of cults. I tried to get back into IGX and once again my inquiries were ignored. What an outfit IGX has become. I haven’t been there in months but I went back last night for about 10 minutes. How sad. At this point there is no coming back for IGX. They would be better off just shutting the whole thing down or merging with another non entity like power and blubber. It’s sad to see 2 once great forums bite the dust so badly.

Jerry Lewis was right even if he is a phag.

Last night was a bit of a mistake but as long as you put some biscuits on the bar and squat it counts. My plan was to do 15-20 singles on the squat with 405. Then I thought it would be cute to do 10 swings with the 40kg after each single. Bad idea. What is this crossfit? I had to bow out after 5 singles because my lower back was fried. Save the swings for the end next time as a finisher or better yet leave the swings for those teabagging kettlebell freaks and fairies.

In any event I did squat and then added a few drop down sets. Afterwards I did some heavy dumbbells rows and dumbbells bench presses. All and all it was a good work out but it would have been better without the swings. Tonight is back to a squat max followed by 10 sets of speed pulls with 225.

Lately I have been looking into how I could incorporate this training into a high volume Russian or German template such as Sheiko, Smolov or Korte 3x3. The Broz template is geared more for Oly lifters than powelifters. I don’t know of anyone who has used Broz methods for PL.

Yikes!

One thing that Broz has taught me is that overtraining is bullshit. On some level I always knew that. I also knew that training the competitive lifts was enough. I have always hated the Westside methods. What a bunch of bullshit. Westside is for assistance lifting not powerlifting. Powerlifting is when your body does the squat not some space age polymer suit that springs you out of the hole with 900 pounds on your back. I won’t say that the volume is for drug addicts but one looks at the Westside women tells me all I need to know about Westside and drugs. LOL at PEDs for an obscure amateur sport like PL. I say let them be in their make believe PL federations where no squat is too high and no assistance equipment too outrageous. It’s all about the safety of the lifter after all. Isn’t it? Yeah right.

Rant is rabidly drug free. And fuck you with your comments about my crazy pills. Rant needs crazy pills to keep him off the streets and out of the mental wards. Crazy pills and PEDs are not even in the same ball park. And no I don’t think that PED user would still be strong without their steroid pills. Strong also applies to integrity and anyone that uses steroid pills to up their lifts is a fucking ass clown especially for a sport that doesn’t pay. I could see doing it for the money but to do it to squat 1,000 pounds and get a plastic trophy is preposterous. Sorry but I don’t respect these people and I don’t even bother paying attention to their lifts or what they do for training or even worse the cunts like Tate and Wendler that try to cash in on their drug using glory days. They will get nothing but scorn and derision from Rant. They are all on The Moynihan Institute Blacklist. Yes the list does exist. Members of the board of directors can confirm this.

Jerry Lewis of Chaos & Pain

Before I get too far off the topic I want to also credit Chaos and Pain AKA Jerry Lewis or whatever his name is. You know who I’m talking about. He’s the gay porn star that advocates heavy singles and daily training. I will admit I originally thought he was a cunt. Well he is a cunt but he was certainly way ahead of the curve and rightly called out that old drunk Rip on his bullshit ideas and sycophants over at the SS forum. What a bunch of deluded cunts. Yes Jerry Lewis was right on the mark. Don’t get me wrong. I still think he is a filthy, despicable kweer. Remember it was Rant that called this way before you losers found the video of him in your gay porn collection. Jerry Lewis was the quintessential over compensator with all his talk about “chicks” and “pussy” while every other picture he posted was some astro-glided beef cake. I guess in this day and age to each his own. All that matters to me now is that the man is on the right path with training and that he is calling the appropriate people cunts.  What a man shoves up his ass is his business. 

Up, up and away!

Another day another PR. Quick someone tell my body that I am overtraining, that daily squatting is only for drug addicts, 20 year old Olympic athletes and genetic freaks. Someone please tell my body quickly before I break anymore PRs. Every workout I am tossing 5-10 pounds on the bar in both squat, bench and push press. My deads are staying at 50% for speed pulls for the time being.

If I get through this week I may de-load next week or I may just keep going. I have not decided yet. One thing is for certain. The conventional wisdom in this country is wrong about training frequency. I mean dead wrong. If a 48 year old broken down piece of meat like Rant can squat daily what is your excuse other than the fact that you are LAZY?

And I am not doing any of this rehab/prehab bullshit. I warm up for a few sets with whatever lift I am doing and that’s it. If I am doing the lifts daily I am staying flexible. Days off are what makes me stiff. Everything you have been led to believe is wrong. It’s wronger than wrong. It’s bullshit. Think of this. There are people in this world that still till the earth by hand. They get down and dirty daily with back breaking labor but they can go 12 hours a day every day. They don’t need 48 hours to recovery because they don’t have that luxury. No work equals no food. We were built to toil.

We are soft and pampered with our Planet Fitness workout schedules. You do realize that the bullshit you have been spoon fed about short and frequent is right out of the playbook of the big box gyms. Don’t you? They have no interest in Rant showing up 7 days a week for 90 minutes a pop tossing around big biscuits. No fucking way. They want you to wait your turn on the treadmill and then run around like a fucking hamster for 20 minutes while watching TV and slurping water every 2 seconds. Then they want your ass out of the gym for the next few days so you can “recover”. It’s pure coincidence that this short and infrequent bullshit allows them to pack in more members. Lord are you people fucking stupid.

These strength couches are just the same. They can’t make any money off of 90 minutes sessions. Josh Hillis wants you to do his booty baby workout in 14 minutes followed by 5 days off. Just think of all the dumb ass clients he can pack in. Training a man for a real workout takes work and the whole reason these assholes became couches in the first place was to avoid real work.  You’re simple being sold a bill of good that works for gyms and couches and maybe something that plays into your own lazy tendencies. Don’t tell me that I am overtraining when you haven’t the faintest idea of what that would entail. Go ahead and scoff as Rant’s numbers climb. Just remember it’s you that is the big pussy not Rant.