Dead in a hole

[digitaldiscipline]

This is something I already do, for the same reasons the author discusses:

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/improve_your_pull_instantly

Typically, I'll use a snatch grip up to 315 rather than get on risers, because, frankly, standing barefoot on cement pavers (stacked one or two high, to give a 1.75 or 3.5 inch deficit) is way less comfortable than having my feet on the rubber mats on my floor.

I haven't tried this approach explicitly with my trap bar, because I'm still using that with the 4" riser handles after doing heavy conventional pulls, so, effectively, I've already been pulling from more depth during my "warmups"... but I'd like to get to the point of being able to pull the same weights from the straight portion of that bar, if not from a true deficit, that I can currently handle.

Hopefully, I'll be able to get back to it, having given my shoulder another week off, a brutal massage on Sunday, and a sneeze-while-moving-just-so realignment event. Because, while it's nice to slack off, it's not me.

Comments

[angledge.livejournal.com]

... a sneeze-while-moving-just-so realignment event ...

Not sure why but this just made LOL at work. Thanks?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I had laced my hands behind my head and sneezed suddenly, causing something to go TWANG and hurt like hell, then feel slightly better.

[ivy]

I've had that experience! Adhesions, they're a bitch.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

The shoulder thing is less of an adhesion than something, I suspect, being out of place... but I won't hear from my doc about the x-rays i got last tuesday until two weeks from tomorrow (so, the assumption is, nothing is structurally fucked that warrants more expeditious exploration, so I guess that's good, but it's not giving me any diagnostics, prognosis, or course for treatment, and i'm not getting any younger or stronger over here while i wait)

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

225 is a light warmup weight for that guy? Holy hell. That's very nearly my 1 rep max.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

*nods* It is for me, too, these days (when I'm uninjured, I usually work between 400 and 500). Then again, he's a guy who works in the strength training business, so it stands to reason that he ought to be able to move moderately heavy weights :-)

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

True. There's also the whole chromosome differential, which matters in such things, no matter how much I might wish it didn't. Even so, I'll go hide in the corner and feel puny for a few minutes. ;)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

MOSES SMASH :-)

[ivy]

Hmm, I ought to try this. Thanks for the rec!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I pulled my trap bar from the non-elevated handles today, and that four inches makes a huge difference (even without my feeling weak and twitchy from sub-optimal planning).