I think I'll work up to over 315lbs in shrugs before going back to heavy pushpresses. I want to make sure that my traps, neck, and other areas are strong enough to handle the weight. No point in giving myself nerve damage. I'll work in some heavy deadlifts as well.
Hey Hutster, At home, I have two power racks. One is a fancy one with pulleys and crap while the other needs to be bolted into the floor with a cement gun. The second one still stands but it would be immovable if I had a cement gun and nails for the concrete. I might bribe a buddy of mine sometime with some beers to get that done for me. I can do basically anything on the first one whereas the second looks like those uprights they use at a powerlifting competition. I guess I could take some photos. Shrugs, I used to do with both hands in an overgrip, but when you go heavy enough or sweat enough, the bar will roll out of your grip. Now I do one overgrip and one undergrip, alternating one set of each for each weight increment I go up. I mainly workout at 11:00am-noon at a gym around the way from my office. It's a 5 minute drive. They have a great squat rack there.
Sounds like you've got some set up there, jealous. I've got a cheap power rack in my room but it isn't bolted down or anything. Never had the slightest problem with it, but Im skinny and relatively weak and the most it ever holds is 400 odd. It sometimes rocks a bit when I do chin ups too vigorously and I don't have a barbell in the squat pins weighing it down though. I only started doing shrugs recently, they're fun. I use straps for them. Never use straps for anything else but always for my top shrugs set, the difference in what I can lift is just too big not too. I do them quick like an olympic lift so it's impossible to keep ahold of even 90% max weight without straps. I bet you could do 400 odd with the same form with straps (if you're doing quick shrugs). On a kinda related subject (grip), do you own a pair of fat gripz, Buddy? They basically replicate a fat bar - seems like that kind of functional type training is your bag? Work really well and they're ridiculously cheap.
My power rack rattles when I do chins as well. I think it's not perfectly flat or else perhaps the floor isn't. Regardless, the chins get done. I don't use straps or a weight belt. I did for years, but I want functional strength so I stopped. It's all me. The weight matters, but the control matters more. The only time I would want wraps or anything like that now is if I were in a powerlifting competition, going for a max single. Fat gripz, eh? I'll have to look into getting them. I want some gymnastics equipment for my backyard. There's enough trees and seclusion that I can get really good bodyweight workouts on top of my weight-training. This spring I'll get some FB pics up. :Thumbs:
