Progress Report: Why this blog should be called Plateau Training without Steroids

This represents a gain to me. I rested for 94 hours before attempting this.  Even though I didn't finish the rep, I lifted it up a couple inches higher than my previous dead press attempt shown below a week earlier:

As you can see I could barely budge it.  This one was attempted after only 72 hours rest.

The reason for the gain is threefold.  The most important was the fact that I rested for 94 hours between workouts.  Take a look at my numbers for this week:

Gym Tuesday 11:20 a.m. 8 /5/14
Shoulder press life fitness machine 205-2
Incline press precor machine 260-1, 300-0
Rack pull 505-1, 505-1
Freemotion bicep curl cable machine 150-1
Life fitness seated leg press machine wearing inzer strongman knee sleeves 405-1
Decline press dead 235-1
Stiff legged one legged deadlift
Left 215-1
Right 215-1

Gym Saturday 8/9/14 9:30 a.m.
Conventional deadlift standing on 45 lb plates 495-1, 505-1
Stiff legged deadlift standing on 45 lb plates 505-1
Technogym leg press machine 440-0
Dead chest press 225-1
Dead chest press legs in the air 225-1
Life fitness seated lat row cable machine 260-4
Tricep extension rope attachment cable machine life fitness 115-1, 130-0

The second reason for the gain was my dead press form changed.  As you can see in the second video I had the bar sitting close to my neck, but in the first video I had the bar sit right below my rib cage on the upper abdomen.  This changed the mechanics of the dead press.  In the second video because I have the bar closer to my neck I can't use abdominal muscle activation to help with the lift off.  In the first video I'm contracting my stomach muscles. This provides for approximately a 1" liftoff heightening because the bar is sitting on my air filled torso and my activated abdominal muscles.

This may not be the strictest adherence to the name of the lift, the dead chest press, but I'll accept that slight digression because there is no way possible for me to make the lift without taking breath into my lungs and holding it, and bracing my stomach muscles.  These two techniques provide stability throughout the range of motion of the press.

The last reason for the gain was added accessory movements. On 8/5/14 I did a shoulder press, incline press, and decline press.  On 8/9/14 I did the dead press, dead press with legs crossed in the air, and tricep extensions with a rope attached to a cable machine. This all added up to me making a gain.

So what's my next step?  Add more weight.  That's right.

Most people would look at the above video and they would suggest my next move for my next workout on the dead press is to stay at 225 lbs. and try to get a full complete rep.  Maybe I shouldn't add more weight, they would suggest, until I can bang 225 lbs out for a couple reps.

But I don't think like most people.  I don't have time for their retarded way of thinking.  I've tried their useless ineffectuals methods. I've spent hundreds of dollars on their stupid useless e-books, books, dvd's, and websites. If you name it, I've probably done it.

So that's right. I'm going to add ten more pounds to the bar on my next dead press session bringing up the total to 235 lbs and I'll post a video of what happened next week.

And oh yeah before I go, I didn't address the blog post title:  Why this blog should be called Plateau Training without Steroids. I was just joking.  I would never change the name of this blog to that. Plateaus are for loser idiots.  This blog ain't about losing.  It's about winning and telling people I told you so and making all those idiots following Elliot Hulse, from whom I stupidly bought an e-book, look like fools.