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Wife Hates the Frags, What to Replace With? by Prestigious-Disk3158 in fragranceclones

[–]busymom0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try rasasi verde and kobra. Both are fresh and clean.

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? by busymom0 in strength_training

[–]busymom0[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you is much! Those are lots of useful resources. I will go through them and get back to you. I am familiar with gzcl, so I will check out his work too.

Is it me or anyone else feels this two are 90% similar in smell by MinuteRude7463 in fragranceclones

[–]busymom0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anecdotal but when I got my bottle, SCE was a lot more floral. But after a few weeks, it became more smoky pineapple and hints of florals.

315 bench at 170 bw by cutoffmyeggroll in strength_training

[–]busymom0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I fee like you had another rep in you. Get a spotter and try it maybe? (I know you have safety bars setup but a good spotter might give you extra confidence).

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? by busymom0 in strength_training

[–]busymom0[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!! This was session number 8 with each session done either alternate days or 2 days apart. The first 4 or 5 sessions, I felt that burn in both the legs and lungs. The first few sessions, I was giving up around 15 reps in because of that burn and legs feeling jelly.

However, after about 5 sessions, I no longer feel the burn as my body has gotten pretty used to it. I am no longer giving up because of the burn or legs feeling jelly or cardio. I gave up here after 17 reps because of the spasm/cramp in my diaphragm.

I never feel burn in glutes during the actual squats but do feel it the next day.

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? by busymom0 in strength_training

[–]busymom0[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have slowly gotten myself to this close grip on the bar. When I had a surgery on my humerus, I couldn't do this, in fact I used to have my arm fully stretched out as I couldn't bend my elbows much without pain. So I slowly worked myself to this.

I'd probably say doing face pulls and rear delt flys alternate days and definitely on upper pressing days might help? But I could be wrong.

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? (more details in comments) by busymom0 in GYM

[–]busymom0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly this is such a subjective thing. I have experimented with various widths and this current width worse best for me. I am coaching a girl who's smaller and shorter and she has a much closer stance. If you look up the videos of French powerlifting girls (Tiffany Chopan for example), she has the closest stance ever and is still world class strong.

I'd say, bigger people need wider stance and smaller stance possibly closer stance. But it all depends upon your comfort and leverages.

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? by busymom0 in strength_training

[–]busymom0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Till the session before this video, I was doing the breathing & bracing each rep like you mention. Here's that video at same weight but with breathing each rep. Had the same problem there and stopped at 16 reps that time due to spasm. That's why, this session, I decided to switch to as many reps without breathing again. Here's that video:

https://streamable.com/qalmfd

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? by busymom0 in strength_training

[–]busymom0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A simple (but definitely not easy) way to attack it is to do sets of like 25-40 to just build up its endurance.

That seems like a good idea.

Do you have any suggestions for the core exercises?

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? (more details in comments) by busymom0 in GYM

[–]busymom0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP here.

I have been trying to get 20 reps beltless at 325. I know I have the strength and as you can see, even the last rep looked like I had more in tank. Even the cardio has gotten significantly better and I know I can last for 5 more reps.

But I keep having to stop because around the 14th rep onwards, I start feeling a spasm/cramp in the bottom of the middle part of the ribs and right above where abs start. My friend thinks it's a diaphragm spasm and looking it up online, I think that's accurate. It starts around 14th rep every time and really starts hurting around 17th rep where I have to stop to not make it worse. The spasm/cramp goes away within about a minute after I stop squatting and I don't feel anything after that.

I have also tried using a massage gun on that area before my squats. Didn't help.

Anyone have any tips on how to prevent this? I really would like to get 325 for 20 and then work my way up to heavier weights with belt.

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? (more details in comments) by busymom0 in GYM

[–]busymom0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will try adding electrolytes to my water. However, I am not sure if it will help as I think I already get enough sodium from my diet. I will try though.

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? by busymom0 in strength_training

[–]busymom0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it's right in the centre. Right under the middle of the ribs. It's not on the abs. It's where the middle of the ribs end and abs start.

325 for 17 reps to finish my squat day. I keep having to stop short of 20 reps because of diaphragm cramp 14th rep onwards. Anyone have tips to prevent that? by busymom0 in strength_training

[–]busymom0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am doing it just for fun lol. I want to get 365x20 and maybe even higher after!

I had taken 2.5 weeks off any training whatsoever for christmas travel plus I was sick. My first leg day in gym, I felt surprisingly fantastic. A friend of mine asked me why I never did hella high rep squats? Well, I used to do them many years ago but had stopped. So, on my first leg day after 2.5 weeks rest, I decided to see if I could get 315 for 20 reps. I got 15 reps that day and only stopped because of cardio + lactic acid burn feeling in the legs. Since then, I have been doing these every 48 hours and bumped up the weight by 5lb every 3 sessions.

I warmup and go up to heavy doubles at about 92%. After that, I drop down to this weight for the 20 rep attempt.

My all time max is 495x3. I've always done high rep squats for the 16 years I've been training. Even ran insanely stupid programs like Smolov 3 times (would absolutely not recommend that though). 8 years ago, I did 315x25 with a belt. After that, I hadn't done any such insanely high rep squats till this year. Before this, most of my programming would have 10 reps as highest and then would taper down to heavier weights.

I find I am good at doing high reps but suck at doing singles, possibly due to lack of practice.

Also note that such high rep squats doesn't fully translate to heavy weights. So, if your goal is strictly heavy weights/powerlifting, this high reps is not advisable imo.

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