When I was home last week I was whining to my brothers that I didn't own a pair of wrestling shoes anymore. Kevin popped his head up and told me he'd give me a pair of wrestling shoes he took from the lost and found at St. Charles. Aside from using them to box/wrestle/whatever in, I've been wanting to wear wrestling shoes to lift in for a while now. I've read in a few places that some people prefer to deadlift in them, as the sole is thinner than a pair of Chucks, which then gets you under the bar just a bit more. It's basically as low as you'd get without going barefoot. Its probably bullshit, but these shoes are cool as fuck and I really love to wear wrestling shoes.
DEADLIFT DAY
Warmup:
Agile 8
A little extra foam rolling along my lower and upper back.
Deadlift:
135x5
185x5
225x5
315x5
335x3
355x3
380x3+ (Hit 4, which was rough)
Good Mornings (Wide Stance):
135x12
135x12
155x12
155x12
185x12
Pull Throughs:
(I have no idea why, but the plates on this cable stack are 12lbs each. Insane.)
96x10
120x10
144x10
168x10
Pullups:
3 sets of 10
So all in all the wrestling shoes didn't seem to give me much of an advantage over the Chucks. I'll probably keep wearing them, though, because they're comfortable and they look so damn cool.
So the second percentage chart option that I wrote about yesterday is fucking rough on deadlift day. Wendler cautions that it's pretty tiring for deads and squats, but I figured that sounded like a challenge. And it is. I'm going to keep it up, but it's going to be rough.
I had to google Cael Sanderson. I thought maybe those shoes were the Asics Cael Sandersons.
ReplyDeleteThey are. Its a bit hard to see in that picture, but if you look at the heel, there's some blue scribble. That's his signature.
ReplyDeleteI deadlift and squat in my old wrestling shoes, the give me at least 50 pounds of cool points.
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome. I thought you had to be a basketball player to get a shoe named after you.
ReplyDeleteNah. John Smith's shoes were really popular when I was in high school. Pretty sure Dan Gable has his own shoe.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxcUtoDDgb4
ReplyDeleteI hope Sudsy Monchik has his own racquetball shoe.