Yeah, all fine, just precautionary stuff really. He got a virus that hit him for 6, then went on to cause mesenteric blahdeblah. Normally that’s just painful, but with his history and lack of half his bowels, it caused a few more concerns.
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Sorry to hear that the little fella wasnt good, but glad he is being looked after.
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Thanks man. Yeah, he’s bounced back fine. Beating his little sister up again already.
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Work for this arvo:
Powerclean:
10 x 2 @ 70kg
Notes:
- Had a bit of time to kill and noticed my shoulders/back have been looking a bit lacking recently and that explosive stuff is cool.
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Work for today:
Press (ss. Pull ups):
5 x 20kg
5 x 40kg
5 x 50kg
3 x 60kg
1 x 65kg
2 x 70kg
2 x 70kg
1 x 70kg
1 x 70kg
Press (giant set with lateral raises and BPAs):
3 x 8 @ 50kg
Kroc Rows:
Some
Bradford Press:
1 x 50 @ 20kg
Poundstone Curls:
1 x 100 @ 10(?)kg
Notes:
- Press felt better but not good. Progress may have slowed or stopped, hard to tell. Stick to the plan and if I fil to progress in a few sessions, time to change it up. Might be fatigue, might be an off day, might be lack of volume recently. Might be that I’m not currently gaining weight like I had been.
- Really like this set up for the supplemental giant set. It’s a keeper.
- Need to think of a smarter shoulder finisher. This was meant to be 100 reps of Bradford Press but as soon as I started, I knew that wasn’t on the cards. Got a decent enough burn from it, but the whole movement starts to feel a bit dysfunctional and weird pretty quickly. Not something I want to push too hard on often. Next time will probably go back to my original plan of 100 dumbell clean and presses, alternating hands. Or maybe just 100 clean and presses with an empty bar. Should do a decent job on grip too. See how that pans out.
- It occured to me while training today that the postural stuff I’d said I was looking to do never really got off the ground and that if looking better is a goal, I need to start. No muscles I gain will compensate for piss poor posture.
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Quick thought to ponder:
Another culprit for poor pressing could be the fact that I’m no longer doing 50-150 push ups a day, which I had been doing during my unexpected period of progress. Something to experiment with.
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How has your bodyweight been through this?
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I don’t have the data to support it, but based on eating habits I think my speedy progress probably coincided well with an increase in weight.
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RoadTo100kg BW
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I suspect that’s not so much a road as a driveway.
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Big Dog
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Work for today:
Navy Seals Take the Tower, Salt the Earth:
Front squats (60kg), ss. 5 navy seals:
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50 x back squats (60kg)
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Postural goals sound like a good idea. The 100 empty bar c&p sounds like elbow inflammation but also like a good idea provided elbows are ok.
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First you’re talking about Widowmaker goals for 2022 and now this:
I am SO annoyed with you right now.
Seriously, though, nice work!
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Yeah, get used to it, he is annoyingly good at high rep squats.
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@jdm135 yeah, I’m leading more towards the dumbell clean and press. I’ll try both and see what happens.
@SvenG it hurts me more than it hurts you. I hate high rep squats.
@Cyrrex I like to think I’m just really bad at low rep squats.
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I wasn’t going to say it, mate, but it does sometimes strike me as a bit incongruent.
THAT SAID…I honestly think doing stuff like 110 x 20 is far more useful than a 170 x 1 or whatever that equates to.
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Love the plug and play here. Exactly how it should work.
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It’s very weird, to be honest. Because going over 120kg feels like 2 tonne now, whereas I can get air with only 5kg less. I assume its partly a mental thing, since I haven’t consistently squatted heavy in a long, long time.
I found myself trying to justify a squat session to avoid conditioning on the way home so decided to give myself exactly what I asked for, in true deal with the devil style.
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