10 Miles Back Again

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961

Nope. Just plain old commercial, get’em in cheap and hope they don’t show up style of gym.

Pause squats work pretty well for me, I assume for a similar reason.

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962

I didn’t know we trained at the same gym!

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963

Work for.today:
Press: 5 x 40kg, 45kg, 50kg
Arnold press: 5 x 10 @ 14kg
Deadlift: 5 x 5 @ 112.5kg
Complexes: 3 reps each of:

  • Row
  • Clean
  • Front Squat
  • Press
  • Back Squat
    3 rounds @ 40kg, 2 rounds @ 50kg
    Squat:
    30 @ 40kg
    30 @ 50kg

Notes:

  • Took about 1 hour total. More waiting for equipment than I’d like but also tired as fuck, so dragged my heels a bit.
  • Squats sucked the life out of me. Hopefully it’s just the tiredness because this is still easy street compared to next week.
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964

Work for today:
20 minutes uphill treadmill walking.

Turned speed down a little compared to normal, the soreness from squats isn’t much of an issue in day to day life, but became so here.

Weight last night was a pound up from previous weigh in, maybe a function of loading calories at the start of the week, will have to see how the pattern emerges.

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965

Those complexes, the first round is okay and from there it’s all downhill.
Well done Dagill.
And good to see your back and knees are getting a little better.

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966

I heal pretty quickly, honestly.

Thanks, I’m genuinely dreading these next 6 weeks. Keep scaling my plans for after back and back and back.

967

The complexes looks fun. But dude, 30 rep squats?

968

That’s just a warm up. The 50 reppers are coming, first one next week I believe from memory. Not looking forward to it.

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969

You’re doing a Dan John right? I’ll make a mental note to stay away from those.

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970

Mass Made Simple, yes. I’ve run it before when I was stronger. It’s unpleasant.

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971

You’re welcome for the reminder that these exist [had a smiley here but they’re so abhorrently large I had to remove it]

I did some feet-elevated ones earlier this week which were reasonably unpleasant/recommendable.

This sounds awful; good luck doing 20 more.

EDIT: just saw this

Is that 3x30 at 40kg and 2x30 at 50kg??

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972

Definitely stolen from you. I like them.

20 more is the least of my worries. The weight also doubles. Last session is 50nreps at 80kg. Pray for me.

No, I just didn’t separate them properly. But I’d rather do that than 50 at 80kg

973

I love high rep squats and look forward to being able to do them again. Ran the Hungarian oak leg blast last year and it ended with AMRAP squats for 8 minutes with 1/4 of your est 1RM. I don’t think I ever made the 8 minute mark but I remember well wanting to puke in the 5-6 minute range. Think the most I ever got was just over 100. Looks like your killing it man

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974

I’ve eyed that up but I think after MMS, I’m not going to want to squat ever again.

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975

More work for today:
3 x 12 dumbbell row @ 30(?)kg
5 x 10 fat man rows

976

No thank you.

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977

Work for this morning:
Arnold press
Partial lateral raises
Rear delt flys
Y-raises
Cable lateral raise ss. Face pull

Quick little shoulder workout because I can. I figure conditioning is being mostly taken care of by complexes and 30+ rep squats.

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978

Work for today:
3 x 15 db rows @30kg(?)
2 x 10 inverted rows

50 banded good mornings
20 double banded good mornings.

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979

Quick weigh in today, comfortably under 200lbs again. That means (hopefully) that my plan of gain weight by pushing calories and training/recovery hard at the start of the week and cutting calories and doing less intense training later in the week is working. The question remains whether this is a strategy that will produce long term results. @Frank_C @jackolee, does that make sense?

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980

Yeah. It’s right in line with any other cyclical approach. Eat more around training and less when you’re not burning as many calories.

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