Cheats are usually dinner so if I eat my normal food up to that point then it can get bad. Here in good 'ol America, we have Pizza Hut. They make a meat lovers pizza and have tasty crust. A slice of meat lovers can cost you 450 calories. Eating 6-8 of those followed by a Dairy Queen blizzard can be catastrophic if you’re counting calories. My favorite blizzard is chocolate chip cookie dough. I get a large, of course, and it’s 1600 calories. So, (6 x 450) + 1600 = O-B-E-S-I-T-Y.
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Yeah, mostly pisstaking. No idea how it got so melodramatic all of a sudden. I blame me.
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If it helps ease your mind at all, I blame you too.
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You’d be surprised how accurately this describes me. But replace chips with pop tarts and ice cream.
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What are you, my ex wife?
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See, now I just want pop tarts. Thanks, dude.
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They are my pre-workout carb, if you want to fit them in.
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That would be a hell of a way to try and get alimony
Work for today:
5 x 5 pull ups
30mins of hillsprints and general running on the hill. Found one way up that just an absolute wanker to run, legs barely have the power to keep going by the top. Squats tomorrow will be fun.
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Come on Flip, you can’t drop that in here without telling us the secret. We all want to know how to be like you.
It’s the beard dude, you should grow one.
Mate you saw what my mo looked like!! No way wife is going for the full beard look !
I guess you just don’t want to be like flip that much then.
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Maybe this is true. I have always been my own man.!!!
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I’ve been allowing mine to grow out since the whole distancing thing started and I’ve definitely noticed the effect.
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Work for today:
Squats:
5 x 70kg
5 x 80kg
5 x 95kg
5 x 107.5kg
Giant set (5 rounds):
Squats: 5 x 82.5kg
5 pull ups
15 trap bar presses (bar weight ~30kg)
Notes:
- Felt slightly drained today, especially towards the end of the giant sets. Probably running yesterday, poor sleep and dehydration. It was pretty fooling hot today.
- I think I may want to add some squats to replace walking lunges on one of my press days, otherwise there’s almost no squatting or heavy lifting at all in this set up.
- This is almost certainly the heaviest I’ve ever gone for a set of 5. I hadn’t really considered that before today, but Its certainly a weird anomaly and almost certainly the reason why I’ve never had a big squat. I guess I’d better fix that.
- Took the chance, while I’m out of the gym, to video myself squatting side on you you can all see what a hash job I make of it.
I know why my physique sucks, why does my squat suck?
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my beard is RIDICULOUS now. It is crazy long. so is my hair, lol.
choose different parents.
THE SECRET IS OUT!!
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That’s your top set? Looks really fine to me! And that you had more ez. Didn’t you say you almost never go heavy on squats? Maybe that’s your answer
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When I think about it, I haven’t squatted much above 100kg for years. And since I can push myself to do 100kg for 20 on a good day, it’s definitely a massive hole in my training.
To me those reps look shaky as fuck, and nowhere near as solid as I’d like considering the weight. I can see a multitude of potential issues, but it’ll be interesting to see how many of them are actual problems when the powerlifters chime in.
I really don’t see too much wrong here.
What I will say is, that you kinda “dive bombed” those reps (very fast descent, relying on stretch reflex). I would personally like to see a little more control, especially approaching the deepest position. You could also comfortably cut depth a little bit shorter (or higher?) to stay in better control.
To me you seem like the perfect candidate to implement pause squats! Those could help you establish a stable bottom position and will take out the momentum you seem to rely on to a certain degree.
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