Looks like a nice little program you’ve come up with.
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Yeah, my bench has me squatting a bit higher than I’d like, but it makes my hip happy, which is great and a fail safe for me being stupid and squatting in pain.
It’ll be a handy addition for a lot of reasons.
Thanks Mort! Simple. Training has been a bit of a chore lately, so I’ve simplified quite a bit. The focus is on quality, not quantity.
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4/18/2020 - Cycle 9, Push 2
Axle OHP
115x4x5, 115x9
Weight Vest Feet Up Ring Push-up
20x2x10, 11
-with-
Single Arm Y Raise w/ Orange Band
10x3x15
25lb Plate OH Ext w/ Red Band
25x50 (no band), 25x8, 2x10
2 mile outside walk
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Low energy today. Man those ring pushups are awesome. Such an incredible contraction and full body challenge. They kick DB bench’s ass.
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Nice traps.
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Have you not been looking at his profile pic? We all get something that’s easier to develop and his is definitely his back - all of it!
@IronOne, that set made me think about buying an axle and doing OHP again. Luckily, that only lasted a few minutes.
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I guess I just like to see them in motion. Not shrugging, just elevating the shoulders.
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Thanks dudes.
What is it with a box squat that sets you up for a perfect squat? Proprioception knowing that object is back there, and it’s going to line you up and keep your depth proper? It’s not a safety thing. If anything it gives me anxiety, because I know I’m getting close to it and need to graze not rest.
I mean look at the lines and symmetries here. I do not have a better back squat than this:
Oh, that was rep # 20 too haha
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The best explanation I be seen I from Louie. He said that dudes get so reliant on the reversal/bounce out of the bottom of the squat that they begin to lose tightness on the descent, looking for more bounce. Too loose and the hips can go all over the place.
With the box and no bounce you have to keep everything tight, holding everything in place.
Like if you get sloppy bouncing your touch and go bench you practice paused benching for awhile.
Thibadeau’s neurotype stuff may be mumbo jumbo, but he says Type 2A dudes are always trying to jerk and bounce the weights around. He programs lots of work that controls the descent and reversal of lifts for these guys. That seemed like good enough verification for me.
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4/19/2020 - Cycle 9, Pull 2
Weighted Chin
26x4x5, 26x7
Meadows KB Row
62x3x10
-with-
Bent Over Rear Delt KB Raise
26x3x15
Axle Curl
75x5, 85x5, 95x5+55x20
20 min incline treadmill walk
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4/22/2020 - Cycle 9, Legs 2
RDL
175x4x5, 175x15
RFESS
40x3x10
-with-
Single Leg Calf Raises
40x3x10
All she wrote.
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That’s the best description/explanation I’ve ever heard.
Thanks Flats
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Thanks Mort. Those Westside guys must have me brainwashed! Haha!
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4/23/2020 - Cycle 10, Push 1
Paused Axle Bench
165x4x5, 165x10
SA KB Incline Bench
44x3x12
-with-
Paused Laterals
3x12
Band Pressdown - 10-15s rest between sets
5x10
5x5 (added band tension)
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Will bump to 175 next time on paused axle bench.
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What’s a cycle?
One run through, which is 6 workouts (2 push, 2 pull, 2 legs). Takes about 10 days per cycle.
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Did you make your axle bar?
No sir, Titan Fitness.
4/24/2020 - Conditioning
25 minutes of high incline walking with five 1 minute running intervals that about killed me on a 10 incline
Pull 1 today.
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I’m trying to get out the door to go run some fartleks. There, I wrote it down so now I have to do it.
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I think you just like saying this word 
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