Took me back to my teenage years, being holed up in my room on the single bed with a well worn copy of Escort
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Started my new job alongside my old job for a month so things might be quite around here for a while.
Today’s work:
Squats 60, 80, 100, 120, 140kg X 3, 157.5kg X 5 - important win here, felt like crap and didn’t want to squat at all today, exhausted from work, definitely carrying fatigue from block pulls, but want to know I can still beat the program even here.
Chins: 20kg X 5, 1, 4, 2, 3, 3, (8 count breaths)
S/s
Dips: 20kg X 5, 1, 4, 2, 3, 3, (8 count breaths)
Chins: 12, 4, 4, 2.5 (rest pause 8 breaths)
Dips: 35, 12, 5, 4 as above.
Pin wheels: 10kg X 25, 15, 10 (single arm done alternative sets each arm, no rest only time in between each set).
Great session considering!
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Friday and just about squeezing in Wednesday’s bench, hoping to hit deads tomorrow.
Bench
60, 70, 80kg X 5, 85, 95kg X 3, 105kg X 8 (still meh, really can’t get bench to “feel” right)
Slingshot bench: 115kg X 5 X 3 sets
Tricep hell - skull crusher at 30.5kg, Tri pd at 40kg.
Done, had the first shot of Covid vax today, used a harpoon to the shoulder (reckon 18g 1.5 inch), didn’t affect anything (I have previously used delts for trt so no virigin muscle issues) so all good, works mental, but life’s good! Hope everyone here is good?
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Congratulations on your first dose! Glad you were able to get it
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My missus got the vaccine yesterday
Has been bitching about a sore arm all day???
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Everybody I know who’s had the vaccine complains about that. It passes.
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@whang Thanks happy to have it, the UK is smashing it vaccine wise, about the first thing Covid wise we’ve got right. @ChongLordUno @dagill2 Yea there was some pip today, but didn’t affect anything, benched fine yesterday, slept well and spent all day slabbing today all without any complaint, it’s barely noticeable today so if guess within 2 days it will be completely unfeelable (making up words again).
I’m exhausted after today’s work, so no training, will try and get the work in tomorrow.
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Just a thought, do you guys think that people complain about soreness after vaccination because most of them aren’t used to being sore all the time? 
My brother and mom got their flu vaccines last week and complained about sore shoulders. I got mine two days ago after my press workout and didn’t notice a difference 
Yes. And a lot also have poor tolerance to pain.
Also, i’ve never had shoulder DOMS from lifting close to vaccines lol
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granted… I do have quite a high pain tolerance
They just masked each other
It’s possible, in some cases. Some might be just because people like a moan up. Some might be because if you’ve been in lockdown in your home for 11 months, you don’t have much left to talk about. Probably plenty of others possible reasons or explanations too.
Pwn mentioned he had a sore arm too, and being a Deep Water fan, I’m sure he’s used to crippling soreness
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Okay, That enough evidence to invalidate my theory
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I ran Deep Water and I can say that the Covid vaccine is the most sore my arm has ever been from a shot.
EDIT: Just saw @tinkertailortanker already said this, haha.
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The flu shot has felt more like a tetanus shot the last two years.
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I don’t recall getting a tetanus shot, so can’t make a good comparison
I didn’t find the flu shot bad at all, the rest of my family did though
What!? They force them upon us every five years.
Pain is a weird one. I think it’s dependent on obviously nerve ending density and how often body part is used
I’ve had a corneal scrape and that resulted in 2 days of extreme pain however a dark room and rest alleviated it
Paper cuts on the tip of your thumbs though. Holy fuck!!!
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Wonder if the pain difference is due to vaccine variant? I had the Pfizer bioNtech version.
I think it must have gotten mixed into the battery of shots I had to get before entering uni
I think I’ve literally burned away the sensitivity in my fingertips from using my fingers to test if searing pans are hot enough. For reference, I can pull an egg straight out of boiling water
That sounds like another level of pain