You sound like me.
‘This thing is really annoying and interfering with my training and daily life. But I want to do [insert program] so I’m going to ignore it.’
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The meat photo was practically NSFW. That turned out incredible. Absolutely understand the situation with the daughter as well: way to crush being a dad.
Regarding the shoulder: in your bag of toys at the home gym, so you have a landmine? If so, I wonder if landmine presses would work with shoulder for now.
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Nailed it! I am definitely ignoring it, but really shouldn’t.
Thank you, high praise from someone who cooks as much steak as you do! I really did love every mouthful of that thing, completely elevated steak game there and now makes me want to just spend a whole lot more money on steak!
I do indeed, fantastic suggestion, thanks, I’ll line it up for the next training session!
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Outstanding to hear on all accounts dude! And as much as I cook a lot of steak, I am a total steak caveman, haha. I really have the simplest of taste buds: all I use is salt, and I just like the taste of the meat and fat. We got some real champions slumming around the forums.
For the landmine: if it turns out to be a win, I don’t there’d be any shame in co-opting BtM with a viking press approach. I know @bulldog9899 has done some solid work with the Viking Press, and I used one a ton in my own training. Only real issue is getting a good TM to work with, but beyond that, Jim is so much a fan of “find what works for you and kick ass with it”
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That’s how you eat good meat! I might add some pepper, but that’s it.
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I used pepper and a little garlic but meat was definitely the star of the show.
Thanks, I’d love to get a standard BB OHP to be in there, it’s never been a problem before, but I’ll make whatever adaptions necessary, within the spirit of the program, to get to the yes!
@bulldog9899 thank you, How’d you like the viking press attachment?
13/05/25 - 197 (BBQ last night and I didn’t hold back, absolutely going in the "wrong " direction but I’m happy with how I look for the cruise, will probably be around 195 when I leave).
Cardio/warmup
Lifting
A1) landmine press: 20, 30, 40, 50, 60kg x 8 e/s
A2) landmine row: 30, 30, 40, 50, 60kg x 12
A3) hanging leg raises: 8 x 5 sets
Landmine press: 40kg x 20/10/8
Done alternating each arm without rest.
Another quick early AM session, had to modify the landline attachment - it had two bits sticking up that were supposed to lock it into place in a rack but it’s always been too small for my rack, never got round to doing it…
My neighbours probably don’t love me right now.
That’s a great little set up for blasting through antagonist sets of press and pulls, and you could even add RDLs into that mix. The anti rotation effort of the landmine press being single arm added some additional core work. Doing the no rest finisher gave a good training effect and pump.
Shoulder felt alright, didn’t complain so I’ll keep going with that until it does complain or gets better! Thanks @T3hPwnisher. I see the viking press attachment getting purchased very shortly.
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Anyone ever been this brave?
(Starts at 46 seconds)
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The handles or the whole set?
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Good to hear the landmine worked out well. I can’t speak to viking handle leg presses, but I like it not just for viking press, but for rows and thrusters. Thrusters, in particular, are pretty dandy with the handle: great way to get in a full ROM and hard conditioning exercise without dealing with the loading issues of a barbell.
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Doing those landmines you get extra credit for just getting the weight into position to press. 
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The handles specifically but is your set a rack mounted rather attachment or is that something you’ve rigged yourself?
Sounds like quite a versatile thing, feel like I’ve been sleeping on the landmine in general, now the viking handle is feeling like a must, also seen a hack squat style accessory for the landmine that looks tempting (I need a bigger garage!).
Haha for sure, every little extra helps!
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Its a self rig.
Took a landmind attachment and had a fabrication guy i know modified it.
Which i slide over and tighten the bolt down on the safety catches my rack has.
For a bar i use a swiss bar.
And finally the handle.
^ I need to modify this slightly. It came with a small knob to tighten it to the sleeve of the bar. I feel it needs something a little more beefy.
All in all it works fairly well.
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Thanks for the details there very helpful, looks like a great set-up, the viking handles are definitely being bought and I’ll see if I can’t figure out something along the lines that you’ve got there!
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Your welcome, anytime.
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14/05/25 - 196.25
Conditioning:
5 x 6 count Burpees chin/pull-ups x 10 sets done EMOM.
Mixed the grip up on the pull-ups just to try and limit shoulder aggravation, but it wasn’t that causing discomfort/proprioception (hard to describe wasn’t anything major) but getting to the start of the Burpees, just the impact caused something noticeable in the rear delt(ish) area, slightly odd but nothing that felt like a significant risk to continue. Sweating!
Lifting:
Deadlift: 60, 100kg x 5, 120kg x 1
My back felt janky from wake up this morning, was really hoping that just getting going throughout the day would help, but deadlifts were feeling particularly risky. I didn’t even lower 120kg, dropped from the top, because it felt that bad. I’m like a freaking geriatric at the moment, this is super annoying.
100kg
120kg
How to redeem a crappy session…
Turn it into a bro arm session!
A1) Single arm cable curls: 20kg x 10 x 5 sets
A2) DB skull crushers/rolling Tri ext: 10kg x 15 x 5 sets
B1) pinwheels: 15kg x 12 x 4 sets
B2) Tri pushdown: 40kg x 12 x 4 sets
C1) Ez curl: 18kg x 20 x 3 sets
C2) Floor press: 80kg x 10 x 3 sets
Redeemed the session to have some positive training effect, really frustrating with the big lifts though, because within the last 2 weeks I’ve pulled 180kg, put 110kg sandbag over the bar, 90kg over my shoulder, 110kg bench for reps, and I’ve not injured myself (any further) and today my body’s just like nahhh you done for!
Offloading a bit there, if it was someone else I’d be thinking, yea but life stress (on every front, feels a little like an unending assault from all angles!), lack of sleep and low cals, you’re not going to be firing 100%, but that’s fine for someone else but I don’t want to tell myself that 
. 10 days until holiday, could probably do with a month off given how I feel, but let’s hope a week works miracles.
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Also just to remind myself, I’ll try squats on Friday, if they work great if they don’t, or even if they do, I can rig up some home gym belt squats and looking at @kleinhound journal split/Bulgarian belt squats, look freaking nasty.
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Oh gosh, that’s almost the opposite for me. Biceps? Meh. I can get behind a decent triceps workout, but I could never turn into one of those guys who dedicates an entire day to arms. I think my happy place would be a shoulder pump.
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Yup, that would normally be for me, but with a stiff back and dodgy shoulders my options were limited and I was determined to get something done.
To be fair nothing in the gym is my happy place anymore. My happy place is a hot tub with a cohiba and a coffee.
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Yeah, I get that. Life has changed. I can’t imagine trying to complete one of my two hour sessions from 10 years ago. Yesterday was a great example of how I feel right now - did some pull-downs, rows, reverse flys, shrugs, curls, and left. It didn’t feel like much of a workout, but I felt a bit worn down and didn’t want to be there anymore. Maybe it’s a result of the CF type workouts where I was doing a little bit of a lot of things so I felt more accomplished.
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