I counted 5 or maybe 6, but I mean, whatever—at some point it doesn’t even matter anymore… 
Congrats! That’s an awesome PR.
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I love how many people actually know what the RPS scale is
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congrats. well done. 
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Forgot to say thanks to all the congrats, big milestone done, on to the next one!
Also forgot to update the full results of my CGM experiment, I uploaded them and my previous blood test to Dr. GPT and it had an interesting summary:
Not that I’ll take this as a sign to sit on my laurels in regards to metabolic health but interesting that it’s quite likely TRT is giving me artificially high hba1c reading when compared to live cgm readings, my estimated hba1c according Dr GPT is 34, according to the CGM itself 35, which is fine on both counts.
When I get some easier time I’ll re-run with another CGM but with carnivore diet (and probably some before and after bloods just for additional fun - because I know how to party!).
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Been following - just had an A1c of 6.0 at 62 years old, admittedly eating a shit ton of candy post Halloween. I cut that out and will be retesting in a few.
Just quit TRT seven weeks ago, will be interested to see if that affects the A1c.
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That’ll be really interesting to see if dropping TRT impacts it, but I guess it’ll be hard to say if there’s a confounding factor in the diet changes. Hope you manage to reverse it.
What caused you to drop TRT?
Damn mate that was an impressive lift. Well done
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08/12/25 - 201.5
LWIWWIW
Axle strict press:
30, 40, 50kg x 5
60kg x 3
70kg x 1
75kg x 2.5
80kg x 1
Another life time PR (it’s actually either 80.5 or 81kg can’t remember the axle weight). Not done this on a BB yet… Didn’t get it on video because honestly I didn’t think I had it, but it flew up, so tried to repeat it for video… Twice, failed both times, but c’est la vie, massive win either way!
Axle Push press:
83kg x 3
Nearly passed out there, thats small plates maxed out on the axle.
Chin ups: 10 x 5 sets
That’s all for today, nice to hit a other lifetime PR, increased cals and freeing myself from a program (and reaping the benefits of that program) are doing great things here.
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You’re killing it!
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Nice one!
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You’ve been sounding happier. Are you still punching the clock, or are you dialed back in?
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You’re witnessing the magic of fatigue dissipation. Those PRs were always there, just waiting to be realized.
It’s worth appreciating how the body can’t partition stress: it just has stress. When you have life stress, nutrition stress, and training stress (from the stress of the training AND the stress of not enjoying the training), it just compounds and we accumulate all the fatigue from it. You’ve liberated yourself and reduced some of that fatigue. It’s awesome to see.
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Thanks been quite a long time since I’ve hit legit PRs having hit 2 X 1rm max PRs and what I’m pretty convinced was a deadlift PR all inside a week has been a refreshing change!
I wouldn’t say that on a personal level I’m any happier*, still a lot going on, definitely in need of a Christmas break and had a chat with my wife and talked about how to reduce the load in the new year, got a direction of travel and were on the same page so that’s good (thanks here to @Andrewgen_Receptors for talking some things through with me). Will probably still be a fairly stretched start to 2026 but should ease off on the way through.
*Edit, that makes me sound miserable or depressed, I wasn’t trying to portrait that, just to say I don’t subjectively feel happier, not that I feel worse either. Although I am pretty grouchy at the moment, but that’s probably lack of sleep (got rid of the gum infection only to an ulcer - body’s trying to hint something).
I’d say I’m somewhere in the middle of those, not dialled in (despite the PRs), I’m still not looking forward to training, and still forcing myself out to the garage, but the mental freedom of I’m just going to go out and do X and see how I feel is liberating. Today was a prime example, I did hardly anything, but that’s fine, I just told myself that I was going to OHP, thought about squatting, didn’t want to, so I simply didn’t. I will squat soon, but that’s mentally the hardest thing to force myself to do.
Absolutely, kicking against the goads for far too long, which perversely was counter productive in yet another way - I actually did less per week because it’s easier to find excuses not to train when you’re dreading it and when you’ve got to commit to a minimum of X amount of work.
It’s a valuable lesson, that I probably need to learn in other areas of my life.
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09/12/25 - 204.25 (I think yesterday was actually 202.5, because I weight in stone and have to convert and division is hard, still weight is trending upwards which is good).
LWIWWIW:
Squats:
60, 80kg x 5
100, 120, 140kg x 3
160kg x 5
180kg x 0.5
Pleased with the 160kg, thought I’d give 180 a go, lowered under control to parallel, felt my butt push out too far (even more GM position than my normal squat) and the emphasis shift to my lower back, so didn’t fight the battle to lift it, took the safe choice and live to fight another day.
No PRs today, but that’s fine I’ve hit 160kg for 8 before and 165kg for 5, so in touching distance of some rep PRs, hit 180 and 190kg for singles, but I’d say my depth is much better these days.
That’s all, because that’s what I told myself I was doing today and I don’t want to do anymore!
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That in itself is a win!
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These looked good. Are you wearing a belt and sleeves under all those clothes ?
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Thanks, felt pretty decent as well. Yes belt and sleeves, never squat heavy without them! (Don’t like the noise my knees make without sleeves )
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Even more winning today, had time to train, even had a rough idea about what I was going to do, then - didn’t train and ate a family sized mac and cheese instead.
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11/12/25 - 205.5
Random overhead work:
Clean and press away (push press)
60, 70, 80, 90kg x 2
100kg - couldn’t get it to rack
80kg x 5
Clean and press away (strict): 60kg x 10
90kg:
80kg:
60kg:
My elbow did not like the clean, done immediately after drill night, which allows me space overhead in the (sort of) dry, didn’t bother changing.
Those are all some sort of default PR (well the 90kg and 80kg).
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Nice …
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