Haven’t checked in in a bit. U squat to depth yet?
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You’re on a brutal roll today. Please don’t come by and ask how my training is going 
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How is, friend? Life busy af I’m assuming? How u managing?
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I’ve reconsidered - please ask mean questions about training. Less brutal than life
Nah in all seriousness, doing what I can. And yeah, definitely busy af. Seems to be similar for you in terms of business.
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Haha ouch. I’d pass in the guineapig fed but maybe not elsewhere! My quads are sexy though so I’m happy.
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The only chest supported version that I like is the Hammer Strength plate loaded machines. I’ve never tried seal rows because I don’t have boxes in which to put my bench to get it high enough of the ground.
Seated cable rows have become my favorite option at home.
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Week 1: Monday
GS1
kB swing: 24kg X 5 X 6 sets
Squats: 60, 80, 100, 110, 130kg X 5, 142.5kg X 10
Cable crunch*: 40kg X 10 X 6 sets
Deficit deads: 60, 100, 120kg X 3, 140kg X 3 X 3 sets (dead stop, 22mm deficit)
Gs2:
Ng chins (slightly turned in not neutral): 15, 12, 10
Dips: 20, 20, 20
Cable curls: 20kg X 20, 20, 20
Cable pulldowns: 20kg X 25, 25, 25
*New way of doing these, facing stack not facing outward worked significantly better.
Couldn’t be bothered at all today, general ennui all day and training was absolute bottom of desires for today. Squats, had a load left, just couldn’t be bothered to fight. Honestly I’m thinking I could or might not be far off 142.5 X 20, would be slow and horrible but they were that easy. Deficits were a little too heavy probably, they just went slow, but never mind - probably just mental.
Arm stuff was brutal and unpleasant I’d rather do heavy stuff any day of the week, hitting failure because you’ve hit strength limit is so much nicer than trying to get muscular failure, lactate pain is trying to get you to quit way before the actual failure and hurts so much more than any normal (non injury) pains/strain of heavy stuff. Bodybuilders are masochist.
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I’ve used something similar in the past, delightful machines.
Same, plus my bench is adjustable some has a bar running the length of it at a angle, would be impossible.
Yea, this plus lat pulldown are my go to machine options will try the 1 handed cable soon and let you know if it’s any good.
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Week 1: Wednesday
Gs1:
Pendlay row: 60, 70, 75, 85, 97.5kg X 5
Bench: 60, 70, 75, 85kg X 5, 97.5kg X 11
Rdl: 60, 70, 75, 85, 97.5kg X 6
Cable crunch: 40kg X 8 X 5 sets
Gs2:
Ng chins: 20kg X 3 X 4 sets
Dips: 20kg X 10 X 4 sets
Ab rolls: 5 X 4 sets
Gs3
Bb curl: 40kg X 5 X 4 sets
Cgbp: 60kg X 5, 80kg X 5 X 4 sets
Cable crunch: 40kg X 8 X 4 sets
Not bad, disappointed with the bench, wasn’t focused and held it at top of 10 for a way too long and then lost all energy for 11th wanted at least 12 but would have expected more. Got a cold, sleep deprived and got lots of interesting stuff going on in life, so blame that - no stress pr today @anna_5588.
RDLs not a great idea, @dagill2 you were right dropping that hip hinge will probably chuck ghrs in there bw stuff is easy to recover from right? And definitely won’t hit lower back.
Curls and cgbp, good reps all solid no arching ok bench no momentum on curls all focused on working the target muscles in a “heavier” rep range. Weights can go up on those next week, or maybe add a rep or two and stretch the weight increases out?
Good fun session overall.
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I can’t be told that often enough. Can you let my other half know it does sometimes happen?
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Haha sure, give me her number I’ll text her, a stranger from the internet texting her will definitely prove you’re right!
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It’s stress PRs, not sick PRs 
Great effort!
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For sure. I can’t see anything going wrong with me publicly handing out her number on internet forums to total strangers and anyone else who happened to be watching. Nothing at all.
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Glad we agree this is a genius plan.
Hmm you might have a point there 
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Week 2: Friday (on Saturday)
Deads: 60, 100, 120kg X 4, 140kg X 1, 150kg X 4 X 4, 172.5kg X 2, 192.5kg X 2 (PR), 150kg X 8
Gs:
Ohp: 40, 50, 55kg X 3, 62.5kg X 8
GHR: 6 X 4 sets
Seated cable row: 80kg X 20 X 4 sets
Finisher
Wg pullup X 10, Ng chin X 6 - lat pull down 80kg X 10 - seated row 80kg X 10, 60kg X 12, 40kg X 20. As giant mechanical and physical drop set.
Deads were good, 172.5kg still felt like a warm up which was good, 192.5kg was harder, first rep was slow but never in doubt, 2nd was easier (t&g, no bounce though, gentle touch).
Ohp was disappointing again, I tried a belt and was fine up to top set then felt like where it overlaps at the lever was giving me a hernia, super uncomfortable, not sure if that’s the reason for my lack luster performance or maybe I’m just weaker than I expected to be (this is behind my best, I assumed I wouldn’t have lost strength in BtM but maybe I did), never mind it’ll be back.
I didn’t train yesterday as I was fasting and didn’t think I’d be wise to try and hit my heaviest day during a fast. I’m still slightly underfed today and weighed in at 207, sure I’ll bounce back, probably need to get back to very high cals for a week or two (or month or two) get my body happier at holding 210+.
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Woohoo! Congrats!
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Nice one!
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Thanks @Koestrizer and @ChickenLittle, kind of a mini pr, fairly confident I would have been able to do that for a while, but just not tried. Next week calls for 200 X 2, that’ll be a proper PR.
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Be sure not to sleep!
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Haha I’m sure I won’t anyway!