Pull+Hams (Width)
Wednesday, Oct 08, 2025 at 10:47am
Lat Pulldown (Cable)
Set 1: 220 lbs x 14 [Failure]
Set 2: 180 lbs x 16 [Failure]
Straight Arm Lat Pulldown (Cable)
Set 1: 70 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 2: 55 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Shrug (Smith Machine)
“2xfail”
Set 1: 0 lbs x 0
Set 2: 275 lbs x 19 [Failure]
Set 3: 225 lbs x 21 [Failure]
Preacher Curl (Barbell)
Set 1: 75 lbs x 15
Set 2: 75 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Lying Leg Curl (Machine)
Set 1: 150 lbs x 15
Set 2: 150 lbs x 13 [Failure]
Set 3: 150 lbs x 7 [Failure]
@hevyapp
All that fretting about the scale just for it to drop like 3lbs from yesterday. Sometimes I feel like life is trying to teach me a lesson I’m just not learning.
Brother this is “gold”. I see so much time spent by some guys talking about the ‘optimal’ this or that. Theres no magic recipe. Lift heavy and make smart choices about your food. Doesn’t get simpler.
I have seen very good physiques accomplished many different paths. I don’t buy there is good reason to place all your eggs in any singular “optimal” program.
What if your choice of “optimal” program is not the optimal program for you? Or maybe at your current development, what was your “optimal” program is no longer what is needed to further progress?
The question boils down to when do we make a program change.
Hey - just saying, you are at stage weight now but need to be 5%. You are not going to get there. You are maybe ten percent now, could cut to 5%, but then you just look skinny.
Were lowering carbs a bit on high day.
Also upping t3 clen and reta.
If we dont see solid progress in the next 2 weeks, we’re calling off the show as this course is not good for me mentally or physically.
Might it be worth a try to run the next two weeks with significantly higher volume and less intensity. Stay on your diet. That is, only make a single change. Don’t add too many variables, only one. You can make an assessment of the progress in two weeks.
Push+Quads (Delt focus)
Friday, Oct 17, 2025 at 11:00am
Meadows Lateral Raise Partials
Set 1: 45 lbs x 16 [Failure]
Set 2: 45 lbs x 15 [Failure]
Viking Press
Set 1: 115 lbs x 15 [Failure]
Set 2: 95 lbs x 17 [Failure]
Pendulum Squat (Machine)
“Almost passed out, stopped after top set”
Set 1: 225 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 2: 0 lbs x 0 [Failure]
Butterfly (Pec Deck)
Set 1: 200 lbs x 15
Set 2: 200 lbs x 13 [Failure]
Triceps Pushdown
Set 1: 80 lbs x 26 [Failure]
Set 2: 80 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Set 3: 80 lbs x 5 [Failure]
@hevyapp
Off to an indoor water park this weekend for the kiddo’s birthday party. Might take a drive through Yosemite as its on my “California Bucket List”.
Gonna be MOGpocalypse for any Dads at the water park this weekend.
