probable. The last time I tested my squat max, I hit 195lbs
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Week 12: Day 1
AM
Back Squat: 10x10-135lbs w/ 2min rests
PM:
Front squat: 1x20, 2x15-85lbs w/ 1 min rest, 2x3 w/ 3sec pause at bottom
3x(30sec RDL/side-45lbs+30sec plank+30 sec rest)
- this was an absolutely awesome workout- total mental win. The last time I did this, I took 4+min rests, these sets just flew by, front squats also moved VERY smoothly
Sadly this doesn’t work for everyone, I really wish it did. If I’m not meticulous with maintaining macros, and just eat healthy foods with a mentality to fuel my workouts, I blow up to 230-240lb in a span of 6 months easily. 180lb in my profile for reference.
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Perhaps the dosage issue is in the training?
And my mentality is more to recover from workouts vs fuel them.
What do you mean by dosage?
Yeah, that makes sense. I guess I’m not intuitive with eating, and I would bet most people aren’t.
I’d definitely blow up if I “ate intuitively”
My brother, otoh, is very good at regulating his appetite
Instead of it being too much food, it’s not enough training.
I can’t be intuitive with my eating either. My intuition tells me eat nothing but nachos, haha. It’s why I operate with a food list.
Nachos mmmmmmm. Place by me that does pulled pork nachos with the pork fried in root beer. Cheat meal fantasy right there!
If anything I’d say I was doing too much training until I recently scaled back to maybe 2/3 the volume and upped the intensity. Weirdly my weight has slowly come down and I’ve gotten tighter everywhere 
Feels like a win-win cuz training sessions are over in 45 min now vs. 1h15. I gain water weight so easily when overstressed and it definitely messes with me mentally and clouds my ability to assess what true maintenance looks like for me. I suspect Anna is proably in same boat.
That’s just lifting though it sounds like. Conditioning is a HUGE piece of the puzzle
Now I just walk 30+ mi a week. That’s another thing, once I add regular conditioning like intervals…cortisol spikes, weight jumps! I’m physiologically hypersensitive to stressers. Even a fight with a friend or family member can cause my weight to jump 2-3lb in a week only to come back down the next.
Yeah, I definitely couldn’t eat like I do training like that. I can see the issues.
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It’s always fun to see different people’s approaches and seeing how all the different pieces of the puzzle fit together.
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Don’t want to be at home. Can’t wait to go back to school.
mildly. Study finally moving along
Mum and having to live w/ little bro (have to give up office), having random food in the house
Week 12: Day 2
Press: 1x3, 9x2, 2min rests
Pullups: 4x5
Curls: 2x(12/arm+ 12 hammer curls/arm)- 13lb DB
- pretty tired and legs basically disfunctional but at least no cramps, REALLY happy w/ press, I’m pretty sure 1x3 at 85lbs is a PR, I’ve definitely been slacking on conditioning work
This doesn’t have to be a bad thing, throw some variety in your diet, even if it isn’t 100% perfect healthy food, your body can use it anyway.
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It’s honestly not the unhealthy stuff that gets me. It’s stuff like salmon, roast pork, costco roast duck, ribs… It’s much easier for me to resist a doughnut or cake after fasting for a day than it is for me to resist roast pork belly after a large dinner (this is from experience)
I can’t resist that stuff so I fit them in, which crowds out other stuff I really want. I don’t feel like I have freedom. The “easy” solution is just to not eat it if I want something else, but for me it’s not that easy.
With that said, the food is probably one of the least of the stressors. The biggest problem is mum. She’s prone to random outbursts so I always feel like I’m walking on egg shells
Week 12: Day 3
2x(1-5-1 manmakers- 20lb Dbs w/ 50 jumping jacks btw manmaker sets)-2min rest pyramid sets
3x(12 front raises/side+12 lateral raises/side)-8lb Db
5x(15 pushups+15 air squats EMOM)
- felt really good, got HR up and went by quick, neck really acting up though
@tlgains I feel your pain dealing w/ parents who question lifting. My mum actually got MAD at me bc we went dress shopping and she said that my arms and legs were getting “too big”, that “my legs are ugly” and “too much muscle is bad”. She also has a delusion that I’d somehow gained a ton of muscle within the span of 10 days because I was lifting heavy while visiting friends in Pittsburgh and refuses to listen to my explanation that most MEN on GEAR cannot gain an appreciable amount of muscle in that time 
@cyclonengineer @flappinit I showed her pics and she actually said that I looked my best around September last year.
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How are you not alarmed when you write stuff like this?
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That really stinks anna. In my obvious opinion, muscle looks great on anyone.
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