Atlas13 Burning the Boats

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2965

Your recent experience is much more flattering than mine.

My wifes nephew from the UK has been staying with us for a few week, he is 14. He came home the other day after spending the day with my wifes sister and said he had seen some of my recent competition videos. He then just laughed and said that my sister in law told him that I do ‘Heavy Man’ competitions. It sounded like I was in a fat club. LOL

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2966

I’m glad you like it! The Mrs and I read it last year, both were big fans

Oof, right in the pride haha

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2967

It’s not all bad, last night one of the young bodybuilders in the gym asked me about my recent strongman comp and also how old I was. When I said 51 his reply was “fkn no way I thought you were like 41”. I will take that any day of the year.

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2968

I feel ya on that one! I’m 46 and had a patient tell me yesterday that she thought I was “38 tops”. Made my day.

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09sep25 (again)
AM:

Conditioned:

35 min incline treadmill walk. 7inc, 3.5mph

Notes:

  • okay, making an effort to log my morning sessions, just so I can actually reference what I’m doing for conditioning

PM:
Agile:
10 min mobility

Powerful:
Skips
4 broad jumps
sprints
Med ball slams

Strong:
Bench: 210x6, 210x6, 210x6, 210x6, 170x10

  • WW: 100x6, 100x6, 100x6, 100x6, 80x18

Built:

Lat Pulldown: 185x12, 185x9, 140x15

  • WW: 120x12, 120x10, 100x15

Db Bench: 80x12, 80x9, 65x10

  • WW: 40x13, 40x12, 35x12

Overhead cable ext: 50x15, 55x15, 60x12

  • WW: 30x8, 25x10, 25x10

Face pull: 50x15, 50x15

  • WW: 25x15, 25x15

5 minute timer, rapid fire curls for the gains.
Ez bar: 70x13, 70x10
Db curl-alt db curl- alt hammer curl mechanical dropset: 25x8-5-9

Notes:

  • bench felt good. 210 moving well. Gotta remember that it moves better when I slow down the first few reps, keep things tight.
  • Minor changes to accessories, all felt good.
  • Quick bicep pump at the end because wedding is in 10 weeks and I’ve got a reputation to uphold

@simo74 @BethB dang, I’m 28 and get mid 30s all the time. In my defense, I blame the uniform and full mustache lol

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2970

Oh God please tell me it’s a 70’s porno stash! :rofl::rofl:
To be clear, I have nothing against a good stash.

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2971

Think Tom Selleck in the magnum PI days hahaha. As large as regs will allow… and maybe a little bit over if we are being honest

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2972

I knew you were going to say Tom Selleck!!! Two enthusiastic thumbs up if it is legit Selleck. I imagine your regulations won’t allow a Curt Russell Tombstone mustache. That would be amazing.

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2973

I always forget how young you are, now I feel really old. LOL

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2974

11sep25:
Agile:

Powerful:

Hang power clean: 175x3, 175x3, 175x3, 175x3, 175x3, 175x3, 1753

WW: 85x2, 85x2, 85x2, 85x2, 85x2, 85x2, 85x2

Strong:

Soft belt Front squat: 240x3, 240x3, 240x3,

  • WW: 100x3, 100x3, 100x3,

Press: 150x6, 150x6, 150x6, 150x6,

  • WW: 65x6, 65x6, 65x6, 65x6, 50x20

Built:

NG chins: 3, +15x3, +15x3, +15x3, 3

  • WW: Bx5, Bx5, bx5, bx5, bx5

Dips: 7, 7, 7, 7,

  • WW: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

GHR: 12, 12

  • WW: 12. 12
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2975

I always forget how young you are, now I feel really old. LOL

@atlas13 really has a lot of maturity at such a young age. I’ll get lulled into a false sense of security discussing stuff with him only to bring up some cultural reference from 2002 and for him to remind me that he was like 5 years old at the time, haha.

But that’s full props to you Atlas. You’re so ahead of the game compared to where most of us were at that age.

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13sep25:
Agile:

25 min mobility routine

Strong:

Deadlift: 425x3, 425x3, 425x3, 365x10

  • WW: 225x3, 225x3, 225x3, 190x10

30 Incline bench: 175x6, 175x6, 175x6, 175x6, 175x6, 175x9

  • WW: 85x6, 85x6, 85x6, 85x6, 85x6, 85x6

Built:

Single arm cable row: 80x12, 80x12

  • WW: 40x12, 40x12

Slant board goblet squat: 90x5, 70x12

  • 53x9, 53x9

BPA: Bx15, Bx15

  • WW: rx15, rx15

Cable extension: 45x15, 45x20

Conditioned:

Couple mile walk around some parks,

Notes:

  • Mrs and I are both feeling a bit beat up by this point in the week, so did a bit of extra mobility work today. Felt good. Mobility is getting better. Not good by any means, but better.
  • first time hitting straight deads in a minute. Felt good, 425 was definitely submax, but felt like a good spot in terms of grind vs bar speed. 365x10 sucked, but the weight was still flying, I just haven’t done volume deads in ages.
  • Incline bench felt good, just increasing volume here.
  • Conditioning was thrown off a tad. Planned to hike around a local park, got there and found the park was having a weekend fair. So we still ended up walking around, but at a bit more leisurely pace. Downside, less of a workout. Upside, I got to see a baby alligator exhibit.

@BethB I’m pushing the limits as is with the selleck, no shot of a Russel haha. Maybe one day

@simo74 yeah but that’s American years, no metric years

@T3hPwnisher I appreciate the kind words. To be honest, I don’t feel that way. I think it’s a cultural expectations thing. A lot was expected of me, and I was raised in a household where you were very much expected to be a functional adult at 18. If anything, I feel behind the power curve on so many life milestones (kids, grad school, etc) but the works are in progress

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I have a friend who grew a straight up civil war era beard and mustache. It was by far the coolest beard I’ve ever seen. If you ever get to Russel, I request a picture.

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2978

I was 28 when I had my first child and my husband was 33. My brother is 54 with a 1 year old and another due in October. I got my first associates degree at 32 and my second at 34. The curve is relative. I’m sure you are doing just fine.

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2979

My uncle graduated from Western States Law School (San Diego) in his mid 30s. He ended being a trial lawyer for Los Angeles County prosecuting workman’s comp fraud involving county fire and sheriff. He also prosecuted CHP and LA city police. He was good at it. Don’t worry about a curve. Plus it goes both ways. I had a younger coworkertell me I would never get job interviews because I double space after periods. It is a dead give away that I am old. The punctuation rules changed to one space. I was a Spec Ed teacher at the time. What he did not know was I was receiving calls at my work desk from Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and even the US Virgin Islands to relocate and join their districts. The reverse curve I guess.

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2980

That’s because it’s correct.

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2981

Agreed!

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2982

Thank you. Damn pseudo intellectual. I learned the University of Chicago method I believe. I think when I retire I am going to start researching and writing again. I enjoyed that in college.

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2983

@BethB @Friedrich I appreciate the words of encouragement. To be clear, I’m not beating myself up or anything. I’m exactly where I planned to be at this point, fully aware that some career decisions I made when I was young would land me where I am today. And, that’s a pretty decent spot. Good professional career so far, great opportunities when I leave the Navy, finances better than I could have hoped (I bless 16 year old me for opening an IRA lol). There’s a lot going well, and I’m truly happy with the pace of things. But I’m also aware, I’m starting grad school at 30. Again, I did that on purpose, it will get me full GI bill, and I can go to most likely Georgetown (maybe UVA? Hopkins? Still torn, but leaning Georgetown) without spending a dime, but I’m also graduating later than many. Just a trade off, I get my masters a bit later with some pretty good credentials and work experience to back it up, rather than knocking it out early and being done by 27-28. Also wanted to be out of the Navy prior to kids, so again a planned thing, but again pushed kids back to at least 30. I don’t mind any of that, knew what I was doing going in, but there is a part of me that’s excited and ready for that next step.

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15sep25:
Agile: 5 min mobility

Powerful:

7x3 high jumps in between press sets

Strong:

Seated Pin Press (31): 95x5, 115x5, 135x5, 155x5, 135x8, 135x8, 135x6 (nailed my nose… that hurt)

  • WW: 65x5, 75x5, 80x5, 65x8, 65x8,

Built:

Lat pulldown (1-0-3): 150x12, 150x11, 150x11

  • WW: 100x10, 100x10, 100x9

Db Bench (1-.5-3): 70x12, 70x11, 70x8

  • WW: 35x10, 35x10, 35x10

Seated 1 arm cable row (2-1-3): 70x10. 70x10

  • WW: 40x10,

Seated Lat Raise: 25x12, 25x11, 25x10, 15x16

  • WW: 10x13, 10x13, 10x13, 10x12

Face Pull (1-1-3): 55x12, 55x11

  • WW: 30x15,

Notes:

  • Finished last program, on to next. 8 week block, shifting to a bit more hypertrophy focus. Mrs mentioned a few achey joints, want to back up the weight a bit, and I’m not 100% confident she’s got form down on accessories, so I thought doing some tempo work would help ingrain form on the movements patterns she has less experience with.
  • Dang, doing the lifts like this is killer. My back was smoked on pulldowns, I can normally crank a lot more weight, the squeeze at the bottom really kills me.
  • Controlled eccentric on db bench just murdered my pecs, in a good way
  • Doing some more shoulder work because I always neglect them and I shouldn’t.
  • Back to the top, for Pin press, set up pins just below chin height. Loved this movement, plan to do more of it. Did absolutely nail my nose going up on the 7th rep of the last set. Need to be more careful lol
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