Speed Bench: 165x3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3
Press: 145x10/10/9
NG Chins: 14/12/10
Pushdowns: Max x10+10+10+10 (V. Short Rests)
RP Concentration Hammer Curls: 35x12+6+4
Ungodly crowded gym tonight, so this took longer than it should’ve. Solid performance though - getting back to a set of 20+ chins while at 200+ pounds would be cool.
Triceps were fucking nuked by all those pushdowns. Really good pump, painful to flex, all that jazz.
Deadlift: Work to 500x2 (PR)
Power Shrug Drop Set: 405x13/315x13/225x13/135xMany
Leg Extensions: 250x8/8/8/8
Decline Sit-Ups (Arms Extended Overhead) 10/10/10
Just shy of two years since all that fun back-and-forth (most of the messages have been deleted for those who weren’t there when it happened), and apparently I’m now just barely strong enough to be a middleweight college wrestler lol. I had 495 loaded and threw on the chips purely because of remembering that comment.
And I even managed it without driving myself impotent from internet steroids :]
@boilerman Thanks! They look pretty quick now that I’m going back and checking the videos, but they did not feel that way lol. Deadlifts always feel pretty slow for me.
@atlas13 Thanks! I actually got reminded of it by another thread that cropped up a few weeks ago about BF% and ended similarly lol. I’m not sure why these people all find me so frustrating, but it’s fun.
@T3hPwnisher Thank you! Your log/blog have been invaluable resources in getting me to where I am now :]
@tlgains Thanks Tim :] Your deadlift also seems to be progressing really well from what you’ve been doing lately.
Conjugate: W6D1&2 ME Upper + DE Lower
Press: 1x195, 1x215 (PR)
Speed Squat: 275x3/3/3/3 225x3/3/3/3
DB Bench: 100x3, 90x8/7
Pull-Ups: 11/11/8
Leg Curls: 195x8/8/6
Incline Walk: 20:00
I am so fucking close to a two-plate press. Really happy to PR that a second time this cycle. And it looked reasonably smooth. Slow, but smooth.
The rest of the session was sort of a mixed bag, not helped by the fact that I didn’t realize the gym closed early yesterday, so I crammed two slightly abbreviated sessions into today.
Deadlift: 495x1, 405x5
Power-Shrug Drop Set: 455x5 and so on
Leg Extensions: 270x8/8/8/8
Decline Sit-Ups (Arms Extended Overhead): 10/10/10
Incline Walk: 15:00
Debated swinging for the fences @535, but today didn’t feel like the day for a PR. I think deadlifts (and some of my other lifts tbh) may work better if I do them in two-week cycles instead of three - maybe something to try at some point. I’m going to Deload a few days, and make my next cycle SSB squat and wide-grip bench.
Ended up with a very photogenic delt pump somehow (this was taken before shrugs). Bear in mind that I do zero isolation work for them, I just press.
Turns out a few weeks ago was a false alarm, my wider bench is still stronger. This moved confidently. I think I’m gonna do backoff sets this cycle just to see what I think of them.
Now that I look back at it, the toothbrush/phone/wall filling really does look like one. I’ve stolen a couple sips of McFlurries from my siblings since I’ve come back, but I haven’t had a shake in a while lol
… apparently that bar is not good for the blood vessels in my traps either lol. I’m very curious how this happened, given the huge-ass pad distributing the weight over my whole upper back, but I’m proud of it.
Some recent food - the pizza is from Comet Pizza, i.e. the restaurant that pizzagate happened at several years ago. Turns out it’s only a short drive from my parents’ place