Thanks, Bambi. The first rep might have been iffy, but the others seemed good.
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Bench day.
warm up
115 x 5
125 x 2
115 x 4
115 x 3
any day my body feels like strengthening would be fine with me
Tri extend machine, got up a couple plates (I think they oiled it)
Leg press machine, went hard
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Well, great. Been under stress and got a raging cold. Gym’s out for the next week.
Feel better soon.
Best wishes.
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Thanks. 
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Hate it when that happens. Get well soon.
Thanks, Elaikases. Feeling like I’m over it, will go back tomorrow.
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Feeling better, back at gym. Couple of weeks since deadlifts. Got up to:
205 x 5
225 x 2
205 x 4
not too bad
Did some weighted dips.
25 x 4
25 x 4
25 x 4
better than I expected.
was thinking of doing some arm curls, but too wiped out. Always good to work on the big exercises.
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Squat day. Put some oomph into them. got up to
155 x 6
165 x 3 not too hard
155 x 4
Arm curls
50 lbs x 8
70 x 3
70 x 3
70 x 3
70 x 2
Leg extensions. Kept increasing weight until doing 2 plates from end of stack before finally doing 5 reps that felt hard enough.
Was wanting to do some leg curls, but could barely walk at that point, so called it a day.
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Been having some shoulder issues this past week. Thought bench would be okay, it usually is, but started off with 95 lbs and disaster. It felt like a fucking Mack truck and shoulder hurt anyway. So stopped. Looked around, settled on the decline bench machine. Cranked out a few sets on that.
Did some sets on the tri extension machine. Fairly good weight.
Hadn’t done leg curls for a while, did some. Got up to 8 reps on one setting, pretty good. Set weight for the next setting and couldn’t budge a single one.
Did some pec deck. Shoulder grumbled, but went okay. Got up to a good 10 reps on one setting, set it one or two levels up, and couldn’t budge it at all.
Did some hanging to see if it would help shoulder.
I really hate bench day. Every time it’s a humility session reminding me how weak I am.
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Substitute DB’s for the bench? Allows some rotation so less shoulder issues?
It seems to be worse with overhead presses or incline press, not as much with dips and such. So concentrating on that doesn’t bother as much.
So started creatine again. Did it 10 years ago, decided to spend the money. Did last week loading. Reading about other people get immediate gains of 10 lbs or more on their lifts. Great.
So deadlifts today. Got up to:
205 x 5
225 x 3
205 x 4
That really took it out of me. Same weight as before.
Year and a half ago, came back to the gym from covid lockdown. In all that time, managed to add 40 lbs to my deadlift. After grueling, hard work, painful, that’s all I have to show for it. Other people can gain way faster. My results are just too slow.
I know everyone is trying to be nice to me, and I really appreciate it, but what I need is the whatever-it-is that gains.
Arm curls
60 x 5
60 x 4
60 x 4
was really hoping to do that with 70.
Did some hanging to help the spine, that was hard too.
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Squats. Going to focus on reps to build. Not worrying about doubles or triples.
Got up to
155 x 8
155 x 7
155 x 8
whew, took a lot out of me
Leg extensions, got up to 4/5 on the stack, 8 reps
Seated cable row. Heavy weight, got up to 8 or 9 reps.
Wish I had bigger lungs, really puffing.
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Numbers are going up, :+1 
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Takes a little while for the muscles to refactor to support reps. A week or two and reps’ll get easier.
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This looks great.
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Shoulder feeling a little better, so did some hard benching. As usual, frustrating.
Bench got up to
105 x 6
105 x 5 last one grinder
105 x 5 last one grinder
105 x 4 last one grinder
105 x 3 last one grinder
Did some tri machine. Did one extra plate, nice. But if tris are good, why no bench? Shoulder, maybe?
OH press machine
got up to 3 or 4 plates
9 reps, then stopped in mid-air, put everything into it, just stayed there
7 reps, stopped in mid air
6 reps stopped in mid air
did some leg presses
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Deadlift got up to
205 x 7
205 x 6
wasn’t panting quite so hard
did some more OH machine press, did better than Sat, shoulders do need the work
arm curls with 60 lb bar
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So have been musing and thinking back on my life. Been weightlifting for some 45 years, ever since my freshman year in college.
Remember my one friend who didn’t understand why I wasn’t growing and said “I’m going to push the food down your throat and stick a cork up your ass to keep it coming out!”
Another friend asking me “Are you taking anti-steroids?”
Met Bulldog on a couple occasions - yes, our Bulldog. We had dinner, where I ate more than him. He’s twice as big and said “Where do you put it?”
Now it’s not as if I’ve had trouble putting on weight. In fact, I was once 30 lbs heavier. The thing is that it’s not muscle, it’s all fat. I went from thin and weak to fat and weak.
And thinking about all the training I’ve had by top notch people. Most recently by Matt Wenning for one full year. Didn’t make much of any progress, except for endless sprains. Actually, nobody training there really changed much. He laughed at me and said I would never bench anything.
It’s been quite a ride.
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