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Nice work going on here. Glad to see you sticking with the Surge program and I’m excited to see where you ultimately end up. I’ll be wrapping up Phase 3 this Sunday, and will post updated pics. Your weight selections are impressive! I did legs with only 185 lbs yesterday, and those initial pump sets of 8, 8, 8 back squats essentially tabata-style were really tough even at that weight.

I live in NorCal where my garage is usually in the 60’s when I work out, BUT I did lift in Cabo a few times on vacation where it was sweltering so I can definitely relate.

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Thank you sir. The Surge challenge has been a blast. On my radar Next are the 28 Days Later program by John Meadows and then I’ll return to 5/3/1 with Building the Monolith and BBB Beefcake.

Oh yes absolutely, the 3 sets straight of squats with only 10 seconds in between is a huge mind f and super hard. It’s basically a Widowmaker to me and is partially just about overcoming the mental anguish and extreme breathing. My heart rate was up to 170 bpm during the last set. It honestly isn’t as bad as I tend to make it in my head though. And opening with the wide Stance, low bar squats feels great because the weight just moves extremely easy from the first rep even without any kind of warm up to the 225. This is also why I generally don’t do wide Stance low bar squats in my own training, which may seem strange lol

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Got in another really nice pre-roll Pump today. This workout felt really good. This felt a bit like a recovery session almost, if it weren’t for the insane amount of sweating that took place and the utter hell I put my shoulders through lol also the rolls in Grappling went great. I love feeling those week to week improvements. Just got to keep progressing.

Thighs, Calves, Shoulders, Forearms

Pump
Leg Extension Toes Up 90x10
Leg Curl 90x8
Leg Extension Toes Neutral 90x10

Stimulate
Squat 225x10
Leg Extension 90x10
Leg Curl 90x8

Flutter
Leg Extension 90-20 sec

Pump
Calf Raises 90x12
Seated Calf Raises 90x12
Donkey Calf Raises x12

Stimulate
Leg Curl Toe Pointed 90x8
Calf Raises 52.5x10

Flutter
Calf Raises 52.5-20 sec

Pump
Lateral Raises 35x10
Upright Row 35x10
DC Style Shoulder Stretch -40 sec

Stimulate
Overhead Press (with Fat Gripz) 135x10
Lateral Raises 20x10
Farmers Walks with 45 lb Plates-40 steps
45 lb Plate Shrugs x20

Flutter
Lateral Raises 20-20 sec

Pump
Wrist Curl (with Fat Gripz) 65x10
Reverse Curl (with Fat Gripz) 65x10
Reverse Wrist Curl 45x10

Stimulate
Wrist Curl (with Fat Gripz) 65x10

Flutter
Wrist Curl (with Fat Gripz) 65-20 sec

Feel good about this. That Fat Grip Overhead pressing with holds at the bottom and slow negatives gets easier every week! Might need to bump the weight up soon, which is something I’m starting to do on every exercise. Add more weight or reps to every thing I’m doing as my strength evolves past what I had previously established for myself.

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585

On Saturday I finished up Phase 3 of the Surge Challenge on Saturday and today I embarked on Building the Monolith today!!! This program basically seems to on the Mount Rushmore of mass gaining programs so I really wanted to get into it like you wouldn’t believe. The Surge Challenge really primed me for this well. Getting to actually rest between sets felt phenomenal, particularly on squats. Also only doing 5 reps, even with higher weight felt phenomenal (this changes on Friday lol)! I supersetted all of the assistance work for 10 sets of 10. This is easily the highest volume workout I’ve ever done in my life, which makes me very glad it’s only 3 days a week! I did PR on the Press Widowmaker, so hell yeah about that! I used Surge Workout Fuel pre and intra workout, which was so helpful to get through this monster of a workout! I got through it in 52 minutes, which I feel like is not too bad from logs I’ve read! Very hyped about this. My pump afterwards was very insane. I looked a good 5-10 pounds larger post workout.

Building the Monolith W1D1

Squats 225x5, 255x5, 290 5x5

Press 120x5, 135x5, 155x5, 120x23(Rep PR)

Chin Up 10x10

Dips 10x10

Face Pulls 10x10

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Today I woke up just absolutely ravenously hungry. My entire back is completely on fire. My biceps, triceps, pecs, and delts are all fried too. Legs are actually the least sore part while still managing to be very noticeably sore. The only way I’m going to conquer this program the way I know I can is to sleep and eat like an absolute champion. I plan on being the biggest and best version of myself in 6 weeks time.

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587

Got BtM on my to do list, maybe after I’ve finished Krypteia. Looking forward to reading how you get on over the next 6 weeks.

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That sounds like a really good combo! I’m excited to see where it takes both of us!

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These are two of my most favorite 531 templates. Can’t go wrong with either.

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590

I had a nice recovery day yesterday. Several miles of walking to and around the animal park and the beach supersetted with a huge dinner at East Side Mario’s where I had sausage and pepper penne pasta (delicious!) and several more feedings that night including a couple of protein shakes, milk, eggs, Greek yogurt, roast beef and cheese sandwich. I kept thinking about how hard today’s workout would be and how I needed to keep eating to prep for it.

Today’s workout was very very high effort, high level of sweat, high level of fatigue. Perfect workout for Sure to give me a boost with. Just need to keep eating and sleeping well. Especially with jiu jitsu and live rolls several times a week (including tonight). The weight actually pretty much flew up for me, which took me as somewhat of a surprise since I’ve been away from this lift specific approach and lifting much lighter weights for the past 6 weeks with my training maxes the same as they were during my most recent 5/3/1 cycle. I guess this pretty well demonstrates that I really did gain some quality muscle and strength during the Surge Challenge, even with lower neurological efficiency from being out of practice. The last rep on Bench was somewhat of a grinder, but I got it back up and packed with no issue. I supersetted rows and curls with my main 5 sets on Bench. Took me a few sets to find my stride on curls but settled in for sets of 20 with 25 pounds (WAY harder than I was expecting) after first experimenting with 35 and 25 for sets of 10 respectively. I got my final set of 20 on curls after cleaning up and putting all the weights away. Finished the whole session in 58 minutes and 30 seconds on the dot! This was a fantastic workout that I followed up with a protein shake and some scrambled eggs cooked in butter! I think I’ll do another bowl of oatmeal before jiu jitsu tonight. Hopefully I don’t puke on the mats from all of this food haha!

Building The Monolith W1D2

Deadlift 315x5, 355x5, 405 3x5
Bench 205x5, 235x5, 265 5x5
Db Bent Over Row 52.5 5x20
Db Curl 35x10, 25x10, 25 4x20

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My spinal erectors have been killing me for the last two days! Not deadlifting in 6 weeks has manifested not so much in a loss of strength as it has a novel stimulus for my posterior chain again. Actually pretty cool, but it’s certainly made jiu jitsu and Muay Thai the last couple of days much more uncomfortable. Oh well, I don’t do all of this stuff to be comfortable. Today’s lift actually helped ail a lot of those woes, especially the weighted pull ups. It felt like my spine was decompressing haha!

The workout itself was definitely the easiest of the week. Only one heavy set of squats, and the Widowmaker wasn’t too bad because my conditioning is on point right now and the weight is lighter than I had been doing with Widowmakers lately. The pressing definitely finished off my shoulders though. I supersetted the assistance with the Press which helped me get done in 43 minutes! It was a great workout to close out the week with and begin a recovery weekend!

Building The Monolith W1D3

Squat 225x5, 255x5, 290x5, 145x20
Press (with Fat Gripz) 120lb 10x5
Weighted Pull Up 35lb Dumbbell 5x5
Face Pull 5x20
Shrug 45lb plates 5x20

Side note: next time I think I’ll do Barbell shrugs so I can use more weight, and I’ll also be using a heavier Dumbbell on the Pull ups.

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I’m enjoying this log. You seem to be a hard worker; that’s something I can respect. I’m a fan.

Not to get chatty, but I love to see when someone sees the end goal they want, then determines the steps they need to take to get there and pursue it with dogged determination. Inspiring. Thank you.

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Thank you sir! I do always try to work hard. I think my wrestling background really instilled a sense of hard work in me. That’s definitely a sport where you see a separation in success between the people who work really hard and who don’t. I think having goals is really important, and sometimes you just have to do things that you know are going to suck to get there. Wrestling and lifting are two areas where you really FEEL the suck and the pain. Once you become used to overcoming that every day a lot of other kinds of suck in life don’t feel so bad, at least in my experience. I know this was a rather verbose response, but I certainly agree with your sentiments about goal oriented people and their drive to get where they want, and I certainly appreciate you saying that about me. I certainly find it inspiring when I see these traits in others!

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Agreed on all points. I also come from a couple of different arenas where effort is directly rewarded.

Obviously we all have different ways we approach this game mentally. For some of us hard work is the underlying motivating factor, even if it’s subconscious and we don’t realize it. Honestly I don’t think that’s the case for me; I’m as lazy of a person as you’ll find. But, like I said, we all have different motivations. I, personally, have a very specific (and very dramatic) reason to get as strong as possible. That’s what gets me under the bar every night. When I don’t feel like training, I think of that reason and there’s no question I’m training.

I think it’s really cool that we all have our internal motivations, but are all ultimately chasing the same goal and are able to encourage each other to continue, because we all know it’s important for each of us.

(Ha. Speaking of a verbose response…)

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I’m doing this next after beefcake. I’ll be watching for preparation!

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Heck yeah! I’m sure you’re going to get amazing results from this! The assistance is pretty monstrous lol

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My level of fatigue going into this workout was extremely high. I rolled at 3 and had some unbelievably grueling rounds. We were doing submission only shark tank with 5 guys (2 sets of guys going at once) and my first round was with a 6’9”, 270 lb blue belt who also happens to be a cop and we absolutely went to war before I got the rear naked choke After 20 minutes of trying to wrestle down and finish an actual giant. I really blew out my arms trying to not only hold him down but had a few Americana and choke attempts that I tried desperately to get, but just didn’t quite have the right angle to get a tap until one final scramble gave me his back and I sunk in the choke. I rolled a few rounds after and got 3 more subs on different guys but in my roll with the instructor, I had a massively deep burp that almost had me lose my lunch and we called it good after that lol

So after getting back and having dinner, I’m still feeling extremely exhausted and fatigued. My arms still feel full of lactic acid but I gotta get the lift in before I pick up my fiancé from work, so I mixed up my Surge and went over to my brother-in-law’s garage gym and got it done. The weights all felt way heavier than normal but I still managed a rep PR on that Press FSL Plus set/Widowmaker! I would’ve said “somehow” at the end of that sentence, but there is no “somehow”. It’s a culmination of the work I’ve put in and my mental fortitude. I supersetted one set of squats and every pressing set with the assistance, which helped me finish in 49 minutes, which felt very nice. After seeing how long these workouts take most people on the internet, it makes me feel like a savage getting it done in about half the time! These workouts are so stupid simple and brutally hard, which is just perfection to me. Not sure why, but I simply love that combination.

Building The Monolith W2D1

Squat 210x5, 240x5, 270 5x5
Press 110x5, 130x5, 145x5, 110x28(Rep PR)
Chin-Up 10x10
Dips 10x10
Banded Face Pulls 10x10

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Nice work on getting the giant to tap. As a former wrestler who dabbled in grappling I understand how grueling that can be. And solid work in the lifting. I’ll be doing btm next and then Chins are going to be tough. I def can’t get 10x10 now but I’m getting 50 in six sets so might be a good goal to reach for.

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Thank you! That was an absolute battle, but it was very fun. I think you should be able to get there on the chins in no time. You’re very jacked!

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I helped my cousin-in-law get into lifting yesterday, he was honestly a natural. We just worked in together set by set and I taught him how 5/3/1 progression works and we tested his maxes and got him through the workout. Even with him working in, I still got the entire workout done in 66 minutes!

Building The Monolith

Deadlift 295x5, 340x5, 385 3x5
Bench 190x5, 220x5, 250 5x5
Db Row 52.5 5x20
Db Curl 25 5x20

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That’s so awesome you get to pass it on like that dude! And he’s so fortunate to have you as a mentor.

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