Too much age difference, so I totally get it, and that’s okay 
Thanks for the kind words guys
Yeah no that’s a typo I finished work very late and didn’t sleep much yesterday ahahah
I meant 1 x 12, 1 x 11 reps
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That’s still some real nice benching mate
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I agree with this ! Why in the hell would someone reject you hahha, that’s messed up, yo.
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Well you’re so nice, thanks for the comment but it’s not because someone has a nice body that you want to date him!
I went out with my bossyesterday and he was trashed and among a literal avalanche of compliments, he told me that he noticed that at his birthday I was “not comfortable” with girls, meaning I’m super shy, almost awkward, and have little to no game.
And it’s true, my flirting skills are horrible.Especially online/texts. I’m great in face to face but this year has not been great for it. The guys told me yesterday that if only I had moreconfidenceetc, I would leave no girls to them lol
Anyway, yesterday was my first box squatting in maybe 5 years
23/06 - Odysseus - Week 5 - Legs
A. Lying Leg Curl 3 x 12 with 45 kgs
B. Box Squat 2 x 3 with 140 kgs, 1 x 1 with 160
C. Speed Deadlift 10 x 1 with 110kgs
D. Leg Press 2 x 10 with 5 plates
E. Sissy Squat 2 x 20 with bands
Ughh my keyboard and my mouse are both dying, I have trouble writing.
So here’s my second set of box squats. The box was most likely too high. It felt a bit a weird, so much posterior chain. I have to be more tense and keep it, first set I felt I wast letting it go too much and sitting way too back on the box. Felt tough, but nice. My glutes and hams are really sore today
I tried 160but was a bit fearful of the weight and did not drive up but forward, so it was wrong, more quads and back, and more bending over
I think I like this exercise. It will be useful for me to use more my posterior chain. Also to have more balls and be less frightened of the weight so that I keep using the same technique even with max weights.
Then some speed deads, always enjoyable. Just trying to focus and max speed, and max speed set up with good tension
The leg press was too heavy, I wanted an RPE 8but it was10.5 lol
I think I’ll also replace the sissy squats
Anyway, very enjoyable session, lots of heavy, powerful good lifting
Now off to bed
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24/06 - Odysseus - Week 5 - Pull
A. Machine row 3 x 12 with 100 kgs
B. Speed rack pull 15 x 1 with 120 kgs
C. Pull-ups 3 x 6 with 10 kgs
D. Meadows Row 2 x 10 with 35 on bar
E. Hammer Curl 1 x 12 + double drop set with 14kgs
F. Curl Press 2 x 10 with 40 kgs
24/06 - Odysseus - Week 5 - Push 2
A. Incline DB Bench 1 x 9 + double drop set with 38 kgs
B. Speed Bench 3 x 3 with narrow grip, 3 x 3 medium grip, 3 x 3 wide grip with 70 kgs
C. Trap-bar press 3 x 10 with 50 kgs
D. Dips 1 x 20
E. Spidercrawl 3 x ?
F. V-handle pressdown 1 x 12 + drop set with 60 kgs
G. Tate Press 2 x 12 with 8 kgs
Well these were good sessions. But I’m so tired. There was also an ab class in there.
Not much to say on the pull day, did the work, but I had like 0 motivation (so tired). Curl rpess were cool, good feeling
Got a headache all day long for I was so tired, really terrible
I conducted the cross training class that day. It was great
Today almost the same. But my performance increases… 1 x 9 with 38 on the incline is a real nice PR.
The trap-bar press felt surprisingly good, like my whole delts were on fire + nice stabilization as well
Honestly I didn’t even want to train. I don’t want to wake up tomorrow and train before work either.
It means I have abused my body. Lack of sleep and work and training and shitty food, my T levels are probably in the drain
Honestly I just wanted to go straight to the Thib program
But NO! I have to push through it. In a week it’ll all be better.
I want to see the results of what I have concocted, while working 70 hours lol
Only 4 days left at mcdonald’s. I dread them. I honestly just want to rest and relax. Let’s do this. Soon I’ll have time to rest and to cook actual meals
I’m gonna go for a walk then some nice sleep
I’m sorry I can’t give back to T-nation these times and go through people’s logs, but I’m too tired
Bonus pic: I eat like shit and have more cals, but I don’t look bad really, I look fuller
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Your arms have fucking exploded, man! Looking lean n’ mean.
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Thank you man. Yeah I haven’t trained them much at all for a year because of my elbows, and now I have been training them consistently twice a week for around 8 sets per week around failure or beyond. It pays.
Made me think about I should perhaps do more leg extension. It seems my hamstring have progressed nicely as well. Let’s use isolation on the quads!
I missed again my second leg day for the second week in a row, that’s relaly not serious! Anyway, now I’ll be less tired, more time, so I’ll really have no excuses.
Tomorrow’s my last day at McDo lol. It feels great.
I have done programs for only around a dozen people but sometimes it gives an insight on some people’s mind.
Last girl I did an initial assessment, well she tells me she hates her body, what it has become. She has perhaps 25 kgs to lose. Not much eye contact, she’s ashamed and shy. She tells me she hates her job, it makes her miserable. She tried changing but without success and she has diploma or something. She’s even started or will start soon some “arrêt de travail”, meaning she won’t go to work for a while, without pay, most likely invoking “depression”.
But she wants to have a baby with her boyfriend in a few months. She knows she cannot lose all the fat she wants til then, and then will gain some, but still wants to lose some before that.
So, maybe I’m harshly judging here, but to me it feels like this person is deeply unhappy, yet she wants to have a kid. So what, does she hope it will make her instantly happy? Or that she’ll be able to be a stay-at-home mom? Does she thinks about her child? What would it be to have an unhappy mother.
Anyway, it all seemed very egoist to me. I might be completely wrong, and for sure, I’ve been there, hating my job and depressed as well.
But when I’ll have a child, I’ll really try to be able to provide for him, and be there for him, and be as stable as a person I can be.
Anyway, yesterday I went out, it was fun. One of my girl friends was drunk, and we were talking about girls.
I wasn’t hitting on anyone. Honestly, it might be stupid, but I think I want to wait until I have my own place before trying again. I feel like I’m not good enough right now.
At the same time she was telling me, when I was talking about my previous interactions with girls, that I’m so fit, and to just look around me: nobody’s that fit, not many people are fit actually. So she thinks girls might be intimidated by my fitness and look.
If this is true this is the stupides thing ever ahah.
Anyway, next week I’ll go out again (my birthday, and my training partner’s birthday), and we promised we would talk to girl, get out of our comfort zones. So we’ll see! It will be frightening and fun
I feel less tired also, and more motivated. I have renewned energy: I shall complete this program before starting something new!
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I’ve wondered, with a box squat are you supposed to completely sit your weight on the box, and start back up from less tension; or just barely touch the box with your butt, as a cue to explode back up? In other words, what’s the point of the box squat?
You’re gonna be fine. Last thing you need is more advice from internet strangers. You already know all the stuff everyone keeps telling you. You’re fine, there’s a lot more to life than easy sex and easy girls. But also nothing wrong with getting a little practice in either at this stage. Could be fun for you both. You do you man.
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Most likely, she is going to end up miserably obese after she gets pregnant. I have a co-worker who tries to workout, but likes food and not working out more. She had her first kid and never lost the extra weight from that. Now she has been back at it, but planning on the second kid soon.
Anyway, you can’t fix people. You can only help them help themselves.
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I’ve had and heard this several times. It’s true and I mentioned this to you a while back.
Second one is squatting to a box, first one is box squatting. You completely sit back but you try to keep as much tension as you can. You really have to drive up with your glutes on this one and spread the floor appart with your feet. It is great to learn to engage more your posterior chain and to keep tightness in the hole
yes, yes for, sure. I’ve never done this, and honestly even after a year of abstinence, I still don’t want it either ahah. But who knows? What’s wrong with chatting with girls.
I like fit girls but I’m not going to hit on girls at the gym where I work for sure lol. So let’s go out and potentially meet someone. It doesn’t have to be a fitgirl, I really liked two girls who weren’t hitting the gym
Yep…
Yes I remember this and still find it… a bit nonsensical. Well I mean, I think it just comes down to having different vision of life. Personally, I want to be the better version of myself in everything I can. I don’t believe in the afterlife so I think i should take care of my body, strive for happiness and excellence, giving my all, having a job that I like, a hot wife etc: because I only have this life to have these things, and time goes fast…
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In addition to what @aldebaran mentioned, my understanding is that box squats are a good tool for geared powerlifters; supposedly they have good carryover to a squat suit.
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Any birthday cake planned or just more iron goodness to celebrate?
Happy birthday, some super work in recent months here!
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Happy Birthday stud
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Yeah the suited squat is very “hippy”, super wide, lots of posterior chain
Thank you mate! Just a regular day for me, but it will be my last day at my old job and hopefully the start of my new life beginning soon 
Debating on what to do. I have planned “holydays” - partying coming the newt few weeks and it will affect performance. Debating on whether maxing out this week and going to the next thing without pressure
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Bon anniversaire ! T’as bien mérité de te faire plaisir mec !
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Congratulations, and Happy Birthday! Great way to mark the occasion.
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Happy birthday mate, hope you have a ball.
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Decided to have a quick easy workout and week and move to something else, and not stress much over the weight on the bar next phase, but how the rep is performed. I want to write another program also I’m so excited. But I’ll wait after this Thibaudeau one. I want another kind of training for 3 months. I’m gonna gro with pendulum training, one week power (French contrast 4x a week) and one week strength, alternating both. On the strength weeks, I’ll focus on what I need (paused squats and bench, slow tempo lifts etc)
A. Bench Press 1 x 120 kgs
B. Banded Chest Press 3 x 10 with 90 kgs + bands
C. Barbell Face-pull 4 x 15 with 35 kgs
D. Partial Lateral Raises 2 x 20 with 20 kgs
E. Rope Pushdown Double Contraction 2 x 10 with 45 kgs
F. Machine Dips 1 x 10, 1 x 10 + drop set with 3 plates
Despite trashing my face off twice and not much sleep (I did sleep 10 hours this night hough) bench is better. i am so much tighter. I just need more balss/heavy lifting in general
Nothing much to say about the rest of the session: easy one, not much failure, nice pump. Machine dips actually felt decent this time though, good chest stretch, good triceps feeling
Here’s a comparison pic with last year:
It’s a marathon, not a sprint right? Arms (+1cm), forearms (big improvement here) and chest are noticeably bigger. it doesn’t show here but legs as well, especially hamstrings (+3 cms) so this is nice
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Happy Birthday.
Looking noticeable more jacked there.
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