For fucks sake mate, are you auditioning for the Chippendales with those black briefs
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Putting on what grandma bought me loool and showing my thighs fat and size
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Crossfit Games are on youtube if you want some inspiration for this kind of thing. I always feel up for some conditioning after watching some of these (although so far, this year is underwhelming)
Wise words.
And to reiterate: I would say you, personally, deserve to feel awesome about yourself because you’ve earned that right
Well thank you for the kind words guys. It helps ahah.
Yeah I’ll check the Games, I’ve never watched them actually and I’m a bit bored with lockdown. But I might get frustrated because I only have a pull-up “bar” and bands!
Good news, my school will remain opened, on the mornings I’ll have practice! Afternoon classes on zoom. This week 3 times olifting, 2 times strength/hypertrophy. I’m going to murder these bars!
And will most likely still do easy WODS and cardio when I’m not working on the evenings
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Looking solid mate especially your back. Those pull ups were very impressive much better than this old bloke straining to get up. Lol
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Putting on some quality size there brother, V-taper is looking great!
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Looking pretty jacked dude, nice work.
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@tinkertailortanker @mr.v3lv3t thank you guys! yeah back always been my forte, but i’m still mad upper spine isn’t holding on deadlifts…
Finally happy with my size, I want to focus on strength nowwww
02/11
One hour of abs, ab isometrics and balance exercises.
Then one hour of snatches and power snatches. Got up to a 70 kgs single, which was my old PR, but this time way tighter.
03/11
One hour of stiff-legged muscle snatches, snatch balance and snatches. Did again a 70 kgs, not much trouble, even though I was quite anxious once again ahah. A mate passed it as well this time. I’m stronger than him so this shows I have psychological/technical issues still. We both failed 75 but we were very close. Though this was to be expected, with fatigue and all.
Here’s a set at 60. You can see it looks slow, and that i’m toying with it, not comitting, not being fast. Indeed, still having psychological holdings because I fear I might “pull and spray”. Some reps are still too much in back (too bend forward) and the bar does a forward arc. So i don’t give it all. Tried one rep with full speed and it was actually okayish. I’ll try friday to “let go” and focus on speed and power. like my 90 kgs sets of 3 pulls to chin. if I can do this, theorically I should be able to snatch it…
Then one hour of playful abs and balance stuff, was fun and a bit of cardio.
Then tonight, very,v ery tired (barely slept this night) but still mustered the energy to do a bit of work
500 reps jumping rope
EMOM 20’
3 strict HSPU
4 pull-ups
Lats quite pumped and tired from all the work. HSPU are haaaard! And they gave me freaking petechias! Will do cardio tomorrow.
Mornign we have hypertrophy/strength the next two days. I hope we’ll do upper body because lower body is a bit tired .
Also I feel like I have more sex drive, and my body forces me to interact more with females and all. I don’t like it much ahah
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The trick is to push harder.
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04/11 - Endurance strength
A) Bench press 3 x 8 + triple drop set (8-12 each) lifetime PR
B) Incline Db bench press 2 x 8 + triple drop set
C) Cable flyes 1 x 100 with 30RM
D) Rope triceps extension 4 x ~12
Alright, so brutal as fuck work. that’s a triple drop set on all the sets! First set I used 95, did 7 sets and was like this is too easy. Put 100, waited 30-45 secs and banged 8 reps! Lifetime PR! And I was fatigued so perhaps I could have done 9 or even 10!
Is it the delayed effects of the jacked 31? Letting myself recovering enough from the gym? Doing more cardio and “easy work” to recover and all? Feeling good in my head in the first time since like ever? (must have effect on hormones and body). Maybe because I’m drinkin way less alcohol?
Probably a mix of all, anyway I’m stoked, because I had crappy sleep the last two days even ahahah.
Anyway, very, very brutal session. First drop of the first set I was with like 75-80kgs and failing at 5 reps lol. Teacher is very sadistic and killed me on the first “set”. Pushing on the bar, then helping me a lot, when i was failing at 4-6 reps to do freaking 12. It was horrible. then with the DBs, last drop I was using only 10 kgs and it was feeling like 50 ahahah. We really went bananas and intensity was through the roof this session.
My chest never was so congested or big in my whole life, crazy striation even though I’m not that lean.
Set of 100 ugh fuck this. I had already done this on curls in the past. failed at rep 33, then it was a very long, 3-4 reps grind lol, failing every time ( 7 secs of rest max authorized).
Then we added some triceps work as a bonus lol. other groups were even more crazy because they used this format on squats or even deads???, It was ill-advised but at least they know true pain now.
Here’s a pic with me out angling a classmate. Made me realize. I never compare myself to others, and I’m in my body, I never really imagine progress or whatever. And seing myself next to someone I find impressive, well I am actually quite tall, and quite muscular ahah
Lost weight actually (only 86 this evening!) Despite eating quite some garbage. I want to be leaner and do photoshoots blablabla BUT NO! It’s winter, time to crush more PRs and grow strength and muscle! So biiig cheat tonight (30 mcnuggets lol), now on to bed and let’s get ready for tomorrow’s back destruction
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05/11 - Endurance-strength
A1. Bent-over rows 2 x 8 + triple drop set (8reps) with 90, 70, 50, 30 kgs
A2. Lats-pulldowns 2 x 8 + triple drop set (8reps) with 75, 55, 45, 35 kgs
Each set or drop set is done alternating each exercise without rest. So 1 x 8 with 90 on rows, 1 x 8 with 80 on pulldowns and etc…
B1. Machine row 2 x 8 + triple drop set
B2. Wide neutral grip lats pulldown 2 x 8 + triple drop set
C. Deadlift 1 x 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 with 150, 120, 100, 80 kgs
So, brutal drop sets again… This time on two exercises done at the same time… Really hard again, but less congestion/good feelings because we were a group of 3 and rest periods were too long as such. Ended with deadlifts like freaking pigs ahahah it was brutal AF! Went home and ate a pizza ahah
Feels like… Shoulder are a bit too much in front of the bar, and maybe hips a bit too low? Looks like, with my giants legs, my shins are too much in the way of the bar and barpath is not rectilign… I’ll try seating backwards more. Anyways with fatigue, even 80 kgs were so hard! Ofc I felt my lwoer back, but I could feel my legs and ass working soooo hard so this is the good path
Love handles are shedding, back is looking not bad, might use more lats!
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Solid V-taper as always
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06-11
1 hour of mobility and rehab
1 hour of snatch practice, pure technical work with the bar
07/11
Some biking
Some rotator cuff work
“Well rounded”
400m run
50 air squats
400m run
50 puhs-ups
400m run
50 sit-ups
400m run
Thank God yesterday was just easy stuff. Whole shoulders, arms, chest, backs and lower back still fried to this day. Was cool, played with many tools as well like massage knives.
Figured what was wrong with technique (I have to focus on hip extension no matter what)
Today, meh, not much work, but better than nothing. Ate all the chocolate yesterday, nothing left in the house. Today, lots of garbage as well. Might have been at easily 4000+ cals each day
Feeling a bit down, it’s the weekend and I barely worked because of COVID but I actually feel lonely, no one to see, talk to. Feels like the only nice things I do are going to class. Really bored. Meh it will pass.
But feeling guilty about all the shit I ate. Gonna be doing a minicut. I have no excuse, no justification, no purpose to hold fat.
There, better ahahah
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Mate you’re fucking ripped. Get a grip. A day of shitty food will probably do you wonders.
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I have been guilty of eating shitty food everyday you know, I really underestimate it. yesterday it was a full box of Bouchée chich is 1100 cals of pure garbage candies. + rest of the day which isn’t completely clean. Oh also rillettes, bread and all the night ahahah
These are pics, I have a bit more ahah, and tonight I was at almost 89. Carbed up and watered up a lot on these two days. Sure I have no problems eating a bit more to support my training but I feel these last two days I’ve been more eating out of boredom/feeling down and I don’t think that’s good
Also i’ve decided I’ll be more serious with food. I’ll try to do 5 meals each days containing protein and up it a bit (was hovering at around 160 gr). I’ve bought some BCAAs and carbs to drink during training, and some omega-3. let’s see if it will change something.
Also been talking with an old training partner of mine (Frenc powerlifting team), watching a few EliteTFS vids as well. You can see in my last DL vid, I’m not really braced much. I lift with strength, and not technique. I pretty much know how to do it but I discarded it because it was much harder.
When I deadlifted with Marc Vouillot I did a big jump in weight (20%) and did a 180 kgs. No problemo. Then he cued me about bracing, I tried, it was good he said, but the bar barely moved 5 cms. I did the same in training before. But it clicked when I watched a Swede Burn video the other day. He cued a guy, and when the guy tried it, with a weight he should detsroy, the bar didn’t even move.
I have to work on this, scale down the weight and work on technique and make it condistent: because in the long term this is what will make me stronger, and safer.
Bench is good now though, a bench specialist said I had excellent form, and I recently did a lifetime PR in the morning lol.
Squat is getting there as well. I know what to do, and I have been to able to do it in max effort weights, so let’s keep going, and be less greedy and more patient
Fair enough mate
Apologies for my dry Glaswegian humour
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How about retain a top set to not revert with regards to your max and then do some quality sets at a lower weight with true dead start deadlifts to work on your bracing?
I swear Swede Burns mentioned something about what to do with your training max in part two of his recent so you think you can bench videos when changing technique which isn’t the strategy I’m suggesting above.
Is Glascow reputed for its humour ahah? No I think you are also right, and I probably have an eating/image disorder.
Because my top set will probably not be done with excellent technique. I’m not interested in my 1RM per se, even if it’s super cool. Just overall strength and carryover. And honestly, if I do technique sets at, I don’t know, 120-140 max, but I still train heavy the other lifts I know I master, I don’t think I’ll lose any strength at all
A top set can still just be a single at 85% of your current estimated max. Or two reps. Or three.
I think you are doing okay. Yes, you are ripped and no you don’t have to lose fat. You have some fat you could lose but you also have substantial room to grow before you are anywhere near sloppy.
I don’t see it as de facto disorderly to want to eat a bit cleaner, but I’d pay attention to what motivates the choice. I don’t find that crap food fuels me as well as cleaner options, but if all you feel is guilt about the thing you eat being “shit” but don’t experience anything physiological then yes, that’s potentially an issue.