Despade: Tales of a Lifetime Intermediate

11/20

Weight 220

Was supposed to be legs, still sore as shit from Monday and packing heavy shit at work, so I went with ego and shoulders ha

Seated DB 3 x 8 x 75

Feel fat and sassy, not ideal, thank god it’s sweatshirt season haha

11/22

Chest

Incline bench 225 x 5, 8, 10, 9

11/23

Legs

A shit load of squats, buddy was late, so I worked all the way up to my top sets and then started over with him.

11/24

Shoulders

Seated DB Press 5 x 8 x 75s

11/25

Back

11/26

Chest

Incline 2 x 275

255 felt great for…5, I think? 275 felt heavy ha

Highlights of the last few lifts:

Shoulders

2 x 3 x 225

Chest

2 x 3 x 315

Legs

1 x 355

Shoulders feel good, 225 moved as well as it used to. Bench is stagnant at the moment, squats are brutal haha that 355 moved fine but that fucking Texas bar kicks my ass, it was also after a full 10 hour day of actual work in the cold and snow so I’m using that as an excuse

Weight has been 224-226, feeling ok,

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12/26

Weight: Fat, sassy, and full of carbs

Recent lowlights:

Strained something benching (am I old?) so that’s been out for a few weeks.

OHP 10 x 185

This feels good, even with the strained pec, gonna hit new numbers soon here

Squat 7 x 335

Felt decent, can tell a difference when I don’t have my little comfort blanket (knee sleeves) but another one that I’ll probably find a rep PR in, soon.

Deadlift 0 x 0

I miss it, but not enough to come back to it at the moment haha

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12/29/25

Squats

2 x 405

Quick little double at 405 :eyes: well that felt better than expected ha fucking stoked

12/30/25

Shoulders

OHP 1 x 245

Bit of a grind, but if I’d done it spaced out a bit better from heavy squats, I think it would’ve gone up without any issue, the squats torched me though ha

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1/1/26

Chest

Flat Bench

4 x 5 x 225

10 x 225

Chest feels ok, trying to ease back into it, I want it to start moving again, but trying to be smart (harder than it looks haha)

Finally have hit the tipping point of self hatred to start paying attention to what I eat again, things are getting reined back in, just need to exercise a little will power ha

1/3/26

Squats 10 x 325

Solid top set, amazing what having a training partner with similar strength levels does for your ability to push :exploding_head:

1/4/2026

Weight: 229.9

OHP

5 x 175

5 x 185

9 x 195

I think it was 10, but neither me or my training partner can count well haha

We are doing 5/3/1 progression for OHP, Squats, and Bench (whenever I get back to it) I think 2026 is shaping up to be one of my strongest years

1/7/2026

Squats

8 x 345

was 100% not feeling it, but hit 8 on my week 2 plus set. Not mad

1/8/26

OHP

Top set 7 x 205

ouch, shit was heavy. Everything is heavy when you’re a lifetime intermediate :man_facepalming: one of life’s hard truth’s :joy:

1/11/26

Weight 227

Bench 1 x 385

Bought a yellow slingshot from mark bell years ago, and my buddy and I decided to mess around with it as we’re both a little beat up. That thing is a cheat code :joy: 385 was no struggle at all, kept everything tight and my pec felt great, talk about lulling you into a false sense of security :man_facepalming: I think I’ve genuinely got the triceps for a 385 bench, but fuck me I don’t have the chest for it haha so it was a workout, but it doesn’t count. Found out it works well on incline bench too, 225 felt light as hell. I feel more annoyed by this workout than anything else

1/12/26

Squats 7 x 365

I’m tired, boss. It’s no wonder my boy is an animal, he fuckin pushes. Can’t complain, it works. Finding out most of my deficiencies were mental, cuz fuck if he’s beating me haha the way things are moving it legitimately feels like a 500 squat is on the table down the road.

1/13/26

Shoulders

OHP 5 x 215

Boy was that heavy, not cool, but, that’s the weight that put me to sleep a few months back haha

1/15/26

Bench

Top set 3 x 315

1/16/26

Squat

Top set 10 x 335

Whoo, boy. Chest feels better, legs are tired, but got it in.

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2/17/26

Took a week long vacation, then got sick for about two weeks, real dumb ha but recent highlights have been

Squat 365 x 5

Incline Bench 295 x 1 (that’s a PR… or just progression… I don’t know what to call it anymore haha)

Still on the mend from whatever crap I had, but it’s only affecting stamina at the moment, not strength, so it’s fine haha I don’t have stamina anyway

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2/18/26

Weight: based on double chin feel… 228

OHP 3 x 225

felt heavy as shit, not cool. But feeling pretty good, all considered

Chest a couple days back

With a slingshot

8 x 315 plus a few sets or 5

2/22/26

Squats

375 x 5

Heavy, but done, wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be ha

Recents

1 x 295 on incline

3 x 3 x 255 incline

2/26/26

Squat

3 x 405