Despade: Tales of a Lifetime Intermediate

Fuck yes! Welcome. Make sure he adds you to the Facebook group. There are pinned posts that explain everything really well.

No, don’t miss reps. Just eat and sleep as much as you can. The first month or two will feel like everything is too easy and light. Also, don’t trust the app numbers. Anything that’s a percentage is based on your main lift which the app usually forgets, so just do the calculations yourself.

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I see you’ve met the team…

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Haha my kind of place. Read through all the pinned stuff. Makes sense. Simple. Should be a good year of training!

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It should. If in doubt, round your percentages down. Also be wary of extra conditioning beyond walking and swimming. The work adds up quickly.

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This is very exciting news. Cant wait to see how you go with the training.

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8/20/19

Weight: 207.2

Day 1: Panora Bench
4 x 1 x 240
1 x 3 x 240
1 x 9 x 240 (AFSAP)

Incline BB Bench
3 x 5 x 205

Push Ups
2 x 25

DB Row
4 x 12 x 100

Lateral Raise
2 x 15 x 30

Rear Delt
2 x 15 x 25

App says 65 minutes, but I was inputting percentages and what not about 10-15 minutes early, closer to 45 minutes. I struggle to rest between sets, I just go when I’m ready, tends to be under a minute, I’m sure that’ll change as things get heavier. Today felt very good, part of it was being excited for a new training template, part of it was I actually only had to get up once with the girls last night, I had two (fkn count 'em!) two 3 hour chunks of sleep…eat your hearts out :joy:

Weight: Caught a bit of bloat from something (probably the 7 veggies I had yesterday) but it’ll come back down.

Notes: I was asking before I was able to read through the set up, everything makes sense, there is no ‘missing’ reps, you just don’t get it done in one set, ha. I’m gonna enjoy this, I think.

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Have you watched the technique videos yet?

Yeah, I like them, they’re simple to understand and simple to implement. Need to just work on them a bunch now.

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Post your videos on the fb page too. Greg will comment and there are guys who know their shit who will comment as well. It’s great not having to worry about checking technique and shit, I just post videos and if I don’t get corrected I don’t second guess myself.

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8/21/19

Weight: 210.0

Active Recovery

15 minutes of moderate sled work

15 minutes of LISS
Treadmill x BW x 3.0mph x 10% incline

Surprised at the weight, but whatever, need to eat to recover, sore as shit from deads on Monday, chest feels good from yesterday, tomorrow will be deads again, and it is gonna be rough.

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You bet your arse it’s going to be rough. I’m not looking forward to my turn.

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8/22/19

Weight: 205.6

Deadlifts
AFSAP x 50 x 10 second breaks
4 x 30, 8, 6, 6, x 235 (beltless/mixed grip) (fuck me)

Dead Stop Deadlift (w/ full reset)
20 x 1 x 235 (beltless/mixed grip)

Walking Lunges
2 x 50’ x +60

WG Pull Ups
4 x 3 x BW
1 x 12 x BW

LISS
Treadmill x 2.8mph x 10% incline x 10 minutes

All up in ~25 minutes (35 with LISS)

So…that sucked haha 10 seconds goes by way more quickly when you’re fuckin’ dyin. Glutes almost started cramping up, like…right on the brink.

Weight is better, still eating more, but maintaining around 205, I’m good with that.

20 singles, for your viewing pleasure.

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Love reading how these sessions go. Good work.

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Tell you what…I’m very, very glad that I’ve been doing some hard sled work and high rep deads prior to this, recovery was very fast, but 30 reps, even at that weight? Hoo, boy.

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That is a stupid amount of reps… well done man. I would have died at some point. First 50 reps then 20 more just for the fun of it.
But didn’t you have more weight on the bar than 235? it looked like red bumpers on the bar.

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Nope just 235 haha it was very humbling.

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I want to see these!

Good work man. That looks like a rough but good workout

Ha, I was going to film them, but figured nobody wanted to watch me gasp like a beached whale for 3 minutes on video :joy:

You figured wrong man… Would love to see you battle through and overcome that challenge. Either way, good job; keep crushing it.

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