Despade: Tales of a Lifetime Intermediate

11/11-11/15
A full de load week. Be back at weights on Monday. Weighed in at 218.0 this morning.

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It’s going to be a while before Greg puts up a worse day than this coming Monday.

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Oooh that sounds exciting !!

11/18/19
F*ck. Me. Dead.

10 second break SSB squats
5 x 5 x 185
1 x 20 x 185

SSB 21’s
1 x 21 x 185

Goblet Squat
2 x 10 x 100

Banded good morning
1 x 55 x Green

God, that hurt. Like, I wasn’t going to quit, but at about 14 reps, I was really questioning why the fuck I was doing this haha

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Looks like both you and @markko really enjoyed this session…LOL

It was fucked wasn’t it?

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11/21/19

Deads
1 x 17 x 375 (9, 4, 4)

RDL
2 x 10 x 245

Pendlay Row
2 x 12 x 185

Leg press
2 x 10 x 295 loaded

Hoo boy I’m out of rep shape :joy: 9 was rough, and 4 and 4 wasn’t much better. I hit the “jump” cue much better on the second two sets, though.

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That’s just the fatigue I think. It is for me anyway.

My thoughts as well. After a slight deload or a few days away, you’ll probably hit something crazy @Despade. Solid training going on here

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We all see it as we proceed. AFSAPs and AMRAPs are done pretty comfortably at the start, then suddenly it takes more and more sets and fewer and fewer reps are possible. It’s completely normal. Then we peak suddenly we got a heap stronger.

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11/22/19

Weight: 220.0

Pin press at chest
2 x 10 x 185

DB fly
3 x 12 x 25

JM Press
2 x 10 x 95

Lat pulldown
3 x 12 x 150

Banded face pull
2 x 25 x black

Standing crunches
3 x 20 x 100

Good day. Ready to peak.

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I have a feeling this is going to be good. :sunglasses:

11/25/19

Squats

9 x 315
4 x 315

Bodybuilder Squats
2 x 10 x 225

Leg Press
1 x 12 x 290
1 x 12 x 380

Inverted row
2 x 15

Things felt good. Will upload some of the squats later.

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What type of leg press machine do you use? I just started going to a commercial gym to play with new toys and they have one. In all the videos I see online they seem to all be a sled type machine. The one I used was some type of pivoting machine that you essentially pick the weights straight up when pressed.

Its a cybex that pivots. Not a sled. I like it.

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11/26/19
Weight: 220.2
Bench
10 x 3 x 155 w/ 15 second breaks

Spoto
1 x 20 x 155

Incline DB
2 x 10 x 75

Skull crushers
2 x 10 x 65

Seated row
4 x 12 x 150

BPA
3 x 30 x red

Bench feels solid. Form feels good. ANyone know how to get videos from an iPhone onto here? Or from YouTube via phone? Apparently I’m more technologically illiterate than I thought I was

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Make a YouTube account and just hit upload. Once it’s uploaded, hit share, there will be a weird hyper link. Copy and paste that here, the forum will do the rest.

Use your iPhone to cut the video to just what you wanted that way it cuts down on upload time

Instagram works well.

Exactly what wanna be and Mark said above. Instagram will only allow shorter vids, I think the limit is 50-60 secs.

11/27/18

Deads

5 x 3 x 345

No touch deads
2 x 10 x 295

Step ups
2 minutes x 155
1 minute.x 155

Bb row
2 x 12 x 205

Pull ups
2 x 3
1 x 15

Good day. Worked on pulling hard and fast felt really solid.

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