That’s some nice volume.
15 is seriously good.
Smashing mate. Well done
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I was wondering about this. I’ve been running at maintenance most of the year and my body has still changed.
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Amazing job on OHP. 135 (any reps lol) is a lifetime goal of mine. Any time I’ve been close, injuries get in the way.
Where would you say you were on OHP before BTM/DW?
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I pretty much exclusively did seated BB OHP, which is easier (I think) before that, but the times I had picked up 135 before then for standing OHP I think I burned out around 8 or 9, at my best.
I just never trained it enough, then fretted about it not going up, so I trained it less, and was scared to increase weight.
I remember @T3hPwnisher talking about disrespecting the press by treating it as though it were as easy to progress in as everything else, and that resonated with me.
It’s also, to me, close to as much of a full body movement as the squat or deadlift, certainly closer to them than the bench (even with leg drive IMO), and just pressing a lot increases your skill at holding and maneuvering those weights overhead.
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Last session was no fluke, boys.
Was short on time tonight, only 45 minutes to get it in.
Deads superset with OHP
Deads
135x5
225x5
275x5
315x15
225x20
OHP
95x5
115x5
135x5
145x10
135x8
Ez bar curls superset with rope extensions
Ez bar curls
60x10
80x10
90x10
Rope extensions
6 on the stack x 15
8 x 15
10 x 11
Machine preachers superset with dips
Machine preachers
45x20
90x15
Dips
BWx22
BWx14
Two sets to complete failure with cable flys, mechanically dropsetting to cable presses
I went there fully intent on a bro’d out pump session, but something has changed (or severely damaged) from the past few months of training. The plan changed when I saw a squat rack with a deadlift bar on the ground and a thick bar racked at shoulder height. I am just plain stronger and bigger than I was before all this went down.
Not going back to exclusively training at home, but it was obviously what I needed.
I also almost passed out on the second to last set of presses, blackness swarmed my eyes and after rep 10 all I could see was little tunnels. Had to sit down for a while, and on my backdown set rep 1 felt like failure. Deads and presses SUCK together. Must mean they work.
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I approve. High rep deads are the best.
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I agree to disagree 
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Err, if the best means good at making me feel like my head’s going to pop, yeah. The best.
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I will say, burpees are the best
You are objectively wrong.
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meh…at least they’re fun
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You are objectively insane.
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You’re the one who decided to do deepwater through quarintine, and almost passed out doing a insane superset 
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But did I describe it as “the best” and “fun”?
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See #1.
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I’ve been missing your snark
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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
In my humble opinion, W.C. Fields was a very patient man…
@flappinit (apologies for hijack)
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No such thing as a hijack in this thread, brother.
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If you skim the article and only read the headers, I’m sure people would get bent out of shape, but it’s a pretty good in-depth read.
Burpees can be useful, or they can be a disaster, depending on how you do them, and they’re not necessary.
Flat bench is just lame, but that’s my opinion and the article happened to prop that up, so I’m biased here.
Running is a must-have for general fitness, as in, if you claim you’re fit but can’t run a mile without stopping, you’re not fit, but it’s also the go-to exercise for a huge population who should NOT be running, and it’s also pretty low-reward high-impact.
Hamstring stretching can fuck your back up if you do it cold, and I experienced first hand how a weak core and weak hip flexors can cause more back pain than tight hamstrings.
The sit-ups part is probably where I take issue, because even though he does mention training your abs, people have gotten so far away from hitting abs hard that they wonder why, when they starve themselves, they don’t have abs - because their abs are small and weak, and abs need training like everything else.
I love pullups, so I was miffed at the pullup part at first, until I saw that he was discussing HOW you do pullups, and the amount of people I see who obviously can’t do a proper pullup but jump up and bounce around with a 6" ROM because they don’t want to use a band or the assisted PU machine is ridiculous. Plus, yes, I can confirm that too many pullups or too heavy of them can do some damage to your joints.
So, all in all, good article - just read it thoroughly and it’s hard to disagree with a lot of the points. A slight disagreement with 1/6 points still makes it a solid two thumbs up for me.
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Question: I read a book about calisthenics (by a British dude - might be noteworthy) and he said that burpees just involve jumping down to the ground and back up. It’s actually called a bastard if you include the pushup portion of it. Then one of my former CF instructors confirmed that, but his coworkers disagreed with him.
Is this true? Or is it just a regional thing? @flappinit, @dagill2 - no clue if you guys will know but with your military/travel experience and British-ness, respectively, figured maybe you’d have heard about this.