Dodgin’ Dadbods: Fortitude Training

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Legs

Seated leg curl, pulling myself forward to really stretch the hams, 4 second negative
130 4x8

Leg extensions, 2 second negative
180 4x15

Banded hack squats, heels nearly touching, 3 second negative, ass to grass
Plate and a 10 per side 5x10

Back extensions on Roman chair, 5 second negative
3x20

Leg press machine
Dropset from 300x20 to 200x20 to 100x20

SUPERSET
Seated Calf Raise, 5 second negative
2 plates 5x10
Dorsiflexion tibia machine
35 per side
5x10

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3934

Simply great work

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3935

This is awesome but:

This deserves a round of applause

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3936

@dagill2 @TrainForPain @simo74 thanks y’all, it came from the heart…

…the heart of my biceps.

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3937

My legs are so, so, so sore today. Fortunately it’s just arms n’ abs tonight.

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3938

Every night is arms and abs night

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3939

That’s insane, disgusting and other such words. I was planning on doing high rep deads as a training style for myself after building the Monolith, you’ve just set the bar ridiculously high.

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Arms/Abs

Lying DB tri Extensions on decline bench
35s 4x10

Weighted chins, underhand, very close grip
BWx10
+25x3
+45x3
+70x5
+45x8 drop to BWx10

SUPERSET
Plate loaded preachers, 4 second negative
2 plates 3x10
Diamond pushups, 4 second negative
3x10

SUPERSET
One arm cable preachers on incline Bench, 3 second negative
4 on the stack 3x10
One arm OH DB tri ext
30 3x15

Captains chair leg raises with a pause in the L-sit position
3x15

Ab crunch machine
125 3xfailure

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3941

Its amazing how many reps you can grind out on something like trap bar Deads once you get accustomed to the weight.

They help with hypertrophy a lot imo, but I don’t think they’re that conducive to strength necessarily, besides grip strength. The best part is I jokingly plugged it into a max calculator just to demonstrate how crazily inaccurate the rep max equation is (Weight x reps x .0333 + weight) over 10 reps.

It says my max is 660, hahaha. I’d put it at around 500 at the moment, considering how easily I pulled 400 for 8 or 9 not long ago, but it’s not even in the same universe as that number.

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3942

Big fan of this, as well. Tough with my limited resources these days. But a great way to train - especially if you have any “athlete” in you.

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Well, 2021 is nearly upon us and that means triathlons again, which I’m super excited about - miss that community a lot and all the positivity, especially given these times. This hypertrophy block won’t last long.

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I did this with some of my 50 reppers on Mass Made Simple. Apparently the program is so good it took my e1RM from about 140kg up to 240kg. 100kg gain in 7 weeks, not bad.

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3945

Will doing triathlons mean that you drop a decent amount of weight? I haven’t met to many big triathletes?

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Yea trap bar doesn’t translate well for me (I pull sumo so they’re just vastly different movements) but learning to strain and grind through severe discomfort are valuable skills, definitely what the trap bar is made for! Plus hypertrophy will eventually lead to bigger deads in the grand scheme.

1rm calcs are bonkers at higher reps, I also feel that I’m better at reps than 1rm, always feel like no matter what the weight if I can get it off the ground once it’s usually good to go again (same with squats, bench not so much, ohp is just a mystery all to itself).

I’ll start my experiment soon enough, no doubt another “joy” to blame pwn for.

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3947

30 times at that

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Yes. Now there’s a Clydesdale category for over 220lb people, but a couple things:

  1. It’s not for people who are anywhere close to a lean 220
  2. I’m not anywhere close to a “lean” 220 but I’m tall and not-big enough to warrant joining that category without looking like a dickbag. It’s like the guy who deadlifts 700 lbs and goes into the novice/noob category at a local strongman show with 5 competitors.
  3. I just plain operate better at ~200. Last time I got to 200, that was my profile pic. This time I expect I’ll look the same at around 205, maybe 203ish. Swimming doesn’t much bother me at whatever weight, nor does biking, but running is murder on the knees and ankles when you’re 230, and every pound counts.
    Fortunately, when I go into triathlon mode, I’m doing a swim, a run, a bike, and a brick run (any combination of the two right after one another, usually biking then running, named like that because your legs feel like bricks after hopping off a bike and running) every week and weight just melts off.
    Will have to control my appetite though.
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I am familiar with bricks and they are not nice. Hope you enjoy the season, but I think you are crazy.

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3950

Thank god someone said it.

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3951

Winning is sweet, but definitely not as sweet when you know you’re going to win ahead of time.

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3952

Depends on the circumstances. I think it’d be nice to know you were going to win an old fashioned duel.

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