Thanks for following and for the kind words guys!
@boilerman I’ve been at it for almost 10 years actually, started at 18 and am 27 right now. Didn’t really get serious or program anything until I was around 21 though. I started at 140 lbs with a 95 pound bench, 95 pound squat, 135 pound deadlift, zero pull ups, and didn’t press a barbell overhead standing up for the first couple years 
Also, what are your goal weights man?
You definitely deserve the praise man.
Similar situation with me, started off at 175lb, 2 years ago. Main goal was a 405 DL before I turn 30 but that’s not going to happen. That goal morphed into 1-2-3-4 plates, and I’ve checked off 2 of those 4 boxes… not DLing right now, so my short term goals are this point is a 2 plate bench, 3 plate zercher, and have 3 plate squat be smooth and easy for reps. I think I have to gain some weight though for the upper body stuff.
Edit: so in retrospect I should have said “you have EXCEEDED my goals… For reps…” haha
For such a short period of time you’ve done well man, this shit doesn’t happen overnight. haha
How come you’re not deadlifting right now?
I will say, my bench and press didn’t move much until I gained some weight. I was right around 175-185 through college, then stopped doing intermittent fasting when I graduated. Gained about 15 lbs in 3 months and have kept it since - it’s made a big difference in everything but deadlift. Still trying to figure out how to use this power belly to wedge more weight off the floor…
Ha thanks man. Yeah my weight has been more or less constant for a long time now, give or take a few short time.periods where it’ll spike or drop for a little. Find it difficult to eat enough to gain weight and keep it on.
Not conventional DLing right now, only doing RDLs because it’s not in the program I’m running but I’m about to butcher the hell out of it for upper body stuff anyway. I find that my body can’t adjust to the load of DLs. I could’ve kept going with 531 and add 10# to TM, but it was frying my body. I start getting depressed, low motivation, no appetite etc if I do heavy DL often.
Dude I feel it, my natural appetite sucks and doesn’t seem to adapt. If I stop force feeding I’ll drop muscle pretty quickly and fat seems to want to stay put…
Best thing I ever did deadlift-wise was set my TM really low, like 80% for a 90% program, and leave 1-2 solid reps in the tank. I get the same way you do if I push a set too hard, so the lower TM helps mitigate that. TNG helps too vs dead stop, seems like it keeps fatigue more muscular rather than systemic.
5/18/2020 - Press Day
Up and at’em a bit earlier than normal today, normal PWO routine and got moving.
Press
45 x 5
55 x 5
70 x 5
85 x 3
100 x 5
115 x 5 (Elena Siegman, anyone??)
130 - 3 x 5
Assistance
SS with Press
Pull Ups - 10, 9, 8
Ab Wheel - 3 x 10
After Press
Banded Triceps Extensions - 1 x 25
Press moved well, shoulders are pumped, and I feel good. Didn’t even break a sweat so I think I’m OK recovery-wise. Pushed pull up sets a little closer to failure but always left one definite rep in the tank. Lats and shoulders feel really good from that.
5/20/2020 - Deadlift Day
Up and at 'em. Sleep deprived, my alarm system went into full-panic 120 dB alarm at 3:30 AM Tuesday morning and it straight buttfucked my nerves. I cleared the house with my .40 and my wife watching my back and it was straight horrifying. Alarm company hasn’t resolved the issue either, so working on that. Anyway, normal PWO routine.
Deadlift
145 x 5
195 x 5
235 x 3 - conventional
280 x 5
325 x 5
365 - 3 x 5 - 1st set conventional, other 2 sumo
Assistance
SS w/deadlift
Ab wheel - 3 x 10
Push Ups - 1 x 25
Band pull apart - 3 x 10
Overall, it was a meh workout today. Pinch in my left SI joint was a little rough so I did more conventional work than normal. Oh well. Assistance went well and the ab wheel effect on my abs was more symmetrical than I expected. Flipped deadlift and bench days to give a little more lower body recovery time before things get real heavy next week.
I was just checking out this log because I always appreciate your responses on other threads, but I might stop if you’re going to make me google stuff.
What kind of plan are you following at the minute man?
Likewise for you, sir! Elena Siegman wrote and/or performed a song called 115 for Call of Duty Black Ops Nazi Zombies. I’ll do the Googling for you - here’s the video
Plan-wise, I’m running Coffinworm from 5/3/1 Forever. This week is “week” 3 of Leader 2 - quotations around “week” because I’m running it 3 days a week. It’s the built in mini-deload, though I’m concerned with whoever thinks working up to 3 x 5 @ 85% of your TM is a deload…I’ll be posting the Anchor spreadsheet today.
I have no idea on Forever plans at all but Jim’s stuff always seems to work.
I just plugged a few numbers in to find out what 3 x 5 @ 85% looks like, and I can’t help but agree, even at the light weights I’d use.
In the context of the program it definitely is easier though, I had been hitting 90% for 1 set of 5, 80% for 2 sets of 5, and my TM for one set of 3-5, followed by an opposite lift at 70% for 5 x 5. Maybe this means I’ll be slightly north-er of vag when I’m done with this 
That sounds pretty unpleasant.
And the correct term is northerer
Truthfully I wouldn’t have attempted it 6 months ago, the intensity and volume scared me. But it’s turned out really well so far. My body tells me pretty loudly when I dip below 200g protein a day and/or under-eat substantially.
I love programs like that. Mostly because I’m a fat bastard, but I couldn’t run them all the time.
Same. I’ll likely go to a 2x per week program from Beyond to run through the summer. I’d like to get 2 hard and 2 easy cardio sessions in every week in addition to lifting twice a week. I actually used to do only bodyweight stuff through the summers and it was a really good break from heavy lifting. I can still do 5-6 1-arm pushups per side any given day despite being over 200 lbs and probably 20% bodyfat.
Sheet for Coffinworm anchor cycle. Them Joker sets are no joke, I get nervous looking at them. But it’s good nerves 
That is a tonne of volume and intensity. What does assistance look like for that?
I super set all the assistance work at the bottom into the day’s main and supplemental work. For the most part it’s 3 sets of 10 other than the really “small” exercises and chin ups. The smaller exercises are 2-3 sets of 12-20. Chin ups I just try to stop sets 1-2 reps shy of failure and go until I hit 30 or 40 total reps.
I missed that bit, my bad.
All good!
