I’ve been eating 6-18 eggs every day for over ten years. Not always a dozen, but never less than 6, and rarely less than 10. I’ve had periods of time eating 24 a day. So 12 a day for six weeks? Not a problem; not even out of the norm.
Matter of fact now that I think about it, I’ve been doing this probably closer to 15 years. I remember my grandmother getting on me about cholesterol because of it.
Lol why stop bro? I typically cook mine in butter, but soft boiled are the way to go. Those are hard to stop eating.
And by the way fellas, I plan on doing a cycle of Darden’s Chin-Dip-Run program, and I think Super Squats will fit nicely after that. Thanks for the log!
Appreciate angles lighting etc might be slightly different. I’ve not looked too closely myself, t-shirts fit better and I’m moving more weight than I was 5.5 weeks ago, that’s a win for me.
5x600m/3:30 on the rower, negative split across the board. Steady 5k 20minute cool down.
3 sets of AMRAP push ups paired with 0:30 RKC planks, nice way to balance out the pulling motions of rowing.
I put a 20kg plate either side of the Erg to prevent it shifting. 10 reps of each plate ground to overhead before putting them away.
A1) Behind the neck push press 50x8x3
A2) BPA’s 8x10
B1) BB shrugs 70x5x10
B2) Dips BWx5x10
Deadlift 120x12
Leg raises x30
Didn’t feel right starting a new program on a Friday, so did a whatever the hell I want kind of day.
Haven’t touched power cleans since early this year, called it when the reps started slowing. Pitched this just right. Ten mins from first rep at 40kg to the last rep at 60kg.
Low bar squat
60x5
80x5
100x5 belt added
110x5
120x4
125x2
High bar squat
90x10
Weighted Russian twists
12x2x20 e/s
First time low bar squatting since Super Squats. I feel like six weeks of high reps has improved my form a little. More depth, core felt solid. Top two working sets left a rep or two in there, gives me a good idea what I’ll be starting 5x5 at on Monday.
Thanks man, there might even be some muscle hiding under there if I lean out a little, ha! I won’t be pushing the weight gain the next six weeks, will eat to fuel and see what happens. If I can get stronger at this body weight, that should put me in a prime position to push it in the New Year.
Squat (low bar and belted)
100x5
110x5
115x5
110x2x5
Was pretty tired going in to the squats, even pairing exercises up best I could, this was 70 minutes and still a bit of core work to do. I had put my bench away and wasn’t dragging that out for the pullovers between squats.
Good session, though. The Super Squats book doesn’t stipulate whether to ramp the 5x5 or straight set it. Pretty sure John McCullum has a 5x5 squat routine in Keys for Progress which is ramped, but a bit of auto regulation was used here.
Looking at my pen and paper logbook, I was running the second phase to Starting Strength in February pre hernia op: D
Deadlifting 155x5, s
Squat 125-130 for 5’s,
Power cleaning 70x3x5
Benching 85 for 5’s
Pressing 55
I noted, and recall, quite a bit of elbow pain (hence me ending up with a Swiss Bar) when benching, it would bother me squatting when the weights got up, too. It sounds like a common issue in low bar squatters. Any pointers to avoid this potentially flaring up again the next six weeks? The pressing volume now is considerably more than Starting Strength.
I do eventually want to invest in a safety squat bar and rotate that in, but that will be in the New Year and I don’t want an injury to force my hand with that.
You could shoot for some banded pushdowns and curls, I’d use the principle of “Daily Work” which I think I nicked from @T3hPwnisher if memory serves. Basically I assign myself an arbitrary minimum number of reps I had to do each day and would flex depending on how I felt but it’s something that whenever I end up doing a load of pressing volume helped with the aches and pains and in that vein if you’re not doing it already then pullaparts would be a great addition.
Thanks, I’ll take a look in to how I might set these up and invest in a band. I do incorporate band pull aparts between sets, just don’t note them as it could be from as few as 15 to as many as 60 in a session. Will make an effort to be more consistent with them.
I’d stick with ramping. That seems to be how 5x5s were understood back in the day. Straight set 5x5s seem to be a more recent invention. Mark Rippetoe tried to skip to the middle by just prescribing a straight 3x5.
Regarding the elbow pain: on top of all other things, how proficient are you in the power clean? For me, I’m a big dumb ogre, so I end up really torquing the hell out of the barbell in order to get it in the rack position, which can stress my elbows. If you are similarly oafish, it might be a worthwhile idea to use a high pull vs a power clean. You get the majority of the benefit of the clean without stressing the wrists and elbows.
If you’re a giant ogre, I guess I am its little minion… I’m no Olympic lifter and nor do I have the desire to put the time in to really nail it down. That said, I can perform it safely, leaving my ego at the door and meet its intent. If I slow down or feel things getting sketchy, I call it. But will certainly explore a high pull option in anticipation of anything occuring, as that is something I have had more practice in.
Quickest at 43.2, slowest at 44.0 It’s a very minor detail but I’m typically within 0.5secs across the board when I’m dialed in on these. Anyway, considering I never train before breakfast, it’s not bad!
Traded a higher rate to hold the pace the last three intervals.
Deadlift
90x5
110x5
130 add belt x5
145x5 reverse grip - moved well
A1) Fat Grip BB Press
40x5
42.5
45x5
47.5
50x5
A2) Upright rows
40x5
42.5x5
45x5
47.5x5 - quite a bit of body English here
40x10
BB Bench
60x5
65x5
70x5
75x5
80x5
15-20 bpa’s each set
BB Curls
40x5x5
Squat all low bar and belted
95x5
110x5
115x5
117.5x5
120x5
Paired with light kB pullovers x15 each set
A session of awesomeness. Pressing with fat grips is awesome. Closer grip, inside the fat grips, was much better on upright rows, too. Long session though, hungry now.
300m @ 1:20.9
250m @ 1:21.3
200m @ 1:22.x fly and die here
All on 4 mins recovery. A little off the pace. My first stroke was weak, leaving me a lot of work to do to get under target pace. Strength work and night shift is leaving me a little fatigued and true sprint training is miserable at the best of times, so I’m quite cool with this, as my priorities at the minute is getting my strength, and in turn, my power up. And one day my sleep!
Deadlift
90x5
110x5
130 add belt x5
145x5 reverse grip
Fat grip press
40x5
45x5
50x5
52.5x5
52.5x4+1
Behind the neck press
40x6 30x11 Barx18
Bpa’s 3x20
Upright rows
45x5
40x2x10
BB curls
Barx60 broken
Squat
95x5
102.5 add belt x5
110x5
117.5x5
125x5
Core to do
My left elbow is really bothering me, but (strangely) not when overhead pressing. So I dropped bench (which does trouble me and absolutely nowhere to bail if I need to) and chased the pump with some behind the neck presses after my main pressing work. I think the heavy swiss bar benching has triggered it. I’m going to emphasise press one day, bench the other, and supplement accordingly. I don’t think the heavier upright rows help, either, so allowing some flexibility with the rep range here. Likewise curls.
Had already decided I’m probably going to take two days off lifting and load up on anti inflammatories, band pull aparts and pushdowns, so deadlifted today instead of next session. These felt solid today, lots of room to progress the next few weeks.
Squats are progressing nicely, nothing to change here. As is my bodyweight. About to tuck in to 5 eggs post workout, taking me to 12 for the day, before 14:30. And prepare 1kg of mince in the form of a chilli. This is probably the highlight of this post and my ramblings.
