I Ain't Never Had My Wheaties

[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Yooooo. Where the squats at? lol[/quote]

They’ve been bothering my back and hip a lot, whereas pulls haven’t been. And I’m not doing a full power until august so I figured it wouldn’t be a bad time to back off.
Bench Press (Paused)
285 Lb x 3 reps
305 Lb x 2 reps
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 7
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 7
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 8

Bodyweight
181 Lb

Tri pushdowns
4x a lot

No lift off today so I kept it lighter. Pauses felt solid.

[quote]budreiser wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Yooooo. Where the squats at? lol[/quote]

They’ve been bothering my back and hip a lot, whereas pulls haven’t been. And I’m not doing a full power until august so I figured it wouldn’t be a bad time to back off.
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Any asymmetry in your glutes?

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]budreiser wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Yooooo. Where the squats at? lol[/quote]

They’ve been bothering my back and hip a lot, whereas pulls haven’t been. And I’m not doing a full power until august so I figured it wouldn’t be a bad time to back off.
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Any asymmetry in your glutes?[/quote]

If I send you a picture of my hamstring hearts can you analyze the symmetry of my glutes?

[quote]budreiser wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]budreiser wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Yooooo. Where the squats at? lol[/quote]

They’ve been bothering my back and hip a lot, whereas pulls haven’t been. And I’m not doing a full power until august so I figured it wouldn’t be a bad time to back off.
[/quote]
Any asymmetry in your glutes?[/quote]

If I send you a picture of my hamstring hearts can you analyze the symmetry of my glutes?[/quote]
Of course. I always give a very thorough review.

Bench Press (Paused)
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 7
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 7
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 7

Close Grip Bench Press (Paused)
275 Lb x 3 reps
285 Lb x 3 reps
285 Lb x 3 reps
295 Lb x 5 reps @ 8
Notes: These were sp

Bodyweight
181 Lb

Leg drive was bothering my hip. Everything moved really well I just didn’t feel like lifting today. The close grips wer cg spotos.

Good work here! I’m considering taking more of an RTS RPE approach to training so will be lurking more to learn.

Seems like you don’t do many fatigue stops? Is this because your strength levels are high enough that you have to watch how much hard volume you do? I’ve looked at the general intermediate template Mike put out and honestly don’t see how I could recover from all that volume @ 9 RPE. Not advanced by any means, but I would consider myself a late intermediate.

[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Good work here! I’m considering taking more of an RTS RPE approach to training so will be lurking more to learn.

Seems like you don’t do many fatigue stops? Is this because your strength levels are high enough that you have to watch how much hard volume you do? I’ve looked at the general intermediate template Mike put out and honestly don’t see how I could recover from all that volume @ 9 RPE. Not advanced by any means, but I would consider myself a late intermediate.

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I generally don’t use the stops or fatigue percents because i’m too lazy to plan out my training, not so much of a strength thing. The volume on the intermediate template isn’t too bad, the fatigue percents usually take care of how much you end up doing. You can always drop one of the supplemental movements off the template if its too much.

[quote]budreiser wrote:
I generally don’t use the stops or fatigue percents because i’m too lazy to plan out my training, not so much of a strength thing. The volume on the intermediate template isn’t too bad, the fatigue percents usually take care of how much you end up doing. You can always drop one of the supplemental movements off the template if its too much.
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Lol sounds good! Yea, if I did something like the intermediate program I would probably only pull once a week.

Sumo Deadlift
545 Lb x 2 reps
585 Lb x 2 reps @ 8 + 20 LB REP PR
585 Lb x 2 reps @ 9 + 20 LB REP PR

Bodyweight
176 Lb

Ghr
2x20

Mcgill pull ups
8x2

Solid pulls. 585 moved pretty fast. I’m surprised that my DL isnt crapping the bed with my weight loss.

[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:

[quote]budreiser wrote:
I generally don’t use the stops or fatigue percents because i’m too lazy to plan out my training, not so much of a strength thing. The volume on the intermediate template isn’t too bad, the fatigue percents usually take care of how much you end up doing. You can always drop one of the supplemental movements off the template if its too much.
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Lol sounds good! Yea, if I did something like the intermediate program I would probably only pull once a week.[/quote]

I’d say try it out as its written and if it doesn’t work modify it a bit.

Bench Press (Bands)
225 Lb x 3 reps
225 Lb x 3 reps
235 Lb x 3 reps
235 Lb x 3 reps
235 Lb x 3 reps

Bench Press (Sling Shot)
365 Lb x 1 reps
405 Lb x 1 reps @ 10 + 40 LB REP PR

Bodyweight
176 Lb

Tri pushdowns
4x25

Medial delt raises
5x15-20

Bench Press (Paused)
330 Lb x 3 reps @ 8
340 Lb x 3 reps @ 8
350 Lb x 2 reps @ 9
335 Lb x 3 reps @ 8

Bodyweight
176 Lb

Tri ext
3x12-15
Curls
4x12-15
Medial delt raises
10x20

Bench Press (Paused)
315 Lb x 2 reps
325 Lb x 5 reps + 10 LB REP PR
325 Lb x 3 reps

Dead Bench
315 Lb x 1 reps
315 Lb x 1 reps
315 Lb x 1 reps
315 Lb x 1 reps
315 Lb x 1 reps

Bodyweight
184 Lb

Dead benches were hard. Can’t do this early morning training thing.

Bench Press (Paused)
315 Lb x 1 reps
345 Lb x 1 reps
365 Lb x 1 reps @ 9 + 20 LB REP PR

Close Grip Bench Press (Paused)
315 Lb x 3 reps
315 Lb x 3 reps

Bodyweight
182 Lb

Arms and stuff.

The bar I was benching with was bent and kept rolling in my hands. I think 375-385 is pretty doable right now.

Just completely glaze over hitting a 2xBW bench, why don’t cha.

[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Just completely glaze over hitting a 2xBW bench, why don’t cha.[/quote]
It’s not 405…
Bench Press (Paused)
315 Lb x 2 reps @ 7
325 Lb x 2 reps @ 8
335 Lb x 3 reps @ 9
320 Lb x 3 reps @ 8
320 Lb x 3 reps @ 8
295 Lb x 2 reps @ 7
295 Lb x 2 reps @ 7
295 Lb x 2 reps @ 7

Bodyweight
182 Lb

Last few sets were with a 3 count pause.
Elbows and triceps were pretty achey

I pulled 500x2 conventional yesterday. Gonna hit 585 soon srs

Bench Press (Paused)
330 Lb x 2 reps
330 Lb x 2 reps
330 Lb x 2 reps
330 Lb x 2 reps
330 Lb x 2 reps
275 Lb x 4 reps
275 Lb x 4 reps
275 Lb x 4 reps
275 Lb x 4 reps

Bodyweight
182 Lb

5 weeks out. It’s go time

Bench Press (Paused)
315 Lb x 3 reps
345 Lb x 1 reps
365 Lb x 2 reps @ 10 + 10 LB REP PR

Close Grip Bench Press (Paused)
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 8
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 8
315 Lb x 3 reps @ 8

Bodyweight
180 Lb

Hammer curls
100 reps
tri pushdowns
150 reps

Benching went really well. I got to use a decent bench and it made a big difference