That’s actually an awesome Idea.
Add in a diet tracker where you can follow different diets, or where foods are rated according to nutritional value (Tip: Eat All You Want and Still Lose Fat), glycemic load and maybe FODMAP and it’d be better than everything else out there assuming it doesn’t get executed poorly.
I think the only problem is a good app is probably prohibitively expensive to make
It can be. Especially if you are going for feature complete from the get go. But, if it starts out with just a few programs added in manually by hand so the common patterns are allowed to emerge before you try and automate the process and you get a paying user-base then you’d use that funding to develop additional features (adding in the diet stuff later on) and so forth and give value back to the users.
The most costly thing in the development process is labour. Outsourcing it can become a huge pain, if you have a development team that doesn’t understand the domain. Could probably be built reasonably quickly by experienced app developers. It also depends where you’d outsource. The US dollar is internationally strong, so you don’t have to outsource to the lowest common denominator on the market.
I work as a programmer, not an app developer, but I could be reasonably productive after a shorter period of figuring out the technologies involved.
Saturday’s session.
First session with my sexy new squat shoes. Moving from squatting in flats to heels to try and save my hips a little so was expecting the session to be a little rusty.
Squat
140 x 3
160 x 3
185 x 2 x 4
Went off without a hitch, maybe a little more difficult than last session, but could be I was going deeper and / or using a new squat pattern. Felt good though.
Bench
130 x 3
140 x 2 x 4
132.5 x 2 x 3
Squats and bench felt good today. Nice.
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Sunday Deadlifts
Not quite as good as yesterday, lifts just felt a little ‘off’’
Deficit deadlift - 1.5 inches (ish)
180 x 3
210 x 2 x 4
Deadlift from blocks - 2"
210 x 3
240 x 3
255 x 3 x 2
Standing DB shoulder Press
37.5 x 3
32.5 x 3 x 3
32.5 x 6
Wide grip pull-ups - slow
BW x 6 x 5
One-leg leg-press
+100 x 5 x 5
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We’ll fuck.
Just pulled my back. Did I do it squatting or deadlifting heavy? Of course not.
I did it standing up funny from my office chair … Guess it’s bench only tonight.
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Its always the case man… never lifting the heavy ass weights, always doing something we take for granted! Hope its nothing too major!
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So took Tuesday off to see how bad my back was, Spasm was still pretty bad Wednesday so going to take the whole week off for lower body work.
Bench only week inc.
Bench Press - no leg drive or arch
120 x 4
132 x 3 x 5
Feet up Bench Press
116 x 4 x 5
Bulgarian ring dips
5 x 6
and about a thousand band pull-aparts.
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Day 2 of Bench only
Bench Press - No leg drive or arch
120 x 4
132 x 2 x 5
One arm rope pushdowns
45 x 6 x 5
Threw in a forearm session for funsies
Hammer levers
Front lever - 15reps x 3
Back lever - 15reps x 3
HEX DB pinch hold
15kg x 15s x 3
Barbell Finger Curl
30 x 20 x 3
Barbell reverse wrist curl
15 x 20 x 2
One arm plate curl
5kg x 20 x 3
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Recap of Saturdays session, another no legs day.
Bench
80 x 7
90 x 6
100 x 5
115 x 4
125 x 3
132.5 x 2
132.5 x 2
140 x 1
140 x 1
132.5 x 2
125 x 3
115 x 4
107.5 x 5
100 x 6
90 x 7
80 x 8
Nice bit of volume, weights all felt pretty easy.
Iso plate loaded rows
80 x 10 x 3
Iso plate loaded pulldowns
80 x 10 x 3
So had a full week off from any lower body work, will try and do some squats tonight. Will take it gentle and see how it goes. Still a little discomfort in my lower back, but no longer related to movement or contraction of the muscles there. Will have to be super strict on form, might do high bar for vertical torso.
Boom! squats are back on the roster
Bench
132.5 x 2 x 4
132.5 x 4
Squats
60 x 5
100 x 5
130 x 5
150 x 2
170 x 1
184 x 2 x 4
Was supposed to be 5 to sets, but the first 4 sets felt great and didnt want to be greedy and risk the fifth so left it there.
On the plus side the week of rest meant that squats felt super easy, was able to do solid paused reps all the way through.
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Did all today’s deadlifts with squat heels on, make it a little harder and help keep my torso more vertical. Back survived the session so it didn’t hurt me at least.
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Saturdays squats went well again, think I’m fully back on the horse.
Squats
185 x 2 x 4
These reps all felt solid, and the weight didnt feel too heavy either. Nice confidence boost.
More squats
165 x 6 x 2
Bench Press
122.5 x 3 this felt too easy so I upped my TM before doing the rest of the sets
128 x 3 x 4
Overall a nice session.
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Sunday Deadlifts
Forgot my deadlift shoes so did all my sets in squat heels again.
Deadlift up to knees
225 x 3 x 4
Front Band Deadlift
225 x 3 x 2
245 x 3 x 3
Bench Press
120 x 4 x 4
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Squats felt solid today. Super solid, probably the best they have ever felt and I’m pretty sure 196kg doubles are a rep PB.
If I didn’t have 1RM test scheduled for next week I’d have tried it today for sure.
I did have an unscheduled cheat after I saw the planned weights for today and got a little worried so a large sweet popcorn pre workout was just the ticket.
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@flipcollar has experience with water cuts. Want to chime in on this one bud?
sure 
so yea, I’ve done about 19 lbs for a water cut to the same weight class you’re trying to make. If you’re interested, I can tell you how I do it, and how I refuel after. I’ve never lost strength from a water cut, and I’ve set quite a few PR’s. At World’s in strongman last year, I hit a 280 log press, which was 5 lbs off the world record, after my 19 lbs water cut. And it was a PR too, lol.
I do my cuts without any diuretics (aside from beer and dandelion root), and no laxatives.
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I’d love to know.
Last year I did a 12lb cut to make weight, but it was glycogen depletion rather than a water cut. Only for the reason that I’m experienced with Keto and knew exactly how much weight I’d lose doing Keto for 5 days and didn’t want to risk the water cut not working.
The problem is I feel like it will be easier, or at least faster, to recover water than refilling all your glycogen, I was still pretty flat the next Day and definitely not recovered in full despite eating tactically and literally to my physical capacity the day before.
With this chance to test a water cut, with it not mattering what I weigh, it seems like a perfect time to test how I react to it.
How do you do it?