Fair enough. Long way to go tho. See how it goes as you get closer to comp. Might end up not having to water cut at all (hopefully)
Absolutely the goal.
I know I can handle glycogen depletion, spent most of the last 10 years in and out of Keto so I know I can both handle it, and train, recover and gain strength on it.
Dehydration on the other hand, man that sucks balls. I feel like hell if I get just a little dehydrated and I’ve never done deliberate dehydration for any sort of weigh in, so don’t even wanna think about how it feels at that extreme.
Ill start the depletion a little earlier than most people do, from experience I need a good 6-8 days to fully deplete. Ill keep water intake high during that so I can make a call on weight a day or two out to see if water cut is needed.
Thanks for the encouragement gents.
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You’ll get cramps that you’ve never dreamed of. My friend shat his suit on his third deadlift apparently cos of a cramp (that’s what he blamed it on anyways)
id reeeealy like to avoid shitting myself in my first meet…
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Squat
170 x 3 rpe 9.5 Rep PR
165 x 3 rpe 8
165 x 3 rpe 8.5
165 x 3 rpe 8.5
165 x 5 rpe 9 Rep PR
Squats didn’t feel great. Shocker. Thinking I might need to go higher on volume and lower on intensity for a few weeks to get a groove going. Second rep of the top set felt easy. 3rd rep nearly pinned me. 3rd and 4th load drop sets felt consecutively better though.
Bench Press
133.5 x 3 rpe 9 Rep PR
126 x 3 rpe 7.5
126 x 3 rpe 8
126 x 3 rpe 8.5
126 x 5 rpe 9 Rep PR
Sumos
231 x 3 rpe 9 (video) Rep RR
226 x 3 rpe 9 strapless.
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Todays Deadlifts
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Your vids never work for me. Use YouTube ffs.
Also what happened to your grip issues?
Ill set up a youtube thingy, just for you.
Carbs happened I think. Or I was just a little burned out at the time, though I still think If I was doing more than 3 reps I would have to go sub 200 strapless.
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Bit strange but as long as its not a problem or consideration for 1RMs probably not worth doing grip work.
2 count pause squat
161 x 5 rpe 9 Rep PR
151 x 5 rpe 8.5
151 x 5 rpe 9
Squats felt better today, reps felt broadly similar one set to the next.
3 count pause bench
122.5 x 5 rpe 8.75
116 x 5 rpe 7.5
116 x 5 rpe 8
116 x 5 rpe 8.5
116 x 9 rpe 9 Rep PR
9 reps on the last set leads me to suspect I may be subconsciously sandbagging on the rpe estimations.
Close Grip Bench
105 x 5 rpe 9 Rep RP
96 x 5 rpe 7
96 x 8 rpe 8.5 Rep PR
96 x 8 rpe 9
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yer a big strong handsome fella
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Why thank you sir.
No homo?
How?
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Im not exactly sure. I just kept thinking ‘yea I can probably do one more’ again and again.
I did have an extra long rest before that set though, some bodybuilder bros came over and asked what the point in arching was amd got into a 5-10 minute chat about training with them.
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Weighed in at 200 today. This is moving in the wrong direction but hopefully means good training tonight.
Cant train tomorrow so adding tomorrows squat and bench assistance lifts in today. Not expecting much having trained both yesterday.
2” deficit deadlift
180 x 9 rpe 9
170 x 6 rpe 7.5
170 x 6 rpe 8.5
170 x 6 rpe 9
2 ct Incline Bench with fatgripz
100 x 6 rpe 8
100 x 6 rpe 8
100 x 6 re 8.5
100 x 6 rpe 9
All bench sets superset with deadstop pull-ups
Bw x 10/10/10/10/8/8/8 - 64 reps
Hack Squat Machine - ATG
200 x 5 rpe 9
180 x 6 rpe 9
Superset squats with Cable Crunches
100 x 12reps - 5 sets.
Machine Preacher Curl
45 x 15
50 x 12
55 x 10
maximum homo
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Heavy Day
Squats
175kg x 3 rpe 7.5 Rep PR
200kg x 1 rpe 8.5 PR - new 1RM
170kg x 5 rpe 8.5
170kg x 5 rpe 9
No 1RM’s scheduled for today but my top set felt easy enough to have a go. Ill take an easy 10kg 1rm.
Paused Bench Press (Not cheater grip)
155 x 1 rpe 9.75 PR - new 1RM
135 x 3 rpe 9
130 x 3 rpe 8.5
130 x 3 rpe 9
Turns out Ive been using an illegal grip width all my life. I always have index finger on the ring on the bar. Turns out thats 86cm, not 81, had to shift it in a digit and a bit! Thus an excuse to re-test 1rm.
Deadlift
240 x 1 rpe 8.5 - strapless
270 x 1 rpe 10 PR - new 1RM - with straps.
225 x 3 rpe 9 strapless
And Im cooked.
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Very nice!
Looks like you’re in with the PR of the day (PROD™)
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