Just. Don't. Suck (Part 1)

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Just remember how important movement quality is. Not only for injury prevention, but muscle activation and growth.

At this stage in training, there’s no need for sub par reps. Every rep needs to count.

I’ve completely moved away from ‘set thinking’ and moved to ‘rep thinking.’ It’s made a big difference.

Yeah I’m moving a 1/3 of the weight, but I feel good and I’m GROWING.

I have not been talking about my weight lately, but I’m up to about 192. I’ve added some fluff, but a lot of muscle.

Not one bad rep!

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7307

You’re a strong sumbitch, and you look like it, too. It’s fine if you lag a bit on one or two things. In fact, the rest of us normals appreciate it.

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7308

Who you calling normal?

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7309

Mostly me.

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7310

Gone for a few days and 50 new posts in here haha. Sweet deal on the new truck man!

Have you done any box squatting? I’ve only experimented with them a little bit, but they seem to suck a lot less than free squatting.

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Yeah, the guy who does hand stand push ups like it’s nothing.

Yes, it’s not as horrible. I guess I kind of threw that aside once I was able to squat without pain again. I did box squats in the fall of 18 when I ran SGSS the second time. They were high, though. I think I was going down to 20-22". I’d put bumper plates on top of an 18" box.

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Perhaps they’d be worth revisiting as a main squat choice? The last handful of posts made it seem like squats are just for stronger legs to help with the deadlift, I’m sure adding a box wouldn’t take away from that.

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I mean, it’s just like pressing stuff, except only upside down.

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Well, I weight about 225 these days and I’m not strict pressing my body weight… or even 80% of my body weight. Therefore, there are no HSPU in my training.

Kudos to you, sir.

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I wholeheartedly agree.

Although for the record, I’d rather have a bodyweight press than be able to do a HSPU for no logical reason at all.

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7316

I agree. But what about, say, 10 HSPUs instead?

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I feel like we’re getting into duck sized bear territory now so lets just say I’m unnaturally attached to basic barbell movements for no logical or sensible reason.

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7318

How about 15 then? And that’s my final offer.

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Throw in a front lever?

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Deal. Wait. Who has to actually do any of this?

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You do, I think.

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That’s how I read it, yeah.

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I think it’d be pretty badass to be able to walk around on my hands, stop, do a couple of HSPU, and then continue walking around… Just sayin’.

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There’s a small handful of YouTube fitness guys who I like/“trust.” This is one of them:

I’m not sure how intensely I’ll ever pursue it but being able to do some cool body weight movements looks awesome, especially if you’ve got at least a little muscle on you.

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3.9.20 SGSS W2 D6 Pull

Finally caught up. Start Week 3 right on schedule tomorrow.

PULL UPS
BW x 5 x 3 sets supersetted with scap depressions (locking out a dip)
First real run at pull ups. They felt alright. I’ve done a few here and there and my scapula goes nuts. I felt like I was mostly in control of these which is why I stopped at five.

CABLE ROW
160 x 10 x 4 sets

DB MEADOWS ROW
65 x 10 x 4 sets
Back pump, anyone?

DB PULL OVER
70 x 10
65 x 10 x 3 sets
superset with
CLOSE GRIP PULL DOWN
150 x 10 x 4 sets

CABLE CURL
130 x 10
120 x 10 x 2 sets

40 minute workout. The coolest part of the day was that the Chief asked me to pick out the equipment for a weight room at our new police station. It’s a long ways off but I have about 1100 square feet to fill with toys.

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