ELLIPTICAL
14 min, 1.12 miles
I also managed to fast until 6:45pm. I’ve eaten two pork chops, a big salad, and I’m about to fry some eggs. I was doing good all day with hunger but I’m on the verge of binging… I still haven’t had any direct carbs.
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How do you check your various types of shoulder strength at PT? Is there a machine or something? Just curious.
She uses one of these. I push against it and it gives a reading of force in pounds. It’s an isometric test.
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Is this a good or bad thing?
How’s the shoulder doing overall?
You’ve done a lot of different stuff workout wise and haven’t been complaining much if any at all for a long time. So I figure it’s as fine as it’ll be.
I guess you have to avoid certain movements?
And the hip how about that?
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The last remaining issues with my shoulder is tightness and the imbalance between internal and external rotation. I’ll keep working on that on my own but no more official PT sessions.
The hip is doing good. RFESS and occasional foam rolling seem to keep it happy.
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Dude, I’m gone for a few months (okay, 7) and you have over 2000 new posts on your log! No way I have the time to read all that, so I’m just going to check out the last few weeks.
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3.31.20 SGSS W6 D1
ELLIPTICAL
8 min warm up
DEADLIFT
185 x 5
275 x 3
345 x 1
355 x 5 x 3 sets
HANG POWER CLEAN
135 x 3
155 x 3
175 x 5 x 3 sets
PULL UPS
BW x 8, 8, 9+4+3
DB REAR DELT FLY
45 x 12, 12, 12+6+4
Tried a new exercise - deadlift row. Didn’t like it. It’s all lower back for me.
DB MEADOWS ROW
85 x 8, 8, 11
INCLINE DB CURL
30 x 12, 10, 8+4+3
Took 53 minutes for the lifting. Better session than last week but still not great. I’m really not enjoying my pull day after power cleans. Incline DB rows aren’t perfect because my arms are a bit too long, but it’s the only chest supported exercise I can think of for my home gym.
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Have you tried the moving blackburns? Could you manage that? Don’t focus on the full extension if it hurts, just comfortable ROM and have that as a warmup to anything involving upper body work. They made such a crazy difference when my shoulder used to pop out of the joint.
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It’s quite difficult to resist adding weight but I’ll be throwing around two plates again soon enough.
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Those are some good looking cleans dude.
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Haha that’s a great exercise to do shirtless - shows off those pecs, looking good!
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Hey, it’s a home gym and I was hot! There’s also a mirror in front of me so I can admire myself. 
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4.1.20 SGSS W6 D2 - Push
These evening workouts suck.
INCLINE
45 x 10
135 x 5
160 x 8, 8, 6+2
Did some PT work between sets and I think it fatigued me a bit.
SQUAT
135 x 5
165 x 5
195 x 5
225 x 3
255 x 3
285 x 1
I’m beginning to think I need to just do a single at 255 and then go all out with the top set. 255 for 3 was tough and 285 was a 1 RM tonight.
DB BENCH
75 x 8 x 3 sets
DB OHP
60 x 8, 8, 6+2
DB LAT RAISE
20 x 30 reps
SA DB OH EXT
25 x 28+8+5
Just one double rest/pause set.
Time: 44 minutes
I tried something different tonight. I ate a little dinner (poor food choices) and watched a movie with the kids. I trained when they went to bed at 8pm. I’m not sure how to fix all this, but I don’t like training in the evening. I can get up early but I’m not doing squats or deads right after I wake up. I don’t want to bring the virus home so I’m paranoid about coming home during my shift. Something has to give…
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Wear a full-body breakaway cop uniform. That way you can rip it off in one smooth movement to reveal super short gym shorts and a tank top that says “diesel”, “alpha”, or “sup, bro”, run into your house and do a thousand curls, run back out, button back up the breakaway uniform, slide across your newly waxed cop car hood, jump into the car through the open window, throw the car in reverse and peel out of your neighborhood with the sirens on.
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There’s only one or two problems with that sequence…
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You’re right, a thousand curls isn’t nearly enough arm work.
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Well, for starters my curl workout from yesterday only had 37 reps. I think obtaining increasing to 1000 is a bit aggressive.
More importantly, who the hell is going to wash and wax my car?
I’m pretty much good with everything else…except the name brand stuff. I’ll have to do my own screen printing or something.
Gotcha.
I’ll hire some 10/10 superbabes to do it in bikinis and play around too much with soapy water. I don’t know that your wife will approve, but it’ll up the production value for social media.
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You guys ever see that carwash scene from Cool Hand Luke? Totally entranced me at 10 years old or whatever.
Just googled it and before I had “cool han…” in “cool hand luke carwash scene” showed up.
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Dude, Cool Hand Luke has been my life for 3 weeks.
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