I hope you didn’t! 
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Good night! Awesomely excellent time
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Incoming headache 
How many people drank on 2 12’s and 2 1/5’s?
I’m going to let loose a bit tomorrow with family and friends. Made myself hit goals, so it’s my little celebration that no one knows about haha.
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And how does the Hog feel right now??? It’s 0912 hrs.
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I’m up. 3 people and only 1- 1/5. The other was the girls and is still around.
We are doing some carpenter work today. The headache is minor. I’m really surprised given the beer I drank 10-12.
Enjoy yourselves.
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Release the Kraken??.. enjoy
Built a porch today with a set of French doors. From recycled wood frame doors. Cleaned up a rent house. Just helping out the in-laws really.
Didn’t have any refreshments today. Weighed 267 this pm 
. Holy crap. Like 7lbs in 2 days.
I’m not a hard gainer
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Sounds like you have had some fun Hog.
The Kraken is good. I did some venezuelan rum yesterday, and beer as well.
You’ll bounce back the weight quickly. When you get back to normal living again.
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05-27-2019. Memorial Day lift
Warmup: 10 min bike
Squats:
44x10
135x10
185x10
225x10 (these felt very easy and light. I was able to work on form and adjust little things while doing this set. Upper day so didn’t do anything more here)
OHP:
45x10
75x10
95x10
115x10
135x7 (hmmmm)
135x5.
CGB:
45x10
95x10
135x10
185x10
225x3
Wide grip lat pulls
110x20
Narrow grip
110x10
Narrow reverse grip
110x10
Plate raise (35)/DB seated press
X10 / 30x15
X10 / 30x15
X10/ 30x15
Chest supported rear delt flys
20x15 3 sets
Thought about some other stuff but naaa
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Haven’t checked in in a little while. Glad to see you’re enjoying yourself and playing the game a bit more conservatively. It’ll pay off.
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05-28-2019. Squats for real dis time
Warmup: airdyne 6min
Band stuff
Squat cambered bar:
45x10
95x10
135x10
185x5
225x3
275x1
315x1 (most lifted on the bar since )
Down sets
255x3
255x3
255x3
255x3
RDL:
135x10
135x10
135x10
GHR
X6
X10
Belt squat marches w/ 2 plates
2 min (outside glutes fired up)
Standing ab crunches
100 reps
I squatted yesterday up to 225 x10. I didn’t want to push too deep today but I did want to take something relatively heavy. After we got done we figured out the bar is 55lbs so I ended up with 325x1. This is the most I’ve done since the strain. It was a struggle to hold form and the rep was not as fast as I would like 315ish to be. I had more but I’m working back slowly. And cutting so this was a good weight to hit for today.
The RDLs felt good. At some point tonight my lower back loosened up and felt weird. It was going from tight to loose but no pain. I think the body is in a very critical place. It’s beginning to trust that the injury is healed but not strong in that place yet. I’ll keep 325-355 as a training max for now and no rush to hit 355.
Belt squat marches are money right now and I’ll keep them in the leg day rotation. Westside taught me to use variation to my advantage. It also taught me to not stray too far from my comp lifts I’m not experienced enough to need much variation. Working my squat form is paying dividends and is much improved.
Injury has been the best teacher I’ve had recently. I don’t wish it on anyone. But it has taught me that diving too deep and working outside of form is a poor decision
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When did you get all grown up!! Well done
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Well seeing your lifting future flash before your eyes and almost breaking your back will do that sort of thing. Maybe if I was younger and hard headed I would be like “freak accident, I got this shit, hold my beer watch this”
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Weigh in: 261.4.
I’ll see sub 259 this week. School is out. I have full control of diet morning and night. Stress loads are way down. Sleep is on point. Summer is the gains train for me. I’ll use summers in the future as my strength blocks and school times for hypertrophy and maintaining
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So your big break is the middle of the year Hog? How many weeks holidays do you lot get there? We get 6 week in summer over Xmas, then 3 more lots of 2 for the school terms.
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I’ll be off until July 31. 8 weeks or so.
It will be glorious.
I went and hit some tennis balls with my son today for about an hour. Hardly could call it playing tennis.
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Sounds like fun. I always enjoyed tennis, even though I suck too. Getting that one big ace serve in makes it all worth it .
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05-30-2019. Bench madness
Warmup: Airdyne 8 min
Band stuff for shoulders, lats, bis, and tris.
BB row/ Bench SS
45x10 / 45x10
95x10 / 95x10
145x10/ 135x10
145x10/ 155x10
145x10/ 185x6 (rpe 8)
145x10/ 185x7 (rpe 9) found a groove.
Paloff press/ pull-ups
X10 / 1 (back wasn’t there. From the rows?)
X10
X10
X10
Incline press:
45x10
135x10
155x10
165x8 ( chest was tired)
Seated v handle row:
140 x10
140 x10
140 x10
Rope push downs:
25x30
25x20
25x10
BB (fat grip) curls :
BarX25
BarX20
BarX30
BarX15
BarX10
Done and done.
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hah, yeah it does.
05-31-2019. Return from the Dead lifts
Warmup: airdyne 6 min
Deads: (first time long time)
135x10
225x5
315x5
315x5
315x5
315x5
315x5
315x5 (these felt heavy. 315 used to be throw around weight. )
Front squat:
45x10
95x8
135x8
155x8
Reverse hyper:
90x20
110x20
130x20
Lying leg raise hip thrust:
50 reps
Oh my how I’ve lost so much strength during this injury reset and cut. I feel better day to day but I’m a weakling now.
The back is getting bulletproof but I’m still not ready to test it out really. I’ll do a slow climb back to something respectable.
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