I knew I wasn’t alone!
That’s good news!
Hopefully I can make this an upside by staying injury free and forcing some new growth/strength!
I’m probably going to loosely try something like what Flats recommended. Mixing in some Oly lifts in EMOM fashion. I will also likely attempt one of the CrossFit named WoDs (benchmark/hero WoDs) per week as well if recovery/time permits.
Built by bergeron have some cool barbell Emom WODs.
The bergeron beep test is a particularly nasty measure of your gas tank.
I had looked that up when you mentioned it in your thread and I have been back to check those workouts out fairly frequently. They do look solid for sure.
I’ll keep that one in mind for a rainy day! I did see it on the comp train website under the benchmarks section. Looks like an ass kicker.
Also, just to get it recorded here in my log: Morning Weight: 208.8lbs
Damn, i really got into spawntrapping on black ops2. Cod was great. Such a shame now that theres ps4 and xbox1 and all these shitty cods which will never compare to the classic black ops series or even modern warfare.
Haha, you were one of THOSE people.
Ya, I started playing just before Black Ops came out so I did play a bit of Modern Warfare which was fun, but the game was being hacked pretty hard so it wasn’t nearly as fun as Black Ops was. But ya, I moved from my apartment in 2014 to my new place (with an at home gym) and the ps3 hasn’t come out of the box I packed it in yet. I’m sure I would be absolutely terrible at this point.
MW2 for life
You never lose it hahaha it’s like riding a bike. When my wife and I moved in together I went probably 2 years without playing, then would play once or twice every 6 months or so to talk trash to my buddies back home, and I was still better than them haha it’s a great escape from reality every once in awhile, fun to kill a weekend when the wife is away doing something.
Nothing quite like eating, lifting, and video games for a day or two to really take some stress off!
Edit: Throw some beers in for superb trash talking abilities
MY FAVOURITE THINGS!!!
Week 1 - Day 2
BENCH PRESS
135 x 5
185 x 5
225 x 5
275 x 5
305 x 3reps x 5 sets ← These were starting to get a little grindy for my taste.
A bunch of band work between sets.
-SUPERSET-
CLOSE GRIP PAUSED FLOOR PRESS
225lbs x 8, 8, 8, 7
DB FLAT BENCH - DEEP ROM, PALMS IN
70lb DBs x 8, 8, 8, 8
Pecs/triceps starting to give out on the last couple sets here.
-SUPERSET-
SEATED TRICEPS EXTENSIONS
25lb DB x 10, 10, 10, 10
BANDED TRICEPS PUSHDOWNS - SINGLE ARM
Red mini (doubled up) x 10, 10, 10, 10
Week 1 - Day 3
DEADLIFT
135 x 5
225 x 5
315 x 5
405 x 3
495 x 3 x 5sets
Varied my deadlift stance throughout my top set just for fun. All moved relatively quickly; conventional was the slowest feeling of the 3 (sumo, semi, conv).
-SUPERSET-
2.25" DEFICIT DEADLIFT
315 x 8 x 4sets
Yep, glutes and hammies starting to fatigue here. 315 was starting to feel HEAVY in my last set.
CHINUPS
8, 8, 8, 8
Supinated, didn’t push these.
BENT OVER BB ROW
135 x 10
185 x 10, 10, 10
Not much left in the tank at the end of this one. Now off to Thanksgiving dinner 1 of 3.
At first I was like wait what did I really miss a month? HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
I need to start celebrating all of the Thanksgivings.
I’m so in, eh.
Here is a video of the different pulling variations I used. Any comments/criticism is encouraged. Also, sorry for lack of hook grip @BOTSLAYER. Maybe one day I’ll be man enough to learn it, just ain’t on my list of priorities at the moment.
Use hook grip hahahahaha
You mean woman enough 
Form looked awesome. I would like to see hand spacing on the Sumo and Squat Stance though. It looks a little close.
Edit: like your arms didnt go straight down.
Sumo and semi sumo looked awesome. Conventional seemed the least comfortable, like you got pulled forward at the start.
Nice work man!
Seems like squat stance is the most comfortable way for you to pull. I might have to give that stance a try next time deadlifting for sure.
You might have to give this a try next time:
I think you might be right, they may have been a little close together for some reason. I’ll try to be more cognizant of this next DL day.
I guess it looked exactly how it felt! I think my conventional is a tad bit out of practice now that I’ve been doing semi-sumo for the last few months. I don’t think I was sitting back into the lift as much as I should have been. Good catch, thanks!
Ya it seems to be where I feel the strongest and most natural at the moment. That’s a funky looking lift, looks a little more narrow stance than my semi-sumo but similar…ish?
Thanksgiving 3 of 3 down. OH YA! Pumpkin, blueberry, raspberry, and apple pie. Chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies. Apple crisp and ice cream and frozen yogurt. I may have had all of the above. No guilt being felt.
1 turkey dinner, 1 ham dinner and 1 dinner with ham and turkey! Of course this is also with all the fix’ins.
Week 1 - Day 4 (Complete Power Look)
So today is my first ever scheduled push press day. Due to shoulder/wrist immobility and a list of other excuses I’ve never really trained it. I found back in my log a clean and push press of 235x2 so I think that was my previous best (?), while my 1RM for strict is 255lbs. So here we go.
Push Press
135 x 5
185 x 5
205 x 3
215 x 3 x 3 ← I was supposed to just hit 215 for 5 sets of 3 reps, but these felt EASY. So…
275lbs x 1 ← EASY. Like seemingly effortless. New PR
300 x 0 ← 275 feels easy? Go big or go home. There isn’t a number between 275 and 300 where I’d be happy, so 300 it is. Bar ended up in the bottom of my left hand/thumb and I didn’t have enough meat under it to hold it up.
300 x 0, 0 ← Stubbornness ensued and similar failures to the first. I got greedy and stupid here. Luckily I didn’t get hurt or tweak something (wrists are a little pissed, but nothing major). Hit the smelling salts, jazzed up the music to try and rock this weight but failed.
Good News: It’s there. I’m hittting over 300lbs in 2017, and I’m going to be making a hard run at 3 plates. Now I’m hungry. I’m really going to start working on that shoulder and wrist mobility which will hopefully make the transition from shoulders to hands a bit easier/less painful.
Bad News: It doesn’t matter how experienced I think I might be I will probably always do stupid shit like this in the weight room. This was fun for me. Also, push press form is garbage. No dip on the push press catch. Trying to mimic my strict press form instead of getting underneath the bar so the weight ends up in front of my COG. Lots of things to work on, but I’m excited to see the possibility there for some not-so-distant-future PRs. ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON HOW I CAN IMPROVE THIS FORM? - VID TO FOLLOW-
JUMP ROPE ← I was looking around the weight room for something stupid to do as a mini-punishment to do for failing 300lbs without ruining the entire workout.
100 unbroken jumps (I NEVER do a 100 set unbroken, typically this takes me 4-5 sets of 20-25jumps, but I said I would jump until I hit 100 straight, so I suppose the motivation was there)
-SUPERSET-
STRICT OVERHEAD PRESS
135 x 12, 8, 8, 8 (last 2 push press)
DB 60o INCLINE PRESS
70lb x 8, 8, 8, 8
-SUPERSET-
BB CURL
45lb x 30, 25, 20
LATERAL DELT RAISE
30lb x 10, 10, 10
Then some posing practice…wait wut? Yeah, you don’t waste a pump like this in front of the mirror without going through the mandatory poses! 
Brady is going to be so pissed once he sees you hammering push press form and Pwn hitting 230 for 3. 
@brady888 loll
