MarkKO's Training Log

Today’s training

Dips and pull-ups to warm up (11 and 6)

Floor press
12xbar
12x88 lbs
3x12x126 lbs

DB bench press
1 minute at 55 lbs - around 20 reps. Not pleasant

DB tricep extensions
4x10x20 lbs

Triceps pumped up by now

Bench dips
50 total reps: 17, 17, 16

Push-ups
2x20

Triceps dead

Military press
6x88 lbs - left shoulder did NOT like the wider grip I’ve been using
6x100 lbs - switched back to thumb away from smooth, much better
2x6x110 lbs

DB rows
10x80 lbs
10x100 lbs
10x110 lbs
2x10x120 lbs

All normal grip

DB hammer curls
2x15x25 lbs

Lying leg raises
50 total reps: 20, 20, 10

All up done in an hour and 20 minutes

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Timed sets are the fucking worst.

How’s the accumulation block treating you?

Woke at 207 lbs, looking decent again.

@Destrength is that what this is? Whatever it is, it’s treating me well.

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Deep tissue massage today. Felt great.

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Figured it was time I change my avatar. I mean, it’s not like I look like that any more.

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Im going to get so confused now. Who is this guy with a white background, oh its mark :smiley:

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Lol, you nailed the change though!

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Woke. Looking decent. No scale because hotel (Mrs KO’s birthday so we booked a nice suite in the city).

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Woke at 209.7 lbs, looking a bit soft and bloated. I think it’s simply because of the volume of dinner yesterday: I had a decent breakfast but a tiny lunch so to make up my calories dinner was big. Not bad, just big. Maybe a little extra salt in there too.

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Today’s training

Bunch of belt squat with a plate a side, some GHR and some GHR situps

Squat
5xbar
5xplate/143 lbs
5x2 plates/231 lbs
5x3 plates/319 lbs
3x1x390 lbs
4x390 lbs

https://www.instagram.com/p/BehU0z3BLjy/

All work sets in five minutes, all under 6 RPE

Wide stance squat (each foot two inches further out)
3x6x275 lbs, beltless - these felt awkward AF but light all the same. Can’t believe I used to squat like this. Third set:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BehVI2HBCSY/

45 degree back raises
5x15 with 44 lbs

Brace and hold
6x5 seconds - more dizziness

BB rows
2x12x220 lbs - not exactly strict, more like not quite sloppy

First set

https://www.instagram.com/p/Behl5cjhjyA/

Second set was a little looser. Great rhomboid and trap pump though.

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Nothing related to your training but do happen to have German ancestors? Kehrberg is a common German name. Also I used to play tennis with a guy named Mark Kehrberg :smiley:

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Woke at 208.8 lbs, but looking a lot better. Bloat is gone, softness almost gone.

@Koestrizer yes, I’m only a first generation Australian. My mother was born in Germany. Still got all my uncles and cousins there. I never had much to do with them though, which is kind of a shame.

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Too bad, if you ever are in the south of Germany, let me know!

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Today’s training

Push-ups and pull-ups (15/7)

Bench press
5xbar
5x88 lbs
3x132 lbs
2x2x165 lbs
3x165 lbs
2x5x165 lbs

All those 165 lbs were done with 10 second rests - all up the five sets took a minute and 20 seconds. RPE went from under 6 to 9.

Incline press, bench grip
3x4x165 lbs

Push-ups
50 total reps: 20, 15, 15

Triceps PUMPED

Skull crushers
10x77 lbs
2x10x66 lbs because triceps were, in a word, approaching fucked

Dips
2x10 at bodyweight

DB rows
12x100 lbs
3x12x110 lbs

Grip felt STRONG today, but didn’t go to 120 lbs to keep the rows reasonably strict

DB military press
10x45 lbs
2x10x50 lbs

All up took an hour and 20 minutes

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That session sounds brutal. How as the pump at the end ??

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Btw do you pronounce your last name “German” or English? I for example have a Swedish first name (no relations to Sweden unfortunately) but we all pronounce it “German”. I later found out that you would pronounce it way different in Sweden which would mean if I ever go to Sweden, people there must think I am too dumb to pronounce my own name. :smiley:

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Nice workout man.

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I like it.
My “resting B face” has given me a lifetime of “what’s wrong?”, “why are you mad”, “smile”. Ugh!

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Woke at 208 lbs, looking decent.

@simo74 my triceps were dead by the time I finished pushups.

@Koestrizer I think I pronounce it English, but I’m not sure. I say it kerberg.

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My wife says I look like a serial killer. She also hums the Terminator soundtrack when I walk.

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