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Wednesday, 21 August

Down to 233.9 today.

Did PM training with the group and we were doing squats. Since my barbell back squat is so poor I was looking forward to it and coach had some corrections immediately.

I’m a quad-dominant squatter and we’re working on getting more hips. He basically said he’d rebuild my squat from the ground up - today we did stance width and a controlled descent, next we’ll do core/bracing and then bar placement/back tightness. Not bothered about depth for now but it will come with time.

Didn’t hit anything close to significant weight but really weird to feel myself squatting and have my quads doing very little work. I couldn’t make the session tomorrow afternoon so I’m back at 6.30am for him to do similar things to my equally-shit bench press.

Really excited to see how this continues for me. I don’t know how my programming will look for the rest of the year; I might wind up utilising a combination of this training and the local gym; what I do know is that some big things are coming.

Training

Warmup
3x20 bird dogs
3x20 dead bugs
3x20 air squats

Wide[r] stance back squat with short pause
2x10x20kg (45lbs)
3x5x40kg (90lbs)
3x5x60kg (135lbs)
3x2x80kg (180lbs)
5x1x80kg (180lbs)

Leg Press
3x12xmachine plus 100kg (225lbs) or so in plates

Banded Side Step Glute-Torturing Things
3x20 steps each leg. Awful.

Elevated Heels Goblet Squat
3x12x20kg (45lbs) DB

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LOL I didnt really think that answer through well. i can see how that may be alarming. Should have put a disclaimer …‘no babies were hurt in the making of this post’

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I got a good laugh out of it :smiley:

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I think that makes you as ‘different’ as me !!

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Thursday, 22 August

The fiancée has decided she should do some kind of physical activity so she’s joining the local gym. Getting her just walking for 30-45m on a treadmill a few times a week to get her used to the routine but I have nefarious plans to get her goblet squatting and whatnot if and when she’s in the habit of gym attendance.

She’s going in the evenings after work and wants me to come with her, so I guess I’m doing two-a-day training now. It works out alright because my AM sessions with coach will be light and technique focused so I get to go and get a pump and do some hard sets in the evenings.

Anyway, today’s afternoon sesh got brought forward because I have an eye test (required to exchange my IOM driving license for an Irish one) tonight.

Up to 235.8 today for whatever reason.

Training (6AM)

Warmup
3x15 light, low facepulls
3x10 incline pushups

Bench Press
Wider grip, bigger arch, heels up.
10x20kg (45lbs)
3x5x40kg (90lbs)
2x5x60kg (135lbs)
4x60kg (135lbs)
3x60kg (135lbs)
3x2x60kg (135lbs)
Light, but felt lighter than when I usually bench 60kg.

Tricep Rope Pushdown
3x15x40kg (90lbs)

High Face Pull
3x10x40kg (90lbs)

Training (10AM)

Pendlay Row
5x60kg (135lbs)
5x67.5kg (150lbs)
3x5x75kg (165lbs)

Dips
2x2 BW (hilariously and tragically, a huge PR. Last time I tried dips I was 25lbs lighter and couldn’t do a single one)

Dumbbell Bench
3x12x25kg (55lbs)

Lat Pulldown
15x45kg (100lbs)
12x52kg (115lbs)
10x59kg (130lbs)

EZ Bar Skullcrusher
3x15x10kg (25lbs)

DB Lat Raise
2x15, 1x11, 1x9 @ 7.5kg (17lbs)

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Friday, 23 August

No weigh-in today but yesterday we found out that thanks to a final payday from the Missuseses’ last job plus a bonus for me we’re a few grand richer than we thought so we went out for dinner. So I’m fat still.

Home this weekend and will likely continue to be fat, so I decided to hit a Kroc-style leg session to at least somewhat justify it.

Training (AM)

Warmup
3x20 bird dogs
3x20 air squats
10 bodyweight lunges

Front Squat
5x20kg (45lbs)
5x40kg (90lbs)
3x50kg (110lbs)
5x60kg (135lbs)
5x70kg (160lbs)
5x80kg (180lbs)
Really did not want to do that last set but nutted up and it went smooth enough.

Leg Press
10x110kg (250lbs)
8x150kg (340lbs)
6x170kg (365lbs)

Walking Lunges
3x20 with 12kg (25lb) bag behind head. Awful.

Seated Leg Curl
3x15 @ 45kg (100lbs)

Romanian Deadlift
Soft lockout and pause at the bottom for more TUT.
3x8x70kg (160lbs)

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Because of this and boredom, here we go again!

Training (PM)

Press
10x20kg (45lbs)
8x30kg (70lbs)
5x40kg (90lbs)
3x50kg (110lbs)
1x55kg (120lbs)
1x60kg (135lbs)
9x50kg (110lbs) (one rep off a PR but for having already done a leg session and taken a flight before lifting I’ll take it. A beltless PR for sure anyway.)
2x5x50kg (110lbs)

Chest-supported row
20x20kg (45lbs)
15x30kg (70lbs)
3x10x40kg (90lbs)
15x30kg (70lbs)
20x20kg (45lbs)

Lat Pulldown
1x20, 2x15 x54kg (115lbs)

Incline Bench
10x20kg (45lbs)
8x40kg (90lbs)
6x50kg (110lbs)
3x60kg (135lbs)

Cable Crossovers (lol)
3x15x15kg (35lbs)

Machine Tricep Extension
3x20x25kg (55lbs)

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Monday, 26 August

Quick one before a flight. At parents’ so no weigh-in.

Training

Competition Bench
8x20kg (45lbs)
5x40kg (90lbs)
3x60kg (135lbs)
3x65kg (145lbs)
3x67.5kg (150lbs)
3x70kg (155lbs)
8x60kg (135lbs)
2x5x60kg (135lbs)

Paused Dumbbell Row
3x12x30kg (65lbs)

Incline DB Bench
2x12, 1x10 22.5kg (50lbs)

Lat Pullover
3x15x50kg (110lbs)

DB Press
10x20kg (45lbs)
15x15kg (35lbs)
20x10kg (25lbs) - delts destroyed after this

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Tuesday, 27 August

Up to 238.4 thanks to some weekend bloat. Waistline is the same as it has been for the past few months - which is admittedly too much.

More light axle deadlifts today. Idea being we work up slowly on these with no belt or straps so that the barbell feels like a toy when I go back to it. Still not a challenging workout which is good for the two-a-days.

Training (AM)

Warmup
60x awful banded glute walk things
15ish lunges w/5kg (10lb) DBs
2x15ish lunges w/10kg (25lb) DBs
3x8 Axle rows @ 40kg (90lbs)

Axle Deadlifts
5x5x70kg (165lbs)
3x5x90kg (200lbs)
3x3x100kg (225lbs)
3x3x110kg (250lbs)
3x3x115kg (260lbs)

Bodyweight Ring Rows
3x12

Yates Row
3x8x40kg (90lbs)

Training (PM)

Leg Press
20x62kg (135lbs)
15x112kg (245lbs)
12x162kg (360lbs)
10x192kg (430lbs)
8x212kg (475lbs)

Front Squat
5x60kg (135lbs)
3x70kg (160lbs)
2x80kg (180lbs)
1x90kg (200lbs)
1x100kg (225lbs)
3x3x75kg (170lbs)

Leg Extensions
3x15x45kg (100lbs)

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Wednesday, 28 August

Didn’t get a chance to go in the morning today as we’d guests and things but just went for an upper body workout while the missus was on the treadmill. Had to hit some PRs so she wouldn’t reconsider the marriage.

Up to 240.2lbs after dinner out last night so really need to get a handle on that. Diet has been pretty poor recently; usually I’d eat 90-95% clean and it’s been more like 80% since we moved. Too easy to blame the chaos of moving etc. for it; I need to knuckle down.

Workout (PM)

Press
10x20kg (45lb) strict
8x40kg (90lb) strict + 5 push press
5x50kg (110lb) strict + 3 push press
3x55kg (120lb) strict + 2 push press
3x57.5 (125lb) strict + 2 push press (PR triple, I think)
2x65kg (145lb) push press
2x70kg (155lb) push press (PR double)
3x8x45kg (100lb) strict press

I remember 57.5kg being a true 1RM in late 2018 so this was pretty decent.

Lat Pulldown
Superset w/3x8 strict press sets
2x15, 1x10+3+2 @ 52kg (110lb)

Incline Bench Press
12x45kg (100lb)
8x50kg (110lb)
5x55kg (120lb)

Kroc-ish Rows
17x45kg (100lb) each hand (big PR, if we care about DB row PRs)

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Thursday, 29 August

Down to 239 today so hopefully I can keep that trend going somewhat. I’m away on business for a week next week which will be a good opportunity to shed a bit more poundage as I can make my food expenses essentially salad and protein shakes.

Training (AM)

30m brisk walk - had some elliptical planned for active recovery but it was a pretty nice day so I did this instead.

Training (PM)

Warmups
3x30 supermans
3x30 dead bugs
2x10 lunges w/10kg (25lb) DBs

SSB Box Squats
2x8x45kg (100lbs)
5x5x65kg (145lbs)
3x3x75kg (170lbs)
5x2x85kg (195lbs)

Focused on keeping the upper back tight and staying upright. Got a fierce spinal erector pump.

Leg Press
3x8x192kg (425lbs)

Lunges
2x40xbodyweight

Core
Various planky-sitty-holdy things

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8/27-28: OFF

8/29:

Quick walk and stairmill warm-up plus some power cleans - then gradually increased weight on bar to 165 and did a bunch of rounds of:

  1. Pendlay Row
  2. RDL
  3. Hang Clean
  4. A2G front squat
  5. Push Press

Quit when I started to struggle with the push press. Probably about 40 rounds. Funny thing is, there was a guy deadlifting on the platform and I asked if I could work in with him - and he said “I’m going pretty heavy” and I said, that’s fine, I’m just warming up for some cleans - and I just started cleaning with whatever he was deadlifting. He stopped and moved before I ran out of juice, but hit a single at 245 and 255. Without much trouble. I don’t have 300 in me again yet, but I bet 275+

Guy was totally cool about sharing the platform, but told me he didn’t want to keep having a tall skinny dude power cleaning what he was deadlifting!

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Did you post a workout in someone else’s training log!! Odd

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Lol - yeah - very weird. On my pc it showed up as on mine - and couldn’t even find it on my phone.

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As vengeance, I’ll come post my workout in your log and make everyone think you’re super-weak.

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This could become a thing. When I do a shite session I can dump it on someone else’s log !!

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Saturday, 31 August

Down to 237.0 today.

Thought this was going to be a real punch the clock session because I was massively not up for it but it all went well enough.

Training (Early PM)

Front Squat
5x20kg (45lbs)
5x40kg (90lbs)
5x60kg (135lbs)
5x75kg (165lbs)
5x85kg (190lbs) (small 5-rep PR, felt easy enough)

Chinups
2x4 @ BW, inspired by @MarkKO’s fat man chinups. As a fellow fat man, though considerably weaker, I thought I could join the club.

Facepulls
3x15x40kg (90lbs)

Close-grip Bench
8x40kg (90lbs)
8x50kg (110lbs)
8x57.5kg (130lbs)
8x62.5kg (140lbs)

Strict DB Row
3x12x30kg (75lbs)

Tricep Pushdown
3x20 at unknown weight

Hammer Curls
10x12.5kg (30lbs)
15x10kg (25lbs)
20x7.5kg (20lbs)

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It’s a good club.

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Monday, 2 September

Up at 0550 today to get a session in at the Leeds strongman gym before work today. Definitely the best part about being stuck in Leeds for a week but would prefer if evening sessions were possible.

No weigh-in today but the lever belt is getting looser than it was.

Tried to get more hips in the log and keep myself more upright in the pre-clean part. Will get a video up at some stage this week for scathing criticism.

Some stone conditioning work bruised the fuck out of my arms and now I have to remember not to roll my sleeves up today because I look like a heroin addict.

Training (AM)

Warmup
20/15/10 loggish-grip DB presses @ 10/12.5/15kg
10x goblet squats
Planks

Log Clean & Press Away
3x5x45kg (100lbs) strict
3x strict, 1x push 50kg (110lbs)
3x strict, 1x push 55kg (120lbs)
2x push 60kg (135lbs)
2x push 63kg (140lbs)
1x push 66kg (145lbs)
3x3x50kg (110lbs) all push

Viper Press
2x50kg (110lbs) just for the fuck of it

Yates Row
10x20kg (45lbs)
10x30kg (70lbs)
10x40kg (90lbs)
10x50kg (110lbs)
10x60kg (135lbs)
10x70kg (160lbs)

Incline DB Bench
15x15kg (35lbs)
12x20kg (45lbs)
10x25kg (55lbs)

Incline DB Curl
3x12x10kg (25lbs)

Face Pull
3x15x40kg (90lbs)

Atlas Stone Load
5x3x60kg (135lb) to ~4.5ft

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Tuesday, 3 September

No weigh-in because hotel. Definitely lost a smidgen based on belt tightness and appearance though.

Also became an uncle yesterday so that’s cool. Especially as it’s the future sister-in-law’s so I don’t even have any genetic obligations. “What’s that? A kidney? Ah sorry can’t help you there.”

Training (AM)

Recovery
30m brisk walk on treadmill

Will likely have a swim (hope I still float) and use the sauna etc. tonight. Since I’m at the hotel for a week I may as well use all the amenities I can!

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