Nope, nor the diet! I should probably stop contributing to the discussion as I’m not really doing BtM! 
Yea I am the worst, I don’t do any of that stuff. When I say recovery I mean eat more and sleep (although I don’t sleep enough either!)
Weight 216! Movin’ on up!
3 scoops of scrambled eggs and sausage, onion, bell pepper, and mushrooms omelette. Good way to start the day.
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For lunch I ate at the BBQ place again and tackled that humongous BBQ sandwich.
W4D2 Deads and Bench. Deadlift topset 320 3x5. Bench 175 5x5. Its hot again…the garage sucked today. Lifting at this time of day is killer in 2 ways. Its hottest time of the day between 3 and 5 and I naturally get tired around 3 until 6. But I’ve learned to deal. But initially today during deads, which I feel most confident with, I was running on fumes. I got my deads in without much grinding but I was thinking my bench would suffer. However, they didn’t. I superset my bench sets with 145 trap bar rows 10-12 so 7 sets of bench and rows. Bench warm ups were even a little shaky but the top sets flew. The last 3 sets I paused 2 on my chest and pressed away. Which is pretty crazy that the bench weights this week were the same as last week and it felt like nothing today. Then I started gaining steam. For my curls I did 3 sets of close grip chins. Or attempted too. Lats were cooked so I did 1 set regular the rest 5 sec. negatives. 50 lb rope curls for 10 superset with reverse grip pushdowns 10 - 12. 5 sets of that. Then 2 sets strict curls superset with regular pushdows and then 2 sets reverse grip curls with more pushdowns. 10 reps on the curls and 8 to 12 on the pushdowns.
Not sure but last week and now this week, on Wednesday I started feeling rundown. Last week on Thursday it got way worse. Friday last week I felt fine. We shall see what tomorrow brings. @alex_uk something for you to look forward too. Last week Thursday I came home zonked out for 20 and felt great after. Maybe I’ll try that if I am feeling cooked enough tomorrow. Right now I’m feeling pretty gassed.
Weight is 215.
Haha fantastic…Only 7 more sessions for you!
What’s your plan after this?
Going to 180 it and run Reactive Pump. Drop a couple lbs slowly not going into a crazy cut if at all…at least not eating 12 eggs and 1.5lbs of beef. 
What about you?
Haha go on you know you want more eggs and beef!
I’m not sure yet, thinking about my current priorities, I want to deadlift significantly more in 2021 than I have previously, I am going to set an over ambitious goal and throw everything at it, out side of that I want conditioning up (push past current level - put on maintenance from BtM), and bigger arms.
With coach Pwn’s strict instructions to get strapped up and do high rep deadlifts I’m thinking 531 with a real push on the amrap, then giant set accessory work and maybe up the pre-training conditioning to 15 mins. Accessories can then all be focused on arms, I’ll see if a whole year of serious arm training can undo my years of neglect!
Thinking of doing some mindless 531 beefcake stuff when Reactive Pump is over. I think, if one wanted because I don’t believe it’s intended, that one could push PR/AMRAP sets in Beefcake. However, not sure you would want too especially following that bad boy with FSL for 50. Then our favorite Chins and Dips, luckily its not 100 each. I really want to run SGSS but really really like 531 because of the ease of it. I’m a garage lifter.
SGSS doesn’t look any more demanding, equipment wise than 531 to me.
Equipment wise no. Just not near as simple as basically any 531 template.
@Frank_C laid out a SGSS cycle for my deadlifts in this thread, it’s pretty straightforward when you look at it like that. I’ll probably try it myself in the new year, might be a good one to throw in before I try and murder myself with strapped up high rep deads, give me some volume on deads without going crazy, then push through the lower rep weeks for a new pr then go to crazy rep deads!
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Definitely want to run some SGSS, but also want to try Beefcake, WS4SB and some Meadows programs. What BtM has shown me is that I probably need to do something to strengthen the upper back more than anything. All those chins…man they kill me. That and more shoulder strength. I think I have an SGSS spreadsheet I put together I while back. I’ll give that a look again after Reactive Pump. Really as long as my waist doesn’t blow up I may stay on the gain train until the Transformation challenge next year. Strength has improved running all the 531 stuff this year. Love that stuff.
Weight today is 215 going to up the dose which kind of sucks but just a couple weeks to go. Can’t pass a bathroom without paying a visit which I assume will only get worse until this thing is over.
First lunch. Steak Empanada Bowl day.
2nd lunch meatloaf and corn…passing on the corn. Not much of a fan of corn unless its fresh on the cob.
The food porn on this thread honestly keeps me coming back. This is your work cafeteria that provides all that? You have a good thing going.
Alright, I know it’s super cliche of me at this point, but seriously: Deep Water. 100 rep workouts of pressing will blow up your shoulders, and once you start hitting those cleans on the intermediate day, your upper back is going to explode.
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@T3hPwnisher I would expect nothing less. It was a bait post. I’m adding it to the list as well. Just not as high up…
Yeah the work cafeteria is most of the time pretty okay, but there are some meals there that knock it out of the park. Perfect meals for what I’ve got going currently.
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Dinner tonight. You guessed it…more beef. Braised short ribs.
W4D3 BtM Squats and Presses. I must have not been paying attention, but I am now. Presses are sneakily going up in weeks 4 and 5. 12 sets this week and 15 the next. I’m not pressing much at all so I was able to flip it and do 5 sets of 12 at 75. Super set with 20 trap bar shrugs at 185 or is it 195…I think its 195. Anyway squats were a breeze. Topset at 240. 155 for the 20 reps had to stop for a breather at 16 or 17. More chins…superset with band face pulls. Normally the 2nd week in the cycle eases off but next Friday looks like a ball buster. Hope it freaking cools off by then.
Consider cleaning the bar from the floor at the start of the set instead. Then you get to work in 12-15 cleans each workout.
I have been here lately. Not sure why I didn’t tonight. But will do going forward.
Short ribs are freaking awesome she made some sauce with the brown bits from the bottom. All the collagen from the bones made it super thick…freaking good.
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Friday night some how…weight fell to 214. So Saturday I ate “football” foods in copious amounts. My wife made some buffalo chicken dip with about 5 chicken breasts cooked and shredded. Maybe 2 people had a dallop of it. I ate nearly the entire tray of it. A couple bowls of chili, some chicken gumbo and only had 1 beer. I ate my wife’s short rib from the night before. And my football team didn’t lose! Weight went up to 217. I’m sure it won’t stick but trying to keep it trending the right way. If I can get to 220 before its all done thats a big win. The last couple weeks of BtM you really need to up the food.
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W5D1 BtM ugh…squats and presses. 1 more Monday left. I was dragging going into this which made it that much more painful. I super setted squats and dips. Squats topset was 225 and it moved pretty easy. Just didn’t feel that easy today. I super setted presses and chins. Press topset was 105 and I did ssl for 10 just because I was tired and didn’t feel like changing weights. I have been doing pull aparts all day and dislocates. My right shoulder has been weird all day but the dialocates seemed to make it feel better.
Today was the first day I didn’t want to eat…but come on I’m this far. The eggs and beef got ate before lunch. Most of the beef anyway. I’m having some French dip sandwiches for supper I’ll be way over 1.5lbs today. Weight was still 217 last night. That didn’t help my chins today. Gaining weight when doing 100 chins…ouch.
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