Funny thing, I was feeling motivated mentally this morning but my joints were pissed. I took a capsule and my joints feel better but I don’t want to workout anymore 
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If I tried to swim 16 laps, my technique would be described as “Huh. He actually drowned”
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Disclaimer: The pool is not olympic sized!
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1 box squats (briefs + sleeves)
4 x 5 @ 160 kg
2 box jumps
5 x 3
3 step ups (alternate legs)
4 x 6 @ 35 kg
4 strict press
4 x 8 @ 60 kg
5 hip thrust
4 x 8 @ 110 kg
6 lat pull down
4 x 12
Notes:
- still very unsure about squats. Not a strength issue but the lift feels weird and harder than it should. I think the briefs are pulling me in a position my body doesn’t really want to go into when I squat like this (written after set 1)
- set 2 was a lot better than the first. Set 3 was another improvement - way better bracing and pushing down onto the box. Set 4 similar to 3.
- on video it also looks like my back is massively rounded.
- was running out of time and had to cut rest times very short for the last three exercises
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Before work:
16 laps in the pool. Which is probably like 20m, so nothing groundbreaking here, haha.
In the evening:
1 Paused push jerk
4 x 5 @ 90 kg
2 romanian deadlifts (was instructed to stop a few cm before ground)
3 x 8 @ 110 kg
3 yoke
5 x 9m @ 200 kg
4 wide grip shrugs
3 x 15 @ 90 kg
5 sandbag to shoulder
1 x 3 @ 100 kg - failed fourth
1 x 2 @ 100 kg - settled for two
1 x 1 @ 100 kg - yep, that damn thing is totaled. Need a new one
6 hanging leg raises
3 x 10
Notes:
- hamstring issue hss resolved itself
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I know the thing gave you pain, but did you have to kill it 
It’s not like the next one will treat you any better
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Also btw. @Cyrrex I don’t know if you’re in my head or if ‘Bob’ is just the perfect name for non living objects that you have to fight, but when I approached the sandbag I thought “now to wrestle Bob”.
Forgot to log that yesterday.
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Non-living? Just what are you trying to tell me…?
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If Bob is a living thing, we absolutely need to inform @mortdk to get over there!
That would also result in the first real life tnation fight ever. Mort, bring back up in case Bob reacts hostile.
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I’m going in, bringing the SWAT team.
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You’re worried about a man without arms and legs being hostile From what I understand, Bob is the victim!
He walks around topless, giving me the stink eye all the time. He’s basically asking for it.
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I have a hard time believing this. Victim shamers don’t get their way in courts these days
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Um, he attacks me first. Self defense.
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Tennis match was great yesterday. I managed to win the double with my buddy. That was the only match we won and everyone else on our team lost mile high but… baby steps 
1 deadlifts
5 x 5 @ 160 kg
2 box jumps
5 x 3
3 incline bench press
4 x 8 @ 82,5 kg
We will never be best friends but less shit than last week. To coach: Stil too steep or ok?
4 leg curls
3 x 10
5 pull ups (forgot my band. So instead of a 3 x 5, I went unassisted)
6 x 2
3 x 1
Calling what I did here “pull ups” is probably an offense to some people. My chin is only very occasionally over the bar. Plus I’m super far away from the bar (probably due to the narrow grip).
6 incline db row
3 x 8 @ 32 kg
Notes:
- felt extra crap today (physically). Maybe bad sleep, but maybe I’m already feeling the lack of testosterone. Or just a wild mixture of things.
- I am also starting to feel the withdrawal symptoms from the medicine reduction. Very unpleasent but the psych.-doc. assured me that even though this is rough, it’s not going to last. So basically all I have to do is pull through a few days/ weeks and ideally that’s it. It doesn’t have a big impact on my depression, which is probably not surprising since it didn’t do much on that front in the first place.
- had an appointment with my physician today to discuss the endo’s letter. As expected I didn’t get much out of that. He also refused to write me a prescribtion for more Melatonin. Not a huge deal, all it will take is a call to my psychiatrist. Still the reason he refused to write one is very confusing: Off label use. The drug is only approved for short term treatment of insomnia in patients 55 years and older. That just adds to the confusion that you can literally buy the stuff without a prescribtion in the UK and US. One thing that was a little satisfying at least about today’s appointment was the fact that the doc admitted his wrong doing in regards to my hormon issues. He didn’t apologize but said he let himself be deflected by my appearance while totally forgetting the chemotherapy I went through.
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Had to think of Monty Python through your conversation @Cyrrex @anna_5588.
I think that sums the whole Bob fighting ordeal up pretty good.
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Haha, that is almost perfect. Makes me want to go buy one of those helmets so that he can wear it.
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1 push jerk
5 x 5 @ 102,5 kg
2 paused front squat
4 x 5 @ 95 kg
3 reverse lunges
4 x 6 @ 40 kg (per leg, alternating)
4 pendlay row
3 x 10 @ 75 kg
5 db shoulder press
3 x 8 @ 32 kg
6 hollow holds
3 x 25 sec.
Notes:
- great session!
- I swear I am a very humble guy in real life. I don’t talk much about myself unless I am asked to for example. But it feels pretty good for my ego to overhead press in a commercial gym. Also not the worst move to get more personal clients in the gym, haha.
- elbows were bothering me a bit.
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Dude, pressing in a commercial gym is absurd. I get people coming up to me asking what I do. “I thought you were squatting it!!”
Jerks looks good and strong! You make me wanna start push jerking again, but I have some unfinished business with push press…
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Yeah it’s fun pressing more overhead than most guys there have ever seen with ease, haha. I definitely got some comments and looks.
Are we gonna see 370+?