Forearms or face !!
@simo74 Traps and shoulders primarily. Never got them in my forearms, or at least, not as much as I could tell.
PM WORKOUT
Axle bench press 301
2x10
1x6
Close grip axle bench 261
1x9
1x8
1x6
Swiss bar incline press 215
1x10
1x8
1x7
Dips
1x36
2x26
Sets of standing ab wheel between benching (2x5, sets of 4 for the rest)
50 pull ups over the course of the workout
Notes: 2:45 between sets. Travel still taking its toll, but I felt strong here. The bar weight felt very light for the flat benching, but on the 4th rep of the final set my pec cramped pretty good. Started including some pull ups in, just to sneak in some back work.
Boredom is started to manifest as aggression and restlessness. Knowing that the move is coming up quick and Iāll be experiencing some forced downtime is probably part of that.
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Damn, man. Canāt deny the success of the Deep Water approach to your pressing. Iām jealous that your joints hold up to that.
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Waitā¦ Thatās a thing. Is it like bruising?
@Frank_C Thanks man. Itās really been a solid protocol on the bench. Iāve learned through DoggCrapp and this that my bench really seems to respond well to a ābodybuildingā approach. The axle goes a long way towards the joints too. I know my elbows were screaming back in the day when I tried this with a barbell.
@j4gga2 Not like bruising. Itās more like the sudden appearance of freckles. After a particularly intense workout, my upperback/traps/shoulders and upperchest will be covered in little red dots. Seated zercher axle good mornings were the absolute most effective in that regard. First time I did them, I took off my shirt and it looked like I was wearing a blotchy red sweater.
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Interesting. Also brutal 
. Iām guessing itās from the blood pressure?
Yeah. Similar to how guys get nose bleeds. Only happens when I really push the reps to failure on a heavy weight.
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I think some are prone to it more than others as well. Iāve never experienced it and have had some really brutal sessions. I also donāt bruise easily. Iāve gotta get hit really hard to bruise. Iāve never had a bloody nose either.
Yeah, I never bruise as well. My skin cuts open easily, but itās a rare situation when I bruise. My wife and I once spent much longer than we should have examining what appeared to be discoloration of the skin that we eventually realized was a bruise, haha.
No nosebleeds either.
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Iām pretty lucky in that I just donāt break. Never broken a bone, never had a nosebleed, never really bruise, almost never get ill, I seem to be pretty indestructible. Like wolverine, but without the muscle mass or questionable facial hair.
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I used to clarify that I had never broken one of my own, whenever asked the question, haha.
Broken my radius, ulna, and humerus on my left arm, my thumb and my radius on my right arm, my metacarpal on my left hand 3 times (stop punching like an idiot, flap) cracked a rib, dislocated both shoulders and my sternoclavicular joint, and broke my foot and a couple toes. I think I was a bird in a past life and my skeleton never changed during the transition to human.
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Yer like little pin pricks of blood at the surface of the skin. I get them in my forearms when I do heavy amrap deadlifts. Must be squeezing that bar HARD!!!
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@flappinit Something leads me to believe you might also have had experiences that put you in situations where those sort of breaks happen too, haha.
@simo74 Could very well be. Since I always use straps, definitely a non-issue, and most likely why the tension is on the traps.
PM WORKOUT
GIANT SETS (squat-jump-reverse hyper)
Buffalo Bar Squat
8xBar
8x140
8x230
8x320
7+1x410
8x320
Box jumps
6x5
Reverse hyper 340
6x10
Notes: 3:45 between sets. Feeling much stronger. Really pushed hydration today, since I was cramping so much, and I think it helped. I may have actually had that 8th rep on the topset, but considering how beat up Iāve been, it seemed like the smarter move to hold back. Interesting enough, I realized that, while my groin was hurting, my knee felt good, and now my groin feels better and my knee hurts. Iām thinking that itās a question of foot angle.
Woke up at 194.6.
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If by āhave had experiencesā you mean āhave spent a large portion of your life being a reckless idiotā, then, I mean, maybeā¦
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Wow! You give me a run for my money! Hereās my listā¦
- Middle finger bone in right hand. Donāt know what itās called
- Boxers fracture pinky part of hand left side.
- Destroyed wrist multiple bones, surgery, pins, and 16 weeks in a cast. Right side
- Left foot above the big toe
- Left big toe. Compound fracture and bone popped through my toenail.
- Rib on right side. Gymnastics ring hit me in the rib
- Nose. Basketball to the face
- Nose. Teaching a backflip and got punched with the arm swing
- Tailbone. Ice hockey check
- Tailbone. Trampoline fail
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I know that one! Donāt punch immovable objects.
If weāre playing Tommy Topper thenā¦ (Not that Iām the winner; I just want to participate).
- fractured left ulna & radius
- fractured right hand
- fractured right fibula
- subluxed both shoulders, right one surgically repaired
- fractured left ankle (talus bone)
- subluxed both patellas, left one surgically repaired
- surgically repaired left torn hip labrum (right one is currently torn)
- and the newest, subluxed right biceps tendon and had surgery
- I forgot one - this one was weird. My left foot/ankle went into the spokes of the rear wheel of a bike while riding tandem with my brother. It chewed off my skin. It looked white with red dots right after. It failed to heal, and the skin turned black. I had a skin graft eventually.
I think Iād prefer broken bones over all these soft tissue injuries.
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Broken tailbone? Yikesā¦that sounds awful
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The bionic man
Yaāll have seen some stuff, haha.
PM WORKOUT
Axle strict press
5xAxle
5x141
5x166
13x186 (lifetime PR)
11x166
Sets of 20 band pull aparts between sets
GIANT SETS (press-dip-raise)
Axle strict press 141
2x10
3x7
Dips
5xFailure
Lateral raises 20lbs
2x15
3x10
DB curls (no rest between sets)
15x10lbs
13x15
11x20
9x25
7x30
5x35
3x40
1x45
Notes: 3:45 between heavy press, 2:00 between giant sets. Pleased with that PR. Wanted more, but I came into this a little hurt. Super dehydrated for some reason. Feet keep cramping: weird. Iāve been pushing calories a bit these past few days to recover from traveling and prep for moving. Cheat meal was the $5 nacho box from taco bell.
Woke up at 195.6.
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