Rebirth of the Juggernaut: Brute Force and Ignorance (Part 1)

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0337 Wake Up (Dog again. I’m pretty much using her like an alarm clock at this point)

SUPERSETS (chin-press)

Weighted Chins (underhand)
5x50
3x95
1x120
1x145
5x95

Axle strict press
5xAxle
5x66
5x156
3x176
3+1x196 (rest pause)

Log clean and strict press away w/rest pause 155
11+3+3

GIANT SETS (dip/press or press/dip-raise-pull apart) 90 second rests between sets

Weighted dips 105/DB press 50s
1x12/failure
2x8/failure

BtN Press 120/BW dips
1x10/failure
1x9/failure
1x8/failure

DB lateral raise 15s
3x14
3x13

Band pull aparts
3x14
3x13

Poundstone Curls
130xAxle

50 minute walk w/45lb vest

Notes: Wanted to get in the lifting first and then walk for as long as I had time after that. My shoulder is feeling pretty good, but there’s still a little bit of instability, so I didn’t push the topset as hard as I could. In turn, I moved some rest pausing to the backoff set. I liked how that turned out, and it may continue to appear in the future. Dips took a little hit this week. On the second set, I blacked out pretty hard on rep 3 and had to fight to regain consciousness, which added a challenge to the set. Otherwise, it was a solid workout. Hit the Poundstone curls because I’ll be traveling soon somewhere that doesn’t have an axle, so I’m taking advantage of that. Will hit some Kroc rows later: training so early in the morning, I didn’t want to make too much noise.

Saw 183 on the scale before bed last night. Was 181 last time. Pre-bed isn’t the best weighing time for the sake of consistency, but it’s about the only time I really have to get it done. Been eating well.

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Anything I can think to say sounds overly sycophantic… You’re an incredible human being.

Is this, by chance, because turning on the bathroom light to read the scale could wake your wife up? This has made me avoid morning weigh-ins for the past several weeks!

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Thanks much man. The blacking out isn’t terribly uncommon on heavy pressing, especially first thing in the morning running off of just 2 hardboiled eggs. @strongmanvinny2 may be the blackout king among these parts, haha.

Regarding the morning weigh in thing, this was a pretty funny summary of what my mornings are like

But long story short: those damn dogs, haha.

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Shockingly, your body somehow manages to suspend 300+ odd pounds in mid-air while you drift off to sleep. Once you wake back up, your body is like “oh right, this” …grinds out last 3/4 of rep

A successful day of lifting.

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It’s a combination of reassuring and alarming when you wake up in the middle of pressing something heavy, haha.

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Strong dude problems, looking forward to those days!

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@alex_uk one day you can aspire tot his level of greatness

Rest of training day

Got in Kroc rows of 115 w/rest pause
28+6+5

Braced off my power keg instead of my power rack, and it worked out REALLY well. I’ll have to remember that for the future.

Daily work

50 rest pause chins

40 pull aparts

25 pushdowns

30 GHRs

50 unloaded reverse hypers

And then went on a 4 mile run with the Mrs.

I travel tomorrow in the afternoon. May be able to get in a squat workout on my arrival.

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That’s awesome, love it.

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0420 Wake Up (On my own)

Longest walk so far. Just keep pushing the distance. Fasted, w/45lb vest.

Breakfast

6 rounds of the following
10 chins (various grips)
4 standing ab wheel
10 KB swings

40 pull aparts

25 pushdowns

30 GHRs

Notes: Traveling later today. Eating a bunch this morning while I still have access to real food, and honestly, I’m just hungry. It’s nice to have that. Gonna try to grab a real workout when I arrive. First KB swings in a few days: hips are feeling better. Still not 100%, but good enough for swings.

EDIT: Trap bar was calling my name, so did some tabata high handle pulls. Really feel like I found something magical on there.

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When you do tabata, do you do 8 rounds?

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@whang Yup.

PM WORKOUT (2000)

Squats
5xBar
5x135
3x225

REST PAUSE (12 deep reaths between sets)
16x315
6x315
2x4x315
2x315
1x315
11x5x275
10x225

Machine leg press
151 reps w/190 selected (only locking out when needed to recover for more reps, all done in one “set”)

GHRs (1 minute rest between sets)
4x10

Rogue butcher pushes w/45lb plate loaded (distance unknown, but length of gym floor)
1x14 w/30 second rests between sets
6 trips without rest between sets

Notes: Arrived on location and found out that I’m working nights starting tomorrow, so got in a crazy lower body workout to help pass time, as I’m going to be staying up all night to get to sleep in the morning and get my sleep schedule semi-right. I may actually do some benching in a few hours at this rate too.

Been a long while since I trained at night. Hips still aren’t 100%, but keeps getting better. I didn’t give my all on the topset or the first backoff, left a little it behind and made it show in the sets of 5. To show how my mind works: 10 was the goal, and on the 9th set I told myself “just one more set”, and upon finishing the 10th set I was excited to be done…which upset me that I was excited to be done, so I made sure to do 1 more set after that to teach my body that there will be no breaks and we’re just going to keep going. A similar thing happens whenever I do conditioning work.

Always dig what I can do with a leg press here. Total quad annihilation.

The prowler work wasn’t as tough as I imagined it to be. Needed to load it heavier. 45 works for Litvinov, but heavier needs to happen on it’s own.

This is what the top shelf of my dresser looks like in my hotel

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I’m pretty proud of it. I also hit the ground running and bought a bunch of provisions when I got here. I should be able to eat well: just basic. On that note, I had a Finibar before this workout. If nothing else, they inspire me to train harder, because it’s more calories and carbs than I’m used to.

The microwave egg cooker is answering the mail so far.

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Man that sounds horrible. Although I’ve never used trap bars so I don’t know if pulling with them sounds less horrible than straight bar in tabata format

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I think too much stuff would breakdown with a straight bar to be able to really drive down into something awful. I know my hip/glute would give out before anything else. I like the trap bar because you can be a lot less technical on it, which is helpful for this style of conditioning.

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Hell, while I’m blowing up my log with posts, some other stuff…

My 80lb vest arrived, after I got my refund from the company only sending the weights and not the vest so…free vest. That’s pretty cool. Shame I’m away, but it’s waiting for me when I get home.

It’s been getting to around freezing temps while I’m out walking. I’ve been intentionally not wearing a jacket. I find it a good opportunity to build up some fortitude, and I think being really cold helps keep you lean. I’ve read stuff about “brown fat”, and I know that I got lean the first time in my life when I was training in a garage in -60 degree temps back in North Dakota, so I try to recapture that when I can.

Going to go for a walk in a little bit. Should help me stay awake.

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I’m constantly amazed at people who think sleeping more is the answer here.

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Definitely took me a while to crack the secret on this, but it works so much better.

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That is a serous amount of volume especially the 11 x 5 x 275.

You really are a machine.

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Thanks dude! It’s pretty amazing the self-deception I employ. In my mind, this is “just one set” of squats. And then I looked at my watch and realized my one set took half an hour, haha.

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I like the idea of self deception when it comes to long sets or hard sessions. It always amazes me how the body will follow if the mind leads.

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It’s also a lot harder to skimp on. If it’s just one set, how are you not going to have yourself do at least one set?

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