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

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@jshaving Absolutely an option, and a good use of a degree for sure. You may have a guard recruiter in your area as well.

@AnthonyP I use a CAP Barbell vest. It’s decent for walking, but it’s pretty cumbersome for bodyweight exercises.

@cyclonengineer Dude, you can’t make this stuff up. Cool Whip for breakfast, bulking on Pizza Hut but worried about the effects of creatine? He showed his hand when he said he’d rather spin his wheels than listen to effective advice. This would explain 7 years of no results.

Training Log: Entry 2597

BUILDING THE MONOLITH Week 1, Day 1

PM WORKOUT (1400)

Giant Sets in lots of places: notes will explain

Chins
1x20
8x10

Axle clean and strict press away
5xAxle
5x141
5x161
5x181
15x141

Buffalo Bar Squat
5xBar
5x140
5x230
5x320
5x370
5x5x410

Box jump (highest yet)
5x3

Pull aparts
10x10

Dips
200 total

Pushdowns
25

Standing ab wheel
20

CONDITIONING (40 minutes after workout)

Keg Grace w/150lbs

Time: 2:39 (insane PR, better than my best time with an axle with 135)

Notes: I’m in a hurry, but I’ll log quick. Got this done giant set style again. Did a 4 move giant set of jump-squat-press-chin until I ran out of press sets, then did squat-chin-pull apart until I ran out of chins, then squat-dip-pull apart until I ran out of squats, then dip-pull apart until I ran out of pull aparts, then just rest pause dips until I got to 200. Got in some extra daily work, cooked a few meals for work in my air fryer (oh my god it’s amazing) and then finished out with an insane PR on keg grace.

For my TMs for BtM, I looked at the last time I ran it and upped everything by 10lbs. Squats were heavy but manageable. BBB Beefcake just tees this up perfectly, because after all those sets of 10, sets of 5 don’t seem bad at all. Thinking about rest pausing that axle final press set next time.

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9807

Internet expert syndrome for sure.

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9808

You sir have the patience of a saint and the shoulders of a Greek god. I salute you.

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9809

If it’s the guy I’m thinking about, he’s a troll. They all follow the same pattern on here.

The main one that sticks out being that they never take any advice on board.

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9810

Pumped for your podcast with pwn. Hurry that shit up lads it’s like meathead Christmas and I can’t wait

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9811

Aye man I cannot wait. It’s this weekend so will drop next Friday. Need to keeps you guys hanging

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9812

:scream: this week is going to go sooooo slow

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@cyclonengineer Yup. Knows everything except how to get results, haha.

@simo74 Very much appreciated dude. It absolutely means a lot from you. I should have trusted my instincts and left well enough alone after the first time, but I foolishly had hope, haha.

@ChongLordUno Yup. Not actually looking for advice: just some validation. I get EXCITED when someone bigger and stronger than me tells me I’m doing something wrong: it means I have a chance to LEARN something. There would be absolutely nothing worse than to find out I was doing everything right: that would just mean that I’m the one that sucks, haha.

Super amped to get to do some chatting with some like minded psychos this weekend.

BUILDING THE MONOLITH Week 1, Workout 2

AM WORKOUT (0313 wake up via windstorms)

SUPERSETS (dead-bench)

Texas power bar touch and go deadlifts
5x135
5x225
5x370
5x425
3x5x475

Axle bench press
5xAxle
5x136
5x206
5x241
5x5x271

Band pull aparts
2x25

DB rows 105
50 reps in 3:40

Poundstone curls
185xAxle

40 reverse hypers
25 reverse hyper leg curls

CONDITIONING

Fran+ (strict chins)

Time: 6:00

20 standing ab wheels
25 dips

Notes: We’ve got 40mph winds right now and they were keeping me up all night, so I got up and knocked this out. I broke a serious taboo by deadlifting at 0300, which meant I had to lower the bar under VERY strict control, which added a new element of suck to the workout. Week 1 is always a wake-up call: I’m gonna need to eat REAL big to get through this. Made it through everything, but it wasn’t easy. Now, there IS the x-factor that I completed the day 1 workout like 11 hours before this, so I’m definitely not running things ideally, but challenges are good.

Fran was pretty brutal, but interestingly enough it was the chins that did me in whereas the thrusters were like butter. My conditioning is absolutely at a new level these days.

Got family coming into town, so this worked out perfectly. Can take the weekend a little easier. If all goes well too, I should be getting a new-to-me GHR to replace my broken one.

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The crazy part is he is only like 180lbs at 6 feet and is attempting to cut (why?). That’s a pretty small dude at that height.

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Being 180lbs at 6 foot and still fat genuinely baffles me, as a fellow 6 footer.

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I never really paid attention to everything that’s going on in his log but, I’m going to assume that no one on here has ever recommended him to cut, correct?

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Not to clog up this log either but no. Everything has been basically a clean diet at his “maintenance” plus a good program.

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No worries about clogging things up. If nothing else it’s a demonstration that no one is being mean for he sake of malice. We’ve all been there and done that: some of us got BEYOND it, haha.

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9819

It’s what happens when you lack much muscle and have spent a lot of your life generally inactive. I’m 5’10" 176 lbs with a 34" waist. I have improved since early this year (190 lbs), but still don’t have a lot of muscle definition (and no abdominal definition).

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I’m 6 foot and far from a mass monster. I would say I look similarly overweight, but probably weigh in 25lbs heavier. Last time I had visible (albeit blurry) abs, I was 185lbs and weaker.

My confusion isn’t a “OMG, what a loser” reaction, it’s genuine confusion on the weight disparities. Maybe I’m more muscular than I think, maybe I’m fatter than I think.

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You have a clearly established track record of busting your ass with hard training. You ran Mass Made Simple. You’re going to have some muscle underneathe the fluff, and that makes a HUGE difference.

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I’m on the verge of saying “let’s find out”. I just need to square the idea with my other life priorities and I have an idea on how to do that, but I’m not quite “there” yet. Watch this space.

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I just ate the “turkey tenders” I made in my air fryer, mixed with some sugar free BBQ sauce and riced cauliflower and it was phenomenal. I am so glad I’m in a weight gain phase right now, because cooking is so awesome with this thing. I’m going to make so much food.

Which is also just upsetting how many folks refuse to do basic cooking to support their goals in all of this.

On the notes of meals, I experimented this morning with a lighter breakfast before lifting. In truth, it’s not even performance inspired: I just REALLY enjoyed having a BIG meal after my training during my recent hotel deload vs before. And enjoying food is something I haven’t really “given” myself recently. It doesn’t even particularly matter WHAT the food is: it’s more the ritual of a big meal after hard training. And given how much I eat right before I go to sleep, I imagine I could even train fasted without too much of an impact.

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I love my air fryer and cook everything I can in if.
Only thing I haven’t figured out well so far is one of those blooming onion things with “keto” flour. Doesn’t seem to work.

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I don’t have any room for fun food in my gut, haha. But I will be doing some liver and onions…so there’s my sad onion.