Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a lovely day with your family and friends
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merry christmas
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Merry christmas bobo
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Merry Christmas man! You guys are a day ahead, I’ll assume?
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Yeah man. Merry Christmas 
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas gainshog!
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And a happy new year
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Merry Christmas young Duke
I hope you had a great one.
And a happy new year with lots of great lifting.
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Thankyou mort merry Christmas ! I had a great day. I hope you did too
Todays training Christmas edition
ssb squat
Paused. 5×3 90kg. Tried to be exolosive as possible on the way up.
Snatch grip deads
120kg×3
100×7. Will widen my hand placement a bit next time. As well as getting tighter and stopping this leg pump shit.
ssb good morning
50kg ×8
×14 pr
Next training cycle I’m going to do them from pins @danteism
Ab wheel 1×10 isometric hold on last rep
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Remember that pin placement is crucial, if they’re too high they won’t do Jack shit and if they’re too low you won’t be able to get into a good position. Start with pins around to where your normal lowest point of ROM is with GMs. From there you can do slight adjustments to find your sweet spot.
Thanks for the tips man. What rep range is good here? This cycle i did 8-10-12 on normal goodmornings (reps) keeping the weight the same but upping the reps over the weeks and it worked well. Im thinking lower reps would be better here. I can’t imagine myself repeatedly being in that position for every time i lower it to the pins. Sounds like it would irritate me for higher reps. I could do cluster reps with heavier weight then drop the weight down and do a higher rep set of normal goodmornings
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I did sets of 3-4 reps, which felt pretty good. Personally I’d stay under 6 for majority of the time
I’d start off with just regular straight sets: no need for special techniques when there’s a lot of progress you can get just from doing regular sets, as it is a new movement.
Alright
I do get a bit carried away sometimes lol
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Good morningings are not something to push the weight on…keep them light and higher rep. They are a blood flow movement more than anything.
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With regular GMs I’d agree, but when performed correctly the GM from pins can be used for low reps as well. Wouldn’t try for singles with it, but 3-6 reps is great. Really it’s pretty much just a deadlift with the bar on your back instead of on the floor
Same
todays training
Enough is enough. The only way i can improve my imbalances is if i devote training to one side only. Even if i do unilateral work and then do them with my stronger side, the way my collarbone is it doesn’t matter. My right side will always get stimilated more.
double overhand axle holds
90kg ×15 sec pr
×10 sec
×15
Dropset
80kg ×failure
60kg× failure
single arm barbell rows
4×10 30kg left arm only
Single arm lat pulldown superset single arm seated cable row. Left arm only.
4×10
Bunch of dumbell hammer and normal curls with left arm. Going to start doing unilateral leg work with my left leg too. My balance/strength is appalling with my left leg. I can hardly do Bulgarian split squats without falling over but there easy on my right. I might change Fridays to saturdays and do a full body unilateral workout for my left side on thursday and my leg will be recovered by Saturday. Also stretched my lats a tonne and alot of my shoulder tightness/popping went away. Sports massagist said they were badly tight ages ago but I’ve neglected stretching my lats. I believe this is what lead to my shoulder strength seemingly regressing and it getting worse and worse forcing me to take some time off of pressing. Tight lats restricts rom/mobilityin the shoulders and can cause all sorts of problems. No wonder my shoulders were getting annoyed
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Duke who’s program are you following ? I get that’s it’s a strongman program with a focus on event movements but there is so much variation I struggle to see the progression on each lift. Have you thought about using a very simple progression method like the Hepburn layering method just for shoulders and see how you go.