Here’s a helpful scale to pick exercises with depending on your goals:
(found it in an Alan Thrall video (from a Greg Nuckols article), so you might’ve seen it before)
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In that Thrall video, he pointed out that if you use the low position on the handles of the trap bar, it puts the trapbar DL at the same height as a barbell DL.
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Thanks! We’ll see if I have enough sense to use it!
Day 17
Wu very short boxes jumps
Banded lat lunges
3rd world squat
DL sumo
5x1/155 easy peasy
Squat
1x5/bar
1x5/85
1x5/105
1x5/115
1x3/125
1x3/130 had to make myself stop there and not get carried away.
Box squat to bench (14 inch)
5x5/105
Belt squat
3x10/70
BSS
2x10/15
Reverse crunch on bench
3x10
Wow! Best damn squats in a loooong time! Everything moved smooth and quick. Mucho happy!
The humidity is 100%. If I had gills I could have done a little more… lol
It’s yucky out there.
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Great stuff CL, why did you stop?
Always great when a squat session is great… for me… I’m still waiting for a good one.
Because I like to keep throwing plates on the bar until I fail. A lot. Then I end up getting run down and I am trying to be smart this time, which really difficult for me.
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Day 18
Wu
GG/BG
5x10
Band ham curls
2x10/black
2x10/red unilateral
Rings
DL sumo
5x1/155 meh
OHP/PP
1x5/bar
1x5/45
1x5/55
1x1/65 just didn’t have it today
5x5/55
Seated rear dlet raise
3x10/10s
Front raise
3x10/10s
Leaning lat delt raise
3x10/10
That’s it. Only slept about 3.5 hours last night. Just haven’t slept good ina couple of weeks, dreaming stupid sci-fy stuff.
I was beating myself up about not being able to hit the 65 for reps but in my own defense the last 7 days I have mowed, weedeat, sanded drywall, paint prepped, painted, weedeat, did a double Friday, tilled the garden, went apocalypse shopping, stepped on a snake in the dark and haven’t slept. Think I’ll cut myself some slack today.
On a happy note… I know my equipment is not pretty and shiny. All my real life peeps have called me crazy and given me shit about collecting this stuff over the years, but I sure am happy I did now!
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Dam right I love my home gym!
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That sounds awesome.
Not really. I’m tired when I wake up from fighting aliens all night. I think I killed my ex the other night, he was on the ground bleeding anyway, woke up before I was sure of the kill. That’s what he gets for showing up dressed like that, and sitting on a sofa in the yard. The big question is… WHY would there be a 1980s floral print sofa in yard?
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Hopefully you chewed him out about his pattern choices IRL as well.
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Sounds like he deserved it lol
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In IRL he actually had pretty good taste… most of the time. I do not even know if he is still alive.
There were times he did! But in his defense, after we split they did discover he had a tumor in his brain, so I am not taking all the wrap for our marriage failing. 
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I realize that this is a late reply, but don’t focus on the shoulder. Your elbow is flaring out, indicating that your body wants to use the pec more than the anterior deltoid, probably because your tricp is weaker on that side. It might be something else, but I think the elbow flare is the issue. Think about pulling it in, or pushing the other one out.
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It could be the grease if you had them fried, try some poached or soft boiled and see it it does the same. And developing allergies as we age is normal. I get a homicidal rage and a nose bleed from ginger, since my late twenties. Turmeric too, but less strong of a reaction.
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In my world the first lift to suffer from daily activity is the OHP, so don’t sweat it, you got in hit the weights and did something.
You’re good.
And hunting down aliens and ex’es is exhausting. Got a good laugh on that one.
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Thanks, Imma working on it. My OHP (which has always been my worst lift) is finally progressing so at least I got going for me!
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I read a T nation article a couple years ago about Passion Flower extract for anxiety. I ordered some thinking this is going to help me relax. NO! homicidal rage is exactly what it induced. No more passion flower extract. Stupid part is… I have Passion Flowers growing all over my yard.
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Sounds like I found my new PWO.
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