Sounds reasonable, not psychotic at all and definitely makes me want to do it next time. Thank you as always!
What about my TM?
I’d keep squat as the same TM and up all the others by the normal amounts.
I’m confused now 
Why?
I thought you suggested lowering it last week?
Was that only a week ago? I don’t have any real semblance of time with these discussions.
Based off where you are on your 1s week, it looks like your TM is good on those 3 lifts. If you find you cannot progress (like in the case of the squat), then you’d lower it.
Yeah I think it was last week haha
Sounds good, I just thought maybe I could’ve pre-emptively lowered it because those sets were some serious grinders this week and I could’ve kept things manageable.
But maybe I just need to man up and handle some heavy weights lol
I love this man. I’ve been just quitting when it’s a horrible session. Not any more! Makes total sense.
Lowering the TM is never the WRONG decision. If you want to train lighter, you can go right ahead. You just don’t look like you’re in a place where you need to.
@wanna_be Awesome dude. Really helps out in my experience.
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I’ve been lurking in your log, I just haven’t had the time to invest in a real conversation in a while, but as you have noticed, I’ve posted a couple of times in the last few days.
You’re three weeks away from ending your diet. Realistically, how much muscle and strength could you lose in that time if you tried to lose it? Not much. You’re working to keep your gains so what you’ll lose is miniscule. Compare that to looking and feeling better at a lower bodyfat% and better gains in the future as your insulin sensitivity and hormones are in a better place.
Sometimes you’ve got to lose a bit to gain a lot, so just keep on it and pull through.
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Fair enough. You’re a rather calm and collected lifter in all your videos, and I continue to admire your discipline, but you’d be amazed what some mental intensity can do. It’s alright to get angry and disrespect the weights. You COULD lower the weights, but I think you could definitely up all 3 and keep the one you hit 4 on the same. If you’re hitting a PR set of 11, up that shit for sure.
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FWIW, I’m with the guys above. You could lower your TM, but I don’t think you need to. Especially since you’ll be ending your diet phase after this cycle anyway. This cycle is going to be difficult though.
I also think you beat yourself up too much over a single bad session and start questioning everything.
I’m guilty of this too. I think my problem is I tell myself it’s all about hypertrophy but deep down I’m a strongman wannabe 
Why not both? Strongman seem pretty well hypertrophied to me.
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I agree. It’s a tough mental battle to wade through.
Did someone say Deep Water?
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Press
42 kg x 3
47.6 kg x 3
52 kg x 9
54.5 kg x 3
57 kg x 3
59.2 kg x 2
42 kg x 3 x 5
Plate front raise 1 x dropset (20 kg x 10, 10 kg x 12)
Cable lateral raises 2 x 12
Hammer curl 1 x double dropset
If people say deep water 3 times, do you show up like the candy man? Hedge trimmer in hand?
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I am honored you equate me as possessing the unusual ruthlessness of Reuban, haha.
Deadlift
102 kg x 3
117.6 kg x 3
132 kg x 12
142 kg x 3
147 kg x 3
152 kg x 3
102 kg x 3 x 5
Lat pulldown 60 kg x 16, 11-7-4 (R/P)
Low row machine 80 kg x 11, 11
Finally a 335 lb Deadlift! And I really can’t complain, since my 12-rep pr set was bull busting effort wise. I’m not even sure it was 12 reps, it might’ve been 13 or 14. At some point I felt like I was going to pass out so I lost count of the reps. I really pushed that set to the limits.
Meanwhile, my left wrist is killing me. I’ve been putting Voltaren gel on it for a couple of weeks but the tendinitis won’t go away. I am completely unable to do anything with a supinated wrist. Even holding an empty bar hurts like living hell. I think that the only way for this to heal would be for me to take a couple of weeks of pause from all benching and pressing, which are the two movements where my wrist hurts even when it’s not supinated. I’ll probably pause the two movements for a while after this cycle is completed.