Glad I am not training again tonight. Doms in glutes is real !!!
It is very odd how we get used to training on specific days. Having the 2 day break from Monday to Thursday seems to work really well for me. I get the extra day to recover from heavy squats and even though it means I train back to back Thursday and Friday. The heavy bench and light squat day on Thursday doesn’t seem to effect my deadlift day on Friday.
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Split squats is the culprit
I agree they are the devil !!
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They are deceptively heavy loading I think:
Torso + Weight + 1 Leg - Support From Rear Leg = Thru one leg
40kg + 60kg - a bit of support = lot of loading.
Like smashing out sets of 3 plates on squats at least for the lower body not so taxing on torso
Y’all just reminding me why I keep planning to incorporate split squats into my program, and then failing to actually do so.
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Start lifting 3 days per week and you can probably accelerate this to only 10-12months to get out of the “shit” category! 
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3 full days a week will probably be when both the sprogs are at school. Which is in roughly 1.5 years.
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Yessir! Good work buddy, that’s solid as fuck
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Thursday 23 Jan week 3
Bench
Bar x 10
65 x 5
85 x 3
100 x 2
102.5 x 4 x 5 sets - (226 lbs) RPE 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
These were hard tonight, wasn’t tight enough and chest was still sore from Monday. Glad to get them done.
Squat
Bar x 10
65 x 5
85 x 3
105 x 3
117.5 x 8 x 4 sets (259 lbs) RPE- 7, 7, 7, 8,
Lungs were pumping but they moved ok.
Row
85 x 8 x 4 sets (187 lbs)
Pull ups
8 x 3 sets
SS plank
60, 45, 30 sec
All up 1 hr 20 mins.
Pretty good session, bench wasn’t as fast as I would have liked but think I rushed the rests. The rest was good. One more session tomorrow and then I can deload .
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Great sessions lately Simo.
sets of 4 with 100+ kg quality.
Thanks Mort. It still feels like really slow progress but I am patient man…sometimes 
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Big sesh. Well earned rest
5sets of 4reps at 226lbs is a solid bench. Can you remind me what your current PR is on bench?
Also, the conversion into lbs on your top sets is much appreciated. Otherwise, I just assume you are weak, cheeky grin.
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Yeah, this is all looking pretty solid.
Why is it that the kg guys must convert to lbs while the very few lbs dudes never does it.
Because the lbs dudes are Yanks and they forget there’s a world outside of the US.
Except sleepy, who is Canadian. So I guess he’s just a terrible person instead.
Joke’s on you; I’m weak in all units!
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Why would I want to post smaller numbers in my log?
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Then the rest of us would know if you were strong 
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I do it because this is an American site. Trying to speak the local language and all that.
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