Nope. It is exactly like that “trees falling in forests” thing, only with greater risk of a fractured lumbar region.
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Hope his mate knows the protocol of putting an extra plate on the bar before calling the ambulance.
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Understood
Only problem there is that he is going to already be using all the plates, plus some kettlebells, plus at least 4 dead cat corpses to get up the required weight.
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Monday 11th May - test
Squat
Warm ups
Bar x 10
70 x 5
90 x 3
Belt and sleeves
110 x 2
130 x 1
Attempts
150 moved like an opener
162.5 slower but no problem - 5kg PR
170 (374 lbs) - slow but I’ll taken it - another 7.5kg PR
So so happy. I’ve added 17.5kg (39 lbs) to my squat is 7 months. Can’t grumble at that.
Bench
Warm ups
Bar x 10
70 x 5
90 x 2
100 x 1
105 x 1
Attempts
115 x 1 - fast
120 x 1 - no problems
125 x 1 - (275 lbs) wasn’t perfect but I’ll take it
Probably could have gone up another 2.5kg and hit an ugly rep but decided to leave it clean.
Deadlift
Warm ups
Bar x 10
70 x 5
Belt
110 x 3
130 x 1
150 x 1
Attempts
170 x 1 moved fine
192 x 1 (422 lbs) happy with this
202 x 1 (444 lbs) just not quite there today got it past the knees but couldn’t lock it out.
Happy to hit 192 which is a 10kg PR. I think the 200 will go up it just want quite there today.
Squat 170, bench 125 and deadlift 192 gives me a total today of 487kg (1072 lbs). This is 42kg more than my comp 7 month ago. Happy with that progress.
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Nice.
Should be good for 200/130/200 if you wear wraps when you line a meet up
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Hot damn!! Talk about slow gains one more time in here, I dare you!
Congrats buddy, those are awesome results.
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Yeah but how much u curl
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Squats for your Pleasure
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAC9FOSglTh/?igshid=1ibznp8f9lbaj
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Hah, the cheeky smile after that 170 PR lift. Nice work man!
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Great job man! Way to hang in there through the situation and just control what you can control. Hitting PRs is a nice benefit. Great stuff. Not to overstate it, but this is how our silly hobby can also help role model for our kids.
I was happy to read this this morning!
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Thanks, out of all of them I wanted that one the most.
Thanks TFP that was really nice of you to say.
Sitting here now reflecting on tonight efforts. I am tired, sore, still twitchy from the pre workout but I am so fkn happy. 7 months of consistent work, both in the gym and with food and rest. Notice I didn’t say hard work. Yes there were days when the sessions were tough and I had a few aches and pains along the way. But it wasn’t really hard it was just work. Meal prepping every Sunday so I didn’t miss a meal at work for 7 months, following the program as written. Moving the odd session here and there to do family stuff but still doing all the sessions as per the plan.
That’s really all I did.
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In a strongman competition you’d have had that deadlift for sure.
Great PRs all round.
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Ha ha did half think about hitching it but it wouldn’t have counted !!
Isn’t that all anything is, though? I tell this story all the time, but we used to shoot with the Delta guys every now and again - they were gods to us. The one guy I knew would always say “everyone wants us to come teach them some advanced technique - we don’t know any. There are no advanced techniques, there’s just the basics done really well.”
The secret is in the consistency, and that’s also where it gets hard. Everything is easy when it’s a novelty and exciting. Everyone likes watching the war movies and the video games and all that, but when it’s your 8th year of practicing where your big toe lines up on the door frame it gets old - that’s where the success is though.
Anyway - you did the work and reaped the reward; great job!
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Shhhhhhh it’s a secret 
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