Seems like doing it more often has helped. Who
Would have thought that 
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Friday 14th July - week 1
Front squat
Bar x 10
60 x 5
80 x 3
90 x 3
90 x 3
90 x 3
90 x 3
Squats were ok, front rack even with straps is painful. Still need to try harder to keep my elbow and shoulders up.
Bench press
Bar x 10
60 x 5
80 x 3
100 x 4 x 4 sets (220 lbs) - RPE 8, 8, 8,
Paused reps.
Starting to think about next block after my comp and think I need to start bringing some faster work into the program.
Pull ups
3 sets - 10, 10, 10
And that is week 1 gym sessions all done. Just two more conditioning sessions to go.
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At what, 93-94kg bodyweight, those pull-ups are impressive imo.
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Strongman Saturday session.
Log practice today.
63kg 10 inch log
Sets went
63 x 1, 1, 1, 3 (one clean 3 presses), 3 (one clean)
Added 5kg per side
73kg (160 lbs)
1, 3 (one clean), 3 singles clean each rep, 3 (one clean), 3 singles clean each rep, 3 singles clean each rep, 5 (one clean 5 presses).
Pretty happy with 5 reps. Solid pressing
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Todays session lots of juicy calves shots in here for @Cyrrex lol
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Went out for a walk with the misses and kids this afternoon. About 40 mins at a local nature reserve that is inside an old quarry. Lots of up and down and a few sprint races with my son. Sad to say he is quicker than me these days. I donāt do full sprint as I am too scared I will blow a hammieš
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āA Little Big of Logā also described what was going on in my britches as I watched the video
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You should see the one on my only fans
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Weight vest walk. 10kg - 22lbs vest - 40 mins.
And that finished my week
Gym - tick
Conditioning- tick
Water - tick
Protein morning and before bed - tick
No snacks - tick
Good week.
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Wow Simo you must have Lyme Disease by now.
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Na we dont have those ticks in Australia anymore mate, spiders ate them all.
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Monday 17 July - week 2
Squat
Bar x 10
60 x 5
80 x 3
Sleeves on
100 x 3
120 x 2
Belt
135 x 4 x 4 sets (297 lbs) - RPE 7, 7, 5, 6
Smooth and deep, controlled reps. Felt heavy but wasnāt hard (does that make sense?). Just Quality.
Bulgarians
70 x 8 x 3 sets (35kg Dumbell in each hand)
Damn these are so tough.
Db bench
40 x 8 x 4 sets (88lbs)
SS
Db row
40 x 6 x 4 sets
Breathing hard and feeling dizzy after these. Loving how controlled and easy these presses are feeling at this weight.
Wrist still a little sore so left off the curls
Bloody good start to the week. Smashed it.
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Squatting deeeeep
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Looking good, Rob.
Have the front squats influenced you to go deeper on back squats?
BTW you look a tiny bit lopsided - thought it was camera angle at first, but itās there in both views. Probably just old man stuff, favoring a knee or a hip or something, but I hope it doesnāt lead to any worse issues.
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Yeah itās always been there. In truth, everyone is lop sided to some small degree. You should my deadlift from the front angle. 
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Haha yeah and i probably am too. Injured my right knee recently, now that it doesnāt hurt my left knee hurts anytime I get up off the floor (concentric only).
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Sounds like old.man stuff. Can relate. Haha
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@jdm135 I spoke a bit about this a few weeks ago (and probably many other times over time). @wiseman83 is correct in that the imbalance has always been there.
When I initiate the squat, the right hip does not go into external rotation, the knee goes out slightly but the hip rotates inward or stays straight. You can see it when you watch the top of the quad. I am trying to work on activating the glute more on this side before squatting and focus on opening up the hip on that side but its not easy.
The right side is where my knee issue also is and its the side where I wrecked my ankle 30 years ago and never got it fixed properly. I just have to work with what i have got.
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Squats moving very well - youāre looking awesome dude!
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