We have that bar too, think it’s called a kadilac bar. I have only used it for accessory work and didn’t mind it.
I am using the squat bar on the SSB setting (number 4). I should try out the other positions at some point.
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I probably just didn’t use it enough to get comfortable with it, and I don’t really flat bench much anyway, so it just always felt wobbly in my hands.
You’ve got a progression planned, so it’s probably harder to just screw around. My norm was just to work up to something that made me have to go change my underpants, and then maybe a back off, so it didn’t really matter what setting I used. I liked seeing how much less stable I got on different settings.
One thing I started to notice, and I think maybe @FlatsFarmer mentioned this somewhere which is what made me really think about it, but I’m a lot more “even” on the SSB (or any squat bar with handles). On a straight bar, my right side dips on the ascent. I would do all this stuff to try to make my hips get level, but now I’m thinking it’s more of a shoulder issue. Anyway, just another plug that I like “cheater” bars.
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Pecs be popping my brother! You’re growing daily at this point!
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Oh I really hope so mate. I think a lot of it is just the muscles filling out a little as I use more volume. Has me starting to think that I need to really up the accessory work and chase the pump even when I am doing strength work. Still learning how all this works after more than 30 years. I must be a slow learner.
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Prepping my lunch for work today. Those who read my log will know that most days I have Chilli with Rice, although I have been playing with Tuna also lately. Well today is a chilli day but because we spent the day at the beach at the weekend I was slack and didn’t cook my rice (very rare for me but I am human after all). So I had to think quick this morning and decide do I just take the meat or find another carb source. Now If I was in a cut I would have just taken the meat, but as this is a hypertrophy gaining phase I decided to find carb substitute. I am guessing that @T3hPwnisher will like how my thinking went.
Look in the cupboard, we have bread, bread is a carb. Look in the fridge, we have left over home made pizza from last night, pizza has bread, bread is a carb. And so my lunch today is chilli with pizza. No idea what the macro’s are and don’t really care. I just know this has to help with getting bigger.
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Dude, you gotta get your “chili on a cinnamon roll” game on point
But this was a solid pivot as well
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I’ll give you points for creativity. lol
Another option - if you have some potatoes, throw one in the microwave to bake it and throw the chili on top with some cheese! And that concludes today’s installment of “Amy’s Advice You Didn’t Ask For”.
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That really does sound bloody good.
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100 years of Canadian Lumberjacks can’t be wrong! It’s how you get LumberJACKED!
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I like chili on a baked potato but that would have required more cooking. I was in a rush. LOL
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Now all I need is one of those checked shirts, I wonder if @littlesleeper has one that he grew out of.
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Looking thick!!
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Thanks mate, Hopefully some added thicness will hep me drive the bench up. Its been stuck for a little while now.
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Wednesday 7 Feb- Hypertrophy week 3
Hammer Inc press (weight per side)
20 x 20 reps - warm up
55 x 10 x 2 sets
55 x 10 - just 10
Will add 2.5kg a side next week Getting close to 3 biscuits on these. Really feel these in the outer pec.
Seal rows (total weight)
60 x 10 x 3 sets - got 12 reps on the last set.
Up to 65 next week.
Hammer pull overs (seat height 3) (weight per side)
45 x 10 x 3 sets - just 10 on the last set
Swapped the order of seal row and pullover because someone was on the machine. Great lat pump doing it this way.
One arm Dumbell row
2 sets - max
40KG
22, 18
Whoooo hard work
Had to have a bit longer rest here to get my breath back.
Dumbell shrugs
2 sets - max
40KG
12, 11
Good morning machine
40 x 12 x 3 sets
Damn that was a proper hard session. Sweating, breathing and pumping hard. Quality
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This is the incline hammer chest press machine
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Where’s your weak point at?
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That’s a great question. Going to Tag @wiseman83 cause he sees most of my lifts and can probably comment.
I feel like most of the time when I fail it is 3-4 inches off the chest, kind of in that no mans land where the shoulders / triceps kick in. Speed in general is a bit of an issue. I am typically a slow presser.
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This video is a little over a year ago, fail at 130kg
This is more recent
https://youtube.com/shorts/iYieBE9VnVo?si=bEFLbM7KhelOm-mO’’
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Oh wow that’s a crazy close miss, you hit 130 since?
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Nope thats the closest I have been. Feel like my bench has dropped a bit since last year, but mostly due to a focus on strongman and other stiff and not on bench.