1 ¼ squat 5 x 55, 65, 75, 80, 85 kg belt on, Volume
65 kg x 12(Belt), 10, 10
hanging leg raise 8x6
28 kg KB from floor to overhead press 8x5
Speed DL emom
10 x 3 @ 92,5 kg
Assistance Giant set none, was in a hurry.
Done in 45 minutes.
Was working out in a break at work, but got a call, had to rush it a bit.
I could have done assistance today, yeah. Getting used to the workload.
I think I could have pushed the squats even further, but am very pleased with 85 kg, on my trial week I did 80 kg and it was way harder than 85 today.
I like my kind of strongman stuff as part of the giant set.
Woke at 81,9 kg - 180,6 lbs
Same as yesterday, and I did eat a lot.
Summer is at the door, I will be eating well and have a glass of wine or beer occasionally.
August will be a damage control month I think
But who cares everybody here on TN packs on mass these days, so will I
Mort, you’re supposed to cut in the late winter/spring so you look hot for the summer. During the summer you live it up shirtless and try to maintain some sort of leanness. Once fall rolls around you might as well drift into bulking mode for the winter.
I’m kind of doing it backwards and I bulked for the summer so I look a little soft shirtless. Fortunately, the average person is so utterly pathetic that I still look good!
@painter27, @simo74 Yeah I saw the game.
God damn scandal, no penalty whatsoever.
But you guys played very well and deserved the result, but not that way.
Woke at 81,7 kg - 180,1 lbs
still not really tracking, have a fair idea of what I can eat and whatnot.
Should have done some physique photos along the way, but I just don’t think there’s that much to see.
See when I’m writing it here, I get myself more comfortable with doing it later.
You don’t have to post them. Just save them for yourself. I have a bunch. I used to take them several times a week. The MyFitnessPal app lets you take a picture when you enter your weight so I can scroll to any date and see how I looked at a particular weight.
The Danish Vikings Darkhorse
W2D3: Bench variation 1RM
Warmup: jumprope, stretches, BPA, yoga stuff
Dynamic warmup:
Metcon 10 minutes 5 rounds:
SGHP x 5 @40, 50, 55, 60, 60 kg,
ring dip x 3
BPA x 12,
kneeling buttom up KB press each arm x 6
Bear crawl about 20 – 25 seconds
Met ball chest throw x 3
Complex: 2 rounds
BB x 6, DL, row, hang clean, front squat, strict press, back squat, GM, push press
Main Giant set:
BB row: 5 x 8 @ 60 kg + 3 x 6 60 kg
1 ¼ bench 5 x 60, 3 x 70, 1 x 80 kg 1 x 90 kg, F x 95 kg Kind of knew it.
Standing band Pallof Press 8x8 each side
farmers walk stairs 8 x 35 seconds
Volume
72,5 kg x 6, 5, 4+1 rest pause.
OHP emom
10 x 3 @ 37,5 kg
Assistance Giant set:
Push up 3 x 14
Band face pull 3 x 10
Band straight arm pull down 3 x 10
EZ bar curl 3 x 10 @ 32,5 kg
Done in 1 hour 5 minutes
Not much to tell, other than I was a bit tired going in and it didn’t disappear.
On my deloadish day I did 1 x 90 with more to go.
Today I shouldn’t have tried 95 kg, but went for it, and failed
I have never worked that hard on my workouts. It’s really challenging.
woke at 80,9 kg - 178,4 lbs
Wtf readings from 80,4 to 80,9 kg this morning.
Stupid scale, I lost about 1 kg and was eating a lot yesterday with wine and peanuts.
How tall are you? (I’m sure you mentioned it before but my memory isn’t great!). You mentioned trying to stay lean for summer. I was thinking you (like me) could probably do with gaining some weight!
182 cm just a tad under 6 feet, I would love to gain weight
But unfortunately weight tends to sit around the waist, about 2 years ago I was 89 kg over a year I got down to 75 kg and kept that weight for about 6 month started gaining a bit June 2017 and here I am at 81-82 kg.
I would say some of the weights on the quads (yeah) and the back (yeah) and the belly (ohh) but I’m happy. Gaining a bit of weight over time.
Through this Darkhorse experiment I’ll eat to maybe gain a little weight. During the next 1½ month I’ll have to much wine, beer and whiskey, to much BBQ, to much snack and candy.
The workouts are unfortunately going to be a bit inconsistent, There might be a deloadish 3 - 5 days here and there. Not the best way to do a new program.
Long rant, sorry Simo.
Of to DL in a couple of minutes. throwing a BBQ to night celebrating the longest day is over. In DK there are big Bonfires throughout the night.
Hey mort since you are trying to gain weight and you don’t like the fat going to bad places, wouldn’t you want to eat lots of good food rather then bad food to limit the fat gain? Of course you’ll gain fat but i feel like if you eat lots of candy, snacks and alcohol etc and the like it will reflect on your physique in a way you don’t want it to.
