The Danish Viking: back to 531: Road to 2-3-4 Plates

I don’t really follow politics at all so I feel it’s better I stay out if this to avoid misinformation.

I do have some mildly radical thoughts about how people are behaving today but really, I don’t even know if one can even post anything that could hurt someone without getting in trouble.

Woke at 85,8 kg - 189,2 lb
2900 calories yesterday.
I’m hovering around 86 kg right now. I’m holding my breath for a minute just eating 3000 calories seeing if the scale goes up a bit more.


Todays training

The Danish Viking: SGSS by coach Thib

W6D2 3 x 5 reps lower body accumulation phase

Warmup: Rope skipping 1 minute, BPA, yoga stuff, BW Squats, walking lunges, Lazy lifter.

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overload

Squat: 3 x 95, 1 x 105, 2 x walkout with 3 x 1/10 rep 130 kg.

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Squat

  • 3 x 5 @ 90 kg

Deadlift

  • 3 x 5 @ 120 kg first set doh, the rest mixed grip.

front squat

  • 3 x 5 @ 45 kg

RDL

  • 3 x 5 @ 72,5 kg

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Assistance superset

  • Hanging leg raise: 3 x 9

  • BW walking lunge 3 x 20

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Done in 50 minutes + about 10 minutes warm-ups.

This was a very good workout.

Squats felt good and strong.

DL was a bit heavy. Doh wrecks my form, gonna do first set doh and the rest mixed to keep form good.

Front squat was awesome, actually did 8 reps on the last set, upper back collapsed a bit, had way more in the legs.

RDL’s easy.

Thought that I would have suffered a bit more from the weekend. But no, feeling good.

@losthog thank you, for putting up the meet, I might come in at the very last spot, but I’ll do my very best to get some PR’s. No One can take that away from me.

I’m actually feeling just that bit of competitive edge I had when I was bike racing. I’m not sure the missus think it’s a good idea.

Just for the wilks extra points I started thinking about cutting down to 73 kg, but then I thought of all the people around here I would let down, and had an extra cake for coffee.

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You’re welcome and you can’t grow if you don’t eat

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haha it’s only my belly that grows or so it seems.
I’m really not comfortable when my pants starts to be to tight.

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I’m right there with ya, Mort, but I’m forcing myself to press onward. I don’t really like the way I look in the mirror. My shoulders and traps look decent though.

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Woke at 85,9 kg - 189,4 lb
3300 calories yesterday :slight_smile:
Rest day today, feeling good just a bit sore legs but that’s it.

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woke at 86,2 kg - 190 lb
3000 calories yesterday.
Breaking the 190 lb barrier.

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Fat bastard !! Lol

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C’mon, you can make it to 90kg by the end of the year :grinning:

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@simo74 thank you man I feel fat too.
@I_Luc plan is to hit 91 - 92 kg by the end of the year, so Yeah, bring on the fat.

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Todays training

The Danish Viking: SGSS by coach Thib

W6D3 5 x 5 reps upper body Accumulation phase

Warmup: airdyne 1 minut, BPA, kneeling buttom up KB press, stretches, yoga stuff.
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Bench press

  • 5 x 5 @ 75 kg.

supper setted with

BB row

  • 5 x 5 @ 65 kg

OHP

  • 5 x 5 @ 37,5 kg

Pull up

  • 5 x 5 @ 1,5 kg

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Assistance superset

  • EZ bar curl 3 x 12 @ 30 kg

  • lateral raise 3 x 16 @ 8 kg

assistance superset 2

  • lat pull down 3 x 10 @ 65 kg

  • dynamic plank 3 x 8 each leg

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1 hour + warmup about 5-10 minutes.

All lifts feels very good and kind of easy, except pull ups they suck.

@Frank_C How hard should the lifts feel, are the last set of the last week of each phase supposed to be a rpe of 10?

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I felt pretty good hitting an RPE of 8ish. You’ll start to have good days and bad days. The good days might have you feeling like the weight is an RPE of 5 or 6 and the bad days might make light weights feel like a 10.

You’re going to be adding 10 lbs to lower body lifts and 5 lbs to upper body lifts each week. Try to think about the third week of the phase. How are the weights going to feel then?

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Big J you are spot on with the assumption of how it goes and how the days are, this first week of 5 reps feels almost like a deload it’s a bit hard but not stupid.
Lower body lifts are moving on the edge I think, and I might not be adding 10 lbs to all lifts. Squat is 10 lbs next week and then probably only 5 lbs for the last week.
Bench and press is a bit different, I feel like I could go up by 10 lbs on either next week or for the last week of this phase.
Writing this out makes it clear to me that it probably doesn’t matter at all… So I’ll be sticking to the plan as it is. It might surprise me in the end.

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woke at 86,2 kg - 190 lb
3300 calories yesterday
Rest day today, going for a walk and some shopping with the missus.

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Woke at 86,2 kg - 190 lb
didn’t count yesterday.
Lower body coming up later.

Should that say 86.2 ?? Snap

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hahaha yes it should :slight_smile: We’re at the same point right now.
You are so much bigger than me. I’m just a stick man with a belly :slight_smile:

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That’s because you aren’t vertically challenged like me

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Today’s training

The Danish Viking: SGSS by coach Thib

W6D4 5 x 5 reps lower body accumulation phase

Warmup: Rope skipping 1 minute, BPA, yoga stuff, BW Squats, walking lunges, Lazy lifter.

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Squat

  • 5 x 5 @ 90 kg A little heavy but good.

Deadlift

  • 5 x 5 @ 120 kg first set doh, the rest mixed grip. Easy

front squat

  • 5 x 5 @ 45 kg EASY last set actually 7 reps

RDL

  • 5 x 5 @ 72,5 kg EASY last set did 8 reps.

Farmers walk stairs

  • 3 x 1 minute’ish with 20 kg each hand.

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Done in 50 minutes + about 10 minutes warm-ups.

Short rests about a minute, from front squats less than a minute.

Everything was awesome today almost like a deload week. Intensity has gone up, but volume is redused significant.

To keep it a bit interesting in the log I’ll put up videos today.

Squats are feeling a lot better than they look.

5 x 90 kg third set

Deadlift first set 5 x 120 kg doh

Deadlift second set 5 x 120 mixed grip

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Nice music. What was that?