Monster lifts dude!
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Pause Bench
135 x 8
185 x 6
225 x 4
275 x 3
315 x 12
Incline Spoto Press
225 2x10
Rear Delt DB Flye 60s 2x12
Cable Pushdowns 57.5 2x20
On top of the bad news, I still can’t deadlift. Thats ok.
Not the strictest form, didn’t realize my butt was kinda off. Set up wrong. To be fair I haven’t done a set above 5 reps in like 4-6 months lol
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Bit quiet for you, hope you’re good.
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10/32
Pause Bench
135 x 5
195 x 4
235 x 3
275 x 2
315 x 1 RPE 7
225 2x5
Incline Spoto Press
185 2x5
Rows
315 2x5
Yeah I’ve got some rebuilding to do.
315 moved low and im not pushing further. Just based off that single I’d say I’m around 345.
Also 20 lbs lighter. Yeah I definitely leaned out but still sucks regardless.
No planned programming for now
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11/05
Pause Squat
455x1
Pause Bench
315 1x2
275 2x2
235 2x5
Pause Squat
315 3x5
Building back work capacity , doing adjustments since I don’t have the greatest access to food atm
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11/06
Pause Deadlift Sumo
495x3 RPE 6.5
Sumo Pendlay Row
355 2x5 RPE 5
Pause Close Grip Bench
315x3 RPE 7
275 3x2
235 2x5
Reverse Curl 135 2x8
Bicep Curl 135 2x8
Neutral Grip Lat Pulldown 200 2x8
Rear Delt Fly DB 30 3x12
First time pulling in around a month? I can’t remember todo good. My back injury is healed up from all the downtime I took.
Still not super focused on pushing numbers. Just coming in, staying big on my basics and trying to rebuild. Still no solid program, feeling things out.
Because of the lack of good food quality and pretty low protein meals, trying to be really careful here. I’m not recovering good from session to session, taking an extra day or two. Got that state penitentiary nutrition going.
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11/08
Pause Squat
385 x 2
425 x 2
455 x 2 RPE 7
405 x 4
365 x 4
365 x 4
315 x 6
Pause 2CT Bench
275 x 2
315 x 1
335 x 1 RPE 7
315 x 2
295 x 3
275 x 2
250 x 5
Long Pause Sumo Deadlift
315 x 2
405 x 2
455 x 5 RPE 5
One Arm Pishdown 95 3x8
One Leg Seated Hamstring Curl 115 3x8
Everything Beltless moving forward because I lost my old one and can’t afford a new one lol
Everything is bouncing back pretty good. I know I won’t be at my peak. I’m happy with the rebuilding so far regardless, I still look big and strong and I’m moving some weight.
its been really easy to maintain the size I’ve built up but strength has always been something fleeting for me. hard for me to hold onto it.
I’ve been making a lot of this type of stuff recently, dirt cheap when I have like 6$ to work with, keeps me really full and it’s calorically dense
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My uncle texted me this old reel I sent him and I had to laugh. This felt so long ago lol, I remember he wanted to come with me to the gym when I visited him in MI, the man did introduce me to powerlifting, I’m touched he’s held onto alot of old clips I sent him. I think I just turned 19 not sure. What a trip.
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11/10;
Sumo Deadlift - Beltless
545 x 1
585 x 1 RPE 8
Sumo Pendlay Row
405 x 2 (cramp)
405 x 5 RPE 8
405 x 1 (cramp)
Pause Close Grip Bench
275 x 2
315 x 2
345 x 1
365 x 1 RPE 7 (PR)
315 x 2
295 x 4
260 x 6
Reverse Curl 145 3x8
Seated DB Curl 50s 3x8
Neutral Grip Lat Pulldown 220 3x8
Seated Hamstring Curl One Leg 135 3x8
365 close grip is a legitimate PR lol. I haven’t gone above 315 or so with this in years but also knew I had the strength. I know my ass kinda cMe off a little it’s a habit in trying to fix 
I should be sitting around 390 or so for this variation based off the speed.
585 on pulls moved like trash but it’s expected. Still hovering around 600-615 based off that pull.
Strength coming back quick.
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Fuck this dude. Shoot me your address on an email and let me know your size/ brand preference, I’ll send you a new one. Your too damn talented of a lifter to let me see you held back like that
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Had the weirdest gym experience ever. Met two powerlifters my age that I asked to side spot me on the squat and they turned out to be self righteous assholes. Telling me how I shouldn’t go for a lift if I’m not sure I’ll hit it (which to be fair, I did tell them “eh, maybe” when walking up to 585) and that it puts everyone in danger if I missed it. I told him if he’d prefer not to be my spotter and he just kept ranting. Telling me to get a coach and whether or not I was on a program. I was like, nah. I can’t afford a coach and nah, im just trying to find my baseline and see where I’m at. Then ofc gave me a lecture
I guess I could understand the guys logic? Dunno, really weird conversation and he was just calling me out most of the time for ego lifting. He’s a pretty strong guy, something like 562/350/620 I respected it but pretty much got shit on in return for my kindness.
Anyways. This is why I really don’t post outside of this forum and Instagram (which is private), I tried to connect with dudes my age and of course it ends up in a dick measuring contest when I was just asking for a spot. Jesus. I’ve had similar scenarios happen out in Michigan with powerlfiters too.
I can’t deal with this self righteous crap anymore because it just ends up being something I do wrong always and I get outcasted. I’m done. It’s my last straw. I’m not engaging in conversation anymore unless it’s the old heads.
Even the old head powerlifter I asked to back spot me jumped straight in and said hell yeah let’s get it, and the two younger guys complaining the entire time calling me out.
I’m still in the gym starting to bench but had to get this off my chest. He told me he was like a D1 something at a university? Okay? And I’m a dude who just wants to lift and go home to his wife
This all happened because I asked these two guys for a spot btw.
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Its a powerlifting thing, time to embrace strongman
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Honestly man after tonight, I might.
What was insane is that these guys kept trying to get me to take my headphones off as I was ACTIVELY preparing to do my top single and trying to calm down.
They complained from start to finish the moment I said “eh maybe I can hit it”. Also I did hit 585 with some left pounds left lol.
On another note, before these guys rained on my parade, a dude I gave bench and back advice to around 2 months ago came up to me really excited, he wanted to tell me he went from 365 → 395 after following my advice and hit a 30lb PR.
That’s helping to negate a lot of the emotions I’m feeling at the moment. That meant a lot to me.
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11/12
Squat - Raw
45 x 20
155 x 7
275 x 4
345 x 2
405 x 1
455 x 1
500 x 1
550 x 1 RPE 7
585 x 1 RPE 8.5
495 x 4
455 x 6
Pause Comp Bench
45 x 25
155 x 8
225 x 4
275 x 2
315 x 2
345 x 1
365 x 1 RPE 10
(Skip backdowns)
Seated OHP w/ Long Pause
135 x 5
185 x 5
205 x 5 RPE 4
One Arm Pushdown 45 2x20
Incline DB Flye 40s 2x20
Not the greatest bench session. Felt a lot of pec and shoulder tightness coming from the squats. I was originally going to do some lat work but decided against that today and did some flyes.
I think the close grip really fatigued me, so I’m going to be doing a bit of an adjustment there tomorrow or the next day, maybe a top double or triple instead of a top single.
Awesome squat session, holding onto most of my strength. Gives me a good guess of where I’m at for my deadlift so I’m glad I took 585 as my top single today.
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I can’t remember the exact quote but there’s one that’s resonated with me about caring about peoples opinions you wouldn’t ask for advice.
Fuck em anyway, you consistently kill it. There’s a lot of people on here (and I include myself in that) who would love to lift the kind of tin you do. Do you, it’s working..
I had this exact thought as I was reading your post, when I trained in a public gym the only times I ever felt like I was getting into a dick measuring contest was with a couple of guys who were powerlifters.
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Which is why I am currently saving up to get a new gym membership. I really might look into the strongman gym in denver. Don’t really like how gyms dump fees ontop of fees when signing up but I get it. I might honestly take up Simo’s suggestion of strongman since that gym has everything (Including the elephant bar) and specialized strongman equipment.
That experience last night has mostly ruined powerlifting for me (don’t wanna make generalizations of course), and I never really had plans to compete anyways, so… I think I can slowly accept that I was never really a powerlifter at all. I’m a guy that genuinely gets happiness out of training heavy and thats the end of that.
Yeah, I probably took it a little personal. These guys treated me like I was an idiot. I know why. I don’t do good with crowds, or introducing myself, sometimes I stutter, or, talk faster than my brain can process and I end up sounding really confusing. I’ve been through it with classmates as a kid & teen, so I think it’s just a bit of a stress response on my part.
Which is why I thought it was funny that they were complaining on my behalf but still wanting to spot me when I said its fine if they didn’t want to lol. Pointing out the shitty noodle bar, a shitty prong belt I borrowed that was too big for me, no knee sleeves, and no plan/coach coming in and just “seeing” if I could squat 585.
Sounded like a whole lotta projection to me while they filmed a whole ass movie in their inzer equipment from head to toe
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OMG you should deff go for it. I can see a new training log for next year Konsu The Birth of a Strongman.
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I don’t usually venture into the logs on here. Just happened to look for whatever reason.
This is only half of it. You are a big, strong dude. Even if you were a shy bit weaker than them, you still would injure their delicate egos just by lifting the way you do. Especially because, unlike them, you probably turn heads with your lifts without intentionally drawing attention to yourself like a couple of starving whores.
You made them insecure and your social anxiety was just their cue that you likely wouldn’t respond aggressively to their attempts at bringing you down.
As the other guy said. Just keep doing you. You’re doing it right. Also, I agree with the strongman recs.
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I think that’s a great idea. Everything I’ve seen on here from Simo and others points to it being a great crowd to be in and I know a couple of people that have competed and said as much. I’d love to have a go myself but lack the equipment/time to train/time to compete/lack of injury hampered shoulder
I hear you on this one mate, I can get the same at work sometimes. A lot of people I come across professionally make the mistake of thinking because I’m big built have tattoos and have an accent that makes me sound thick that I actually am.
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First off, welcome. I’m glad you stopped by, it gets pretty quiet in here so I always appreciate a new face. Thank you for the outside perspective, I know it won’t be the last bad experience I have but its always shocking (and entertaining in hindsight) when it does happen lol.
And thank you everyone else who chimed in with support. It means a lot to me. I appreciate everyone who took the time to reply.
I’ll look a little more into strongman, i’ll read up on the forums and listen to some podcasts just to start get myself familiar with the terminology and training differences and what not.
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