That’s the way it goes. All the weight you lift and you hurt yourself reaching for a snack.
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2020-10-12
Mesocycle 2 Microcycle 3 day 2
Javelin Press
75 3x6
Reaching the control limit on this.
Neutral Grip Pullup
BW+40 3x6
Leg Press
500,550.600 x 6
Didn’t reach my actual strength limit on this. Lower back lit off on the last rep at 600 so I stopped.
Hammer Press
2 Plates 3x6
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Greetings.
Just wondering how you’ve found your gym, now that it 's back open? Crowd, no crowd ect??
He’s right, must’ve been one heavy snack.
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When I go, there’s like maybe 3 people there.
It was 150 pound cake.
Awesome…very funny man.
Plenty of room to work I guess, so that’s cool.
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2020-10-13
Grippers
Double Close [click-click]
#2 3x10
#3 2x5
And that’s enough. Apparently squeezing my hand hard makes me stiffen my spine, which causes the lower back to spasm.
Fun times.
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Hmmm…I wonder?..
Oh, right. Heh.
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Today is a workout day, but I ain’t working out.
Maybe Friday.
Maybe.
This mesocycle’s gonna be a little longer than the others, looks like.
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2020-10-15
Grippers
Double Close (warmup)
#2 2x3
Triple close
#3 3x3
#2 5x5
Rubber Band Finger-Opens(doubled rubber band)
3x20
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About 3 months ago I was vacuuming the dog hair off the couch and tweaked my lower back so bad I needed a week of muscle relaxers and couldn’t put shoes on. I can still feel it sometimes.
-folly
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2020-10-17
Mesocycle 2 microcycle 3 day 3
Close grip OHP
140 2x6, 1x5, 1
Close Stance High Bar Squat
275 3x6
Meadows Row
100 3x6
DB Hammer Curl
50’sx6
45’sx6,10
Pendulum Squat (machine)
160 2x12
Good sub for a hack squat, which my gym doesn’t have. Just testing.
No back pain or spasms during session. May be going stale on CGOHP. I don’t like them, truth be told. - prefer incline BB presses.
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2020-10-18
Grippers
#2 Down/Up pyramid 1-10-1 clicks
#3 3x1 click
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Glad your back didn’t spasm. Maybe wear your belt the next time you’re in the fridge. And if it’s a big snack ask for a spot 
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Smarty-clowns.
Surrounded by 'em
2020-10-19
Mesocycle 2 Microcycle 3 day 4
Push Press
160 3x6
Deadlift
315x3
365x3 (dbl overhand, no belt)
395x6 (straps, belt)
Low Bar Good Morning
225 2x6
Wide Neutral Grip Pulldown
205 3x6
EZ Bar Skull Crushers
110 2x6
90 x 10
Side/Rear Laterals
20’s 3x12
Glad this is done.
4’s Meso next after a low stress week. Low back tried to spazz after the 315 DL, but it settled down and I went on. One top set only on DL followed by some back/Ham movement is the ticket I think.
Gotta do something different on the skull crushers. Lower weight and more sets instead of adding poundage. Elbows getting whiny.
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Maybe try smith machine skull crushers. Mike Israetel uses them as a regular movement. Maybe a good option. Third exercise in this Instagram post.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CF-unRRhnJM/?igshid=widy1ufzmz33
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Might be worth a try.
I think more that It’s just too much weight on the movement, though, and I just need to focus on mind-muscle at a lower poundage with more set or reps.
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2020-10-20
Grippers
#2 W/U bunch of half-closes to full close
#3 2x10 x 1 close
#2 2x1 x 15 closes
#2 1x1 x 20 closes
Still can’t get the #4 more than half-closed
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I made a joke about one of your posts, BUT!!!
I was doing one armed bottoms up kettlebell presses, and halfway through a rep that was threatening to get wobbly, my brain pulled this cue outta my arse, and I clenched my free hand into a fist…it really worked! Even the side of my back that I stress out when my form deteriorates was no longer stressed once I did the tight fist thing. 
Also found it works when doing TRX strap fall outs.
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2020-10-21
Deload Microcycle 2 Day 1
OHP
150 3x3
SSB Squat
305 3x3
BB Bent Row
205 3x3
Seated Incline DB Curls
35’s 2x8
Seated Leg Curls
195 2x8
Hardly feel like I worked at all.
All the weight, half the reps for two sessions
Half the weight, half the reps for two sessions
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