Well, it’s new…and new is good, right?
If you say so 
2021-08-03
Tuesday, also known as Stupiday
At my wife’s gym
Decline BP
185 2x8
Nautilus Weird-Ass Free Squat System That Throws Your Groove in The Crapper
worked up to 315x3
260 2x5
Upright Rows
80 3x8
Neutral CG pullups
BW 2x5, 8
OHP
Worked up to 165x3
Doin’ the Dumb today instead of waiting one day to do my program.
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Best name for a gym machine yet. You win the prize. Quality
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Today and tomorrow are off days and I’ll do what would have been today’s workout (Day 1, Microcycle 2) on Friday. Tris and shoulders are pretty creaky and right elbow is non-happy at the moment. The old left forearm tear is twinging as well.
Yesterday was definitely not a good idea, physically, but it made my wife happy that I went with her.
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2021-08-06
Mesocycle 1 Microcycle 2 Day 1
Walk to gym.
OHP
130 3x8
Every rep crisp.
High Bar Squat
255 3x8
Same, pretty fast.
Mag Bar Wide Lat Pulldown
205x8
200 2x8
Keeping chest up, but maybe a little heavy
EZ Bar Curls
90 3x8
Walk back from gym
Stick to the basics. I can add other exercises when the volume drops in the next meso
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2021-08-06
#2 Grippers
3 rounds of 5 sets of 5 closes
Getting easier. Add another round next time.
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2021-08-08
Mesocycle 1, Microcycle 2, Day 2
Incline BP
155 3x8
Deadlift (every 90 sec)
405 4x1
Back was really tired. Planned 8 sets did 4
High Bar GM
165,175x8
Machine Chest Supported Row
210 3x9
Decline BP
190 3x8
EZ Bar Reverse Curls
75 3x8
Standing Calf Machine
BW+100 3x18
still hate it.
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DL 405 x 4 x 1 and then GMs? Wow. Do you do the lifts in the order you have them here? Incline BP, then the back work, the decline BP?
Yep, I list the exercises in the order I do them.
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2021-08-09
4" Grip Ball holds (no chalk)
20 lbs 15 sec
20lbs 20 sec
20lbs 30 sec
2" Grip handles
53lbs 30 sec (chalk)
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2021-08-10
Mesocycle 1, Microcycle 2, Day 3
Walk to gym
Z-Press from pins (paused)
125 3x8
Hatfield Squat
295 3x8
Mag CG Lat Pulldown
200 3x8
Seated Incline DB curls
40’s 2x9, 1x8
Cable Pressdowns
90 2x8, 1x10
Behind Back Axle Hold
185 x30sec, 30 sec, 25 sec
Red BPAs
3x20
Last five are fire.
Walk back from gym
I think I’m going to make it through this meso okay. All the weights felt doable. Hard work but not get-revved-up work.
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2021-08-11
“No Money” BPAs
Red Band 3x15
Farmer’s Walks
2" Vertical Handle 106 2x102ft
Walking with the vertical handles is dicey. Really gotta SQUEEZE.
Horizontal handle 106 2x204ft
#2 GG Gripper
4 rounds of 4 sets of 6 closes
Couldn’t go that 5th round after the vertical handle farmer’s walk.
–edit–
Looking back 5 days, I actually did one more round than last time. I feel better now.
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Bought a Titan Fitness Angled Multi-Grip bar a while back, but haven’t used it, because it’s 50 lbs and I don’t want to walk the mile to the gym with it. But I really want to do floor presses today using it.
Guess I’ll have to suck it up.
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Would the gym not allow you to keep it on the premises in a spare room or something?
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Oh yeah, and I’ll do that, but I have to carry it there first and I don’t want to.
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Chickened out and not gonna do it.
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2021-08-13
Mesocycle 1, Microcycle 2, Day 4
Seated DB OHP
60’s 3x10
Pendlay Row
190 3x8
Leg Press
575 3x8
Almost easy.
Floor Press (straight bar, paused)
170 3x8
Much easier than last time
DB Hammer curls
40’s 3x10
DB Laterals
25’s 3x10
Rear Lateral
25’sx10
Machine Rear laterals
120 2x10
Everything felt light-ish. Right where I want to be at this point in the cycle.
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2021-08-15
Mesocycle 1, Microcycle 3, Day 1
OHP
135 3x8
No problem. Bar was flying up.
MAG Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown
200 3x8
Much better form this time
High Bar Squat
265 3x8
These were miserable, but not physically hard. Freakin’ face diaper…
Barbell Curl
95 3x8
Ab Wheel Rollout (Knees)
5, 3x6
Nice. Day 1 is the hardest of the micro, so I think I’m going to finish the meso fairly fresh. May skip the deload cycle and go to 6’s straightaway. We’ll see.
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2021-08-16
4" Grip ball hold (top grip, no chalk)
20 1min/hand
Time to add weight
2" vertical Pipe hold
50lb x 30sec, 15 sec.
Fingers were pooped out
#2 GG Gripper
5 rounds x 5 sets x 6 closes
Start on the #3
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