Your overhead is very impressive mate. Good work as always.
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Oh poor you, hitting all those PRs.
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I kind of agree with Alex: stop whining
But a 12 rep PR is kinda difficult to get excited about, I get that.
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I think that, paradoxically, one of the reasons I am decent at pressing is because I refuse to accept that it should be so difficult. I suppose I am comparing myself toā¦myself. So I am perpetually disappointed because I manage to convince myself that it isnāt really that heavy and that I should be able to do more.
All of this makes sense in my head.
Oh my god thank you.
People fetisihize the press SO much that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of stagnation. Treat it no differently than anything else. Expect growth.
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Todayās work is just a bunch of moderate pulling. Kept it a bit light and just tried to work the muscles a little. Nothing to see here.
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One-Arm Dumbbell Row
- 25 kg x 10 reps
- 29.5 kg x 10 reps
- 34 kg x 10 reps
- 38.5 kg x 10 reps
- 42 kg x 10 reps
- 48 kg x 10 reps
- 34 kg x 20 reps
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Yates Row
- 20 kg x 10 reps
- 30 kg x 10 reps
- 40 kg x 10 reps
- 50 kg x 10 reps
- 40 kg x 15 reps
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Isolateral Plate Loaded High Row
- 90 lb x 15 reps
- 140 lb x 15 reps
- 190 lb x 15 reps
- 90 lb x 20 reps
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Bench day. Changed this day up as well, no TM and no Incline. Since I did AMRAP on press the other day, figured I should give it a go on decline today. I probably shoulda started lighter, this hurt like balls. And the cardio sets gave me noodle arms after just the first set. I forgot how much harder this is than TM.
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Decline Barbell Bench Press
- 50 kg x 5 reps
- 60 kg x 5 reps
- 75 kg x 3 reps
- 80 kg x 5 reps
- 90 kg x 5 reps
- 105 kg x 14 reps (rep PR?)
- 80 kg x 10 reps
- 80 kg x 10 reps
- 80 kg x 10 reps
- 80 kg x 10 reps
- 80 kg x 10 reps
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Muscle-Up
- 2 reps
- 2 reps
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Dips - Chest Version
- 10 reps
- 10 reps
Not sure if 14 at 105 is a PR, but might be. Probably. Donāt really want to check back through the log and find out. It was sloppy, though, seems like I always have trouble keeping the heavy decline AMRAPs in the groove.
Have no idea if I will continue this AMRAP stuff. Still havenāt figure out what the hell I am doing.
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I needed to read this man, thanks. Press is something I suck at and would very much like to suck less at it. You REALLY donāt suck at it so Iām gonna steal your mentality. As Iāve said before, freaky work in here dude.
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Yep, 48 x 10 one arm row is light, hardly worth writing the set down. 
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I meanā¦it wasnāt 20 reps?
No? was sure there was a typo - or perhaps a zero missing or something.
Kidding aside, you are a strong dude, good job.
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Deadlift day. No plan, just sorta picked stuff up and put it back down for a bit.
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Barbell Deadlift
- 60 kg x 5 reps
- 100 kg x 5 reps
- 120 kg x 3 reps
- 140 kg x 2 reps
- 160 kg x 2 reps
- 180 kg x 1 reps
- 200 kg x 1 reps
- 210 kg x 1 reps
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Trap Bar Deadlift
- 75 kg x 5 reps
- 125 kg x 5 reps
- 175 kg x 5 reps
- 215 kg x 1 reps
- 175 kg x 1 reps
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Farmerās Walk
- 20 m | 175 kg
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Hit 210 without too much trouble, but probably pushing my luck. On the plus side, in the area of the gym I am working with these big ass bumper plates, I can literally not put more weight on the bar, would have to go work in the other area with normal sized stuff. Also maxed out the trap bar, although that was actually in the place with the smaller plates. We have two different trap bars, and the both have oddly short sleeves.
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Stop it, just accept your old and have a glass back and never deadlift above 200kg again.
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Exactly. Where were these words when I need them earlier today?
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I was thinking he should stop sooking and just go for it.
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Dedicated pulling day, plus some arm work. Been a long time since I did one like this, and it showed. Harder than it shoulda been, but I donāt care much because this is not really in my focus right now. Really just trying to work the muscles anyway. On the other hand, my old elbow joints seem to be slowly getting better, so I can actually start doing more direct biceps work without much pain. Well, other than the pain of being embarrassingly terrible at direct biceps work. Whoever invented biceps is a dick.
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Pull-Up
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps | weighted | 11.3 kg
- 3 reps | weighted | 20.4 kg
- 3 reps | weighted | 31.8 kg
- 3 reps | weighted | 40.8 kg
- 5 reps | weighted | 20.4 kg
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 10 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
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Preacher Curl
- 30 lb x 10 reps
- 40 lb x 8 reps
- 50 lb x 8 reps
- 60 lb x 8 reps
- 70 lb x 8 reps
- 80 lb x 6 reps
- 30 lb x 15 reps
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Isolateral Plate Loaded High Row
- 90 lb x 15 reps
- 90 lb x 15 reps
- 90 lb x 15 reps
- 90 lb x 15 reps
- 90 lb x 15 reps
- 90 lb x 25 reps
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Nice work on the weighted pullups!
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I understand all these words individually, but put them together and Iām a bit lost.
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Itās this thing were you do some kind of jerking off motion with both arms for absolutely no reason.
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Really strange day today. Feeling all broken down all day, achy lower back and even a hip bugging me. I was going to go in and just do some light squatting, had no plan other than to avoid doing any actual volume. Succeed in that much, at least.
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Barbell Squat
- 20 kg x 5 reps
- 60 kg x 5 reps
- 80 kg x 3 reps
- 100 kg x 3 reps
- 120 kg x 2 reps
- 130 kg x 1 reps
- 140 kg x 1 reps
- 150 kg x 1 reps
- 160 kg x 1 reps
- 165 kg x 1 reps
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Muscle-Up
- 3 reps
- 2 reps
- 2 reps
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Leg Press
- 225 lb x 10 reps
- 315 lb x 10 reps
- 405 lb x 10 reps
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Going in I thought I might only have a shitty rep at 150 in me (as judging by the last few weeks of work). All those last three singles were really clean. Not sure where it came from. I am not even sure last time I hit 165, been many years I think, and it probably wasnāt as nice as this one.
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