I mean, sometimes you do that and I’m all “no way” and then I go ahead and do it anyway. In this case, I has some idea of just how difficult it would be and am not even going to bother to try.
I would like to get back to being able to do 5, that would be good enough.
You’re so far ahead of me, it’s less of a competition and more like a dare at this point.
Even at my pull up-best I doubt I could have done 10 with 40kg attached.
10 with 40kg on would be insane for us normals.
Feeling rather beat-up still from push presses the other day and the pulling on top of it, so just did bare minimum today on both squat and decline (TM style). 125 still makes me nervous on the bench, but it wasn’t really problem.
Barbell Squat
Decline Barbell Bench Press
Press Day. I think it was only a week ago that I bumped the TM up to 77.5, but figure I can move it to 80 now, so I did. The first single I did at 80 almost stalled (RPS 0.5), and that was annoying, so I added a joker and pulled my ass together. Much better.
Standing Barbell Shoulder Press (OHP)
Muscle-Up
Do you think push presses could be potentially risky to shoulders? Every time I’ve tried them (infrequently) the process of pushing means I lose brace and alignment and feel like I’m really out of position for the press.
I would think that they would only be risky for shoulders if regular pressing is already causing you problems. On the other hand, it truly is a full body exercise, so I find it stressing things like my wrists and my back quite a bit more than regular pressing. It also really hits the traps, which I never feel with strict presses.
Damn.
Save the “damn” for when I can rep it 5 times. This still feels poor. I don’t feel like I am in command of 80 yet.
Decided to do some Rack Deads, which I am never really certain is a good idea. Pretty sure I had the same thought last time I did them. Also did incline bench, and that ended up a bit surprising.
Rack Deadlift
Barbell Incline Bench Press
Muscle-Up
So I think the 110 ties my PR, and it almost certainly is the most I have done at this bodyweight. Plus it was actually a pretty good rep, which I rarely think of my incline max singles. Not really sure where that came from. Guess the TM is going to have to go up again, because I also smashed the backoff sets.
That’s some serious weight on the rack deads! Do you know what the bar starting height was?
Um….dunno the height. A bit under knee level for me, so probably about 40 centimeters. 15 or 16 inches.
Judging by my lower back DOMS today, it was not a great idea.
Off day yesterday. Still have some lovely lower back DOMS, so decided I will skip push presses this week and do squats today instead. Which are definitely not going to be fun. Well except they ended up being pretty good.
Barbell Squat
Muscle-Up
So that is another small improvement, and the rep was pretty good. Probably woulda been good for 160 today. Only did one backoff set, so as not to overstress the back.
Seems like nothing but good things happening in this log for the past several months, nice. Do you maybe even think that the changes you made during lockdown may have benefited in some way?
Nah, I think this is more just my body re-adapting to pre-lockdown levels. Getting close, would be nice to get back to that level with a bit of a lower BW.
Another day off yesterday, just because I was busy with other stuff. Bench today, and I knew going into it that I was probably going to go after 135 on the decline. Was extremely annoyed on my first attempt, because the weight absolutely flew up…so much so that I re-counted the plates and I only had 130 on. Great. Was still pretty confident, so added 5 more kilo. It went up pretty okay, although I could tell I was nearing my limit.
Decline Barbell Bench Press
Pull-Up
Hate it when that happens.
Great numbers here. That pullup volume is no joke either… at your age… lol
Pffftht… he’s a young pup and a slacker! Of course, that may just be sour grapes because I’ll never touch his bench numbers… 