Outstanding!
So 95 by year’s end, right? You’ve got a few weeks yet…
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Ugh. I won’t likely commit to it as a goal, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try it. I actually get a bit of anxiety just sitting here thinking about it as I type this, seems I never get used to the idea of pushing anything over 75.
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Unbelievable. Great job. I hope you stood there at lockout for as long as possible 
despite the sparse crowd.
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I stood there long enough to remember that nobody was likely watching.
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Bonus pulling day. Would normally have taken the day off, but I thought I could put this in to sort of fix my ‘rotation’ so that don’t have my bench day coming right after my press day.
I think this strategy of using Pullups more as a warmup and do a bunch of machine pulling is paying off. For the first time ever I feel like I am consistently hitting my lats (which is weird because they might be my strongest muscle group).
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Pull-Up
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps | weighted | 4.5 kg
- 5 reps | weighted | 11.3 kg
- 5 reps | weighted | 15.9 kg
- 5 reps | weighted | 20.4 kg
- 15 reps
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Isolateral Plate Loaded Row
- 102 lb x 8 reps
- 152 lb x 8 reps
- 192 lb x 8 reps
- 242 lb x 8 reps
- 292 lb x 8 reps
- 242 lb x 8 reps
- 192 lb x 12 reps
- 102 lb x 12 reps
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Very easy chest day today. Have been pretty busy with work this week, so all my sessions are a bit shorter than I like. No spotter today, so no heroics. My only goal today was to make the backoff sets on the inclines much tougher than they needed to be. That went well.
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Decline Barbell Bench Press
- 60 kg x 5 reps
- 70 kg x 5 reps
- 80 kg x 5 reps
- 95 kg x 3 reps
- 110 kg x 3 reps
- 125 kg x 1 reps
- 135 kg x 1 reps
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Barbell Incline Bench Press
- 45 kg x 5 reps
- 55 kg x 5 reps
- 65 kg x 5 reps
- 75 kg x 3 reps
- 85 kg x 3 reps
- 100 kg x 1 reps
- 110 kg x 1 reps
- 100 kg x 8 reps
- 90 kg x 8 reps
- 85 kg x 8 reps
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Ab Wheel (standing)
- 12 reps
I am too chicken to decline 140 by myself, which is a bit annoying because I would like to make it my TM. 135 is too ‘easy’.
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Strong incline man! Especially considering you did them after decline
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Thanks man. I actually said I was going to reverse the order last time, but then I woulda had to do 135 without a spotter while being a tiny bit fatigued and that seemed like a bad idea.
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I haven’t benched with a barbell in a long time. I used to flat and incline when I first started working out at home, I just got really good at the roll of shame 
Edit: I’m guessing it’s the roll of shame then death on decline
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Exactly, lol. I have only ever failed a lift on the decline once, and that was two weeks ago when I tried to double 140. No idea what I would even do if I failed without the spotter.
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I’m really glad you didn’t tag @wanna_be here. That would have just been rubbing salt in the wound.
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No doubt he was typing up a response real time when I posted it, but his keyboard shorted out from all the tears being spilled.
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Thankfully he uses weird units and not pounds. I still have to Google them. I knew 92.5 was heavy, I didn’t realize it was ~203lbs heavy till now though. It’s a very solid press for someone of his age and stature.
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Just think, if only I wasn’t so curmudgeonly and small. Plus my gout acting up all the time.
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Lucky for you I’ve hung up the BB OHP for a bit. Should give you plenty of time to make some progress and give me a run for my money 
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Can we afford to give him lots of time at his advanced age?
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I didn’t even think of that. Solid point.
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Mate, I am old and small, have no access to helping hormones and already in way over my head. Haha, way over my head, that’s a pun.
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Hahaha this is true! Already (probably) out pressing and im “young and optimizedddd”
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On my tombstone, the only thing it is going to say is ‘He died doing what he loved…out-pressing Dagill’. It will confuse people, but who cares, I will be dead.
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