Can’t hand out too many real compliments in a row. You might get used to it.
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Bit of an odd day today. Slept poorly and a bit underfed, but actually feel pretty good. Bumped my TM up to 92.5, because I am pretty certain I can get that every time out. On the other hand, I couldn’t find the 1.25 kilo plates, so I had to round up. So I actually failed the topset of 95…I think I was just over confident. Got it again on the second attempt after pulling my ass together. Actually gave 100 an attempt for the first time, and failed it. But it was oh so close. Might have had it if I hadn’t blown my load on two attempts at 95. I think I am going to have to go after it now that it is within spitting distance.
That got me pretty weary for the backoffs, so just did sets of 5 at some heavier weights than required.
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Standing Barbell Shoulder Press (OHP)
- 40 kg x 5 reps
- 45 kg x 5 reps
- 55 kg x 5 reps
- 65 kg x 3 reps
- 75 kg x 3 reps
- 85 kg x 1 reps
- 95 kg x 1 reps
- 80 kg x 5 reps
- 75 kg x 5 reps
- 70 kg x 5 reps
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Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press
- 18 kg x 8 reps
- 22.5 kg x 8 reps
- 27 kg x 8 reps
- 32 kg x 8 reps
- 36 kg x 8 reps
- 20 kg x 10 reps
Pretty weird to me that I am pressing 90+ routinely now. A year-and-a-half ago I did it once and expected to never do it again.
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I’m going to have to start pretending you log in lbs, right?
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Oh wait, aren’t kilos and lbs the same thing? I may have to go correct some things in my log.
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Don’t really like two push days in a row, but I felt like I needed to make up for lost time, so I combined a bit of push and pull. Turned out to be a pretty good idea, but my arms are feeling pretty weary.
Another incline PR, and it wasn’t even an RPE 10. Will have to set the TM up next time (from 110 to something else). I think I will continue to emphasize incline and reduce or possibly even phase out declines for a while. I think the incline/press synergy is working pretty well at the moment.
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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
- 90 kg x 3 reps
- 100 kg x 1 reps
- 110 kg x 1 reps
- 120 kg x 1 reps
- 122.5 kg x 1 reps (PR)
- 105 kg x 6 reps
- 100 kg x 6 reps
- 90 kg x 6 reps
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Isolateral Plate Loaded Row
- 102 lb x 8 reps
- 192 lb x 8 reps
- 282 lb x 8 reps
- 332 lb x 8 reps
- 282 lb x 8 reps
- 192 lb x 12 reps
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Dumbbell Bench Press
- 27 kg x 8 reps
- 34 kg x 8 reps
- 38.5 kg x 8 reps
- 42 kg x 8 reps
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Dumbbell Bicep Curl
- 11 kg x 10 reps
- 11 kg x 10 reps
- 11 kg x 10 reps
- 11 kg x 10 reps
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Haven’t checked in for a few days and I miss a squat PR and incline bench PR. I don’t even know what cool whip is but it seems to be working.
Cool Whip is like Vegemite for Americans.
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Why do you insult vegemite
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If you main lined Vegemite into a vein you would be dead in less that 3 secs 
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Honestly, I have never tasted it. But it looks and sounds like something that merits insulting, I dunno.
She’s just talking about Sahne, dude (adding German will surely help). I’m sure you’ve had that at one point in your life. Otherwise it might also be valid to insult you personally maybe.
Well now I am confused, because vegemite is surely nothing like Sahne. Assuming Sahne is basically just the cream you use to make whipped cream.
For the record, I have definitely eaten straight whipped cream in my life. I have even probably eaten a half tub of Cool Whip at some point. I expect both of these things are better than vegemite.
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Vegemite is rich in B-12 and can be used to make moonshine.
What can cool whip do?
lol
I don’t think I’ve talked about Germany that much here…
Is whipped cream not the same as cool whip? I might be in over my head here
19 days since last update. I still have not made any major shifts in my training, because it is hard to justify doing so when things are going relatively well. My bodyweight has been pretty level for many weeks now (hovering in the low 86s at wakeup), but there has still been some progress.
Deadlift: Still nope.
Squat: Hit a decent rep at 170
Decline: Still 145. Have not been going after these for a bunch of weeks.
Incline: Hit 122.5
Press: Hit 97.5, assuming you accept my little wiggle move.
These are all relatively recent PRs, so I think it is fair to say I have never been stronger than I am right now. It is kinda weird. I think the reason it has been working is because I am basically on a 5 day split, where two of those days are dedicated to pushing movements. Dropping the deads is probably a key to it, because it means I recover quickly enough to keep up this pace.
It probably helps that I keep things extremely simple. Some of y’all bitches complicate things too much.
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Cool whip is like a Nigerian knockoff of a Chinese knock off of whipped cream
Cool Whip is basically what you get when you taste whipping cream and think to yourself “You know what this needs? Way way way more sugar!”. A fairly American thing to do.
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