Weird, but impressive

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1842

+5 rounds with Bob

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1843

The theme of lethargic, cranky body days continues. This time probably just because I was out late last night and slept terribly. So letā€™s do some deadlifts!

Barbell Deadlift

  • 75 kg x 5 reps
  • 90 kg x 5 reps
  • 110 kg x 5 reps
  • 125 kg x 3 reps
  • 140 kg x 3 reps
  • 160 kg x 1 reps
  • 175 kg x 5 reps (Joker)
  • 125 kg x 5 reps
  • 125 kg x 5 reps
  • 125 kg x 10 reps

Bumped everything up 5 kilo. I skipped the single at 175 and just did it as a joker instead. Was fine. More proof that it doesnā€™t matter how you feel if you just keep going and doing the work.

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1844

Dirty stop out

1845

Big top set. Whatā€™s ur best for 5

1846

I dunno for sure, but probably 180.

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1847

Not too far off then. Means max out

1848

Nah, I will just keep the deads sub-max for the most part. I will still get the benefits from it, with decreased injury chance (hopefully).

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1849

Tru wisdom

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1850

True rest day yesterday, did absolutely nothing.

The scale I have been using for the last 9 months or so ran out of juice, so I swapped in my old scale. The newer scale had me weighing in at about 82 kilo. The old one I switched back to said 79.3. I always knew there was this discrepancy, but didnā€™t care much either way. But now that I am on a semi Fat Gainz program, I tried a quick calibration (I did the magic battery trick to get the dead one temporarily back to life) by weighing some plates. Turns out the old one is the accurate one. The new one was definitely overestimating my bodyweight, because it definitely overestimated the plates.

So, I instantly lost almost 3 kilo bodyweight. This also explains a little about where my lifts are in relation to my BW, because I knew I was slightly underperforming. Turns out I may have been slightly overperforming instead. E.g at +82 bodyweight I should be able to press 85, among other things. Makes more sense that it is a struggle when I donā€™t even weight 80.

So I guess I am still more welterweight than middleweight. I am actually mostly pleased with this discovery.

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1851

Now get to them cheeseburgers.

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1852

I celebrated by putting a fourth egg in my omelette.

In related news, I fucking love omelettes.

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1853

Theyā€™re on my list of foods I wish I loved, but donā€™t.

1854

Obligatory ā€œthen youā€™re obviously not doing it right!!ā€ statement.

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1855

Surely itā€™s not an omelet until itā€™s 6 eggs min.

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1856

Eggs are strange and magical. Even a three egg omelette ends up being fairly large, where those same three eggs are a medium snack when hard boiled. They are even smaller if you scramble them, and disappear entirely if you mix them up in a batter. They exist on more than one plane in the multiverse simultaneously, I suspect.

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1857

You are spot on, eggs are very weird.

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1858

Plot twistā€¦ what if the plates arenā€™t accurate :thinking:

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1859

That is always possible, but I tried a couple combos to be sure. When 12 kilos comes out as 12.5, that is quite a gap.

1860

After the day off yesterday, back at it today. Going to give bench a go on the TM rep scheme, using 120 as the 90% of max. To be honest, this was a lot like how I would train if I was following no plan at all, except that it also makes me do at least three backoff sets. And if I can keep this up and slowly add weight to it, that would be not too shabby at all.

Did the rep at 120 nice and slow, just to sorta demonstrate to myself that I actually have command of it. I am so used to doing AMRAP that I have a tendency to be too fast and sloppy. I havenā€™t said it out loud, but I am starting to have thoughts about having a go at 140 in the relatively near future. Weā€™ll see. I know it is cheaty decline and all, but would be nice to check that off the list.

  • Decline Barbell Bench Press

    • 50 kg x 5 reps
    • 60 kg x 5 reps
    • 75 kg x 5 reps
    • 85 kg x 3 reps
    • 100 kg x 3 reps
    • 110 kg x 1 reps
    • 120 kg x 1 reps
    • 130 kg x 2 reps (joker)
    • 85 kg x 8 reps
    • 85 kg x 8 reps
    • 85 kg x 8 reps

  • Push Press

    • 40 kg x 5 reps
    • 50 kg x 5 reps
    • 60 kg x 3 reps
    • 70 kg x 2 reps
    • 80 kg x 2 reps
    • 90 kg x 1 reps
    • 100 kg x 1 reps
    • 80 kg x 8 reps
    • 70 kg x 8 reps
    • 60 kg x 8 reps

  • Muscle-Up

    • 2 reps
    • 4 reps
    • 2 reps

Tried some push presses too for the first time in a long time (minus a single set I think I did a few months ago). My plan is to mix these in roughly once a week. These were all pretty okay considering it is the first time I even tried 100 since pre Covid. I should be able to do better than that once I remember how to use all my body parts in synch. 100 was sorta a struggle, but I could tell it was more technique trouble than anything.

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1861

Decent work, particularly considering your bodyweight!

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