How tall are you, **mate? I’m currently 97 kilos and pretty lean, but I’ve just started trying to gain a little to hopefully help my bench press.
**I’m not sure if I’m allowed to use this colloquial term of endearment, or not. If not, please substitute in “brah” or “fella.”
Haha. Use anything you like!
185cm mate. A scratch under 6’1
105kg this morning. 97kg will put me circa 15% BF. Not super lean. But will be happier there.
Not huge. Not small. Not bad for a natty.
Trained with the wife at the local council gym today.
Also is a deload week.
High bar squat (they don’t have an SSB bar and low bar can jump in the ocean).
20x3
20x3
20x5 took a bit to get going.
60x3
110x3
130x3
150x1
122.5x3
122.5x3
Deadlift:
70x3
110x3
150x3 double overhand to this point. No chalk…
190x1
210x1
230x1
Bench:
20x6
80x6
100x3
110x3
120x2
Lat pulldown:
40x10
60x8
70x6
80x5
Iso lat row: both hands.
40x10
Then a drop set.
50x10
40x8
30x7
25x5
That one must have got some weird looks in a commercial gym
A little yeah. But there are a couple guys there that have a go.
I realised after unloading deadlifts that I had accidentally put a pair of 25’s on the bar for second set (think it was 100 not 110). I worked out they also went on second on squats…so instead of doing 110/120/140
I actually went 120/130/150 LOL. Have update the log above.
Idiot. Hahaha
Fixed that for you
Accurate.
There was a guy there doing 60kg power snatches with pretty ok technique too hey. Impressive physique also. Later saw him doing muscle ups for reps. Then front squatting 120 for sets of 3.
Then I saw a guy bending in the Smith machine…with about 1/4 ROM. Then the same ROM on the isolat row and lat pulldown. Fuck some people are misguided.
This is a very polite way to say it. Also this is probably a very true way of saying it. There are probably a lot more people that are just misguided, rather than stupid. Although, there’s probably a level of stupidity that allows them to be misguided. I don’t know what I’m getting at here. Nice lifting.
I actually think the 1/4 ROM guy was on gear. Nothing wrong with that…but man, take advantage of it yeah?!
Time under tension bro. It’s the new thing
Ive wondered if 1/4 squatting above my max would help me. But ive never tried it.
It could have value as an accessory I think.
Think high pin squats.
I think there is 1/4 squatting and there is 1/4 squatting. Using pins to work a smaller range of motion and to use heavier weights is definitely a strategy that can work. Same as using reverse bands to take some load off the bottom can work. But loading up way more than you can lift and moving a few inches whilst straining like you are trying to pass a watermellon whilst your mate says…its all you bro is something else. LOL
These people exist for our entertainment
The urge to train more frequently is starting to build up again lol.
Session two of deload/pivot week.
Ssb squat:
22.5x5
22.5x5
62.5x3
82.5x3
102.5x2
122.5x1
All reps paused as deep as I could force the issue. Very deep…
Bench:
20x20
60x8
80x4
100x1
120x1
130x1
110x4
Seated row:
70x17…to technical failure straight off the final set of bench. Fun. Burned.
BB Curls:
20x20
20x20
20x10
20x8
20x7
20x5
All with 10 second rests. Strict.
My god. We continued until not more than 5 were possible. I wanted to stop very early every set LOL. But I had to beat my mate. Which I did. 
1L of Chocolate Milk to finish. Managed to swindle it into my macros.
Fin.
this is the stuff that gets @TrainForPain all excited. Good work big fella
But not in a weird way
I chose not to specify that. LOL
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