Killer weekend out bush with the lads.
Cut down a few trees, chased a few cows that had gone rogue in neighbouring paddocks. Hammered around on a mate’s quad bike for many hours.
Nothing like a couple of days on the farm to reset the soul, ya know?.
Back to the real world tomorrow!
Only took a couple of pics.
Sounds like a ripper weekend mate
It was mate. And I needed it.
Hatfield Bulgarian Split Squat:
22.5x5
62.5x3
87.5x2
107.5x1
120x8 PB. But I mean, every session is a PB on these haha. It’s so easy to warmup for this exercise man. Just a few long pauses in the bottom with the empty bar and I start feeling ready Quickly.
Bench:
20x15
60x7
80x5
90x3
95x8
95x8
95x8
Triceps still struggling with the endurance hey. Though, each week I add weight, and each week the final few reps on set 3 feel like the same difficultly. So technically the endurance is improving.
Barbell row:
70x8
90x5
100x1
107.5x8 PB here also by nature of the progression.
100x10 (this is great after last week only getting 97.5x9 on this set).
Good day.
Bit of a physique update. No pics 
But my Glutes have grown a noticeable amount in the last couple months of doing these crazy split squat things.
I had sort of noticed me underwear and shorts feeling a little tighter lately…but the wife says this morning:
“Has you’re arse grown lately? Your underwear is too small again”. Lol.
It has. Jeans are a bit tight too FFS.
The crazy thing is though, is that I’m fucking lighter than I was a couple months ago too. Under 105kg now with the cut moving slowly but very surely along very nicely. More crazy still is that I’ve been lifting for 12 years now…to get Any kind of hypertrophic gain whole cutting seems almost impossible to me.
It’s re-gain I think, atleast in part.
Quads and hammies are slightly bigger also according to the tape.
Havnt noticed much else. Definitely havnt lost any other muscle anywhere I don’t think.
3kg down. Bigger glutes. Good progress. LOL.
Not bad for 2500 calories.
maybe its just swelling…LOL
Haha nah it’s been a nice and slow consistent gain. The last week or two I’ve definitely felt it haha.
Deadlift:
Felt shite and under recovered.
70x3
120x3
160x2
200x2
222.5x2
210x2
Press:
Felt good.
20x10
40x6
50x4
60x2
66x4
68x4
70x4
66x4
That will do.
started like this
finished like this
Nice work mate
You just keep going and take what you can. It’s a short sharp session day4, so can’t quit out on it.
Wrecked today. Gunna drop the squid off at school and go fishing for half an hour down at the river. The mangroves have grown WELL this year with the unusual weather and I hear the Bass have been biting. Worth a look for half an hour to recharge, then back to the office.
Been up at 6 every morning this week to get the old routine back in order for the summer daylight savings time. Working well, but damn haha.
only in Australia, love it.
Caught nothing. But the serenity can’t be beat.
Ahh the Serenity
Squat: only session where I’ve felt great with the 6’s lol.
20x5
60x1
80x2
100x2
115x1
120x6
125x6
130x6 (286.6lbs)
Bench:
20x16
60x6
80x4
100x2
110x6
113.5x6 (me being petty). (250.2lbs
111.0x6 (more pettiness)
Bent row:
70x8
90x5
100x2
110x7 PB. (242.5lbs)
102.5x8 PB.
The goal for the squat 6’s for this block was 120x6x3. Smoked that. The goal for the bent row was to equal the bench 6’s. That’s bloody close. About similar RPE’s for the 113.5x6 bench and the 110x7 row. We close. Bench goal was 115x6. Didn’t quite make it. But I’m a bit down on the sets of 4 also so it’s not surprising. Couple more sessions to go this week to end out the block.
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClNuaY7y9wa/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Heaviest sets from today
6 reps for squat !!! That’s big volume mate be careful
Big for me. Used to them now though. They are here to stay for the rest of the year too. Changing almost nothing for next block.
It looks like you have found a sweet spot for now, so good idea to keep milking it
I just need to not bite off more than I can chew!
Really looking forward to a mock meet end of year for a good bit of fun. I’ll be on holidays in the final week or so before it to, so that will help solidify my recover from the next block I dare to say and help the peak strength to be at hand. Can’t see any little time PR’s happening that day, but I can see the biggest squat of the last couple years being a thing.
Bring it.
