Would You, Quintus? Would I?

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821

[quote]furo wrote:
What I’m trying to do right now is recomp at my current weight. I’m focussing on increasing strength, while weighing myself every day and making sure my bodyweight doesn’t creep too high. I’m not counting macros, I’m just eating relatively clean and altering it based on what the scale says. You could maybe try that with your “goal weight” as 200lbs?

Also it sounds like you are half-way to doing intermittent fasting as it is. I really really like IF - it is way easier to comply with as you only have a relatively small eating window to screw up in haha. Might be something to look into.

I’m absolutely no expert at all, just thought I’d share my thoughts. All the best!
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I’ve thought about IF actually. The only problem is that I eat lunch at noon, and I often don’t get done working out till 9pm lol. I always feel like I ought to eat something after lifting.

822

7/12/2013

It’s week 4, which is the “deload” week which I am using as just a lighter week and hitting reps for 8+. However I decided that I don’t care for doing deadlifts for reps over 5 honestly. So today I just decided to not even deadlift at all.

Atlas Stones:
240lb stone 4x
240lb stone 4x Second set of 4 felt much easier. I guess warming up is a thing.

Power Shrugs: (very not strict)
45 5x
135 5x
225 5x
315 5x
405 5x
495 5x
545 5x
585 3x
635 3x
675 3x

Rack Pull Static Holds: (just took the weight off the pins and held it as long as possible)
725 1x
765 1x
815 1x
855 1x Had to put a mat under my feet just to clear the rack on these because of how bent the bar was. I used straps obviously.

My training partner suggested that I do range of motion training with this weight by getting shit loads of paper and setting the weight on there and taking out a single sheet each training session. In like 20 years I would have an 800+ pull from the floor lol.

Snatch Grip High Pulls:
315 5x
315 5x
315 5x

Snatch Grip Shrugs:
315 10x
315 10x
315 10x

Shrugs:
315 15x
315 15x
315 30x

Upright Rows:
95 10x
95 10x
95 10x
95 10x
95 10x

T-Bar Rows:
3 plates 10x
3 plates 10x
3 plates 10x
3 plates 10x
3 plates 10x Not a huge amount of weight on these, but I was thinking of pulling the weight through my elbows instead of my hands. It’s a pretty well known bodybuilding trick I guess, but it’s the first time I’d thought to employ it. It really worked well. I tried to keep these very strict and take everything but my upper back out of it.

(From here on out I superset all the bicep and tricep stuff)

Swiss Bar Curls:
95 10x
95 10x
95 10x
95 10x

Swiss Bar French Press:
95 10x
95 10x
95 10x
95 10x

Seated DB Curls:
40’s 8x
30’s 8x
20’s 10x
20’s 10x Holy shit! Something has killed my biceps. I must have used them more on my back training than I realized.

DB Skullcrushers:
30’s 10x
30’s 10x
30’s 10x
30’s 10x

One-Arm Cable Reverse-Grip Pushdowns:
4 sets of 15 plus 5 negatives only as slowly as possible

That thing where you stand in the middle of the cable machine and curl both sides into your head like you’re doing a front double bicep pose:
4 sets of 10-20

My right arm was noticeably weaker on bicep and tricep training than my left. To the point where I was concerned to what degree this could be affecting my bench and overhead overall strength. May go to a PT guy and see what he can see. My shoulders have felt very, very uneven for a long time now.

Anyway trap day was fucking fun as hell. Gonna go ahead and have my friend photoshop the pins and the rack out of my 855 hold. I’m sure everyone would buy that. Random natty guy sets 300lb PR in the gym within 5lbs of the 198 world record.

823

noice

824

[quote]csulli wrote:
My right arm was noticeably weaker on bicep and tricep training than my left. To the point where I was concerned to what degree this could be affecting my bench and overhead overall strength. May go to a PT guy and see what he can see. My shoulders have felt very, very uneven for a long time now.
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yeeeeeeeip

825

7/13/2013

Press:
45 10x
95 10x
135 8x
135 8x
135 8x

Bench:
45 10x
95 10x
135 10x
185 5x
225 10x
225 10x
225 10x
225 10x
225 10x Is that good? I can’t remember if that’s good for me or if I could have done this like months and months ago.

DB Bench:
70’s 10x
70’s 10x
70’s 10x
70’s 10x
70’s 10x

Push Press:
135 7x
135 7x
135 7x
135 7x
135 7x By this point even doing this weight for 7 reps on push press was quite difficult.

Tire Flips:
400-500lb tire I dunno
10x
8x
6x
4x
2x

826

[quote]csulli wrote:
Is that good? I can’t remember if that’s good for me or if I could have done this like months and months ago.
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Hell if I know. Proceed til doubt is erased.

827

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:
Is that good? I can’t remember if that’s good for me or if I could have done this like months and months ago.
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Hell if I know. Proceed til doubt is erased.[/quote]
Exactly. I want to be very obviously stronger than ever before.

828

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:
Is that good? I can’t remember if that’s good for me or if I could have done this like months and months ago.
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Hell if I know. Proceed til doubt is erased.[/quote]
Exactly. I want to be very obviously stronger than ever before.[/quote]

Dude, your training lately has been awesome. I’ve been absent from posting lately, but once this competition is over, I’m going to step my shit up. I’m going to be getting alot stronger. You have aided in the inspiration needed to do so. Awesome stuff Chris.

829

[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:
Is that good? I can’t remember if that’s good for me or if I could have done this like months and months ago.
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Hell if I know. Proceed til doubt is erased.[/quote]
Exactly. I want to be very obviously stronger than ever before.[/quote]

Dude, your training lately has been awesome. I’ve been absent from posting lately, but once this competition is over, I’m going to step my shit up. I’m going to be getting alot stronger. You have aided in the inspiration needed to do so. Awesome stuff Chris.
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Dude thanks!

830

How is your strongman training going? It’s hard for me to tell in your log from all of the stuff you are doing. :wink:

831

7/15/2013

Squats:
45 10x
135 5x
185 5x
225 5x
275 5x
310 10x Beltless. Okay okay. Not bad.
225 5x
225 5x
225 5x
225 5x
225 5x
135 20x

Feels weird only working out for like a normal amount of time…

832

[quote]DSSG wrote:
How is your strongman training going? It’s hard for me to tell in your log from all of the stuff you are doing. ;)[/quote]
It’s going a bit slow if I’m honest. The 18" deadlift is a more difficult height for me than I was hoping. A bit too low to be super easy, but high enough to where I’m not getting any leg drive.

Overhead is difficult. I’m still weaker on overhead than I was a year ago when I first tried 5/3/1.

Atlas stones are going well though! This is more conditioning than anything. I can knock out a pretty decent set (or two!) of 4 or 5 with the 240lb stone now.

My grip has always been good. I should get some farmer’s walk action going! Damn I can’t believe I haven’t done more of those yet. Well yes I can, because we don’t have any good handles :confused: I usually just use the trap bar, which is kind of annoying cuz it can impede your stride. I wish we had some nice individual handles. Anyway we’ll see how that is going in the near future. I’ll need to figure out some more precises distances in the parking lot as well so I can have something to measure.

833

Get some barbells… Then put a plate on each side of the two barbells. Cheap farmer walks. :slight_smile: I live on a farm, so I know this shit! :wink:

Good to hear about the stones, you need to send us some videos of your stone lifting/overhead pressing/other strong man training.

834

7/17/2013

Bench:
45 20x
95 10x
135 10x
185 5x
225 5x
250 11x
265 5x
280 5x
310 1x

Close Grip:
rest pause set
225 10x
20 seconds
225 3x
20 seconds
225 3x

Spoto Bench: (long pause an inch off the chest)
225 5x
235 5x
245 5x
255 4x
265 4x

Dips:
+90lbs 8x
+90lbs 8x

Fat Bar Skull Crushers:
40lbs with like 50lbs of chain or something?
15x
10x
10x
15x
15x
15x

Dips:
BW 30x
BW 25x
BW 25x
BW 20x
BW 20x
BW 20x

I feel immensely dissatisfied after every bench workout. This will probably continue until I become much stronger.

835

250 11x

836

[quote]DSSG wrote:
Get some barbells… Then put a plate on each side of the two barbells. Cheap farmer walks. :slight_smile: I live on a farm, so I know this shit! :wink:
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It’s a world’s difference in all honesty

837

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]DSSG wrote:
How is your strongman training going? It’s hard for me to tell in your log from all of the stuff you are doing. ;)[/quote]
It’s going a bit slow if I’m honest. The 18" deadlift is a more difficult height for me than I was hoping. A bit too low to be super easy, but high enough to where I’m not getting any leg drive.

Overhead is difficult. I’m still weaker on overhead than I was a year ago when I first tried 5/3/1.
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You can try making alterations in your upper back posture. Could make the difference of an inch or two.

Overhead is less predictable in terms of recovery. You may see more strength gains with less frequency for the time being.

838

mirin the 2chainz

839

been a while since I lifted in street clothes

840

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]DSSG wrote:
Get some barbells… Then put a plate on each side of the two barbells. Cheap farmer walks. :slight_smile: I live on a farm, so I know this shit! :wink:
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It’s a world’s difference in all honesty[/quote]

Yup