575 for a lifetime deadlift PR 505 for 5 for a lifetime deadlift volume PR 355 for a board press PR Great end to the block
Have over 2 1/2 weeks of travel, so long sweet gains. It was a good year at least. Hit a nice 5x5 with 70# dumbbells strict standing overheard press today somewhat easily, first time doing those in a while. Don't do 5x5 despite my last couple posts, just as kind of a default if I don't have a real plan to get enough volume in.
are you gonna be in the same city most of the time? i found some awesome gyms over the years traveling.
Virginia-Ohio-Virginia-South Carolina for a maximum of 3 days each then like 9-10 in St Petersburg area. I'll get a few sessions in when I'm back in Virginia and might look into a gym in St Pete. My core could really use a bit of a break so whatever.
when i had three days i somewhere i would find a gym and maybe hotel gym hiit somewhere in there. if i had a lot of customer or vendor stuff it would always throw that off.
Lol nevermind we’re extending the block a week to lineup to my meet in February. Will I take another jump or will fatigue catch up to me? Tune in next week
Yeah go there Elliot Hulse was one of the OG YouTube fitness psuedoscience bullshit artists. He's a feckin legend!
10x1 @ 85% Also, did a crazy back workout yesterday and today I had the gnarliest back cramp ever while trying to wipe my ass. Twisted back to wipe and the entire length of my lat on that side from armpit to waist seized up and cramped. Felt incredible.
For people who travel: a lot of insurance plans contract with Active and Fit but don’t advertise it. It is $25/month and gives you unlimited access to over 10,000 gyms in the US.
Travelling and drinking way too much so maybe I'm alive I need to get me a big goal for 2020, 600 trap bar 545 conv sounds good
been bulking without the lifting after ripping my ribs apart on squats a month ago. About to get back in the game.
Been working silly hours. I actually work less and make more but timing and a catching a cold has fucked me up. December I'm going all in.
Pulled 585 but hitched that fucker at the top so it wouldn’t count in a meet. Tried 515 for 5 and only got 3. Not the ending to the block I wanted, but I’m moving weight I’ve never touched before so it was still a productive block
idk what to make of this program. this is the final week before deload but ill be shaking after 5 or 6 sets of this DL and i’m 37 and don’t use gear outside of creatine. this is a lot for me to recover from.
Well...damn. Just went back and checked my old logs. I had forgotten but I did have a few weeks of 6x8. I think I have PTSD and blocked it out my memory.
So to recap the past 28 (I think) days. We’ve seen the following records broken All time multi ply total All time IPF single ply total All time bench record All time raw w/ wraps record What a fucking month.
i probably overshot some of my earlier rpe 6-7 guesses. setting me up for some really interesting rpe 8-10 expectations as the cycle progressed.
Is that 77.4% of your 1RM? If so, your program is fucking insane and made by someone that wants to kill you.
Daniel Bell by way of 1,063 Squat (all 3 of his squats were over 1,000) 573 Bench 881 Deadlift 2,517 total
yes. last week i did 1x8 at 375 and then 5x8 at 345. i took my time to recover and didn’t rush my next workout. i was shot for a few days.
yeah, had me intrigued and was calculating mine which would be 355 conventional or 410 trap bar. A 3x8 would be a solid workout, a 4x8 would hurt, a 8x8 would be a level of pain I've probably never experienced if I could finish which is highly doubtful.
the 77% is based on my overzealousness the past few weeks. honestly, i couldn’t finish much after the deads and was wrecked for days. i will do 8 sets, but i’d like to find a weight that will let me complete the workout without being demoralized for few days.
So today was my first day of my pivot week. I had 3 sets of 10 on the safety squat bar at ascending RPEs. Instead, I went Westside and did 15 sets of 2 with :30 rest. Same amount of work I would have done with the same weights just a different set up. I’ll be honest it was fun
No. I was expecting it though. Watching them unpacking it from the bench was just incredible. They didn't even think to rack it.
The dipshits at my gym stand over the bench and do rows off the safety bars. I just do barbell rows on the Smith machine these days. Smith machines are lazy but I feel bad taking up one of the two squat racks to do fucking barbell rows. I used to be conpletely anti-Smith machine but now I don't even care.
There's no way it's a huge mistake. Maybe a small one, but by no means is it gonna make or break your workout one way vs the other. You're making a small trade-off between more a more complete body workout and more upper back isolation, while giving your lower back a break. For beginners, doing isolation workouts at the expense of building total body strength could be a big mistake, but at this point in my life my goal with bent over rows is to overload my upper back, not to make my lower back want to cry. The Smith machine helps there.