Did you leave your thumbs at home?

I don't really like DLing without straps anymore because the whole lift I'm just focusing on my hands. With straps I feel likeI can actually think about other cues.

And hook grip hurts at 285

I was just being a prick.

F grip strength.

Also, I just fluffed my pillows for the first time in like 3 months. Then I got to thinking, and I don't think I've ever experienced a pillow I really liked, they all come with their own flaws. Maybe I should see some other pillows and try to find the one.

Memory foam imo. No fluffing needed.

Yeah, but memory foam has its downsides. If you're having a pillow fight, it's effectively a brick. Same if you do a bed-dive. It wraps around my head and turns into a small oven, and it's difficult to reposition to find a cold spot because you have to wait for the foam to readjust. Plus the cost obv.

Yeah, we are completely memory foam and I loooove the bed, but I basically don't sleep with sheets or anything on most of the time, lol. It definitely gets hot, especially now that I'm all fat* and whatnot.

*not actually fat imo

Monday: fluffing! I think I spent like 2-3 hours mucking around at the gym. Tomorrow will be an epic DOMS day.

Press: 120x4, 115x5, 115x4
- I've been doing 102x5s at home on the reg for the past few weeks, I can do up to x8 comfortably. So I thought I could hit 120 right away, especially since I've been doing pullups too and was able to hit +45x6 easily the other day. False.

BP technique: 105x5xlots
- Basically, I've always sucked at the bench because I just focus on hitting my work sets and get it over with. I'm losing tightness on last reps, and when I bring the weight up, my shoulders lose tightness. So today I focused mainly on keeping shoulders tight all the way, and engaging lats. Then I was able to keep core and legs tight. I'll just do a bunch of form work on non-bench days and see if I'll be able to finally hit 200 that way.

Face Pulls: 110x10, x20, 120x12

Cable pulldown crunches: 60x8x3
- Feels weird, and if I go to 70 my legs lift a little during the pulldown. But 60 feels pretty easy. Maybe a couple of 45 plates would help.

Pallof Press: 60x5x3
- Only held these for maybe 5 seconds. Rewatched the vid and they advocate 10, so I'll do that next time.

Squat: 275x5x2, x8
- Just to remember what it feels like to skwat. I'm guessing my 3x5 max is like ~300, but these just always feel like death.

Split Jerk technique 6x10
- rep of 10 with a hop. rep of 10 from standstill. I was hitting my foot markers very well, which felt nice since I haven't done it in like a week. 3 reps of 10 with a stick for the first time, and my landing turned to poo Then back to 10 reps from standstill to practice technique again.

mass, bro.

Yeah, I like your explanation better .

Good job with the jerking and fluffing. Glad to see you getting back to what really matters.

Tuesday: oh god. Quads were in massive pain all day, and I wanted to sleep the whole day (despite getting 7 hours the past few days and feeling fine).

Took some ibuprofen and warmed up, and managed to fence ok. Didn't do very well, but better than I thought.

I can barely walk again now though.

You're supposed to hold pallof presses? I don't think so?

oh ok, re-read some stuff on the internet and it says hold for 1-2 seconds. Some other internets have said hold for 10, but that just means I'd have to use less weight.

Also, is it rip-approved? We're not training through any range of motion. (I don't know anything about the core anatomy)

Ripples thinks squats and DLs are enough ab work afaik

Health day at work. Just tested BF% at work using those bioelectric impedence machines. 13%, holla!

Only two beats are: high systolic BP, free breakfast has no brotein.