2/18

Chin Ladder (8 out of 10 reps in last set) = 53 in first ladder
LISS: 45 min at 4.0 = 3.0 miles
Chin Ladder (6 out of 10 reps in last set) = 51 in second ladder, 104 total (PR)
6x30 pushups

4 more sets of pushups; probably only going to do pushups on cardio days for a while, they tired me out last night. Probably from the miniAIDS, but better safe than sorry

Why am I benching more than you? Unacceptable, montebrah.

The 2+ months I took off even lifting probably has something to do with it

You mean when u were doing kettle swings everyday?

AcceptedBurn

and the two months before that when i was either traveling or sick, yes

2/19

DL
10x135, 5x185, 3x235
3x5x275

OHP
10x45, 7x75, 5x95, 2x115, 1x135
5x142.5, 4,fx142.5, 3,fx142.5

FS
10x45, 5x95, 3x5x135

Chins
3x5x+45

DL was fine; videoed the last set and thought I felt a little upper back rounding during, but I was fine, with the exception of my neck craning. Still not able to keep my chest up without doing that, but jellydick weight so whatever I guess. I'm going to chalk up the OHP failures to illness, but it's probably that plus general weakness, I don't know. I'll give it another go Monday and see what happens. FS was pretty easy, as long as I concentrate on keeping the bar behind my delts (I cross my arms to hold the bar because lol mobility work).

Soon I will defeat the miniAIDS.

Have you tried front squatting w/ straps instead of cross armed?

Glad you're still lifting.

I was worried about you when I noticed that you've been WWing quite a bit lately.

It really is sad you've basically been out of the gym for two months and are still lightning years ahead of me on your press.

Fwiw, I recall reading Eric Cressey saying he doesn't like his trainees front squatting cross armed, iirc, it's because of muscle imbalances that result using that technique.

I have not.

It's my second game in three weeks, but thanks for confirming that you e-stalk me. brb off to take a silkwood shower.

Eh, I'm a former upper body monkey, every other lift I have is still terrible.

Such as? I guess I could try it next time using straps; I've never even tried to get in a front rack before, it just looks hard and stuff.

lol


Just saw your name in "New Posts" and noticed they were WW games.

I havent read what he is talking about but im guessing that withthe arms crossed, one shoulder is always lower then the other so that could lead to imbalances

Weasel,

Very interesting, thanks. I'll try to squeeze into a front rack next week and report back.

2/20

Chin Ladder (8 out of 10 reps in last set) = 53 in first ladder
LISS: 45 min at 4.1 = 3.05 miles
Chin Ladder (6 out of 10 reps in last set) = 52 in second ladder, 105 total (PR)
6x30 pushups

4 more sets of pushups left. I utilized my time on the treadmill to reflect on this morning's Ygos threadbortion, and I decided that the wife and kids would probably be happier living with Yugo and the wifeoslavian, for obvious reasons. I'm going to move up to MN and live in that house with ytf and use the extra time to really ponder life; I'll try and see my kids once or twice a year, but you know how it goes.

2/21

Squat
10x45, 5x95, 5x135, 2x175
2x5x205, 10x205

Bench
10x45, 10x95, 5x135, 2x185
2x5x215, 10,fx215

Dips
3x5x+70

DB Row
3x10x85

DB Hammer
12x35, 10x35

Squat was fine; my perceived RPE on the last few AMRAP reps was 9 which means it was probably actually 6.5, but whatever -- still plenty of room to move up. Working on sitting back early to set my posterior chain and keeping it flexed/working the entire time.

Bench was very meh, wasn't feeling great under the bar, and my workout partner kept trying to take the bar from me on the AMRAP sets and said "Oh, really, Mr. Man?" when I went for my 11th rep, which caused me to lose tightness out of rage and sadness. Probably wouldn't have gotten it anyway though.

Everything else was fine; pretty sure my DB Rows were a PR, but who cares. Probably going to bolt on a few light sets of double pause DL after tomorrow's cardio session, just to see how it feels.

Yeah, no one gives a crap about PRs on DB rows because, well, they're DB rows.

Your workout partner might be annoying but he brings the lulz (to use a 90s cliche).

Paused deads are going to feel like cardio. They are super taxing ime.

Impressive bench. That's got to be like a 280-290 1RM?

Are you now a member of the lbbs crowd?

1) just lol, obv
2) I hope you told him

I think that works to 285 or so using the Wendler formula, which is kind of meh honestly. When I was a fat lard, I was a tick away from putting up 315 and was doing 3x5x270 for worksets, so the cut caused me to lose a fair bit of strength (to say nothing of the fact that I put up 330 as a young buck ~10 years ago).

I'm going to assume that I can keep AMRAPing at 10 or above up to 225, and then will microload with the 1.25 plates from that point until I stall down to 3x5, after which I'll microload individual sets (i.e. from 5x252.5, 2x5x250 to 2x5x252.5, 5x250 the next workout, and so forth). It worked pretty well for me last time.

And yes, I am back to LBBSing, the yearlong experiment with HBBS is over for now.

I actually did tell him towards the end of my workout to stop talking to me during sets; he wandered over during dips and literally waited to start the conversation until I started my set, then did the same thing when I was rowing. He knows I already have a wife to do **** like that to me, so I'm not sure what his problem is.

Monte you ain't got nothing without the majestic fat leverages.

2 bill Saw is untouchable.

saw,

If the key to your gains are these "majestic fat leverages" of which you spoke in the LC thread, I am comfortable remaining weak.

I had planned to do cardio today, but we ended up going to the zoo today with the minis and I'm sure we ended up walking a few miles while we were there. I don't have a fitbit or anything that causes violent dermal allergic reactions, but I'm pretty confident that I burned at least 20,000 calories or so.

Monday I'm going to do those exercises with the long heavy metal rod thingy that holds weighted metal discs on each end. One of them I hold the bar on my back and kind of sit back like I'm taking a dump and then stand back up, and then another one I start out holding the bar at chest level and then push it over my head while clenching my buttocks to prevent Nordic sewer rape. I'm not sure if those exercises actually have names, but that's what I call them.

Just ask BR what those exercises are.

lol

Dude lives in another planet. I mean "seated pullthroughs"??? Where the fack did that come from?

I guess you could put a chair or box and situp as you grab the rope handles. There it is, the fakebusto exercise - box cable pullthroughs.

But nope, it was cable rows. Mind blown. Excellent use of gifs montecore. They just kept going and going and going. Perfect response.