You could've got 295 x2

Yea great grind, super slow but no form breakdown

I think I said I should or need. I do not get 9 hours currently.

I got 9 a couple of times in the past week. I feel shame. Hopefully tho I can get a both a very impressive job w/ lots of hours and very tough man lifting program someday!

Aidan,

Thanks!

Redd,

I definitely could have done 295x1.5

Evo,

9 hours happens from time to time, even with kids (once you get them sleep trained). I don't think job or lifting really has much to do with it, just whether or not you prioritize sleep -- when you're afflicted with the #olds, you'll better understand, I suspect. A few floor bourbons after dinner and I'm ready to turn in at 10 pm these days.

Too good for 2+2

dropping the bar to the pins is half the range of motion, therefore counts as half a rep

Nice work! That was some wim there.

I watched the video previously on my phone. Just watched it again on a big screen. It is very nice indeed. Very good power and hip drive out of the hole. You didn't slow down until well past the sticking point where you should often be able to grind out the rep. I find that encouraging for your max attempts going forward. 315 incoming sometime 2017.

Thanks bros. Three wheels soon, hopefully.

5/19: 185.4

A
Incline bench (5/3/1): wu, 145x5, 175x3, 185x1, 200x1, 215x1 (9.5), 185x6 (9.5), 175x6 (9.5), 155x9 (9)
DB Row: 6x10x95
One Arm Cable Row: 6x15

B
DB Bench: 8x95; 6x100; 5,fx105; 7x100; 8x95
Machine Rear Fly: 4x12

C
Seated DB Press: 5x10x50
Cable Upright Row: 4x12

Once again felt like ****, mostly because my flight home was two hours late and I still had to get up early to get the kids to school. Ate a bunch of stadium food at the soccer game I went to with a buddy Wednesday, so let's see how the FAKE LBM helped today.

Incline felt heavy until it didn't; 215 is a PR for this log but not an all timer (I'm pretty sure I'm my younger days I got 225+ up, but I didn't incline a ton). Back volume good. Misgrooved the sixth db bench rep at 105 or I think I would have had it. DB press felt strong. Yay food.

guy becomes a mod and thinks he's Ronnie coleman

Hmm?

Dat dere ninja edit.

Numbers looking solid

damn u already fixed it, it said 2000x1 instead of 200

Abusing his mod powers already to hide his mistakes. What he didn't count on was witnesses.

Dunno about you but those @9 / @9.5 sets wreck me in terms of recovery. I try to avoid doing more than one or two of them in a session.

Weak! My programming has me go to @9 almost every session. Sometimes @10. Top set @9, drop 5%, continue sets until back @9.

Maybe you are not eating enough donuts?

Yeah it seems to be going alright for me as well, although better now that I'm no longer on poverty calories.

Right, but that's still only two sets. Right?

LOL if that is a sick burn

If serious, no. For example, let's say top bench set was going to be 290. I escalate anticipating three increasing work sets to reach the top set. I have no idea how many drop sets there will be. It often takes me at least two or three sets to again reach @9.

This would often look like this: 260, 275, 290, 275, 275, 275

What I was saying is that it's still only two near-failure sets (the 290 and the last 275). Which was my original point. I don't think it's a controversial idea that most work sets should be @ <9.

Oh. Then I misunderstood.

So what is your objection then to what you see in Monte's programming?

Looked more closely, k, I see what you mean. Drop sets continuing @9. Still don't see a problem with that.

I thought this seemed pretty brutal.

re-ninja: I guess since they're backoff sets they're necessarily not as fatiguing? This is where my knowledge of lifting physiology starts to break down.

I mean, I'm essentially leaving one rep in the tank (@9), or grinding out a decently difficult rep that I still know I can push through to get but realize that another rep after that one is quite unlikely (@ 9.5).

I'm not sure what's unusual about any of that?