bitch please.

Hip flexor still tight, but figured I'd dial back the weight and work through things:

3/31

Squat
10x45, 5x95, 5x135, 3x165, 2x195
3x6x205

Deadlift
10x135, 5x185, 5x225
2x6x275
3x5x225

Single Leg Press
3x12x110

Standing Calf Raise
3x12x100

Squat was easy, slight pain the hip flexor in the hole, but nothing too bad. My grip was a problem again when deadlifting, until I realized that I was using a bent bar (presumably from some tards doing T bar rows or something) so once I rotated it so the curve was in the appropriate orientation, everything was fine. Backoff sets felt snappy, and I think I'm going to try to work up to 3x10x225 or something like that, since more volume is probably what I need.

Glad to hear everything is good on the family front.

No comment on the squat programming.

Out of interest, why do you think so much volume is what you need? It's not like you have bad deadlift form iirc.

Thanks, and whatever. I'm a fagboy, what are you going to do. Should be back up to two plate work sets shortly for my next stall.


It breaks down really quickly at heavy weights, so I'm pretty sure there are some weak points (posterior chain) that I'm not going to be able to effectively work unless this weight's a bit lighter. Also see above.

On a completely unrelated note, just spent a few hours with my buddy and his wife, as her 80 year old dad died in an ATV accident on his farm. That is not how you expect your 80 year old dad to go, that's for sure.

4/2

Had too much work work yesterday to lift, so I'm going to try to power through workouts for the next three days before my mini-vacation so I don't miss a workout. Felt some nice DOMs in the hammies and glutes after the DL volume (and nothing in the lower back), which was nice. Weighed in at 195 this morning.

Bench
10x45, 10x95, 5x135, 5x175, 3x205
3x6x225
3x10x185

Facepulls
4x12x40

DB Row
3x8x100

DB Shoulder Press
2x8x50

DB Curl
2x6x45

Cable Lateral Raise
3x12x12.5

Cable Row (Closegrip)
3x12x100

Did the whole thing in just a shade over 50 minutes; supersetted the facepulls in between bench warmup and worksets and alternated sets of volume bench with the dumbbell rows, then did supersets of DB press/curl and lateral raise/row.

Bench was pretty smooth; the burnout sets were pretty hard, but other than that no real issues. I'll probably microload that for the next few workouts to see how it goes. DB row was a PR, which was both good and bad, in that 100 lbs is cool, but it's the largest DB in the gym; probably going to have to hire Pummi to fly out twice a week so I can strap him to a DB handle or something.

Been a while since I opened this bitch.

to the good news about the wifeacore.

Saw you damning the olds. How old were you again?

More like "Monte takes excuseSS by the throat" amirite

In approximately 2 more moons, I'll be ~3.3 solar cycles.

It should probably be changed to "Monte takes a new program gently by the arm for approximately 2.5 months before getting bored because he's terrible at squatting and changes again", but that would probably mess up people's subscriptions, so I'll leave things as they are.

He's like a crippling mid 30 years old or something ridiculous like that. Maybe even younger than that. I dno. Hell, he may even be younger than me although I know it seems like he's twice my age.

I don't even think you are terrible at squatting. Back when you even lifted and took things by the throat it seemed you were on the path to IEL city of the talls.

I don't understand this sorcery of a time measurement system you're using; it's not even in units of 10!

Older than you by a few fractions of a sun cycle, iirc.

Trolling is mean imo, I hate people that do it.

Yeah Ygos. People have feelings and your words affect them. Don't you know that? For shame.

** **, I actually think Monte could crush. So really I'm just getting reversed trolled.

4/3

Wide Stance Box Squats
2x10x45, 5x95, 8x3x135

Single Pause DL
10x135, 5x185, 3x5x225

Front Squat
10x45, 5x95, 2x8x115, 2x5x135

RDL
3x8x165

Kept everything light; box squats were easy, but instructive. Worked on sitting back and keeping my knees shoved way out (feet were at the edge of the cage), and I felt these a lot in my glutes -- weight will be added soon for sure. Everything else was fine, intentionally kept the weight light-ish because I'm going to use this day more as active recovery and form assistance/weak point targeting.

I PM'd Yugo for advice on the squats, and heard back right after my last set, so that was good Rest was 75-90 seconds in between sets, and I can definitely increase weight next week without too much of an issue.

Lol. Oh well. After trying them does the advice seem at all helpful?

When I do them "right" I feel it a lot in my glutes and weak points (adductors and parts of my hams). If I don't concentrate on technique or don't try to generate power, then, while they still reinforce depth for me, I'm not sure they are super useful.

But doing them seems to help me "push hard" at the bottom when I then do an actual back squat on squatterday. Otherwise it's like I don't push with the right stuff and there is no pushing hard, there is just failing reps or going lighter.

It was hard to tell because the weight was light, but I just focused on sitting all the way back and shoving my knees out, and I definitely felt it. I paused for a 2 count, and tried to clench my glutes to push back up out of the hole, and it seems like it could be useful.

This is going to be a lot more posterior chain work than I'm used to, which is probably going to end up being positive.

Fwiw I don't pause for 2 seconds...if Cha reads this log it'd be interesting to hear if he thinks that would help at all. I definitely pause it though at the bottom.

It was probably more of a 2 count then a 2 one thousand type thing, but it was for sure at least one second. I tried to stay tight/flexed the entire time.

Monte,

I think 135 might be too much for you to really work those muscles effectively. You should just do air box squats and flex at the bottom for several seconds. Think of all the extra work and gainz you will get this way.

QB,

That's an interesting thought, I'll be sure to try that next time. As always, your sincere help and support is appreciated.

Btw Monte, I was thinking this while reading the Chaos & Pain blog and not fapping at work....compared to him, H&F is a huge group of the biggest jellydickers of all time. And compared to the strong ppl in H&F, I am a huge jellydick WIL.

So I think what is most frustrating when you seem to be WILing and whatever about your anthropomorphy/age/whatever, is that we are both jellydick WILs and I already have to fight that stuff from the normals, it's hard to handle coming from the H&F brethren. If we're going to just be recreational lifters let's at least make it worth our Fing while and make it our mission to get out of jellydick.

A 1-2 second pause at the bottom of box squats is very good imo. Longer can be beneficial.

lol, make it so number two

Can't even troll Monte anymore. At least you're trying different stuff to address the weak links. From one jd lifter to another,

Aaaaand I'm yet a few fractions older than you.
**** me.

Whenever I meet new people they think I'm in my mid 20's though.
Must be the boyish habitus.
I even still get carded here and there when buying liquor or cigars.

Or maybe it's the midgetness. **** me again.

2nd that.
Such unpleasant characters.