Peer pressure, mostly, plus it's the taking medicine portion of lifting, since I pretty much enjoy everything else (I even kind of enjoy front squatting), but I know I "need" to do it. Plus my terrible numbers mean that no one else on the board is the worst, which probably has marginal psychological benefits for the rest of you, especially those of you returning from debilitating injury. You're welcome.

AFAIK you have no plans to compete in PL and dont play any sports, so if you enjoy front squat why not just program that as a main lift? You do DL so its not like you wouldnt get enough posterior chain work.

Yeah, just do what you want. I mean, you can even *just* DL I guess. Not doing some type of major squat seems silly given how beneficial it seems to be as a major lift. But, I dno, plenty of swole bros don't even legs so ehhhh.

5/28

45 min walking @ 4.7 = 3.52 miles

Monte-

I decided to try out the lazy walking cardio you preform to see how much calories I would actually burn today after my 2 hour lift. I was doing 4.5 speed on 4.0 incline and only burnt 30 calories in 5 minutes. Pretty pitiful.

EV,

Thanks for the tip, but burning 270 or so calories while listening to a podcast seems fine to me. As an OLD, I think the lower impact is probably preferable to burning calories 66% faster (especially since I'm more concerned about total calories burned then the rate I'm burning them, and running for 45 minutes is not something I'm interested in doing no matter what my fitness level ends up being). If I add in some HITT it'll be on a bike, but walking is working out fine for now.

Check Monte's log.

See some advice to stop squatting.

See other advice to start running.

Cool log bro.

Oh yeah, the rate doesn't matter. I agree lower impact is better and total calories being burnt is the same difference. I dunno, it's just hard for me to be there that long on a treadmill knowing I could be more effective. If it's your preference, more power to you especially as long as you are hitting your total calories burnt each week. How much do you aim for?

DT,

It's getting pretty sad; I'll probably be starting French Crossfit pretty soon, so at least you'll know when the bottom is officially reached.

EV,

I've been doing it more as a general good cardio health thing as opposed to a method specifically to burn X amount of calories, but that was mostly because I've been gorging myself on food for the last six months. I just try to increase the intensity every so often; I'm not sure how fast I can go and still have it count as walking, maybe 5 mph or so, but after that I guess I increase duration? I workout during my lunch break at work, so getting it done more quickly is not necessarily my primary goal.

196 on the dot this morning, but that was after half a dump, so maybe the real number is a bit less -- whatever. Been doing well with the food over the last few days, so hopefully I can not go full ****** on vacation and at least make semi-intelligent choices about portion size and whatnot, and err on the side of eating more grilled animal.

5/29

Deadlift
10x135, 5x185, 3x225, 3x255, 2x285, 1x305
2x3x325
3x5x225

Front Squat
10x45, 5x95, 5x115, 3x135, 2x160
2x5x180, 3x180

Was losing the weight forward a fair bit in the hole on front squat, which is probably a sign that I need to dial the weight back to a level where I feel more solid and groove the form in for a bit (especially since I'm doing it as assistance work anyway).

Deadlifts were nice and smooth, felt like I had more in the tank; I'd imagine I'm going to repeat this weight in two weeks, since I'm missing next week, but I'm fine with progressing slowly.

Why do you do 305 lbs? Just your standard? I normally do 135-185-225-275-315 then bump it up one-two more based on how I feel.

Yeah, just standard. Pulling an easy single relatively close to my max before my worksets helps me prep mentally. I'd imagine once the work sets are more of a grind I'll just generally evolve into more of what you describe (i.e. have the weight between warmup sets increase a bit). But I'm weak now, so I'm trying to get as much volume in as possible, within reason.

Re losing weight forward on front squat, was this on all reps or the later reps in your set? I suspect you have a weak upper back and if that's the case, it would explain why you're losing the weight forward on later reps.

My advice for whatever it's worth is strengthen your upper back. I think you'd be able to accomplish that goal, in part, by increasing (or at least not decreasing) weight on front squat and just do lower reps (maybe triples?). I believe it was the great rippletoad that said something like doing high rep front squats is dumb (I'm paraphrasing).

POW,

That may well be the case, but it would be hard for me to do more upper back work than I did/have done in the past (all those chins and whatnot). I suspect it is a bit that and also some core weakness as well, and the only thing that is going to fix that is more volume, I guess.

Moving to 5x3 as opposed to 3x5 is an interesting idea that I am probably going to end up doing in two weeks, assuming I remember -- thanks for the tip.

Oh okay. At what point do you "gear" up?

EV,

I belted up for my 285 sets and everything above, and just used straps for my work sets.

Had to burn through this one because my flight leaves in an hour and a half.

5/30

Press
10x45, 7x75, 5x95, 2x125
3x5x1rp

Facepulls
8x15x52.5

Chins
1X6x+45, 2x5x+45

Spoto bench
10x45, 10x95, 5x135, 3x165, 2x195
4x4x210

DB Curl
2x10x40, 15x30

Cable row
3x15x100

Front raise
3x12x15

Right shoulder/tri was a little tight, so press was harder than it should have been, but other than that everything was fine. Supersetted everything to Dave time and finished in under 50 minutes. Vacation, here I come.

Wtf is is a 1rp?

Have a good vacation Monte-bro!

Meant 140, was typing in phone.

I will jump into the surf one time in your honor; obviously I will be hiding my nose like a fairy.

Enjoy vacay, be sure to get a vid of surf jumping so you can post it here later for a form check.

Have fun bro. Try not to get too orange.

LOL yes!!! Please video yourself jumping into the water one time. Holding your nose or not. Show us how a pro does it.

every time i see this log title I think of:

Yep. This + Eurotrash.

. . . says the guy doing Crossfit.

Boom