Weight: 74.6

FS
50x5
70x5
80x5x3

Bench
50x10x2
60x10

ISO

Right calf bothering me a touch still. Have DOMS. Think I'm still bloated/AIDsy from having a taco/beer fiesta two nights ago. smh.

Weight 74

Clean
50x3
70x1x3
80x1x2

S Pull
80x1x3

Isolation

Weight: 73.8

Press
40x5
50x4
55x2
63x1
70xF

FS
70x5x3

Strained calf on 70kg rep, shockingly wasn't able to make it after. Mailed it in on squats. See how I feel tomorrow.

Weight: 74.7

Snatch
40x5x3
50x4x3
55x3x2

FS
70x6

Bench
50x10x4

Scraped shin again. Apparently stripper pulling is no longer a worry for me. Still pretty happy that shoulder works. Maybe should cut back on the pizza/beer diet, but today is not that day.

Weight: 74.2

Press
40x5
50x4
55x2
63x1
70x1 WR
50x8,5

FS
50x8
70x5
80x5

ISO

k.

Weight: 75.9

Clean
50x3
70x1x2
80x1x5

Added 8 FS to last clean.

Bench
50x10x2
60x10x2
63x10

ISO

Went on vacay and ate/drank all the things so prob definitely gained 1.7kg of fat in 5 days.

Weight: 74.8

Press
40x5
50x4
55x2
63x1
71xF

S Pull
70x3,2

ISO

Pain in knee on last rep of S Pull so bailed on it and shut it down for the day. Prob do some iso work and see how it feels. The 30min workout was nice tho.

Weight: 75.3

FS
50x8
70x5x3

S Pull from Hang
50x5x2
70x3
75x2

Bench
50x10
60x5
65x5
70x5

Appears the summer of BBQ and beer has caught up to me and I have to return to the perils of dieting do I can make sure I fit into this suit for a wedding in the semi-near future without having to do anything I don't want to do. (Like not consuming 3k+ calories a day while on vacation, etc) Prob be pretty trivial to hit my goal of losing 2-3cm of tummy chub and the commiserate fattiness. Knee felt bad first set of FS, fine last set. Did pulls from hang to avoid any weirdness off the ground. (Generally feel pain when I initiate the scoop.)

I'll prob pull from the pro-BBer scene regarding meal prep. Stick with some basic staple meals and maybe include some variability on weekends. Gonna attempt some basic heuristics since I don't really wanna weigh/log my food. Considering my grand aspirations of losing 1-2kg in 5 weeks. (I could do this in a week pretty easily with some cardio and a couple fast days and grind the others at 2k or less.) Maybe it'll work. Maybe it won't.

Weight: 74.5

Press
40x5
50x4
55x2
63x1
71x1 (WR?)
50x8

FS
50x5x3

ISO

Unsure if heels came up on the press attempt. Sleep quality has been really poor the last couple nights. (Personal note: Get a lot more done when you wake up four hours earlier than normal and don't really have anything to do other than watch TV or catch up on meaningless busy work of all varieties.) Did some FS to try and warm up the lower body and it wasn't really having it. Somehow had right ankle pain on the first set, which I basically never have unless I injure my ankle so that was weird. Forgot to do abs work since I'm a derp.

Weight: 76

FS
60x5
70x5
80x5
85x5

Bench
40x10
50x10x3

ISO

k

Epic press WR. You could probably do a handstand now. That would impress some ladies (at my climbing gym anyway)

Seriously, that's a really nice OHP

Thanks. I plan on moving to BW attempts whenever I get within ~1.5kg. Maybe by the end of the year? Who knows. Progress has been pretty reasonable lately. Have avoided doing excessive Oly OH work, and plan on continuing my ultra slow reintegration plan.

Weight: 73.6

Press
40x5
50x4
55x2
63x1
72xF

FS
50x5
70x5x2

CJ
50x2x4

Hit my waistline benchmark. Was a riveting 10 days. Have had poor quality sleep last few nights. Have scaled back my weekday drinking to zero, and don't really feel like eating ice cream, so may be super low on cals. Might need to add in a nightcap again.

Pretty happy to be able to do CJs at any weight without pain. Will continue to slowly reintegrate these.

I have a few weeks of travel coming up. So we'll see how much backsliding happens. I'll prob tweak my warmup for press PRs since the final couple jumps seem silly. I can do a set of 5 @60 (prob?) so seems jackassy to do a double at 55 and then an RPE 8.5-9 at 63. I can add another heavy single in there. Really need to focus on getting a good walkout. I'm definitely on the side where I just take a breath, take my two steps out of the rack and need to start pressing. No time to fiddle around.

Weight: 73.9

Snatch
40x5x2
50x5x2
55x3,4

Bench
50x10x3

ISO

Ate a bunch of pizza yesterday so I think diet is working actually. That is nice. Still focusing on correct bar pathing and my punchout. 55 seems to be the sweet spot where it isn't heavy, but no trivial to toss OH and just manhandle into position. Will start attempting more reps at this weight until I feel pretty good about my technique, then move to full movements with heavier weight.

Obviously the key to slowly grinding up my press is to never lift anything heavy on bench. Weirdly I'm basically doing a Vol/Intensity program with bench as a volume exercise and then press as the intensity movement while slowly trying to increase my Olytarding/sqatting within the confines of my "don't try hard" ideology. I guess I do add some volume on press days, but w/e. It seems to be working.

Weight: 73.5

Press
40x5
50x4
55x2
65x1
72xF

Obviously I derped this and skipped my rep at 60, after thinking about how this would totally help my practice at doing a 1RM by having a couple of heavy-ish singles. Was very worried at how weak I was all of a sudden with 60 being kinda hard. Jokes on me I guess.

FS
50x8x2
70x3
80x7

Had some hip capsule pain (deep around the joint) which occurred randomly on Fri.

ISO

Everything is pretty k. Waist measurement is in check. I'm traveling for a few weeks coming up. So we'll see how things progress. The slow grind up on vol/intensity on both FS/Olytard are in the works.

Weight: ?!?

Row
2k @ 9:34

Vacation has been great. Eat steaks and drink a 12pack by the pool. Focusing on doing a little everyday. Generally some upper body iso work (feel the pump) or some rowing. Shocking how easily it comes back after not doing it for eons. Kinda enjoy the monotony, but could never put in a 2+ hour session like on a bike. Would need to be watching anime or something that I could zone out on for hours.

Will be interesting to see how this impacts my ongoing struggle to FS/Olytard anything of reasonable weight that I could do 7y ago. (watched some old vids of me struggling to snatch 80, lalo)

Jealous of your vacation. Newborn + 3 year old is kind of like an anti-vacation. But I did purchase a massive bag of sour gummy straws so I made one good decision recently you can probably get behind.

It is pretty nice. Still get a little work done, but like 1hr instead of like 5-10 a day. Sub it out for grilling and beer @ pool.

Honestly I rarely eat sour straws. Maybe once every 1-2 months? They're like taking my coke addiction to gummy candy and subbing it out for crack.

Weight: 75.6

Bench
40x10
50x10
60x8
65x5

FS
50x8x3

PC
60x2x3

ISO

Back at it folks.

Missed a log. Too lazy to find it.

Weight: 74.9

PC
70x2x2
80x2x2

FS
70x5x3

Press
40x5
50x5x2

ISO

Got some minor left wrist pain. Think I tweaked it while on vacay. Unsure. Traveling again next week, but thankfully will only miss 1-2 workouts. PCs felt good.

Did you ever diagnose (either real diagnosis or self diagnosis) your shoulder issue? Also, how long were you rehab/resting it before improvement.

Weight: 75.3

FS
50x5
70x5x2
75x5

Bench
50x8
60x8
65x8

S Pull
70x3x2

ISO

Was k.

Kelhus,

I never went to a doctor. Basically for people unwilling to go through surgery and aware of how to rehab injuries there isn't gonna be a ton of value in some amazing universal healthcare system. Luckily I have private insurance since I'm not poor, but that is pointless as well since I'd be waiting weeks to get an MRI if I can even pressure my doc into using actual diagnostics, at which point I may or may not be better, which is probably not gonna tell me anything beyond what I already know. (You ****ed up your rotator cuff!)

My most recent injury was probably the same as the prior. Overuse coupled with olds resulting in a rotator cuff injury doing some normal ****. (Last time was pointing at a building, this time was while sleeping... I think. Can't be more specific than that.) The former healed quicker and was less severe. This time I had pain putting on jackets etc. If that had continued for ~6m I'd have considered surgery since that is a reasonable impact on day to day function. But you need to decide what level of pain you want to tolerate versus the massive downside of surgery. I think it took around 7m before I was able to lift normally again. (Feel free to browse the log and chart the time yourself.) I mostly try to channel my inner EV a lot more and stretch/mobility work while sitting at my desk. Overall I think the biggest impact was just doing too much for my age/lifestyle Olytarding. There is a reason Masters is at 35, and I have an actual life beyond just going to the gym to be the best exerciser some of which is probably not great for my health. (Like sunlight, or drinking multiple bottles of wine at supper clubs, excess radiation from plane flights, etc)

Basically I'd advise just doing the normie rehab you know how to do and being more aware of training limitations you may have. (Diet/lifestyle/age/sleep/whatever) Keep a log obviously, and if you don't see improvement for several moons and are willing to undergo surgery, see a doc. If not, choose another hobby. I'm not so beholden to an obscure sport (weirdly by far the most popular strength sport by an order or more of magnitude, which says a lot about how no one gives a **** about strength sports) that I wanna undertake major elective surgery and the subsequent 6m of recovery/rehab.

Yeah. I have a bum shoulder that has been bothering me on and off for years that sounds pretty similar. Probably rotator cuff. At some level it almost doesn't matter, since the rehab is the same for most of these things short of surgery.

In the past, rest and rehab have always done the trick to get me back to a baseline pain/mobility level that is acceptable. But the older I get the longer recovery seems to take and you always wonder if this is the time it just isn't going to get better.

I have never done any preventative pre-hab when things were good; it is always reactive when things are bad. And this is probably part of the problem, although I am sure the majority of the problem is just a combination of an old injury that never healed completely, wear and tear, and olds.

Thanks for giving your thoughts.

who cares about a 5 by 5 plan and your PRESS pr ,**** that thremp,what matters is gettign down near game time in NFL with an edge

Hey MS,

You're kind of an idiot, so please limit your weird requests to my log to not **** up the rest of the forum.

SB is a dumpster fire of rare insight. Poogs is obv a drooler still. But so is everyone. I have not innovated anything in a long time so I'm not sure what I'd add to the forum. If you can get the forum mod to DM me that it is a SAFE SPACE, I may or may not consider posting there.

My press PR isn't bad and considering it came on the heels of two major shoulder issues, I'm pretty proud of it. I gamble for money to pay for things like gym memberships and booze so I can pursue things I actually enjoy.

If you had any specific questions that you think I'd actually answer, feel free to ask. But this isn't a QA Thread about how to model <thing>. Or really anything beyond my pursuit of continued mediocrity at the world's most popular strength sport.