Weird, but impressive

It’s all relative? Felt kinda like a waste of time, so I slowed a lot of it down.

@alex_uk he’s being curmudgeonly again!

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Haha, what a fantastic word!

I think that’s @Cyrrex 's standard modus operandi!

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Yeah, curmudgeonly is probably my default setting most of the time.

Speaking of which, two days later and I am still sore AF, which is going to make doing anything amazing today rather impossible. I am behind on some boobs presses, however, so I feel I have no choice in the matter. Shitshow incoming.

Moan moan moan, PR, PR, moan about PR, rinse repeat.

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Unlikely. My triceps don’t seem to even be working properly yet today, so there will be no PRs.

I’ll wait to be proved right.

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Here’s the promised shitshow. Decided to go with inclines, because while they themselves are painful, they aren’t so much triceps dominant for me and thus sorta avoid most of my other sore ass muscles. No PRs, everything felt awful. Except, for some reason, the set at 90kg x 8.

  • Barbell Incline Bench Press

    • 30 kg x 8 reps
    • 40 kg x 8 reps
    • 50 kg x 6 reps
    • 60 kg x 5 reps
    • 70 kg x 4 reps
    • 80 kg x 3 reps
    • 90 kg x 2 reps
    • 100 kg x 1 reps
    • 105 kg x 2 reps
    • 100 kg x 3 reps
    • 90 kg x 8 reps
    • 80 kg x 10 reps
    • 65 kg x 10 reps
  • Muscle-Up

    • 3 reps
  • Machine Chest Fly (Pec Deck)

    • 100 lb x 12 reps
    • 130 lb x 12 reps
    • 130 lb x 12 reps
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That’s really not that bad. Most people are a little stronger on decline anyway. Do you think it’s just your shoulder issues that are holding you back, or is it just that you don’t do this lift very often?

Yeah, shoulder issues don’t really come into play here. For whatever reason, the angle on flat bench is the one that bothers both my shoulders and back the most.

For inclines, it is more that it just seems such and extreme stretch for me. I think that is true for most people, but it takes a bit longer for me to get used to it because I have quite a narrow grip normally on flat and decline and have to force myself to go much wider here. So this is now my third heavy incline day since putting it focus, and it feels like I am just about finding the groove. All things considered, I am quite okay with how I am doing with these right now. I think the 110 I did last time tied my PR, or very close to it.

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Deadlifts today…still a bit sore, but not in any way that should mess with DLs. Will take a day off tomorrow, and looking forward to it.

  • Barbell Deadlift

    • 80 kg x 5 reps
    • 100 kg x 5 reps
    • 120 kg x 5 reps
    • 130 kg x 3 reps
    • 145 kg x 3 reps
    • 160 kg x 1 reps
    • 180 kg x 1 reps
    • 190 kg x 2 reps (joker)
    • 140 kg x 5 reps
    • 140 kg x 5 reps
    • 140 kg x 5 reps
  • Ab Wheel (standing)

    • 5 reps
    • 5 reps
  • Seated Leg Curl

    • 35 kg x 10 reps
    • 40 kg x 10 reps

Did a bunch of preacher curls as well.

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Catching up on your log dude - that 100kg push press for 4 was nasty.

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Thanks man, just trying to keep up.

I’m going to say I was proved right, you didn’t hit a pr, but 5kg less than a pr is by no ones standard a brown shower!

Deadlifts and curls - this should be its own program!

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Off day yesterday, but I did smash on Bob a bit.

Squat day today. Worked up to a single for 150, and then a bunch of reps at 130. Both were what I would call relatively easy, and that’s good, because it was basically these exact weights that had me annoyed a couple months ago and set me on this TM path. It is working, it seems, and I will bump everything up 5 kilo again starting next week.

  • Barbell Squat

    • 65 kg x 5 reps
    • 80 kg x 5 reps
    • 90 kg x 5 reps
    • 105 kg x 3 reps
    • 115 kg x 3 reps
    • 130 kg x 1 reps
    • 140 kg x 1 reps
    • 150 kg x 1 reps (joker)
    • 130 kg x 6 reps (joker)
    • 110 kg x 5 reps
    • 110 kg x 5 reps
  • Muscle-Up

    • 1 reps
    • 3 reps
    • 3 reps
    • 3 reps
    • 3 reps
  • Close-Grip Barbell Bench Press

    • 50 kg x 10 reps
    • 45 kg x 10 reps
    • 45 kg x 10 reps
    • 45 kg x 10 reps
    • 45 kg x 10 reps

Everything else was filler.

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R we gonna see 4 biscuit squat?

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Probably not, me thinks. I have a pretty good idea of what it would take for me to get there (shift in focus, putting on extra weight, etc.), but I don’t really want to do those things. A 180 kilo squat has never really been in my goals. I am not realy built that way anyway, my legs do not easily put on size.

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I am hearing all these excuses but I am also hearing ‘I think I can do it if I keep consistent and build slowly, but dont tell anyone!!’

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I heard that too.

I also heard “I’ll probably be persuaded if anyone I consider weaker than me starts getting close”

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