Friday
Squats
5x 105
5x 120
5x 135
20x 80
Press
10x 37.5
Super set with 100 shrugs
Weighted chins
5x5 32.5
Facepulls done at home.
End of second week of monolith and first week moved into my new house with partner. Marked improvement in diet as we both eat well and there is rarely any shitty food in the house.
Feeling good, not yet a large sculpture of stone but hopefully on the way to monolithic proportions
Looking good man!
What’s the secret to great legs? Lentils.
I am veggie by mind and often eat meat and eggs by force.
I too eat lots of legumes and nuts. I think I too get my proteins from same foods like you…
I eat meat but there never seems to be enough around so I’ve been drinking a lot of my protein lately.
40mins of yoga today
Okay I am way out of practice/stiff/off balance.
I was definitely more ‘graceful’ when I was doing yoga more regularly
But my back feels AMAZING now
While so far it’s been fun, I actually find monolith kind of easy? Easy is the wrong word I think. Straight forward is better. It is easily doable with the right mindset. My recovery and eating have never been a problem. I think in the past I saw it as some magick program, the Dips for 200 are hard but otherwise it’s fine.
It’s been a good learning curve to do, and I’ll certainly finish it. But I hope anyone who reads this and has seen monolith as daunting will read this and just do it. It’s a very sound program, but one you can do if you know how to push. The voice in your head is bullshit
I’m also drunk
Challenge setback #1
Those damn vegans can’t hold their booze! 
Toughest day so far
Squats
5x 120
5x 135
5x5 152.5
Press
5x 42.5
5x 50
5x 52.5
Amrap x 42.5
Chins
100 total
Assistance
100 dips
100 face pulls
Wednesday
Deadlifts
5x 125
5x 145
3x5 162.5
Bench
5x 75
5x 85
5x5 95
Ss with
Db rows
5x15-20 with 27.5kg
Curls 100 total
Friday
Squats
5x 125
5x 130
5x 152.5
20x 100
Press
10x5 42.5
Ss
100 band pulls
Weighted chins
Ss
100 shrugs
Fear not, I am alive. Training has been going really well, almost on to last week of monolith.
Just haven’t been logging because home life has been very busy, however my nutrition has been improving as I move towards the final week, it’ll be like a mid challenge reveal haha, birthday is only a few weeks away so I’d like to welcome my 30s looking like an extra from 300
Plants have feelings too
Last week of monolith
Diet has been better again this week. Lots more raw vegetables
Not a single gram of beef consumed so I’ve committed sacrelidge against monolith, 531 and Jim wendler himself. No gains will be made
Woke at 80kg empty, this is a good sign
Did the last day of monolith today because I felt good.
I don’t think my 1RM strength has really gone up, but I do feel stronger over reps and more solid I think.
Next week starts a new block, my friend started Joe D ‘built like a badass’ this week and I’ve had good aesthetic results from that in the past, so I’m going to jump in to week two with him next week and smash that for the next eleven weeks.
Nice to have finished a program without hopping (you’d be proud @Frank_C)
BLABA is only three days but not a tonne of lower body volume so depending on how I’m feeling I might add extra work. My new job is no longer nights which gives me better training and life balance seeing as I get to actually spend time with my partner
Congratulations! I’m about to finish one full three week cycle of my weird version of 5/3/1. I think I’m 6 weeks into The Best Damn Program For Naturals. Yeah, I’ve merged two programs into one. I’m so bad about program hopping that I can’t even pick one!
Can’t program hop if you do em all at once 
