I’m cool with it, but rules is rules
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Feeling pretty worn down going into today’s session, and it was probably 30 degrees in the gym. Results were pretty decent, though, which just means the hard work is paying off. Not really even trying to progress bench right now.
Decline done TM style with no backoffs. Inclines done TM style with backoffs, although I did much more work there than I needed to.
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Decline Barbell Bench Press
- 50 kg x 5 reps
- 60 kg x 5 reps
- 70 kg x 5 reps
- 80 kg x 3 reps
- 92 kg x 3 reps
- 105 kg x 1 reps
- 115 kg x 3 reps (two extra reps are jokers)
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Barbell Incline Bench Press
- 40 kg x 5 reps
- 45 kg x 5 reps
- 50 kg x 5 reps
- 60 kg x 3 reps
- 72 kg x 3 reps
- 80 kg x 1 reps
- 90 kg x 1 reps
- 95 kg x 1 reps (joker)
- 100 kg x 1 reps (joker)
- 80 kg x 8 reps
- 70 kg x 8 reps
- 60 kg x 8 reps
Will probably have to officially bump both of these up 5 kilo or so going forward.
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Bench still strong mate. All that rep work at home has definitely not done you any hard.
Deadlift day in the miserable heat. TM style. These all moved fairly well, considering I never seem to have fully recovered legs when doing these. Probably move the max up a bit next time.
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Barbell Deadlift
- 70 kg x 5 reps
- 85 kg x 5 reps
- 100 kg x 5 reps
- 120 kg x 3 reps
- 140 kg x 3 reps
- 160 kg x 1 reps
- 170 kg x 1 reps
- 180 kg x 1 reps (joker)
- 140 kg x 5 reps
- 120 kg x 5 reps
- 120 kg x 5 reps
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Ab Wheel (standing)
- 5 reps
- 1 reps
- 5 reps
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Getting strong again in here. Good work man.
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holy diver
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Push Pressing day. Fun how these mess with my head (all pressing messes with my head), I thought even when I had 50 on the bar that I was going to have a bad day, it just all felt like shit. My mindset goes from serious doubt to complete confidence over the series of a few sets.
Also stopped the warmup when I got 80 on the bar and decided I was going to strict press it before continuing. Not a smart idea during a warmup, but I NEED to get this lift out of the way. So I did. It wasn’t beautiful, but it counted. Less than 1 on the RPS scale, but had to lean a bit more than I like. Anyway, done.
Also bumped up the max on the topset. Progress. None of this is quite where I want it to be, but it is getting closer.
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Push Press
- 20 kg x 5 reps
- 40 kg x 5 reps
- 50 kg x 5 reps
- 60 kg x 3 reps
- 70 kg x 2 reps
- 80 kg x 2 reps
- 90 kg x 1 reps
- 102.5 kg x 1 reps
- 80 kg x 8 reps
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Standing Barbell Shoulder Press (OHP)
- 80 kg x 1 reps
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Seated Barbell Press Behind Neck
- 20 kg x 5 reps
- 30 kg x 5 reps
- 40 kg x 5 reps
- 50 kg x 5 reps
- 55 kg x 10 reps
- 40 kg x 10 reps
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Muscle-Up
- 4 reps
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Squat day today, but just did the bare minimum TM scheme after raising the max 5 kilo. Feel my system wasn’t quite ready for squats today (plus it is hot as balls), so not pushing anything.
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Barbell Squat
- 50 kg x 5 reps
- 65 kg x 5 reps
- 80 kg x 5 reps
- 90 kg x 3 reps
- 105 kg x 3 reps
- 120 kg x 1 reps
- 130 kg x 1 reps
- 90 kg x 8 reps
- 90 kg x 8 reps
- 90 kg x 8 reps
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Muscle-Up
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 4 reps
- 4 reps
- 4 reps
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Dips - Chest Version
- 25 reps
22 MUs over 5 sets was nice to get. Still feel like there is a barrier there I cannot quite get through, but some of that is probably because I have been putting on weight.
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Off program again, need to dial it back a little and figure out what to do next. In the meantime, press day on a TM scheme (just because TM is good for just screwing around and taking it easy), but then added a cluster set of 14 at 67.5. That felt harder than it shoulda been, but not worried.
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Standing Barbell Shoulder Press (OHP)
- 35 kg x 5 reps
- 40 kg x 5 reps
- 45 kg x 5 reps
- 50 kg x 3 reps
- 60 kg x 3 reps
- 70 kg x 1 reps
- 75 kg x 3 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
- 67.5 kg x 1 reps
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Muscle-Up
- 1 reps | weighted | 8 kg (PR)
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Muscle-Up
- 1 reps
- 1 reps
- 3 reps
- 3 reps
- 3 reps
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Handstand Push-Up
- 10 reps
- 10 reps
- 10 reps
Also waited until nobody was watching, wrapped the 8 kilo chain around my neck and attempted a Muscle Up with it. It was successful, although not beautiful. Might have to experiment a little now that I know I can. Still awkward, just having the chain as an obstacle flapping around is half the problem. Next time I will shove it down my underpants.
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Are you used to having heavy objects flopping about between your legs?
You mean like when you drop a load in your pants? Absolutely.
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Very basic pulling day today, just treading water as usual.
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Pull-Up
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps | weighted | 11.3 kg
- 5 reps | weighted | 20.4 kg
- 5 reps | weighted | 31.8 kg
- 3 reps | weighted | 40.8 kg
- 10 reps | weighted | 20.4 kg
- 10 reps
- 1 reps
- 1 reps
- 3 reps
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Lat Pulldown
- 75 lb x 10 reps
- 90 lb x 10 reps
- 105 lb x 10 reps
- 120 lb x 10 reps
Curled some bicepses as well.
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Your overhead strength well actually your strength in general given the training you have been doing in lockdown and your bodyweight always surprises me. It also makes we want to work harder which is why I hang out here. Nice work mate
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Thanks, mate. We old folks gotta show these younglings we are still capable of some things. I have let my weight go back up to around 80 (which seems to be where it naturally wants to be), so that explains a lot of the post-lockdown gains. That said, I still struggle with how to go foward. I know I can do more and have done more, and absolute strength is addictive. How do I do that without turning into a fat, unhealthy, unconditioned slob? How much do I even care about the aesthetics? What do I want the most? I envy your decisiveness, for real. I am pretty good at setting short term goals and meeting them, but I feel I can’t pick a lane and stay in it.
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Taking stock, trying to work out what’s next.
Hit 190 on DL, so that is fine.
Hit 140 on squat.
Tripled 115 on decline, unsure if I am ready for 125. Close?
Did a shitty rep at 100 on incline, so close enough.
Hit the 80 kilo press, so fine.
102.5 on the push press, also fine.
Took a couple months, but I guess I essentially hit the short term targets, more or less. None of this is quite where I want it to be, but at my current body weight I am looking pretty burly (relative to other senior citizens who drink too much), so it is a question of whether I can push things a bit more without putting on too much weight too fast. It might be appropriate to put the benching stuff up as a priority and continue focusing on the squats. Both of those need to be at least 10 kilo heavier than where they are right now. Press would probably follow along without having to go nuts on it.
Got a few more days of fake deload to figure this out. Come Monday, might be back to another partial 531 cycle.
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Thank you it’s nice of you to say that
But intimating my choice and single mindedness has turned me into this
That’s not so nice 
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I doubt many, if any, people view you that way. Which probably just speaks to the little bit of dysmorphia we are all carrying around.
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You are so right my friend. However I end up looking it will always be a little bit shite to me
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Yeah, and over the last 12 months I have been at weights from 88.8 to 74.5 and everything in between. Guess how I look at all of those weights? Shite.
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Got a really good back pump tonight and looked kinda ok in the mirror. Still couldn’t help thinking I still don’t even look like @littlesleeper on a fkn bad day.
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