You really know how to dig deep man. Get the batteries recharged mate
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Bad throat sounds similar to what I had. Lots of tonsillitis going around this week.
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Woke at 246 lbs, looking much the same as yesterday. Feeling a bunch better too.
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Good mate.
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I’m pleased. It looks like I’ve come down with a cold, because I’m starting to sniffle today. What threw me yesterday was that I didn’t exactly have a sore throat. Not that I’m complaining, sore throats are my least favourite ailment. It’s just that usually I get a sore throat for a day or two, then the sniffles. Apparently my body did me a solid and skipped the first part.
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Todays training
Squat, walked out
5x3x253 lbs
All up eight minutes
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Love a good quickie.
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Woke at 245.4 lbs, looking similar to yesterday. Feeling better.
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Woke at 245.4 lbs again, little bit extra lower ab bloating but nothing major.
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Todays training
Seven wide grip overhand pullups
Bench press
2x5xbar
5x3x138 lbs, didn’t get up between sets
All up 13 minutes
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Woke at 244 lbs, looking less bloated than yesterday. Deload has done its work too. I’m feeling ready to get beat to shit again.
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Get beat to shit boi!
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Todays training
McGill big three
DL, stiff bar
2x5xbar
5xplate
3x2 plates
5x3x286 lbs
Grip was good, technique was good.
Interesting note, this week I didn’t wear a cuff on my right forearm training. Today was the test, and it felt fine. The damn thing still hurts plenty, and I wear the cuff all day at work, but for brief periods it seems like I can do without it.
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Woke at 243.6 lbs, a little bit more bloated than yesterday which I’m putting down to a few slices of pizza I had at dinner. Nothing extreme though.
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Woke at 246 lbs, but looking the same as yesterday. Go figure. I think the jump is a combination of cold pizza for dinner and a bunj of Gatorade during the day.
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Woke at 245.6 lbs, looking less bloated than yesterday.
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Looking strong man, how’s it going?
Thanks! I’m well. I’m definitely the strongest I’ve been, the heaviest I’ve been (and not disgustingly sloppy with it) and understand a lot more than I did. It’s good to see you back.
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Todays training
McGill big three, reverse hyper and air squats
Hips feeling tightish
Squat, walked out
2x5xbar
5xplate/170 lbs
3x2 plates/259 lbs
2x3 plates/347 lbs
1x391 lbs, belt on
4x1x435 lbs, bare knees - my walkouts fucking SUCKED today
2x435 lbs, bare knees out of the mono and holy jeebus not walking out made a difference (Jake offered to work the gate. Never had before. My walkouts must have looked truly disgusting)
6x435 lbs, wraps (6 revolutions) out of the mono - forgot my groove on the first but it went up nicely anyway, got back into the groove but fifth and sixth weren’t easy
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrMvdo3ghML/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1igl350lpnkfw
Olympic squats
2x6x302 lbs - fuck these. My abs almost cramped on both sets around rep five
Air squats
2x15
Pullups
3x5 - wide overhand, wide neutral, close neutral
DB row
2x10x88 lbs - grip was fried from pullups. Lats a bit too.
All up an hour and 20 minutes
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Entirely non training related.
I just had a sharp reminder that I really, REALLY don’t understand human relationships.
It seems like I’m in the minority in that I pick who I care about and have no qualms not caring about people I apparently should. No cause for alarm, Mrs KO and I are fine. I just get bewildered when I see Mrs KO persisting in maintaining a relationship with some blood relatives when it mostly causes her distress. I find myself unable to give any advice beyond that if they cause you stress, stop having anything to do with them. That’s what I do, regardless of who the person is. I have almost nothing to do with my mother because any time spent with her brings back unpleasant feelings and memories from my childhood, which wasn’t happy. No recriminations, but a few years ago I decided I was done making myself unhappy for no good reason.
Makes for a much happier life IMHO. Life’s too hard and short to bother with excess shit.
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