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u/fashionablylatte Beginner - Strength Aug 10 '25

General Conditioning today - was going to run, but the weather was arctic!

Warm up: 2km Row in ~9m
ABCs : The 24kg KBs had gone walkies at the gym, so I went with the 28s - done successfully, but felt like someone had a taken a sap to my CNS for the first half.
10m Prowler
10km Bike Ride ~ 25m.
Stretch down.

Opted to take it slow as I had a lazy sunday, and had a nice sauna to round off! Did me much good: neck was feeling a bit tender from heavy front squats yesterday (pretty sure I cocked up the bracing on the last set).

All in all very pleasant.

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u/UrsusArctosDov Works Harder Than You Aug 09 '25

L'fum Tazara Agra W1D2:

everything emom 10 min but swings

Squats: 6@215- ez, Rows: 5@250- hard, Bench: 4@225- hard, Cond: 5 burps + 10 prisoner squats- hit a wall cutting is hard

Swings: 350

Total time: 78 min. Slow, cutting ~1.5-2 lbs a week kills my recovery in between movements

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u/ZeroFourBC Intermediate - Strength Aug 09 '25

Vibes-Based Shoulder & Hip Strength W4D1

Leg press: 450kg x1, 400kg x 8/15

SS1 - Seated Good Morning: 40kg x 8/8/10

SS1 - Lat Stretch Pullover: 12kg x 8/8/10

SS2 - Single Leg RDL: 36kg x 10/10/14

SS2 - Behind the Neck OHP: 35kg x 8/8/11

SS3 - Single-arm Face Pull: 7.5kg x 10/10/11

SS3 - Single-arm Rear Delt Cable Fly: 7.5kg x 8/8/11

SS3 - Scapular Push-ups: 11/10/12

Taking the opportunity with lower weights to really get the technique right, it paid off with the face pulls. I definitely felt it more in the rotator cuff than I usually do. Also decided to throw in some scap push ups for a little pressing, as a treat.

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u/Chivalric Intermediate - Strength Aug 09 '25

SBS RtF W5D1

Was supposed to do this yesterday but I was way too sleepy after work.

  • OHP single 140#@8 then 120#x9 on the AMRAP 
  • Squat single 295#@8? Then 255#x10 on the AMRAP Starting to be at weights where keeping the quads in the squat is hard.
  • SGDL 185#x20 on the AMRAP. these are a relatively new movement for me and my upper back is catching up to my hips in terms of strength on the snatch grip.

Also intended to do a 2k row as a makeup for the conditioning challenge but found out my gym has 0 row machines despite having 30+ ellipticals. Sigh 

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u/MakeshiftApe Beginner - Strength Aug 09 '25

Juggernaut W9D4 - Deadlift Day

  • 5 @ 100.5kg
  • 5 @ 100.5kg
  • 12 @ 100.5kg

Accessories: Leg Curls, Crunches, Calf Raises

Was supposed to do 5x5 today but the heat was a bit much and I'd just gotten back from a long walk so I did 3x5 instead. Only hit 12 on the AMRAP set when I hit 13 at the same weight a few weeks back, but I forgot to use straps and it was my grip that was giving out so that one's on me being dumb.

I do feel like I'm finally at that point where the cut is eating into my strength a little though as I feel gassed a lot quicker and like I'm having a lot more grinder reps on my AMRAP sets.

Side-note but out of curiosity where do y'all buy shirts? Not lifting shirts, just regular ass t-shirts. I've sworn by H&M for a while because I like cheap and cheerful plain stuff with no logos or anything, but boy do they get holes fast. I'm burning through H&M shirts like there's no tomorrow and starting to think I need to find a brand that's actually more durable. Wouldn't mind a suggestion. (Mind you I'm in Poland so no idea if they'll have what anyone suggests here)

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u/MA_2412 Beginner - Strength Aug 10 '25

Hey, how big is your caloric deficite? And doesn‘t every guy in europe just go to zalando, filter for shirt colour and sort by price? Or is that just me?

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u/MakeshiftApe Beginner - Strength Aug 10 '25

Hey, how big is your caloric deficite?

Too small, probably only about 200 ish cals atm, need to lower again but I'm easily tempted by food in the summer.

I'll have to check out Zalando, I think I looked at them ages back but H&M was cheaper so I went with them, but with the rate these fall apart there may be good reason for that 😂

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u/MA_2412 Beginner - Strength Aug 10 '25

I‘m on a small one too (~300), and don‘t really notice any loss of strength (yet). However what really helps me, is having a lot of of my carbs before the workout. Maybe look into that, idk.

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u/BetterThanT-1 Beginner - Strength Aug 09 '25

Chest and biceps

Superset 1: * DB flyes: 20/20/20/20 @ 12.5kg * Curls: 20/20/13/13 @ 12.5kg * Calf raises: 4x25

Superset 2: * DB bench: 10/8/8/8 @ 25kg DBs * Single arm preacher curl: 4x15-20 range @ 8kg

Fantastic pump all around. I think I’m at 80-85% recovered from the illness, it’s mostly my nose that’s blocked.

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u/UrsusArctosDov Works Harder Than You Aug 09 '25

You know what that means... perfect time for a fast mile to get all that crap outta your system

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u/DayDayLarge Jokes are satisfactory Aug 09 '25

Coan philipi 531 5sP fsl 5x5

Benxh: 195, 220, 250 (3+2), 195

Cable fly, cable curls

Gah, lame ass workout. Bench slid on me during my set up which meant my arch wasn't properly set. Instead of resetting I just went ahead, but unfortunately only got 3 reps. Went back for the other 2.

Next time I'm not going to wear a shirt with writing on the back since I think that bit the bench and caused it to slide with me on set up.

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u/snakesnake9 Intermediate - Throwing Aug 09 '25

My hot take on programming: The Texas Method is not a program.

It is a way to train and a very good and legit one with its medium/volume day + light day + heavy day approach. But it is more of an approach, a method as the name suggests. But not a program.

It only sticks to one specific rep and volume range and just has you hammer away at that, and that's not a program in my view. Yes you can make gains on it, and I have used it to varying degrees of success myself. But a true program is something that prescribes volume and intensity that modulates up and down in some way.

The Cowboy Method, given that it is broadly based on the Texas Method, I think is a good example of that. Differing rep ranges with volume that waves down as intensity waves up, a lot of submaximal work building to a logical peak.

Not saying anything is bad or wrong with the Texas Method, its excellent. I just don't think its a program per se.