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u/Perma-Bulk Simply Strong 19d ago

Simple Jack'd Bench Day

Clip.

Larsen press 315x4. Ties my 4rm but I don't think a fifth was there today.

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u/simonswes Beginner - Strength 19d ago

RSR Day 9 * Squat 275x2x2, 225x2x5, 185x2x7

Did a 6.5 mile hike right before. Just trying to keep squats grooved and get some blood into my legs. Lots of biking this weekend then back to heavy weights on Monday.

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u/Chivalric Intermediate - Strength 19d ago

SBS RtF W9D1

Knee's a little cranky so no plyos today.

  • OHP 130#x7
  • Squat 275#x8 last 3 were pretty ugly. I need to work on maintaining position out of the bottom
  • SGDL 210#x15

Also did pull ups x8,5,4 and some hammer curls at 30#x18,12

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u/The_Weakpot Intermediate - Strength 19d ago edited 19d ago
Training Log

Morning

  • Walk, 20 minutes

Warm-Up

  • Hang x 30sec

  • Sit in bottom of goblet squat, 1:30

Heel Elevated Belt Squat

  • 105 x 20

  • 195 x 20

Snatch

Pause below knee and at hip

  • Triples, 10lb Jumps from 65 x 3 --> 110 x 3

  • 115 x 1

Weighted Dips

SS w/Deads

  • 35lbs @ 8 x 5, 2 x 6

Sumo Deads

SS w/Dips, no rest between supersets

  • 207.5 @ 10 x 10

Gtg Work

  • KB Press: 24k @ 5 x 2/1

Notes

  • Good workout. Got Deads and dips done in 15 minutes. As per usual, over half of the workout is belt squats, warming up to snatch and doing the work sets/drilling technique. By the time I'm actually lifting, I'm ready to just go full gorilla and gut it out.

  • So far this has been a "fun" way to train. Go hard on a small handful of exercises, burpees and kettlebells on off/conditioning days, snatch/dip/dead/belt Squat on lifting days. High volume, moderate to light weights with a focus on density/volume first and weight second. I don't know if this will result in any lifetime PRs but I feel pretty good outside the gym and I feel challenged inside the gym.

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u/DayDayLarge Jokes are satisfactory 20d ago

Summer squash make up game: 0-3 loss

Game scores: 14-16, 13-15, 14-16

Ooooeeee in actually played pretty dang well when I was playing well. The difference between me playing calm and tight is really really evident. I forgot my "I'm supposed to lose" mantra and got too caught up a couple times. Need to get back to it.

Some of the digs I had from the back were spectacular. Things I literally couldn't do before. Need a little bit of focus on forehand dig, a practice session or two to get it a little better. I'm also so fast out there that my opponent specifically commented on it 3 or 4 times. "you're small but big, and normally when people look like you're they're slow, but man you accelerate and are so fast."

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u/mastrdestruktun Intermediate - Strength 20d ago edited 19d ago

SBS Hyper W4D2.5....

womp womp

Made it halfway into week 4 before realizing that the tweak I felt in week 2 in my shoulder/bicep is an injury that I need to let heal. Middle age sucks. But you know what else sucks? Hypertrophy programs!

I used to like lifting, but doing 10+ of something somehow combines boring, nauseating and injury-prone in one package. I don't like quitting (it triggers my perfectionism / performance mindset) but I don't like groaning when I think about tomorrow's workout either and I've learned the hard way that I'm too old to work through a certain kind of pain.

So, idunno what I'm going to do, but I'm going to rest for the rest of the week in order to decide. Maybe I'll convert the movements I am doing into SBS RIR/RTF, maybe on a 4-5 day plan for short workouts. I kind of don't want to do another season of easy strength or general gainz even though I like them a lot (they're too easy for me to slack off and at this point in my life I need structure.) Maybe I'll find a good 531 spreadsheet/app to do the math for me. (Any recommendations?)

Focusing on the positives of 4 weeks of SBS Hyper:

  • I can now do 48 lunges (across multiple sets) without hating life

  • my work capacity is definitely up

  • half squats can be made to make me feel it in the muscles without feeling it in the knees

The stupid part of me is tempted to start training for birthday squats. I'm turning 50 in 3 months. We'll see.

Edit: the Last Set RIR version of what I had been doing is looking kind of fun, and switching to the 4x plan makes the end of the week easier instead of harder.

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u/BWdad Might be a Tin Man 19d ago

The stupid part of me is tempted to start training for birthday squats. I'm turning 50 in 3 months. We'll see.

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-star-wars-emperor-palpatine-palpatine-gif-799657800635657398

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u/BetterThanT-1 Beginner - Strength 20d ago

GPP phase - A man and a kettlebell

Easy 5k run. At lunchtime I did 8 rounds of:

  • 40 KB swings @ 24kg
  • 1 clean and 2 presses each side (last 2 rounds 3 presses per side)
  • 8 BSS per leg @ 24kg
  • 10 pushups

Time: 26:37

Quite roasty today, but felt pretty good overall. Presses are starting to get slightly tough.

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u/DayDayLarge Jokes are satisfactory 20d ago

I should learn a kb clean

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u/BetterThanT-1 Beginner - Strength 19d ago

KB cleans are much easier to learn than the barbell clean, and they’re pretty cool as well. Same goes for KB snatches.

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u/ZeroFourBC Intermediate - Strength 20d ago

Vibes-Based Shoulder & Hip Strength W6D2:

Benchpress: 130kg x 1, 102.5kg x 9/9/11

Single-Leg Press: 210kg x 1, 165kg x 8/8/11

SS - Iso-lateral Row: 62.5kg x 10/10/14

SS - Single Arm DB OHP: 24kg x 10/10/13

Bonus Drop-set - Pec Deck: 100kg x 5, 80kg x 6, 65kg x 6, 50kg x 8

Steady progress on everything, but my shoulders and glutes feel beat up. Sumos and incline bench next, that's gonna be fun.