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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 21, 2023, 09:19:13 am »
Bench focus day 8:

Bench press:

20x5x2
40x5
60x5
60x5
60x5
60x5
60xDND


High bar full squat:

20x5x2
60x3
80x3
100x1
70x5
70x5
70x5


Landmine push presses:

30x10
30x10 (very explosive)

Dumbbell step-ups:

60x3
60x5 (very difficult)

Leg curls:

80x10
80x10

Leg extensions:

32x10
48x10

Bodyweight: 92.8 kg
Exhaustion level: 9/10

Comments:

Pretty tiring workout. Bench was good in the beginning but after 4 sets I decided to stop and not do the 5th one as I was feeling weird. The stepups were crazy, felt very good and very difficult at the same time.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 18, 2023, 01:15:46 pm »
Pull focus day 7:

Pullups: 5, 3, 3
Chinups: 5, 3, 3
Feet-supported pullups to horizontal bar: 10, 10

Walked about 3 km.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 15, 2023, 10:02:57 am »
Squat focus day 7:

High bar full squat:

20x5x2
50x5
80x3
100x1 (pretty difficult)
70x5
70x5
70x5
70x5
70x5


Bench press (this could've been a 25 kg barbell):

20x5x2
50x5
60x5
60x5


Leg curls:

56x10
80x10
80x10
56x10

Landmine push presses:

45x10
45x10 (very difficult)

Bodyweight: 92.0 kg
Exhaustion level: 8.5/10

Comments:

Pretty tiring workout, although squatting was good. I did one less set in the bench press because I have some back issues that flare up when I do upperbody work - issues that I have no idea what are caused by. It's a long story that I didn't expand on in here - a lot of stuff has happened during these pause years.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 13, 2023, 04:56:49 pm »
Bench focus day 7:

Bench press:

20x5x2
50x5
60x5
60x5
60x5
60x5
60x4


High bar full squat:

20x5x2
60x5
60x5
60x5


Dumbbell step-ups:

45x8

Leg curls:

40x10 (each leg)

Landmine push presses:

40x10
40x10 (difficult)

A bunch of really good stretching

Bodyweight: 92.1 kg
Exhaustion level: 7/10

Comments:

Good workout. The bench is still shaky so I'm going to use the same 60 kg the next one. I did some stretching and felt amazing afterwards, like I had 20 year old legs.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 13, 2023, 04:53:31 pm »
Sorry about your sister.
I have to ask though, what's the deal with the 30th of February?

None, I don't know why I wrote February. It happened two weeks ago, 30th October. I think I unconsciously wrote February because in the past I used to joke about "what zodiac sign am I if I'm born on 30th February" and people would think really hard what zodiac sign am I while ignoring that 30th February doesn't even exist.

Really, really weird that I wrote that.

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LanceSTS's Performance Blog / Re: what happened to lancests?
« on: November 11, 2023, 06:56:30 am »
Really nice!

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LanceSTS's Performance Blog / Re: what happened to lancests?
« on: November 10, 2023, 03:20:05 pm »
The site doesn't load anymore, by the way.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 10, 2023, 03:01:11 pm »
Pull focus day 6:

Pullups: 5
Chinups: 5
Neutral grip chinups: 3
Pullups: 3
Chinups: 3

Walked about 5 km.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 09, 2023, 09:27:54 am »
First workout after the death of my sister.

Squat focus day 6:

High bar full squat:

20x5x2
60x5
60x5
60x5
60x5
60x5


Bench press:

20x5x2
50x5
60x5
60x5
60x5
(pretty difficult)

Dumbbell step-ups:

40x8
40x8 (felt great!)

Landmine push presses:

40x8
40x8 (40 means barbell+20kg plate)

Bodyweight: 91.5 kg
Exhaustion level: 6/10

Comments:

I decided to always do squat and bench whenever I go to the gym. There was too much pause in between workouts. It's just that my squat focus day has squat for 5x5 and bench for 3x5, whereas my bench focus day has bench 5x5 and squat 3x5. Then I do two assistance exercises, step-ups and landmine push presses and I'm done.

I don't do any kind of pullups or ab work - I will do this as a separate focus in a chalistenics park that I have nearby - that way I will be fresh for these and also do a walk/run afterwards.

Let's see how it goes.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 07, 2023, 11:12:52 am »
My sister died on 30th February 2023. I have to take a break from everything, although I might go back to the gym just to take my mind off it. She had a food addiction, she basically lived to eat, so she got heavier and fatter week by week until she was 162 kg at 1.65m tall. Her oxygen levels went as low as 60 or even in the 50s and she refused to go to the hospital (she went there a few times, the ambulance also gave her oxygen a few times).

We found her dead after Sunday's night, she died in her sleep. She was 48 years old. I sometimes think I might be going crazy, soon, although I'm trying to keep it together.

Oh man, Raptor, I'm so sorry. My heart goes out to you. It's horrible to lose a sibling, even when you can see it coming. I lost my brother in January 2018, after watching him struggle for years with addiction (drugs, in his case) and mental illness. IME, the grief never goes away but time does help it recede.

I'm sorry to hear that. Yes, it's bad. You always wonder if you could have done something more to save him/her, but the truth is that nobody appointed you to be a superhero that always comes to save the day. The truth is that she did all these excesses "freely" (whether you can call that action "free" considering it's a mental illness is another discussion). She willingly and knowingly poured oil, salt (sometimes for 10 seconds straight she would put salt in her food) and refused to do any kind of physical activity. She didn't even want to put money to buy an oxygen machine!

She had borderline personality disorder and no psychiatrist cared enough to suggest a psychotherapist or an actual treatment scheme.

She also called about 120 ambulances in the last few years and none of them tried to convince her too much that an oxygen under 70 is bad enough to go to the hospital. They would ask and she would say "no" and they would just go their merry way, like nothing happened.

A pinnacle of incompetence, carelessness, lack of culture, you name it. It seemed the only way to save her was violence, but then you'd bump into other kinds of ethical issues.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: November 02, 2023, 04:18:05 pm »
My sister died on 30th October 2023. I have to take a break from everything, although I might go back to the gym just to take my mind off it. She had a food addiction, she basically lived to eat, so she got heavier and fatter week by week until she was 162 kg at 1.65m tall. Her oxygen levels went as low as 60 or even in the 50s and she refused to go to the hospital (she went there a few times, the ambulance also gave her oxygen a few times).

We found her dead after Sunday's night, she died in her sleep. She was 48 years old. I sometimes think I might be going crazy, soon, although I'm trying to keep it together.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs VO2max
« on: October 28, 2023, 02:25:51 pm »
average heart rate was 179 lol

...is it safe to stay there for long...?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: October 26, 2023, 08:52:49 am »
Leg day 5:

High bar full squat:

20x5x2
60x10
60x10
60x10


Hip thrust: 60x10 (will stop doing these)

RDL:

20x5
60x10
60x10

Leg curls:

64x10
64x10

Barbell calf raises:

60x10
60x10
60x10

Bodyweight: 93.2 kg
Exhaustion level: 10/10

Comments:

Very tiring workout. Squat was good. I will probably switch to 5x5 instead of 3x10 as it allows me to keep focus on all the reps, with high rep ranges I tend to rush them because the set gets very tiring towards the end.

Will also stop doing hip thrusts as they take a long time to set up and they hurt my pelvis even with a lot of padding.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs VO2max
« on: October 25, 2023, 08:17:54 am »
Nice! How many calories did you burn doing that?

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