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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 10, 2020, 08:51:18 am »
Fri (10/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 13 days
BW: 83.1kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x80, 6x105, 3x120, 1x132.5, 8x107.5, 12x97.5(belt)
BP 8x40, 8x57.5
Slow run around block ~20min

Notes:
Abz pretty beaten up. that set of 8 with 107.5 was ugly and brutally hard. didn't feel up to doing the set of 10x97.5 after that, walked it out, was heavy, felt deflated and put it back. Then thought to try a belt instead of ending the workout and it worked, not just a placebo  .. i really want to explore cycling belt training with my normal raw.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 09, 2020, 08:57:42 am »
Thu (9/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 12 days
BW: 82.8kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x80, 6x105, 2x120, 1x125
OHP 6x40, 6x50, 4x57.5, 2x60, 0Fx62.5, 8x52.5, 9x50
Chinup 5x7.5kg, 8xBW

Notes:
New daily minimum is 125kg on backsquat. OHP was a struggle. I'm constantly hungry, every night i lie in bed awake, hungry and miserable. it's been that way for i want to say 4-6 weeks? something like that. but im too fat to eat more and so im stuck in this no man's land of not eating enough to function well.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 08, 2020, 08:23:39 am »
Wed (8/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 11 days
BW: 82.9kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x80, 6x105, 3x120, 1x130, 2x122.5, 6x110
OHP 8x20, 8x25, 8x37.5
Run - 15 mins

Notes:
Had a meeting at 2000 and it was 19:44 when i left home rushing to get my run around the block in which took 20 mins last time. was fun racing the clock. i enjoyed that competitive aspect

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 07, 2020, 10:18:13 am »
Tue (7/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5.5
Daily Training: 10 days
BW: 82.7kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x100, 2x115, 2x120, 1x122.5
BP 6x50, 6x70, 6x79, 2x85, 1x88, 7Fx75, 8x72.5

Notes:
Added a preworkout sandwich which bumps my gym weight up a tad. It helped but i prob didnt time it very well, cud have trained sooner after taking caffeine, instead i ate a sandwich an hour after caffeine then started lifting. will experiment to get the timing right.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 06, 2020, 08:17:16 am »
Mon (6/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 3.5
Daily Training: 9 days
BW: 82.5kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x100, 3x115, 2x120, 1x127.5, 8x105, 10x95
BP 8x40, 8x57.5
Run - same as last time somehow ended up taking 5 minutes longer lol

Notes:
I did 'too much' with the heavy squats yesterday and on lower body focus day today i struggled as a result. So make sure next time i don't over-do it on upper days. But nevertheless im progressing. Tbh it's worth trying to make a 120kg squat a daily thing but i prob shouldn't have done a local PR with the 125kg on an upper focus day but i felt strong and went for it. Today i felt weak but i went for it because i had to. Maybe if i hadn't yesterday i'd have felt stronger on the lower body day, which is what you'd want.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 06, 2020, 12:26:47 am »
Quote from: LBSS on April 05, 2020, 12:30:30 pm
the 125 you posted on insta looked really good, fwiw.

thank you! it's only 1.5xbw and it's a single but right now i'll take it!

edit. ps, lbbs saw your recent story, your girl has a really great voice and her urdu is impeccable, she sounds completely native in the chorus if i closed my eyes. really impressive!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 05, 2020, 10:33:03 am »
Sun (5/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 3.5
Daily Training: 8 days
BW: 82.6kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x95, 3x112.5, 1x120, 1x125
OHP 6x40, 6x50, 3x57.2, 2x60, 2Fx58.5, 7x52.5, 8x51
Chinup 5x5kg, 8xBW

Notes:
Squats are starting to clean up. But my lack of food prep is killing my gains .. i ate a cup of pasta and a shake for dinner tonight. can't be bothered wrestling fools for some chicken breast. whatever.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 04, 2020, 10:09:20 am »
Sat (4/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 3.5
Daily Training: 7 days
BW: 82.1kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x95, 3x112.5, 3x117.5, 1x122.5, 8x102.5, 10x92.5
OHP 8x20, 8x35

Notes:
Yea not too sure about these 'heavier' sets. it's like you want to do a honest workout but at the same time im kind of terrified of hurting my spine on the heavy sets. hopefully it will self resolve.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 03, 2020, 09:48:30 am »
Fri (3/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 6/6 days
BW: 82.4kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x95, 3x110, 1x117.5, 1x120
BP 6x50, 6x70, 6x77.5, 2x82.5, 1x87.5, 7x75
Chinup 8xBW*(last rep wasn't full rom tho)

Notes:
It's starting to come around, im starting to adapt to daily training. Just gotta be patient and put in the work and let's see where im at in 3, 6,9 and 12wks time. New thing is to be realistic and set my daily act goal at 5k steps. Anything between 5-7.5k is good but a sensible minimum must be respected - and i'm making that 3.5k. As long as i average 5k a day, i should stay in ok shame, just dont want to take nasty fat loss supplements again. I took green tea extract this week and omg it makes me feel terrible. The number of times i've bought it and then thrown it out only to buy it again much later is prob n=3 now. This stuff is nasty.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 02, 2020, 09:32:37 am »
Thu (2/4/2020)
Daily Activity:
Daily Training: 5/5 days
BW: 82.3kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 3x100, 2x112.5, 2x117.5, 8x97.5, 10x90
BP 8x40, 9x57.5

Notes:
progress is good but im eating like a damned fool .. need to do better. it's hard to figure out how much you're eating without food scales and knowing what goes in stuff but it looks like ive been undereating b/c i feel miserable

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 02, 2020, 01:19:48 am »
Wed (1/4/2020)
Daily Activity:

BS 6x50, 6x75, 3x100, 2x110, 1x117.5
OHP 6x40, 6x50, 3x55, 2x57.5, 1x60, 6x52.5, 8x50
Chinup 6xBW

Notes:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 31, 2020, 11:46:49 am »
Tue (31/3/2020)
Daily Activity:

BS 6x50, 6x75, 3x100, 1x115
OHP 2x8x20
Run 15mins
Notes:
haaa that initial phase in daily squatting where the bar starts to feel super heavy even when it isnt. eventually you'll push thru the wall but today wasn't it. got a run in .. i like daily training if it's going to be short and sweet.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 30, 2020, 12:48:46 pm »
Mon (30/3/2020)
Daily Activity:

BS 6x50, 6x70, 3x100, 2x110, 1x115
BP 6x50, 6x70, 2x80, 1x85, 6x75

Notes:
predictably, im tempted by the daily training thing again .. mostly b/c ive detrained and im somewhat impatient to get back to where i was before gym closed down. i must say the straight bar hypothesis seems to be taking on greater evidence, it's even more noticeable on bench press. ok i need to fix the floor and i think if i can do that i'll have a somewhat ideal gym experience as i can expect. That's kind of exciting.
Re daily training - how do i lay out daily workouts?
Day 1: Lower body focus & upper maintenance / warmup   (both bench & ohp)
Day 2: Lower body maintenance / warmup & upper focus (alternate between ohp and bench)

this way im squatting, benching and pressing every day. how to fit in cardio im not really sure, but it will prob go on the lower body focus day.


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 29, 2020, 11:02:09 am »
Sun (29/3/2020)
Daily Activity:

BS 2x100
OHP 6x50, 0Fx57.5
Chinup 5xBW, Pushups 8xBW

Notes:
I miss two consecutive workouts and my body decides it doesnt need to remember how to recover from squats anymore. Squats are the biggest fools gold ever. Was hit with pretty decent doms during warmups and decided to leave it before i hurt myself. starting over from scratch again i spose.
Guys about home gym training, im the only dipshit in my gym and I dont do any rackpulls or deadlifts so my bar isn't getting beaten up as badly as in the public gym where there are ppl dropping bars doing rackpulls onto pins (ive seen it, you've seen it, it happens). dipshits dropping deadlifts onto plates (ive seen it) etc. this isn't good for the bar. but my home bar feels sooo good on my back .. i wonder if it's because it's straight and undamaged? if i was able to take my bar into a normal gym, i'd be able to squat better automatically just b/c it's straight. it's day and night. ofc at home i have to deal with a sloping floor (because of water flow in case of rain etc), squatting on uneven pavers etc. im in half a mind to rip it all up and concrete it with zero elevation. that woudl be my dream gym floor.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 27, 2020, 10:34:22 am »
Fri (27/3/2020)
Daily Activity:

BS 2x115, 2x112.5, 4x2x110

Notes:
A week since i trained, got pretty weak. Weird squatting without a mirror, you get used to it and it's really hard to do it without. if i train earlier in the day i can kind of catch a reflection off the glass door but not at night like tonights squats. Thanks coges for encouraging me to setup again, turned out pretty good in the end, not as bad as i imagined it..

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