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24-08-17

Morning BW: 80.1kg

Notes

Ate a lot on Wednesday, unsurprisingly heavy on Thursday. Ate lighter, but still more than my usual aim, on Wednesday.

25-08-17

Morning BW: 79.6kg [back roughly where we'd expect]

Workout

Wide grip pullups
BW x 10 [pretty easy, only mild grind on reps 9 and 10]

OHP
Bar x 8
35 x 5
45 x 5
50 x 3
57.5 x 3
55 x 5
50 x 4
47.5 x 5
45 x 5
42.5 x 5
40 x 6

Incline Bench Press [only place to do this at the gym has a fixed bench, and it's set to ~45*, when I'm usually used to ~30*, so I did this differently to figure out where I stand]
50 x 8, 8, 6, 5, 5 [done EMOM, so ~30s rest between each set]

Dips
BW x 13, 12, 10, 9 [kinda of wrecked from EMOM inclines, unsurprisingly]

Lateral Raise
10 x 15, 13, 10

Bayesian Cable Curl
6.25 x 15, 13, 10

Diverging Pulldown
50 x 12, 12, 10

Treadmill - 1mi @ 4pm, 5% incline, 148 bpm [page out of KF's book here]

Notes

Nice to be back in the gym. Gtting a little frustrated at stagnation, but just got to take the long term view here. Cutting will be down in 4-8 weeks depending on focus. Once I'm look I'll look better, feel better and gains will come more readily, both aesthetics and strength-wise. Patience, patience, patience.

Really liked the cardio walk. I like that you just set it and forget and just let your legs do the work. Don't have an HR monitor, so I just used the treadmill's hand holds for it every now and then, maybe 5 readings through the 15 minutes.

My walking gait on the ground after finishing the treadmill walk felt amazing.

Been doing a lot of walking (with and without my dogs), so NEPA has been good despite relative lack of cardio recently.