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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4995 on: May 12, 2020, 06:19:48 am »
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Tue (12/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 45 days
BW: 

BS 6x75, 6x90, 6x107.5, 5x115, 3x122.5, 1x130, 16x92.5
BX 17x25kg

Notes:
I pushed the agenda today, i kept the initial warmups technically clean but the latter reps of the sets from 107.5kg  onwards were dirty. It's ok i think, it's better to be dirty and get stronger than stay mediocre forever. I'm patient but day 45 and still struggling to use 100kg+ for reps makes no damn sense, maybe what's missing is my old intensity?

Also im making a note that there is something missing between where i am and where i want to be with BSS. Let me explain, my knee wobbles even with the empty bar. So there is some stability missing that i need to readdress before i can use BSS to make my right leg muscles stronger which i think it does just well but it doesn't do anything for the stability issue. What exercises do i need for htat? I have no clue :(
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4996 on: May 13, 2020, 06:57:07 am »
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Wed (13/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 46 days
BW: 

BS 6x75, 6x90, 6x102.5, 3x120, 1x130
BP 6x75, 5Fx83.5, 3x87.5, 7x77, 8x70
LPD, CRow, Curl 15x30kg

Notes:
feeling blah
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4997 on: May 15, 2020, 08:01:01 am »
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Thu (14/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 47 days
BW: 

BS 6x75, 6x90, 1x107.5, 1x117.5

Notes:
bargained and did some paused reps instead of bailing on workouts
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4998 on: May 15, 2020, 08:01:30 am »
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Fri (15/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 48 days
BW: 

BS 6x75, 6x92.5, 1x110, 1x120

Notes:
more paused bargaining haha
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4999 on: May 26, 2020, 04:11:28 am »
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Ordered some cells for the scales. I went too long between bench sessions and now i'm about a month or so weaker. My knees have told me to stop with the daily heavy squatting nonsense, even if the weight isn't really heavy. Programming wise it wil be something like

Day 1: Upper body (alternate between bench and ohp)
Day 2: Rest (active recovery with the empty bar)
Day 3: Lower body (alternating BS/BSS and  running / jumping) 
Day 4: Rest (active recovery)
Repeat.

If that gets me progressing and feeling good about training i'll be happy. Daily training is the worst thing to do, high freq gains vanish very rapidly. I see that now, it can happen within a day or two of not training. I want gains that last even if they come slower. I'm ON that mindset now after spinning my wheels for the last 3 months and making zero progress.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5000 on: May 26, 2020, 05:50:01 am »
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Tue (26/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 1 days
BW: 87.9kg (!!!!)

BS 2x8x20, 8x40, 6x55
BP 8x20, 8x30, 6x40

Notes:
Scales are back and while i expected to see say 86.xx something and be disappointed about THAT imagine finding out i'm 88kg. Yikes.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5001 on: May 27, 2020, 06:34:56 am »
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Wed (27/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 2 days
BW: 85.1kg (!!!!)

BS 17x95, BX 20x25kg

Notes:
Exams are stressing me out and im not getting much sleep. Need to be careful with all the caffeine im taking and the previous factors mentioned, im giving myself a good chance of arrythmias. my heart rate was so high after that set of 17x95 that it took a good half an hour to come down below 100bpm. But thankfully it did. So that puts me exactly 20kg away from my lifetime PR of 17x115kg.

But on the bright side somehow the scale read 85.1kg today .. that's good! I finally found a diet secret that seems to be a huge gamechanger. Coles now sells these 500mL MCT enriched coconut oil bottles for like $11. Taking 10g twice a day is letting me reduce carb intake heavily while suffering no consequences whatsover, which is profoundly cool.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5002 on: June 01, 2020, 06:44:56 am »
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Mon (1/6/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 0 days
BW:

BS 6x70, 6x90
OHP 6x50, 6x56, 8x54.5
Chinup 6xBW

Notes:
missed several sessions cos of uni but going to try do better
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5003 on: June 03, 2020, 07:19:47 am »
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Wed (3/6/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 3 days
BW:

BS 6x75, 6x90, 1x120
BP 6x75, 7Fx77, 9x70
Pullup 5xBW
LPD, CROW 15x35kg, 12x35kg

Notes:
Bench has stalled hard .. but i am going 10days or more between sessions so that's expected.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5004 on: June 10, 2020, 05:54:02 am »
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Wed (10/6/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training:
BW:

BS 8x40, 8x60, 6x75
BP 6x55, 6x72.5, 7x77.5, 10x70

Notes:
Got a bench in! made progress. doing abbreviated workouts while in exams. but i have to share some news with my squats. i bought a pair of reebok (crossfity) type lifting shoes last year, at the time i was lifting seriously so i didn't really try them except the first day when i got them i swapped them on during my regular daily squats and i noticed they were squishier and i didnt think they were as good. well this time around i was thinking of sparing my normal shoes from wear and tear by swapping to the reeboks. and imagine my suprise when i found it made my squats feel better, my knee feel wonderful and my form became much improved. it was almost as my old shoes had worn out in a way which put a great deal of stress on my right knee .. and just not using them fixed that instantly. really cool stuff. also i found i was never really squatting right in the first place, my core was engaged but not fully in a way it should be. the upshot of it is that on video my squats now look like acole's .. amazing transformation. downside is im a newbie again, now using 70-90kg for worksets but it's okay :)
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5005 on: June 24, 2020, 08:01:45 am »
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need to start logging again, got too occupied with exams to keep up logging but i tried to train once a while. now im going to get back into it again, hoping to get my upper body program on track.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5006 on: June 25, 2020, 06:53:49 am »
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Thu (25/6/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

BS 8x40, 8x60, 8x80
BP 6x55, 6x72.5, 6x77.5, 6x75, 8x70
Pullup 2x5xBW

Notes:
Got some runs on the board. I'm booking a tattoo session (a first one), for my birthday, thinking of getting something on my biceps, as motivation to train my upper body hard.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5007 on: June 25, 2020, 09:29:28 am »
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you should get this:  :lololol:

i love having tattoos but i'm glad i waited so long to start getting them (was 29 when i got my first one). i think i'll go in for my third once covid calms down here. thought about getting it in london but the thing i want to get is super tied to where i grew up so seems more appropriate to get it done here.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5008 on: June 25, 2020, 07:44:47 pm »
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Quote from: maxent on June 25, 2020, 06:53:49 am
Thu (25/6/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

BS 8x40, 8x60, 8x80
BP 6x55, 6x72.5, 6x77.5, 6x75, 8x70
Pullup 2x5xBW

Notes:
Got some runs on the board. I'm booking a tattoo session (a first one), for my birthday, thinking of getting something on my biceps, as motivation to train my upper body hard.

Nice. What are you getting?

Meanwhile I have my first one booked for the second week of July.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5009 on: June 25, 2020, 07:45:21 pm »
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Quote from: LBSS on June 25, 2020, 09:29:28 am
you should get this:  :lololol:

i love having tattoos but i'm glad i waited so long to start getting them (was 29 when i got my first one). i think i'll go in for my third once covid calms down here. thought about getting it in london but the thing i want to get is super tied to where i grew up so seems more appropriate to get it done here.

What was your first one and what are you planning to get?
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