No Colon, Still Rollin' Or: Spite Alone Holds Me Aloft

[KarlM]

Dude, good luck on the career/job change. I’ve done that once. It was worth it, but hard in the moment.

[tsor]

Dude, good luck on the career/job change. I’ve done that once. It was worth it, but hard in the moment.

Thanks! I've been looking forward to moving on to something else for a while, but now that the time has come, my emotions are trying to come up with reasons to stay. It's weird.

[tsor]

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Trap-bar deads: 255 x 5 x 5

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Bench: 125 x 12, 12, 12, 10
Dumbbell row: 45 x 15 x 4

Lateral raises: 15 x 28, 25, 25
Band pulldown: Blue x 27, 27, 27

Band pushdown: Blue x 30 x 3
Dumbbell curl: 20 x 20, 20, 16

[tsor]

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Trap-bar deads: 260 x 5 x 5

Total time, including warmups: 21:33

These seem to feel easier every time.

[gymdad150]

What a story!

Tip o' the cap to your resilience. Here's to continued success and good health!

[tsor]

What a story!

Tip o' the cap to your resilience. Here's to continued success and good health!

Thank you! That means a lot, as I know you've had a hell of a battle yourself. I meant to reply to your post in the 2020 goals thread, but nice work kicking cancer in the dick and still being on the right side of the grass.

[tsor]

Friday, November 13, 2020

Bench: 165 x 3, 3, 3, 3, 8 @ RPE 9
Pullups: 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

Dumbbell fly: 20 x 30, 30, 28
Reverse fly: 15 x 30, 23, 23

Skullcrusher: 50 x 47 rest-paused
Barbell curl: 45 x 40 rest-paused

Pullups felt easier than bench today. Was surprised to be able to get a few sets of five pretty easily, especially since I'm fairly certain I haven't lost any weight (quite the opposite, most likely ). Maybe my legs are just atrophying from neglect.

[tsor]

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Bench: 125 x 12, 12, 12, 11, 1 (Got frustrated at not getting twelve, so had to do one more)
Dumbbell row: 50 x 12 x 4

Plus lateral raises, band pulldowns/pushdowns, and dumbbell curls.

Felt harder than expected, especially considering I took three days off. May have been an off day, but I'm noticing a trend that adding reps/weight is getting harder with each workout and I feel like I'm going to hit a wall soon. It may be time to think about moving onto something else.

[tsor]

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Trap-bar deads: 265 x 5 x 5

Edit a day later: Good thing I filmed this, because I just realized this was actually 275. Learn how to count, ya dingus!

Did these top-down out of the rack, touch-and-go to make it a little more like a squat. Ended up challenging my grip more than my legs, though, due to walking the bar in and out of the rack. The trap bar seems to challenge my grip more than any other lift for some reason. Grip strength has never been a limiting factor in conventional deadlifts for me before, so it's a little surprising.

[tsor]

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Bench: 170 x 3, 3, 3, 3, 7 @RPE10
Chinups: 5 x 5

And then messed around with trap-bar OHP and some hammer curls.

Definitely hitting a wall and thus ends the easy gains (for bench, at least). Time to try something else.

[tsor]

Saturday, November 21, 2020

(pounds x reps x sets)

Bench: 130 x 10 x 4
Trap bar deads: 150 x 10 x 4
Dumbbell rows: 50 x 15 x 4

All done as a one super (giant?) set.

Moved the goalposts a bit for this session. Change from sets of 12 to sets of 10 on bench. Changed row form a bit - I was doing a strict pause at the top of every rep, but am just doing them touch-n-go now, though still keeping them fairly strict. Did deads touch-n-go as well. Really trying to keep my knees forward and back vertical to keep quads engaged.

[tsor]

Monday, November 23, 2020

Bench: 135 x 10, 10, 10, 8
Pullups: BW x 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3

Skullcrusher: 50 x 38 rest-paused

BB curl: 45 x 37 rest-paused

Lateral raises: 15 x 20 x 2

Reverse fly: 15 x 16 x 2

This was the first early morning session in a long time. Trying to rebuild the habit to get up early and train, so I'm considering the fact that I just dragged myself out of bed and did anything a win. Now to keep the momentum going...

[tsor]

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Trap-bar deads, touch-n-go: 280 x 5 x 5

And about 10 minutes of easy cardio. Wanted to do more, but accidentally set my alarm 30 minutes later than I wanted so I ran out of time.

Felt pretty good overall, though.

[Wilhelm]

I may have lifted as early as 10 AM once.

Nice work in here.

[tsor]

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

AM session.

Bench: 145 x 5 x 9

In between bench sets:
Dumbbell row: 55 x 12 x 4
Dumbbell curl: 20 x 20, 20, 13
Reverse fly: 15 x 30, 27, 20

Then:
Skullcrusher: 45 x 50 rest-paused
Lateral raises: 15 x 25, 20, 20

Moving to a HVLF LP sort of thing that Hanley recommended to me a while ago for bench. Got nine sets before hitting about RPE 7.

[tsor]

I may have lifted as early as 10 AM once.

Nice work in here.

Ha! I'd ideally train around 11 AM, but I still prefer early morning over afternoon/evening.

I feel like I have a very limited energy reserve these days, and the later it gets in the day, the more it gets used up. If I wait/procrastinate to train until late in the day, it's likely not going to happen.

[tsor]

Have a little catching up to do here.

Training was starting to feel a little stale, so I'm starting to incorporate some of the lifts I'd been neglecting, i.e., squat, deadlift, and OHP.

The goal of Saturday's session was just to get a baseline for these lifts. Squat and OHP were predictably awful, but deadlifts went well. Deadlift strength more or less matches where it was when I last deadlifted a few months ago, so it's good to know that the trap-bar was able to maintain strength there, at least.

Just planning to do an LP-of-sorts for a few weeks to rebuild strength and re-acclimate to those lifts.

Friday, November 27, 2020

Bench: 165 for 5 triples and 5 doubles
Pullups: 5, 5, 5, 4, 3 (cut these off here because they started bothering my elbow)

And then some light band and dumbbell work.

Saturday, November 28, 2020

High-bar squat: worked up to 175 x 4 @ 8 (oof)
OHP: worked up to 95 x 4 @ 9 (big oof)
Deadlift: worked up to 315 x 3 @ 9
30 min easy cardio

Sunday, November 29, 2020

Bench: 182.5 for 8 doubles and 3 singles
Trap-bar OHP: 60 x 25 rest-paused
Dumbbell skullcrusher: 15 x 30 x 3

No upper body pulls. Felt dirty.

Monday, November 30,2020

Squat: 135 x 5 x 3
Deadlift: 275 x 5 x 1
Barbell row: 135 x 8 x 3
20 min easy cardio

[tsor]

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Bench: 147.5 x 5 x 11

Chins (10 min density block): 8, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1

Skullcrusher: 50 x 44 rest-paused

Barbell curl: 45 x 38 rest-paused

30 min easy cardio

[tsor]

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

High-bar squat: 145 x 5 x 3

OHP: 75 x 5 x 3

Deadlift: 285 x 5 x 1

Squats were fine. OHP was fine, too, but doing OHP and bench on consecutive days is probably going to feel silly when the weight gets heavier.

Deadlift was a little grindier than I would have liked. I guess I still have the SS heavy-set-of-five-or-die mentality drilled into me. Should probably lower the weight a bit next time, perhaps for multiple sets on days I don't squat.

[tsor]

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Bench: 167.5 for 11 triples

OHP: 55 x 10 x 3
DB row: 55 x 15 x 3

DB skullcrusher: 20 x 20 x 3
DB curl: 20 x 20, 16, 16 (why are my biceps still so weak?? Haven't been able to add weight/reps to these for a while)

Overslept this morning ( ) so had to make this an evening session. Went pretty well.