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Calvinball wrote: Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:26 am I had a good couple weeks, 4 days at the gym both weeks and all solid workouts. Looks like the weather may actually hold up for me to go for a run today or tomorrow finally.


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Had a very solid workout today. I once again hit every rep and managed to weigh in at 210 with a big lunch today. Im excited to see that I am only a month or two away from hitting my bodyweight on the major lifts. I think I could pull it out for the 500lb club easy now. Im gunning to try for 700lbs by mid July. I lost 8lbs in the course of a month. Not quite what I was losing before. But still on track to leave Qatar in July under 200lbs while building some decent strength.
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my workout yestery was shitty but at least i went
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Big Brain Bradley wrote: Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:08 am my workout yestery was shitty but at least i went
Same. I went about an hour after leaving the dentist with my first filling ever. Mouth was still a bit numb and I was just feeling "meh". My elbows were aching trying to incline bench for some reason. Lost a few reps on that and on my flat dumbbell press afterwards. I was probably a bit dehydrated from flying home from Dallas that morning and not getting much sleep the night before too.
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I was up from 430ish on with gassy stomach pain. 0/7 did not gym.


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Too many deadlifts and possibly poor form. Its been two days and my back is pretty sore. Im going to slow it down a bit and try to have one of the trainers watch me for pointers.
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no headphone, HR strap dead, still went to gym to lift and complex. Google fit says 537 calories in 41 minutes.
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Big Brain Bradley wrote:no headphone, HR strap dead, still went to gym to lift and complex. Google fit says 537 calories in 41 minutes.
No headphones is the worst when you’re used to having them.

Also if I can’t hear my farts, then no one else there can, right??


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Calvinball wrote: Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:34 am
Big Brain Bradley wrote:no headphone, HR strap dead, still went to gym to lift and complex. Google fit says 537 calories in 41 minutes.
If I can’t hear my farts, then no one else there can, right??


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headphones are fucked :disgust:

HR strap is dead, might be a batter might just be toast. :disgust:

Still went to the gym, did squats, complexes, and calf raises. 45 minutes.

Complexes are seeing progress, I did the first two sets straight through with my 65# loadout. Grip strength was dead for the third set so i had to split them up, but I'd have been good for it cardio wise.

So proguress.
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Got stuck on incline again with 205. Hit my first set of 10. Second set the 9th rep was tough, but I really wanted that 10th.. Got it about half way up and died. Managed to slide my body up the bench to get the right side of the bar onto the rack, but the left side missed by like half and inch and the weights slid off. Whoops. Gym owner looked pissed (we're upstairs and not supposed to be dropping weights and stuff). Took an extra minute after that set to recover, hit 6 reps on my next set with clips on the sides lol, and then asked someone to spot me on my last set and got 8 with them only helping on the lockout of the 8th rep.
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I just started including incline in my routines and now I’m wondering where it’s been all my life.


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Calvinball wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:17 am I just started including incline in my routines and now I’m wondering where it’s been all my life.


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It's good. I personally think it's build your chest more than flat barbell benching does.
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Calvinball wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:17 am I just started including incline in my routines and now I’m wondering where it’s been all my life.


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It's good. I personally think it's build your chest more than flat barbell benching does.
And I seem to be stuck with flat benching, so nice to see gainz in the chestular region with incline.


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Calvinball wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:38 pm
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It's good. I personally think it's build your chest more than flat barbell benching does.
And I seem to be stuck with flat benching, so nice to see gainz in the chestular region with incline.


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You should see a nice carry over when/if you switch back to flat bench. If you can get your incline to where your flat bench was, your flat bench number should be up a good 20-30lbs from there.

Wonder what I can hit on a flat bench now. I haven't touched it in a long time. Also wonder how many reps I could hit with 225 on incline. Most I'd done prior to this was 3 reps. I'd like to think I can do more than that now.
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Calvinball wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:38 pm
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It's good. I personally think it's build your chest more than flat barbell benching does.
And I seem to be stuck with flat benching, so nice to see gainz in the chestular region with incline.


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Stuck on bench? Bench more. Chest freaking loves volume.
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I probably should be focusing more on running right now lol


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Calvinball wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:57 pm I probably should be focusing more on running right now lol


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Calvinball wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:57 pm I probably should be focusing more on running right now lol


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I do have a ten mile race in a few weeks unexpectedly


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Calvinball wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:16 pm
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Hmmm, might want to do something about that.
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Calvinball wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:16 pm I do have a ten mile race in a few weeks unexpectedly


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Hmmm, might want to do something about that.
I’m trying to. Ran 5 this past weekend and it was ok. Slow but ok. I should try at least like a 7-8 miles before the race but I don’t have many weekends left.


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Finally feeling better from that cold. Almost finished all my deadlifts tonight, and I added 10lbs to my pull-ups and almost got all of them.

Last time was 10, 10, 7, 6 on deadlifts with 315lbs. Tonight got 10, 10, 9, 8. Should finish them out next time. Pull-ups I got 10, 10, 8, 7 with the added 10lbs.
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Upper back is definitely fried after that back day. Hoping this higher volume of deadlifts will help grow my traps a bit more than just doing shrugs. Today off to rest/recover, then shoulders/traps tomorrow.
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yesterday was bench and row day with complex F after

I feel like since i'm oly bencing once a week the gains are real, i hit nearly 4 of my five sets of 5 at 225, and did the fifth at 205.

Squats were monday. So Complex F was a bitch yesterday

Overhead squat
Back squat
Good morning
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Deadlift

Good core workout though, my core is feelining very worked today.

Scale still stuck at 290 despite tracking food and running a clear af calorie deficiet.....
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Big Brain Bradley wrote: Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:16 am yesterday was bench and row day with complex F after

I feel like since i'm oly bencing once a week the gains are real, i hit nearly 4 of my five sets of 5 at 225, and did the fifth at 205.

Squats were monday. So Complex F was a bitch yesterday

Overhead squat
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Good morning
Front squat
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Deadlift

Good core workout though, my core is feelining very worked today.

Scale still stuck at 290 despite tracking food and running a clear af calorie deficiet.....
Killing it man. Stick with those calories for another week, and if the scale doesn't budge still, cut either a little bit of fat or a little bit of carbs out of it.. just enough to pull another 150-200 calories per day out. As always, if you shoot your diet logs over to me, I can try to help you decide what to cut out of where.

I've noticed the same thing from taking my deadlifting down to every other week. Doing it every week was frying my CNS I think. I'm gaining on it way faster now that I do it every other week.
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