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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 11, 2021, 10:22:50 am »
Thu (11/2/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 99.5kg

BP 2x90, 3x92.5, 3x95, 3x92.5*, 2x92.5, 2x93.5, 2x94
DB BP 8x37.5, 8x35, 10x32.5
Dips 8*x20, 8x15, 8x15

Notes:
Damn ..that was a hot and cold workout. had good elements, the starred bench set is cos i put hte bar back after 2 reps b/c i could swear i must have misloaded the L side since it felt so heavy. but i hadnt, so i jumped back and did a 3rd rep but it doesn't technically count as a triple. My bench is a shitdown as usual. will go for 6 triples next week.

didnt do db or dips last week because of the lockdown (closed gyms) so was a bit of a feeling wortkout to see where im at, next week will do 3x8x35 on db bp and 3x8x17.5kg on dips. Then resume normal progression from there.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 09, 2021, 11:33:17 pm »
170 from the floor? Well done mate. I can see 200 coming soon.

yep! from the floor, i stopped doing rack pulls a while ago .. but im glad i started with them because they taught my body to do them right. i still had a learning curve from the floor, mainly because i didnt have the strength to break the bar off the floor correctly unless it was v.light, but a couple of sessions later im happy with them. i love it! fav exercise right now

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 09, 2021, 11:26:46 am »
Tue (9/2/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 98.7kg

DL 6x100, 6x120, 6x142.5, 5x152.5, 1x167.5, 1x170
Cable Row 5x100, 8x80, 8x75

Notes:
DL with the mask was brutal, esp in the earlier sets i was dying to get some air into my lungs .. annd my mask blowing up and down looks like im a blowfish haha. done tho.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 07, 2021, 11:32:32 pm »
Fri (07/2/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 99kg

OHP 2x60, 2x65, 1x67.5, 0Fx70, 5x60, 8x55
DB OHP 4Fx27.5, 8x25, 10x22.5
Row Machine 8x40, 8x38.75, 8x37.5

Notes:
Switched to a higher rack instead of hang cleaning my ohp. Just because I want to do heavy singles and it won't really count if i hang clean them. And wow it was so much harder. Also mask kills it. So over it, 14th cant come soon enough hah.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 05, 2021, 10:20:53 am »
Fri (05/2/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 99kg

BS 2x120, 2x125, 2x127.5, 2x130, 2x127.5, 2x127.5, 3x127.5

Notes:
Gyms opened this evening .. got in and it was pretty full for a friday night, usually it would just be me. Everyone wearing masks. Turns out lifting with a mask is also challenging, i couldn't take a full breath easily without sucking the mask into my mouth. which cost me abdominal tightness. There was no way i was getting 6x6x120kg today - so just did some heavy doubles with the goal of starting a new training cycle at 125kg.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 03, 2021, 08:34:48 am »
Wed (03/2/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 98.5

BP 6x70, 2x85, 3x92.5, 2x95, 4x2x92.5, 3x10x60
Curl 6x40, 3x8x37.5

Notes:
Bench at home is way different. I used my crossfit shoes for bench, felt okay. not sure if it's better or worse than dowins, will use them at the gym next time. i can probably use them to spare wearing out dowins at least on bench days. maybe even ohp days?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 02, 2021, 09:05:23 am »
Mon (02/2/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 98.8

Run 5.5km

Notes:
Wore Adidas. Running with a mask is v. hard .. my heart was pounding like crazy, HRM showed 190bpm when i average 165 and max out 175bpm normally. Hopefully the last time i do one with the mask if the lockdown ends friday..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 01, 2021, 09:14:48 am »
Mon (01/2/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: ?

DL 6x120, 5x130, 5x140, 3x150, 1x160
BB Row 3x12x40kg

Notes:
Home workout, DLs went ok. bench on weds without dbs but i'll make a workout out of it somehow but friday's squats are the most concerning cos even if lockout ends 6pm friday - idk when they will open gyms.. might be a while .. lets see what happens.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 31, 2021, 07:42:01 pm »
Covid lockdown this week, no gym. Home workouts .. might take a deload and hope for some super comp. probably not though. lol.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 31, 2021, 07:41:04 pm »
Sat (30/1/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 98.8kg

OHP 4x63, 3x65.5, 2x65, 2x65, 1x68.0, 0Fx69.5, 6x60
DB OHP 8x25, 8x25
Row Machine 8x37.5, 8x37.5

Notes:
Another terrible OHP session. How did i manage 6 sets of 5 with 62.5kg and then fall off the cliff at 63.0kg? same old story, right bicep is fked ..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 30, 2021, 01:07:46 am »
Fri (29/1/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW:

Run - 5km / 38 min

Notes:
First run with Asics Novaboost. Amazing cushioning .. lived up to the hype. I got them on special and im glad i bothered. Easily my fav shoe now but once im in shape i can probably do better times with my Pegasus 34. Did the first km in 6 min pace .. i didnt think i had that in me but the shoes just felt so good and maybe the carb up from last night's pizza helped too. By week 6 i want to be capable of sub 5 pace on a max effort .. that would be cool.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 30, 2021, 01:04:23 am »
BP 5x90.5, 4x91.5, 4x90.5, 1x100(=PR)

:headbang: :highfive: :strong: :personal-record:

haha, kind of, still hard to get too excited about benching bodyweight  :). the interesting thing is im doing it without being as muscular as i have been in the past .. so hopefully i can do a bit better than this once i figure out why

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 28, 2021, 08:29:27 pm »
Thu (28/1/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 98.6

BS 6x5x120
Jumps 3xSVJ, 3xRVJ, 2xME

Notes:
Brutal

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 27, 2021, 12:04:57 am »
Tue (26/1/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: 99.0

BP 5x90.5, 4x91.5, 4x90.5, 1x100(=PR)
DB BP 3x8x35(PR)
Dips 3x8x17.5
Curl 3x8x36

Notes:
Damn, i regret not trying for 90.5kg for all three sets, may have got it. Next time will go for that. But once again, my bench day coincided with the kiwi crew and they bench one after other and there is like 6 of them - so i was kinda cold by the time i got the bench. Next time, i'll just assume we'll end up benching together and save the preworkout for when i get a free bench lol. But all of this can only help so much, the real issue is at my level, it's almost impossible to progress smoothly without a signicant caloric surplus, something i can't afford at my 41.25" size.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 25, 2021, 07:45:35 am »
Mon (25/1/2021)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training: n/a
BW: ?

Run - 31 minutes, 4.5km

Notes:
Made a huge leap from last week, dropped a minute on my average pace. Not bad for starting the 2nd week of running. Would be nice to be 6min or so by end of week 6!

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