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Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

Also, I ordered some of Chris Duffin’s Ursus hi-tops to replace my worn out chucks for squats & pulls. Only about $30-40 more than chucks and still that much cheaper than No Bull, which is a fine flat shoe, but ~$150 is pretty steep. Thanks for driving up the prices there, CrossFit.
 
Hyde said:
Also, I ordered some of Chris Duffin’s Ursus hi-tops to replace my worn out chucks for squats & pulls. Only about $30-40 more than chucks and still that much cheaper than No Bull, which is a fine flat shoe, but ~$150 is pretty steep. Thanks for driving up the prices there, CrossFit.
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Lemme know how you like them, I rotate between 2 pairs of worn chucks haha
 
Wife was told today her PCR test from yesterday couldn’t be completed & required a new sample. So we both decided to just go get rapid swabs today since at least one of those should pop positive - and indeed, both confirmed COVID. Zero surprises there.

Light fever yesterday broke some time in the night. Still feel bad today but definitely better than yesterday. Kroger has free curbside grocery delivery over $35 orders into your car trunk, so that was great. Hoping to do some LISS tomorrow and see how that goes. Trying to keep calories up with hypercaloric processed foods since appetite and taste are so low.
 
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Hyde said:
Wife was told today her PCR test from yesterday couldn’t be completed & required a new sample. So we both decided to just go get rapid swabs today since at least one of those should pop positive - and indeed, both confirmed COVID. Zero surprises there.

Light fever yesterday broke some time in the night. Still feel bad today but definitely better than yesterday. Kroger has free curbside grocery delivery over $35 orders into your car trunk, so that was great. Hoping to do some LISS tomorrow and see how that goes. Trying to keep calories up with hypercaloric processed foods since appetite and taste are so low.
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Good luck mate!!! Here's hoping you pull through it quickly.
 
Bro, my parents dropped off two 48pk of body armor from sams club and we HAMMERED those the two weeks we were sick.

Hope it’s passes quickly for you and the wife! Edit* and lil man if he gets it :(
 
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Hyde said:
Wife was told today her PCR test from yesterday couldn’t be completed & required a new sample. So we both decided to just go get rapid swabs today since at least one of those should pop positive - and indeed, both confirmed COVID. Zero surprises there.

Light fever yesterday broke some time in the night. Still feel bad today but definitely better than yesterday. Kroger has free curbside grocery delivery over $35 orders into your car trunk, so that was great. Hoping to do some LISS tomorrow and see how that goes. Trying to keep calories up with hypercaloric processed foods since appetite and taste are so low.
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Just went through this myself, kicked my azz for three days and things will get better. Stay strong 💪
3 out of 5 in my house had it at once.......fiasco!!!!!
 
On the bright side, at least this happened before you got deep into meet prep.

Hoping for a zippy recovery for you and the fam, man.
 
Doing pretty well this morning. Almost did some bench yesterday, and I do plan to do some today. I think my wife plans to train as well because she’s ahead of me recovery-wise. Sore throat still, cough seems to be shifting from occasional wet cough to a drier one, a bit of congestion & still no taste - I expect that to hang on.

Got my bloodwork back - they reissued me a requisition for total & free test because the lab LOST my tube of blood for that. So I still have no idea what test levels 150/wk was getting me, which is what I wanted to see the most. However, I did get all of the other info successfully, which was the most essential for safety.

Everything looks really good. All my blood values like hemoglobin, hematocrit, rbc on 150 test for 2 months looked like what I would want to see forever. Lipids were also a huge improvement and all in range, and EGFR has never been so high in my life - 98. Usually it’s 83. It has to be in part because I was losing weight/leaning out, as well as the diet the food choices that allowed that, but I also think I am getting my support stack really dialed in. Staying on 250mg TUDCA, pine bark, grape seed, garlic oil, astragalus have been recent moves, as well as eating decidedly more beans and veggies daily. And lower dietary fat overall.

This is my first blood draw in years where every single value was completely in range.
 
Great news mate!

I was amped for your test values too! Guess you'll have to wait until you can submit a fresh sample?

Also, glad to hear your wife is on the downhill run already! Pays to be healthy it seems!
 
BennyMagoo79 said:
Great news mate!

I was amped for your test values too! Guess you'll have to wait until you can submit a fresh sample?

Also, glad to hear your wife is on the downhill run already! Pays to be healthy it seems!
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Unfortunately it’s a lost opportunity - I was pulling that blood an hour before I began the 300 test / 200 deca blast. I can use the new order to at least see my test levels on this blast, but I believe Deca will affect the levels as well so not that useful and the cruise value was more interesting to me. Although I have to say I felt very solid with 150/wk. So from a therapeutic replacement perspective, if estrogen is good, blood is good, and life is good, the number for free/total doesn’t exactly matter that much.
 
4/3/21 - Bench Deload
BW 234.8

Band Flies, Band Pressdowns, Band Rear Delt Flyes, DB Laterals
2x15-25

Bench
45x10
95,145,195,215,235x5

First COVID session. Didn’t use any stims or spend a long time; just got blood in upper body and touched the barbell. Felt a tad heavy but moved fast like it should. Was getting a little dizzy/tired over 200lbs. Wife did some axle strictpress & some jerks and we called it for today.
 
Happy Easter everyone!

Took a 20 min walk with fam yesterday after bench and again today. Thought about trying some Deload squat/pull but decided to wait til tomorrow. Still congested and it’s hard to explain but it just feels like my cellular hydration is off. Things are cramping despite plenty of electrolytes carbs and water. Weight was down to 233.0 this morning; restarted the Mk677 today.

Not stressing over the meet in 10 weeks. I will definitely be strong enough to beat my bench PR @ 242, and the rest will just take whatever is there. I tend to have a strong ability to ramp up fast into the show anyway.
 
234.8 today I believe.

Pretty exhausted today; kinda felt like a regression. Took a 2nd 20-min walk last night with fam but today we took one and I had to request a shortcut back it was so difficult.

No appetite and just struggling to get the calories in. Protein has been low since this started; like 150g/minimum maintenance levels each day low.

Still no training. I believe COVID has been giving me a ton of random inflammatory back/hip pain. My father in law has a bad back flare up & wife has had intense hamstring pain for no reason as well. Shoes came in but too bushed to try them on even yet. Baby seems to be getting better as of this evening so that’s a plus.
 
Hyde said:
234.8 today I believe.

Pretty exhausted today; kinda felt like a regression. Took a 2nd 20-min walk last night with fam but today we took one and I had to request a shortcut back it was so difficult.

No appetite and just struggling to get the calories in. Protein has been low since this started; like 150g/minimum maintenance levels each day low.

Still no training. I believe COVID has been giving me a ton of random inflammatory back/hip pain. My father in law has a bad back flare up & wife has had intense hamstring pain for no reason as well. Shoes came in but too bushed to try them on even yet. Baby seems to be getting better as of this evening so that’s a plus.
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sounds **** that bro. Just need to keep doing what you can until it clears I guess.

I’m not looking forward to catching the dam thing
 
Hyde said:
234.8 today I believe.

Pretty exhausted today; kinda felt like a regression. Took a 2nd 20-min walk last night with fam but today we took one and I had to request a shortcut back it was so difficult.

No appetite and just struggling to get the calories in. Protein has been low since this started; like 150g/minimum maintenance levels each day low.

Still no training. I believe COVID has been giving me a ton of random inflammatory back/hip pain. My father in law has a bad back flare up & wife has had intense hamstring pain for no reason as well. Shoes came in but too bushed to try them on even yet. Baby seems to be getting better as of this evening so that’s a plus.
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Hope you feeling better tomorrow mate! Rest up!
 
Thanks all! Finally getting some appetite back today. Napped for 3 hours yesterday and slept 10 hours last night and woke up feeling a lot better. Still getting inexplicable left hip pain (no injury history in this) but it’s getting milder and I can finally bodyweight squat without my back/hamstrings/knees feeling tight or fragile. Feeling like everything is sorting itself back out, hydration & inflammation-wise.

Fam took a 45 min walk and that was no problem today; could have kept going. I miss tasting food, but I can work with this!
 
Well, regression again. Felt bad all day, still hacking up bloody mucus (I believe this is blown blood vessels in throat as it’s not straight blood like from my stomach), 99* low fever again, zero appetite.

Been symptomatic for 11 days now and starting to lose my patience with this stupid ****. I am planning to bench however I can tomorrow night.
 
Hyde said:
Well, regression again. Felt bad all day, still hacking up bloody mucus (I believe this is blown blood vessels in throat as it’s not straight blood like from my stomach), 99* low fever again, zero appetite.

Been symptomatic for 11 days now and starting to lose my patience with this stupid ****. I am planning to bench however I can tomorrow night.
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Damn dude, sorry to hear it. This thing is no joke. My wife just lost her grandfather to this stupid virus.
 
Hyde said:
Well, regression again. Felt bad all day, still hacking up bloody mucus (I believe this is blown blood vessels in throat as it’s not straight blood like from my stomach), 99* low fever again, zero appetite.

Been symptomatic for 11 days now and starting to lose my patience with this stupid ****. I am planning to bench however I can tomorrow night.
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Sucks fam.

All I ate were pistachios and drank body armor. Like I mentioned in my log, I was literal bed ridden besides showering lol oh, and I laid in the sunlight because I felt wayyyy better when I did?

You’re right at the crest where you *should* be feeling better!
 
4/8/21 - Bench 1
BW 232.0

Band Rear Delt Flyes
Band Pec Flyes
Band Tri Ext
DB Laterals
DB Front Raises
2x15/each

Bench
45x10
95,135,185x5
225x2
260,280,300x1
325,335,345x2 in Phoenix

Incline Bench
135x8
185 4x8

Floorpress
135x8
205 4x8

Incline NG DB Press
35x30,35

First session of prep in the books. I may not have any taste or appetite, but I’m hungry as ever.

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Day 14 of being symptomatic with COVID. Still having low fevers 4 days in a row now. Would be really nice for this to die already so I can get back to life and lifting proper.
 
Jeeezzz....its really dragging on. I thought you must have knocked it over already benching 345 for a double the other day! Pretty impressive covid lift!

Hope it runs its course soon.
 
BennyMagoo79 said:
Jeeezzz....its really dragging on. I thought you must have knocked it over already benching 345 for a double the other day! Pretty impressive covid lift!

Hope it runs its course soon.
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Well everything over 300 was in equipment so it doesn’t really count

Been doing research on Ivermectin efficacy in reducing total viral clearance time in SARS COV 2 patients. Basically zero sides/negatives reported & undeniable statistical improvements in mild to moderate COVID19 cases, and it’s already been adopted as treatment in a handful of countries and nation states due to this and how incredibly cheap it is.

If only I had known this was going to happen when I ordered from India 3 weeks ago! I have Telmisartan arriving this week - could have had a course of Ivermectin in my mailbox for $25 more lol. Now I have to use telemedicine if I want to try to get an actual script to try it in a timely fashion.

The good news is the way COVID19 mediates kidney infection seems to be through the angiotensin 2 receptors - so if I decide to add the telmisartan now it could theoretically help prevent potential kidney damage.
 
Hyde said:
Well everything over 300 was in equipment so it doesn’t really count

Been doing research on Ivermectin efficacy in reducing total viral clearance time in SARS COV 2 patients. Basically zero sides/negatives reported & undeniable statistical improvements in mild to moderate COVID19 cases, and it’s already been adopted as treatment in a handful of countries and nation states due to this and how incredibly cheap it is.

If only I had known this was going to happen when I ordered from India 3 weeks ago! I have Telmisartan arriving this week - could have had a course of Ivermectin in my mailbox for $25 more lol. Now I have to use telemedicine if I want to try to get an actual script to try it in a timely fashion.

The good news is the way COVID19 mediates kidney infection seems to be through the angiotensin 2 receptors - so if I decide to add the telmisartan now it could theoretically help prevent potential kidney damage.
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Are you paying attention to Victor Black?
 
Hyde said:
Well everything over 300 was in equipment so it doesn’t really count

Been doing research on Ivermectin efficacy in reducing total viral clearance time in SARS COV 2 patients. Basically zero sides/negatives reported & undeniable statistical improvements in mild to moderate COVID19 cases, and it’s already been adopted as treatment in a handful of countries and nation states due to this and how incredibly cheap it is.

If only I had known this was going to happen when I ordered from India 3 weeks ago! I have Telmisartan arriving this week - could have had a course of Ivermectin in my mailbox for $25 more lol. Now I have to use telemedicine if I want to try to get an actual script to try it in a timely fashion.

The good news is the way COVID19 mediates kidney infection seems to be through the angiotensin 2 receptors - so if I decide to add the telmisartan now it could theoretically help prevent potential kidney damage.
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weirdly I’m only aware of ivermectin as my UGL had started stocking it when I looked yesterday so I looked into what it was for.....

to be honest there pharma range is that good now I rarely have to order from my friendly Indian pharmacy.

are you using niacin or any NAD precursor bro - that seems to be part of the reason for long covid
 
BennyMagoo79 said:
Are you paying attention to Victor Black?
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Not following, but he is actually the one who convinced me to order the ARB.

His argument that the goal for the AAS user should not be to avoid them, but actually to get on & stay on them , prompted me to start reading the studies. From there I was faced with overwhelming evidence that they do help address a lot of problems that lifetime AAS use can create.

I literally don’t have high blood pressure at all right now, and not using Carditone. I definitely don’t need blood pressure medicine. But I do think my health will benefit from an ARB, especially now with COVID, and especially as I gain weight this year.
 
Hyde said:
Not following, but he is actually the one who convinced me to order the ARB.

His argument that the goal for the AAS user should not be to avoid them, but actually to get on & stay on them , prompted me to start reading the studies. From there I was faced with overwhelming evidence that they do help address a lot of problems that lifetime AAS use can create.

I literally don’t have high blood pressure at all right now, and not using Carditone. I definitely don’t need blood pressure medicine. But I do think my health will benefit from an ARB, especially now with COVID, and especially as I gain weight this year.
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Not easy to procure where I'm at. I was thinking of deliberately spiking my bloodpressure to get a prescription lol.
 
Asked my FILs doctor to give him IV ivermectin in a last ditch effort. Only thing the Dr asked was for evidence - of use. So, I emailed him everything I could gather. However, the cytokine storm had run its course and the COVID infection/viral lid was already cleared. So, it wouldn’t have do any good.
 
BennyMagoo79 said:
Not easy to procure where I'm at. I was thinking of deliberately spiking my bloodpressure to get a prescription lol.
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I ordered mine from India lol

tyga tyga said:
Asked my FILs doctor to give him IV ivermectin in a last ditch effort. Only thing the Dr asked was for evidence - of use. So, I emailed him everything I could gather. However, the cytokine storm had run its course and the COVID infection/viral lid was already cleared. So, it wouldn’t have do any good.
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The human Covid studies I found were VERY recent, but there’s so much pre-existing viral usage human studies I’m surprised he put that onus on you in a compassionate use scenario. Not that it would have likely altered the outcome remotely, but the whole thing was just unfortunate. I really cherish my FIL and feel for your loss, brother.
 
Yeah, at the time I believe Broward Health Medical Center in FL and a few select countries tried it (IV instead of the pills) Broward didn’t have the case study for it like they do now.
 
The evidence for ivermectin is nowhere near as overwhelming as you guys are making it seem. Some retrospective observational stuff has pointed towards a benefit but at least one recent (within the last month) rct and another one in Jan showed no statistical benefit. These were both small trials, the more recent with 400 participants and the one from Jan with a few over 20, but when you have observational stuff pointing towards a benefit & then rcts showing none you have to be careful how you interpret that. We have to know the continuum that exists in terms of strength of evidence from different study designs (which i know you both do). Could larger trials end up being powered sufficiently to tease out a benefit? Maybe.

Thjs is from someone who wants nothing more than for us to find something that can help when initiated early in the course of infection.

Hyde, I’m sorry this bastard seems to be lingering some for you. I hope you get back to 100% soon my friend.
 
Whisky said:
weirdly I’m only aware of ivermectin as my UGL had started stocking it when I looked yesterday so I looked into what it was for.....

to be honest there pharma range is that good now I rarely have to order from my friendly Indian pharmacy.

are you using niacin or any NAD precursor bro - that seems to be part of the reason for long covid
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I am actually, since that article you posted a while back reporting 2-300mg Nicotinic Acid daily greatly reduced Long COVID symptoms by restoring hyper-depleted B3 levels.

I was taking 100mg prophylactically for a few months before switching to a bottle of Life Extension 500mg caps actually before I got COVID even. Still haven’t gotten used to the flush, every day lol.

Good looking out!

jswain34 said:
The evidence for ivermectin is nowhere near as overwhelming as you guys are making it seem. Some retrospective observational stuff has pointed towards a benefit but at least one recent (within the last month) rct and another one in Jan showed no statistical benefit. These were both small trials, the more recent with 400 participants and the one from Jan with a few over 20, but when you have observational stuff pointing towards a benefit & then rcts showing none you have to be careful how you interpret that. We have to know the continuum that exists in terms of strength of evidence from different study designs (which i know you both do). Could larger trials end up being powered sufficiently to tease out a benefit? Maybe.

Thjs is from someone who wants nothing more than for us to find something that can help when initiated early in the course of infection.

Hyde, I’m sorry this bastard seems to be lingering some for you. I hope you get back to 100% soon my friend.
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Thanks, J.

I feel that if even a small study shows it worked specifically for them, it has a widely established safety profile in humans with other viruses, & it’s cheap & available, it simply makes no sense NOT to experiment with at a patient’s request.

I don’t know if you somehow took my input to imply this is somehow “the answer” to COVID, but I don’t think (hope) anyone in this thread is naive enough to assume that. I’m looking for any potential marginal improvement in recovery time over baseline of a mild to moderate COVID19 case, operating under the expectation I will recover with or without ivermectin.
 
I guess my contention was with when you said “undeniable statistical improvement in mild to moderate covid-19” in post #3396.

Has there been some stuff showing improvement when initiated early, yes. Has there been some stuff showing some improvement when people require hospitalization, maybe. You wouldnt really fit either of those groups though.

Do i have any issue with you experimenting with your own body and hoping for any marginal improvement? Absolutely not, man. I never would. I just dont think it can be said it’s “undeniable” that it helps.

Also, its easy for you to say you wouldnt experiment on someone at their request. You’re also not putting your livelihood at stake by rxing something and potentially getting sued for it by someone’s family member down the line. It’s all a matter of perspective my friend. If people didn’t sue a one another over every little thing perhaps there would be a little more “freedom” for that kind of thing.
 
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I guess my contention was with when you said “undeniable statistical improvement in mild to moderate covid-19” in post #3396.

Has there been some stuff showing improvement when initiated early, yes. Has there been some stuff showing some improvement when people require hospitalization, maybe. You wouldnt really fit either of those groups though.

Do i have any issue with you experimenting with your own body and hoping for any marginal improvement? Absolutely not, man. I never would. I just dont think it can be said it’s “undeniable” that it helps.

Also, its easy for you to say you wouldnt experiment on someone at their request. You’re also not putting your livelihood at stake by rxing something and potentially getting sued for it by someone’s family member down the line. It’s all a matter of perspective my friend. If people didn’t sue a one another over every little thing perhaps there would be a little more “freedom” for that kind of thing.
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If how I word things concerning my own experimentation offends you, I apologize. I’m not trying to sensationalize anything. This is my log - I dump my thoughts here, sometimes after hours of research that I’ve found exciting for myself. I see people using it in a study and improving, that’s about all I need to get it on the table personally.

As for doctors’ discretion to treat: they have that right, and it’s mine to have my opinions of the system.
 
Hyde said:
If how I word things concerning my own experimentation offends you, I apologize. I’m not trying to sensationalize anything. This is my log - I dump my thoughts here, sometimes after hours of research that I’ve found exciting for myself. I see people using it in a study and improving, that’s about all I need to get it on the table personally.

As for doctors’ discretion to treat: they have that right, and it’s mine to have my opinions of the system.
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Im not trying to be argumentative here. Im just simply saying that the data isnt undeniable in either direction. Is it better if I state that this is my opinion?

You have no fuggin need to apologize to me lol. By no means was I ever saying i had any problem whatsoever with you taking ivermectin yourself. I dont think I ever said anything that shouldve given that impression.
 
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Im not trying to be argumentative here. Im just simply saying that the data isnt undeniable in either direction. Is it better if I state that this is my opinion?

You have no fuggin need to apologize to me lol. By no means was I ever saying i had any problem whatsoever with you taking ivermectin yourself. I dont think I ever said anything that shouldve given that impression.
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I gotcha man. There’s certainly a lot more questions than answers for any of this stuff obviously still. If you would like to see what pushed me over the edge to give it a go for myself, this was it:

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“A 5-day course of ivermectin was found to be safe and effective in treating adult patients with mild COVID-19. Larger trials will be needed to confirm these preliminary findings.”

It may well be too late to make a difference at this point for me. And 24 people actually using it is not anything but evidence that more studies are needed, just like the authors state. BUUUT it was a $10 copay, so here we go:

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I was released from quarantine by Public Health today, but would feel a lot better about going out when I need to if I can kick this cough.
 
My son has been covid free going on his 2nd week but still dealing with the inflammation in the lungs, has a dry cough, still gets tired easily to the point he got winded and had to take a few breaks at work. He got retested to make sure he didn't still have it but he didn't. He just has residual symptoms taking a bit to recover. Probably doesn't make you feel any better but you are not alone in dealing with extended symptoms.
 
So Sunday my highest temp was only 99.0, then Monday & yesterday (Tuesday) it was completely normal. I went ahead and began the Ivermectin yesterday morning since I still have this cough and if it helps at all that’s great, but I feel like I have already turned the page finally before I started it.

Having no perceived sides at all; 21mg (based on 107kg BW) once each morning fasted for 5 days total, as prescribed.

Actually got the mower out finally last night, got gas, changed the oil, mowed the front yard - all of the spring rain hit as soon as I got sick, so I was 2 weeks behind! Mowing would not have been possible this weekend at all, but I felt good doing it.

Added oil-based LGD4033 last Thursday at 26mg/day, pinning most (2/3) days. Seems to have added some fullness, especially in the context of no training besides once Thursday. Ready to get back to lifting tomorrow.
 
4/15/21 - Knockin’ the Cobwebs Off

Yard work ~45 min

Reverse Hyper
90 3x15

KB Swings
53 3x20

Squat
45 2x5
95,145,195x5
215,235,255x3

Was feeling pretty good after doing some weedeating & pulling so I just decided to get my heart up and then grease the groove a bit on squat since it’s been so long.

Tried the new Bearfoot hi tops and they’re pretty nice. I am size 10.5 with most shoes and bought 10, but should have got 10.5 because they are true to size and being smaller just tightens the toe box.
 
Hyde said:
4/15/21 - Knockin’ the Cobwebs Off

Yard work ~45 min

Reverse Hyper
90 3x15

KB Swings
53 3x20

Squat
45 2x5
95,145,195x5
215,235,255x3

Was feeling pretty good after doing some weedeating & pulling so I just decided to get my heart up and then grease the groove a bit on squat since it’s been so long.

Tried the new Bearfoot hi tops and they’re pretty nice. I am size 10.5 with most shoes and bought 10, but should have got 10.5 because they are true to size and being smaller just tightens the toe box.
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good to see you moving some iron on squat again bro
 
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