Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

[Hyde]

3/6/23
BW 228.4

Reverse Hyper
180,235x25

Band Facepulls, Tri Ext, Rows, Flyes, Pec Stretches

Dynamic Bench
45 2x5
+doubled minibands
45,95,135x3
175 5x3 EMOM
205x3

Incline Bench
45,135,185x5
225,235,245,255x3

alt w/ Hammerstrength CSR
135x15
160x10,8,8,10

DB Rear Delt Flyes
30 2x12

ss w/ DB Alt Front Raise
30x20
40x12

We still had yesterday off work, so I got to do this around noon after some much needed sleeping in and a real meal! Speed bench was absolutely flying, and plenty more in the tank on incline press but I’m tapering for the meet. It was a beautiful day and we got to take my son out to two different parks and have a relaxing day as a family before back to work today.

Took one more big shot yesterday (210 test/200 mast, previous week was 240/240) to get ready for the meet, and picked my RAD/S23 shots back up yesterday (didn’t do them Thurs-Sun, and instead took an Anadrol 50 on Friday & Saturday for the deadlift).

35 min fasted cardio today. Also, brought my leverbelt in ANOTHER notch on Saturday, so continuing to lean out at this bodyweight!

 

[Rocket3015]

Great looking work out! How about some pic from your wife's computation ?

 

[Hyde]

Great looking work out! How about some pic from your wife's computation ?

Here’s a snapshot from each event!

Fatback Farmers:

Viking Press:

Arm-over-Arm:

Odd Object Loading Medley:

 

[Rocket3015]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing !!

 

[Hyde]

3/8/23

Reverse Hyper
180,225x25

KB Suitcase Carries
Bodyweight Squats
Band Pullaparts
KB One-leg Deadlifts

Squat, squatbar
55 3x3
165x3
275,341x1
+sleeves
385x1
+belt
429,467,496x1
363 2x3

Deadlift, deadlift bar, beltless
155x3,1
265x1
353 4x1

Really crushed it this morning. 496 is 11 more lbs than I fell with 6 weeks ago, and it wasn’t even a second attempt today, moved just as smooth as 467 prior. Could definitely have taken 520 after this no problem. Found out we’ll be using the Kabuki deadlift bar at this meet, so I pulled 5 last speed singles on that just to get the feel for the bar.

90% bench tomorrow night, then it’s basically a wrap besides some speed bench and little accessories.

 

[Rocket3015]

You are ready to crush it at this meet !!

 

[MrKleen73]

Awesome work, great to see everything coming into play. The wife's back looks so sick in that pic of the hand over hand rope row!!!!

 

[Dustin07]

Awesome work, great to see everything coming into play. The wife's back looks so sick in that pic of the hand over hand rope row!!!!

dude her biceps, triceps, shoulders. the girl is yoked !

 

[Rocket3015]

dude her biceps, triceps, shoulders. the girl is yoked !

Hyde is a lucky man !!!

 

[BennyMagoo79]

Good to see you living your best life mate!

 

[SkRaw85]

Almost go time! How’s that Kabuki stack up against a Texas?

 

[Hyde]

Almost go time! How’s that Kabuki stack up against a Texas?

It just makes it easier, plain & simple. Feels thinner than Texas or Ohio, easier to hang onto, longer, whippier. If you just jerk it you can create whip that can throw you off, especially if you are sumo with a wide base, but it was built to maximize the sumo puller’s leverage and the new records clearly indicate it does that.

My last meet was my very first time on one, and while squats and bench difficulty were exactly spot on in my attempt calculations based on what I hit in training, deadlifts all felt easier and like I had another 22lbs in me - if I miss any lift at a meet, it’s usually my third deadlift, so that should tell you everything.

I specifically have been training on a Texas so I would be ready for whatever. So now I get a little bonus boost!

 

[MrKleen73]

Getting more and more excited for you! There is just something about competing!!!

 

[Hyde]

Getting more and more excited for you! There is just something about competing!!!

It really does build some hype, the immediacy/urgency it places on all of your training sessions. You really pay more attention to the details when you realize you can count the remaining chances to practice a lift on both hands.

Also, forgot to mention I broke out the Dbol this morning for the first time in over a year probably - not adding it in, just popped 12.5mg preWO since I’m already taking the lipid hit from the RAD/S23. Man, it just always puts me in a better mood! Always have great training on a low dose of Dbol.

 

[dapack]

Looks like you are on track to crush it. Considering everything you had to go through to get ready lifts are looking solid.

 

[gphagan1]

Your last few workouts looked great….looks like your right where you want to be…..
Getting ready to bring on the new lean mean killing machine version of Hyde, and crush the competition.
Your wife is a strong woman….really cool, you guys are a family of strength and power, literally.

 

[Hyde]

Your last few workouts looked great….looks like your right where you want to be…..
Getting ready to bring on the new lean mean killing machine version of Hyde, and crush the competition.
Your wife is a strong woman….really cool, you guys are a family of strength and power, literally.

My son got a 12lb sandbag for his birthday from our friend, and for the first time Wednesday night he picked it up, carried it to the couch, and loaded it just like his momma!

 

[Hyde]

3/9/23
BW 228.4

Band Facepulls, Tris, Rows, Flyes

Bench
45 2x5
135x5
185,225x3
255,275,295,315x1
245 2x3

Lat Pulldown
70,100,130,150x15

V-grip Cable Tri Pressdown
60 3-4x25

Seated DB Rear Delt Flyes
30x20,18,12

Worked up to my opener last night with full commands, then did a few easy accessories. 35 min fasted cardio earlier that morning, with 2iu HGH added back in for 5 days to help recovery. Then it will drop out to shed the extra water at the end.

 

[MrKleen73]

So 315 on bench for an opener, what are your plans for the squat and DL?

Love the your boy is carrying and loading weight. It's funny, but I am sure he has perfect form. Seems kids almost always do by just doing what is natural to them.

 

[Hyde]

So 315 on bench for an opener, what are your plans for the squat and DL?

Love the your boy is carrying and loading weight. It's funny, but I am sure he has perfect form. Seems kids almost always do by just doing what is natural to them.

473 squat and 501 on deadlift.

I was going to do 496 on deadlift, but with that Kabuki bar now I want to start in a position to go bigger if things feel better than expected again.

 

[Rocket3015]

My son got a 12lb sandbag for his birthday from our friend, and for the first time Wednesday night he picked it up, carried it to the couch, and loaded it just like his momma!

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One of those moments are a parent, that just makes you so happy !!!

 

[gphagan1]

My son got a 12lb sandbag for his birthday from our friend, and for the first time Wednesday night he picked it up, carried it to the couch, and loaded it just like his momma!

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That’s awesome.

 

[Dustin07]

473 squat and 501 on deadlift.

crazy how close together they are.
if my squat and my deadlift were that close together proportionately I'd be squatting 39lbs over my current goal lol

well either that or my wife would be deadlifting more than me lol

 

[Hyde]

crazy how close together they are.
if my squat and my deadlift were that close together proportionately I'd be squatting 39lbs over my current goal lol

well either that or my wife would be deadlifting more than me lol

Squatting is more of a skilled lift than deadlifting. Everyone has heard of someone who was able to deadlift ~400 the very first time they ever tried it, but you don’t really hear about anyone squatting that their very first time under a bar.

So while my absolute lower body strength isn’t so great currently, I still have over a decade of training heavy (for me) squats under my belt.

 

[SkRaw85]

Kid is gonna be stronger than you one day!

 

[Hyde]

Kid is gonna be stronger than you one day!

He definitely will if I have any say in the matter!

 

[Hyde]

Looking like a volleyball player at this weightclass - when I turn sideways I kind of disappear

226.0lbs/102.7kg

Fasted 23 hours yesterday. Did my 35 min LISS with my pre-cardio fatloss protocol in the daytime, and had one meal before bed of half a rotisserie chicken, peppers, carrots, peanuts & sugar-free dark chocolate chips. I was going to go 36 hours, but realized I don’t really want to actually get much smaller before the meet, which will just change the leverages I practiced with. So I probably need to go into more of a holding pattern until the watercut next Friday.

 

[SkRaw85]

Looking like a volleyball player at this weightclass - when I turn sideways I kind of disappear

226.0lbs/102.7kg

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Fasted 23 hours yesterday. Did my 35 min LISS with my pre-cardio fatloss protocol in the daytime, and had one meal before bed of half a rotisserie chicken, peppers, carrots, peanuts & sugar-free dark chocolate chips. I was going to go 36 hours, but realized I don’t really want to actually get much smaller before the meet, which will just change the leverages I practiced with. So I probably need to go into more of a holding pattern until the watercut next Friday.

Which volleyball league are you watching?!?! Looking straight jacked man.

 

[Hyde]

Which volleyball league are you watching?!?! Looking straight jacked man.

Lol I just remember Matt Rhodes talking about the first time he met Louie. He was like 270 but 6’3”, so not very thick by open powerlifting standards. He asked someone from Westside at the meet they were at to go ask Louie if he could come try out to train at the gym. Louie says, “Who, that guy over there? He’s lifting today? I thought he was a volleyball player or something…”

 

[SkRaw85]

Lol I just remember Matt Rhodes talking about the first time he met Louie. He was like 270 but 6’3”, so not very thick by open powerlifting standards. He asked someone from Westside at the meet they were at to go ask Louie if he could come try out to train at the gym. Louie says, “Who, that guy over there? He’s lifting today? I thought he was a volleyball player or something…”

I dunno man, those traps scream dbol lol

 

[Rocket3015]

Looking Like A Bodybuilder...........

 

[ANABOLICWRWLF]

Lookin' fkn good homie! Just don't turn sideways, take the door jambs out of your way.

 

[BennyMagoo79]

You look jacked dude!!!

 

[Dustin07]

Meaty old cannonball shoulders look damn near invincible!

 

[Hyde]

Well thanks everyone. I do appreciate the compliments. I just want it to be known that this has to be the most impressive angle for me currently. With everything trimmed down some, you can see all the beach muscles better, but I miss feeling that “Godzilla” thickness. It’s really making me want to run some volume work on squats and pulls after this whenever I decide it’s time for a caloric surplus at some point.

Also, you know a podcast is going to be great when it literally starts talking about Dbol:

Ryan "BENCHMONSTER" Kennelly | 1ST 800 POUND BENCH, 4X ARNOLD CLASSIC WINNER, Table Talk #178

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Ryan Kennelly was always a big inspiration! The Bench Monster

 

[gphagan1]

Man, got the abs showing and all…..I picture you just plowing through a bunch of skinny volleyball players, just for the fun of it. But seriously though, your shoulders, arms, and traps are jacked and really show at that weight. Mrs Hyde is gonna have to be slinging the girls left and right when you go to the gym.
Funny thing is, I bet she could sling a CrossFit girl pretty far.

 

[Hyde]

Man, got the abs showing and all…..I picture you just plowing through a bunch of skinny volleyball players, just for the fun of it. But seriously though, your shoulders, arms, and traps are jacked and really show at that weight. Mrs Hyde is gonna have to be slinging the girls left and right when you go to the gym.
Funny thing is, I bet she could sling a CrossFit girl pretty far.

I bet she could! She can pick me up even.

My wife wants me to be happy most of all, but I do know she prefers me leaner like this

 

[akboom87]

Well thanks everyone. I do appreciate the compliments. I just want it to be known that this has to be the most impressive angle for me currently. With everything trimmed down some, you can see all the beach muscles better, but I miss feeling that “Godzilla” thickness. It’s really making me want to run some volume work on squats and pulls after this whenever I decide it’s time for a caloric surplus at some point.

Also, you know a podcast is going to be great when it literally starts talking about Dbol:

Ryan "BENCHMONSTER" Kennelly | 1ST 800 POUND BENCH, 4X ARNOLD CLASSIC WINNER, Table Talk #178

elitefts Limited Edition Apparel: https://www.elitefts.com/shop/apparel/limited-edition.html Support and help the Podcast grow by Joining The Crew: https...

www.youtube.com

Ryan Kennelly was always a big inspiration! The Bench Monster

This is a great podcast!

looking jacked man! Impressive

 

[MrKleen73]

Looking good, and a 500-1000g carb up away from looking full and beefy! I bet you look really impressive on the day of and after the meet once full of carbs. Your front delts always impress me!!!! Mine look non-existent compared to yours!

 

[Hyde]

InBody is how I normally check approximate composition. I always go fasted, post bathroom, minimal clothing, no wedding ring/metal, and try to get a healthy amount of carbs and salt the day prior (trying for highest muscle reading, as it estimates water in muscle).

Only 3 less lbs of muscle and 11% (ELEVEN) less bodyfat than when I was 263-265. Down from 111lbs skeletal muscle and 29.5% BF, now 108lbs muscle and 18.5% bodyfat weighing in at 230.4lbs/
It’s been a productive 5 & a half months for this volleyball player!

 

[MrKleen73]

How much is a scan like that?

 

[Hyde]

How much is a scan like that?

Free at Supplement Superstore, and at the Complete Nutrition that used to be here. You just walk in any time they’re open and they will also save your info to your customer profile so you can see changes over time and get a stat print out.

I usually buy an energy drink or something just as a courtesy, but there’s never any pressure to do so.

 

[Resolve10]

How much is a scan like that?

You can look up locations at the inbody website.

Prices (if any) may vary. One location we charged a testing fee or an initial fee then smaller fees for re-tests. Another location was a more chill place and pretty much any member who wanted could get a test as long as you weren’t a dick about it (waited until someone was free, weren’t a hassle, etc).

 

[Dustin07]

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InBody is how I normally check approximate composition. I always go fasted, post bathroom, minimal clothing, no wedding ring/metal, and try to get a healthy amount of carbs and salt the day prior (trying for highest muscle reading, as it estimates water in muscle).

Only 3 less lbs of muscle and 11% (ELEVEN) less bodyfat than when I was 263-265. Down from 111lbs skeletal muscle and 29.5% BF, now 108lbs muscle and 18.5% bodyfat weighing in at 230.4lbs/
It’s been a productive 5 & a half months for this volleyball player!

I'm moving slow today but the takeaway is 33-35+lbs dropped and only 3 of which were muscle theoretically?

That's phenomenal dude.

 

[Hyde]

I'm moving slow today but the takeaway is 33-35+lbs dropped and only 3 of which were muscle theoretically?

That's phenomenal dude.

Yep, and I tend to do them at similar timeframes (like a week or so pre-comp, on orals and not depleted) so I can get a snapshot of the peak conditions. I was definitely on much more gear the last time, so I feel pretty good about this composition swing.

 

[Hyde]

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[MrKleen73]

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I have chronic kidney failure stage 3 due to scarring I got when I was a kid due to strep infecting my kidneys. Although my kidneys function well and have not lost any function in years. I intend to order some as well.

 

[dapack]

Thanks for the share on that sup. Need a good one like that. Seems everything is coming together pretty good for you leading up to the meet.

 

[gphagan1]

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