I know…..all three of my sons are older than he was.
Yeah, a cougar lurking around would definitely give you an eerie feeling….of course a headless horseman would be worse.DB curls
10 x 30, 35, 40
Incline DB
15 x 45, 60
10 x 70
Bench
10 x 135
5 x 185
3 x 5 x 225
10 x 185
20 x 135
Tri cable push downs
20 x 100, 120, 140
SS with EZ bar curls
10 x 70, 90
20 x 60
Machine flies
12 x 160, 205
Finisher
15 min incline LISS
So I'm probably at 10k+ if I were to keep tracking steps.
Notes
Morning dog walk
Few thousand more steps throughout the day
Felt a stabbing pain in my wrist yesterday directly under my watch like getting hit by a hammer. Sorta stretched my forearm and it went away. Today same thing on way to gym so took my watch off and pain magically disappeared and then I wondered
...... Is it healthy to wear an electronic all day? So my days of step tracking might be over. I hated the watch anyways. Lol
This morning dog walk felt like a trip down Sleepy Hollow with an unknown cougar somewhere, anywhere....
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Yeah, a cougar lurking around would definitely give you an eerie feeling….of course a headless horseman would be worse.
Simple bench day. Mariners last night, local congressman sat by me, that was cool
Seahawks today. Bench day with my boy, then pho cause he's a little under the weather and has water polo tomorrow
Sounds like a fun weekend.Bench
15 x 95
5 x 135
3 x 175
1 x 195, 215, 235, 255, 275
25 x 135
Finisher
15 min incline LISS
Notes
Simple bench day. Mariners last night, local congressman sat by me, that was cool
Seahawks today. Bench day with my boy, then pho cause he's a little under the weather and has water polo tomorrow
unfortunately none made it all the way too me, so we stopped at a place on the way home and got a couple dogs
) today. I need to bring speed work back in though, didn't feel grindy, just moving slow.
Nice focused chest work….Ha, I understand about loading up on the DB Incline, because you can’t have a little skinny Indian dude looking like he can almost lift what you can. Got a reputation to uphold.Bench
2 x 10 x 95
10 x 135
1 x 175, 195, 215, 235
5 x 5 x 235
15 x 185
Low incline DB bench
10 x 52.5, 70, 80
6 x 90 - ran out of gas
(Saw a 137 lb 5'5" Indian dude putting up 65s for tens... I asked him how much he weighed, cause it was legit impressive for his skinny ass frame and pushed me to add a few lbs today. I was gonna stop at my 70s)
Life fitness machine flies
10 x 160, 205
2 x 15 x 100
Notes
Going a bit easy on things this week, been tired and been running supps at 50% in attempt to keep them in my system until my restock arrives any day.
Still walking dog in the morning before work and taking walks on break /lunch at work just not tracking steps.
Weight 193 this morning.
The lat and pec pump on bench wastoday. I need to bring speed work back in though, didn't feel grindy, just moving slow.
Was gonna run 3 x 5 but each set felt better than the last, I'm not programming right now, so just enjoyed the run. View attachment 255127
haha, its true. sitting on the bench beside him in the mirror the dude made me look like a beast. when I watched him throwing 65s in the air it was crazy impressive, he was very thin, skinny arms, totally unaware of how strong he was at his bodyweight and build. I told him I was impressed what he was putting up cause I know guys who weigh 100lbs more than him and struggle with that. realistically speaking I am starting to think I look bigger than my strength represents lolNice focused chest work….Ha, I understand about loading up on the DB Incline, because you can’t have a little skinny Indian dude looking like he can almost lift what you can. Got a reputation to uphold.
Yeah I knew when you had posted pictures from before that you are definitely carrying more mass. I wouldn’t be surprised if your abs start to pop around 185, but even if it takes getting down to 180, I bet you still would look a good bit bigger than you did back then in the 170s.throwing this to the universe to begin manifesting the next stage in motivation.
I just stumbled over some pics of myself
May of 2023 I looked hella fat, but weighed exactly what I weigh today, 193. So I'm definitely carrying more lean mass.
August of 2021 my old log says I weighed 175 and my abs looked good in the pic. obv chest/shoulders etc looked considerably smaller.
current plan is to turn the heat back on next week. I don't need to drop 20lbs to 175 again, but my goal when I started this is still in play, get back to 180s, maybe 185 ish and take it from there.
its sorta wild how much stronger I am now than back then.
doing db laterals at 27lbs, benching 225 x 3 and 240 x 1. but I was staying lean and calories were about the same. cardio looks like it was pretty moderate, not too over the top. maybe age is actually playing a roll, IDK.
Sooooooo, would you recommend pump addict?
I'm Swifty level fanboy
I have a lot of mixed feelings about prolonged fasting, I like the benefits but not the lack of nutrients for so long, and because I'm a fat kid at heart and I cry when I'm hungry lol.
You could find just a cheap little step counter on Amazon if I remember right they are dirt cheap and pretty simple with no frills.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about prolonged fasting, I like the benefits but not the lack of nutrients for so long, and because I'm a fat kid at heart and I cry when I'm hungry lol.
I respect the willpower to do something like that. I'm very weak around food. I think when I quit drinking and going out, food was the new reward system. I think about good food all day lol. At work in the morning we usually talk about food until lunch
Man left over ribs are so freaking good! They are so much more smoky I feel like.
I had leftover ribs for dinner last night!!!
yeah man I'm so grateful that Costco took our Traeger back, I never could get the knack for it and everything finished super dry, used the money from returning that to buy the Kamado Joe and that thing is AWESOME. these ribs were so juicy... Already gone. might have to smoke more soon lol
Agreed! I eat em cold straight out of the fridge. No shame.
It's an addictionHigh rep widegrip
I got a fever…and the only prescription, is MORE CHEST PUMP!
What are the benefits of doing this?High rep widegrip
I largely do it to gain some different chest stimulus. When I started widening my grip I went very little, like a pinkys width at a time until I got to my current grip (usually ring or middle finger on the band). wide grip was painful for my shoulders until I trained enough volume with lighter weight over time, widening the grip. the same with incline bench, that used to be painful on the shoulders and I have a very poor overall 1rm on incline because its been so rarely trained the past 20+ years for me until about the past 18 months.
I will say this, I feel like my personal genetics and years of training usually left me with a larger chest and calves, but smaller arms so these days I target arms a LOT to make them catch up. (I raced BMX which may have helped calf development early on, idk. my dad has huge calves). BUT when I started incorporating incline and widegrip I feel like my chest grew to new levels and I started getting comments from guys.
I told him I use the same doc as my wife.
Worked well as a bench hypertrophy movement for me
Still a good looking session! Odd it was a madhouse usually here it’s dead Friday morning and evening at the local gymMorning dog walk
Warm up
10min incline LISS
DB curls
2 x 10
SS with DB rows
2 x 10
SS with DB RDLs
2 x 10
Lat pulldowns
2 x 15
Deads
10 x 135
5 x 225
2 x 275, 315, 365
1 x 405
6 x 315
Finisher
10min incline
Notes
Gym was a madhouse today. Took forever to get on a platform so sorta pre fatigued but all in all a good session albeit shorter on the "training" side than I had hoped.
dude for real!
