Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

[Hyde]

7/8/26
BW 228.0

10 min Cycling
Scap Pushups
Cat Camel
Bird Dogs
Tspine & Ankle Mobility

BB RDLs
135x8
225x5
315x3
+straps & deadlift belt
365x3
415x8,12

Leg Press
+90,180,270,360x10

Chin-ups
18,13,11,11

Standing Calves
140 3x10 + long stretch

Leg Extensions
20,30x5 ten-second iso holds at top

GHR Sit-ups
BWx13,12

Surprised to see a new low weight today (228.2 on Saturday), but no complaints there. Pushed hard tonight: contest is in 7 weeks, and I NEED to pull a respectable deadlift. Forced myself to train abs despite shaking from exhaustion by the end, because big pullers have strong cores and my competition isn’t skipping their exercises. They’re out there training just as hard, so when I get to that platform I don’t want to have any doubts about if I could have given more.

“Dreams are free. Goals have a cost.”
-Usain Bolt

 

[Dustin07]

Meanwhile they randomly show some skin while changing and that’s basically all we need

wife: sends longer than usual words of affirmation text
my brain: thats nice, but nudes would have sufficed.

“Dreams are free. Goals have a cost.”
-Usain Bolt

Chin-ups
18,13,11,11

solid work. how do you hands handle high output pull/chin ups? I will often still pull out my gymastics grips for sets of 10+ even though I'm not kipping cause they just trash my hands and will rip them open.

I like your GHR situps too. maybe thats a better way for me to bring some focused core work back into the equation since I overdid those weighted crunch machines a few months ago. I definitely think I tore something so I would rather not make that any worse.

 

[dapack]

Weight is super low. A walk in the park to make 100kgs from here

 

[Hyde]

solid work. how do you hands handle high output pull/chin ups? I will often still pull out my gymastics grips for sets of 10+ even though I'm not kipping cause they just trash my hands and will rip them open.

I like your GHR situps too. maybe thats a better way for me to bring some focused core work back into the equation since I overdid those weighted crunch machines a few months ago. I definitely think I tore something so I would rather not make that any worse.

I have never had any hand or grip issues on chins ever truthfully. The commercial gym has soft rubber-like material over the chin-up handles on the cable towers, and at the barbell club I either use a Swissbar laid over the top of the power rack or the smooth crossbar of the power rack if I wanted traditional pull-ups or chin-ups, so I never use knurling. But I’ve also not noticed issues the times I used knurled handles on racks or towers with them.

The GHD Sit-ups are nice because you can really focus on the quality of work easily - I try to really activate my hip flexors to help strengthen those as well.

Weight is super low. A walk in the park to make 100kgs from here

Yeah I would like to lean out a couple more lbs of fat the next 3 weeks possibly, but once I get close to peaking I’ll probably try to stabilize weight to ensure optimal recovery timelines & maintain leverage.