Slicin' and Dicin'
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Dustin07
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on the west side we have blacktail, east side of the state is whitetail and mulies, we've pretty much hunted all of them. My brother has taken I think 2 elk on mom and dads fields, but they're a bit harder to get at in that area without a predation tag (and blackpowder only). I was hoping to take a blacktail this year (archery) off our woods this year, its just going to come down to time/schedule! actually, on the west side everything is hard to get at unless you go way up north to snohomish area and have access to a lot of farm land, most of our public hunting land on the west side has such a thick underbrush its just miserable to hunt lol.
Dustin07
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I shouldn't complain though cause WA in general is such a mild state, we don't have to worry really about snakes, poisonous spiders, scorpions, etc. We do have rattlesnakes but you rarely see them, black widows and brown recluse, but not really an issue. worst thing I've encountered hunting in WA was ticks during turkey season but even that wasn't too bad, I had 2 on me and neither were drawing blood so I just flicked them off lol. I did open my tacklebox that afternoon after the turkey hunt though to go fishing and there was a black widow in it, so that was a pretty buggy day, ha.
Dustin07
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both actually- on the west side we have the Roosevelts pretty much wide spread from OR - Canada, west of the mountain range. On the east side in the highlands with the mulies we have the Rocky Mountain Elk. They're all big but when you come across a heard of Rocky Mtn's after growing up around Roosevelts they look kina squatty like someone cut off 6" of their legs lol.
here's a cougar/mountain lion I had on my front porch last fall:
gphagan1
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Great work on your OHP, and way to get back after 200 and getting it after the initial miss. You did that 200 in a joker set after you had already hit your 5/3/1 sets…. I guarantee you that you probably would have been able to get 205 if you weren’t already pre-exhausted. And those are some impressive push press numbers too.
Dustin07
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Thank you, Sir! With my strength numbers going up and my focus being pretty locked in, its really hard for me to not play with more oly stuff. Right now the occasional front squat and push press joker seems to be OK and appropriate (rather than a focus).Great work on your OHP, and way to get back after 200 and getting it after the initial miss. You did that 200 in a joker set after you had already hit your 5/3/1 sets…. I guarantee you that you probably would have been able to get 205 if you weren’t already pre-exhausted. And those are some impressive push press numbers too.
It is sorta weird that 225 is a heavy feeling with me sitting at my previous OHP highs, even though I have jerked 270 overhead when my OHP was probably 190-200 at BEST. I know that overloading and excessive jokers could be a detriment if I'm not careful, but I think getting those heavy weights on my body is helping a bit.
Definitely building a different kind of strength right now, and a totally different set of skills than when I was more oly focused...
Dustin07
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Deadlifts
5 x 165, 205
3 x 250
3 x 290, 330
6 x 370
Joker
2 x 405
3 x 405
BBB
5 x 10 x 205
Notes
405 was light as hell today. I had at least 5-6+ in that first effort but I got my belt in a bad spot and it pinched the crap out of my oblique after 2 so I put it down to adjust and reset.
That's all I got time for today. Took a half day from work so could snag a short gym session before heading out to salvage some lumber off that old cabin.
5 x 165, 205
3 x 250
3 x 290, 330
6 x 370
Joker
2 x 405
3 x 405
BBB
5 x 10 x 205
Notes
405 was light as hell today. I had at least 5-6+ in that first effort but I got my belt in a bad spot and it pinched the crap out of my oblique after 2 so I put it down to adjust and reset.
That's all I got time for today. Took a half day from work so could snag a short gym session before heading out to salvage some lumber off that old cabin.
Dustin07
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they felt good! the first rep is always the hardest for me, once I have it up, I can usually tell if I have a few more. This was supposed to be week 3 of cycle 4 and I somehow missed a deadlift session in this cycle so I can either go for broke and try to get one more pull in on Sunday, then have a full 7-8 days of rest/deload, or I can skip session 3 deads for this cycle. I'm a little on the fence with it because I feel like deads being so taxing don't quite need the same volume as squats and pressing for me.Nice strong pulls, especially those jokers.
I crashed hard and early on the couch last night, fell asleep around 7 I think lol. went to bed, woke up around 3am and my brain was going like crazy . I realized this was a very hard effort/solid week. no wonder my body is taxed!
benched 280 x 2.5 and 315 x 2 slingshot
squatted 320 x 5 and 350 x 1
OHP 170 x 6, 200 x 1, and 205/225 for push press reps/sets
pulled 370 x 6 and 405 x 5
all that plus consistent BBB work all week. so for me, these are pretty high output numbers. the 3 week on/1 week off approach with 531 has been really good to me this year.
weighed in at 200lbs this morning, so up a lot, but weight belt still solid on hole 2, and my shorts are going full hootchie daddy so I know that at least some of the weight gain has been positive/lean mass.
Dustin07
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I'm also still running life raw, with nothing but my pump addict preWO in my system and occasional creatine (usually on Sundays since I have Steves SNS stuff in stock at home for the wife). I feel like there has been some sort of bounce back with my system where it's responding positively to a supplement break at the moment. I don't expect it to last forever but its saving me money in the short term lol. I have taken the occasional ZMA, Maca, or Tribulus, but honestly libido has been on point as well so even those types of things haven't been necessary.
It is summer though and I'm getting a lot of natural sunlight + weekend hard farm work so all these things are making positive contributions I'm sure. sunrise is much later already, so I have been back to hitting my redlight in the mornings before jumping in the shower.
It is summer though and I'm getting a lot of natural sunlight + weekend hard farm work so all these things are making positive contributions I'm sure. sunrise is much later already, so I have been back to hitting my redlight in the mornings before jumping in the shower.
Dustin07
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I see a lot of debates online about machines vs barbell, specifically for legs and I think this run on 531 has also verified what I already knew. There just isn't any replacement for barbell work for leg hypertrophy for me. This is probably about the largest my legs have been since my xfit days when it was massive squats daily, and I've hardly had any additional time to hit leg machines this year. since may its been 99% barbell work.
gphagan1
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Yeah you’ve been killing it man…. I wouldn’t worry too much about missing that one Deadlift day, because your pulls are still progressing. I would just stay on schedule…if you weren’t progressing or had a lax or slow week I could see that extra deadlift session added in, but you’ve been balls to the wall so I believe you will be fine.
Dustin07
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Cycle 4 was my hardest mentally to keep showing up and chasing those numbers, I've never survived 531 past 3 cycles before, but now as I enter my deload, I'm getting pretty optimistic about chasing Cycle 5/Week 1 numbers! Plus with my birthday in Oct, it gives me a short term goal to aspire towards for some decent numbers.