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  1. Hyde

    Rockslide’s Settling In and Making Progress Log

    You can’t wear elbow sleeves in a competition, so make sure you either get used to training without them OR are just mentally prepared to take your 3 attempts at the meet naked elbows. I mean there are guys with bad elbows who do everything in them, warm up at the meet in them and just suck it...
  2. Hyde

    Segansational's Motivation Log

    I think if you train like this, you will be reasonably ready to wait for the pause at the meet. However, there is a double bounce every single rep at the chest, so you won’t get the press command until the bar is motionless. I would try to eliminate that bounce so it settles faster & you’ll get...
  3. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    9/4/26 BW 220.4 postWO 3 min Assault Bike Scap Pushups Cat Camel Hip Stretch Squat, SSB 65,155x5 205 5x3 short rests Bench, WG Swissbar 35x10 125 3x5 short rests WG Incline Bench 45x17 65x18 75x17 BB JM Press 45 2x20 Band Pullaparts Mini 2x50 Plate Raises 33 2x20 Feeling good after...
  4. Hyde

    Weights up, scales down…

    So either more paused work if you just need to generate more chest power from a dead stop, or Spotos if you need to also reinforce lat control & positioning with the paused start as well. OR Widegrip bench works super well for building bigger pecs for benchwith high volume like BBB where you are...
  5. Hyde

    DaPack..Fighting Age One Day at a Time

    Technique matters! I have done meets where I did nothing heavy until the peak, nothing. If you can execute the proper way and have experience you don’t need to train that heavy until the very end. I didn’t even miss my 3rd bench this weekend on power, but rather technique. I pressed it out of...
  6. Hyde

    Weights up, scales down…

    If your bench is fairly slow, some speed work can for a month on secondary day can help you regain the speed necessary to make it through the transition. Otherwise something like Spoto’s or Pin Press from chest can build more raw starting power, or I’d try some volume on a 2-board or EFS...
  7. Hyde

    Rockslide’s Settling In and Making Progress Log

    That’s something the owner of the barbell club told me that made a ton of sense. And he has coached a TON of college students, so not injury prone and generally newer to powerlifting. Skill matters. You’re gonna wear it on the heavy work, so why not get the most out of it? The day I got to be...
  8. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    It depends. I use Mast in a lot of my blasts because it does act like a SERM, but it’s going to depend on the total estrogen load. Like 300mg of deca with very low testosterone isn’t going to be the same estrogen burden as half of that in Trest Ace. But either way, whether you’re needing AIs or...
  9. Hyde

    Weights up, scales down…

    Just depends if you feel your bench currently needs more chest or triceps to make it through where you would otherwise fail on a max. Will you fail lower down, or more midway/top of the lift if you fail a rep?
  10. Hyde

    Rockslide’s Settling In and Making Progress Log

    Out of prep, I tend to put them on before I even squat the bar, or within a plate or two certainly even in summer. If it’s warm out in prep, I will try to go without them so I don’t have to switch between them and the gangster comp sleeves. If it’s fall/winter in prep, I will put them on...
  11. Hyde

    Neurogize XT - Caffeine Free Mental Energizer - New Product!

    Definitely no negative, and maybe positive. I usually have increased libido after training, which could be from the increased dopamine with things like l-tyrosine etc I use pre/intra. But definitely no “stimdik” like the old supplement days! That’s for sure, everything works great on it.
  12. Hyde

    200lbs the holy Grail # (for gym bros) why??

    Competed under 220 for first time in 3.5 years. Got my first 600lb raw squat and pull under 220. Successfully hit 600/352/606 on SBD for a 1,559lb total & 438 DOTS score - my best total ever by bodyweight coefficient. This earned me the Best Lifter award for the first time ever! 220.2...
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    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    Boy that was a TLDR. I cycle the meat fats and eat 225-275g protein Mon-Friday. Weekends I make sure to get 180g protein in and eat what I want, with a prominent focus on carbs.
  14. Hyde

    Welcome To Anabolic Minds! Introduction Thread!

    Glad to have you. The #1 thing that must be present to drive size is eating enough calories. This can be a chore especially at your age, but if you don’t eat enough the body can’t make something from nothing. Now you don’t need more than it takes right now, so it’s just about finding enough of...
  15. Hyde

    Segansational's Motivation Log

    Well what I described is what I’d do at a commercial gym, not what you saw at the meet - you cannot train for real with necessary poundages for you without being able to set up properly & tight. So with a combo rack you can kick the stands “in” so you can use the outer area of grip on a barbell...
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    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    Specifically with my diet as it’s been, I don’t think a caloric daily average is useful - the significant calorie cycling is a huge component, and I very much believe the Saturday shitloading metabolically allows total calorie intake that day that essentially gets wasted/wouldn’t be possible out...
  17. Hyde

    New smut log😮

    Sounds like a perfect plan! Grape is such a good monster flavor.
  18. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    Something interesting Broderick shared with me this weekend about Dr. Di Pasquale (the champion powerlifter who made the Metabolic Diet I have been following) was that he personally was big on using 19-Nors, as they helped maintain better muscle volume overall on the keto diet through the week...
  19. Hyde

    Slicin' and Dicin'

    Sounds like with all that delicious cooking she’s been getting a little more PNW husband in her too 😝
  20. Hyde

    Neurogize XT - Caffeine Free Mental Energizer - New Product!

    4 hours for the big feels, but probably several more even for background. I would not take more than 1 cap if within 6 hours of bedtime, for me. Normally it’s 2 in the morning 30-60 min before training and I have a great 2.5 hour session plus then morning at work later.
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