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  1. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    10/14/26 BW 221.8 5 min Assault Bike Roll Feet Lunges, flexion emphasis BW, +40x12 Frontsquat, SSB w/ lifters 155,205,255x3 295 5x5 Hacksquat +180,270x3 +340 2x8 Hang from Pullup Bar Dynamic Deadlift, Texas Powerbar 225x1 365x3 +belt 415 3x3 435x5 Felt like a great, productive session...
  2. Hyde

    Segansational's Motivation Log

    Open 185, sink it, and then see how you feel. Jumping to 200-210 would set you up for 220-230 if you’re cooking and getting lifts passed fine.
  3. Hyde

    Slicin' and Dicin'

    I forgot BBS is 10x5. Which makes much more sense, name-wise. I would not do the AMRAP in that case since volume won’t drop at all. I also wouldn’t go up 50lbs from your BBB weights, but more like 5-10% and see how that flies for a cycle. You can always bump more if it’s a joke, but going from...
  4. Hyde

    Slicin' and Dicin'

    THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT RIGHT HERE!!! You grew it, and you reaped it. People forget that the cultivation is only part of the process - you must have the determination to reach out & collect your PRs as well. Any farmer will tell you: harvest time is crunch time! You’re gonna bust your...
  5. Hyde

    LOG: Dienedione + The One: first rodeo since 2019

    Glad to see you posting! And very happy to hear you are on the mend; wishing you strength & health ✊ You know you can post even if you are hurt right?? I told him last time he was around, he should at least do a Push-Pull if not actual Powerlifting meet.
  6. Hyde

    Building Back Up

    Do it! If you want to sit around 200, you’re going to need to overcut that to be able to settle around there.
  7. Hyde

    KLEEN LIVING - A log about Life, Training, and Nutrition.

    Great work on your training! That is exactly what needed to happen, winning that mental challenge between the devil and angel on your shoulder. Eventually all of the little decisions become habits that add up to wins stacked on wins. “When you stop focusing on outcomes and instead focus on the...
  8. Hyde

    Building Back Up

    You can totally do it - now keep trucking, because you are almost to 200! You’re just a few tough concerted weeks away from moving into maintenance cals.
  9. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    I think if lipids are acceptable, as early as January is possible for the right meet, otherwise February is ideal. March often has many meets, but my wife wants to do the Arnold Pro-Am Strongman Championships so I’d prefer to be done before we go to Columbus that first weekend of March. Then I...
  10. Hyde

    Building Back Up

    By the time Smont is bulked up to 210 again, Dustin will probably have earned his 405/315/500 lifts and already be happily cutting down to 189 for a beach vacation, entirely content to eat half a basket of chips once a week before going back to greens and water (while his biceps somehow get...
  11. Hyde

    Segansational's Motivation Log

    I watched a guy once open at 565. He was a 220 wraps guy, and I don’t know if he took a single warmup in the back. Maybe 495 for a single that I missed. Every time I saw him he was just sitting around cocky with his coach like he couldn’t be bothered. I opened 529 that day. He proceeded to miss...
  12. Hyde

    Segansational's Motivation Log

    Honestly man that’s a good-looking singlet and appropriately sized. Where else would the straps really go/stay? If they were placed moreso just on the traps, they will just slide down the angle over time until they find that groove between trap and delt. There’s definitely a difference between...
  13. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    Food is only going down for now. I seem to be maintaining ~220, so I will need more gear, less weekly cals and possibly cardio to get to 210. But that’s what making 198 is going to take. Gear will be immediately after hopefully, in light of the above. I really can’t afford to progress the diet...
  14. Hyde

    Slicin' and Dicin'

    You could use Spotos for Boring But Strong after your primary bench. Then to help pick up a tad more volume, which does seem to force the bench well, do one AMRAP (regular or closegrip) touch n go with ~60% of your TM on full range bench (not Spoto). This should net another 12-24 reps likely...
  15. Hyde

    Slicin' and Dicin'

    Eric Spoto (who was an ATWR raw benchpresser, arm wrestler and gym rat with generally enormous arms), famously trained all of his bench press coming down to within an inch or so of his chest. Now while this sounds like a cop out, what it did was both create massive reversal strength as well as...
  16. Hyde

    Building Back Up

    💯💯💯 Part of being a man is definitely owning where you are at, then acting however you believe is necessary for your situation. And when you stop giving all the weight of effect to OTHER people & actually take agency, that control is liberating! All we get to decide is how we react to the...
  17. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    My Ezetimibe landed yesterday, so I began that last night. Took 10mg to get it frontloaded, but will be 5mg nightly with my 5mg Rosuvastatin going forward. Double-checked the 2008 trial data to see if there was any significant difference, even a few percent, between 5 and 10mg - there is not at...
  18. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    The only time I’ve ever benched 405, I damn sure put 4 plates on that bar!!! No doubt, it’s just what you do when you break the plate thresholds the first time. RIP Rocket; thank you for believing in & galvanizing me to make that happen!
  19. Hyde

    Slicin' and Dicin'

    “Never tie your PR, dude.” -Louie Simmons I think about that a lot. You generally don’t have the energy to tie, then go up again. You need to jump from 290-295 prior to 310.
  20. Hyde

    Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

    Just depends on where everything is at. 320 is the most I’ve taken in the 6 weeks since the meet, and I slept on my shoulder funny last night so pec felt iffy going into it on that side. I knew I needed to really hold my shoulder position on that side. At the meet, I was ~235lbs loaded up when...
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