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I’m just not that strong (yet)!

Hyde said:
Good-looking bench day! Enjoy the Halloween festivities with your family and church. We’ve hit a couple trunk or treats now; my son is 5 and loves his Green Power Ranger costume so much. Supposed to maybe rain a little Halloween morning but be clear for trick or treating! So he’s excited.

Then once he’s tired we usually order a pizza and pass out candy for the stragglers while watching a movie.
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Halloween has like 3 great stages. First you are the kid who is excited. Then you're a young adult who's excited for different reasons (nurses at bars, for instance), then you have a kid who is excited.

Wife and I have zero plans. I told her maybe we should do something since house will be completely empty. :devilish::devilish:

my buddy invited us out to a party but after saturdays farm chores we didn't really wanna go spend $38ea on tickets to stand shoulder to shoulder with people buying $20 drinks in a venue too loud to hear eachother, haha.
 
Dustin07 said:
Halloween has like 3 great stages. First you are the kid who is excited. Then you're a young adult who's excited for different reasons (nurses at bars, for instance), then you have a kid who is excited.

Wife and I have zero plans. I told her maybe we should do something since house will be completely empty. :devilish::devilish:

my buddy invited us out to a party but after saturdays farm chores we didn't really wanna go spend $38ea on tickets to stand shoulder to shoulder with people buying $20 drinks in a venue too loud to hear eachother, haha.
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Yeah those are stupid. What’s best without kids is if a friend has a costume party at their house, or staying home to a movie to pass out candy (or just eating some 😝).
 
After our trunk or treat we are going to my in laws for lunch and then later in the day we will see my mom. It’ll be a good day!
 
Hyde said:
Good-looking bench day! Enjoy the Halloween festivities with your family and church. We’ve hit a couple trunk or treats now; my son is 5 and loves his Green Power Ranger costume so much. Supposed to maybe rain a little Halloween morning but be clear for trick or treating! So he’s excited.

Then once he’s tired we usually order a pizza and pass out candy for the stragglers while watching a movie.
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It was a solid bench day for me.

Our kids are really into the Peanuts right now so we are all dressing on that theme. Kids are funny what they get into.
 
Hyde said:
I listen to the Vince Guaraldi Trio Charlie Brown Christmas album every time it snows 😄❄️
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Since having kids I’m all in on Christmas starting in November…. I told my wife I may start jamming out to Christmas tunes Sunday! Lol

Love the Charlie Brown Christmas album!
 
Hyde said:
Good-looking bench day! Enjoy the Halloween festivities with your family and church. We’ve hit a couple trunk or treats now; my son is 5 and loves his Green Power Ranger costume so much. Supposed to maybe rain a little Halloween morning but be clear for trick or treating! So he’s excited.

Then once he’s tired we usually order a pizza and pass out candy for the stragglers while watching a movie.
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Green Ranger is awesome. Great choice!
 
5/3/1 SVR-2 Squat Week 7 (Deload)

Warmup/Mobility

135x5x2
190x5
215x3
245x1
270x1 @7 RPE

Assistance
Dips 3x12
Chin-up 4x7
Ab Wheel 3x12

Solid weekend with the family!

245 felt harder than 270 which went very fast so figure that one out. Going to stick to easy conditioning mostly this week to rest up and try to hit some solid jokers on week three of the anchor. The anchor block is very similar to the leader so it should go well!

Hope everyone had a good/fun weekend! Also, the time change sucks!
 
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your mention of the christmas stuff cracks me up. back in the 90s around age 15-16 when my folks were getting their first real "tech", we had this receiver and a 5 disk cd changer on their 'big screen' (you know, the ones that weighed 700lbs). anyways, they're updating/bluetooth etc and were giving away their 90s receiver and cd player so I took both cause I think they're as good as modern and my wife and I are stuck in the 90s and still have all our old CD's.

I had it for a couple months before I decided to hook it up this weekend and once I powered it up and opened it, there were 5 christmas CD's loaded in it my parents forgot about 😂 😂

we set those aside, loaded up some nirvana, nickelback, shinedown, no doubt, and snow patrol lol.
 
Dustin07 said:
your mention of the christmas stuff cracks me up. back in the 90s around age 15-16 when my folks were getting their first real "tech", we had this receiver and a 5 disk cd changer on their 'big screen' (you know, the ones that weighed 700lbs). anyways, they're updating/bluetooth etc and were giving away their 90s receiver and cd player so I took both cause I think they're as good as modern and my wife and I are stuck in the 90s and still have all our old CD's.

I had it for a couple months before I decided to hook it up this weekend and once I powered it up and opened it, there were 5 christmas CD's loaded in it my parents forgot about

we set those aside, loaded up some nirvana, nickelback, shinedown, no doubt, and snow patrol lol.
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Don't laugh, because that's still the set up we use at home! Big 'ol giant black receiver, weighs a metric ton, sitting on top of a 5 disk changer. We don't ever listen to CDs, so not sure why we haven't changed the set up.
 
5/3/1 SVR-2 Press (Deload)

Warmup/Mobility

Barx5
95x5
110x3
120x1
135x1 (@ RPE 6-7?)

Assistance
Pushups x 20,20
DB Row x 15,12,12
Single Leg RDL x8,8,6
Hollow Holds 2x20 seconds

Yesterday afternoon was beautiful weather wise here so my wife and I took the kids for a walk. A local park has some nice walking trails.

So I’m excited at how my training max singles have moved on the squat and press. Looking forward to the next three weeks and trying to push hard.

Have a great day!
 
5/3/1 SVR-2 Deadlift Week 7 (Deload)

Warmup/Mobility

135x5x2
200x5
230x3
255x1
285x1

Assistance
Pull-ups 5x5
Dips 3x12
Leg Raise 3x15

Not the best… my wife went out and ran some errands and called to inform me our van flashed an error code and started running extremely rough. She was able to make it home but it’s going to need to go to the shop. I’m a natural worrier and my mind automatically goes to defcon5 levels. My wife is so great… we pray about it and while it’s still not great timing things could be so much worse than car trouble.

Hope you guys have a good day and a good weekend!
 
slimsaw00 said:
things could be so much worse than car trouble.
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(y) (y) good job, you nailed it. people get lost in struggles and forget the spirit of gratitude which can be the difference between despair and happiness even when things are tough.

to be fair though, I understand your stress. car problems are never fun. especially in modern society when we rarely have time to be bored because we are so busy. a broken down car means finding a way to fit one more thing in the schedule lol!! hopefully its a minor and fast fix for you-
 
Dustin07 said:
(y) (y) good job, you nailed it. people get lost in struggles and forget the spirit of gratitude which can be the difference between despair and happiness even when things are tough.

to be fair though, I understand your stress. car problems are never fun. especially in modern society when we rarely have time to be bored because we are so busy. a broken down car means finding a way to fit one more thing in the schedule lol!! hopefully its a minor and fast fix for you-
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Thanks for that! A good reminder for sure. It’s something that I’m slowly but surely getting better at.
 
slimsaw00 said:
5/3/1 SVR-2 Deadlift Week 7 (Deload)

Warmup/Mobility

135x5x2
200x5
230x3
255x1
285x1

Assistance
Pull-ups 5x5
Dips 3x12
Leg Raise 3x15

Not the best… my wife went out and ran some errands and called to inform me our van flashed an error code and started running extremely rough. She was able to make it home but it’s going to need to go to the shop. I’m a natural worrier and my mind automatically goes to defcon5 levels. My wife is so great… we pray about it and while it’s still not great timing things could be so much worse than car trouble.

Hope you guys have a good day and a good weekend!
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Sorry to hear about the car trouble hopefully something pretty minor and cheap!
 
5/3/1 SVR-2 Bench Week 7 Deload

Warmup/Mobility

95x5
135x5
160x5
180x3
205x1
215x1 (smoked it)

Assistance
Barbell Row 135x5x3
Curls - random
Core - Plank/Side plank 3 rounds

Conditioning
20 kb swing
10 burpee
Rest 1 minute
5 rounds

Kind of messed around with assistance. Might incorporate barbell rows on my bench day moving forward. I used to do inverted rows with my weight vest could also add those. Very happy with how the training max singles went. My plan is to keep training maxes steady where they are for the anchor and try to hit some solid joker sets in the final week of this block/template (3 weeks from now).

Thanks to those that chimed in on our car/van. Plan is to drop it off on Tuesday and we shall see from there.
 
My days currently are laid out as follows:

Main lift
Assistance- upper push, upper pull, single leg or core.

I just was trying out barbell rows instead of DB rows which I currently also do on my press day.

Nothing wrong with what you stated either.
 
5/3/1 SVR-2 Week 8 Squat (Anchor)

Warmup/Mobility

135x5
165x5
190x5
215x5
245x9
190x16

Assistance
Chin-ups x7,7,7,7,7
Dips x 12,12,12,12
Ab Wheel x 12,12,12,12

I have parent teacher conferences this week in conjunction with trying to figure out the car stuff on Tuesday evening. It’s going to be a crazy week. Decided to start the anchor block this morning. My squat weight for 90% was 243 and for the leader I did 240, so for the anchor I decided to round up and do 245. I got the same number of reps as I did for 240 so I’ll take it. Bumped up the assistance a touch as well adding one extra set per category. Have a great Sunday!
 
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