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workout logs are crazy. I've kept one since 2007 but here on AM since 2015.
My weight every other year when I get back into a good groove is Exactly the same. 184 give or take a couple.
Mondays its always up 3-5lbs
My bench/squat/deadlift are identical
I even made notation of my inzer squat belt which at this weight, is on hole 3, pushing hole 4.

I'm the most freaking habitual human. I'm sitting today at basically the same place I always begin to plateau. From here I either crash diet the last 10lbs and lose all my strength, or destroy my CNS chasing PRs.

maybe now that I'm starting my 40th year I will maintain the progress train for once.
Stuck in the same boat as you are. Last 8 years besides bench lifts all have been around the same. Will take any PRs here on out if I can get them. Figured if a can maintain were I am at when I am 60 my lifts would be really good then LOL
 
“To get more than you’ve ever gotten, you must do more than what you’ve ever done.”
Roger that.

Bench
95 x 12
135 x 8
175 x 1
195 x 1
210 x 1
220 x 1
230 x 3 x 5
190 x 10

Incline barbell press
3 x 10

DB curls
10 x 30
5 x 40, 45, 50, 52.5s

Tri DB ext
10 x 25
4s x 9r x 30s

DB bench
3 x 8 x 70s

Ss with
Machine curls
4 x 10

Dips
3 x 10

LISS
30min
 
Deads
135 x 10
185 x 3
225 x 3
275 x 1
315 x 1
365 x 1
400 x 1
420 x 1
Tore well there...need chalk.
I think it's my first 420 in YEARS.
365 x 5

Hands are slipping bad now.

RDLs
225 x 3 x 10 (straps)

Bicep curl machine
4 x 10-12

DB rows
4 x 10-12

Single arm bicep curl machine
3 x 10-12

DB shrugs
70s x 12
90s x 2 x 12

Spider curls
3 x 10

LISS
30 min

Weight
Hanging tight at 185....
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Friday bonus day lunch lift

Bench
135 x 10
175 x 10
200 x 3 x 10

Machine dips
4 x 12
First time using a machine in years lol

DB flies
3 x 10

Cable tri ext
3 x 12

Lateral shoulder raises
3 x 12


Just wanted a volume day before the weekend. (gym is an hr from home so weekends are prohibitive right now).
 
Squats
95 x 10
3 x 135, 175, 205
265 x 1
295 x 1
305 x 1
285 x 2,1,1,1,1
235 x 5
195 x 8

Good mornings
135 x 10
155 x 3 x 8

RDLs
3 x 10

Ss with chin ups
3 x 10

DB lunges
3 x 8

Ss with
DB curls
3 sets

LISS
15 min

I'm sorta surprised at how weak I felt today as I upped calories a bit but... I've been tearing it up lately and was hoping for one more intense week before I have to travel next sun-tues.

weight
183.8
If weight drops between now and Friday I'm going to add more cals next week.
 
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Awesome work on the deads!! Maybe you are still recovering after the deads is why your squats were off?
 
Awesome work on the deads!! Maybe you are still recovering after the deads is why your squats were off?
Thanks! I'm hoping so but I have gone just about 7+ weeks linear so I know I'm about due for a deload. Bench stuttered a bit as well. So I'll likely drop a few lbs next week and then move upwards again (goal) or stay at this weight and add reps.

Either way I'm at plateau or close so time to bust through
 
Bench
105 x 10
145 x 10
175 x 1
195 x 1
205 x 1
215 x 1
225 x 1
235 x 2 x 5 (was actually 4+1 and 3+2 but no more than 20 second rest on finishing sets)
200 x 10
135 x 20

EMOTM
245 x 6 singles
250 x 1

Machine dips
140 x 20
180 x 15
230 x 15
250 x 10

Curl machine
3 x 10

Single arm
3 x 10

Tri cable ext
3 x 20

Flies
3 x 15

Incline bb
3 x 10

LISS
20min
 
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Leg ext
Warm up

Leg curls
Warm up

Cleans
Warm up

Deads
135 x 10
185 x 1
225 x 1
275 x 1
315 x 1
345 x 1
375 x 5
405 x 1

RDL
275 x 2sets x 8

Abbreviated unfortunately. Gotta run to Spanish class lol. But took working set up ten lbs again
 
Friday bonus day
Warm up

Lateral raises
3 sets

DB curls
3 sets

Incline DB press
3 sets

Bench
95 x 10
135 x 5
175 x 5
205 x 5
225 x 5
155 x 10

Front squats
95 x 3 x 10

Ss with OH press
95 x 3 x 10




Notes
Made the "mistake" of a round of golf in the rain this morning before gym. It was pouring so they made us walk, no carts. Absolutely exhausted by gym time. Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed
 
Friday bonus day
Warm up

Lateral raises
3 sets

DB curls
3 sets

Incline DB press
3 sets

Bench
95 x 10
135 x 5
175 x 5
205 x 5
225 x 5
155 x 10

Front squats
95 x 3 x 10

Ss with OH press
95 x 3 x 10




Notes
Made the "mistake" of a round of golf in the rain this morning before gym. It was pouring so they made us walk, no carts. Absolutely exhausted by gym time. Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed
That’s hardcore golfing right there. Great exercise when it’s dry, but man bad weather conditions make it pretty tough.
 
Got a round in at Eagle Mountain yesterday. Boarding plane now then back to lifting this week. I think the rest and tacos were good.

Haven't seen a scale in days so who knows

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Weighed in at 187 this morning but that doesn't really mean anything after a few days of travel food lifestyle. it'll take me a week to figure out where I really am, I'm sure.
 
Bench
95 x 10
135 x 10
175 x 5
205 x 5
225 x 4
235 x 3

Power snatch
65 x 3 x 10

Kettlebell armbars


Threw in some light rehab work like the snatch as everything was a bit achy and off today.

Hyde's tri ext thing
3 sets

DB curls
4 sets

Lateral raises
3 sets, top set 35s

Machine curls
3 sets + 3 sets single arm

Tri cable ext
3 sets

Ss with dips
3 sets

Weight
184.4

Note
Need to get some shoulder rehab, up cals, add fishoil.
 
last night;

squats
bar x 10
115 x 10
155 x 7
205 x 5
245 x 3
275 x 2
300 x 2
315 x 2
335 x 4
335 x 4
335 x 2
275 x 5
225 x 5
185 x 10
135 x 10


notes
I'm not quite hitting depth on my training weight. that's why I dropped and killed more sets at 275, 225, 185 etc. I need to fix my depth issue. definitely getting stronger but these are not legal reps. the 335s were supposed to be 5s but my first set I did 4 then failed the 5th rep.

next squat session, going to try having a buddy spot me a bit so I can 'sorta' fail with better form and still finish the lift.

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throwing this in from 2018 when I was squatting 345 on an upward tear, Benching 280 chasing 300, OH press was PR'ing and I was essentially doing twice the squat volume instead of deadlifts like I'm doing now. Monday starts a new day and upward strength cycle and I need to figure what what my consistent programming is going to be.

I'm thinking I did best when I had 2 squat days. a 10 rep day, and a 1 rep day. Just trying to figure out how to make that all work again because I wasn't really deadlifting back then and deadlifts are my favorite.
 
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throwing this in from 2018 when I was squatting 345 on an upward tear, Benching 280 chasing 300, OH press was PR'ing and I was essentially doing twice the squat volume instead of deadlifts like I'm doing now. Monday starts a new day and upward strength cycle and I need to figure what what my consistent programming is going to be.

I'm thinking I did best when I had 2 squat days. a 10 rep day, and a 1 rep day. Just trying to figure out how to make that all work again because I wasn't really deadlifting back then and deadlifts are my favorite.

You could rotate deadlifts in every other heavy day instead of the heavy squat?

And for another layer, you could make every other squat day a variation, like rotating between Frontsquat volume on the week you backsquat heavy, and then backsquat volume on the week you pull heavy?

Just ideas!
 
You could rotate deadlifts in every other heavy day instead of the heavy squat?

And for another layer, you could make every other squat day a variation, like rotating between Frontsquat volume on the week you backsquat heavy, and then backsquat volume on the week you pull heavy?

Just ideas!

I'm having a hard time visualizing it to be honest. I will likely start throwing in some weekend sessions again. I've just been avoiding those because the closest gym right now is about 30 minutes + a $5 toll fee on the weekend.
Maybe something like this with an A/B week? (i'm thinking front squats heavy are still very light compared to backsquats and deadlifts, shouldn't be near as taxing).

Week A
Mon - Backsquat volume, front squats heavy
Tues - Bench / pressing / rows
Weds - rest
Thurs - Deadlift heavy, squat light
Fri - Press

Week B
Mon - Backsquat heavy, front squat volume
Tues - Pressing/Bench
Weds rest
Thurs - Deadlift med weight, deficits, form dev
Fri - Pressing
 
Squats
95 x 10
135 x 5
185 x 5
225 x 5
255 x 5
285 x 5

235 x 3 x 6

Front squats
135 x 5
165 x 3
185 x 1
195 x 1
205 x 1

Back extensions
+25lbs x 3 x 15
(Ha, can tell it's been a while)

Leg extensions
3 sets

Leg curls
3 sets

Notes
Wanted to go a bit harder and throw in some RDLs but this workout tore me up. My legs felt "nauseous". Weirdest feeling. Still can tell it was solid output and I'll be trashed tomorrow.
 
Reality check. I added up the volume I squatted on my last 4 squat sessions:

10/17/2022 = 10,925lbs
10/24/2022 = 10,725lbs
10/31/2022 = 7,805lbs
11/15/2022 = 12,360lbs
 
Bench
95 x 10
135 x 5
165 x 5
185 x 5
205 x 5
225 x 5
235 x 3
Had five in the bag but hip cramped bad on 2 lol
235 x 5
245 x 2
250 x 1
225 x 3 x 5

Hammer strength declines
3 sets, top set 230 x 10

Bicep curl machine
4 sets double
3 sets single

DB rows
4 sets

Life fitness machine (?) Chest press
4 sets

Never used one of these before. Should have wore a dress for this one. Totally fucked up. I thought it was set to 145lbs it was set to 145lbs per side

But... That's sorta what I wanted. Train a hard press without risk of dying under the bar with no pins lol

Dips
5 sets
3 with +25lbs

DB curls
3 sets

Tried to up volume today. Although in the end it feels a little disorganized. Gym was absolutely packed today.


Weight
185.8
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Warm up
Bb cleans
Straight legged deads
Squats
Sumos
Power cleans

All empty barbell to 95lbs

Deads
135 x 10
185 x 5
235 x 5
285 x 3
335 x 3
365 x 1
375 x 1
385 x 5

RDL
285 x 3 x 6

Deads
225 x 10

Bb rows
135 x 10
155 x 8
175 x 6

Back ext
+25 x 10, 13, 16

DB rows
3 sets

Ss / DB shrugs
3 sets

Oblique weighted crunches
3 sets
Pretty gay but I never do ab work and figured I was done with deads and heavy squats for a couple days


Weight
185.2
 
OH Press
65 x 10
95 x 10
115 x 5
135 x 5
145 x 5
160 x 1
170 x 1

Push press
170 x 3 x 5

Front squats
95 x 10
135 x 10
165 x 5
185 x 5

Bench
10 x 95, 135, 165, 185

Seated dips
3 x 10 x 190

DB press
3 x 10

Ss with dbl DB squats
10 x 30s, 35s, 40s

(Probably should have gone a lot heavier but haven't done them in ages)
 
Warm up (waiting for a rack)
Leg curls
3 x 15

Leg ext
3 x 15

Squats
135 x 5
3 x 185, 225, 255, 275, 290
2 x 300
1 x 310

245 x 3 x 6

Front Squats
5 x 155, 175, 185
10 x 135
15 x 95

Bulgarians
3 sets
Forgot how much these suck.

notes
snuck out for a long lunch lift. had food in me, didn't want to wait till 4-5pm to put in the hardest day of the week. 30 minutes later back at the office and holy **** my legs are fried..

Total squat volume increased slightly. I was keeping a mental note of that as I went through:

10/17/2022 = 10,925lbs
10/24/2022 = 10,725lbs
10/31/2022 = 7,805lbs
11/15/2022 = 12,360lbs
11/21/2022 = 12,585lbs


weight is still hanging tight at 185.2lbs, calories are up like 400/day. Goes to show how much I really slowed my metabolism over the years. I'd love to get myself about 200more+ calories a day before I start a cut.
 
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****.
It had been so long I started out with no weight just working from a bench to make sure I could even go through the movement then the next couple sets added light dumbbells to each hand. I definitely need to keep these in the rotation for a while.
 
Really been liking your workouts lately. Really changing things up big time. Will be getting some PR soon hopefully
 
Really been liking your workouts lately. Really changing things up big time. Will be getting some PR soon hopefully

Thanks man. Been thinking about Hyde's quote a lot the past month. My history seems like one long cycle of "strength cycle > strength cycle > plateau > cut". I'm trying like hell to not get to that "well strength isn't happening, may as well cut" mentality. Even though I full plan to cut down mid to late december.

“To get more than you’ve ever gotten, you must do more than what you’ve ever done.”
 
Warm up
3 sets each
Lateral raises
Forward raises
DB curls

DB bench
10 x 50s, 60s, 70s
5 x 80s, 90s, 100s (PR?)
4 x 100s
10 x 80s
10 x 70s

Seated dips
3 sets

Ss with lateral raises
10 x 30s
10 x 35s
10 x 40s (barely)

Hammer strength incline
6 sets

OH push press
3 sets

Tri ext
3 sets

Notes
Found internet people's ideas of DB to bench conversion. So tried to match or surpass my 240 x 5 which is next on bench. I don't recall ever DB benching 100 for reps before so count it. Unfortunately 100s are our heaviest dbs at this gym.

Honestly this workout left me wanting to go another hour like a first date. Each set was good, hard, fulfilling, monster pump, but recovery was through the roof. Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed
 
Warmup
Straight leg dl
Power cleans
Front squats
With 95lb

Deads
135 x 10
3 x 185, 225, 275, 313
1 x 345, 375,
5 x 400 (holy ****)

Skipped my scheduled 395. I just couldn't do that close to 4 and not go for it.

My all time PR here is 405 x 6 so I'm back at my all time best from seven fucking years ago. I have no idea what's going on.


RDLs
295 x 6
295 x 2 x 8

Was so pumped forgot to put my belt on for the first set. I typically always wear it over 275 unless it's a single then maybe 315-345


Barbell rows
155 x 8
175 x 8
185 x 8

Bicep machine curls
3 sets both arms
3 sets ea arm

Ss with DB rows
3 sets

Weighted ab crunch machine thing
3 sets +45lbs

Back ext
3 sets +35lbs

Russian twists
3 x 30 +15lb slam ball (heaviest we have)

Weight...
184.4 today (down?)

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Seem the changes are paying off. Congrats

I can think of three things I'm doing different right now:

1. was going zero chalk for the first time in years. that probably contributed a lot to grip strength, now that I'm chalked..game changer.

2. accessory weights. Instead of doing 3 x 12 mindless db curls etc, I'm treating my accessory lifts as strength lifts as well. finding top weights where I can still hit at minimum 5-6 reps instead of say 10-15. My bent over barbell rows are an example of that today, hitting 185 for a working set.

3. adding calories. been doing this slowly of course, but i'm up about 400 calories over my normal daily intake and so far I'm down 1lb since doing so... it's a weird approach but I'm sure my metabolism was smoked over the years of habit and it needed this.
 
It doesn’t come to you. Every day, every time you can, you must make the decision to reach out for more whenever, however possible. All the little things, 5lbs here, 1 rep more there, the decision to do the extra set or not skip an exercise - slowly over time they all add up.

This is why consistency in effort is king!
 
It doesn’t come to you. Every day, every time you can, you must make the decision to reach out for more whenever, however possible. All the little things, 5lbs here, 1 rep more there, the decision to do the extra set or not skip an exercise - slowly over time they all add up.

This is why consistency in effort is king!
Another pure gold quote from Power Liftings own Tony Robbins.

I appreciate that and agree 100% dude.
 
Bench
10 x 95
3 x 135, 175, 195, 215, 230, 240
2 x 250
6 x 225

Machine dips
15 x +140
15 x +180
10 x +230
10 x +270

Hammer strength incline press
15 x 110
3 x 6 x 180

Deficit deads
5 x 135, 225, 275, 315, 365

Figured deficits are usually up to 90% of conventional so that's how I set my targets today.
 
Squats
95 x 10
135 x 10
3 x 195, 235, 265, 285, 300
1 x 315

255 x 3 x 6

Front squats
5 x 160, 180, 190

10 x 140
15 x 100

Bulgarians squats
3 sets


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Overreached on back squats today so backed off a little bit on fronts going up only 5lbs each set vs 10.

All working and warmup sets added some money.

Weight exactly same as last Monday
185.2


Volume tracker:
10/17/2022 = 10,925lbs
10/24/2022 = 10,725lbs
10/31/2022 = 7,805lbs
11/15/2022 = 12,360lbs
11/21/2022 = 12,585lbs
11/28/2022 = 16,595lbs

Yikes.
 
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Warm up
DB curls
Lateral raises
Forward raises

DB bench
12 x 47.5s, 55s
5 x 65, 75, 85, 95
100s x 5,5,6 (pr)

Incline DB
10 x 45s, 55s, 65s
5 x 75s

Ss with machine curls
3 sets

Seated dips
10 x 180
10 x 230
10 x 250
15 x 180

Ss with 21s
3 sets

Hammer strength incline press
10 x 70s
8 x 80s
8 x 90s


Ss with weighted machine crunches
3 sets

Weight
184

Notes
Felt sorta like a lazy day. Hit my numbers but it didn't feel like much
EDIT: once I got into the locker room I realized I had a killer pump lol. but feeling flat and wasting away. going to have to figure out how to increase cals again soon probably.
 
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I just stumbled across an old pic of me back when I used to compete. I'm stronger now, but **** I was shredded.

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I just stumbled across an old pic of me back when I used to compete. I'm stronger now, but **** I was shredded.

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Do you want to be strong, or shredded?

They are diametrically opposed.

You can be shredded and strong, but you will be stronger heavier & not shredded. Below 15% BF, you are definitely giving up potential. Being much fatter can improve leverages further for some lifts but of course starts to have trade offs in fitness, health, grip, deadlift positioning.
 
Do you want to be strong, or shredded?

yes

certainly seems like a simple question, but both are pretty damn fun. although admittedly I never liked how small I was when I was sitting 6-8% bf. briefly contemplated competing in BB but nothing about the stage work appealed me. no interest in the competition "trunks", posing routines seem pretty femme. everything bout powerlifting is better.
 
@Dustin07 Well, a simple way to do this and try to recomp would be for you to add 500-1000 calories on Build days and then subtract the exact same amount on burn days from what you are having now. This way if you are getting about the same amount of build and burn days over the week you are still hitting the same average caloric intake as now but focusing on fat loss on the burn days and creating anabolism on Build days. I am not sure what your training split looks like but if you train most days then you would just want to pick some days that you are training smaller muscles and use them as a burn day as well. They will still get the benefit of the surplus on the following build day.

If you want to go with increasing calories a little then you could simply skew the numbers a bit by either increasing calories on your build day so say -500 burn and +700 on build days, or visa versa only drop to -300 on burn days and leaving the build day increase at 500, then over the course of the week you are increasing the daily average by 100 or so calories. Again depends on how you want to do that. Obviously you could also just keep your normal calories static from day to day, and still get some of the benefits of fat loss just from the fasting but it will not be as effective and will lose most of the benefit over regular caloric reduction over multiple meals.

Current training split is 4 days. Weds and Friday can be juggled a bit based upon my sons schedule with wrestling and school but typically it's this and for the most part, mon/tues/thurs does not change.

Monday
Squats + accessories
Tuesday
Bench + accessories/arms
Weds
Rest. maybe cardio on a cut
Thursday
Deads + accessories and arms
Friday
Bench or Overhead, trying to get extra leg work in here too.

Sat/Sun rest mostly due to no gym currently available.

Calories currently averaging about 2300. Weight staying totally flat.

I'm thinking if I did the IF I'd do:

12 Noon - Lunch
2:30pm - Carbs. Cup of Jasmine rice or something like that
3:15pm - Gym
5:00PM - post workout shake and maybe that wrap or sandwich we discussed
7:00PM - Dinner with wife and rest of macros/calories

Sleep - 8:30pm to 4:30am

So the burn/build days would be easy in regards to calorie manipulation. I could easily add that huge serving of rice/carbs/whatever pre workout and just not have it on non lifting days. that could easily create a difference of 300 or more calories a day.
 
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