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Its Monday which means its time to bench & squat again! Squat: 135x10 155x10 185x10 205x7 215x5 225x4 235x3 245x1 255x1 2-245x1 Bench: 135x10 155x7 165x4 170x3 175x2 180x1 185x1 190x1 SLOW 175x3 175x2 Accessory: t-bar row & lat pulldown Was slightly low on my already cutting calories yesterday and missed out on about 40…

It's MONDAY! Booooooo Cardio: 15 minutes 3.5-4mph high incline on treadmill Strength: Bench- 10,7,4,3,2,1,1,1,3,2 Squat- 10,10,10,7,5,4,3,1,1,1,1 T-bar row-3x10 Lat pulldown 2x10 1x7 Assessment- was a bit below my calories yesterday which is fine as I'm cutting. Missed out on ~ 40 minutes of sleep which was a bigger bummer…

Mojo sent! I have no idea on workouts but I hurt mine years ago during a tobogganing mishap. It sucks.

To answer your question: Yes, you can run 5/3/1 on a deficit and see gains (more on that below.) However, there are a lot of ways to run 5/3/1 and I think some would be more conducive to beginners/less strong lifters than others. Lots of people see excellent results on 5/3/1. About cutting & strength: IME you can run about…

All my opinion: SL 5x5: Pros- simple, gets you extremely proficient with the big lifts, get you used to putting more weight on the bar regularly Cons- not getting very many overall reps in. can get frustrating once you stall on lifts and drop back a couple times. can get boring 5/3/1: Pros- very flexible program, enough…

Happy Sunday! Rest day for me today. Only going to be able to lift 3 days this week so gonna try and crush it hard M-W. Going to get some mobility/rehab work in today though still. Assessment- Under my calories yesterday. Body is pretty much normalized after holiday gorging. Feeling good.

Pen & paper than manually put it in MFP. I'm also eventually when I'm really bored put it all in a spreadsheet. An app would be handy for a lot of people. I don't really use my phone at the gym but man, if someone developed an app that was easily user customizable for variety of programs it'd be downloaded like hotcakes…

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For me there's 2 kinds of soreness: The first sort is from a solid workout the day before and works itself out during warm-ups and my routine. The second is fatigue setting in and my body saying "Hey I'm trying to keep up but its getting hard to handle can we take a break and recover?" Sounds like you're at the second…

Saturday and I'm at work so I hit the gym. Skipped squatting as I jogged a bit and did my 6th bench session of the week. Got an extra 90 minutes of sleep so you'll see how it went.... Bench: 135x10 155x9 165x6 170x4 175x4 180x3 185x3 190x1 195x1 200x1- YOLO'd here. First working set at 200 so I wanted it. Was slow, but…

Happy Saturday all! I'm stuck at work all day but hit the gym before coming in. Cardilol- jogged 2 miles @ 6.5mph Planned on 5k but grinding on a treadmill is just mentally exhausting for me so I gave up at 2 miles. Strength- Bench 10,8,6,4,4,3,3,1,1,1,1,2,2 face pulls 3x10 Dumbbell OHP- 7,10,10 Assessment- Old Chicago so…

Let's put it this way. On average, doing 4 sets of 8 reps deadlifting 175kg burns ~100 calories. That's 32 total reps @ 385lbs to burn 100 calories. Granted, deadlifting, not squat, but both are big compound lifts utilizing lots of muscles. Weight lifting doesn't burn many calories up front but it helps you build more…

Work is cutting in my bromance time watching you dudes lift. >:( But marked for later and great work gentleman. Great work!

Yeah, you were rolling right along and it seems after the pause you couldn't get tight again. You'll have #10 before long though.

First off I'm generally brand agnostic but my gym bag is a Nike I've been using since my aunt gave it to me in 1992. Apparently its unable to be killed. I keep thinking "eh, maybe I'll buy a new bag" but I never do because I'm pretty sure it won't last nearly as long as this one. In my gym bag full time: Soap, shampoo,…

Happy Friday everyone who checks in on me here. Skwaat: 135x10 155x10 185x10 205x6 215x5 225x3 235x2 245x2 Bench 135x10 155x8 165x5 170x4 175x3 180x3 185x2 185x1 180x2 180x2 Accessory: drag curls, various ab work Feeling great. Been sleeping and eating good this week which helps. 185 was slower than I wanted so instead of…

Its Friday! Cardio-Eh, that's for tomorrow Strength- squat: 10,10,10,6,5,3,2,2 bench-10,8,5,4,3,3,2,1,2,2 drag curls 10,7 swiss ball situps 50x2 pull ups- 8,7,5 decline sit-ups 15 with 10lbs behind my head Assessment- chili last night and some chips. Did good on my macros and slightly under my target calories which is fine…

Forgot to post a follow-up. Ended up with a 325lb bench, 385lb squat and a 545lb deadlift. 1255, guess membership to the thread is finally official![/quote] Congrats man! Great lifts and awesome total!

Same. My hamstrings & I hated them at first but now I like them.

Awesome work piperdown! 235x9! I can't wait for 235x1. lol

I haven't really done any back off sets yet. I think I did some Monday as it wasn't going great, but yeah, I'm still at "charge ahead" mode especially since its only my 2nd week on this full bore with bench and first day with squats. Possibly next week I'll add in some dropback sets on bench since I think I'm only going to…

LOL I'd dropped about 13 over the last 4 months. Then about 2 weeks before Christmas it all went to hell and I put on about 4. (or 5.)

Good luck on your cut man! I got 15lbs to lose but I'm more on a "eh, when I get there" plan. lol

Only had about 1800 calories yesterday which is ~200 under my target which obviously is already at "slow cut" level. (I'm not overly strict with my eating, but trying to get off the christmas pudge quickly and then slowly get down to 175-180.) Couple that with yesterday's workout and I was a little bit tired this morning,…

Good morning folks! Cardio- 15 minutes treadmill ~3.5mph & 9.0 incline average Strength- Squat 10,10,7,5,4,2,2 Bench-10,7,5,4,3,3,2,1 Wide grip lat pulldown & widegrip cable row 3x10 each Assessment- under calories by ~200 hit on protein low on carbs/fat. that's ok, went over day before. Hope your arm feels better soon…

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Yikes! That would've been bad! Sumo was so weird because the range of motion is so short. It wasn't easier for me, it was just a weird feeling after the weight broke the floor and "Oh, hey, its up!"

It was actually something in my hamstring/knee. It was the leg I hurt slipping on ice last winter and I hadn't been pulling sumo at all and decided to try it with my conventional working weight. Dumb move. Nothing serious, but I haven't given sumo a shot again. lol

Conventional. I need to get my mobility better so I can practice sumo some, but conventional is where its at for me. Last time I pulled sumo I hurt myself because well, I'm an idiot.

Well, I did the DLs in between the squat sets which I'm kinda used to as during my regular routine I'm usual alternating squatting with my DL auxiliary & DLing with my squat auxiliary. DL-255 is about 65-70% 1rm. not super taxing Squat- 225 ~80% 1rm Bench- 195 ~ 95% of known 1rm But I haven't maxed bench in 4 months and…