TheHumanTripod and Dragonman6's Double Log - Indian Glory :)

[TheHumanTripod]

Strong Curls Tripod.

Nice Bench PR Dragonman. 2 plates soon.

Thanks man!! Could probably get 100x7 or 100x8 right now. Aim to work up to 120x5 then go for 135x1. Would be so epic to curl 1 plate.

Going to see how many reps of 150 I can on the military press tomorrow.

[LankedOut]

@ tripod sick benching and rackpulls brah. getting work done

@ dragonbrah your bicep peaks are insane. With your lat spread it looks like you might be flexing your traps a little, which stops you from being able to hit a wider lat spread. Keep practicing it, took me ages to be able to do it properly.

Strong benching too.

[dragonman6]

Strong Curls Tripod.

Nice Bench PR Dragonman. 2 plates soon.

haha thanks! hopefully man...gonna be tough on a cut!

@ tripod sick benching and rackpulls brah. getting work done

@ dragonbrah your bicep peaks are insane. With your lat spread it looks like you might be flexing your traps a little, which stops you from being able to hit a wider lat spread. Keep practicing it, took me ages to be able to do it properly.

Strong benching too.

thanks bro and yeah im def. doing it wrong haha, will try to get it right next time! cant wait to really hit lats hard when i go back to bulking.

and thanks..my calculated 1RM before i came to the gym was 200, so i did that easy for 1 rep but then i thought i could squeeze out another one...i got it up but the spotter helped a little.

[TheHumanTripod]

@ tripod sick benching and rackpulls brah. getting work done

Thanks man. Going to see how many times I can bench 100kg in a week or so.

[Little_Moth]

That's solid. The PTs in Hong Kong will be mirin when they see how I went from a 175x1 bench at the end of August to 220x5-6 (hopefully) in December. Especially because most of them can't do it themselves.

Lol, this, the PTs back in Greece benched like 1 Plate for reps lol. How I would love to go back to that pussy gym and do some heavy Deads or Squats. To be hounest even my Bench is now stronger than 98% of the people that worked out there haha.

Would be fun...

[TheHumanTripod]

Lol, this, the PTs back in Greece benched like 1 Plate for reps lol. How I would love to go back to that pussy gym and do some heavy Deads or Squats. To be hounest even my Bench is now stronger than 98% of the people that worked out there haha.

Would be fun...

The most I had seen anyone bench in the 2.5 years that I ****ed around in that gym was 240lbs x 4 and that was by this 6'3" 220lb+ guy. He struggled lol. On my very last day this other big guy came in and barely banged out 264lbs x 5. It would feel so good to have the strongest bench that my friends and I have ever seen in that gym.

[TheHumanTripod]

Morning Weight: 206.5lbs
Sleep: 5 hours + 2 hour nap

5/3/1 Cycle 4, Week 3, Workout D

Military Press
115lbs x 5
135lbs x 3
150lbs x 1 PR

****ing disappointed. I got 135x8 so I was expecting 3 reps. Got a second rep but I didn't take it all the way down so it doesn't count.

At this point I did the second exercise and I disappointed myself massively. A lot weaker than the last workout. I suspected that it was just today. I don't know if I was just too tired, if the cut was affecting me, if the chest workout from 2 days ago was taking a toll. Anyway, I could only manage 6 reps of lateral raises with 20lbs when I can normally do 18. What. The. ****.

Anyway, I decided to call it quits right there. I'll be changing leg day making it in between back and biceps and shoulders so I can get an extra days rest for my shoulders. I figure my chest day does more damage to my shoulder day than my shoulder day does to my chest day.

Let's see next week.

[dragonman6]

amazing workout today...set some good PRS!

Back/Triceps

bold=PR

Bentover Row
165x5
165x5
165x5

Weighted Parallel Bar Tricep Dips
BW+105 x6
BW+95x5
BW+90 x5

Smith Machine Close Grip Bench
200x4
185x4
170x5

Weighted Wide Grip Pullups
BW+20 x4
BW+10 x5
BW x5

[LukeMcD]

awesome wide grips

[Little_Moth]

awesome wide grips

This.

Also, good Military PR tripod. I can Military 143lbs x 3 touching chest every rep. But, I can't get 154lbs x 1 for some reason haha.

[TheHumanTripod]

This.

Also, good Military PR tripod. I can Military 143lbs x 3 touching chest every rep. But, I can't get 154lbs x 1 for some reason haha.

**** happens man. I'm putting it off as a bad workout because no way in hell can I do 135x8 and only get 150x1. I should have got 3 or maybe 4.

I reckon it was a combination of 4-5 hours sleep and extreme deltoid soreness from chest/triceps 2 days ago. At least it made me realize that I'm doing too much volume on my cut, especially since I'm working out each muscle group twice a week..

Chest and triceps later today. Going to see how many reps I can bang out with 215lbs with pause bench. If I get 4 reps, I'll consider it a PR over 210x5, and if I get 5 reps I'll be ecstatic. 3 reps or less and I'm going to rape the barbell.

[Little_Moth]

inb45reps

[dragonman6]

^^ good luck bro!

[m4ttarama]

^^ good luck bro!

This. Good luck.

[TheHumanTripod]

Thanks for the support guys, but I didn't make 5 reps. My shoulders gave out once again (they need more time to recover) and I'm sick, so in that context I think today went pretty well. I'm resetting all my PRs to the lifts I make this week, for my cut.

Morning Weight: 205.5lbs (water weight dropping)
Sleep: 8 hours

5/3/1 Cycle 5, Week 1, Workout A

Flat Barbell Pause Bench
155lbs x 5
185lbs x 5
215lbs x 3 PR

The 185 set felt so heavy that I knew I wasn't even going to hit 4 reps with 215. Shoulders are the main cause of the lower lifts today. I really need to reconsider the volume I have on my shoulder day. Hopefully they will recover over the next couple of days and I should be back to normal next week.

Iso-Lateral Incline Chest Press
240lbs x 10 PR
220lbs x 5
190lbs x 8
190lbs x 6
190lbs x 8

This got hard so fast. I've also dropped the rest periods for all accessories to 1 minute and 30 seconds as Wendler states.

Hammer Strength Dips
225lbs x 10 PR
225lbs x 10 PR
225lbs x 10 PR
225lbs x 10 PR
225lbs x 10 PR

This got easier somehow. This was a confirmation for me because there really wasn't as much deltoid usage in this exercise as the others and this was REALLY REALLY easy. I honestly think I could have got 20 reps if I went for it.

Gym closed tomorrow, so I'll just have to do bodyweight squats and stuff for my leg workout. Just so you know, it has now been 4 months since my lower back injury and I feel I'm ready to get back into squats so from next week onwards, when the gym is open, I'll be back to my regular squats and legs workout.

Edit: On a positive note, I wore a sleeveless to the gym today and I looked so much bigger than before. I looked pretty darn big, if I may blow my own horn (no homo).

[m4ttarama]

Those Hammer-Strength dips were nuts. Sucks about the bench. you'll get it next time, when you aren't sick.

[TheHumanTripod]

Those Hammer-Strength dips were nuts. Sucks about the bench. you'll get it next time, when you aren't sick.

Thanks a lot mate!! Means a lot. I hope so.. I've got a serious cold and I haven't been sleeping well for other really weird reasons (I've been producing a lot of saliva so I have to swallow it every 5 seconds. Don't really pay attention to it during the day but when I try to sleep it distracts me and I just can't. I went to bed at 12pm the other day and couldn't sleep until 4am LOL.). Doctor says it might be related and but he said he wasn't sure at all. Will be seeing a more specialized doctor next Tuesday but I hope what he gave me works because it is REALLY annoying me at night.

[m4ttarama]

Yeah I know the feeling of not being able to sleep. It's one of the worst things ever, IMO. Especially knowing how tired you are gonna be when you wake up.

[TheHumanTripod]

Yeah I know the feeling of not being able to sleep. It's one of the worst things ever, IMO. Especially knowing how tired you are gonna be when you wake up.

My lifts aren't at the point where I can't gain strength on a cut right? I want to hit a 275 bench on my cut.

[m4ttarama]

I'm pretty sure you'd be fine gaining strength on a cut. Just eat the majority of your carbs around your workout.

[Nood]

215x4 is yours next time around

[TheHumanTripod]

215x4 is yours next time around

Thanks man. I think I'll get it, maybe 215x5 if I'm feeling good.

Great to have you drop by. You got a log or something?

[kaoslegend]

lookin jacked in the tanks always a good feel bro

[TheHumanTripod]

lookin jacked in the tanks always a good feel bro

Thanks man! You'd look jacked even with 2 full layers on lol.

[dragonman6]

Thanks man! You'd look jacked even with 2 full layers on lol.

this forsure...prolly 3 layers

[dragonman6]

Happy thanksgiving everyone! my gym was open from 8-12pm today so decided to get a quick leg/shoulder workout plus cardio...****ty workout tho.

Legs/Shoulder

Squats (relaized i wasnt going parraell before...corrected my form)
135x5
185x4
170x4

DB Shoulder Press
60x4
55x5
50x6

did 40 mins on the elliptical as well

[TheHumanTripod]

God damn, all the university gyms are closed today.

[m4ttarama]

mirin mini workout lol

[dragonman6]

mirin mini workout lol

haha thanks man, wanted to make sure i got my cardio in!

[LankedOut]

God damn, all the university gyms are closed today.

Do some pushups and curls with water bottles lol.

Also looking forward to some squats.

mirin mini workout lol

This, good job fixing your squat form too.