Link's New Quest to 1600 Raw!

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Squat up to 467x3 and 515x3w

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378x5 on bench, 467x5 on squat.

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388x3, 418x1 normal and 315x16 slingshot close grip bench

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480x3 and 525x3w squat.

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Absolute animal, love the occasional workout vids, especially your squats. Hopefully I can break into the 600s some day. Keep doing what you're doing, your great inspiration to watch!

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Absolute animal, love the occasional workout vids, especially your squats. Hopefully I can break into the 600s some day. Keep doing what you're doing, your great inspiration to watch!

Thanks! Maybe now that my lifts are starting to get back to where they should be I'll make some more!

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Worked up to 388x5 on bench today, felt pretty good! Now I don't feel quite as embarrassed about bench. For now.

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Let's see..
480x5 and 555x1w on squat Tuesday
Up to 397x3 on bench Sunday
And up to 397x5 on bench today!

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Moving on to the 3x3 part of my meet cycle. It's technically 5 weeks, but I gave myself some leeway because starting April first I'll be working night shift for like 11 days straight with extra hours during the refueling outage. During that time our new house will be ready to close. Then we'll move in as soon as I'm done with my night shifts. So, it'll be a busy few weeks.

So, worked up to 397x3 on bench Sunday, then 545x3x3w tonight on squat.

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good to see you puttin in the work and your lifts steadily climbing back up.

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367x3x3 bench

530x3w and 587x3w on squat. Felt pretty solid actually, especially since I unracked it and nearly died since Angelina didn't put the plate on one side, so then I had to to crash it back into the rack and wait while she put it on, and then do it.

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405x3 bench Sunday
560x3x3w squats today

Everything is feeling great right now! Not moving, the construction manager was confused, so our house won't be done til after the meet. I will still be working nights for 2 weeks straight though, and on longer shifts, so we'll see how that affects things.

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378x3x3 bench

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Since my workouts are starting to matter I'll log the whole thing again.

Saturday 3/28

Squat
3x480
3x540w
5x600w

Definitely a 5 rep PR. Decided to see if I could bang out a few extra. 600x5 projects to 699.9. Maybe if I can keep up the progress I might be looking for a bigger number than 683.

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These are the monster numbers I've missed!

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I think my last bench workout was 390x3x3. Today was squats up to 613x4w. I recorded it, but a couple were so high I was too embarrassed to post a video. Oh, there was a 578x3x3w squat day in there too. I've been on nights for the last 7 days, today's my day off, then at least another 6 more straight nights, so everything is kind of running together.

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Today's top bench set was 413x3, but it was easy so I did 4, then I went for #5. Hello twinge. I didn't miss you. Hopefully it's a minor setback, kind of too close to the meet to rest it up and still get any stronger.

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Squats today, supposed to do 590x3x3w. Did 2 and on the last rep of the 2nd set my butt cheek/hammy area twinged. Stopped there. Now I have two twinges, just in time for when I'm supposed to be doing my heaviest stuff for the meet!

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I worked back up to 405x1 on bench and 625x1w on squats in the last couple days. Basically I hurt myself just in time to not have time to do any more heavy sessions before the meet. So, I might try to get in one more of each on Thursday and Saturday and then wing it on my numbers next weekend!

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I got in a pretty solid 425 bench on Thursday. So yesterday I'm doing my opener/second test. I do a fairly solid 600 and then throw on 640. I get set up and start the descent, and the bar kind of rolled forward on me and basically pitched my weight forward as I dropped into the hole. And as I try to recover from 640 pounds of free fall I feel a pop in my right quad. Finished the rep, so I don't think anything is broken, but it was not pleasant. Now my right quad is all mad on the left side right above my knee. My body must not want me to do this meet. We'll see how it feels next weekend, but if I were to guess it may be token squat and deadlift time.

Bench


Squat

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Today was the Fit Expo!

Squats:
Attempt 1: 622, good
Attempt 2,3: 0

I did my opener and my quad did not like it, so I passed my other attempts.

Bench
Attempt 1: 407, good
Attempt 2: 424, good
Attempt 3: 440, no good, couldn't get my right arm to lock out

DL
Attempt 1: 220
Attempt 2: 308
Attempt 3: 0

I took a token 100kg DL opener since I could barely bend my knee without my quad screaming, but then I decided to take a 2nd so I could still deadlift more than Becky.

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Well, I'm finally pretty much all moved and settled in, got most of the big projects done and unpacked, and my rack and platform are put back together! Easing back into things. My last bench session I worked up to 335x8, and today worked up to 365x5 on squat. My quad feels pretty good, a very slight stiff after my squats but I think it'll be fine.

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5/27

Bench
8x315
6x345
5x365

Superset 3x10
225 bench w/ 3 different grips
EZ bar curlzzz

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Sunday 5/31

Squat
5x135
4x225
3x315
3x405
2x425
1x455

I can still feel my quad. No pain, but I can tell it's there, so I'm going to keep taking it easy for a while,

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Worked up to 405x1 on bench last session, and up to 405x1 on squat today and my quad hurt. Guess it's more time off now.

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Random stuffs here and there. I got a maddog slingshot and worked up to 475 in it. Then my next wrokout my pec broke again at 415. My quad has been mad so I haven't squatted much. Today I did 4x8 @ 225 and 20x185 on squat and it was okay. I think I'm getting too old for this.

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Decided I'll start benching with my pinkies on the rings for now, see if that takes some of the stress off my angry pec.

Bench
4x10 @ 185
20x185

OHP
3x5 @ 115

Curls n stuff

I also decided now is probably a good time to drop a few lbs. Since I've moved here I've gained 20+ pounds in less than a year and a half. Hurray for a sedentary job. I hopped on the scale the other night before bed at 289.8. Aiming for 2800 calories or so. It's been fairly easy to maintain by just taking a pound of grilled chicken to work for lunch instead of buying deep fried cafeteria food and drinking a few less Mountain Dews a day.

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Got some bumper plates so I messed around with some light DLs yesterday.

Today's bench:
10x185
10x205
10x225
10x245

Pinky on ring

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Saturday 7/25

Squat
8x225
8x245
8x275
8x295
20x225

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Sunday 7/26

Bench, pinky on ring
8x185
8x225
8x255
8x275

OHP
5x95
5x115
5x145
5x145
5x145
8x165