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    Got 7 hours of sleep last night, interrupted only once or twice as far as I can remember. So that's probably the best night of sleep I've had in 2-3 weeks. Felt a little tired going into the gym today, so I chugged a Monster and that got me jittery pretty fast.

    April 18

    Comp Squat: 300x3x2, 300x8 @9 AMRAP
    Comp Bench: 242.5x3x4, 242.5x7 @9.5 AMRAP

    Triceps, lats, biceps and abs accessories.

    Since I wasn't feeling particularly fresh today, I'm surprised I got as many as I did on my squat AMRAP. I was shooting for 6 reps.

    Squat and bench AMRAPs - YouTube

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    April 20

    Deadlift: 380x3x2, 380x5
    TnG bench: 250x3x4, 250x7

    Single leg leg press, shoulder work, face pulls, etc. I really should've gotten another rep or two on that bench AMRAP, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    4/20/2017 DL and bench - YouTube

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    April 22

    Comp Squat: 265x5x7
    Comp Bench: 215x7x5

    Chest, lats, biceps and abs accessories.

    Yes, I did 7 sets of squats. 265 isn't very heavy, but it was a lot of squats. More than I'm used to, although I did do 6x6 last week. I don't feel beat up. Bench was getting pretty hard on the final set. My last rep was about a 3-4 second pause because I just had to sit there and relax a little from my burning muscles.

    Had some low back ache that affected my squat depth.

    265x5x7 skworts - YouTube

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    April 25

    Comp Squat: 310x2x4, 310x5 @8.5 AMRAP
    Comp Bench: 250x2x4, 250x5 @9 AMRAP

    Tris, bis, lats, abs accessories.

    My recovery over the weekend was a bit compromised since I kept waking up in the middle of the night Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights. I'd wake up around 4-5, stare at the ceiling for an hour or so, then eventually fall back asleep. Warmups felt heavy, even 225, and 310 felt about 30-40 pounds heavier on my back... like 50,000 butterflies on my back. My walkouts felt erratic and it was hard to get my feet perfectly aligned, so sometimes I would just say fuck it and squat with one foot slightly ahead of the other. Walkouts are almost never a problem for me.

    At first I thought only my legs were under recovered since I'm not used to doing so much volume on squats (from Saturday), but bench felt a bit heavier than I expected it, too. This workout took 2.5 hours because I was getting tired through my accessories, so it's clear that I need to dial in sleep a little better, except all the waking up seems out of my control.

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    April 27

    Comp DL: 390x2x2, 390x4
    TnG Bench: 255x2x4, 255x6

    Leg press, shoulder work, biceps.

    Deadlifts felt heavy today for some reason WTF, mate? Oh well. Bench felt kinda heavy, too. I've been sleeping decently and my nutrition isn't horrible, either, so I think I'm starting to reach a point in this cycle where fatigue is starting to build up. I can probably handle one more week of high volumes before making a change. I'll put up a video later.

    4/27/2017 DL and Bench - YouTube
    Last edited by marcf; 04-27-2017 at 06:30 PM. Reason: Added video link

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    April 29

    Comp Squat: 285x4x8
    Comp Bench: 205x5x7

    Chest, lats, biceps, abs accessories.

    On my way to the gym, I was thinking, "Holy shit, I have to squat 8 sets." When I left the gym, I thought, "Holy shit, I survived squatting 8 sets."

    I'm still working on staying perfectly in midfoot throughout my entire squat. Sometimes I'll be just a little on my toes on my ascent, or a little too much in my heels on my descent. Overall it's not so bad, but it's not perfect. Bench press felt easy.

    4/29/2017 squat and bench - YouTube

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    May 2

    Comp Squat: 320x2x4, 320x6 AMRAP @9
    Comp Bench: 260x2x4, 260x4 AMRAP @9.5

    Tricep accessories.

    My sleep fucking SUCKED over the weekend. I woke up several times each night, felt like shit Sunday and Monday. I felt crappy Tuesday, but I didn't want to miss a workout. Squats felt surprisingly decent-ish, bench was meh. After I got through my tricep accessories, I was just too exhausted to finish the rest of my lats/biceps/abs accessories, so I'll try to squeeze them in this Thursday if I can.

    My meet is 3.5 weeks away.

    May 2, 2017 320lb squats - YouTube

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    May 4

    Comp Deadlift: 400x2x4, 400x4
    TnG bench: 270x2x4, 270x5
    Single-leg leg press: 180x3x4, 180x12

    Shoulders and biceps accessories.

    FML deadlifts felt hard. I don't like the 13mm single prong for pulling--it really fucks up my set-up. I don't know, maybe I need to wear it one hole looser. As it stands, I won't compete with it, and will instead wear my 6.5mm 3" deadlift belt.

    Deadlift and bench 5-4-2017 - YouTube

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    May 6

    Comp Squat: 295x1x3
    Comp Bench: 230x3x5

    Terrible recovery. I was supposed to do 295x3x10 today, and bench 230x3x10. Clearly, I was very poorly recovered. I slept horribly last night, but what really did me in was my deadlifts and leg presses two days ago where I went to RPE 10 on each exercise. Huge mistake, lesson learned.

    Next week is a deload week.

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    Rpe 10 drains the body and ze mind

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