Jesse's Quest For Master Class (Yet another TM training log)

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Recovery Workout:
Squat 135x5, 185x5, 205x3, 225x2x5

Pushups, curls, dips, rows, farmer's walks. Felt great when I left.

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Intensity Day (more on that in a second)

Squat: 340x3 (full depth, easy.)
Bench: 225x1
Deadlift 445x3 PR

Switching back to Texas Method. This time with a much smarter setup. I was making great progress on accelerated 5/3/1, but I wasn't recovering fast enough from Deadlifts for my squats to improve. So now I'm only deadlifting once a week on intensity day, and I'm going to keep setting PR triples. Also Being smart this time around, thanks to some input from Justin Lascek from 70sbig. Should hopefully see some good results over the next several months.

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TM week 1 Volume Day
Squat: 315x8x3
Press: 135x3, 125x7x3

Was planning on doing triples at 135 on press, after the first set I looked at the clock and realized there was no way I was going to get done in time if I kept weight there (long rest breaks would be needed), so I elected to drop weight a little and get it done. Note to self, 16 sets takes a long time. I got done in just under an hour, and could easily have done close to two hours if I'd been resting longer.

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Assistance day

Hip Thrusts: 135x3x5- kept these light. My back is still fried, like toast.
Shrugs: 225x5, 315x5, 365x5, 405x5, 405x12- felt easy
Rows: 100 x15 per arm, didn't want to push too hard my first day.

Lots of pulling accessory work. Haven't done any pulling except for sporadic pullups and deadlifts in two months. Need to beef up my upper back to support squatting and get my yoke on. Felt good when I left.

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Whoops, forgot to record stuff.

Recovery Day:
worked up to 225x5 squats, felt okay.
worked up to 185x3x3 bench. Arms felt destroyed, elbow feeling overused.

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Intensity Day week 1

Squat: 135x5, 225x3, 315x1, 360x3 (ties PR, form way better than last time)
Press: 45x10, 95x3, 135x1, 155x1, 145x3 (didn't rest long enough after squats or between sets, was going for 155 for 3, 145 was easy)
Deadlift, 225x5, 315x1, 385x5 (fairly hard, once again, barely any time between sets.
Shrugs: 475x3

Felt completely recovered going into intensity day. Squats were great, press way okay, even though I forgot to wear my belt and didn't take enough rest. Deadlifts were fine, if a little slow.

Didn't have any soreness the next day, and I feel fine today, even though I went out and got trashed. Looking forward to eating and sleeping and lifting tomorrow.

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Volume Day week 2

Squat 315x3, 295x7x3. Had to drop weight down since I was still feeling pretty bad from the weekend. Lesson learned.
Bench 185x8x3- hard, but fine. Elbow feeling better

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Assistance Day

Hip Thrusts: 135x3x5- felt way easier than last week
Shrugs: work up to 415x10, neck felt funny. Stretched shoulders, 475x5
DB Rows: 100x15 per arm. Don't want to increase weight until elbow feels completely recovered.

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Recovery Day

Squat 135x5, 225x2x5
Press 45x10, 95x3, 135x3x3- these got faster as the sets went on.

Could barely walk into gym today. Left feeling good.

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Forgot to record Intensity Day this week

Squat worked up to 365x3 PR
Bench worked up to 215x2, third rep just sat and sat at the sticking point. I keep missing the groove, really annoying.
Deadlift hit 455x3 PR


Been videoing my squat form fairly regularly, it seems the reason I'm coming forward somewhat is my upper back is collapsing and the bottom of my squat position is mimicing the start of my deadlift position.