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Warmup:
5min with partner
row until partner completes
10 hand release pushups
15 slow squats (5 count down, 5 count up)

Specific:
1 legged/pistol squat progressions

Workout:
4 rounds for time
20 squats
Row 15 cal
10 burpees over plate

12:38

Deadlifts on Saturday, 125-355#
Incline bench today, 125-285#

Cardio yesterday, stair machine and bike intervals, 730 cals in 60 minutes. Lower body/core today.

Elliptical: 2x20minutes

Bench presses, box jumps, curls, body weight squats, weighted squats, leg extensions, kettle bells swings, flys on an air compressor machine, lat pull downs, standing over head presses, pull ups, chin ups.

I've heard of unscrupulous mechanics blowing up skirts, but this is a new low.....

Only thing it would do is make those yoga pants tighter. Wait, wait you don't need to tell me....

And if you work around the edges it does. Ethics are hard enough for me....

Finally able to complete all back squat sets at 285lbs. Felt pretty good. Kinda looking forward to 290lbs tomorrow.
230lbs bench - backing off increases to 2.5lbs instead of 5lbs going forward.
185lbs BB row - dropping increases to 2.5lbs
BW+52.5lbs dips
95lb LTE's

Got a new belt after blowing out my old one on squats last week. That helped.
Also, I was lifting in Chuck Taylors but switched to Powerlift2. Felt way more solid and I'm sore so I'm working stuff differently.

Congrats on the goal! It's always fun to hit a new high.

I was surprised at what a change in shoes can do for the lifts. They are available for a reason.

It's been so long since I've lifted with a belt, I'm not sure I could again. Then again, I'm fat enough I'd probably blow one out just bending over.

Thanks.
My goal is to hit 225 bench(accomplished!), 315 squat, and 405 deads work sets before switch to 2 day lifting with more cardio focus. I have a month to hit it so even with a deload I may hit'em.

Good luck!! I'm sure you'll get them! Even if you don't, it's not like it didn't help.

That dead amount would be the toughest for me. Weak back and crappy form gets in my way.

Bike intervals: 30min. Good back workout, light on the rest. Ended up with a 15minute jog around the BB court.

Unscrupulously perved on the talent the entire time.

The only man I know who can use "perv" as a verb.

I worked out this morning at 6am. Way too early! It robbed 20# off my lifts.

Incline benchpress, started repping 125# and worked up to 1 rep at 265# and then finished with 125x10.

PS, I know how those poor women you were ogling feel. Yesterday I was doing upper body and I couldn't even get through a set without some 20-something scantily-clad gal sneaking up from behind to cop a feel of my biceps.

It was very degrading.

I leave the 20 somethings to the old guys. You know, the ones with the gold chains and Gold gym muscle shirts. All that giggling drives me out of the gym. Prefer those with a little more behind the wheel experience. Nice to have a gal that is willing to drive now and then.

The poor ones also don't attract me all that much.

Well, to each his own, but that's why I quit drinking.

Understand completely why you couldn't stop at just a little. I've seen drinking do the same to more than one. Degrading it is.

Eliptical and fast weight circuit that hit just about every body part. Taking Saturday and Sunday off.

Cardio interval, stair then bike. 760 calories in 60 minutes.

A question for the rest of you gym rats. How on earth can otherwise intelligent people go to the time and expense of a gym membership/daily workouts, go to the gym every day, and work out at a pace where they don't come close to breaking a sweat or breathing hard and be satisfied with that?

There was a guy my age next to me on the bike for 30 minutes and he read a book the whole time, never broke a sweat, and never even breathed hard. He never took the resistance off "1" on a scale of 1-20. I can't even feel any resistance on "1."

What are people thinking?

Have seen the same and it often correlates with a larger waist. Also those who sit at a machine and stare into space. Get up, go to another and do the same.

Then, then there are the real heroes. Those who come stumbling in suffering the after effects of strokes, accident or some other disability and they struggle to do the best they can.

Much to be learned in a gym beyond exercise.