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Nice job with the incline. Everytime I look here your busting out new PR's..... what type of grip are you using for this ?

In the beginning I was hitting 10-15 lb PR's for everything, pacing myself well. Now that I'm 31 weeks in now, it's 5 lb PR's with the seldom 10 lb surprise. I probably could still hit heavier PR's, but I try to hold myself back so I don't burn out too quickly. I'm in no rush.

The good news with all the PR's is that my training has been exactly suited for what I'm after, and no wasted movements. Everything I do after my max efforts is only geared for that particular lift. Nothing to failure. That's part of the key for me to avoid unnecesary deloading.

Incline Barbell: I use middle fingers on the rings.
Close Grip Bench: Pointer finger on smooth part of bar.
Everything else: Pinkey's on the rings.

I actually just wrote my next 4 weeks of training. Had to change some things up completely to continue progress. Threw out some wasteful exercises for more functional ones, more rotations within supplemental lifts, ect.

I also decided on reverting back to the over-under grip for my deadlifts without wraps. I just need to buy some chalk. I don't care for squatting down for so long cinching the wraps tight for my deadlifting. Plus I get lazy sometimes and use the wraps for my speed deadlifting, which means that after 30 seconds, I start rewrapping and pull by 45 sec. LOL!

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ME SQUAT/DEADLIFT: BOOYAH!! Tons of energy.

Olympic Squats:

225 x 5
275 x 3
315 x 2
365 x 1
385 x 1
405 x 1
435 x 1 (+10 PR!)
345 x 5 DROP

- I'm kicking myself for not doing another set!! I put every set up FAST. Just one of those days I guess. Felt tired walking into the gym, but once I started, it was ON. Probably one of my strongest days since I started powerlifting. If I HAD a spotter, I would've definately done another set. Rock bottom. I widened my stance a little extra and blam!

Arched Back Good Mornings:

225 x 3
275 x 3
315 x 3
335 x 3 (matched PR)

- Should've added another 10 lbs. Dropped down parallel with all reps. Very fast.

Pullthroughs [180 x 3 x 12] ss w/ Weighted Hypers [30 x 2 x 10]

- Went lighter on these since my first two exercises were good to go. Hypers I still treat more as a recovery aid to flush some blood back into my lower back.

Banded Abs Pulldowns: 3 x 20

Calves: Few sets of 20 reps

- Damn. And to think I was giving it some serious thought to deloading this week since life's been hectic. Obviously don't need one since I've been steadily hitting PR's every week. I opted out of close stance leg presses for my quads only because I wanted the extra recovery for my DE workout. I've got 265 banded speed squats and 345 lb SLDL's to look forward to. I'll probably do my pressing that day.

DE BENCH: Another powerful day!

Banded Speed Bench: 225 x 9 x 3

- Fastest I've been thus far.

Standing OHP: 230 x 3 x 5 (+5 PR!)

- Could've done more!! Super strict too. Last two reps of my final set had a little leg drive, but all in all, strongest I've ever been.

Decline DB Press: 115 x 3 x 10

- Didn't do a superset with weighted pullups this time. I'm getting rid of those because I prefer tons of weight with these vs. doing bodybuilder types of bullshit. Poundage over size for me.

Pulldowns: 250 x 3 x 10

Incline Curls [40 x 3 x 10] ss w/ Skullcrushers [100 x 3 x 10]

Seated DB Cleans: 40 x 3 x 10

- My new favorite exercise! I could've probably used 60's for these, but I need a few weeks to get completely comfortable with these. This is part of my new schedule. I dumped some of my old volume so I'll get to these while I'm still fresh. Great idea!

The last two weeks have been the strongest so far. Felt great.

I'll post up my NEW schedule when I get a chance.. Probably this weekend. Just dropping down some volume, switching out some exercises, adding new ones into the rotation. Shit like that.

just looked back....Good Morning at 335 .... holy shit man. That's amazing. How's your back hold up to that ? Alright I bet or else you wouldn't do it. Congrates man.

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Feels great. Doesn't "hurt" my back at all. But, if I hold in a breath like I do for squatting, then my top set feels like my head is going to explode. GM's take some getting used to. I used to only do 185 x 5 way back when, but after doing all this back work for powerlifting, GM's really ain't shit.

Missed another DE SQUAT/DEADLIFT due to getting taxes done. My wife has every other Friday off, so if I don't wake up early to lift, then it's impossible to go for the rest of the day.

That's why it'll be nice to have my home gym because my DE workout is centered around speed squats and either speed deadlifting or SLDL's heavy.

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ME BENCH: Gettin' crazy!

2 Board Press:

225 x 5
275 x 3
315 x 2
345 x 1
375 x 1
405 x 1 (+10 PR)
315 x 6 DROP
315 x 5 DROP

- Exploded every rep up. Getting a lot stronger all around. I haven't done these in a while. I wasn't going to try for the PR, but I figured if I could do it all the way down touching my chest, then there's no reason at all why I could not do it with 2 boards.

4 Board Press:

315 x 5
355 x 8

- I thought my triceps would have been spent, so I went with 355 instead of the 365 this time thinking I'd like to hit 5 good ones. I ended up blasting up 8 reps. So next time it's 365.

Pendlay Rows: 295 x 3 x 8 (+10 PR)

Seated DB Press: 70 x 3 x 10

- Those were way too easy. To make it a little harder, I only had about a minute or so between sets. I was tempted to just drop the 70's after the first couple of reps, but I figured to play it conservative since everything after my first two ME lifts aren't supposed to be failure training.

Seated Rear Lateral Raises: 40 x 3 x 10

- LOL, haven't bothered with these in forever. I like them a lot though. I'm going to keep a rotation going every 3-4 weeks between these and face pulls.

Barbell Curls [105 x 3 x 10] ss w/ Banded Pressdowns [2 x 20]

- Great day... Again. I think by possibly not doing my DE lower days it kinda acted as a half-assed deload because I feel completely recharged.