Not to change the Subject but

[James]

Bench
240*1
185*5*8

CG 1 Board Larson Press
135*10
145*10*2

[James]

Post op with surgeon yesterday. He said it looks like it's healing fine it'll just take a long time to heal because it's such a large area, all the way down on my shin and I'm extra fat. Maybe by the time it heals ill have a my bench back to where it was and I can start on my squat. Again.

3ct Bench
225*1
210*4
200*4*3

[James]

Took the last of my antibiotics this morning. Seeing the infectious disease doctor Monday to see if I need to stay on them.
Slept in yesterday so sessions are shuffled.

TnG Bench
245*1
185*10
175*10*4
Didn't feel like tempo bench because fuck holding tight for a full minute with the hole in my leg. Just did sets of ten till I hit @9.

[James]

Fun Fact. When your skin starts to grow back in a big enough patch it gets incredibly itchy.

Bench
195*5*5

CG Bench
155*8*2
155*15

BB Curls
45*12*4

[James]

Press
115*5*3
100*10,8,10

Bench
135*8
155*6
185*4
210*3
225*1*2
210*4
185*6
155*8
135*10

[James]

If you ever want to get a huge bump to your TDEE flay the skin from your leg. You don't even have to exercise half as much. I'm at about 5100 now and barely moving.

Bench
210*3*2

BB Skull crushers
60*8*3

DB Bench
65*12*3

Underhanded Pulldowns
125*8*3

[James]

Turns out I was allergic to one of my antibiotics. At first it just made my mouth sensitive (everything was spicy) but that faded and I broke out in hives. Its been a week since I ran out and all the redness is gone but now the top layer of skin on my entire body is peeling.

Bench
220*3*4
205*6*3
CG Bench
175*6*2
175*12

Bumped my training max up 10 lbs. Was kind of worried when the 205 sets were hard but last week's Close Grip AMRAP E1RM was 231 and this week's is 244 so that's fine. I was using short rests so that probably played into it.

BB Curls
55*12*4

[Hardartery]

Yikes. Hard pass on the skin removal, I'll just exercise a little more before I give that a go. Dang man.

[James]

Haha yeah next time I'll just start going for morning walks for a boost.

New thing to bitch about: sterile 4" rolled gauze is $9 a box in Walgreens but $4 on the website. I know not stocking it saves money but damn. On the up side I now have a giant order of gauze coming.

Press
125*f,f,f,f
115*1
Well that sucks, maybe I should drop pressing till I can start lower body stuff too.

Bench
135*10
165*8
195*5
205*4
220*3
230*2*2
220*4
195*7
165*10
135*12

Press
125*F
Felt good after bench thought I'd try again.

[Hardartery]

Haha yeah next time I'll just start going for morning walks for a boost.

New thing to bitch about: sterile 4" rolled gauze is $9 a box in Walgreens but $4 on the website. I know not stocking it saves money but damn. On the up side I now have a giant order of gauze coming.

Press
125*f,f,f,f
115*1
Well that sucks, maybe I should drop pressing till I can start lower body stuff too.

Bench
135*10
165*8
195*5
205*4
220*3
230*2*2
220*4
195*7
165*10
135*12

Press
125*F
Felt good after bench thought I'd try again.

The press will get there, that is easily th most finicky lift. I think high barometric pressure can cause a miss on that, lol. Medical supplies are weird. A box of alcohol swabs is $1.99 in the store at Walmart (And roughly the same at Target I believe). It was $6.99 on Amazon for the same box last time I looked. Heck if I can figure that one out.

[James]

Press
125*1
Ha! Gotcha bitch. Still pretty far from 3x3 it was supposed to be but whatever. Press can be finicky like Hardartery said. Maybe after I get bench back to where I want it I'll do some press focused stuff.

Squat
185*5*3
Its been a month since I got out of the hospital so I figured it give squats a try. Did them pretty wide stance to minimize knee travel. Just worked up till "that's enough" probably hit a couple sets Monday and Fridays if I'm feeling up to it.

Bench
220*4*3
Going to bump training max 5 lbs next week.
BB Skullcrushers
60*8*4
DB Bench
65*12*4
Underhand Pulldowns
120*8*4

[James]

Crippling DOMS in my legs all weekend.

Squat
205*5*3
Lets do it again.

Bench
235*3*4
195*8*3

CG Bench
195*4*2
195*9
Wanted 10. But e1rm for the CG amrap has gone 231->244->253 so I'll take it.

BB Curls
65*12*2
65*11*2

[James]

Got some new antibiotics. Hopefully these two don't try to kill me.

Bench
140*8
165*6
195*5
210*4
220*3
235*2*2
250*1*2

Deadlift
205*5
Let the rehab begin.

[James]

I want a bath. I haven't taken a actual shower in a month because I'm sure the minute I get in the shower with a trash bag taped to my leg I'll rip it off on accident and get water in The Hole. Rag and a bucket works but I'm not a horse it's just not the same. When the skin comes back I'm going to just soak in near boiling water for two hours.

Squat
215*5*3

Bench
220*4*5
BB Skullcrusher
60*8*5
DB Bench
65*12*5
Underhand Pulldowns
120*8*5

[James]

The age of chicken is over, the time of turkey has come.

Squat
225*5*3
Looked it up and my best 3x5 beltless is 300. Was going throw on a belt soon but I think I'll try to run this out beltless.

Bench
220*2*3
195*5*3
CG Bench
210*3*3
No close grip amrap this week but based on last set RPE e1rm would be 258. Imagery progress is still progress.

BB Curls
65*12*4

[James]

Leg has switched from growing red stuff to growing white stuff and the chunk that got carved out has mostly flattened out.

Bench
140*5
165*4
195*3
210*3*2
220*2*2
195*4
165*6
140*8

Deadlift
225*5*3
Was only going to do one set but the first one was easy.

[James]

Squat
235*5*3

Bench
235*4*2
250*1
260*1*2
Well that sucks

[James]

Going to switch it up a bit. Still going to try running out squats at 3*5 but I'm going to move them to tue/Fri as an upper lower instead of bothering with any program I'm going to use Nuckols' linear periodization for both bench and press twice a week. Basically take 70% of your last 1rm and send it for three descending sets trying to keep the firsts set's e1rm at or over the starting 1rm, add weight and do it again next session.

Bench
185*17
175*14
165*14
Edit: Ha. Just looked and 185 for 17 is both a rep and weight PR. Best 185 was 16 and best 17 was 175. Both in November 2020.


Press
85*16
75*17,18
Miss load second set was supposed to be 80.

Ezbar OTE/Curl superset
40*12*4

[James]

Hell yeah top half sore and got triceps cramps all day yesterday.

Squat
245*5*3

Deadlift
245*5

Gentlemen. We have achieved baby weights.

BB Row
135*8*3

[James]

Bench
195*15
185*16
175*18

Press
90*16
85*16
80*18

BB Curl
70*10*4

BB Skullcrusher
70*8*2