We have beans, beef stroganoff, and moths. And people are nicer. I believe that all of this is related.

I like to go with as much volume as is necessary to get a positive response. If my reps are going up and/or RPE is going down I know that I’m making progress and that whatever volume I’m using is adequate. That might not be optimal, but I don’t get burned out this way, and if things start to stall I have room to increase volume further if I need to. That’s just my preference, though.

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This is awesome! Love that he’s into cooking.

9 sets is just fine. Recent research seems to suggest that 10 is optimal (some gains after that but returns diminish quickly).

Take a look at the work by Dr. Pak (Androulakis-Korakakis) on minimum effective dose training. I might get maybe 3-6 sets of chest a week deepening on what wrist is going on and I’m still making gains.

So my coach told me that my snatches were so slow that they might get red lights in competition 😂 so that was encouraging. Guess I need to work on my speed under.

I did 4x4 front squats with 82kg last week. I’m building my squat back up after multiple issues, starting with a quad tear about 7 years ago. Hopefully I can get it back up to a decent level soon.

You win the internet for today.

Obviously you have to use your fingers, because you need to stick the olives on the ends of your fingers and wiggle your fingers around first before eating the olives.

I only see them as right side up. I can’t even make my brain see them at upside-down. I can’t even see which one is the correct one.

It seems like they might have… ghosted her.

I appreciate how insanely sharp that knife is.

Looks very good!

It’s the Prime Digestive

That is bizarre. All I can figure is that you have a portal to the Dimension of Feces inside you.

I always end up dumping it out of my bowl into a mixing bowl. Always.

Does anyone weigh themselves before and after taking a massive shit? Or is it just me? Just me huh. Cool cool.

My coach will be adding an Oly day into my program, and she’ll likely put me through a squat cycle, so I need to change my routine around a bit to add in the BB work. Mon and Fri will be squat days, and I’m guessing Wed will be light/technique work. I’ve settled on doing two-a-days on Mon and Fri (Oly morning, full body BB evening) - this is flexible enough that I can move my BB sessions to Tues and/or Sat as time and energy permits. I’ll need to limit lower body accessory work to maintenance levels (like a set or two of each movement at RPE 6-7) but I think this will be doable. The other option is 3 BB sessions of push/pull/legs in the evenings on Mon, Wed, and Fri (or Tues, Thurs, and/or Sat morning). I just need to try some setups out and see what works.

I hit 120kg x 10 on kickstand RDLs. I want to work up to 140x5 on each leg (or whatever I can get) and then I’ll just maintain that for a while.

You don’t necessarily need to deadlift on both pull days. You don’t even necessarily need to do all of the same exercises. This goes for the push and leg days as well.

Birria pizza sounds amazing, and you can’t have too much serrano.

Nicely done! Looks great. Did you hunt it yourself?