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I'm going in about 20 min here, waiting on my laundry, you cannot do this to me, I can't be the follow up to that!
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I'm going in about 20 min here, waiting on my laundry, you cannot do this to me, I can't be the follow up to that!
You're only competing against yester-you, brother!
I'm going in about 20 min here, waiting on my laundry, you cannot do this to me, I can't be the follow up to that!
It's weird because my push movements have traditionally been stronger than my pulls. But when I messed my shoulder up, I've had to go light for push while it's been recovering. In the meantime, I've been able to make progress on my pulls. I don't even know who I am anymore!
Scribe
Legend
We must have damaged different parts of the shoulder. I still cannot do pull downs and I'm about 95% sure that the tear healed some time ago and now its just working back up.
I can almost sleep on my right side again lol
I did today.
Bike
Curls - Bar
Face Pulls
Dips - Just body, I did heavy yesterday.
Pull Ups - These dont hurt, weird.
Lateral Delt Cable raise. These suck, especially my bad shoulder.
Side Bend core thing.
Leg raise core thing.
Crunch/Side Lift core things.
Finished with some curls as people where using what I wanted, and packed it in.
Had a shake, some eggs, pills for joints and now I'm contemplating some landscaping.
Scribe
Legend
Sunday - No Workout. Had a headache, and well read on.
Today - The Good.
Chest, sunny, decent enough work.
75 Dips, 230 Bench, 75 Incline, 160 Flys, a selection of a few other things for fun. Next week I'm going to go either 90's on Dips, increase the bench, or (maybe most likely?) increase the dips and incline. I dont think I can do ++ on dips and bench, and certainly not all three.
The Bad?
Last week I concluded my major project at work, that was demanding a ton of OT, weekends, evenings, little sleep.
I'm now in a bit of a post project (I have other projects but its 'normal' hours) funk and slipping a bit on my state of mind. I'm at least aware of it, but I've got to work through that.
As our patron Saint Conan.
Today - The Good.
Chest, sunny, decent enough work.
75 Dips, 230 Bench, 75 Incline, 160 Flys, a selection of a few other things for fun. Next week I'm going to go either 90's on Dips, increase the bench, or (maybe most likely?) increase the dips and incline. I dont think I can do ++ on dips and bench, and certainly not all three.
The Bad?
Last week I concluded my major project at work, that was demanding a ton of OT, weekends, evenings, little sleep.
I'm now in a bit of a post project (I have other projects but its 'normal' hours) funk and slipping a bit on my state of mind. I'm at least aware of it, but I've got to work through that.
As our patron Saint Conan.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
Didn't work out on Sunday, recovering from being up late and in the afternoon I had to help a disabled friend shop-vac out some water from under his basement stairs to prevent flooding in the main area. That was reasonably active, though, holding the shop vac steady on the stairs while he vacuumed, then hauling it a ways for dumping a few times.
Last night I got back to the gym, did three circuits of dumbbell flies, inclined curls, and skull crushers, with drop sets for the curls and flies and an extra set of flies because I want to give my chest a little more volume. Added three sets of hack squats at the end.
I like how much more time efficient the circuits are, as I don't need as much rest between sets as I do when I'm doing straight sets. I just have to make sure the gym isn't too busy and I don't have people waiting on the bench.
I'm also keeping steady with my lower body and core PT routine in the mornings, which feels good.
Last night I got back to the gym, did three circuits of dumbbell flies, inclined curls, and skull crushers, with drop sets for the curls and flies and an extra set of flies because I want to give my chest a little more volume. Added three sets of hack squats at the end.
I like how much more time efficient the circuits are, as I don't need as much rest between sets as I do when I'm doing straight sets. I just have to make sure the gym isn't too busy and I don't have people waiting on the bench.
I'm also keeping steady with my lower body and core PT routine in the mornings, which feels good.
Kromanjon
Adventurer
After a time of grueling work on my shoulder health I'm about 90% pain free. It's that last 10% that has me worried something might flare up again. But I'm back doing push ups and even work on my pull ups again. I'm not going to failure during workouts right now due to previously mentioned worry.
I'm glad to see you being aware of the circuit and people thing. It used to drive me crazy in my prior gym: the men who would hop around 6 stations (and it's not like there were many there) and act indignant when you'd want to work in.
Can I ask how a circuit differs from super sets for you? Is it a matter of not going to failure? I incorporate a few supersets here and there (mostly biceps & triceps), but I am WINDED afterward. I can't imagine doing more than two exercises with them lol.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
Oh yes, even though I started with and almost exclusively did circuits for the first few years, I learned the etiquette and to be conscious of not taking up equipment/letting people work in wherever possible. Sometimes if someone wanted to jump on a given apparatus in the middle of my circuit I'd just divert to a different exercise for that muscle, and by the time I came back around on my next circuit they'd be done. One of the luxuries of my old gym was relatively sparse attendance, so I was rarely obstructing anyone.
I do mostly go to technical failure (I rarely do RIR, and when I do it's 1 or 2), but I allow myself SOME rest between. It's just not as much. If I'm switching muscle groups I might only need a minute or two (longer later in the session, and obviously longer for legs), where if I'm doing straight sets I normally need at least twice as much rest time between them for the muscle to recover.
And if I'm doing circuits it's usually of three or four exercises (was five for a while on Sundays when I was doing 5x5s on that day- say deadlift, barbell bench, leg press, barbell curls, skull crushers) where a superset is usually two opposing muscle groups.
EDIT: Note also that at PF the "circuits" I've been starting to do are still just on one apparatus- a single adjustable bench I can do multiple different exercises on.
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Tuesday Push
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Overhead Press (Smith Machine)
Set 1: 95 lb × 15
Set 2: 95 lb × 15
Set 3: 95 lb × 14
Chest Dip
Set 1: +65 lb × 12
Set 2: +65 lb × 12
Triceps Extension (Cable)
Set 1: 100 lb × 15
Set 2: 100 lb × 15
Lateral Raise (Dumbbell)
Set 1: 30 lb × 12
Set 2: 30 lb × 12
Push Up
Set 1: 50 reps
Nothing terribly special today but we’re adding reps and bits of weight. The shoulder is feeling better, too, so I’m a few weeks I’ll probably up the weight and lower the rep range on several of my push exercises.
Getting my geek cred while lifting by listening to YouTube vids on D&D history. This one just dropped:
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Overhead Press (Smith Machine)
Set 1: 95 lb × 15
Set 2: 95 lb × 15
Set 3: 95 lb × 14
Chest Dip
Set 1: +65 lb × 12
Set 2: +65 lb × 12
Triceps Extension (Cable)
Set 1: 100 lb × 15
Set 2: 100 lb × 15
Lateral Raise (Dumbbell)
Set 1: 30 lb × 12
Set 2: 30 lb × 12
Push Up
Set 1: 50 reps
Nothing terribly special today but we’re adding reps and bits of weight. The shoulder is feeling better, too, so I’m a few weeks I’ll probably up the weight and lower the rep range on several of my push exercises.
Getting my geek cred while lifting by listening to YouTube vids on D&D history. This one just dropped:
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