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Today I squatted 255x8. Yesterday did ohp and got 115x5. Haven't been paying too much attention to my diet which I gotta fix

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Are gyms open where you live?

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I have a home gym. They are open though

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I wanna track my workouts with an app but they all cost money. So now Im making my own

Hopefully I can finish by tonight ^^

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I just use an excel spreadsheet myself. One tab for lifts, one for my bike, one for my body weight

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That OHP is fairly impressive tc, what's your bench??

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so the company I work for manufactures fitness equipment (Im a software engineer for them) and I get a huge discount on them

we have new models out but for the past couple months they were super backordered so I bought the best older elliptical available

it hasnt arrived yet but yesterday I got an email that theyre taking orders for the new ones again smh

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Ive only done cross country running/bodyweight workouts forever. was considering starting to use some weights and then covid happened and i havent been to a gym since.

i ran 12.5 miles today, though

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My progress on my bench has been pretty disappointing imo. I got 162.5x6 last week.

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Harpie posted...

I wanna track my workouts with an app but they all cost money. So now Im making my own

Hopefully I can finish by tonight ^^

Fitnotes my friend.

I used it free for like 2+ years, then I decided I wanted the premium features. Cost a $5 one time fee. Icon looks like an icy blue calendar with a dumbbell on the lower right.

Edit: just saw you're making your own, that would be neat haha and good luck!

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Balrog0 posted...

I just use an excel spreadsheet myself. One tab for lifts, one for my bike, one for my body weight

The excel sheets are a pain tbh, especially on my phone. Its way too easy to accidentally delete cells

Goldenguy posted...

Fitnotes my friend.

I used it free for like 2+ years, then I decided I wanted the premium features. Cost a $5 one time fee. Icon looks like an icy blue calendar with a dumbbell on the lower right.

Edit: just saw you're making your own, that would be neat haha and good luck!

Oh I didnt know about that one, its actually not bad lol. I think imma still continue with my own just so I can make it pretty. If I make a bad app I just use fitnotes

Thanks!


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Harpie posted...

The excel sheets are a pain tbh, especially on my phone. Its way too easy to accidentally delete cells

Yeah that makes a lot of sense tbh. Since I workout at home it's easy and convenient for me to just use my computer, but I'm lucky

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I'm up to about 180 on the scale consistently now. Was a little over 160 when I started in November.

Haven't been trying to add more weight atm, though, just maintaining. I was starting to feel too bloated and sick from stuffing my face too much

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im working 80 hour weeks and prob losing shape

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Bench day today, started off with some black coffee and creatine

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Only got 4 on 172.5 bench. Should have pushed for 5

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The problem is I wanna work out more than I actually should. And it's not like there's much to talk about with it other than doing it

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Deadlifts today. Had a couple pork chops + eggs, spinach and onion for breakfast

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After spending too much time reading r/weightroom, I bought a Stronger By Science routine and just finished week 1 of the hypertrophy program. It was weird getting annihilated by such low weights.
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Are you really surprised a gamefaqs gym topic died rofl. At the gym now working on these tri's

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TheRealDill2024 posted...

After spending too much time reading r/weightroom, I bought a Stronger By Science routine and just finished week 1 of the hypertrophy program. It was weird getting annihilated by such low weights.

Lol I've considered buying routines recently too. Renaissance periodization seems legit, I watch dr mike isratael a lot

Can you give maybe a sample set or day off the one you bought? Kinda curious

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SauI_Goodman posted...

Are you really surprised a gamefaqs gym topic died rofl. At the gym now working on these tri's

I mean there's been one of these topics going more or less continuously since last March. They have died a couple times though

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Balrog0 posted...

TheRealDill2024 posted...

After spending too much time reading r/weightroom, I bought a Stronger By Science routine and just finished week 1 of the hypertrophy program. It was weird getting annihilated by such low weights.

Lol I've considered buying routines recently too. Renaissance periodization seems legit, I watch dr mike isratael a lot

Can you give maybe a sample set or day off the one you bought? Kinda curious

Since this is a paid routine, I didn't know what to expect going in. None of the reviewers would disclose too much detail outside of their results.

This purchase included 6 different routines. I can only comment on the hypertrophy one since I haven't looked at the others. My impression is of it is underwhelming. The big thing is that it includes an auto-regulating spreadsheet that determines your working weight for each session. Outside of that, it feels like a "build your own routine" program.

I'm going with the 5x per week plan, but it is flexible enough for 2x-6x. Each of those plans has the same lifts. They're just divided up more if you lift more frequently. For accessories, you get some suggestions, but you're expected to pick your own.
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Got 260x7 on my deadlifts, should have pushed it more

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Just banged out a 10miler along the river during the football game. Incredible to feel the small but steady increase in ease and performance, I'm way faster than all of the "normal" recreational runners who I assume aren't on a plan and run 10mi or less a week, and I breathe through my nose the entire time

There were still a lot of people out and about. I guess football isn't as popular in the rural west


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Coloradough posted...

Just banged out a 10miler along the river during the football game. Incredible to feel the small but steady increase in ease and performance, I'm way faster than all of the "normal" recreational runners who I assume aren't on a plan and run 10mi or less a week, and I breathe through my nose the entire time

There were still a lot of people out and about. I guess football isn't as popular in the rural west

Nice. Not on the same level but I walked 6 miles the other day and didn't even feel it which is a big step up from where I was last year

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Heck yeah brother. It's a rest day for balrogo. I might hit might bike for a bit though

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Did my bike but only got 7.67 miles, lowest in a while

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Was gonna gym today but feel tired and ate lunch late so I'll go tomorrow.

Deadlift day so can't be tired or my form sucks

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Started week 2 of this hypertrophy routine. I still haven't adjusted to the high reps in this program.
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BreezyExcursion posted...

im working 80 hour weeks and prob losing shape

ran 5 miles yesterday, feel noticeably worse than i did a month ago

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Damn man, that's rough. Hopefully you're making bank at least!

Crappy diet these last few days for me, gotta eat more

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Some 24 hour Planet Fitness gyms opened back up in the area. After a year of not lifting I am back on the grind tomorrow 4AM.

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That's early af bro

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Went out to dinner with family last night and wore a shirt that I hadn't put on in like 6 months. It had like 3 buttons at the top and I could only close 1 without it looking ridiculous. Apparently my chest/shoulders have grown. It was super tight in those areas.

With that, I still need to actually buckle down and lean out. I'm at like 210 now. I'm by no means fat but I'm not chiseled like I used to be. Realistically, I could drop 30lbs though. My pants still fit fine which is my usual indicator that I'm getting actually fat. If I can't get my diet in check I may have to put the row machine back in front of my TV and essentially outrun my bad diet.

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Set off the lunk alarm on yourself for lifting too much

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SK8T3R215 posted...

Set off the lunk alarm on yourself for lifting too much

I don't drop my bar or anything when I set it down, I don't think I'd get in trouble. I've only ever been to a commercial gym once and it wasn't a planet fitness tho.

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It was another rest day for me and I didn't even do my bike. Was pretty dang busy at work today, though, didn't eat much again today. Going into my last heavy week before a deload so I'm trying to gear myself up to get a yoog dinner tonight and even bigger breakfast tomorrow before I hit the ohp

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Did my deadlifts, pendlays, some tricep work. My right elbow started to hurt and feel swollen maybe I hurt the ligament in there.

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640 lb mat pull (every week one mat is removed until I'm deadlifting from the floor). Oh yeah spoilers, this shit ain't pretty lol.



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Very impressive stuff man. I read your workout log from time to time to get ideas

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Continuing my walk \ run every day. Currently day 41 for the year or day 270 total including end of last year. Done 130km this year so far and lost 6lbs this year. Slowly coming off. Lost 22lbs in total since starting this.

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PPP lifting the entire earth

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