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Nice update today! Weight up to 240.4 yesterday and I got a new bench PR of 335 lbs for two! I uploaded the video here, hope you can see. Raw strength feels amazing on this cycle! Wife is down 3 lbs and it shows everywhere (especially being only 5 ft tall) but I'm sure inches are going down elsewhere. Measurements after this week. https://youtu.be/MLDkOUaVVWY

So a quick update. Workouts have been going great. Changed my workout to a Pull/Push/Legs split. Doing it trained by JP style, with only one all out set to failure, followed up by a back off set. My split so far looks like this: Pull: BB Rows 1 set to failure at 5 to 8 reps, 1 back off set at 8 to 12 reps HS Underhand Pulldown 1 set to failure at 5 to 8 reps, 1 back off set at 8 to 12 reps Machine Row (chest supported) 1 set to failure at 5 to 8 reps, 1 back off set at 8 to 12 reps (now changed to chest supported incline bench dumbbell row, elbows out, due to gym shutdowns again) Cable pulldown, single hand, super low to target lower lats 2 sets for rear delts (machine or dumbbell) 3 sets of Bicep curls Push: Smith seated barbell press Smith incline Smith flat close grip Dumbbell Fly Weighted Dips Dumbbell Laterals Cable Laterals Legs: Seated Hamstring Curl Adductors Hack Squats Leg Press Stiff Legged Deadlifts Calves I started doing at the begining of every workout. Logging everything, and strength/reps going up every workout. Trying to focus on perfect execution, slow reps, not cheating to progress in the log book. Enjoying these workouts, as it's something new, and have daily goals to beat. So that's the good stuff.. the bad stuff is that my gym is shutdown as my region is back in stage 2. Couldn't rant about this forever but don't feel like typing an essay. But hating this right now. Still, I'm lucky as I have an LA Fitness by workplace and although they banned people from coming in from stage 2 regions, so far I'm good, as they think I'm from around there (this is the ony LA I've been going to for the last few years). Hopefully no one says anything, but I think I should be ok as the staff sees me there regularly. Part of the problem is that, while I have the opportunity to lift, I pretty much haven't taken a day off because I'm afraid they will shut down all gyms across Ontario, so trying to get as many workouts as I can lol... I know it's counter productive, but it's the only thing keeping me sane. Supposed to be competing in 5 weeks at the rescheduled Toronto Pro Qualifier, but I really don't believe it will happen. They are saying it will, and I don't want to quit, but I'm also not fully mentally comitted. So I'm half ass dieting right now. Fairly lean, but need to pull off at least 6 to 8 lbs of actual fat to be contest lean. Tell myself everyday that I'm going to get strict with the diet, but while not eating junk, usually end up eating more calories than planned. I kind of just want to forget about the show, increase calories a little bit (to not feel guilty about overeating) and slowly start growing, but at the same time I keep thinking if I don't do the show, and it happens, I will be kicking myself in the ass for missing an opportunity (especially if I see the comptetion as week). So the mental struggle continues daily lol Speaking of progress, I compared a pic from this morning to one from last July (15 months ago) and was actually surprised that it looks like I made some pretty good progress (maybe not, and I'm just dellusional). With the gym shutdowns, not training properly, I thought the last year was a write off, but it looks like pics tell a different tale. Was told last year, I needed more thickness, and juding from the pics, I actually accomplished a bit of that. So even though this whole Covid shutdowns has made me a mental mess, I'm actually pretty happy. Hope everyone is doing well.