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Not great mate, I've backed everything off and stopped doing 5x5 and gone back to 3x8. So now just doing a bit over 100kegs, but failing on the 8th rep of the 3rd set at the moment because I've been off the gym for a bit. Just focusing on trying to get my back right.

When I was having a little go at one point earlier I ran out of space on the bar at 116 or so and managed 7 continuous reps, so not really stellar. Was trying some of Rev's stuff, so you'd do as many 116s as you could, then do singles to say 18 total reps, working my way up to 30 total reps, which I did. But oddly did not see any improvement in my initial continuous reps portion, probs not eating/sleeping enough.

So for now, just dropped it right back to bit over 100, think it's 102.x and go for my 8/8/6-7 as that seems to be an OK number for me at the moment while I work on my lower back.

Edited by ActionDan

Fair enough, it's still quite good numbers really. And 116 for ~7 reps is fantastic. That'd be around 130kg 1RM.

Good idea playing it safe; I should probsbly subscribe to similar logic rather than trying to break old records with a recovering shoulder. I just feel like I don't have the unbreakable plateau there that I did 9 months ago.

Not even using whey protein these days! Just eating better food than I used to, and more of it.

I've actually cut back on the calories a little as my sessions have only been 30mins tops and haven't been walking with Kate much as I've just been too busy on house and shed stuff plus all the social events that happen around this time of year.

Still having WPC, but just with water and have dropped a couple snacks from my diet. I needed to do that anyway after my week in QLD bingeing.

I've never known how reps translate to 1RMs, but I couldn't imagine me bencing 130.

Did you try for 130 though? Can find 1RM calculators all over the internet. For most part they are fairly accurate. Obviously there's variance with some people being better at 1RM than they are at volume reps, but x reps at z weight generally does equal 1 rep at y weight.

As an example, I never used to do singles/1RM. Only ever trained with reps on bench. Then used a calculator to guess it, gave the 1RM a shot and only just got it up. Pretty good guess!

I've actually cut back on the calories a little as my sessions have only been 30mins tops and haven't been walking with Kate much as I've just been too busy on house and shed stuff plus all the social events that happen around this time of year.

Still having WPC, but just with water and have dropped a couple snacks from my diet. I needed to do that anyway after my week in QLD bingeing.

I've never known how reps translate to 1RMs, but I couldn't imagine me bencing 130.

closer to 140kg 1rm.

http://www.strstd.com/ is a site i find really accurate for myself.

Maybe when I was doing the 116 reps, but not a chance at the moment. Lack of core drive from my back has had a notable impact.

I was doing 100s easy before 8/8/8 but a weaker back and a little time off has dropped 1-2 reps off that 3rd set, so no chance of making that 130-140 now.

Either way, not fussed, have never cared about 1RMs for myself, love to see people hit their goals though.

inb4 obesity diabetes heart attack

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Fk you man...my prosciutto wrapped chicken doesn't look as tasty now :(

P.S. put the flurry in the freezer, don't let that shit melt while you eat the burgers

had some beers last night, didnt drink any water before training this morning = lots of sweating and struggle central! On the plus side, I managed to break through my curl plateau haha.

Still not benching or pressing and doing the assistance movements reccommended by Tolga and Rev as well.

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