re: Daily Strength Check-In

Today

Hang cleans 5x5 115, 125, 135, 145, 155
Squats 5x5 135, 145, 155, 165, 175
Military press 5x5 65,75, 85, 95, 105
Pull-ups- 1x1

Gonna hang out at these weights for a week at least. Last sets felt heavy.

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i will hit the deadlifts and pendlay rows along with conditioing tonight. I am having to split my lifts right now due to back killing me.

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Spinal erectors are tired from DL day yesterday. I'm worried I'm using my back too much somehow, but maybe it's just more volume than I'm used to. I'm being careful about my setup, flexing lats and core hard, then my cue is to push a hole through the floor.

ETA: tired/fatigued, but not hurting.

is your butt getting a lift? you doing the program with Mrs TKE? if so how does she like it?

Lunch break

Snatch 5x5 65,75,85,95,105
Front squat 5x5 85,95,105,115,125
Straight bar curls 5x5 45,55,65,65,65

First day doing snatches and didn't fall on my arse or drop the bar on my face. Pretty proud of myself.

Having that 3rd plate on there is a great landmark achievement. Bet that felt awesome.

Keep it up or ill catch up to you :coco2:

Congrats.

I was going to ask you in the other thread, but I'll ask here. Your squat and DL are almost the same. I'm a new lifter, so that may influence this, but my DL is 1.5x BW and squat is 1X bodyweight. Which is more normal?

I could always deadlift more than I could squat

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We like it. The Monday/Thursday program takes longer than the Tuesday/Friday. So she’ll have to cut out something to make it work being she goes back to work next week.

I like all the accessory movements that I don’t typically do. That’s my only complaint about the PPSA workouts. Not a ton of variation. Always flat bench, regular squats. Deadlifts will have some variety.

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if you have the DB strength program he does a good job of doing a bunch of variety in that, especially with lower body.

might be one yall want to look at doing after.

and if you have done ppsa for a while, dont be afraid to sub a lift of the same pattern for the same one.

for example....ssb or front squat for normal back squat

incline press or neutral grip bench for normal bench press etc

you can even sub normal press in lieu of bench in the benching programs if you press is the focus instead of bench.

im going to try and organize program parties starting with squatober. George has squatober held down well, but we can do a bench program or the brovemeber program he posted on his insta from 2017, deadcemeber in december then if we do a bench program in novermber we can do one again but sub press for the bench and bench for press in the program.

ill post it up and put to a vote when we get closer

glad to hear yall are liking it. How have her results been? tryin to get my wife back into lifting.

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Having that 3rd plate on there is a great landmark achievement. Bet that felt awesome.

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Man, like a dummy, I didn't even use the third plate. I had 275 on there, then went to 295, then to 315, so I was just adding 10s each time lol. Rookie mistake.

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Man, like a dummy, I didn't even use the third plate. I had 275 on there, then went to 295, then to 315, so I was just adding 10s each time lol. Rookie mistake.

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I don't have enough plates to do 3 plates anyway, haha. Especially with mostly bumper plates, 315 takes up the whole sleeve for me .