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The Bike Is Hard!

I slept much better last night. I got my bench press done and that felt great. Shortly after finishing my bench, I got today’s WOD in. The bike is hard.

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Did Not Even Attempt My Final Bench Press Set

My wrist cyst popped the other day, and I think that’s why bench press felt totally off today. I heavily favored the opposite side.

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What Else Can Go Wrong?

Today in the home gym was a bit of a mental adventure, but I got my shit done. Things just kept going wrong for me.

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Bench Press Then A Dumb Idea

I felt great with my bench press today, then decided to do a bike interval WOD. That was a stupid idea.

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Bench Press Then A SHIFT WOD

My hand felt good with no sensitivity today, so I got my bench press in and then a super light shift workout in to test it out.

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Bench Press Felt Good Today Then Got A WOD In

This morning, I felt good. I was a bit tired from being up watching the Eagles game, but I got to the garage gym as soon as I felt like I wouldn’t be an ass to the neighbors.

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Bench Press Felt Good Today After The Bench Fell

I felt good this morning, so I was anxious to get out in the garage and do my bench press. While warming up with just the bar, the adjustable bench fell to the bottom position. I guess it wasn’t set right. I reset it and bounced my weight on it, and it was fine.

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Polar Opposite Of Yesterday In The Garage Today

Yesterday was a shitshow for me in the home gym. Everything that could go wrong did. Today was the opposite of that. Everything went great, felt great and I had no fuckups.

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Some Days Nothing Goes Right

Some days are like today. Nothing seems to go right at all. I couldn’t get the bench lined up right. Used the wrong weight for bench press, and then I did a WOD that had tons of hop overs.

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Pretty Shitty Day In The Garage Today

Today was a pretty shitty day for me in the home gym. I wasn’t feeling the bench press at all, but did get it done. My first two attempts at WODs were both a no-go Finally, I found one to do.

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Sort Of A Repeat WOD Today And It Went Better That I Thought It Would

Today’s WOD sort of repeat WOD. It had the same doublet of movements, but different numbers and a slightly different format. I was disappointed at my result at first until I relaxed that last time I used a lighter dumbbell.

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100 Kettle Bell Snatches For Time And Some Other Fun Today

This morning I did my bench press then a tough bike WOD. Later on in the evening, I got the bright idea to do the hundred kettlebell snatches challenge.

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Heavy Squats Felt Great Today But The WOD Not So Much

Today was a great day for my 1+ AMRAP back squats. They Felt Great. The first attempt at a WOD didn’t feel so great, and I changed my mind on it.

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Dirty Work WOD Today Since Its Sunny And Mild

This afternoon it became sunny and fairly mild, so I decided to take my strongman sandbag out on the patio and get a dirty work WOD in.

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Bench Felt Good Today

It was another hotter than hell day today, but thankfully the air conditioner works well. I got my lifts in and everything felt pretty good. The bench felt better than I expected, after last time.

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Nothing Heavy But A Good Day Lifting

It was another hot day, but thankfully we have the air conditioner installed. My lifts weren’t anything heavy today, but they felt good.

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Not A Bad Day Lifting

It has been another hot day today. Thankfully, the air conditioner helped me sleep last night and the one in the garage made it tolerable to do my lifting. I was having some cramping yesterday after doubling up on WODS.

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Good Day Lifting But Less Than Ideal For A WOD

This morning was a great day for lifting. I hit my heavy squats with ease. After lifting, we did some running around. By the time we got home and I went outside to do a sled WOD, it was just too hot.

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Morning Lifting Went OK Then A Rough Sled WOD

Today, my lifts went okay. I passed on the good mornings since I was feeling off with them. Shortly after that, we did a rough sled WOD.

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More Humid Today But Not A Bad Day For Me In The Garage

This morning was more humid than it has been, and the humidity is creeping up as the day goes on. It wasn’t bad enough to drastically affect me in the garage, though. I did as expected on my lifts and surprisingly well on an interval row.

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Had A Good Morning Lifting After An Interesting Start To The Day

Today’s lifting went great. I didn’t know how focused I’d be able to be after an extremely close lightning strike this morning.

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Lifts Went Okay Today

I wasn’t really feeling it today and on top of that, my neck is stiff from the way I slept. My knee left out a good pot right before bed but felt fine, so I went light with the squats as a precaution

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Humid Day For My Lifts

Today was not as hot as the past couple of days, but it’s certainly still humid, at least for now. I made for a challenging time for my lifting session with all the sweat dripping down my face and everywhere else.

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Fun Day Lifting And WODding Today

Today was one of those days when I was just enjoying myself in the garage. My lifts were fun. They were not too heavy or too light. Shortly after that, I did a fun old WOD.

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Lifting And A WOD Went Well On This First Hot Day Of The Year

Today is the first hot day of the year, with it getting into the Nineties. This morning was just humid. I did my lifts early, and they all went well. Later during the afternoon in my infinite stupidity I did a WOD, and it went okay. Just lots of cramping.

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I Felt Really Rushed To Get To My Lifts Today

I felt like I had to rush to get to my lifts this morning. We had to go to my step grandson’s birthday and had no idea when we were going. Thankfully, my lifts were light, and I got out in the garage early in the morning and got through them pretty quickly. Had fun seeing all the grandkids later.

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Old Trinium 1RM For Sets Of Five Today

Today I did my old Crossfit Trinium one rep max back squat weight for sets of five today, and they felt great. The other lifts were less aggressive. Later I did an old WOD with numerous lunges and that felt good.

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Heavy Squats Felt Great This Morning

This morning, a good and bad day for me in the garage. The heavy back squats felt great. The bench press just wasn’t happening. The WOD I chose to do was brutal but doable.

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Excellent Day For My Lifts

I slept better last night, which helped. It is also windy outside today, but more importantly much less humid today. I ended up having an excellent and fun day lifting in the home gym.

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Lifts Felt Fun Today

I usually enjoy my lifting sessions. Some days come along like today where I was just having fun with it. Everything went well, not easy but well. I challenged myself some and was just in that good zone.

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Back To Normal And An Easy Day Lifting

I was awake half the night last night again. I woke up after a short period of good sleep feeling great. I drank my coffee and got at my thankfully fairly easy day of lifting and did and felt great.

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At Least I Did Something Today

I really did not sleep well last night and wasn’t feel like doing anything. I had to wait around in the afternoon so I had to do my strength earlier than I would have liked.

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Pretty Heavy Squats Today And They Looked And Felt Great

I actually slept straight through the night again and woke up feeling great. This really helped me with my strength today as I had some heavy for me back squats to do then moderate bench press. The squats looked as great if not better than they felt.

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My Lifts All Felt Great This Morning

I really wasn’t feeling it this morning but I did my strength anyways this morning. In the end my lifts all wound up actually feeling great!

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Squeezed In My Lifting And We Did A WOD Together

I woke up early and squeezed in my lifting session before we had to do other things. When we got home we did the vault WOD together.

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My Lifts Went Exactly How I Expected Today, Poorly

My strength today went poorly but at least I expected it. I didn’t eat nearly enough calories the past couple of days to recover and I woke up way too early this morning.

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Lots Of Good Lifting This Monday Morning

This morning I did manage lots of good lifting. Everything went great with nothing close to a bad rep or fail. Even did the twenty rep squats and SP deadlift program.

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Perfect Day In The Home Gym

Today I had a perfect day in the home gym. Everything went exactly as well as it could have gone.

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First Cloud Of The Day

One single cloud first appeared in front of the sun giving that awesome winter irreverence effect that you see at times when the clouds are ice crystals

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Not The Greatest Or Worst Day In The Garage

I enjoyed my day in the garage gym today. It wasn’t the best of days or the worst of days but it was good to lift. My knee was bugging me a bit so I lowered my back squats weight to keep it from flaring up.

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My Lifting Was Just What I Needed After Yesterday's Shit Show

I missed doing my strength yesterday because the washer drained on the floor and spent the day cleaning that up. Today I got to do my lifting and it was just what I needed.

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Thankfully My Strength Work Felt Good Today

This morning both my neck and hip left out a missive crack. I wasn’t sure if that was going to adversely affect my lifting today or not because I did feel a slight weakness after both.

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Lifting And A Good Longer Row

I got my lifting in today. Good with the heavy back squats but nope on the bench press. Right after that I jumped into and endurance WOD that turned out to be about ten thousand meters on the rower.

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Did My Lifts And A Longer Endurance WOD This Morning

I did my lifts this morning and then did a longer endurance type of WOD. Both felt really good today and it was nice to be done with both by right about lunchtime.

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Did A Surprisingly Tough WOD Exactly One Year After My COVID Test Was Taken

Today was a pretty good day for my lifts. It actually was much better than I expected to be going by how I felt this morning.

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Still Doing My Strength And It Went Well Today

I’m still doing my strength every other day but I just haven’t posted about it. Today it went really well again.

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Made My Front Squats At 240

I Made my very heavy front squats today at 240 pounds. That was a PR for me.

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Squeezed In My Strength Between All The Running Around We Did Today

We had a pretty busy day with running around and doing our grocery shopping. I squeezed in my strength during the afternoon and felt pretty good about it.

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Not The Best Or The Worst Day Today In The Garage Gym

It was not the worst day or the best day in the garage gym today by any means. Some days will go like this though. It’s still better than not doing anything.

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Strength, WOD, And Bro Session Today And It All Felt Pretty Hard

Today I did my strength in the morning then a WOD that wasn’t great for me visually. Finally in the afternoon we did our bro session which I kept light today.

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Strength Went Well Today

My strength for today went pretty well. I managed to perform all of my lifts with no difficulties including my sets of front squats that were on the heavier side of things for me.

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Busy Day In The Garage Including My 700th Street Parking WOD

Today was a busy day in the garage gym. I started out bright and early with my normal strength. I then did two street parking WODs a couple of hours apart so I could do the 700th one with Molly.

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No Music For Today's Lifting

Every once in a while I get the urge to do either a WOD or my lifting or maybe both with no music at all. There’s something about it that makes it feel even better. Today’s lifts were performed that way and they felt great.

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Did My Light Strength Before Heading Out Geocaching

Having done my Crossfit Total a couple of days ago I took a couple of days off then reset my weights. It worked out perfect so that I was only lifting prettylight on days we wanted to get out geocaching.

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Felt Great To Be Back In The Garage Gym Today

I felt great getting back into the garage gym today. With the stress of the tree issues, I haven’t felt like working out and felt I couldn’t focus at all, so I skipped a day or two.

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Strength Went Okay Today

My strength went okay today, even though it was very humid from the tropical depression. I did a WOD later in the day. The worst thing about that WOD was the absurd amount of sweating I was doing from the humidity.

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Took My Lifting For The Day A Little Slower Again Today

I took my lifting a little slower again today. I was really feeling overheated today. Probably the heat and humidity killing me. Things went well apart from that.

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Front Squats This Morning Were Fucking Hard

My front squats were challenging to say the least this morning. Everything else went okay. I made some heavy front squats, but they were in no way a walk in the park.

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Zero Energy Today But I Made My Lifts

Today I had zero energy. Not only that by my legs felt like dead weight. Somehow I still made all of my lifts for today.

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A Good Night's Sleep Really Helped Me

After a couple of nights of poor sleep, I had a good night’s sleep, last night. I’m feeling quite a bit better now. It really helped me with my lifting today.

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Sort Of Back To Normal Strength Workouts Now

I have been taking it a bit easy with my lifts since I did my Crossfit Total so I could recover. Now I am sort of back to normal with the lifts.

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Twenty Rep Squats And Regular Strength Felt Amazing Today

Today was an excellent day for me in the garage, and very much to my surprise too. My regular strength and my twenty rep squats which I did felt great!

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It's Hotter Than Hell Today But I still Did Okay In The Garage

It is hotter than Hell Today. It was about 90 ℉ when I went out into the garage, but I still did okay with my stuff. I am thankful that we have and use an air conditioner for our garage gym.

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Awesome Day In The Garage On This Cool Day

Last night’s temperature was very cool for this time of the year, with it getting to near 50. I slept better due to that. Today is much cooler, too, so I felt better in the garage. I had a fantastic day lifting.

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Great Lunchtime In The Garage Today

I had a great lunchtime in the garage gym today. It was refreshingly cooler to go along with that.

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Good And Bad Day In The Garage Today

Today was a very mixed type of day for me in the garage. Some things well and some things went not so well.

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Busy Day On This Hot Day

It was a hot day, but I was busy in the garage gym. I did lots of heavy lifting.

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Humidity's Coming Back But I Smashed My Lift Today

Unfortunately, the humidity is returning. That kills me more than the heat. Regardless of that, I smashed my lifts today and that felt good.

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First Hot Day Of The Year Fucked With My Lifting

Today was the first hot day of the year so far. Although I slept great, the heat really hurt my lifting.

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Feeling Great Today!

I got woken up by the neighbor repeatedly letting her door slam as she always does. I wasn’t ready to get up. Regardless, I was feeling good today and had a good day in the home gym.

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I Cannot Complain About Today In The Garage

I cannot complain about how today was for me in the garage. I didn’t do a lot or have a great day but I made it out there.

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My Lifts Did Not Go As Well As I Hoped Today

My lifts didn’t go as well as I would have liked or hoped they would go today. I wish every day that I would have started at a much younger age.

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I'm Feeling Great Today

I guess I’m fully recovered from my COVID shot. I was feeling great today after feeling like shit on Saturday. I got my lifts in and then later we did our bro session together.

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Back At My Strength After A Brief Break From It

This morning I got back to my lifting. I’ve been on a short hiatus from it due to a side spasm. I did keep the weights lighter today but it just felt great to be back at it.

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My Lifts Felt Extra Powerful In The Home Gym Today!

This was one of those rare days where all my lifts felt extra powerful. I was moving really well and moving the weight easily.

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I Knew Today Was Going To Be Rough In The Garage Gym

My foot is still a little achy so I knew it was going to be a bit of a rough day in the garage gym today. I still got it done.

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My Lifts Felt Great Today!

I didn’t really get enough sleep last night for the second night in a row so I was pretty tired. My lifting still felt great today!

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My Lifts All Felt Better Today

My lifts today felt a lot better than last time.

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Lifting Went Great Today While It's Dumping Snow Outside

My lifting today went great. To make the day even better, it’s been dumping snow outside!

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Lifting Felt Great Today Plus Pushed Myself In The WOD

My lifting all went great today. Later on I got in a challenging WOD.

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Awesome Day Of Lifting In The Garage Today

Today was one of those are, awesome days in the home gym. Everything was feeling great and going my way.

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I Modified And Rushed My Strength Workout For Today

We had a bunch of running around to do today so I Modified and rushed through my lifts.

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Strength Went Well, Lowered Squat Weight Before Failing Today

My lifts went well today. I went a little lighter since my stomach has been feeling off.

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Brutal Day For My Garage Gym Lifting Today

Today was a brutal day for me with my lifts. Everything was heavy as hell.

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Great Day For My Lifting Today

My lifting was almost a complete polar opposite from two days ago. My mind was in the right place for the heavy lifts.

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It Felt Great To Do My Strength Extra Early This Morning

I woke up early this morning and got my lifting done early. It was nice to get it done while I was fresh instead of waiting until we got home.

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First Strength Session Of The Year Done

I got my first strength session of the year in today. I wasn’t evne sure if I was going to do anything since my trap isn’t too happy with me but I got it done.

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Back In The Swing Of Things With My Strength Now

I’m finally feeling back to β€œnormal” whatever that may be. I feel like I’m ready to start pushing it agan with WODs and my lifting.

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Squats And Bench Press Felt Great Today!

I’m continuing my journey of recovering from the corona virus. Today my squats and bench press felt pretty good considering.

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Squats And Bench Press Felt Great Today!

I’m continuing my journey of recovering from the corona virus. Today my squats and bench press felt pretty good considering.

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I Did My Lifts And An Easier WOD Today

I got my lifts done this morning. I did an easier WOD a bit later.

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I Did My Lifts And An Easier WOD Today

I got my lifts done this morning. I did an easier WOD a bit later.

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So Close To Making My Bench Press 3 x 5 At Two Hundred Pounds Today

I can’t say that I am disappointed with it but my bench press success streak ended today. I failed the last rep of my sets of five bench press at 200 pounds. Bench is not a lift I’m good at.

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So Close To Making My Bench Press 3 x 5 At Two Hundred Pounds Today

I can’t say that I am disappointed with it but my bench press success streak ended today. I failed the last rep of my sets of five bench press at 200 pounds. Bench is not a lift I’m good at.

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I Finally Broke The Bench Press 3 x 5 Plateau

Today was a decent day for me in the garage gym. I finally got past my mental block of bench pressing 195 pounds for reps.

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I Finally Broke The Bench Press 3 x 5 Plateau

Today was a decent day for me in the garage gym. I finally got past my mental block of bench pressing 195 pounds for reps.

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My Lifts Today Were Heavy But They All Felt Great!

Today in the garage my lifts were heavy but they felt surprisingly good to me. There seems to be really no rhyme or reason to when they feel good and don’t sometimes.

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Surprisingly, Strength And A WOD Felt Pretty Good Today

I woke up feeling really tired today. I did double WODs later in the day yesterday and then found myself laying awake watching the election results. Even so my strength went pretty well and then a WOD felt good.

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I Preemptively Lowered My Squats Weight Strength Today

Some days come along and you know to lower the weight on a lfitr before even attempting it. Today was one of those days for me. I lowered my back squat weight.

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Got My Strength And A WOD In This Morning Before The Eagles Game

I got done with my lifts and and a WOD today. I did that this morning so I can chill and watch the Eagles game in a little bit.

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I'm Definitely Back In The Swing Of Things With My Strength Now

I am definitely back in the swing of things with my lifting nolw. I’ve been doing it but having some reluctance.

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Strength And A WOD Felt Great Today

Everything was light today for my lifts but it still felt great to get under a bar. Everything felt great! I did a WOD too and that felt great also

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Today's Strength Went Well But It Was Light So It Should Have

Today my lifts were light and easy. I guess at least that’s one advantage of failing and resetting my bench and squats last time.

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Made Heavy Squats Today, Failed Bench, I'm Not Mad

Today was a rough day for my lifting. It was hot and humid and I was hungry. I didn’t sleep well thanks to drinking last night. Still Im happy with the day. I made the squats!

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Heavy Squats Felt Light Today

Some days are like today went. It was one of those days when my heavy squats actually felt light and easy. I wish more days went like this.

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Strength Felt Great Today After The Last Session Of Failures

My last strength session felt pretty rotted. Today it felt great. These Great days are always nice after a tough one.

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Interesting Strength Day Today Went Much Better Than I Actually Expected

I really had low expectations for my lifting today. My quad started cramping shortly before I was ready to head into the garage. My lifts all felt good though.

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Finally Got A Chance To Play With The Dumbbells Today

Today I finally got a chance to break in the new dumbbells. I went with lighter ones than I could have because it’s new to me in a WOD but I was happy with it. These are going to be a great addition to our gym.

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Feeling Extra Flexible Today

Today was a day that I was feeling extra flexible. I always do deep squats but today they felt even deeper than normal.

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Not Really Feeling It But Strength And A WOD Went Okay Today

Today I wasn’t really feeling like doing a WOD or my lifts this morning but I got it done. I guess I’m just burnt out from tracking the tropical storm. Not every day is going to feel great.

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Strength Went Great Today

My strength went surprisingly well after poor and not enough sleep last night. It felt pretty good too.

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Strength Felt Surprising Good Today

Yesterday I did two WODs that made my knee and hamstring pretty angry. Much to my surprise my lifts felt good this morning even with the anger in my legs.

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Strength Felt Great And So Did The WOD!

Today was a good day in the home gym. I did my lifts and they felt great. The WOD was tough but successful too. They always leave you feeling good.

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Strength with AC Finally Then A WOD Outside Later

We finally installed the old air conditioner in one of the garage windows. That will make it more pleasant in the garage folr working out. The air conditioner helped me get through my lifts this morning. Later on in the afternoon w did a WOD together out on the patio

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Humid This Morning But Squats And Bench Felt Pretty Good

This morning it was humid but my squats and bench actually felt pretty good. I was going to do a WOD too but lost track of time and forgot to do one.

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Unplanned, Unexpected Couple Of Days Break From Working Out But Back At It now

I had an unexpected couple of day break from working out. Sometimes life throws curveballs at you. Our breaker box was shorting out and causing half the power to flicker. I was obviously too stressed to work out.

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Killed Today's Strength Then Did A Mentally Tough WOD

I got through my lifts easily today. I did a mentally tough WOD later that was long with movements I’m just not good at.

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I Did My Strength In The Morning Humidity Then A WOD Later

This morning began warm and very humid. I did my strength in that heat and humidity. I did a WOD during the afternoon. It was hot when I did the WOD but Thankfully much drier.

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Strength And A WOD Done

I did my lifts today and turned my back squats into paused ones again to mix things up. It was light anyways. I also got tomorrow’s WOD done today.

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Heavy Squats This Morning Then Played With The Sled This Evening

This morning I got my normal lifting session in. Later on we made up a WOD with our sandbags and the sled instead of a Street Parking WOD. We wanted to play with the sled. It’s only the second time we’ve played with that new toy.

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I Failed The 255 Pound Squats But Crushed The 190 Pound Bench Press Today

I failed my back squats today at two hundred and fifty-five pounds, but crushed the bench at one hundred and ninety pounds. I’ll call it a decent day.

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I Failed The 255 Pound Squats But Crushed The 190 Pound Bench Press Today

I failed my back squats today at two hundred and fifty-five pounds, but crushed the bench at one hundred and ninety pounds. I’ll call it a decent day.

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Bench Press Hamstring Cramp

It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while my hamstring gets a good cramp on a tough bench press. Today was one of those days.

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