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Yeah, at least according to my gym's scale.

Dips are a superior exercise if your shoulders can handle them. If you want to go into powerlifting, you should keep bench. If you just want to get stronger, it probably isn't necessary. You could always throw bench in at 70% at some point(s) during the week to keep it in the bank.

Okay, so machine rows, front squat (or paused HBBS or LBBS), spoto press, OHP, Shrugs. Would some sort of quad-centric unilateral leg press be out of the question too? Unfortunately my gym modified the machine recently to decrease its ROM at the start of the motion, but I think it's still...

Still impressive. You think your OHP has helped your bench?

Then do what's comfortable, as long as you're committing to the necessary ROM each rep. I generally do my pullups @ about shoulder width nowadays.

Okay, day 4 would consist of machine rows, front squats, deficits, maybe spoto press for off-the-chest strength. Would OHP and shrugs still be beneficial if done only once a week? Load on day 4? Anything else you'd change with the above?

Noted. I'll take that into account when I finish cutting. I feel like I'm doing a decent enough job maintaining strength right now. How's this look, DUP-wise? Days can be rearranged, and don't know what to do with day 4. Day 1 Sumo Deadlift: singles/doubles to 4-6 reps (90%)...

Have you hit 82.79kg or is it a projected #?

5'8", 169.5lb (-.5lb) HBBS (NEW, 5 minutes b/w): 260lb x 3, x 3, x 3 So this is almost matched with my LBBS... Deficit Deadlift: 315lb x 5 I'd have more if I did this pre-squat but pretty happy here. Will try to move up 5lb from now on. Bench (3 minutes b/w): paused 210lb, paused 185lb x...

Bought some Casein, so now gonna drop calories down to 2000 from 2400. Still hoping I can finish this cut by sometime in June despite the snag.

Is that OHP done as a military press or a push press? If the former, nice job. Anybody who can strict OHP their body weight is strong in my book (...which sells in the coloring book isle, fyi) ;).

If I'm trying to grind out some doubles at 90%, or if I lose my balance and rock forward (which has happened before), then there can be an issue. Secondly, Candito has AMRAP and work sets right up near rep max territory towards the end of the 6 weeks. I'm usually a pretty good judge at...

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Well some type of DUP can also be an alternative, though I don't really know how to program it. Will need to research more.

Candito actually flip-flopped around on which way to squat in training. I think he's always squatted low bar in competition but there were large swaths of time where he squatted high bar outside of meets. Low bar does allow most to move more - though my low bar squat has always been done with...

We have a bunch of resident nutcases at my gym. If only they were beasts too. Then the former could be at least partially justified... :(

Do you want to compete in bodybuilding or are you just trying to stay as lean as possible?

Also, I appreciate your approach to strength as it brought my deadlift up significantly, but I sort of hunger for a more periodized approach to things. Since my gym is apparently getting a proper power rack, I can really start to focus on building my squat without fear of failing a rep so I...

The only thing that really progressed as much as I would have liked post-HST was my sumo deadlift. I think squat was mostly neural coding (though leg press helped) and my bench barely progressed at all in terms of top-end stuff.

Will probably run it after my cut assuming he update the bench portion before then. It's only 5-6 weeks a cycle so if I don't see progress, I'll hop on something else. And yeah, will do.