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I sleep separately to my wife - she is a light sleeper and I still snore, although at a much much much lower volume these days but still enough. I am so glad your situation was explained by a pillow - just what you needed, a complete near death experience during a de-load! You squat depth is beyond ATG - nice work and good workout.

225 looks good man. That cold garage got me good this morning.

Thank you for sharing your experiences and massive kudos to you for overcoming the alcohol and drug addiction - massive win! Lifting a bit of weight is nothing compared to getting through that, fantastic work! I look forward to seeing the wide stance stuff soon. Keep it up!

It is vitally important to keep your fatigue levels under control. If your workouts are becoming like having to eat a poo sandwich due to fatigue, you will not look forward to them (duh) and most importantly, you will eventually stop doing them or get injured or really start to get terribly p*ssed off at doing them. Try to make them fun if you can :)

Good call. Deloads can just show up at any time. Programs don't know your body, you do. Rest, recover, repeat......

The way I see it, you only have so many repair points that your body can spend on getting stronger. If you are struggling on a program, you have to be careful on bringing new exercises into the mix as they can really unbalance everything. You know my opinion on bench press and I would strongly suggest that you bring something else into the mix that synergises better with your squat/deadlift/overhead program. Bench just strengthens muscles that really do not have any carryover to what you are aiming to do and frankly, little carryover into everyday life apart from having slightly bigger chesticles. There was no voiceover during your squats - the hazards of youtube videos I guess - I still watched it through though. Good work on the squats! One exercise area that really has good synergy with what you are doing is lat exercises - it is a pity you do not have the equipment for seated rows - ie a cable attachment - as I have been powering ahead since I put them in. Gives you nice upper back armour and helps massively with squats/deadlifts. Barbell rows and rack pulls are fine but it can be a real issue with getting the lats to do the work, rather than your arms. Pull-ups for back development is something I have never got right, I end up with hurting elbow tendons as I cannot seem to remove my arms from doing most of the work so I consider them to be an advanced exercise for people with fantastic lat activation so I avoid them. The cable machine is a blessing for me. All the best!!!

Yeah, I too mostly see benching as a useless exercise - more a vanity # than anything. Certainly a good argument can be made for push-ups, especially as an antagonist for pulling; but benching is a little silly

Great to see you progressing! It is important to have improvements to get your lizard brain firing! Look for little things as well - maybe your form was great or the bracing was good or some other thing was better than before. Make sure you note them and internally praise yourself for them - it might seem petty but just like going up in weight - any bit of praise makes a difference. Just lifting more weight is not the whole point :) - yes that is a big achievement but sometimes it might let you down. Squats look great - nothing wrong with the hinge at all. In fact I think the hinge is the whole point - tap that massive lump of muscle that lies behind you! That is its job! As far as bench goes - I have left that way behind as it was the origin of my shoulder injury and even after years of doing all kinds of variations and this and that and getting it up to well over 100 kgs - meh. I saw no benefits or carry over to any other lift or even my day to day life and once the shoulder injury happened, that was that. These days I love love love doing barbell and ezy bar curls with strict form - standing up (no preacher curls using the pad etc). I have no interest in isolating the biceps (the last thing I need is a bicep tendon issue) as I have found the carry over from these into every day life has been enormous. I can carry my tool bag at work like it was nothing, I can carry most of the shopping in one hand and on and on it goes. That gives me massive motivation to continue them - bench just didn't result in anything apart from being able to do.....more bench. I am not suggesting you stop - I am just giving my reasons for not being a fan of it. When I do them, I also make sure my shoulder blades have been set way back and down to ensure it does not aggravate my shoulder issue and so far so very good. The carry over from my squats to my job has been just brilliant. I work in a processing plant so I can end up doing hundreds of flights of stairs a week and I now fly up them like they are nothing. No knee pain at all as I ensure that my glutes/hamstrings/hips are a big part of the squat movement to minimise the use of quads in the movement and that massively carries over to every day walking and going up and down stairs. Use that muscle mass as a shock absorber in a way. Deadlift carry over is primarily about getting my core active all of the time to take the weight off my back and that has been going great but there is still a ways to go on that account but I have not had any back pain now for at least a decade so that is good. Look forward to your next video and take care!

Today was a leg day for me in the cold 40 degree garage. Managed to back squat 225 for 8. Amazing what cold weather does to performance lol

We all have that harsh and critical inner voice that can help drive us forward but over the last decade or so, I have been telling mine to take a chill pill and maybe take a long walk over a short bridge. He has his uses but a man can only take so much. Be kind on yourself and all the best for your journey :)

Thank you for a very thoughtful video. I hope you are having a good start to the year, I am flying back to work right now so back to the grind for me, my colleague texted me yesterday to inform me that one of our key pieces of equipment just cr#pped it's pants so yay. Something to look forward to on the first day back. Love that machine :( I feel like you should bring some more fun and mischievous hacking to your workouts, see if you can sneak your way through. I despise high volume so I went up in weight, down in volume and after a few months tested my reps at the lower weight and found I had progressed hugely, more than I had before. It felt like I had found a cheeky cheat code, plus it really exposed some poor form and lack of activation I had. I am not talking about jacking up to a 1 rep Max, he'll no that just beats you up, but say 80%, a level that is challenging but not dangerous and really really be present throughout the whole range of movement. Feel yourself present in that moment and explore it. Feel that weight crushing you at the bottom and have that experience where you wonder how on earth you are going to get up out of the hole. I will turn 55 this year and I am confident I will get my target weight in the next few weeks and then I will add volume. 5 x 200kgs is my aim by the end of this year at perfect form and then that is that. I will muck around with longer pauses, slow reps, different feelings throughout the reps and all that but I have got here by following my own feelings and listening to my body on the way and just having a bit of fun with it.

Those squats were fantastic as well - you already have that olympic thigh thing going on. Great work :)

Definitely totally agree on putting fun exercises into your routine! More fun! Less work!

Nice work on digging so deep to get the energy/motivation to get this done. Considering your energy stores go so low (including your mental energy) maybe you should go for higher weight, lower reps? Do you take creatine every day? That has been a massive game changer for me, 5 grams every day religiously. All the best and keep well, you are doing great :)

You’re doing great buddy. Always look forward to your uploads!

Longtime viewer here- I think you need to flex core to brace a lot more before you descend, that’ll eliminate some twisting

It's an interesting observation, I guess I want to push back because it's unclear how to reverse engineer that movement pattern... That said, I have not watched the video yet😅

Looking at your squats, great depth and all that but they seem to be too straight up and down. For me the Holy Grail of squatting is that thing the olympic lifters do where the thighs come together at the bottom of the movement as they are tapping their hips/glutes to get out of the bottom. It is sort of a butt/hip brace type of thing, I am still trying to figure it out. Here is a video which shows it at an extreme level: th-cam.com/users/shortsiFwSduXVc8s Maybe not that much (he was maxed out) but they all do this. You watch any olympic lifter and they do this so I am still working on it. What do you think?

I am nursing a nasty shoulder injury so I do everything I can to avoid aggravating it as I don't want to go through 6 months of fitful sleeps, so I have to stay away from the overhead stuff. That said, mixing up a workout to keep it interesting is important though. Nothing worse than making your workout time into another chore :( - I am sure you have enough of those. I see that you have a family to look after which I don't have so your energy depletion must be savage - make sure you stay safe and well! It is impressive that you have enough in the tank left to do this. Good work :) Thank you for mentioning me and I just want to emphasize that I didn't talk about my current lifts as some kind of stupid flex, I guess I wanted to show that you can achieve some decent lifts by just being slow and steady - there is really no hurry. I have been lifting now for over 14 years so you would hope I have something to show for it. I feel that if I had taken my knowledge I have now back 14 years, I would be at this point probably a decade ago but live and learn. One of my key exercises to get my core to brace enough these days is deadlifts. I do all of my lifts without a belt (again, not a flex - I just hate hate hate the way the belt dug into me and distracted me and made the workouts a painful thing) but you have got used to it which is awesome. They really help if you can stand them. For me I imagine the deadlift to be about my core, I want my core to do all of the lifting. My back will always be there and it will "pick up the slack" but the whole point for me is to train my core to step up and do it and STAY doing it. So far this has worked for me but translating that same core intensity for squats is difficult but I am getting there. Take care!

A few weeks ago I started taking creatine again - I have been super cautious about it but everything has been coming back okay so I have eased back into it. It kicked in after the first week and despite the fact that I am losing weight now, my energy levels have never been better. Anyway, stay well and look after yourself.

Thank you for sharing some Christmas wisdom and memories. When I was 5 I happened upon my hidden Christmas presents a few months before and got into trouble as a result. From that year on, Christmas presents were cancelled :( - all my fault! I laugh about it now but it did hurt a bit at the time. Hope you have had a great day and health and greetings to you and your family!

Beautiful work here - your hip pain must be annoying as h*ll. How is your bracing as you squat? I use deadlifting to train my bracing as I have found, deadlifting is a core exercise for me exclusively. I have finally hit 200 kgs in my deadlifts and that will be as high as I will go for the rest of my life. I will aim to get 5 x 200 kgs eventually but no heavier. My squats are almost at 200 kgs and same thing - that will be it and the aim will be 5 x 200kg with perfect form and as deep as possible. It is clear your yoga has enabled you to get amazing depth, just fantastic. Anyway, I am not here to brag, just to show that I am on the same journey as you. I cannot recall if I was getting hip pain for my squats but I am not a believer in high repetitions and certainly not as quick as you are doing them. I want to experience each squat as it happens and see just how mindful I can get my body and muscles to engage and function without totally freaking out which still happens but it is getting better. I do paused squats quite a bit where I just pause at the bottom and experience the sensations that arise and then rise from the depths like the proverbial. I have been doing squats now for about 12 years but it has only been about 3-4 years since I tossed away the "just below parallel" rubbish and went to full depth and have never looked back - just amazing what it has done. I would love to have your depth, just amazing and I would love to see what activates as you go down that low and then get out of it. Keep figuring things out, keep working at it and take control of your program and you will go far. Look forward to more of your training videos :)

Wow - you have great squat form and depth you lucky bugger. Watching more of your videos now :)

It's pretty cool mate

Respect my man

Holy schnikes dude! Talk about cheeks to sneaks... Aesop fan too, sweet.

Merry Christmas!! It's butter tarts for my "dirty bulk". LOL!

amazing depth my ankles dont let me go that low

Good form but don't lean that much, get yourself a pair of weightlifting shoes.

nice form!

Life is about moderation. There’s always donuts and stuff at my office 1-2x a week. Just use the calories to train.

Cookies = pr’s 😊😂

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Good job.

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Looks good . 👍😊

This shit is sad

Yes bro,keep going,you can do this

Dad is the only job I like too lol.

I was at F45 with my girlfriend, on vacation. They did bodyweight Kang Squats as part of the warmup. I knew how to do it from watching you, haha.

What now? 140 or 145?

I've been training for 35 years and I've never seen anyone squat as deeply hats off to you

Impressive squad.

excellent depth, lad

Make sure you control it more and you don’t lean your body forward, I would recommend you to put more weight when you don’t lean forward and you control more the descent, keep working those legs like that 🗿, it’s my favorite exercise for legs.

Depth is really good man.

Go go go, bro^^

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Tom platz would be proud