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Really difficult for me to cope with the heat. Can't get anything done, I just don't function well at all with the sun in the sky for 12+ hours every day. I just wish it could start to rain for the rest of the summer.

Getting a bit stronger at plate lifts. I can feel improvement, it's not much but any improvement is welcome. It will take a long time to be strong at this. Definitely one of the harder exercises you can do.

Tried to bend a few rebars I found, I can bend them at 180 mm but I can't bend them when they are shorter nor longer anymore.

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Bunch of plate curls. getting stronger. Some gripper attempts, closed chrome spring lvl 17 with left hand. Lvl 15 with right hand. Also made a good attempt on my very hard #3. Only a few mm's from closing it so I think I'm making improvement there as well. Maybe I don't need a lighter #3 to be able to keep my streak of closing the #3. Probably going to get one anyways just to be sure.

Also bent some rebar, I have a few pieces left which I will bend. Rest of them are really short so it's going to get difficult for me. I will bend them as far as I can.

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Found out that I actually had 4 m of rebar left which I didn't know about. Guess I'm going to bend it until it's all gone. Can work with 7 kg on the leverage block now. So I'm still making improvements. Worked a bit with a sledge yesterday and did some DO bends.

Brick lifts has stagnated, however I have barely been able to train it for the last two weeks. At least my previous max is very easy now. So hopefully I'll be able to do 20 kg pretty soon with some training.

Grippers are really hit or miss, one day it's under 140# and the other day it's above 150#. I guess that is the way it should be when I don't train them.

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21/08/06

WD2 Barehanded
Sets of 10 reps up to 3-3
Then 5 reps at 4-4
1 rep at 5-5 but stopped there because I was going to tear my skin.

Reverse bending
Not a bend, just tried 8 mm rebar to see how it felt, didn't move at all was too painful. I actually think I still have the strength to bend these but I just don't have the pain tolerance to sustain the hit, nor do I have the will power to train it.

Grippers
Few attempts with GM spring at max, 1 mm from closing it.
One attempt with hard #3, 4-5 mm from closing it.
Two closes with 10 second hold with BTR Vulcan at 9-9 Orange spring.

Might actually be able to close the #3 on a good day but I have to buy high end chalk to even have a chance though.

Some extensor work also and some 1.5" block set closes with Vulclan up to Level 12 Chrome spring.

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21/08/08

Haven't trained plate curls or pinch since last saturday. Got some pain from it. Doesn't hurt that much but I probably need some rest from it, for a week or two. Will do something other in the meanwhile. Today was:

Grippers
Filed Vulcan up to 6-6 Orange spring: 3x15 reps.
Then normal vulclan Chrome spring lvl 6 with GHP block - 10 reps

Some light biceps training.

Bent two rebars 8x180 mm, first one with pads at 6 cm and I managed to bend it, crush was hard. Then I tried with pads at 4 cm which is what I normally do and I didn't have any power left to crush it. Not surprised, last time I tested my bench press I couldn't even bench my own bodyweight. Which is kinda sad. Could do around 120 kg close grip a year ago, now I probably have to roll off 90 kg on my stomac. It's crazy how much strength you can lose if you don't have the health. Can't even deadlift 140 kg now.

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21/08/09-21/08/10

Vulcan filed gripper high rep sets.

21/08/12

Grippers
Vulcan Filed Orange Spring
3-3 x 30
4-4 x 30
6-6 x 15

Sledge Levering
Radial & Ulnar Deviation
2x10

Plus some shoulder warmup

Gripper Chest Crush
COC#3 - 3x10
COC#4 212: 0+0, 1+0, 2, 0+0, 1+0.

Grippers
Vulcan Filed Orange Spring
7-7 - 5x10

Vulcan Normal Chrome Spring
GHP Block Set Level 9 x 9 reps LH & 10 reps RH

Leverage Block Wrist Curl
2.5 kg plate - 3x15 (12 LH on last set)

Sledge Levering
Pronation & Supination
2x10

Rubber Band Extension
1x30

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Did some grippers, some wrist wrench lifts and some 1HP. New 1HP goal is to reach 40 kg. I think the most I've done with one hand was 37 or 38, don't remember exactly.

Wrist wrench is trashing my hands really hard. I will stick to other wrist training, WW doesn't feel safe at any weight for me.

This is how it looks like when you've sold most of your grip stuff. Then you need to get back to something simple. Sledge, Home-made aluminum finger trasher, parasol base stand, wooden pinch block, wooden plate leverage block, some plates and some bricks, plus a bunch of other plates to plate curl.

New goals:
Lift all seven bricks of that size (around 20 kg)
Strict curl the parasol base (15 kg)
Strict Curl Eleiko 15 kg plate
Strict curl a bigger outdoor plate
1HP 40 kg with any type of pinch block
Close a #3 before the the years end

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21/08/18

Tried Silver Bullet today. haven't done it since febuary I think. I got 20 seconds with my hard #3. For SB this is even harder since it has no knurling to speak of. So I did better than I expected. 

Also did some sledge levers and some plate curls with leverage block, nothing to log just a few reps for a few sets. I need to get in to it more again. I feel this is like DO bending, once I rest for a while I totally lose the feeling to do it. Need to get it going again.

Also did deadhangs. 1:30 total. BW 87 kg.

I might order a Standard gripper in the 190's to train SB again. But that would be after I can close a #3 again.

I did a mistake last time I trained SB. The #4 I used which I was fairly close to setting once was not at all a lighter #4 as I thought. I have a #212 rated gripper (thanks to whoever sent it to me :D) which I thought was harder but it turns out the gripper I used was a really hard #4, around #220.

I might try to train for the #212 gripper again.

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21/08/21

Grippers 20 mm Block Set
SM Spring 125-128~
Right: 25x3
Left: ,3 2, 3, 2, 2, 3.

Leverage Block Curl
Left only:
3.5 kg - 2x12
4.5 kg - 2x6
5.5 kg - 2x3
6.5 kg - 1x0
6.0 kg - 2x2
6.5 kg - 1x1
7.0 kg - 1x1
7.5 kg - 1x0
5.5 kg: 3, 2

Sledge Pronation & Supination
1x10 L&R

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3 hours ago, Fist of Fury said:

21/08/21

Grippers 20 mm Block Set
SM Spring 125-128~
Right: 25x3
Left: ,3 2, 3, 2, 2, 3.

Leverage Block Curl
Left only:
3.5 kg - 2x12
4.5 kg - 2x6
5.5 kg - 2x3
6.5 kg - 1x0
6.0 kg - 2x2
6.5 kg - 1x1
7.0 kg - 1x1
7.5 kg - 1x0
5.5 kg: 3, 2

Sledge Pronation & Supination
1x10 L&R

25 sets of 3 with the Super Master?! Damn! 

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18 minutes ago, stranger said:

25 sets of 3 with the Super Master?! Damn! 

Hehe I used to do it with a #3 (almost) but now I've lost most of the strength I had :D 

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21/08/22

1HP 110 mm
15.0 kg 1x10
17.7 kg 2x2
20.4 kg 5x1

Zottman Curl
10 kg 2x10

60 second rest between all the sets.

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21/08/23

OHP, cable chest fly and tricep push downs, radial deviation with kettlebell, zottman curls.

Grippers 20 mm Block Set
SM Spring 125-128~
3x3

GM Spring 130-135~
1x3 RH & 1x2 LH

GM Spring 138-140~
LH: 1, 1, 0.
RH: 15x1

Leverage Block Curl
Left hand only:
3.5 kg 2x12
4.5 kg 2x6
5.5 kg 2x3
6.0 kg 2x2
7.0 kg 1x0
6.5 kg 1x1
7.0 kg 1x0
5.5 kg 1x3

Sledge Hammer 
Ulnar & Radial deviation, supination & pronation 1x10

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21/08/24

Leverage Block Curl
Right hand only:
2.5 kg 1x15
3.5 kg 1x12
4.5 kg 1x8
5.5 kg don't remember how many reps I did
6.5 kg 1x1
7.0 kg 1x1
5.0 kg 1x8

Grippers Vulcan BTR Orange Spring
LH: 7-7: 10, 10, 10, 7.
RH: 7-7: 10, 10, 10, 5.

Will try to squeeze in pinch, wrists and one more gripper high reps this week, then I will take 3-4 days off from grip.

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21/08/25

Biceps & Triceps

21/08/26

Grippers
Vulcan Filed Orange Spring
2-2 x 30
3-3 x 30
5-5 x 15
6-6 x 10

1HP 70 mm
16.15 kg 1x10
21.55 kg 1x6
24.25 kg 1x3
26.95 kg 3x1
29.65 kg 1x1
32.35 kg 1x1 (1x0 LH)

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21/08/27

Face pull, OHP, bench, triceps, row machine, lat pulldown, pull ups, db rows.

Wrist developer, sledge hammer levering, gripper chest crush, rebar HRS DO bend. Two hits on 8.8 bolt, prebent to 5 degrees a long time ago, maybe moved it 1 degree more. I don't know for sure, had to destroy my my digital angle meter because the battery was stuck in it.

 

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21/08/31

DO Bending

8x180 HRS Rebar
8x180 non HRS rebar
8x180 CRS x 2

Feels like my bending strength is slowly coming back. Double overhand that is. I had to bend the hard rebar really off set because I had it kinked to 20 degrees with reverse style 8-9 months ago. Can't believe I did that, if I'd try now I would probably start crying.

Grippers

Vulcan Filed Orange Spring
3-3 x 30
4-4 x 5
6-6 x 5
7-7 x 3

GM Spring 138-140~
LH: 1, 1, 1, 0, 1
RH: 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1+0 ((bad word filter)ed up the setting on last set).

I still have pain in my hand and pinky knuckle in my RH from plate lifts. I have a feeling it will take me years before I even get a decent amount of strength in that discipline. I will keep working at it but it might outlast this log, pretty sure it will take a really long time for me.
 

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21/09/02

Grippers

Vulcan Filed Orange Spring
2-2 x 30
3-3 x 20
5-5 x 10
6-6 x 5
7-7 x 3

Vulcan normal CROM Spring
38 mm block set 1x1 L&R

GM Spring 133-135 (RH only)
3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 (43)
Had other things to do, I was gong to do more but ran out of time.

Plate Curls  (LH Only)
Leverage Block
3.5 kg 2x12
4.5 kg 2x6
5.5 kg 1x3
6.5 kg 1x1
7.0 kg 1x1

Marksten 35x35
13.30 kg 1x1
13.85 kg 1x1
13.95 kg 1x1

I made another leverage block, a shorter one, same as the IM stacker. Just wanted to try and see the difference and, let's just say: Leverage is king :D

 

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21/09/03

Grippers
Few attempts with #3 L&R

GM Spring 133-135~ 20 mm block set
LH: 2, 2, 1.
RH: 8x3

21/09/06

Some more attempts with the #3. Got it down under 1 mm but that was the best I could do. Good to know I can close #3's. Just not this one, right now. I think it's almost a year ago since I closed it. Looking back now this gripper is actually much harder than the 158# rated #3 I had a year ago. I could do 3 reps with that gripper and I was struggling to close this #3. I underestimated this gripper a lot when I was able to reps with it. It's actually much harder than I thought it was. It's because it has no knurling, you don't get any grip on it. Takes away so much strength from you.

I should have signed up for MM2 immediately after MM1 actually. This #3 is probably just as hard as the MM2, if not at least very close to it. Then covid came and I lost most of my strength, so I never really got the chance.

Did some curls with leverage block. Made a new block which is 40 cm long instead of the old one which was 35 cm. When I get time I will make some out of aluminum, it will be more durable. The wood breaks after a while when you use them a lot.

This block feels about 10-15% harder when I tried it. I did a few singles with 6 kg added, felt similar to 7 kg with the old block.

Also did some thumbless deadlifts.

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21/09/07

Wrist Developer
1-1 x 20
3-3 x 10
4-4 x 5
5-5 x 1

Crom Spring
Lvl 6 x 2
Lvl 9 x 1
Lvl 11 x 1
Lvl 6 x 10

Sledge Hammer Levering
Front & Rear Hold
2x20 seconds

Supination & Pronation
2x10

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21/09/08

1HP 70 mm
implement - 1x10
2 small bricks - 1x5
4 small bricks - 3x1
5 small bricks - 3x1
4 small bricks - 3x3

Just going to write what I add to the implement I'm using. Too tedious to scale everything every workout.

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21/09/09

Face pull, lat pull, row machine, close grip bench, tricep machine.

21/09/11

Some WU with sledge hammer

DO Bending
WU with some easier bars which I had bent reverse.
8x160 mm Grade 8.8 bolt, prebent to 10 cm. crush attempt in doubles thin suedes, no movement.
6x150 mm Grade 12.9 bolt, prebend to around 20 deg, finished it off in single thin suedes.
8x150 mm hard rebar in double thin suedes. bent to 10 cm, couldn't crush it further, these are almost as hard as the 8.8 bolt to kink, probably significantly easier to crush tho. I have bent these at this lenght once before in single horrido leathers, as far as I can remember.
8x180 mm HRS rebar attempted in single thin suedes, a bit too harsh on the index fingers. Pretty sure I could have done this 7-8 months ago, but I never tried.
 

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Bought a #3 to try. What do I get? A mutant #3 of course, minimum 158 lbs. 80 mm spread, chest crushed it 40 times and oiled the spring. The spread shrunk to 77 mm. It still feels just as hard as my double stamped #3. Actually slightly harder and the knurling is very bad for being a new gripper as well.

Will have to buy a lower rated #3 if I want to complete my goal of closing one this year. Highly doubt I will close a hard #3 ever again. I need to lift weights to be able to do that and unfortunately I can't do that anymore.

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3 hours ago, Fist of Fury said:

Bought a #3 to try. What do I get? A mutant #3 of course, minimum 158 lbs. 80 mm spread, chest crushed it 40 times and oiled the spring. The spread shrunk to 77 mm. It still feels just as hard as my double stamped #3. Actually slightly harder and the knurling is very bad for being a new gripper as well.

Will have to buy a lower rated #3 if I want to complete my goal of closing one this year. Highly doubt I will close a hard #3 ever again. I need to lift weights to be able to do that and unfortunately I can't do that anymore.

I am looking for a doublestamped #3 for my collection (3 and T missing) want to trade for my coc#3 rated 146 (by gods of grip) and something between? 

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